/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1370771
Used to operate a 160,000t wheat bin.

Never drove the bobcat. That was a shitkicker job.

>>1370803
>copy hygiene
>copy hygiene
>hygiene you copy
>yep
>yeah got a spill over south end of tower three, need it done before smoko.

Then the sad fucks would go sweep up water ever it was.

>>1370803
Not to difficult to run one in a wide open space but I operate digging inground pools and foundations mostly. It gets a little more tricky when you have 4 inches of room total between either side of the machine and house/fence. When you say wheat kicker do you mean
>pic related

>>1370814

no operator, john deere mechanic here.
ill be following this thread

oh and bobcat sucks balls

>>1370771
i've always wanted one of these. and one of those mini backhoes on treads. and a forklift.

>>1370814
Pretty hard to fit 160,000t of wheat into a small space.

>>1370771
I drive a high level order picker forklift. Also gonna learn to drive a reach truck and 3 pal soon. I make $20/h starting and my job is easy as fuck. If your uneducated, unemployed and have no training, apply for a warehouse job at a target distribution center, you won't regret it.

>>1370816
No one has John durr near me in NY it's either bobcat or cat for the smaller stuff and CAT or Komatsu on the big stuff.
>>1370845
The guy I work for now his equipment is brand new with suspension on the tracks, radios, fully enclosed temperature controlled cabs, joysticks, auto idle etc. It's nicer than most cars and I never have to get out to grab a shovel since we have an at my of Mexicans I'm getting a little spoiled

>/diy/
>Professionally operating machinery.

>>1370771
I mow yards 2 days a week
push mowers weed eaters 42 inch and 54 inch mowers
put an average of 10 hours a month on a chainsaw

agriculture
hay field and whatnot

I have a few trucks I just made the thread
>>1370850

>>1370771
Never been in any skidloader besides a CAT. Spend several thousand hours in the mutherfucker fighting frostbite and silicosis tho. To my knowledge still hold the record of a 6 mile wheelie before the boss showed up and almost fired my ass. Idgaf. That was the shitiest job i ever had.

Ran a hitachi ex1100 shovel. Baby cat 345 hoe, and 100 ton haul trucks.

The last 4 years i've been cussing CAT engineers and my stearing wheel while loading dump trucks with a 938 CAT loader and waiting for rotator cuff surgery day.


...kill me.

>>1370814
>google image
>wheat kicker
>pic related

>>1370894
>mfw To my knowledge still hold the record of a 6 mile wheelie
did you seriously make it 6 miles on a wheelie?

I saw a guy tip back a skid once
some of the cow shit in the bucket spilled all over the whole thing and that guy was covered

>>1370845
Kek. Or any equipment operating job really.

I used to chase around automated forklifts when the pieces of shit first came out and some engineers mentally retared pet opossum wrote the program to run them. When things were slow i would help my bro in another department. I built a platform on back to stand on and would run the automated ones with the remote so he would get bonuses and his guys could take turns on 15 minute breaks. Hated that place and my boss was a cuck. Had 7 bros ready and when the dat came and the owner showed up to see the fuckery i was up to he flipped shit. We all played dumb and said my boss had bro weld platforms to them all and told us to drive them like that. Boss got fired and then i got fired you yelling "serves you right you gay ass faggot!" Really loud. Owner was also a cuck and a litteral faggot. I told him to go fuck his faggot boyfriend and fuck off and leave us alone.

I'm really not an asshole. But there is no reason to treat employees like shit. Treat them well, pay them well, and then hire quality workers. More than pays for itself in lack of theft, increased productivity, increased moral, less abuse on work equipment, etc....

>>1370878
Well, deere has backwards ass controls and fucked themselves.

>track suspension.

Mutherfucker. They FINALLY make equipment descent enough to no beat you to death just in time to automate it.


F for all our jobs

>>1370882
>/diy
>litterally becoming a miner to dig my bunkers
>anons learn crane operation for creative shipping container architecture.
>skid loader is single most usesful equipment of all time. Skid loader is the duckt tape of machinery.

I would rather see the same 50 threads.
>got a water leak
>burying shipping containers
>i stripped a screw
>what $500 set of cordless tools should i talk about and never biy
>muh cuckshead
>muh shot of black

>>1370892
Mfw kids these days will never haul 1-2k bails of hay a day all summer.

>>1370913
I love your stories anon, please more i kekd loudly

>>1370898
THAT IS FUNNY! Nearest guess we all agreed the haul road was 2 miles one 1. Made it 3 times and got bisted like a few hundret feet from the end after a down and back trip.

Not much to brag about sadlym. Once you get a feel for it just take the bucket off and raise the arms all of the way up. The natural balence and hydrostatic drive makes it a cakewalk. I did the math. Was going for 100 before quitting time. One of my ex co workers was an absolute snitching cocksucker tho.

Also, anyone here ever run a wheel loader that doesn't want to bludgeon the engineer who decided a steering wheel is a good idea?

>>1370898
Done that with mud like 5 times. Fuckibg sucks ass. Running full bore just to try and keep warm viokently jearking joysticks and then hit a rock or something and get douched

>>1370923
HA! i used to not give a fuck. Jobs are pkentiful when you are /fit, /young, and have a group of bros that make up fake businesses and references.

That same place with the forklifts i used to "borrow" always had a bunch of gaylords. Yes, they exist besides name calling. Who knew? Well, me and a few brow worked there. Me and 1 bro ran 1 machine in 12 hour shifts. Mutherfucker ran almost 3 years 24/7 with onky me and bro running it. Well, our other bro was supposed to help but he never did.

Well, one time he pissed me off, didn't help like always, and then had nerve enough to grab his coat and take a nap in a half empty gaylord on the 2nd floor.

I cut the wire to all of my lights and beepers and gently set a full pallet on top of his ass and then wire nutted my shit back together.

Taught his ass. He dug a hole in the back of it and spent 19 hours trying to get hold of someone that wouldn't snitch and could help him down.

I miss being a dumb ass kid. Phone bill and beer money was all that i had to worry about.

Every swinging dick wants to run heavy equipment...In 40+ years Iv'e ran it all Bobcat, Cat, Takeuchi, Case, John Deere etc...from skids to trac ho's and every kind of loader in between. After about a day the fun is over, they suck. I'm much rather be in the ditch laying pipe

Every swinging dick wants to run heavy equipment...In 40+ years Ive ran it all Bobcat, Cat, Takeuchi, Case, John Deere etc...from skids to trac ho's and every kind of loader in between. After about a day the fun is over, they suck. I'd much rather be in the ditch laying pipe

>>1370968
Same. The metal plate holding my faggot fucking cankle dissagrees tho. So i get my ass beat 10 hours a day or more and get 0 gainz for it.

Snowcat, loader, skidsteer, plow truck for snow removal. Snowcat by far the funnest to operate.

I run a god damn locomotive, most of the time I run a couple god damn locomotives at the same time

Bobcat

Only ever used a couple 5-ton excavators. Fun shit. After awhile it turns into work.

>>1370968
meat my horse boys

beat my horse boys

>>1371970
Fuckoff faggot. I used to transport yall. Bunch of the whiniest bitchiest entitled edgelord faggots to ever walk the face of the earth. U push buttons and go at green and stop at red.

It isnt fucking rocket surgery.

In fact, i was loocing to go to school until i realised what a bunch of self absorbed cucks u are.

>mfw his post eve. Peoves my point

>>1371834
Wtf is a snowcat

>>1372368
You're describing Pipe Fitters as well

>>1372374
Mfw 9 months at school and 18 year old is break 100k easy.

Fuck me why did i not just go to welding school.

>>1370771
>someone parks skidsteer next to expensive company truck
>need to use it to clear snow for the first time
>go the wrong direction in reverse and take a piece of body panel with me
>explain to field worker why i damage his (company) property while yelling at him for being responsible for it.
feels bad man

>>1372369
Intended for grooming ski slopes. We have 2 older ones we put rubber tracks on for plowing our parking lots.

>>1370771
learned how to drive these growing up; can also run a front loader on just about any tractor pretty well.

Now that I work a comfy six figure white collar job, it's fun to hop in one and operate it will while some blue collar cuck stands by grumbling because he thought I didn't know what I was doing.

>>1370845
ive got a similar job but i just run a rider pallet jack

Walker mower in the summer, Kubota tractor in the winter. Dump trucks and vacuum trucks year round.

t. Landscaper

I drive an order picker truck, its fun, I like being high up in the air.

>>1372529
Sometimes I wish I still had time in my life to drive those things around ...

I'm looking to buy a used skid steer. What's the Mid-90s Benz equivalent of skid steers?

I plan on using it maybe a hundred hours a year for trail upkeep, tires not tracked, forklift replacement, and to build a small house. My main worries are access to cheap parts and ability to wrench on myself.
It seems anything that runs is going to be >$7000usd. Currently looking at late 90s/early 2000s Case products.

>>1372522
Shit that looks like fun

>>1372529
KEK!

mfw that will be me. Litterally building companies from the ground up while they hold 0 debt. Am fuck nowhere yet but i have been study personal finance and investing for a decade. My bro just got a job that pays so well we can front our startups until profitable or just close the doors and try something else.

>>1373655
Why tf a vac truck?

>>1373669
Hey i used to do that!

>>1375186
Well, i can tell you solid rubber tires will beat u to death, but never have flats again.

Hell at the old quarry i worked at we would just order wheels with tires glued on and used them till they went to shit. Might find u a free set.

Working on them isn't horrible with youtube.

Not a lot of room but the top just bolts on. Short of a hydraulic line or elscric switch going bad major breakdowns are rare. Just stay the fuck out of water, sercice it often, and only ride wheelies with the bucket off. Learn to "soft land" the front or bust a ...gear and wheel assembly?

>>1370816
Hey wat size is the power beyond load sense port on a big JD tractor? Is it a pioneer coupling like the remotes but smaller?

who here /case/ master race?

>>1378000

Case is alright. But it is one of those things where the owners/operators are outright cunts and gives the brand a bad rap, despite the machine being the same shit as the rest

At least it is so in my case, with these case machines.

Maybe a related question.
I'm buying an old farmhouse and would like to build a pool, and level the ground for a foundation and a driveway. And other stuff as it comes up.

What piece of equipment should I buy?
Skidsteer? Backhoe? Tractor with attachments?

>>1375207
A shitsucker.

>>1375207
Grass and leaf collection

>>1378083

A backhoe is the universal modular piece of equipment. Most construction companies start with a backhoe even before a skid steer.

Though you do mention farm so if you plan on doing much more farming you can get shit done with a tractor and attachments. But if no farming then I would say even a babby backhoe makes the most sense.

>>1378308
If small shit you can buy a skid loader attatchment for anything

>>1378209
Am a tard. Was thinking this but ehy the hell. Lol

>>1378209

Demo i dont run ish cuse im still gutting out till i make enough to get a bobcat

You are all a bunch of fucking dorks

>>1379039
>go suck on a rock
>okay

>>1370771
Use cat you fag, my livelihood depends on it.

>>1379347
Kek

>>1379330
Suck my rock FORGET!

>>1379112
Libcuck neet detected. Don't you have a fucking raid to wipe somewhere in Azeroth?

>>1378083
Skidloader. Be sure and make a slight grade so your yard doesnt become the pool

I used to operate different bobcat models with pinchers and buckets. Good times but also stressful when carrying expensive items

Currently run a JT520 and JT922. About to get a JT20xl or Vermeer 2440. Also run a few takeuchi and new holland minis

>>1370771
Demolition/Stormdrainage/Lot clearing
(All John Deere) 200DLC excavator, 544 GTC Articulating Front End Loader, and something LGP Bulldozer
Never used a Bobcat

>>1381400
2 drop axles.

Living the dream man.

>>1381596
I love this job. Planned on going into IT after high school but I got offered my current job by a guy I knew. Dodged a bullet I think considering the state of the tech field and their SJW bullshit. Never thought I would have a job like this bit I absolutely love it, spend majority of the time in the woods. Considered getting a CDL to make extra cash on the side but fuck driving a dump truck or any big vehicle in this town I'm happy loading them up and sending em off lol.

>>1381650
Cdl isnt a bad idea. Especially if you can borrow a truck. I drove a tractor trailer through every major city in the lower 48. As long as you are in a straight truck like those dump trucks it isn't any worse than a car really. You do you tho.

100% dodged a bullet. College as a while is going full sjw man. Pick up a copy of Rich Dad Poor Dad. Study some other personal finance and investing books. You can get rich as fuck working right where you are now and retire. Workibg on it myself. That book is easy af to read and should be common sense shit. We have been conditioned since birth to work and die. Enjoy the blue collar life or meet me on the top bro.

>>1382739
Thanks for the advice, I'm planning on taking over my bosses business when he retires which is probably gonna be within a few years. I'm lucky that it's only me and him; no drama, no bullshit, and we have a great working relationship. Wonderful man really. I'll look into that book for sure.

>>1383037
And other books. Yoy might be sitting on a goldmine of capitol if you get on it before he leaves. Fuck you could hire him to supervise and fuckoff part time if hes the type thst will work forever

This is what i operate!

>>1370921
>Mfw kids these days will never haul 1-2k bails of hay a day all summer.
I'm glad i did that as a kid. Not long ago. I'm 26.

Im a plumber by trade so we do alot of underground work most of witch we dig ourselves. I dont own any equipment but have several people we work with we rent from. My main excavators are bobcat e50 and a 325. For skid steers its t180 and t580. That guy also has a 6 wheel dump truck and laborers available. We also get stuff from the local chains if we need really special stuff. Last one was a kubota 008 mini ex before that was a 8ton wacker ex. Also rent skid steer implements when needed breakers and special buckets.
To reply to op i like all the bobcat equipment we use and the guy that owns them seems to have good luck with them. I would put all the kubota stuff we rent on the same level as far as opertion. The wacker neueson they sent me was laggy on the controls and just didn't feel confident or stable but thats the biggest machine I've run so it could be me.

Crane/boom truck operator.

>welder-fabricator, evening shift so have to do forklift stuff myself sometimes
>get back into car after work
>left blinker
>WHY THE FUCK IS THIS NOT GOING IN REVERSE

>>1385770
Yeah, that happens. A buddy once threw his car into park while slowing down for an intersection. He put his blinker on, panicked because confusion, and slammed it into park.

>>1379384
gtfo out of here with your tired /pol/ memes.
I'm a communist and what you no doubt unironically call an SJW, and I work on cooler shit than you all day. Don't think you're hot shit because you have brain worms and access to a fucking skid steer.
Pic related my last workplace.

>>1384280
Is that a drill?

>muh hydraulic hose leak.
>F

Lol. Explain yourself. Looks cool

>>1384280
Hose real.

Water jet drilling?

>>1385580
Good on you anon. Now when peers bitch about how hard mowing lawns is or customer service is you can stifle a laugh because you know what real work is like.

When oil crashed in the 80s the faggots at my school said my dad would lose his job. I was worried about it and asked. His answer surprised me. Meh, i dont know. I wouldnt worry about it tho. All you have to do is work harder than anyone else and you will always have a job.

Sure as shit he was right. Company he worked 20 years for folded. He freelance mechaniced for 3 times what he made on the rig, and then a local oil business picked him up. He runs it now. And he is now boss of his old bosses. And those guys bought that old rig. Dad knows any and every problem that can happen and runs it with lever jockeys and a cell phone.

He was right. But all working hard ever got us was broken and old prematurely. I still have that mentality but i am working a different way. Work overtime every week and work even more hours for myself buying and creating assets.

My peers are gambling stocks and "saving for retirement."

I am possibly buying two rental units this week and by next month have enough worl done to them i can rent them out for a lot higher but still fair price than as is. Spend $1,000 and have them reapraised for near double.

Telling you anons. You can ve a world class shit real eatate investor and just break even.

Oh but he, you have 50 rental units.

>mfw work a 9-5 and pay 50 mortgages simultainiously

>>1385770
AHAHA!

>be me
>long week in a loader
>stop by store for a sandwich and 6 pack
>get in car
>fiddle with phone after put car in reverse
>turn right blinker on
>spin bacwards almost into 4 cars
>cops come
>u drunk anon?
>no, autistic

>>1385770
Even worse. Be a tard flying down road in equipment. Go to turn left. Jam it in reverse

>>1386654
>I'm a communist
Get a job.

>>1386786
The cuck mods deleted my post.
But I can assure you that I have a job.
Fuck off.

>>1386781
now that's funny.

>>1372368
Fucking homosexuals pay to learn to run trains. Get back in your limo where you belong fucking casual.

>>1370771
Crane dogman ATM slowing getting experience on a 70t tracks crane. I'm only 18 so hopefully I can achieve a crane operator career one day

>>1386781
Oh lawd
How many people did you kill