Loved the way your dumping movement blends into the booms return to the ruble pile. One efficient dude, I say!! Thanks for sharing you skills!! RL Atlanta, GA USA
@lidsman2227 I think if you're mining anything with a 1.2yd3 bucket you're doing something seriously wrong...but we did dig a nice looking storm pond! :)
@Xx69roadrunnerxX haha I know. They said you couldn't get it tight enough by hand, but its a wedge and I used to switch buckets 10 or so times a day by hand doing underground, never had anything fall off...
@redheadedduckhunter There was a good water hole in front of the truck, faster to pull in normal then back up a few feet loaded then to turn out 90* and back to the hoe.
@Xx69roadrunnerxX. 385 lol. The 350 has a nice 4yd bucket but this was rock so I had them put the trenching bucket on to rip and pile it. After I got the pile they told me I could use the cleanup bucket to load because the quick attach bar had to be put on with a 1" impact or it would be too loose! I guess all those years I wrenched it on because its a "quick attach" I was doing it wrong or something??
@justin198812 Go read my response to chrdub89 at the top of the page, from a production standpoint it's a faster method and it allows for larger loads without spillage. Also the digging on the left was limited to under 45* off my idler (no really "far left") so the extra swing time is neglegible. The width of the pile was one machine so a second pass would be impossible.
@chrdub89 Two reasons. First if you start your "pile" at the back you can fit more dirt without spilling. Second in order to keep cycle time to a minimum you should have a full bucket by the time your stick and boom come to a right angle (90*), thus requiring you to constantly back up as you load. If you put all the dirt in the front you can't reach when you back up!
@diggerdave51 A type of sandstone. Hard as heck to get through but pops up into nice little chunks when you get under it. This video was after I trimmed the slopes down and piled it on the bottom. I'm sitting on the soft pile and taking some of the undug harder stuff from under as I go. And yeah did the whole pond with the 350 and the little bucket.
@GlobalMiningMachines Grew up loving machines. I had a tractor on my cake at the age of two! I ran a few farm tractors but didn't really start operating until I was 19. Did two years of forestry (processors etc) and then 4 years of earth works, became a foreman last year and now here I am!
@mad4diesel Why, its a rock truck not a tandem where you can't spill anything onto the road. We move dirt as fast as we can so if you took smaller buckets and slower movements not to spill a rock or two I'd can you myself! (I'm the boss) ;)
@jmonk831 We had one lined up but there was only 10,000 or so cubic meters to move. Would of spent more money floating it in and assembling it then the job was worth, and be done in two days.
@redheadedduckhunter Ugh tell me about it. About half way through I kept looking like ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuu is it done yet? Oh wait I can almost see the dirt over the edge of the box now....
wow. All I read is You did this wrong, you did that wrong, too messy, too slow, front to back, back to front. Look, so much can be said for a reliable operator that comes to work every day, doesn`t smoke pot in the hoe, is easy on the equipment, and doesnt whine, is competent and has a good attitude, if you have those attributes, jobs come to you. Nice work, you have the skills to pay the bills, looks like your hustling some material out. Out here in BC its rock every day, day in day out
Great vid!! Picture quality is amazing. Looked a bit tedious loading those ADT's with that JD 350D. What machine(s) are normally used to load a CAT 740? You guys use excavators or wheel loader for loading usually?
Wheres the 385 at.. That 350 is slowing you down! You could have knocked out 5 trucks in the time it took you to do 2. Keep the videos coming man. I havent updated any of mine latley. Work is slow here in the northeast.. looking for new company. Maybe I should come up to Canada and lend some of my services and join your crew!!
Pretty smooth, i can't say i agree with a couple things. Loading back to front doesn't make sense because then your always having to lift over what you've already put in. Also not to sure why you keep digging off to your far left, if trucks are coming that quick why not take it out in two cuts?
Hey, vantagetes. What are you loading on the truck looks like rock or reaile dry clay not sure. But great video and i hope you did'nt have to load trucks all day with that machine ??
love the vid man how you like them 350`s i used one in the winter they got lots of get up and go nice machine very smooth,,and wewres that application man!!! hahahah
@MrBrad1981 A little spilling in this situation doesn't matter, and believe it or not but that little shake will sap your hydraulic power and cost you time. In certain conditions yes, I will agree the shake comes in handy.
It's ideal to be able to load a truck in 3-4 passes (swings) however sometimes you don't have a machine that big available or it's impractical for the other things you are doing with it on site. The best you can do is get the best cycle times you can out of the machine and bucket. The few small pieces overflowing the bucket are of no concern, off road trucks are built rugged and it's better to be overflowing the bucket than having an empty bucket and adding cycles to fill the truck.
@majorminorish I can assure you the engine was revved all the way up and in spec. If it was at "1780" you would hear it lug down under heavy digging or multifunctioning. If you are referring to the bottom part being hard digging that is because the top 1/3 is disturbed material I cleaned off the slope and piled on original ground. Rock is hard digging.
@bl486zy I cant speak for him, but when it comes to excavators, the Caterpillars, are steps ahead of everyone else, even if the other companies are making better machines each new year! Best excavator on the market Cat 345C L
