Advanced Wall Structures, Inc.

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by stuvecorp

I like your style much better than the 'modular' style. Looks good.

I like it because if the rows of the modular style aren't almost perfectly level then it looks janky.

I will point out that in the last pictures I posted the gaps in the wall are bigger because I had to build the thing from behind and I don't want to jump out after setting each boulder to check the gaps. I might find some small rock shards/chips to fill in the bigger gaps.

I've been looking at CASE CX225's but I would rather have my roomy cab over a minimal swing machine with a tiny cab.

[stuvecorp]

Originally Posted by Advanced Wall Structures

I like it because if the rows of the modular style aren't almost perfectly level then it looks janky.

I will point out that in the last pictures I posted the gaps in the wall are bigger because I had to build the thing from behind and I don't want to jump out after setting each boulder to check the gaps. I might find some small rock shards/chips to fill in the bigger gaps.

I've been looking at CASE CX225's but I would rather have my roomy cab over a minimal swing machine with a tiny cab.

I liked that one wall that protected that clump of trees. It has to be very rough to build from behind that far down, you almost need a remote camera or something.

Is there that much difference in the cabs? A 225 with a grapple would be awesome. How about the Kobelco's? They have that 200 size?

I have a theory that I would rather have a mini with a grapple than bucket/thumb setup. On the current wall I'm at, would so like that 50 size mini set up with a grapple.

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by stuvecorp

I liked that one wall that protected that clump of trees. It has to be very rough to build from behind that far down, you almost need a remote camera or something.

Is there that much difference in the cabs? A 225 with a grapple would be awesome. How about the Kobelco's? They have that 200 size?

I have a theory that I would rather have a mini with a grapple than bucket/thumb setup. On the current wall I'm at, would so like that 50 size mini set up with a grapple.

That wall that protected those grove of trees was was 55 feet long and 14.5 feet tall in the middle and I actually built it from the front. I built half from one side, then the other, then filled the top in from the back. It's seems like a pian but it was faster than sitting on a 3 to 1 slope trying to set rocks. I'll have to take a look a Kobelco's but the CX225 has the exact same cab as our CX75SR. It's goofy and I really don't like the CX75's cab at all. I'm guessing all zero or minimal swing machine's cabs are small like that. I love the 160's cab.... can stand up in the damn thing and stretch way out.

[bobcat_ron]

Try a Cat 320CLU or DLRR, they are the only minimal tail swing models to have full sized cabs, that's the one of the reasons my brother buys them, everyone sacrifices cab space for zero tail swing.

[Advanced Wall Structures]

Originally Posted by bobcat_ron

Try a Cat 320CLU or DLRR, they are the only minimal tail swing models to have full sized cabs, that's the one of the reasons my brother buys them, everyone sacrifices cab space for zero tail swing.

I'll have to check them out, thanks

[coopers]

Don't Deere/Hitachi 225's have a full size cab?

[thunderthud]

The Cat 321 with the sliding door is claustrophobic, no one here was sorry to see it go a couple of years ago.

The Liebherr R924 has the biggest cab of all of the zero swing machines. Ze Germans seem to like ze full size cab. Plus, it will out dig, out pick and burn less fuel than any of my previous machines, a 321 and a 328, The 924 is far and away better than both of those.

[ksss]

The CX225 is an excellent machine. I think the best balanced zero swing in its class. Although the cab is smaller, I never was uncomfortable in it, but thats just me. I have spent a lot of time in a CX 225 and if I could mob it I would like to have one. As it is I limited to a 160 sized machine.

[bobcat_ron]

Originally Posted by coopers

Don't Deere/Hitachi 225's have a full size cab?

As far as width, yes, but not length, you can't put your lunch box behind the seat, everyone hangs them in bags, everyday I drove past the RDM project on McCallum road in the Valley, everyone in the Hitachi 225's were using baggies to hold their lunch. I just bungee cord my box to the hat holder in the back.

[Advanced Wall Structures]

I talked to a guy today who was demoing a Kobelco 210 for his composting company and said it really likes to sip on the fuel. 8 gallons per hour sound right?

A guy must have had a really bad day yesterday. I was driving to the site on 494 and I could hear loose tar hitting my rockers.... a mile down the road there was a belly dump on the side of the road with his whole load of asphalt on the ground. The black line in the first picture was 6-8" tall leading up to the truck. I'm guessing he accidentally flipped a switch because even if he lost air pressure is should stay closed.





randoms:







roughing in the f/g slope:





Monday it looked like this:





Was there until dark digging out with the 365, you can swing some dirt with that thing boy. Sure was fun.













Another little 600 sq ft wall I'm workign on while I get boulders and sand staged for that big wall with geo-grid.





and I got a little surprise for my truck today: