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Advanced Wall Structures · #31 06-26-2011, 02:25 AM

Residential

Me:

I'm 21 btw

Before the gator dust:

Me and my friend's father's day present

More reaching:

Got some new wheels and tires for the Duramax:

Bleed Green · #32 06-26-2011, 01:54 PM

Nice work and also a nice truck. I bet some of the tight spots u get into setting walls surely tests your operator skills.

Advanced Wall Structures · #33 06-26-2011, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Bleed Green

Nice work and also a nice truck. I bet some of the tight spots u get into setting walls surely tests your operator skills.

Thanks! Yeah that residential was really tight and the homeowner wanted all the trees to stay. I knicked 2 trees slightly but that will happen when using 3' boulders that pass less than a foot behind a tree, then the house is 4 feet behind that and the width between the trees is just a little larger than our Case CX75sr.

Knicking a tree is better than hitting the house

Advanced Wall Structures · #34 07-18-2011, 11:57 PM

Some randoms:

Our newest machine: Bobcat T770 We have two buckets for it and an 80" or 83" (can't remember) sheeps foot packer and heavy duty forks coming in any day for it.

11mph in a CTL is fun and the suspension is great. Overall great machine, leaps and bounds better than the 450CT or our T300. It craps on the new Case machines as well and the 289C Cat had no chance against it.

Those pictures aren't T/W, I added another course to make it nice and even. I'll snap some more pictures tomorrow. The 118 degree heat index today was a killer jumping in and out of the machines all day.

Advanced Wall Structures · #35 07-19-2011, 12:17 AM

Here's a couple videos of walls I built earlier in the year to go along with the pictures:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-rKtBaOFM4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd950lie5-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd950lie5-E

I couldn't reach with the 160 so I headed down the slope:

That was fun, had my seat belt on then.

Wall I just finished:

3870 sq ft, 15.5 feet at the tallest point and 347 feet long

Shot of the tallest bit I believe:

Grading above the wall at tallest point. It's fun too look down into the woods from there.

DVS Hardscaper · #36 07-19-2011, 07:00 AM

Seems like everyone I know with Bobcats have them in the shop alot for repairs. I have an excavator buddy that after always having bobcats switched to Deere, and he loves it.

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tmf lawn care · #37 07-19-2011, 02:45 PM

look great I wish that i can do some of that kind of work here in jersey. It more like only 50' long one i get and 5' high. good luck this year

Advanced Wall Structures · #38 07-19-2011, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DVS Hardscaper

Seems like everyone I know with Bobcats have them in the shop alot for repairs. I have an excavator buddy that after always having bobcats switched to Deere, and he loves it.

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All of our Bobcats have been great to us, except for the T200 turd we had that was a lemon.

Our T300 has 1900 hours on it and needed new bushings in the bob-tach and a hose was replaced under warranty. We do a lot of lift and carry as well as digging with our CTL's. Our T770 has a 3 year unlimited hour bumper to bumper warranty. Never had any problems. I hate Deere cabs and side visibility is bad.

The 700 series is a beast of a machine

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Originally Posted by tmf lawn care

look great I wish that i can do some of that kind of work here in jersey. It more like only 50' long one i get and 5' high. good luck this year

I wish I could do walls that were only 5 feet tall. I did that one short wall in a day and it was 170 feet long and was 815 sq ft finished. Total time into that wall was 12 hours including excavating, building the wall and backfilling.

And thanks for the wishes, we've been blessed with plenty of work this year, and next year is already booked up. I've got another 35,000 square feet of boulders alone to install this year yet, good luck to you!