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weekend in Vegas
Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. |
weekend in Vegas
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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On 11/20/2017 12:28 PM, Bill wrote:
Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. I saw that on TV. I think it was on "Shark Tank". Looks like it would be a blast. |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. |
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On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote:
wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. Full size is lots different than a Bobcat sided backhoe. For one, the cab will rotate 360degrees. So no moving the tracks when digging. And do not have to turn around to go backwards while facing forward. Just rotate the cab and pull back on the track control instead of pushing forward. |
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On 11/20/17 1:35 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. Full size is lots different than a Bobcat sided backhoe. For one, the cab will rotate 360degrees. So no moving the tracks when digging. And do not have to turn around to go backwards while facing forward. Just rotate the cab and pull back on the track control instead of pushing forward. Uh-oh...I definitely would kill someone or destroy the equipment! :) |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:
Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. Sounds like you had a blast. Funny that back in the mid-70's there were prime rib buffets to be had for $5.99, and breakfasts in resort hotels for 99 cents. That was for bacon, two eggs, and toast. I could get well filled for $3! |
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On 11/20/2017 1:26 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas.Â*Â* Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though.Â*Â* Even excluding any gambling.Â*Â* Stayed at Mandalay Bay.Â*Â* Specials on room, but no reasonable dining.Â*Â* Even in room coffee was $5 a cup.Â* Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator.Â*Â* Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip.Â*Â* I have a great wife.Â*Â* Great gifts.Â* No boating. === Cool.Â* I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I had the backhoe attachment for the John Deere tractor I had. Not big (12 inch wide bucket) and not super powerful but it did a lot of work over the years. I dug all the electrical and plumbing trenches for the pool when we had it installed. The contractor had some kind of machine but had a hard time because of all the rocks and boulders. The JD handled them well, although I overloaded the hydraulics many times. Trenches all had to be four feet deep and collectively there were about 150 -200 feet of them. |
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On 11/20/2017 1:35 PM, Bill wrote:
Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. Full size is lots different than a Bobcat sided backhoe. For one, the cab will rotate 360degrees. So no moving the tracks when digging. And do not have to turn around to go backwards while facing forward. Just rotate the cab and pull back on the track control instead of pushing forward. When I was doing the pool trenches with the Deere backhoe and had to move forward, I learned to just put the backhoe bucket on the ground in the middle of the trench and lift the back end of the tractor off the ground, pushing it forward at the same time by curling the bucket outward. Didn't even have to lift the stabilizers. |
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On 11/20/17 2:18 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/20/2017 1:26 PM, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas.Â*Â* Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though.Â*Â* Even excluding any gambling.Â*Â* Stayed at Mandalay Bay.Â*Â* Specials on room, but no reasonable dining.Â*Â* Even in room coffee was $5 a cup.Â* Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator.Â*Â* Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip.Â*Â* I have a great wife.Â*Â* Great gifts.Â* No boating. === Cool.Â* I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I had the backhoe attachment for the John Deere tractor I had.Â* Not big (12 inch wide bucket) and not super powerful but it did a lot of work over the years.Â* I dug all the electrical and plumbing trenches for the pool when we had it installed.Â* The contractor had some kind of machine but had a hard time because of all the rocks and boulders.Â* The JD handled them well, although I overloaded the hydraulics many times. Trenches all had to be four feet deep and collectively there were about 150 -200 feet of them. Luddite the Trencherman...sounds like a really really bad action hero movie. :) |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/20/17 1:35 PM, Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. Full size is lots different than a Bobcat sided backhoe. For one, the cab will rotate 360degrees. So no moving the tracks when digging. And do not have to turn around to go backwards while facing forward. Just rotate the cab and pull back on the track control instead of pushing forward. Uh-oh...I definitely would kill someone or destroy the equipment! :) Instructor there. |
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Keyser Soze wrote:
On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. Too bad you don't know anyone in the business. |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:35:01 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. Full size is lots different than a Bobcat sided backhoe. For one, the cab will rotate 360degrees. So no moving the tracks when digging. And do not have to turn around to go backwards while facing forward. Just rotate the cab and pull back on the track control instead of pushing forward. That is how excavators work, even the little mini Kabotas. Loaders like a bobcat are usually skid steer until you get real big. Then they are articulated. A backhoe is like you are talking about but that is actually a loader with a "back hoe" added on it. The seat is reversible. My niece's hubby was an operating engineer, as was his whole family and most of the Harley guys I knew. They were sticklers for nomenclature. I was also chastised for calling a concrete mixer a "cement truck" ;-) |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:48:47 -0500, John H
wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. Sounds like you had a blast. Funny that back in the mid-70's there were prime rib buffets to be had for $5.99, and breakfasts in resort hotels for 99 cents. That was for bacon, two eggs, and toast. I could get well filled for $3! That was before Vegas became "family friendly" and they catered to hard core gamblers. If you were spending much time at the tables, that buffet was comped anyway. My sister was an AC person (Sands Platinum card) and they never paid for anything. |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:18:00 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: I had the backhoe attachment for the John Deere tractor I had. Not big (12 inch wide bucket) and not super powerful but it did a lot of work over the years. I dug all the electrical and plumbing trenches for the pool when we had it installed. The contractor had some kind of machine but had a hard time because of all the rocks and boulders. The JD handled them well, although I overloaded the hydraulics many times. Trenches all had to be four feet deep and collectively there were about 150 -200 feet of them. Cool. I always wished I had a decent reason to buy a backhoe. I played with the one my nieces hubby borrowed to dig out my sister's abandoned septic tank when they built their pool. If you only had one machine that is probably the one to have but they are really not that popular here. One of the guys I talked to said the arrangement of the hoses to the backhoe arm on the traditional one is susceptible to too much wear from the sand. In Maryland they were everywhere. In the 1&2 family biz here an tracked Bobcat is king. We are not digging deep foundations and you can do more with the Bobcat. When my wife was building, there was always a Bobcat in the neighborhood and MartÃ*n the operator was her buddy. |
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On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:39:13 -0500, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:41:28 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. Call Sunbelt, they will rent you an excavator for far less than a weekend in Vegas. Do you have any flower beds you need turned in the yard? ;-) I may be getting a "long stick" Gradall here as soon as I can work out the details and arrange the operator. You can come over and play with that. === Hell yes, let me know. :-) --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:
On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:50:16 -0500, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:35:01 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. Full size is lots different than a Bobcat sided backhoe. For one, the cab will rotate 360degrees. So no moving the tracks when digging. And do not have to turn around to go backwards while facing forward. Just rotate the cab and pull back on the track control instead of pushing forward. That is how excavators work, even the little mini Kabotas. Loaders like a bobcat are usually skid steer until you get real big. Then they are articulated. A backhoe is like you are talking about but that is actually a loader with a "back hoe" added on it. The seat is reversible. My niece's hubby was an operating engineer, as was his whole family and most of the Harley guys I knew. They were sticklers for nomenclature. I was also chastised for calling a concrete mixer a "cement truck" ;-) An awful lot of folks confuse concrete and cement, so don't feel badly. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H
wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:59:03 -0500, John H
wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:53:11 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:48:47 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. Sounds like you had a blast. Funny that back in the mid-70's there were prime rib buffets to be had for $5.99, and breakfasts in resort hotels for 99 cents. That was for bacon, two eggs, and toast. I could get well filled for $3! That was before Vegas became "family friendly" and they catered to hard core gamblers. If you were spending much time at the tables, that buffet was comped anyway. My sister was an AC person (Sands Platinum card) and they never paid for anything. I shot my $50 weekend limit and that was it. They made very little money from me. What's 'AC' mean? Atlantic City. I am a rationed gambler these days too. I used to be more serious about it but these days I avoid the casino or just take $5 or something. Either I get lucky or I lose my $5. Sometimes I will just put it on one bet and put it in my pocket if I win. I figured out years ago, the more you play, the more you lose. The only people who show a profit on their 1099 G are the ones who make a big score early and get out. I know my sister used to always talk about her "winnings" but over all of those years, my brother in law said they never had to pay taxes on that money. That is one good thing about gambling "on the card" tho. You get a statement, just like at a bank. I am surprised they do it. They rationalized going to AC was still cheaper than a cruise and cruise ships don't comp anything for gamblers.. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Right after she checked to see if your life insurance premium was paid. :) -- Posted with my iPhone 8+. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Oh. To be a fly on the wall. :-) -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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John H
- show quoted text - Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. ..... About 5 years ago I sold my D7 Cat crawler. It had some minor flaws but was still workable. And I got fair money out of it. I kinda wished I’d kept it, there’s some projects in the farm I could use it for. John you coulda come out and I’d have put you to work. You’d have had a real blast! |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:00:51 -0500, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:59:03 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:53:11 -0500, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:48:47 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. Sounds like you had a blast. Funny that back in the mid-70's there were prime rib buffets to be had for $5.99, and breakfasts in resort hotels for 99 cents. That was for bacon, two eggs, and toast. I could get well filled for $3! That was before Vegas became "family friendly" and they catered to hard core gamblers. If you were spending much time at the tables, that buffet was comped anyway. My sister was an AC person (Sands Platinum card) and they never paid for anything. I shot my $50 weekend limit and that was it. They made very little money from me. What's 'AC' mean? Atlantic City. I am a rationed gambler these days too. I used to be more serious about it but these days I avoid the casino or just take $5 or something. Either I get lucky or I lose my $5. Sometimes I will just put it on one bet and put it in my pocket if I win. I figured out years ago, the more you play, the more you lose. The only people who show a profit on their 1099 G are the ones who make a big score early and get out. I know my sister used to always talk about her "winnings" but over all of those years, my brother in law said they never had to pay taxes on that money. That is one good thing about gambling "on the card" tho. You get a statement, just like at a bank. I am surprised they do it. They rationalized going to AC was still cheaper than a cruise and cruise ships don't comp anything for gamblers.. The biggest problem I have on a Disney cruise is overeating! Walking Deck 4 gets boring after a few rounds. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:51:08 -0500, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Sounds like a blast. The bucket on the Bobcat wouldn't have gotten me high enough for any Peter Panning. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:14:30 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:
John H - show quoted text - Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. .... About 5 years ago I sold my D7 Cat crawler. It had some minor flaws but was still workable. And I got fair money out of it. I kinda wished I’d kept it, there’s some projects in the farm I could use it for. John you coulda come out and I’d have put you to work. You’d have had a real blast! Would have loved it. I worked on a farm once that had a D7. Used it for tilling with a disc harrow that seemed a mile wide. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:04:15 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote: wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Right after she checked to see if your life insurance premium was paid. :) I actually felt totally safe. In a good climbing harness, you are not leaving the machine and the machine was rated at over 3 times what I weigh. It was a whole lot safer than the way I am usually rolling topside screen. (on one of those dreaded ladders) |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:42:21 -0500, John H
wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:51:08 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Sounds like a blast. The bucket on the Bobcat wouldn't have gotten me high enough for any Peter Panning. The man lift was really pretty cool. It was a 2 man, fully articulated thing, self propelled with something like a 30 foot up, 14 foot out boom. It really made taking that tree out in small chunks easy. I had to make it small enough to go in a dumpster. After Irma I took down the other half the good old Paul Bunyon way. I notched it and dropped the whole thing up on FPL in one piece, then cut it into chunks I could drag with the truck and hauled it out front. |
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On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:58:34 UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:42:21 -0500, John H wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:51:08 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Sounds like a blast. The bucket on the Bobcat wouldn't have gotten me high enough for any Peter Panning. The man lift was really pretty cool. It was a 2 man, fully articulated thing, self propelled with something like a 30 foot up, 14 foot out boom. It really made taking that tree out in small chunks easy. I had to make it small enough to go in a dumpster. After Irma I took down the other half the good old Paul Bunyon way. I notched it and dropped the whole thing up on FPL in one piece, then cut it into chunks I could drag with the truck and hauled it out front. My brother-in-law has convinced me to rent a scissor type lift rather than the Genie boom type man lift to reach 26-28 feet up. He claims the basket is more stable ...less shaking. |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:34:18 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote: On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:58:34 UTC-4, wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:42:21 -0500, John H wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:51:08 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Sounds like a blast. The bucket on the Bobcat wouldn't have gotten me high enough for any Peter Panning. The man lift was really pretty cool. It was a 2 man, fully articulated thing, self propelled with something like a 30 foot up, 14 foot out boom. It really made taking that tree out in small chunks easy. I had to make it small enough to go in a dumpster. After Irma I took down the other half the good old Paul Bunyon way. I notched it and dropped the whole thing up on FPL in one piece, then cut it into chunks I could drag with the truck and hauled it out front. My brother-in-law has convinced me to rent a scissor type lift rather than the Genie boom type man lift to reach 26-28 feet up. He claims the basket is more stable ...less shaking. Probably true but when I was dropping that tree I wanted to be above the stuff I was cutting and not have it landing on the machine, The 14 foot reach allowed me to line up perpendicular to the limb I was cutting and come at it from the top with the machine itself safely off to the side. A scissor lift is straight up and down. There was no way I could have used it on the screen cage either. The screen panels I was replacing were over the pool. |
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True North wrote:
On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:58:34 UTC-4, wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:42:21 -0500, John H wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:51:08 -0500, wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:56:17 -0500, John H wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:51:13 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote: On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:41:07 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:26:48 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 11/20/17 12:49 PM, Bill wrote: wrote: On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:28:12 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Met older daughter and family for a weekend in Vegas. Wife gave son in law and me an Excavator experience at digthisvegas.com. Fun weekend. Expensive stay though. Even excluding any gambling. Stayed at Mandalay Bay. Specials on room, but no reasonable dining. Even in room coffee was $5 a cup. Got a lesson in a Cat 315C excavator. Dug a big hole, moved 2500# tires and picked up a basketball and dropped in a tire. Fun trip. I have a great wife. Great gifts. No boating. === Cool. I'd like to try that sometime. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com He has a couple franchises elsewhere I think. Yeah. I've driven one of those relatively tiny backhoes you see being towed behind a pickup truck, and I managed not to kill anyone or destroy the equipment. Love to try a full-sized ecavator. I have rented a Bobcat a few times. They are fun When I built the circular drive, my neighbor across the street left me his bobcat for a week while he was away on vacation. It was fun! Got a call from my wife's church. "Hey John, you grew up on a farm, can you operate a Bobcat?" "Sure." I said. So I showed up. The rental agency guy arrived and I told him I'd be operating it. He asked if I'd ever operated one. Nope, never had. He said it'd be a snap to learn, and it was. Had a blast all day with that thing. I want one. That was my experience when I have rented machines. The driver gave me a 2 minute "lesson" and drove away. It is not hard to make everything move but it takes a while to do it instinctively. I was actually getting pretty good with the New Holland I rented in Maryland when I was building that addition but I had it the whole week. I moved a lot of dirt around. I only had the Bobcat 3 days here, doing my rip rap. (a weekend). If you get one at a slow time for them you may end up having it more days than you rented for because they don't come get it until it is rented again. We had that with the man lift I got for the first swing at the fichus tree and had it sitting here for 3 days on a one day rental. I really was having a hard time finding a use for it tho. I did use it to replace a bad screen panel in the middle of the roof of my 15' high cage. I used my climbing harness, hanging from the basket and Judy "Peter Panned" me out over the cage from the ground. It worked surprisingly well. Sounds like a blast. The bucket on the Bobcat wouldn't have gotten me high enough for any Peter Panning. The man lift was really pretty cool. It was a 2 man, fully articulated thing, self propelled with something like a 30 foot up, 14 foot out boom. It really made taking that tree out in small chunks easy. I had to make it small enough to go in a dumpster. After Irma I took down the other half the good old Paul Bunyon way. I notched it and dropped the whole thing up on FPL in one piece, then cut it into chunks I could drag with the truck and hauled it out front. My brother-in-law has convinced me to rent a scissor type lift rather than the Genie boom type man lift to reach 26-28 feet up. He claims the basket is more stable ...less shaking. How close can you get the lift to the wall? |
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:43:19 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote: The man lift was really pretty cool. It was a 2 man, fully articulated thing, self propelled with something like a 30 foot up, 14 foot out boom. It really made taking that tree out in small chunks easy. I had to make it small enough to go in a dumpster. After Irma I took down the other half the good old Paul Bunyon way. I notched it and dropped the whole thing up on FPL in one piece, then cut it into chunks I could drag with the truck and hauled it out front. My brother-in-law has convinced me to rent a scissor type lift rather than the Genie boom type man lift to reach 26-28 feet up. He claims the basket is more stable ...less shaking. How close can you get the lift to the wall? Pretty much right up next to it. The arm has 3 joints in it so you can go straight up and then go out. https://sws.sunbeltrentals.com/image...0318&width=180 |
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 04:43:19 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: The man lift was really pretty cool. It was a 2 man, fully articulated thing, self propelled with something like a 30 foot up, 14 foot out boom. It really made taking that tree out in small chunks easy. I had to make it small enough to go in a dumpster. After Irma I took down the other half the good old Paul Bunyon way. I notched it and dropped the whole thing up on FPL in one piece, then cut it into chunks I could drag with the truck and hauled it out front. My brother-in-law has convinced me to rent a scissor type lift rather than the Genie boom type man lift to reach 26-28 feet up. He claims the basket is more stable ...less shaking. How close can you get the lift to the wall? Pretty much right up next to it. The arm has 3 joints in it so you can go straight up and then go out. https://sws.sunbeltrentals.com/image...0318&width=180 Referring to the scissor lift . |
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