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IM not worried about getting alot of the same tools, SOme how I have a knack for ending up with 4 or 5 13/16ths and 3 9 /16ths and alot of 10 mm and 3/8ths. lol I loose alot of tools into dozer and compactor belly pans. May take a year for me to retrieve them lol .

Have yall seen the JCB High speed backhoe that Nato uses? Made in the US and UK. JCB also has a plant in China for making some of there TLBs. Well JonYang is a Chinese euipment MFG that makes mostly excavators under several names. THey make an Identical copy of the same JCB hoe that our military...

Im a part time mechanic at work and like good tools. I have to supply all my tools aswell. I talked to a man that bought a load of tools that came from GL. He said he kept 2 of everything and want to sell the rest. My big question is What bands of tools are used? Are they...

Anyone need any kind of manual for MV or equipment Im heading to St Augustine FL in a few weeks. Wolfs Head books is on our list to stop. Id be more than proud to take a list of numbers/or descriptions of what to look for. Lots of service manuals there. I will pay my wife...

I just got back on here after a bit of absence and am saddened to hear about James. His posts were a great help to me. I heard about it earlier by accident a friend of mine that is and OTR driver He passed the accident and was telling me about on the phone after. I...

Figure the taper of the shaft and measure the Keyway. Then try a place that deals with power transmission supplies. Motion Industries and SUrplus center is who I use. They can often match a coupler like you want. I have found old yokes that were made for them and turned...

I saw one on an 816 in Muscle Soals AL a few weeks ago. THe man was settin rafters on his house with it. His was made from pipe and pinned on like a crane jib. Ill swing by and see if its still there next week when I pick up my parts there. His was a little rough made but he had a...

Hey A newbie 30 miles from here. From one MS noob to another howdy.

THe scrappers here give 5 cent pound on big things. My friend says he cant come out on cutting it up either. THats the big thing with scrappers here many arent proficient with a torch. By the time they cut and run through 2 bottles and have to deal with tires and such they...

Im not worried about the the motor it runs tip top. Transmission hung in between 2 gears. It was blocking the road so a the skidder pinched the rear rails. moving it from the road. It was used to shuffle trailers. We flat land log here no big loads or many hills. The...

I may have found a Deuce for scrap price, THe rear is mangled from an attack by a grapple i nthe log woods where it broke down. THey robbed the rear axle and parts of the suspension and it has no bed just a worn 5th wheel. I m thinking about making my first Deuce a bobber...

I just saw a sad site here. I got a call leaving work and a friend told me a logger was in need of a few truck parts. He has the biggest Army truck Ive ever seen. He says its a 10 ton. They use it as a pull out truck and have a large winch on it for recovering equipment. I had met...

Can you take a few pics of the ends of the cylinders and look around on the rod end for a small rectangular hole. ALot of cylinders come with a locking ring inside the cylinder rod end. Most shops will just cut the welds out with a lathe than mess with the ring. I used to...

I have a truck frame drill from Waber. I got mine from a scrap dealer that had no idea what it was. You mount a 5/8ths drill motor Milwaulkee/ Porter Cable on it. It works for horizontal holes. Its basically a stand with an acme screw that raises a roller mounted stand that...

THats the first pic of one of those Ive seen. THe first time I saw one work was in the 90's about 98. A freind of mine was welding the bottom of a barge for a dock builder and putting up a militar surplus building in a gravel pit. I think his even had a 3phase converter to run...

Thats a neat truck, can you tell us more about the excavator? It looks like a Hopto model. THeres a similatr one on tracks in a gravel pit near here Im trying to find the name on it. My neighbor had an early Hydro Hoe on their 211. They bought theirs from the US Army Corp of...

A few years ago when I was 24 no one would insure my and my dump truck for a resonable amount till I was 25. I was told by a trucker that I couldbemy own Insurance carrier. It worked like a charm I was kinda my own agent.

Its a shame for someone to blame a machine for ignorance of an operator. THe county here has 4 or 5 GI trucks asbrush trucks and they run them ragged. One of the trucks rolled over. I went with a loader to clean up some of the oil spilled. I noticed the tank was huge. It was a 5000 gallon un...

Mike2 what part are you from? I got another lead on another truck possilbly a pre Vietnam rig. The man telling me about it said it had a stick wood loader on it. Hes a scrapper and I ve talked to him about buying all the OD iron he finds. I appreciate all the Info...

I dont mean to cause a thread drift but Im interested with the process of EUC Im about to bid on a trailer on GL. I second the motion for donuts. I worked for a man that had a weldding job at Redstone. He used to stop on mondays and Fridays and get all the donuts the...