Craigslist score and a random pic
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From: New Jersey
Heres the random pic, had to re-size it
This is on the job I'm working on. We are doing it here in the Lehigh Valley for a company out of Texas, Hillwood Construction. 1 million sf warehouse and a few smaller buildings. Job has over 1 million yards of dirt to move for our site preparation. We rented this D 10 for 3 months, from L to R is a D 6, D 10, my D 8 and another of our D 8's. Not pictured is a hoe and truck package and a few tractor pans. We have been moving over 14k yards of dirt in our 9 hr first shift and with the 2nd shift we are doing roughly 25K yards a day. Thats a LOT of dirt folks
EDIT: For refernce, I am 5'11" and I look eye to the top of the blade on my dozer, figure roughly 5.5 feet high, and she weighs 85K lbs. That D 10 weighs 150K+ and the blade is probably 7' high at least. She's a big 'un
This is on the job I'm working on. We are doing it here in the Lehigh Valley for a company out of Texas, Hillwood Construction. 1 million sf warehouse and a few smaller buildings. Job has over 1 million yards of dirt to move for our site preparation. We rented this D 10 for 3 months, from L to R is a D 6, D 10, my D 8 and another of our D 8's. Not pictured is a hoe and truck package and a few tractor pans. We have been moving over 14k yards of dirt in our 9 hr first shift and with the 2nd shift we are doing roughly 25K yards a day. Thats a LOT of dirt folks
EDIT: For refernce, I am 5'11" and I look eye to the top of the blade on my dozer, figure roughly 5.5 feet high, and she weighs 85K lbs. That D 10 weighs 150K+ and the blade is probably 7' high at least. She's a big 'un
Otherwise cool job. I worked for an equipment dealership for about 6 years then the economy took the first nose dive. It was a fun job to play with the compact equipment but mismanagement took over and I was out the door.
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Resident smarta$$
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From: Oaks,PA
Yes, it is! I always thought the D 8 I'm running there was a good-size dozer, but that 10 is superbadass. I wouldn't mind running it for an hour or 2 
Makes that 8 look like a D 6
Makes that 8 look like a D 6
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That is for sure. I use to work for a land surveyor and have been out on some construction sites. I thought that some of that equipment was large, but it is nothing compared to the stuff that you are working with.
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From: Oaks,PA
Yep, using an 815 compactor with the trucks, and also running a 9520 JD tractor and Case 450 both pulling double bowls. They are rented along with the D 10. We used to have a few JD tractor pans but they went when things got slow a few years ago. Had a fleet of 627's before that but not many contractors use them around here any more, mostly hoe/truck packages. Not pictured are a new D 6T and another D 8T, 2 JD 650's. None of it is getting used much this week with all this rain, I only worked 1 day so far this week 
Maybe next week will be better
Maybe next week will be better
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