After looking at John Days' truck in his sig I searched for bull bars on CL. Guy wanted $350, showed up w/300 cash and he didn't have the brackets for it. He had to fab them while I waited, and helped, ended up walking away installed for $225 American since he said he wasted alot of my time Sucker was brand new, 4" stainless bar, bolted to a display stand. Couldn't pass it up

 

Wow, ya sure got a deal on that!! Looks good!!

 

pretty darned nice look Tim!!!

 

Thanks guys, wasn't sure about it at first. Needed time to "grow on me" I guess. I was thinking of removing the lower grille as it covers my H-D plate but that is growing on me as well. Definately like the 4" bar, it comes up higher on the grill and just "bigger" overall ( even though its just for show, they should call it a BS bar not a Bullbar lol)

 

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

 

Heavy equipment, I love it! At the power plant I retired from, we had 3-4 D10's. Our blades were extended out to 21' plus, with the addition of wings. They were used for pushing coal.
I can relate to the amount of dirt you guys are moving, I haul a 140yd 8 axle daily. 85k, the weight of that D8 is a pretty much average load for me. I also operate a "small" Komatsu WA250PZ with the extended boom and high tip bucket. We have two of those.
Next time I know I'll be in the woods, I'll try to take photos of the equipment we use out there, skidders, processors, flails, chippers, dozers, excavators, etc. Oh, BTW, Axmen is pretty dramatic, for some reason, I never see an emergency on a daily basis. Those guys must be a complete bunch of bafoons.LOL

 

I love my job, its like getting paid to play most days. I enjoy "building stuff" like retention basins, cutting roads in, etc... We have Trimble GPS on all our stuff and being able to grade a building pad within a tenth with the Auto Grade in a D 8 is amazing. We have a Cat 365 loading 3 Volvo 35 ton artics there, I ran tha 365 last year on a job for a week or 2. Nice machine, quick for its size. Needs a bigger bucket for Mass excavation, and it has a longer stick on it too, but we have used it for deep pipe work also. Those D 10s are no joke! I will try to get some more pics this week

 

Ya, please do. I saw the lazers on your machines, those sure took a lot of hit and miss out of the game when you needed a level pad.
For the most part, I love my job too. Sometimes it can be a bit trying at 10 above or colder, but ya, it's cool. Both of us are doing the kind of work that most people have zero clue about. You know those buildings and forest products just appear by magic!! [sarchasm]
Up here, people are pretty much accustomed to our trucks on the road. Right now, most of the guys are hauling downstate to the landscape suppliers hauling mulch, bark, etc., where the flatlanders don't like us much. LOL, I chuckle everytime I'm told I'm "number one" LOL. Luckily, I'm staying "upnorth". Mostly hauling out of the sawmills, and in the woods hauling out whatever can't be hauled on a log truck. Man, I'll ya, there's not much of anything cooler than driving a 150k# heavy hauler offroad. I say "damn it" to myself almost daily. Sometimes a little more stronger language when I stick it though. LOL
Our loaders are the smaller size to you guys, just about a 6.5 yard bucket, but anything bigger would get ya in trouble. The guys in the mulch yards tend to have bigger machines, 350, and up Komatsu's and some even bigger Cats and Deeres. 946's if IIRC.


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Lehigh valley sounds familiar, just where is that?

 

Good looking truck.

 

Allentown Bethlehem Kutztown area. Around Rts 78 & 100. Right next to a truck stop but I can't remember the name of it. Thanks Ford Coastie

 

Suffering push bar Batman! That is one shiny bumper!

 

I had washed and waxed it the day before. Tuesday after work I was cutting firewood and got it all muddy, it was raining and almost had her stuck in the mud. Ah well it was clean for a day or 2

 

Nice score, but I'd like it a lot better if it didn't cover the Harley plate.

 

I am going to take it off this weekend and see what it looks like without the bottom plate on it

 

looks nice but can you push with it? :P

j/k. nice find!