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Part V
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How is your Julie these days?
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Very cool man, Im just getting into it right now 
I think the name of the stack is just called a pump-out stack. Its a 4inchish wide pipe with a 90 degrees fitting at the bottom, and a center removable piece of pipe with a fancy little setup on it. Its really a waste, and i wish i would have known that before we bought it!
We also installed a fiberglass tank, no heavy lids on that bad boy!
What do you guys dig with?
As for lines, I havent had much of a problem with them, yet!
I think the name of the stack is just called a pump-out stack. Its a 4inchish wide pipe with a 90 degrees fitting at the bottom, and a center removable piece of pipe with a fancy little setup on it. Its really a waste, and i wish i would have known that before we bought it!
We also installed a fiberglass tank, no heavy lids on that bad boy!
What do you guys dig with?
As for lines, I havent had much of a problem with them, yet!
Since then we've had some family crap and we now have a 95 Deere 490E that is a good machine, but isn't quite the machine the Link-Belt was.
The Link-Belt was a little larger than the Deere is as well.
If I was getting a machine to do septics I'd get a ZTS Deere machine. Having a lot of the house swinging around behind you is no good in tight spaces when you're setting galleries.
My favorite part of septics is setting the galleries. I just think it's so cool that you can have a machine that can lift thousands of pounds of concrete in the air and set it down exactly where you want it provided you have a hand on the ground to help you out a little.
I pride myself in my precision in setting concrete. I was running a Deere 624J on a job this summer. Another contractor on the job comes over to me and asks if I could help him. I figure why not I'm billing straight to the property owner at mucho dinero an hour running machines the owner rented. The property owner there likes to rent machines and pay guys to come run them. Not sure why, but he does. Anyways I go over to help this guy out. He's trying to set a catch basin lid with a Hitachi 270. I hop in the cab. Turn the throttle WAY down. He had it on 100% throttle. I turned it down to almost an idle. He put a hand on the catch basin lid to steady it and we got it within probably 1/16" of dead square. A good kick set it perfect.
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From: horicon Wi
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From: Bellingham, WA
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From: horicon Wi
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From: Bellingham, WA
We had like maybe 4-5 girls that looked good enough to post pictures of back in high school. How the heck did you get so blessed?
Luckily, I lived right next to WWU so the college babes we right there...very nice!!!
Luckily, I lived right next to WWU so the college babes we right there...very nice!!!
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From: North Central Rural Sask.
Damn Tristan, that one is pretty smoking too!
Pete, i use a case 580 backhoe to do my digging for now. I got a half decent deal on it, and it serves alot of different purposes for me too.
I sometimes wish i would have went with a mini excavator, and a full size, but what do ya do!
I dont get the full throttle either, I usually run at 1000 rpms, and unless I really need some power (which happens from time to time) 1000 rpms is all my machine needs to do a quick efficient job.
I remember when I was looking at equipment I was tossing up getting a bobcat skidsteer, Im sure glad I went with a backhoe though!
Pete, i use a case 580 backhoe to do my digging for now. I got a half decent deal on it, and it serves alot of different purposes for me too.
I sometimes wish i would have went with a mini excavator, and a full size, but what do ya do!
I dont get the full throttle either, I usually run at 1000 rpms, and unless I really need some power (which happens from time to time) 1000 rpms is all my machine needs to do a quick efficient job.
I remember when I was looking at equipment I was tossing up getting a bobcat skidsteer, Im sure glad I went with a backhoe though!
Snowboard season cometh..
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From: Gulf Coast of Florida
Virginia grows some very cute/hot & very privileged/spoiled girls. Girls. Not young women, not even close. Many go straight from young hottie to trophy wife, never learn to think/do for themselves, and never become a woman. Great eye/arm candy though.
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From: North Central Rural Sask.
The good ol 4 sticks My hoe is a 1995 so its not the newest thing out there, but it is in decent shape and whatnot.
I think Id be lost with the newer style controls haha. I can work those sticks like you wouldnt believe though!
My hoe is a 1995 so its not the newest thing out there, but it is in decent shape and whatnot. I think Id be lost with the newer style controls haha. I can work those sticks like you wouldnt believe though!