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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 09:34 AM
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Mornin y'all.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 11:07 AM
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Morning, I haven't checked in for awile. How is everyone?
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 01:53 PM
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Hello Jacob and Jason. Doing well here
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 02:09 PM
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howdy gents.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 03:12 PM
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Afternoon, OT.

Seems like we don't really have any good topics of discussion lately so I'm gonna post up a few pictures of our new toy in order to have something to talk about.

2006 Rotochopper CP118

Note: Truck there just cause. It got pulled there with the 6.0 I don't have a pintle hook on my truck.

115 hp John Deere diesel

Chips go in here

They get ground up and dyed in here

And they come out smaller and more uniform and dyed pretty colors.
This is what it produced with the 2" square screens in it now. We're looking to get 1.25" square screens to hopefully try to make a better product.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 04:40 PM
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Afternoon ya'll, hope everyone's Tuesday is going well. This working stuff ain't quite what it used to be.
2006 Rotochopper CP118
I not familiar with the name RotoChopper, but it looks like a tub grinder. Or is it something else? In a former career (steering wheel holder) I've moved a couple of Mobark Tubgrinders that would eat stumps from 80 year old oaks. Wild stuff to watch...from quite a distance.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by rat49f6
morning all
headed to McDonald & McDonald Spring company to get new springs and helpers for our 2000 F550
steve text me the info u have about the rear springs u want and ill get u a quote
i think you were saying f350 "N" code but im not positive
we ordered Heavier duty springs for our truck
even at 2800lbs more capacity they were less money than Ford

geesus...2800 lbs more? gonna be a rough riding sob empty!

wouldnt airbags be better?
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by zhilton
Afternoon ya'll, hope everyone's Tuesday is going well. This working stuff ain't quite what it used to be.

I not familiar with the name RotoChopper, but it looks like a tub grinder. Or is it something else? In a former career (steering wheel holder) I've moved a couple of Mobark Tubgrinders that would eat stumps from 80 year old oaks. Wild stuff to watch...from quite a distance.
Rotochopper does make grinders. I believe they only make horizontal grinders though. We already have a tub grinder. This is known as a chip processor. Load in a bucket of woodchips it goes up the conveyor and drops into the grinding/coloring chamber where it is ground and sprayed with a mixture of dye and water and once it is ground down enough it falls through the screen and goes out the discharge conveyor and onto a stockpile.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 07:32 PM
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Hello Doc. How are things in Iowa these days?
Howdy, Jay. The Hawkeye State is, in a word, wet... the slow melt we had helped some, but there's still some flooding going on. Seems like it happens every spring, really.

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how's things in your neck of the corn field?
Howdy, Jack... how's you?
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by AzBlueWolf
geesus...2800 lbs more? gonna be a rough riding sob empty!

wouldnt airbags be better?
truck is a F550 mason dump
it rides fairly well considering that it has heavy duty springs and the outside rear wheels are solid foam filled

we do alot of things in my shop that the product provider says there product wont do

this truck is a 2000 f550 reg cab with 11 foot dump box with a gvwr around 17,000
we have had 12 ton of quarry proccess on it and took it up the mountian to get to a job
dont get me wrong it breaks and it breaks big but the truck itself has never let us down
 
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 07:10 AM
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Good Morning All.......

Happy St. Patricks Day!
 
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 07:29 AM
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Happy St. Patricks day to you as well Steve. Do you have pattoons fitted to your Excursion yet?

Morning y'all...walking out the door headed to work. Another day of class/training....oh joy.
 
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 10:42 AM
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morning all everyone is Irish today!!
Its Tullamore Dew and Gingerale for me ... CHEERS!!!
 
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 11:07 AM
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Good morning all.

Pete, keep your fingers and toes away from that thing eh?
 
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 12:30 PM
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whats the difference between an irish wedding and an Irish funeral?





























one less drunk!!
 
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