I've run 992C wheel loaders, 953C track loaders, and track hoes from mini excavators with a 12" bucket to 62" bucket SK-480-LC Kobelco.

I love to run the mini excavators......its like playing a video game.

Awww tack loader I miss those a old 977 with 4n1 has a special place in my heart. Been running a pullpan for a week since were so slow. I think its better then looking for a new job...:humm:

I grew up on a farm, so I'm familiar with most forms of the dirt diggers. I work in a factory now operating a 20-TON overhead crane. It has two hoists, each rated to lift 10-TONS and it's operated off a radio control box I wear on my belt. If it wasn't a job, it would be like the world's coolest RC toy!:U:

Critter looks like this, except no operator cab:
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local 150 here out of IL, i run a CME 75 Drill rig

Owner operator,local 513. 31 years last year. I've owned around 38 bobcats,3 backhoes,several dump trucks,and a 953 cat. I also ran a link belt crane for several years.

Completely burnt out, started in a new business last year, just getting it going this month and it's looking like it's going to work.

nothing too huge, although I do have a bit of seat time in a Cat 320 and a deere 624 loader, this is what I run most days at the "firewood factory" it does everything I want but I need a cab for it , it is a bit cold in the winter hence being all bundled up lolhttp://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4311/12340567lh7.jpg

I started operating yellow iron when I was 10yrs old. I ran finish grade crew for a EPA sub for 6 yrs. Ran the excavation crew for 3yrs. I spent 2yrs on a D10R high track at the lake Ft. Smith dam project. To many years operating a track hoe to count. I have ran every thing from the small bobcat termite hoes up to the Cat 375 hoe loading off road trucks. I had my own zone here in the county maintaining roads with a 12G cat Then I got a new JD 670C. Had about 100miles of road that were in my zone. Did that up till a year ago when I got burnt out on it so I now run the Right of way crew. We keep all the ditches mowed in the county. I Also co. owned and operated a 2000 acre farm with my dad up until about 8 yrs ago when he decided to retire so we sold it. Here are a few pics of what I do now.
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Here are a Few pics of my JD 670C Blade.
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I work for a heavy construction services company, I've ran milling machines, skidsteers, frontend loaders, dozers up to a cat D12, offroad trucks, trackhoes, and scrapers where i work. I also have ran john deere grapple log skidder while working for my buddy.

My dad owns a excavating company he started us off on the baby equipment wen i was six then worked up to the big stuff within a couple years i like driving um got pretty good on everything but a grader still workin on it :U:

we have a few graders, never got the oppertunity to run one though

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Wow a D12 thats a big dozer that isn't in production.

yeah that was my bad, wasn't a D12 it was a D11 T. still it's huge!:rocking:

I work for the local county road department. Been around trucks and equipment all my life, but only really started operating when I got hired here about 2 years ago. They've had me on our 938G and 966G Series II loaders the most. Spent some time in the wide track D6R, and alot of time in 140H graders mixing millings. Every once and a while they throw me on a backhoe to clean ditches and little cleanup work when doing subgrade work. I run our Bearcat chipspreader also. Next month we start chipsealing hopefully, got about 100 miles to do this year :argh: I've also spent alot of time on rollers... 9 wheel rubber tires, steel wheels and sheepsfoot rollers. We just got a new 140M grader that they have me on all the time lately. Nobody likes them because everything is joystick... I like it, took a while to get used to but I'm getting the hang of it grading dirt roads. They want me to train on it and be the next finish blade with it since noone likes the joysticks and I do :U:

Ran heavy equip. for 25 years. Now I own a welding shop and still aint maken no money.:humm:

crane operator here . Lr 1750 825 us ton crane 437 feet of boom shes a really big girl. grew up around equipment.

my grandad drove a gas semi lol, worked on heavy equip, when it ran on steam! my dad run drag lines and drove everything. i got a cdl at 18 and two weeks old. first day on the job i had 100 years exp.

wayne thats a fat stack on the back of that thing. can you post a chart?

i run a d8t for a construction campany with repper run it for 8 years and loving it CANADA:jump::c::wack:

Used to be a union operator for 701... Ex, Dozer, Scraper, Backhoe, Loader...

From a 992 to a 950, D-3 to a D-9, 312 to a 450, 613 to a 637...

Worked for Kewit, JC Compton, Hooker Creek, and a few no name little guys in the PNW...

Miss it everyday but it just doesnt work anymore... My back that is..:argh: Scrapers and dozers...:td:

that is huge crane. i'd love to see it in person

My parents own a 2nd generation family owned construction company here in Minnesota. The first time I ever dug a hole, I was 5 years old and sitting on my dads lap in the tractor hoe. I'm 18 now, and during the summer I work full time there. I would say about 65% of the time I'm an operator. I have operated almost every piece of equipment we have. I'm pretty good at finish dozer work, but you can't beat the fun of a D8L. I have operated pretty much everything from a D3C to a D8L, 308C to a 325C, 922B to a 980G, and tractor hoe, skid loader, No. 14 to a 143H, and 4 wheel drive Steigers. This summer i'm trying to get my dad to let me learn on the 627s.

I'm only 18 years old and all I do everyday is pull levers for my dads company. I run pretty much everything from dozer,excavator,loader,dump truck,low boy, scraper, grader, etc. I'm an operator through the 612 union

I was born into operating being only 16 i think iam good at it and always like to improve my dad owns a company we have a cat d4 dozer and a case 580 backhoe. our family has a sandpit that i work at in the summer i run a cat 980loader cat225 trackhoe cat 966 loader and a cat d8 dozer. i love pulling levers and moving dirt

I am a Union Operator on the pipeline. I operate hoe's, dozers(angle blade), winch cat, side boom, blade, rubber tired hoe, loaders and most anything else for movin dirt. My last job I put 1247 hours on a hoe that I got with plastic still on the seats in 2 1/2 months. Best part is that the bucket hour meter only logged 199 hours. I started in the construction end on scrapers and loaders and dozers and backhoe's.

i doo road construction here in michigan we put in the 4/6/8 inch perrforated drain tile under the road for drainage we use a couple 50s era cleveland js36 wheel trenchers along with backhoe tracked excavaters front end loader once in a while i get too run a dozer too push crushed stone for road grade but not very much:tu:

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