I am a equipment operator. 5 years on a Komatsu 220 trackhoe. 2 years on a Cat D5G finish dozer. 2 years on a Cat 631 scraper. I have also spent quite a bit of time running skid loaders, high-lifts, and backhoes. I love my job. Running the equipment never gets old. Listening to all of the whiners does.

 

Been on iron since I was a kid....now it's my bread and butter. Local 3 district 12. I check more grade now but still hop on iron every so often. I love the smell of diesel and dirt.

 

I haven't ran anything for a while but have spent quite a bit of time in the past on JD310 back hoe, JD450 dozer, I believe it was a JD590 track hoe, skid loaders, and mini ex's. Mow all I get to drive is a fork lift to hall engines around the factory.

 

got a 426 cat back hoe of my own and 3 trucks, 1 tandem and 2 tractors 1 scissor dump 1belly dump trailer and looking into a belt floor /live bottom trailer, have run dozer and hoes quite a bit and getting good at it my son at the age of 10 is gettin pretty good with the backhoe

 

I've been an Equip. Operater at different Gold Mines since 1979. Sorta burned out. but getting kinda old to start something different, That pays as well.

 

Run everything from a fork truck to skid steers to a dozer to tractors and all the way up to a 962 series Cat loader. Just applied to an excavation and site management company as a plow operator. Probably get stuck in a loader again, wouldn't be so bad if the equipment was reasonably new... Or at least had a stereo.

 

Another military one here. Technically I'm a carpenter in a civil engingeer squadron in the Air Force but when I'm deployed we end up helpin out the "dirt boys" as we call our operators. Everything from 6k forklift to D9 dozers, tractor trailers, you name it.

 

I can run alotta stuff. I've lived on a farm my whole life. I can operate skid steers, track hoes, and just about any kind of farming equipment.

 

i work for an excavator as a labor but jump in the seat as much as icn tryin to get better so i can go from labor to opperator. but im layed off bein that there isnt any work in nj is not helpin

 

Here are some of the 'toys' I get to play with everyday. Concrete pumps have been my life for the last 14 years. A great job, like driving a giant radio controlled DIESEL truck all over the place.
I have run everything from a shovel all the way up to 200' boom concrete pump. I've 'played' on all kinds of backhoes, track hoes, tractors and cranes.