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  1. Slpwlkr

    I am out on the east side by the 1-70 petro (Iowa 80) exit 28, let me know next time I can buy you a coffee.. I will have my daily helper with and he will be happy that we are going for coffee. When ever we go there he gets an ice cream from the DQ so he is always asking to go get coffe or fuel.

  2. someone may have welded or improperly tied to the frame and stressed over time, looks like it broke were the loader was mounted I have seen frames bent in the same spot from operator abuse/neglect

    Any one know if it was a tractor converted and if it had a double frame, tractor converted dumps have lots of frame issues unless done up right.

  3. That backhoe should weigh around 15000 lbs plus or minus 1000 lbs depending on the set up, I would pull it with my 1 ton pick up, but then it is a Chevy with a Duramax, pulled my B61 that weighs about that or more a little more with the cruise set at 74, 231 miles.

    Chain down good, center your load on the trailer watch out for your dipper boom streach it out, that back hoe is just over 11 feet tall, my JD backhoe has the ROPS, no cab so when I haul it around I am not concerned about height. Watch how you load and off load on the trailer with the angle, and location being level or sloped up the backhoe has a tendancy to drag on the road/ground when when on ramps

  4. Send the tires and rims to me I aint skeerd of split rims, the problem with split rims is they are work and nobody wants to work so so its a catch 22 find an old tire man or do them your self.

  5. I grew up driving farm and construction trucks. When I was 16 I was running a delivery truck for my dad 4 days a week in the summers when I was 16 and hauling pulp wood and potatoes during school year after school and weekends. I would sometimes drive loaded to school and when I got out in the afternoon would go and offload and reload before heading home. I hauled horses oats one winter as a side gig, my dad let me run one of the trucks for a fee and I sold oats to the horse race tracks in the southern part of the state. Was not as lucrative as i hoped so I only did for one year.

    I traded in my liscense for my cdl when I was stationed at ft sill in oklahoma and the cdls were just coming out, surrendered my Maine DL and had to take the written test that was it, few years later I was transffered to recruiting in Bangor Maine and got stopped by a local city cop who followed me for about two weeks home every night in my Oklahoma taged 4x4 flatbed who told me that I had 30 days to change over to Maine plates and lisence (which I didn't because I was active duty military) so I got hasseled again and figured it would be better to comply with the local cops then escorted home every night. Then I was transfered to Maryland and changed my state of residency to michigan so I did not have to pay state taxes on my military pay and exchnged for a michigan CDL than 11 or so years later I retired from the Army and exchanged my MI CDL for a Missouri one just had to take the hazmat portion and get finger printed.

  6. What country is this??? You need a permit to cut down a tree to remove scrap to clean up an eye soar on the side of the road, I know that the combine is not any eye soar to you but to the city folks I am sure thats what they are complaining about.

    $500 fine per tree, is it a fine or a tax??? from an over zelous town government

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