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  • 3 weeks later...

235 is one of the best excavators ever built. More power then a 345 and had the ass to back it up. We had 1 with I think it was a 3 yard bucket. Might of been a 2. It was to big for the machine and when you extended out with a full bucket we'd bend the bucket cylinder. In south Fl we could hit cap rock and punch a hole thru it. You look at it and can tell it is a big machine.

I ran an original 235 that had 18,000 hours on it when first got in it. I ran the thing quite a bit, probably 2500 hours or so. I always liked what a tank the thing was, but what a fuel pig. I dug a lot of deep holes with that thing, but it was pretty tired by the time it was sent to ritchie bros.

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Same machine as before after it ditched the bucket in favor of this "poking stick". I'm not sure of its technical name.

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I believe it is called a "shit fucker-upper" :)

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Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part....

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I have been meaning to post this picture of the last excavator we had.It was a Cat 5110 that had a 10yd bucket that I enlarged to a 13 yd.The best we ever did we it was 463 loads in a 10 hr day.We always tried to hit the 500 load mark but couldn't quite make it.At 463 it moved 18,500 yds that day.This was the only machine that I ever saw that if you looked at it in the morning and then after it quit for the day there was a real chunk of ground that was gone.

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Ryan contracting had a 5130. I heard it never did good. they where trying to replace the dragline with it had it working 24 hours a day. they kept breaking the turn table or the swing shaft on it. also heard they used D9 rippers for teeth on it. Was a hell of a beast but I think they sold it or sold it for scrap. Was bought brand new.

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