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What have you done to your 5 ton this week?

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Ajax MD said:
I made my annual trip for pellet fuel in the M813. This time I brought along a visiting friend from Britain who is a WWII militaria junkie.
He absolutely loved it saying "It's much less agricultural than I expected." LOL.
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Was he talking about Anne Arundel County?

Shoot, I remeber when even Prince Georges County was agricultural (tobacco farms either side of the Beltway). But I'm an OId Man now, and everything always changes!

Maybe show him the Eastern Shore, Talbot County or something, you know?
 
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Another Ahab said:
Was he talking about Anne Arundel County?

Shoot, I remeber when even Prince Georges County was agricultural (tobacco farms either side of the Beltway). But I'm an OId Man now, and everything always changes!

Maybe show him the Eastern Shore, Talbot County or something, you know?
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He was referring to the feel of the truck's ride, not the scenery. :)
 
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bchristensen said:
Well, this is what I did this weekend…
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good news is I can change out the torque rod ends super easily now…. Once upright, everything worked great!
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Glad there's no heartburn, bchristensen, and that truck of yours looks real good from any angle:

- But, you just GOT to tell us The Story behind your truck "taking a nap"like that!

:driver::naner::driver:
 
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Another Ahab said:
Glad there's no heartburn, bchristensen, and that truck of yours looks real good from any angle:

- But, you just GOT to tell us The Story behind your truck "taking a nap"like that!

:driver::naner::driver:
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Yep, was time for a nap. I bought some land, it has a 6 acre pond that is about 2’ deep. I need 10’ to raise some fish over winter so I bought some equipment. I wanted to have some fun so I opted for an M929A1 dump truck - as opposed to a boring normal dump truck.

I have this friend that loves to dig holes and drive dump trucks. He has been a huge help in excavating this pond all year. But… he also breaks things pretty regularly. He sent a tree through the window. Fixed that. He broke the PTO shear pin. Fixed that. He broke a torque rod end. All new down there now. And this weekend, well l loaded him up and ten feet later he drove off the little hill he himself built 20 minutes earlier. It was just too much for the beast to stay upright. A few adjustments and it was running great the rest of the day.

New metal cab coming, couple of windows, exhaust stack.. the usual. Taking the opportunity to overhaul a lot of things. If anyone has a passenger side mirror bracket (the whole thing) I’d like to talk. Can’t seem to find the thing I thought would be easy.

He has been a ton of help and I just knock it up to the cost of having company. It started out as free labor but… I didn’t mention the other equipment that he’s been on. Two excavators, lots of mud…. My wife just told me there is a YouTube story here somewhere.

-Brian

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bchristensen said:
Yep, was time for a nap. I bought some land, it has a 6 acre pond that is about 2’ deep. I need 10’ to raise some fish over winter so I bought some equipment. I wanted to have some fun so I opted for an M929A1 dump truck - as opposed to a boring normal dump truck.

I have this friend that loves to dig holes and drive dump trucks. He has been a huge help in excavating this pond all year. But… he also breaks things pretty regularly. He sent a tree through the window. Fixed that. He broke the PTO shear pin. Fixed that. He broke a torque rod end. All new down there now. And this weekend, well l loaded him up and ten feet later he drove off the little hill he himself built 20 minutes earlier. It was just too much for the beast to stay upright. A few adjustments and it was running great the rest of the day.

New metal cab coming, couple of windows, exhaust stack.. the usual. Taking the opportunity to overhaul a lot of things. If anyone has a passenger side mirror bracket (the whole thing) I’d like to talk. Can’t seem to find the thing I thought would be easy.

He has been a ton of help and I just knock it up to the cost of having company. It started out as free labor but… I didn’t mention the other equipment that he’s been on. Two excavators, lots of mud…. My wife just told me there is a YouTube story here somewhere.

-Brian

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Oh and I probably shouldn’t leave out the pics of the excavator in the pond. Not one, both excavators. We had to lay down some rules…

The two moose in the background just laughing was a nice touch.
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