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Here you will be able to see hundreds of photos I have taken of this massive 2 billion dollar(635 highway) project and from other adventures   "/> 2 Ltm 1500 from Davis crane that lifted a 600 ton beam [img  ][/img] Setting up  "/>
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A new dfw guy welcome. I work at Davis many overtime hours spent on 635. Huge project for sure, funny thing is they said Spain owns the highway for the next 20 or so years? Jason
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It's a huge project Here is a pic of progress. As you can see there is 365 bl in the bottom left for size  "/>
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Here are some pictures from today at 635  D 10 ripping rock   we had both 600s set up lifting beams and caps    it is a nite mare to drive down 635 narrow lanes and a ton of traffic. Jason
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374 DL  "/> Gantry crane at beam fabrication plant  "/> RT 700 [img  ][/img] Wirtgen sm 2200  "/> Grove 5275  "/>
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Nice pics! man they have all the toys there LOL.
Zack
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Brand new 374D L  "/> D10  "/> 385B L  "/>
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Nice pics, thanks for sharing. What's loading the 775's?
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Jim
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I think they are just using a 385 nothing big, sin a cola does have a pc1250 a little north of this location Jason
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They are actually using this wirtgen sm 2500 But I have not been able to get good pics of it working  "/>
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hummer13 wrote:I think they are just using a 385 nothing big, sin a cola does have a pc1250 a little north of this location
Jason Right... 385, just a little thing, haha.  Still using the Surface Miner, that's impressive.
regards, Jim "Once again, concussion by safety" -Mike Rowe
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I know but it understandable on a project where they have to move 8 million plus cubic yards of material
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Have not updated in a while so here's some new photos 374D L  "/>
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349 E from Mario Sinacola and Sons Excavating 
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An overview of one part of the project 
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Nice pics! Some real nice equipment on this job!
Sam My equipment picture thread
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You have some pretty nice pictures here. Thank for sharing them.
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