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I drove by this yesterday and they working on installing I think a sewr or some other pipe line. the pipe they are lying is about 12 diameter pipe.   Apicture of the huge bucket  A size comparison car verses bucket  A few more to come Jason
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Great pic's! What a massive machine!
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last few I took  You can see the size compared to my car  John deere 450  My mind has gone blank on this for some reason, I can not remember the name of this. I am thinking about making one as a model to sell.  Hope you enjoy them Jason
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ive never seen a bucket on an excavator like that, they are typicall square
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That bucket is rock bucket of some sort. Thw material they are digging is a really hard clay almost rock hard. You can see it in some of the pics, the dark gray material Jason
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Some really nice pictures Jason. You can tell it's huge, but once your car is next to it, you really get an idea of HOW huge it is. Thanks for posting the pics.
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and that last pic is of a Gravel Box
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Thats some great photos,
Any of the 1250 actually digging? I agree with DeWoc, that is a weird looking bucket, kinda looks like a sand/muck(?) bucket with teeth or even a V-bucket.
Keep us updated on the job's progression.
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The box is known as a bedding box or stone box, Steel City has a model of one. And it looks like a rock bucket or a bucket used when a high breakout force is needed, Jim
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Very nice, looks like a good solid machine. If it was a Cat or a JD what would it be?
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Very nice find! Thanks for posting! I saw these small photos on the companies website. Looks like they have some nice/unique looking equipment in the fleet.    If you watch the photos scroll by on the home page, it looks like they have a neat looking spreader on crawlers. http://www.oscarrendacontracting.com/index.cfm- Christopher
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That is one impressive find Constructionsite. I have never seen anything like it. Jake
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Great pics of a big machine!! That bucket type is common in rocky trench excavation, its called a "V Type Rock Trench Bucket" The wide guage machines are not uncommon anymore in water/sewer contractors fleets. They used to be, but when larger pipe became common more and more of them showed up. Some of the first were shop built by the contractors.
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I will try to get some more pics, like I said I went by there yesterday and they were working, I grabbed the camera and it was dead. I was alittle mad but I went back today I thinnk they will be there for a while they have alot of pipe to install. Jason
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Oh I would say that the size comparison would be for a CAT maybe a 5110? I am only guessing I think it is bigger than the 385 Jason
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hummer13 wrote:Oh I would say that the size comparison would be for a CAT maybe a 5110? I am only guessing I think it is bigger than the 385
Jason You would be correct Jason, a PC1250 is just a little smaller than a Cat 5110, but not by a lot. I think it's actually a little heavier than the Hitachi EX1200. Dead battery... I hate when that happens. regards, Jim
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Jim's correct here on his sizes. The 5110 weighs about 129 Metric Ton, the PC 1250 is about 110 Metric Ton on average, the EX 1200 weighs 108 Metric Ton.
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Thanks for the info guys, they have a few other large hitachi excavotrs around I think ex750 I will lokks next time I drive by. Jason
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