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WCollins
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:03:15 AM

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I went down to Campbell yesterday and on the way back I stopped in San Leandro and stopped in at the Volvo and Caterpillar dealers.

First off is the Volvo dealer lots of brand new and not so new iron.

The New stuff


































And the not so new stuff








-William
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WCollins
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:21:26 AM

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And next up is Peterson Tractor Co's Main dealership.



The Showroom











Out in back
















I Went and took a look at some new CT660's, I never really cared for them but they're growing on me.








They even have a Cat store, This being the main headquarters for the company, Picked up a Norscot 657G for a outrageous price.




Of course I never leave empty handed


-William
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89cxsport
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:10:36 AM

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Very nice set of photos. That is a good looking load on that trailer as well.

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Want a 9
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:43:04 AM
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Oooooow! They have lots of of Norscot CAT models in stock! Nice. Teeth
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Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:49:08 AM

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Great pics, reminds me of the Milton Cat here in NY, huge yard and a large gift shop.

Now that is a D6T that I would welcome with open arms instead of the 6-way blade in 1/50th. I know Ad Gevers made a kit to convert it.

Volvo sure does have a lot of demo equipment in the yard.
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Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:55:21 AM
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Great pics. Particularly the Volvo solid tire wheel loader. That one must work around cardboard recycling.



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Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:45:25 PM

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Great equipment pics. Are you in the Bay Area? I'm in San Jose.

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WCollins
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 4:12:06 PM

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Newcrane wrote:
Great equipment pics. Are you in the Bay Area? I'm in San Jose.

Sean


I'm living in Healdsburg in Sonoma county.

-William
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WCollins
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:58:23 PM

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Today Bragg crane was in town lifting pre-fab sections for a modular home with a Grove GMK7450. It's a real sharp looking & very big crane.





























This picture was a spur of the moment one, I think it's good enough to be framed.









I also took some video of the crane leaving. It can be viewed here.



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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 12:34:45 AM

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FiatAllisHD41 wrote:

Great pics. Particularly the Volvo solid tire wheel loader. That one must work around cardboard recycling.



I would say a municipal solid waste transfer station, rather than cardboard recycling, the rubber "squeegee" edge is designed for pushing wet and sloppy garbage, You'd likely have a standard bucket with grapples for most recycling applications.

kokosing Const Co wrote:


Volvo sure does have a lot of demo equipment in the yard.


Labounty and volvo are a pretty good match, once a dealer knows how to properly set them up, Which it looks like this one has that down pat... (Portland's Volvo Dealer Clyde West was still learning when I was last running Volvo's) I have yet to operate a MDP20 like the one mounted on the 210, Looks like it'd be more productive than the UP-20, I never cared much for the dual cylinder design for processing concrete.

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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 1:00:47 AM

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Very nice. The last time I saw the Grove it was down here in Long Beach on a Power Plant outage. It's huge.

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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:51:23 AM
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The GMK 7550 seems like over kill for those lifts. It's weird to see a crane without counter weight. TFS
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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 4:00:10 PM

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Paul Crane wrote:
The GMK 7550 seems like over kill for those lifts. It's weird to see a crane without counter weight. TFS


On the third picture, during the lift, it looks like it has the counter weights.
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Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 4:09:15 PM

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Great Pics TFS
Applause Applause

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WCollins
Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 4:34:31 PM

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Paul Crane wrote:
The GMK 7550 seems like over kill for those lifts. It's weird to see a crane without counter weight. TFS


They did have counter weights on the crane in pictures 2-4 when they were doing the lifts, The rest of the picture were taken about 2 hours later when they were disassembling the crane. I have more pictures on the Miniature Construction Models page.

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Fabio
Posted: Friday, February 15, 2013 8:20:19 PM

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Thanks to post the photos!!!
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Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:24:41 AM
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I see the counter weights now. But it still seems like over kill for house construction.
WCollins
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 4:22:42 AM

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Today I was out and about in West Sacramento and I stopped in at Atlas Copco dealer. Unfortunately they don't sell the replicas there, But the manager is quiet the collector. Of course the sun just had to be in the perfect spot to ruin some of the photos.



















I also went up the street to Coast Crane once again another manager who is quite fond of scale models.





A wacky looking Grove, Anybody know the model?



















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WCollins
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 4:35:14 AM

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I also stopped in at Strohm Equipment, not to much variety but lots of equipment.





















I also went to the Komatsu Dealer but didn't get any pics, I'll be back down there in a few weeks and i'll get some more pictures.

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WCollins
Posted: Monday, March 04, 2013 11:15:35 PM

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I went to Precision Crane in Windsor to get some pictures of their Liebherr LTM1160-2 for a new drawing i'll be making for them. This crane was originally owned by Jake's crane & rigging of Las Vegas.

















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