How to tax your AAA card.
Since the Delta has been a common them lately, I thought I would share some photos from the shop. And someone at F-P show this to Mike Ventre, it is amazing how F-P life imitates real life some time. Mike, tell me this rim doesn’t look just like the Big Trouble rim that we did!!!!
Yes that is the rim from a Delta on its side. A little wider than the diameter. Issac is modeling it for us. He has the fun job of painting the rim before having a tire installed. The joys of being a General Assistant in the Heavy Shop never end.
And here is Shane our other Pinhead, I mean our other GA modeling with the rim. He did lend me his camera to take these photos so I do need to include him.
And how do you carry a tire to fit this rim? Well if you have one then you use a CAT 966G loader. This is Holly from parts modeling in this photo for us.
And here is the finished product.
And then in the background is a CAT D9N up on jack stands. Not something that most of us see everyday. I don’t have any idea what it weighs but it is allot.
This is one of our dirt dozers. We have two large dirt dozers. A D9N and a D7 and there are two D8R for snow moving. There are many small differences between the dirt and snow dozers. One of which is the track design. The snow dozers are wider also know as LGP (Low Ground Pressure) and the cleats are not as aggressive as the dirt counterparts. The main use for this dozer is to push up earth to use as fines and fill in town. Fill is just that, fill for holes and washout from snow runoff. And fines are the equivalent to sand that we use to make ice less slippery. It also works well to help melt ice. The heat from the sun does not heat up ice very well because most of the energy is reflected back off of the ice. Well the dark color of the fines will absorb heat quickly and melt off the ice quickly on a nice day. The reason this dozer is in the shop is to replace the track pads because the old ones are worn out. The bearing surface of the pads are well within spec, but the cleats are worn way down.
You can see the difference between the new and the old. The new is about 3” tall and the old is an inch or less. These pads have been on the machine for about 3 years. That is how abrasive the volcanic rock is around here. There are 52 pads on each side at a weight of 84 lbs. each. That is about 8800 lbs of pads alone. Each pad has four bolts that are torqued to 460 foot pounds and then tightened another 120 degrees. Two mechanics can install about 15 pads in a work shift and we have two shifts working on them.
Well this post makes me feel better. We were getting too much wildlife on the blog before.
Enjoy.
R.J.
Yes that is the rim from a Delta on its side. A little wider than the diameter. Issac is modeling it for us. He has the fun job of painting the rim before having a tire installed. The joys of being a General Assistant in the Heavy Shop never end.
And here is Shane our other Pinhead, I mean our other GA modeling with the rim. He did lend me his camera to take these photos so I do need to include him.
And how do you carry a tire to fit this rim? Well if you have one then you use a CAT 966G loader. This is Holly from parts modeling in this photo for us.
And here is the finished product.
And then in the background is a CAT D9N up on jack stands. Not something that most of us see everyday. I don’t have any idea what it weighs but it is allot.
This is one of our dirt dozers. We have two large dirt dozers. A D9N and a D7 and there are two D8R for snow moving. There are many small differences between the dirt and snow dozers. One of which is the track design. The snow dozers are wider also know as LGP (Low Ground Pressure) and the cleats are not as aggressive as the dirt counterparts. The main use for this dozer is to push up earth to use as fines and fill in town. Fill is just that, fill for holes and washout from snow runoff. And fines are the equivalent to sand that we use to make ice less slippery. It also works well to help melt ice. The heat from the sun does not heat up ice very well because most of the energy is reflected back off of the ice. Well the dark color of the fines will absorb heat quickly and melt off the ice quickly on a nice day. The reason this dozer is in the shop is to replace the track pads because the old ones are worn out. The bearing surface of the pads are well within spec, but the cleats are worn way down.
You can see the difference between the new and the old. The new is about 3” tall and the old is an inch or less. These pads have been on the machine for about 3 years. That is how abrasive the volcanic rock is around here. There are 52 pads on each side at a weight of 84 lbs. each. That is about 8800 lbs of pads alone. Each pad has four bolts that are torqued to 460 foot pounds and then tightened another 120 degrees. Two mechanics can install about 15 pads in a work shift and we have two shifts working on them.
Well this post makes me feel better. We were getting too much wildlife on the blog before.
Enjoy.
R.J.
posted by R.J. at 6:08 PM
1 Comments:
RJ and Paula-
I love ALL of the photos-especially the penguins, and I will admit that I do not understand all of the mechanical ones, but they are interesting.
We had a nice Thanksgiving with Curtis' family. One the Southern note, we ate deep fried turkey and had Cushaw pie for dessert. Of course, we had Dessert Potatoes too-so a long walk with the dogs was required afterwards.
I also wanted to remind you that we leave for CA on Wednesday for The BIG Show. The hotel lady told me it was a little cool there last week-about 72 degrees. :) We are gone until Monday night-so do not give us our holiday phone call during that time. Of course, we will not be like some yet-to-be-named family members who read their caller id and decided not to answer when you called.
All for now. Time for kiddos to go to school.
Love,
Aunt P
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