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4/12/2021 4:12 am  #1


Heavy Equipment

Big toys for big boys and girls...


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4/12/2021 5:51 am  #2


Re: Heavy Equipment

Mad Max would be proud. I'd like to see the drivers compartment.


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4/14/2021 2:52 am  #3


Re: Heavy Equipment

Here's something Max could use, I wonder if that crane in the background is part and parcel of this rig.

 


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4/14/2021 5:50 am  #4


Re: Heavy Equipment

What could go wrong?


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 

4/14/2021 8:28 am  #5


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What did nature do before we had machines?
 

 

4/14/2021 11:33 am  #6


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That's  just a f'n lawnmower!

 

4/14/2021 12:18 pm  #7


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yeah, in the same way that a nuclear bomb is just a bit of copper wires and old rocks


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4/14/2021 3:38 pm  #8


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Busier than a one-armed paperhanger trying to keep that $50,000 mower out of the ditch while wiping out the family of ducks that nest there every year.

 

4/14/2021 9:56 pm  #9


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good luck bro


I'll hold your beer.


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4/15/2021 4:02 am  #10


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I wonder where the operator is and how they got out of it?


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4/15/2021 7:25 am  #11


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If I were driving that thing. I imagine I would pull it forward about 6 feet or so and then park it and mow with the arm. Stop mowing and drive it forward another 6 feet and repeat.

eI also imagine the operator is taking the picture, but I wish there was a video of them getting out and getting back in again

 

4/15/2021 9:03 am  #12


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When you have taken quite enough crap on the on ramp.


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4/15/2021 9:17 am  #13


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glatt wrote:

If I were driving that thing...

I would almost bet it has a remote operating capability, like some cement trucks, and cranes, and such.
 

 

4/15/2021 9:18 am  #14


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I am never not impressed by the digr in Luce's post.<--See what I did there?

Last edited by Gravdigr (4/15/2021 9:19 am)

 

4/16/2021 5:34 pm  #15


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I have about 200 yards of irrigation ditch that has weed and blackberry monsters that have been fighting me for fifty years.  I mostly use pruners and a string weed-whacker.
This is another of Berky's engineering marvels.  Can you find the name on the red thing above/
https://www.berky.de/458-2200-slope-mower.html


 

 

4/16/2021 9:52 pm  #16


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Someone commented it is built by Berky but it's not on their site and no evidence it was.
 


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4/17/2021 11:32 am  #17


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xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Someone commented it is built by Berky but it's not on their site and no evidence it was.
 

It says Berky vertically on the left front strut.

I have asked before why all the ways there were on the old board to expand or zoom pics are gone.
Bruce said once to get a bigger monitor, but I thought he was kidding. 

 

4/18/2021 1:42 pm  #18


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I found evidence that it's a Berky ditch mower.  


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4/19/2021 9:18 pm  #19


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Diaphone Jim wrote:

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Someone commented it is built by Berky but it's not on their site and no evidence it was.
 

It says Berky vertically on the left front strut.

Damn, I spent 20 minutes trying to enlarge and read the stuff on the front of the cab,and never noticed the strut.

I have asked before why all the ways there were on the old board to expand or zoom pics are gone.
Bruce said once to get a bigger monitor, but I thought he was kidding. 

That was long long ago on a board far far away.
 


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5/14/2021 4:23 pm  #20


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I've seen radial engines in planes, boats, motorcycles, cars, but this is the first stationary radial and it's a monster.


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5/15/2021 12:05 pm  #21


 

5/15/2021 12:17 pm  #22


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Noisy, ya think?

https://imgur.com/fucOJMD

 

5/16/2021 10:56 am  #23


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Well, I guess not,  From a comment on the first link above:
"They ran on natural gas and were HUGE and amazingly quiet! If you stood by a cylinder head all you could hear was a muted chuff, chuff, chuff.. as the cylinder fired."

I wonder what they did with the exhaust.

 

5/16/2021 12:07 pm  #24


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Not the diesels though. LoL


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6/15/2021 10:39 pm  #25


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Back in the '50s a Canadian company, Willock, came up with a modification to a truck frame that would help keep four wheels on the ground for 4WD over rough terrain.
I think I'd want a way to lock the swivel for over the road use, it shouldn't be difficult.


From the pictures I can see a hella strain on the driveline. When the rear differential twists it’s geared/splined solid back all the way through the drive shaft and trans to the clutch.


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