Archive for the 'Heavy Equipment' Category

Mechanic’s Logbook

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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Airplane mechanics keep detailed service and maintenance records in the plane’s logbook — it helps ‘em prevent that long drop with the short stop at the end. But a logbook can also remind you to do routine maintenance on your car, or it can help you diagnose the reason for loss of gas mileage before a serious problem develops. For tractors, combines, bulldozers, graders, generators — the machines that run and build civilization — logbooks can save jobs and lives. Mechanic Support makes this Mechanic’s Logbook software that you can configure for almost any application.

You can put Mechanic’s Logbook on your computer for $16 — you might pay more than that for a dead-tree logbook.

Mechanic’s Logbook [Mechanic Support]
Mechanic Support [Corporate Site]

Posted in Automotive, Safety, Software, Hydraulic, Work Vehicles, Software, Generators, Heavy Equipment | 1 Comment »

Where To Spend $15,000

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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For $15,000, you too can own a bulldozer! Every boy I know dreamed of driving a bulldozer, and although this one isn’t the huge general contractor variety you see at the highway work sites, you might find it handy for back yard applications. You could artfully arrange the dirt in the back yard into tasteful and trendy landscaping piles in the front yard, or knock down the neighbor’s garden gnomes, or even pull stumps on the south forty.

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Posted in Amazon, Northern Tool, Heavy Equipment, Break S#!$ | 5 Comments »

Unusual Tools: A Five-Gallon Pail Handler

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Five Gallon Pail Handler

Are you tired of lifting and pouring five-gallon pails all day? Morse’s Model 83 Pail Handler might be the answer to your aching back. This 125-pound machine can lift a five-gallon pail that weighs up to 150 lbs. We’re not exactly sure what material weighs 30 lbs per gallon, but maybe you need to move a pail of iron filings.

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Posted in Wacky, Unusual Tools, Heavy Equipment | 5 Comments »

All-Terrain Forklifts

Friday, March 21st, 2008
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Last week I was on-site to help put up a truss structure for an outdoor event. We requested four forklifts from the equipment rental company. What we got were not your standard warehouse forklifts, but these bad mamma-jammas with telescoping booms — they’re called telehandlers, or Lulls, the Kleenex of telescoping boom lifts.

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Posted in Heavy Equipment | 2 Comments »

It’s Just Cool: Timberwolf Log Splitter

Friday, January 11th, 2008
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Splitting logs will give you a workout, even if you use a machine.  Most log splitters only do just that: split logs. You still have to lift the logs onto the splitter, pick up the pieces , and split those yourself.  Timberwolf’s TW-7 log splitter picks up all three of those tasks, so you can knock out cords of wood in no time.

Unlike your average splitter, the TW-7’s special “box” splitting wedge sections the splits into uniform pieces. Instead of picking up the pieces, you just push them onto the splitter bed. With 28 tons of force the TW-7 splits logs up to 26” long, and with an optional hydraulic log lifter you won’t break your back getting them off the ground. A video on Timberwolf’s website shows the splitter in action.

Timberwolf TW-7 [Corporate Site]

Posted in Lawn/Garden, Hydraulic, It's Just Cool, Heavy Equipment | 1 Comment »

Cool Jobs: Backhoe Operator

Friday, November 2nd, 2007
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TM reader and photo pool member Jason offered up some great pics of the view from his office — in a backhoe! And yes, operating a backhoe appears to be as cool as we’d imagined. Jason writes: “All that videogame playing has finally payed off! The button at the top of the right-most lever activates the jackhammer. The foot-pedals swing the arm from side to side.”

There are quite a few more photos in the set he shared in the pool, so if you’d like to see more, give it a look.

Toolmonger’s Photo Pool [Flickr]

Posted in It's Just Cool, Heavy Equipment | 1 Comment »