Battery impact wrench

[windtrader]

ok, what's so hard about standing on a bar?

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

what the hell is wrong with a 6 ft bar? No batteries, lifetime guarantee and built in torque wrench to boot? Get on a scale, do simple math, measure and tape to ft lbs you want, and presto, set forever, that is until you eat too many cheeseburgers. lol

A cheater bar and jacks worked great back when I was growning on the farm when we were poor and that is all we could afford.  I used it for a lot of things when I was younger and stronger.  I like the finer things in life such as a nice bottle of wine and Battery Powered Torque Wrench now that I am also a bit wiser.

That is how we did everything on this dozer and the tractors.  This was me plowing snow when I was about 18 years old and she broke down now and then and it took larger than normal tools to work on this rig.

[luvrbus]

A cheater bar and jacks worked great back when I was growning on the farm when we were poor and that is all we could afford.  I used it for a lot of things when I was younger and stronger.  I like the finer things in life such as a nice bottle of wine and Battery Powered Torque Wrench now that I am also a bit wiser.

That is how we did everything on this dozer and the tractors.  This was me plowing snow when I was about 18 years old and she broke down now and then and it took larger than normal tools to work on this rig.

Damn Gary you are getting old operating a TD9 Internatinal Dozer with the Bucyrus blade.Those gave you a workout with the manual steering levers and foot brakes, first dozer I ever ran.,My dad would have been on me like white on rice with the dirt packed tracks.Memories you started those on gasoline then flipped up the compression lever to run on diesel and yea you used a lot of tools to keep it going it took a 24 inch pipe wrench a 5 ft bar to adjust the tracks   

[chessie4905]

When you achieve geezer status, not a good idea to stand on a springy pipe anymore.

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Damn Gary you are getting old operating a TD9 Internatinal Dozer with the Bucyrus blade.Those gave you a workout with the manual steering levers and foot brakes, first dozer I ever ran.,My dad would have been on me like white on rice with the dirt packed tracks.Memories you started those on gasoline then flipped up the compression lever to run on diesel and yea you used a lot of tools to keep it going it took a 24 inch pipe wrench a 5 ft bar to adjust the tracks

She didn't seem that difficult to operate when I was younger and stronger, but I never operated more than a couple hours at a time.  The Case 1150B with two small levers was much easier a few years ago.

My dad got this dozer free from my uncle when he bought a replacement that had less hours on it. It had a broken crankshaft and he was able find a replacement and we installed it and it ran fine after that.  The only problem was the tracks were so worn out that it would throw tracks now and then and it is no fun putting a track back on in the middle of the woods.

When we started this dozer, the battery would barely turn it over, but after a few turns, it would fire and run on gas. Then after it got warmed up a bit after a few minutes, we would switch it over to diesel and i loved that sound.  It had a straight stack on it, and it blew smoke rings everytime it started cold.

[Jim Blackwood]

We had a D4 Cat. OK for small jobs but a tilt blade would have been a big help.

Jim

[luvrbus]

We had a D4 Cat. OK for small jobs but a tilt blade would have been a big help.

Jim

Those old dozers had a tilt but it was done by hand you even had to do the angle by hand if it had a angle blade it wasn.t much fun back then

[dtcerrato]

Heck I see lots of state of the art big equipment like dozers, graders, scrapers, yada equipped with multiple laser receivers that takes the fun from the operator on establishing grade, etc. Tech marches on...

[luvrbus]

Heck I see lots of state of the art big equipment like dozers, graders, scrapers, yada equipped with multiple laser receivers that takes the fun from the operator on establishing grade, etc. Tech marches on...

They have GPS and self steering now too, I had the lasers for fine grading since operators couldn't blue top anymore like the old guys

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Heck I see lots of state of the art big equipment like dozers, graders, scrapers, yada equipped with multiple laser receivers that takes the fun from the operator on establishing grade, etc. Tech marches on...

Yes and soon, the heavy equipment will just be given the paramaters of the ground to level and someone will fuel them up and turn them on, and come back at the end of the day to pick them up and move them to the next job site.   

Much of the equipment is going all electric now, (weight of batteries is not an issue with a dozer) so eventually they will just back into their charging stations after a long days work and be charged over night while another dozer takes over and runs all night, until morning when they will swap out.

Cliff has a piece of equipment in his back yard with a battery on it that probably weighs a ton.  Cliff is ahead of his time.

The drawback of course is the diesel smoke works great to help keep the mosquitoes away when I was running heavy equipment in the North East in the early summa and it works great for starting brush piles to burn after cleaing a lot.

Progress. 

[OneLapper]

I own that Milwaukee 1" extended anvil impact gun and it's the real deal.

I've used it for on the road repairs and it's never disappointed me.  I use it in the shop because I don't need to deal with the 1/2" air line being dragged around the shop floor.

One nice feature is that it has a setting that estimates lug nut torque to 350-450ftlb.  It varies because of stud/nut conditions, but it get's it close.

I used a Harbor Freight 3/4" torque digital display to set the final torque (with old fashion breaker bar and pipe).