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Yeah, there is nothing like the feeling of power wrecking with a track loader. The 973 is killer, and the four in one bucket really rocks. Even the old 977L was one heck of a powerful wrecking machine. The way that moves through an old building or house is just amazing. Climb on top of the pile of debris with it and really feel the power of that baby.
Not too many people seem to be using loaders for wrecking any more, seems like the excavators have moved in on their domain, but the track loaders still rock, don't you think?
I like that four in one bucket. A 973 is an awesome wrecking machine in the right hands. I cut my track loader teeth running a 73.
1:03 PM
Beautiful pictures, Rich. Great looking equipment, and it looks like a couple of very impressive jobs.
Are you using the loader for any of the wrecking, or mainly for loading the trucks? Love to see wrecking with a loader. Can really feel the power. It's awesome.
Here are some pics of a couple of our current jobs.
The larger one in Los Angeles County, Ca is a 7.3 acre shopping center that has about 112,000 sf of structures to demolish that consist of a grocery store, laundromat, pharmacy, video rental store, pastry shop, two auto repair facilities and a small warehouse. The pictures with the large brick walls is the external shell of the grocery store. The primary machines doing to damage here are a 973c track loader, a 330dl excavator with a pulverizer, shear, Entek thumb bucket, and an 8,000 lb hyd breaker. A 262b skid steer with a grapple bucket and a 320cl excavator with a thumb are there to assist in the sorting and separating of materials.. We are in the middle of the 2nd weel on the job and things are going pretty well. We are running 4 semi trucks to accomplish the export with low and high side trailers. We began on the 12th of May and should be wrapped up with the demo by the 15th of June if all goes as planned.
The pic that is 4th from the end is of our new roll off Pete truck.. Awesome rig with no smoke with the new Paccar engine. We have 40 and 10 cy bins for it. It is helping right now on the LA job haul scrap metal to the recycling yard.
The first two pics are are from a home demoliton job that we finished two weeks ago in Newport Beach, CA where we are crushing foundations to a 2"- material for re-use under the new slab.
Thanks for viewing guys. Sorry it took so long to get some pics up.
RBH
11:49 PM
Great. Let's see some pictures. What kind of building are you knocking down? What kind of equipment are you using on the site? Keep the pics coming, RBH.
Thanks for all of the input fellas. We have completed numerous PW jobs over the years... I have always been too generous and paid top $ for employees to maintain equipment. We do have a thousand gallon fuel tank that the equip is fuedl from every afternoon. My oiler is coming in to hit the equipment in the afternoons as needed, and that is a better rate than having an operator perform the PM stuff. I will post some pics of this demo soon.
Thanks again for the responses.
Have a worker come at 3 pm and grease and fuel all the machines , hire a subcontrator ,pay an independent mechanic with his own truck to grease and fuel . put a portable tank there or have your fuel deliverd daily if you need alot.Make them work 8.5 hours pay them for 8 ,the first guy that complains get rid of them on the spot. For $2200 a week they can work a little harder ,In this economy there are a hundred guys that want that job.
You may want to grease, check fluids, etc. from 7 to 7:15 and stop working at 3pm to fuel/ grease to 330. Remember not only do you have to pay prevailing wage the entire time the guy is on site, anything over 8 hours is overtime.
You have to pay PW anytime they are on the project site, and that means greasing the machine ( I know it sucks but everyone is going to have to look at it that way)
Have a demo/site clear in Los Angeles county that is prevailing wage rate for operators and laborers. Job has been estimated to take about 30 working days. The job is 45 minutes away from home.
Typical day:
Equipment/inspected fluids checked /warm up machines at 6:45 am
Work starts at 7:00 am
Lunch from 12-12:30
Work ends at 3:30.
8 hours at prevailing wage rate.
3:30-4:00 fuel and grease machines/inspect, pack up gear/etc.
Question is this: Is the 6:45 am to 7 am and 3:30 to 4:00 pm work for maintanance and inspections have to be paid prevailing wages as well? I would understand normal wages, but PW rates for this?? Operators are getting $55.30 before burdens and labor is about $10 less..
Thanks for shedding some light on it if you know
RBH
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