Oilfield Lease, stripping the muskeg

Hauling in the excavator, starting to strip off the peat (muskeg) from the high to low side, preparing the site for dirt fill to be hauled from the borrow pit up the road

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[cowbubbles]

i guess you guys dont use anything much bigger than a 300 komatsu or 330 right .?

[CDNcatskinner]

Its almost always 320-330 size, due mostly to weight and cost...we will usually just bring in more of the same if one can't keep up

[artistfarmer]

Watching the loading and unloading of equipment always made my stomach turn. lol Great vid!

[CDNcatskinner]

Mine too...I wasn't allowed to do that...not much finness and the drivers would get mad with all the crashing and banging

[TruckMan869]

the dog is funny ,LOL

[MrPeterharold]

actually a 300 is a big track hoe for the field the norm is 200 to 270. the big hoes -over 300 usually are for water-sewer and govt road projects where huge amounts of dirt are to be moved fast and transportation is not a problem.

[internationalRLfan]

whos dog is that at the biginning

[cowbubbles]

most gas and oil companys down here do that also , mostly 200 size hoes though .

[CDNcatskinner]

I think, but don't take my word for it , they were manufactured in Grande Prairie in the early 90's first, I remember the contractor I worked for using them on a 300 Komatsu-6 loading 30 ton Volvo rock trucks,worked very well for us, but then we always worked in crap clay gumbo, didn't have as much trouble in the winter as the bucket with material freezing to it

[TimberWolf212]

Oh yeah! Them ole D9's are the beasts arn't they? Back about 1991 I had transformers to deliver on top of Tehacapi in CA. They were putting in more windmills, I watched the boys clearing land/trees with one swoop! Damn was all I could say! As a matter of fact, They made the dirt roads that I rolled in on.

Damn! I was told that several of the grades were at least 30%. After running on them, I couldn't agree more with them!

Talk about a white knuckle ride! But it was fun!!!!!