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Couldn't resist, looked up your 290 and man what a nice looking machine! Jealous of the deal you got too!! Love those Isuzu engines. Never had a lick of engine trouble on any of mine and those things are amazing on fuel consumption. Ya my 300 has 16,000 hrs and is still as strong as ever. Bucket is ...

Heck no not mine .... way to pretty !
I do have an EX300 though.

Time to upgrade Joe

A Hitachi 290 ... that is sweet! Must be a ZX model.
Hope it looks as nice as this one

Busy trying to get the season wrapped up here. Was 22 degs last night! It's time to move on to reclamation work and stripping for next season! Sorry to hear you didn't make it North Joe. You'll have to give 'er hell next year! Slatco, good luck on the new ground testing! I'll try and update my threa...

Dan, Ya it wasn't too bad of a job. Years ago I had to pull the swing drive on a Hitachi UH083 machine. I had a devil of a time trying to get those bolts broke loose !! Finally a guy said "get you one of those heavy duty battery operated impact wrenches" ! I was skeptical but bought a Milwaukee 1/2"...

Well, it has been a slow start to the season. Very cool May was not beneficial to thawing ground! Finally getting some summertime weather so things are looking up :) . It will still be awhile before I can actually start washing some rocks though. Have had the usual equipment issues, part of mining. ...

Doug ... as you know can't really do too much this early. Lots of water running in the creek now though. I have been stripping off what is thawed so far and I did get to dig into the side of the old timers cut where they quit. Interesting deposit on this bench! Appears to not be an alluvial bench de...

Well that heavy of a barrel can take the abuse for sure. I really dislike using a grizzly but sometimes it is a necessity. All depends on the ground. I have around 6,000 yds through this test plant of mine w/o a grizzly but I can see it is taking a toll on the drum. Although the drum is only 1/4" ma...

Sweet! Looks like a good start. What gauge is the barrel made of?
You planning some sort of grizzly on that hopper?

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Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:04 pm

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Say Dick, in your first photo (the one with the highly polished Cat blade) what's with that purple flag in the back? Something special that you big guys learned about?

Joe

Joe.... man that's the secret hand shake flag !!

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