Back down to the old stomping grounds for a few days to help out @backwoodsmechanical  with prepping a little Komatsu PC750 for a truck...

Tight timelines and tight budgets, again. "Cold formed" the floor to make timelines and save some money, otherwise a fairly standard...

Onto a new adventure! My wife and I were born and raised in the Fraser Valley and have lived there for the last 30 something years. We...

Wrapped up a big one today. Complete overhaul on the front end of this 870 bucket. Fixed numerous cracks in the frog, built up worn...

Another bucket re lug. Originally we wanted to take the good lugs off the trashed bucket and re use them, they looked really close but...

Going into this job I was planning on having these plates cnc'd, it would have been the most economical option by far, unfortunately that...

This grapple has been racking up frequent flyer miles with quick "fixes" to keep it going, it was pretty rugged already when it was...

Over 70lbs of hardsurfacing wire, that's Saturday done. That might be the most diesel I've used in a day, it started out right full! The...

Welder or dentist? Another tooth adaptor repair to keep things going. Not the first and probably not the last on this poor old bucket,...

A long day of making really broken stuff not broken, way out in the middle of nowhere. Not gonna lie I'd love to work in the bush more...

A long day to bang this repair out and keep it on budget. I would need more fingers and toes to count the repairs on the tube in the...

A bunch of build up and hard surfacing as preventive maintenance on this bucket. Personally I prefer wear plates over hard surface as I...