A long awaited shop equipment upgrade! The first step was converting the loader to a universal skid steer attachment to make adding new pieces easy and change overs fast. The old Massey doesn't exactly have modern universal spacing so blank attachment plates and cutom brackets were required. I had just enough ½ plate kicking around to make brackets. I had to layout and cut by hand and mag drill the pin holes, no fancy cnc anything on this job. Do you need some Heavy Equipment

The knives on this unit were definitely well used, with lots of wear on the non consumable parts as a result. A bit of build up was required in a few spots, and a few cracks needed to be fixed, but it looks pretty good now. The customer didn't want to go nuts with rebuilding everything, but it should be good and servicable for a while longer. There were a bunch of parts variations for this model, and even the second try for the top knife wasn't quite right. A little heat and

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

Call came in Friday afternoon that this low bed had broken while they were loading it, now its ready to roll for early Monday . Bit of a...

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...

The left side boom ear on this log loader suffered a pretty catastrophic failure and the right was cracking as well. The only way to fix...

My new torch reel arrived last week so this weekend I spent some time cleaning up the torch cabinet. Every efficiency increase makes the...

I don't regret for half a second investing in a truck with crane. It might not be the newest, shiniest or flashiest rig on the road but...

Squamish was back to its usual fantastic weather of liquid sunshine . Thankfully I was done fitting for a few days and didn't need the...