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

Burnt Beard
Jan 30


Lowbed Welding Repairs
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...

Burnt Beard
Jan 19


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

Burnt Beard
Oct 26, 2024


New Adventures
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...

Burnt Beard
Oct 18, 2024


Critical repair on heavy equipment
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...

Burnt Beard
Mar 20, 2023


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

Burnt Beard
Mar 20, 2023


Worthwhile investment
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...

Burnt Beard
Mar 20, 2023


Another week of structural in rainy Squamish
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...

Burnt Beard
Mar 20, 2023
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