Been a lurker for a while finally registered. I think this is a great forum with lots of experienced members and help. Im sure I will be needing it and hopefully will be able to contribute some along the way. Machinist by trade digger at heart. Just east of Nashville, Tn.
Welcome to HEF Tennessee. :drinkup
I live over in white county. Welcome
Welcome Tennessee, Cheatham County here, just West of Nashville in Ashland City. You may have been following my thread on this forum, "Cat 951-C in my sights". What are you digging with in Tennessee. If you are a machinist in Nashville I bet you know my brother, John Cripps. John is a machinist for Cumberland Machine Co. and he is the day shift foreman at the Bridgestone tire plant in La Vergne Tn. He also is a digger and plays with a Komatsu D31. I have more family that are, or have been machinist in and around Nashville.
East of Nashville, he's probably digging with a hydraulic breaker. In that area you dig 6" of soil then it's all limestone rock. LoL
Small world! It is pretty rocky in these parts for sure. Haven't had the privilege of knowing John Cripps. I have mostly been in tool and die work. Now everything I make goes into a hole in the ground for maintenance. Great Forum!
It is a small world, we must have worked for the same place at one time because all the money that I make goes into a hole the ground! In Cheatham County we have some limestone too, but we also have some yellow rock that can be dug with some pain.