some shots of our sweet pete moving our 345CME.

1. #1hoeman6002009-12-01 17:41

   she measured 16' 7" at the top of the GPS polls

2. #2hoeman6002009-12-01 17:43

   we only went about half a mile only hit one tree branch.

3. #3hoeman6002009-12-01 17:45

   last ones I know the date is wrong on my camera!!!!!:Banghead

4. #4tdozer2009-12-01 17:46

   That is one SWEET PETE!!!!!

5. #5Dert-T2009-12-01 17:59

   Beautifull pics, thanks for sharing. Always love seeing pics of your fleet.

6. #6WColtharp2009-12-01 18:35

   Great pictures as always Hoeman! Is there a reason larger sized companies use the railings on the hoes? I understand that it could be a possibly dangerous fall, but it makes me wonder if it helps in other areas like lowering insurance rates or anything like.

7. #7928G Boy2009-12-01 18:45

   that 345's got trimble on it. Some guys at Toromont cat were telling me a couple years ago that Cat wouldn't install trimble from the factory at first because the safety guys there didn't believe it was safe setting up the recievers in the morning/taking them off at night... well, throw a railing on the counterweight and it's instantly safe I guess... GPS on a 345 seems overkill if you've got a D6 with GPS trimming... unless you've got all kinds of crazy grade changes all over the place lol one D6 with GPS can keep up to a couple 345s and show 'em where they should dig... in my experience at least... (and fix up the haul roads at the same time)

8. #8WColtharp2009-12-01 19:01

   Well, I was off to say the least... Thanks for the info!

9. #9Ross2009-12-01 19:02

   Nice Pics .. You guys tramping that around on Tarmac (Ashpalt) Without tyres under them track?

10. #10hoeman6002009-12-01 19:05

    One of the reasons we use GPS on the 345's is we are eventualy trying to acheave steakless jobsites. Yes a dozer with GPS could and often be all we need . But some of our jobs have the hoes cutting all alone at one end and dozers at the fill..and tractors with drag boxes doing haul roads. I say if they wanna give me GPS I;ll take it!!..It makes life easier when ya got no stakes or dozer around..Ive been operating hoes for 25 years and dont often need GPS buty it helps for line work ie road boxes,undercuts.location etc just my opinion :drinkup

11. #11hoeman6002009-12-01 19:07

    Its a 6 year road job. It will be all demoed in the spring. usually we use old convaor belts when loadng on the road

12. #12hoeman6002009-12-01 19:10

    Yep one of our guys was out late on night and the next morning well lets just say he hadnt gone home (wink wnk) and when he went up to put on the GPS he whent up the steps across the hood and just kept going :Banghead need I say more