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its been a long week. We did do some really cool jobs with the new crane.
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placed a frightening order with liehberr on Friday, just normal PM stuff, set of filters and 10 gal of their special syn 37 weight hyd oil and 12 tubes of their grease for the auto greaser... we knew what we were buying from the start but even ready for it, $4000 for that order still hits you funny.
Saturday we were working on a great job, flying through it, would have been done by 130ish, until all the rotation bolts broke on the rotation motor on the chipper. its happened to all of them, we change them out with grade 9s and never have a problem again, woodsmen is aware of the issue and promised us they changed the design and it wouldnt happen again but they are too ####ing cheap to use 4 grade 9 bolts instead of 8s. shouldn't have been an issue except instead of using a nut and a bolt like they have in the past they threaded the holes in the motor mount it self so every bolt needs to be extracted... should have gone in today and fixed it but didn't have it in me
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oh well handfed chipper for one of the crane crews Monday. and a fun night of extracting hardened bolts Monday night
The difference in price from an 8 to a 9 is negligible in comparison to the cost of these particular units. I find that to be infuriating, as it is obviously not an isolated incident.