Recent content by Skiddy

bobcat does not use powder coating on the machines, attachments yes but not the machines to the best of my knowledge.

either om or I are mistaken! we lick a-36 sheet with open flame to easilly cold form we call it annealing. which turns a36 shhets into very easilly cold form able sheet. annealing must be the wrong word.

powder coating SOUNDS real good but I would never ever powder coat a bobcat frame or arms there is alot of A-36 steel in this machine and powder coating requires 400 degrees F and that would anneal A-36 that would be a BAD BAD THING!!!!!!!!!! that would actually be worse that rebuilding a...

Thanks for looking! hey I have the oportunity to replace our old work horse 763H which has worked it's ass off for us for the past 12 years and not one single time has it let us down. We have not a ton of hours on it but none the less we have worked it hard 2853 hours. I have the ok to replace...

we have a set of grousers on our 763h and they are indestrucable, expensive and tear up the ground pretty good when turning.We bought them for winter traction and they are very good at that. Oh by the way they sound like a bunch of tanks driving into berlin. very loud and squeeky.

well I painted the ole girl yesterday. geeesh what a beech of a job! 2 qt's self etching primer and 3 qts of bobcat white.turned out real nice. I would post up picies but it looks exactly like the one posted. plus I am lazy and worn out. Finally I can start putting stuff back together WEEEEEEEEEE!

Weeeee i just got all my stuff back from the blaster today.

I agree completely Taz some stuf is shockingly low priced.

yeah that old machinist................................................... he is THE MAN and he has all the ............................................................. stuff!

yeah but WTF?

Holy moly ....I now think that the hydraulic industry is a frigging scam area. We have a guy on here selling rebuilt wheel motors for 1100 bucks and today I got a quote from 1 Charlynn dealer at 853 bucks for a brand new motor an then another callback saying that he could supply the charlynn...

Did you keep yopur tracs tight as you are supposed too?

Brent couldn't agree more. If you are in the sand hills af America you are not far from me. I live about 150 miles west of Murdo.

Very nice place there OM. Ok OM is the keeper of the tape. you name it hes got the tape. And I am jealous a dammed 500 dollar kurt on the drill press. I had a heck of a time talking my wifey into buying me one for my mill. lol.

nice place there too old machinist. I like the pond. I live in the mountains of South Dakota so a pond is out but a creek would be nice. What state ya in OM?