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Coke-in-MN 
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 Topic: Koeckeritz Iron - snow equipment
Posted: 07 Dec 2012 at 4:10pm |
Kid just finished another order for equipment . Here is the snow pusher that mounts onto LULL high lift and one of the 6 plows he has built in last couple weeks. Modified and repaired couple pickup plows also .
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Jay Tyrrell
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Posted: 08 Dec 2012 at 7:43am |
Coke, Your kid does some nice work. Make sure whoever he sells that push blade for the LULL too that he understands it's not a Dozer. We have Telehandlers at work and have stuck $13k into one forklift and $17K into another forklift boom. If you keep the boom sucked your OK just don't push and extend it!
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MNLonnie
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Posted: 08 Dec 2012 at 8:42am |
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Jay, just think of the damage I could do at work with one of those. It would sure work better than using a man basket to push snow.
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Eric B
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Posted: 08 Dec 2012 at 8:49pm |
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Wow! .... you can be so proud of your son! That is nice workmanship.
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 12:37am |
Son does all the design and the cutting and layout for these pieces . His girl friend or significant other does all the welding on these . She asked what he needed for help in getting the business going and he said a welder - so she went to Dunwoody Institute and took up welding . On many of the smaller pieces he has jigs set so pieces are all cut to fit and then jig welded to conform to original design. He guarantees his product - and only a couple have come back next to destroyed by inept operators , one guy has brought back 2 things he has bought but each time he has brought something back to be fixes he has bought another product. Last grapple bucket he broke a cylinder on but ordered a set of grapple tines , the stump digging bucket he bent trying to move a several ton rock . Then ordered a backhoe attachment to pick up when other piece was repaired.
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Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 7:53am |
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I went to the site and checked out all the pieces, son/DIL does great work Coke.
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 11:55am |
Seems this season this piece came back for repairs - some OOPS or operator errors caused some problems - came in Wed morning for work and was back out on Wed night - AND AFTER LAST NIGHT the new 10+ inches of snow should be another test !
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 11:59am |
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 12:15pm |
Those kids do great work Coke. Great welder.
How come DAD dont get to run the tractors for the movie ???
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 12:29pm |
I get to contribute the heat, electric, shop building, my welders, tools, and some of the other equipment used. In the one picture is my HD5G which was used to move the pusher around and load it .
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Posted: 21 Feb 2014 at 11:08pm |
was talking to son earlier, seems a Lull hyd system does not have a float position, so when plowing with it - full weight of machine ends up on cutting edge , not allowing cutting edge to trip, so he had to modify the hinge position of the cutting edge. seems the plow ended up with a problem also - after hitting curb last snow when it was below 0 - the A frame fractured behind welds at pivot point.
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Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 6:34am |
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Does he run a plasma CNC table for cutting? They are a godsend for a small shop!
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Posted: 22 Feb 2014 at 5:41pm |
He bought a unit last year out of shop in MO. Table is 9' x 20' so he still is looking for place to set it up . Computer control is setting in my main shop with rest stored outside yet. He made his own tracer torch a few years back - so does some cutting there using a pattern for spindle to trace while torch does cut. that unit is about 4' x 8' table. Does plate cutting using carbide blade circle saw , some cutting on smaller things he uses plasma torch (portable unit) or smoke wrench. Also has 2 band saw type power hacksaws - My small Wells unit and his larger one - Has 2 Bridgeport's in his side of shop as well as mine in other bay, then my 9" south bend lathe , and my Nichamori 18" gap bed late in my bay. Some cutting and hole punching done with Paryna metal worker
Edited by Coke-in-MN - 22 Feb 2014 at 5:42pm
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"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
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