New Job and New Machine

RBnSC · Apr 12, 2013

This is the building We are suppose to start next week. 34000sqft all one story. The last two weeks we have been waiting for asbestos to be cleaned out. The Machine is a 220 Kobelco that had been sitting out in a field for three years. Owner bought it new put 5200hrs and has been in bad health. Guy is a friend and We called him and he said go get it and tell him what we thought it was worth. Long story short we bought it. OK it's new to us.96 model is now the newest machine we own.
Ron

Sean Feeney · Apr 12, 2013

My brother started out on a Insley 70's than ran a Cat for years, went on a Kobelco in 2001 or so said it would eat the Cats! Looks like a nice size machine and was taken care of not all beat up looking.
Hope it does you well.

SweetFeet · Apr 12, 2013

RBnSC,
Hope you will have time to post a few in-progress pics as you demo it.

JD John · Apr 12, 2013

I think I could have fun runing that! Hope it works good for you.

kutzy23 · Apr 12, 2013

Looks like the one i run. Its 11000 hrs and runs great. Its by far my favorite machine to run. I use it for demos, cleaning ditches, laying pipe and digging basements. We have a 8ft, 4ft, 42in, and a 28in bucket for it. Which makes a real versatile machine in our operation. Those Kobelcos are pretty good machines. We have a 909 that has 25000 hrs on it and refuses to quit!

RBnSC · Apr 12, 2013

This job will take a while, plenty of time for pictures. This is a small part of it. Concrete slab and flat roof kinda boring.
I need to take a picture of the place where the bank was. They are digging a lake there now.
Ron

Fritz Maurer · Apr 12, 2013

How did you select the company to do the asbestos removal? I was a sub-contractor on a school job in E. Cleveland, Oh., and the workers were all Spanish speaking. Their foreman kept the contractor under his thumb, telling him that they could get the job done on time if he'd give them more money. I wonder how that situation can be avoided when time begins to grow short short on the jobsite.

RBnSC · Apr 12, 2013

The man we bought this machine from has a 909 he
won't sell.
Ron

RBnSC · Apr 12, 2013

The owner runs the removal contractor. They are finished Waiting now for the testing results to come back.
Ron

Dick2 · Apr 13, 2013

Got to watch those Spanish speaking crews; most of the time around here you can hire licensed contractors for less money.

Welding man · Apr 13, 2013

Any idea where the asbestos is going? I live 2 miles from one of the largest asbestos disposal landfills on the east coast. Have done hundred's of thousnds of dollars of work for them.

RBnSC · Apr 13, 2013

Berkely County Dump in SC.

Welding man · Apr 13, 2013

Didn't realize that there were any asbestos permitted landfills down there. There's been thousands of loads hauled out of NC and SC and disposed of up here.Fuel prices have really put a damper on lot of that.

Angle Iron · Apr 13, 2013

Where is that building site located? It looks pretty familiar but I can't put a finger on it. Who does the asbeatos for ya . Company I used to work for used Easy Way if I remember for a couple small removals we had.
Angle Iron

RBnSC · Apr 13, 2013

It's the old Westvaco office. Right at the Summerville exit off I26.
Ron

SweetFeet · Apr 13, 2013

Ron,
That would be interesting to see the lake being made.

Do you ever get to demo any really old buildings?

Our church, used to be a bank... was the orginal bank in the town (I think - but then again, there was a tornado there way before my lifetime).

It is built of brick and some other fragile kind of like clay-tile/square tubes or something. Only neat old thing remaining is the vault and the ornate trim around it. The rest of the buidling was "improved and modernized" by the bank decades prior to them selling the building to our church for $1.

Angle Iron · Apr 13, 2013

I knew that it looked familiar. Is that on the service rd on the right of 26 several hundred yards past the exit? I cant remember if thats right or not. Seems like it could be seem from 26.
Angle Iron

RBnSC · Apr 13, 2013

That's it. Stop by if you are up that way.
Ron

RBnSC · Apr 13, 2013

SweetFeet,
Historical societies have a pretty good hold on old buildings around here. Every once and a while one will get beyond repair but not very often.
I think what you are talking about is called "depression block" they are terracotta.
We use to do a good amount of work downtown Charleston but anymore I don't like doing buildings that are so close to one another.
Ron

Angle Iron · Apr 13, 2013

I may try and do that.
Angle Iron

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