How about best video of successful equipment...

[D2Cat]

Probably took a CAD drawing to get this fabricated.

http://www.flixxy.com/amazing-machine-laying-railroad-tracks.htm?utm_source=nl

 

[Daren Todd]

Rail roads have some pretty cool equipment our old shop was right next to the tracks here in town. They came through replacing the tracks. Used a similar machine to pull the old ties, dress it up and lay in the new ties. Was really neat to watch. The machine to replace the steel tracks would hurt your ears and jar your teeth coming by. They also had one that would dress the sides of the tracks. And another one that cleaned out drainage ditches that looked like a ditch witch with a conveyor belt that piled dirt into a couple of cars.

 

[CaveCreekRay]

I worked on the Illinois Central for a few months on a switch under-cutter crew. The Plasser units back then used wooden ties and did the straight sections but, they had to skip over switches. We would do them by hand using an under-cutter machine.

Picture a small loco with a giant chainsaw mounted to the front on an articulated hydraulic tube. A backhoe would cut a six foot trench parallel to the switch. Then the undercutter would come in and lower the chainsaw into the ditch and then rotate the 16' bar under the track ties, launching the ballast into the ditch. Picture teeth on the saw that were carbide tipped and 5" long. Most dangerous work I ever did! We would walk along the edge of the cutter bar and poke rock hung between the ties. It would frequently grab and launch 200 lb ties away from us at 20 mph.

Then we'd jack the switch with 10-ton alloy jacks and have the undercutter pull a ballast car across the jacked section as we filled in the removed ballast. Ties that got launched would get replaced before re-ballasting.

My last two days on the job we shoveled rock for 9 hours each day with a 30 minute lunch. Ahhh to be young again....

Occasionally the bar would chuck a tooth. I kept one...

 

[CaveCreekRay]

Here's a shorter bar hooked to an excavator. Same idea...

 

[olthumpa]

Must have hurt passing that one.

 

[skeets]

This is from one of the Longwall mines I use to Inspect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AYZG5n2VUA&feature=player_detailpage#t=5

 

[Diydave]

If I had the $30K for it, I'd buy this: https://youtu.be/knZkc_vzGUE

 

[Diydave]

But this is more like my budget: https://youtu.be/2bVAAx3mMKY

 

[Daren Todd]

champagne tastes and a beer budget That's a sweet saw on the skid steer

 

[ShaunBlake]

But this is more like my budget: https://youtu.be/2bVAAx3mMKY

From the sound, and the hiccup in the wheel's rotation, it seems he's powering it with a hit-and-miss.

Wonder what he was splitting that stopped that wheel dead?

 

[sawmill]

But this is more like my budget: https://youtu.be/2bVAAx3mMKY

Looks like a good way to loose a bunch of fingers.


This guy cut all his fingers off both hands on a saw. When he went to the hospital, the doctor said "if you had brought your fingers with you, I could
sew them back on." The guy says "how the hell was I supposed to pick them up"?

 

[ShaunBlake]

Nearly fell off my chair! sawmill, you better put a warning beacon on your posts like the orange triangle on the back of your tractor!

And I think if it had been my fingers, I'd have been picking 'em up with my lips if I had to!

 

[Lil Foot]

Let me take a wild guess- not an OSHA approved log splitter?