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101 Uses for a Deere 7020...

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Merlin in Rushf

05-22-2008 15:40:16




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...Use #37: as a green "choo-choo" for moving grain cars! Photo taken at the grain elevator in Denton, Montana in June of 2004.
Merlin




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Chad Franke

05-23-2008 05:42:43




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to Merlin in Rushford, 05-22-2008 15:40:16  
My uncle worked at the Herndon Kansas Elevator, they used a Deere 4010 propane with a dozer blade to move cars. Just used the blade on the bumper of the car and shoved. Bit small, but worked, and you had to be pretty good to move and line up before the bin dumped...I think it was 4 dumps per train car.



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Mark - IN.

05-22-2008 17:40:27




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to Merlin in Rushford, 05-22-2008 15:40:16  
I did see such a manuver in Crescent City, IL. over near Watseka a couple of year ago, and they too were using a 7020. Why not? They'll certainly do it.

Mark



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buickanddeere

05-22-2008 15:43:58




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to Merlin in Rushford, 05-22-2008 15:40:16  
Some bored person has been busy with photoshop. The 7020 is larger than that.



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ttt

05-22-2008 17:37:25




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to buickanddeere, 05-22-2008 15:43:58  
bd, once again you show your lack of intelligence and jump at the chance to criticize. You should take the advice I gave you the other day, and you never answered my question. And no you didn't hit close to home, it was far from it. What offended me was calling children by that name. You don't blame children and call them names for mistakes their parents made. Kind of like your kids, you can't blame them for having you for a father.

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Merlin in Rushford

05-22-2008 15:51:16




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to buickanddeere, 05-22-2008 15:43:58  
Sorry, buickanddeere! I am not bored...and don't use "Photoshop". This is an actual photo: the tractor appears small, due to its sitting well below the grade of the railroad ballast. I watched this old girl move ("hump" in railroad terminology) cars: it works pretty good!
Merlin



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Don L C

05-22-2008 17:29:45




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to Merlin in Rushford, 05-22-2008 15:51:16  
Merlin ---

I worked at a grain and feed elivator back in early 50's..... We humped fully loaded railcars of 100# bags of MASTER MIX animal feed with a Ford F700 dump truck..... Don



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davpal

05-22-2008 20:56:16




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to Don L C, 05-22-2008 17:29:45  
Any of you guys remember the commercial where the little Toyota pickup used to be hooked to all those train cars and actually pull them down the tracks? Seems like it was in the mid 70's. Actually maybe it was a Chevy Luv truck. Can't remember which.



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John S-B

05-22-2008 16:38:33




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 Re: 101 Uses for a Deere 7020... in reply to Merlin in Rushford, 05-22-2008 15:51:16  
"Hump" in railroad terminology actually refers to pushing cars over a hump and uncoupling them so they can roll down the track into a classification yard. Basically they are sorting cars by destination. The switches are remote controlled and there are braking dampers to slow the cars so they don't couple too hard.
They do use tractors and truck to move railcars in many places. The RIP track (repair in place) on the side of Columbus uses a tractor with a large push bumper to push the cars in and out of the repair area, the tracks are set in the pavement.

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