Machinery talk thread

**98tls** · 7th January 2013, 17:33

Originally Posted by unstuck

Still see a few lying around, in various stages of decay. Heaps of buckets lying around down here too.

Was looking at the pic of the D4 you posted back a bit and it reminded me of many many moons ago when i was working for a bloke in Tokanui (spelling?)Was a big block of native,clear fell so we dropped or pushed everything over.Never driven a dozer in my life (i was there simply drop trees) but still have a particular dislike for whatever he was using,had a trailing arch on the back and worked ok but the thing was simply to big for what we were doing,i swear i spent more time carting wire ropes to stumps to pull the thing out with than actually dropping trees

I used to be able to rember what the hell it was but cant these days.The bloke was a pretty good operator,spent many years driving big stuff down around Twizel,James Adams was his name,ironically he was a dead ringer for Grizzly Adams..

**98tls** · 7th January 2013, 17:38

Was there a C series dozer way back,sure it was a C something

whatever it was it didnt much like peat.

**unstuck** · 7th January 2013, 18:37

Wasnt like this one was it? Fiat allis 14c turbo.

**unstuck** · 7th January 2013, 18:41

Looking out off the seat of a 14c turbo.........

**98tls** · 7th January 2013, 19:05

Originally Posted by unstuck

Wasnt like this one was it? Fiat allis 14c turbo.

Possibly mate,its really pissing me off i cant remember to be honest.Sturdy thing its was as one day i was working away and had just started to walk away from a big pine on its way down

fuck me theres James on his dozer directly in its path,it went straight down the middle of the dozer

silly prick had decided to come in and hook up from another direction and with this being native and everything so tall i didnt see him coming,nor whilst working did i hear him,bastards had me on and pretended the guy sitting in the cab with him to hook up was in a bad way etc,bastards,gave a fright for a second or to.I swear this thing was a C something but cant remeber,will come to me in the middle of the night probably.

**pete376403** · 7th January 2013, 21:24

Wback when I started my apprenticeship at GG&H in Naenae, one of my tasks was to deliver and collect batteries from Lucas at Lower Hutt. On the way I went via Parliament st and there was a weird looking old dozer parked up there.It was a Vickers, the GGH foreman said a number of them had been imported to work on the building of Wellington airport, towing scrapers. They had suspension like a tank, and were considered fast. (10 mph!)
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**pete376403** · 7th January 2013, 21:35

Originally Posted by 98tls

Possibly mate,its really pissing me off i cant remember to be honest.Sturdy thing its was as one day i was working away and had just started to walk away from a big pine on its way down

fuck me theres James on his dozer directly in its path,it went straight down the middle of the dozer

silly prick had decided to come in and hook up from another direction and with this being native and everything so tall i didnt see him coming,nor whilst working did i hear him,bastards had me on and pretended the guy sitting in the cab with him to hook up was in a bad way etc,bastards,gave a fright for a second or to.I swear this thing was a C something but cant remeber,will come to me in the middle of the night probably.

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