Machinery talk thread

[MisterD]

Have seen a couple of track marshalls at the crank up day, would be a handy wee machine for pulling out firewood logs, Better than my old holder anyway.

I spent many hours in that old 90, mainly following the 135 that did the ploughing. It was a 20 minute job to grease it up for a day's work, had no a/c, required ear defenders to drive it, but still infinitely preferrable to driving anything with wheels on ploughing...still the best job I ever had.

[unstuck]

Ok, I am looking for an operator. Must be switched on,

Well that leaves me out.

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I spent many hours in that old 90, mainly following the 135 that did the ploughing. It was a 20 minute job to grease it up for a day's work, had no a/c, required ear defenders to drive it, but still infinitely preferrable to driving anything with wheels on ploughing...still the best job I ever had.

It is called character, something a lot of modern machinery is lacking.

[Nova.]

Ok, I am looking for an operator. Must be switched on, energetic and full of solutions not problems. PM me if you are keen, this pays well,

Ad is on Trademe
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...922417&ed=true

how worried about licenses are you? i.e W.T.R

[pete376403]

That yours???? Looks pretty tidy.

No, not mine - picture from Google.

Did an apprenticeship with GG&H and later worked for Int Harvester in Lower Hutt. I haven't operated (or even played around on) anything since I left Harvester in about 1975.
Drott 100B was probably the last machine I worked the controls of.
Been in computers ever since, but wouldn't mind getting back into the job. Still got all the tools.

[skippa1]

how worried about licenses are you? i.e W.T.R

Not too fussed, I want experience. I am sick of having to tell people how to drive plant hard without being tough on it and I am also sick of people that have driven a 1.5t excavator in their back yard thinking they can get in a 30t machine and drive it around my expensive plant

[Nova.]

Not too fussed, I want experience. I am sick of having to tell people how to drive plant hard without being tough on it and I am also sick of people that have driven a 1.5t excavator in their back yard thinking they can get in a 30t machine and drive it around my expensive plant

yeah, its not like its hard to operate a machine to its full extent without being hard on it, another funny one is people who have operated 30 tonners on farms thinking they can hop on a 1.5t machine and think their king.
I'm only 17, going on 18 in 2 months but have been around heavy equip my whole life, id say I have atleast 10thousand hours on a excavator, couple hundy on a loader.
If I was in Auckland I'd definitely be keen on a trial but yeah haha.

[unstuck]

In a lot of ways it is easier to operate a big digger than a small one, the small ones move around so much that you spend a lot of time compensating for the movement. The EX 1100 I was playing on at the mine was the worst to operate, because every movement had to be slow and precise, Fucking boring. I just handed my notice in too, had enough of the bretherens.

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You wouldnt want the train driver in this clip to give it to much welly(or whatever the train equivelant is). Would be a hard landing.

[Headbanger]

Heres one we bought over the phone.

Cunning move that one.

She was is bad condition when it was parked up, Then as she sat their in the back blocks people started to strip her, The top of the motor had gone ffs, the entire water system, hydrological pumps and lines...

After our initial inspection we sank a few grand into parts, drove back out there with company mechanic and done one of the roughest patch up jobs ever undertaken, Just to get her up on that transporter. Then to justify the purchase ( I suggested sending it to the scrap heap) it was given a rebirth at considerable expense, and has sat in the yard ever since.

[Headbanger]

Is that beastie with the ball a 10RB?

Can't say I know, We had three of them of a similar design that I know of, Though that was the baby of the bunch.

All of them met a similar fate, No one but the old guys could drive em. Anytime anyone under 60 got in the seat it ended badly.

[Headbanger]

Thats where I would of seen the name, Invergiggle. Is that a drott or MF in pic 3? Good stuff

Is Drott a brand name? I've rarely heard it used....we called them Traxcavators, and for some reason the only brand the company would use were Komatsu.

[Nova.]

Heres one we bought over the phone.

Cunning move that one.

She was is bad condition when it was parked up, Then as she sat their in the back blocks people started to strip her, The top of the motor had gone ffs, the entire water system, hydrological pumps and lines...

After our initial inspection we sank a few grand into parts, drove back out there with company mechanic and done one of the roughest patch up jobs ever undertaken, Just to get her up on that transporter. Then to justify the purchase ( I suggested sending it to the scrap heap) it was given a rebirth at considerable expense, and has sat in the yard ever since.

what a shame, looks like it would be a good demolition machine at the least

[Headbanger]

what a shame, looks like it would be a good demolition machine at the least

A good demolition machine is a reliable machine, preferely less then 3 years old. That machine would only make the company look bad if put into service.