Machinery talk thread

[lb99]

currentley operating one of these. full manual operation nothing automatic at all, just like using a big old lathe, 'cept this drills around corners

[Nova.]

currentley operating one of these. full manual operation nothing automatic at all, just like using a big old lathe, 'cept this drills around corners

looks interesting

[awa355]

Steve Benge from Putaruru drove a similar NCK crane to this one, both owned by my father. He then bought a Bobcat and worked for himself. Steve said the Bobcat was the hardest machine he'd ever learnt to control. Spent more time picking himself up off the ground after being thrown out.

The NCK 304 was purchased new from Cable Price in 1955. Cam Sycomore drove it for the next 18 years. the cab never got hit once by an out of control log. Every panel on the cab remained straight. The benefit of giving a new machine to an old school man who took pride in his work.

The boom was a free fall operation. If the driver didn't keep one foot on the boom brake, it would just drop. The skiddie would stand on the heap of logs and catch the sissor hooks as the driver swung the hooks past the skiddie. The skiddie really had the task of picking out the right log each time to keep the load balanced. This was before PTY started exporting logs. These were for the Putaruru sawmill.

The White was driven by 'Snowy' Lithgow. He drove it from new, for its life time.

From 1947 to 1972, Uden Bros never had a written contract with PTY Industrys. It was all held together by a handshake and a man's word.

[unstuck]

currentley operating one of these.

Gotta be better than our old grundomat, that thing went wherever the fuck it wanted. Had the bastard pop out in the middle of the SH between te-anau and mossburn.

[lb99]

Gotta be better than our old grundomat, that thing went wherever the fuck it wanted. Had the bastard pop out in the middle of the SH between te-anau and mossburn.

lol have had ours stuck in some expensive places, a bit random the old grundomat. has its place though.

this horizontal drilling is an out of it concept though, takes a bit of getting used to.

all I need to do is rent a property next to a gas station

[unstuck]

The grundomat has been very useful around my house, putting in a very useful water system and electricity to my shed and man cave.Keeps everything neat and tidy.

[unstuck]

I know where there is a 75mm thrust head buried below a gravel road. Could not dig deep enough with a 20 tonner to retrieve it.

[awa355]

Sadly, where all great boyhood memories eventually finish up. This White had been fitted with a 555 cummins v8, about 180hp. Sounded like crap after the GM diesels.

[unstuck]

Breaks my heart to see all of these bits of machinery lying around all over the country,

But sadly the cost of keeping the things in working order makes collecting the stuff difficult.

[awa355]

Where are the graders??

We had two of them. Both were Aveling Austins. One had a 3/53 GM in it. The other had a Leyland 600. This also had a narrow bull blade mounted in the front, Geez, the design seemed to give them fantastic traction. Great for pulling trucks up hills.

The independent steering of the front and rear axles ( single rear) made for interesting times when learning. These Aveling Austins were before the pivoting chassis designs.

[unstuck]

Ah Graders, they dont make em like they used to. Thank fuck.

[unstuck]

My first ever time loading a grader onto the transporter was an old old cat hunk of junk that decided to throw itself into full revs just as I got to the top of the ramps, just missed slamming into the gooseneck and came of the side of the lowbed, past the tractor unit and ended up over a bank, against the cockeys cowshed. I hate graders.

[MisterD]

this horizontal drilling is an out of it concept though, takes a bit of getting used to.

Is this for the UFB optical fibre cables? I sell the test gear they use to test it once it's in the ground, hadn't seen how they were doing the drilling before.

[lb99]

Is this for the UFB optical fibre cables? I sell the test gear they use to test it once it's in the ground, hadn't seen how they were doing the drilling before.

yeah, for ufb. We made our own test rig to test the ribbonets, using compressed air

[Flip]

Just finished overhauling a 4000 hp water pump at work. Farking impeller came loose on the shaft and munted a few things up inside the pump.

Just got it back together and its running very nicely. Had the shaft and impeller assembly dynanically ballanced. The pump casings also needed a few welding repairs to replace some of the worn metal.