Machinery talk thread

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Now this is a monster truck.

[Grubber]

Very Very Clever man was Doug Put the Mt Hutt access road in when all the international wizards said it couldn't be done; certainly was an Icon for the whole region...self-made Multi millionaire yet all his money couldn't help when he got cancer. He used to stop me on the road when he saw the GC, just pull up casual as in the Range Rover walk over in the old cord pants & work jersey, you wouldn't think he was worth millions until you spotted the dirty big Rolex swinging off his wrist
Mary is still the director for the earth moving side of things and Peter his brother in-law controls Mountain View deer processing plant; have spent quite a few hours Salmon fishing with Peter and his matesGood to hear they are still going strong. I used to work for Burnetts Motors. Bobby Burnett was another local of high regard.
You see his gear up North here doing jobs still. Great stuff.


gravel alley, used to do a bit of work through there & Carew, almost toasted the round baler at a job at Ruapuna a bearing collapsed & set the bale in the chamber on fire Yep, it wasn't the most pleasant of places to farm. bloody boulders for as far as the eye could see. Think we just got used to it actually, but yea there was plenty of rocks about.
Not sure if you still do any work up that way, but the years of stone picking have made life much better in most areas now.




Had a race with a bigger model Allis when we were doing a squash contract and yep they go damn quick...I was on a 830 Case with a backlift still managed to beat him but the 830 was rapid once we'd fiddled the governors

In the early 90s Lincoln field days when the tractor pull was still a novelty the students built up one like that Allis with a 265 hemi chucked in it it pulled awesome wheelies. The next year Cochranes had built the V8 maxxum so Lincoln built a V8 Massy Ferg

Lol, now that sounds like something i could get my head around fairly easy.

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We used to have this little petrol Allis Chalmers that would do a million miles an hour on the road, but then it would get the speed wobble and head for a fence. took a bit of getting used to.

The fathers firm had a block of farmland. As a youngster, I would drive the David Brown Cropmaster. Had a dual seat and went like stink. Next tractor was a new Massey Fergy 65 multipower.



In the 1960's, the cow cockys were doing quite nicely. Wright Stephensons had 14 railway flat wagons arrive in Putaruru in one shipment with new MF tractors on board. All sold. The 'not so well off' cockys bought David Browns from Aikmans.

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I wonder if this thing actually runs. Anybody know anything about it?

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[T.W.R]

love the ooh ooh when it lets go notice the brand name of the dyno unit how appropriate

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Now what was that program on the telly back in the day??????
A black family and the son was always saying dynomite. Tis going to bug me now.

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Good times. Thats the one,


I would of thought seeing the exhaust pipe starting to expand and move like that would of given it away, but probably to late by then.

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Video

I had a Cat D13000 do something similar to me once.

But it was the blower on a 671 that nearly come to get me, it'd run away and we'd pulled the pin on it too late.

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[pete376403]

Quite a few of us know about Commer TS3 engines - who knew there was a TS4? And that one of the for remaining prototypes in in New Zealand?
http://www.commer.org.nz/Commer_Connections/TS4Mtr.html

Prototype Rootes TS4 (Stage I design)
Engine number TS OE 65 (spare engine)
Model Number 4D-287
Number of cylinders 4
Displacement 287 cu in
Performance 200 hp @ 2,600 rpm
Torque 465 ft lb.'s @ 1,800 rpm
Manufacturer Tillings Stevens Ltd, Maidstone, Kent, UK.
Year of manufacture 1966
Total TS4 prototypes built 14

pretty good torque for a little engine

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Quite a few of us know about Commer TS3 engines - who knew there was a TS4? And that one of the for remaining prototypes in in New Zealand?


Prototype Rootes TS4 (Stage I design)
Engine number TS OE 65 (spare engine)
Model Number 4D-287
Number of cylinders 4
Displacement 287 cu in
Performance 200 hp @ 2,600 rpm
Torque 465 ft lb.'s @ 1,800 rpm
Manufacturer Tillings Stevens Ltd, Maidstone, Kent, UK.
Year of manufacture 1966
Total TS4 prototypes built 14

pretty good torque for a little engine

Yeah, I saw that on talking trucks last week, sounds like a pretty impressive motor.

[pete376403]

Yeah, I saw that on talking trucks last week, sounds like a pretty impressive motor.

Make a nice boat motor.
"sounds" indeed - if you go to the website you can listen to it running - straight pipe exhaust and open inlet
Saddest part was reading how Chrysler axed development because they realised that it would take sales from Cummins, who Chrysler had just invested a shit load of money in, and Perkins - but the TS4 would have been better than both of them.

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The guy on talking trucks got 2 complete motors to bring home with him, I think he already had one.

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Just had a look at that link, its the same guy who got the ts4 motors on talking trucks.