Chewing up D8 Caterpillers

**T.W.R** · 6th September 2006, 23:49

I've driven some huge machinery in years gone bye

but this puppy takes the cake 100%

How'd the Fark did the operators explain this wee dilemma

**Edbear** · 7th September 2006, 06:39

LOL!!!!!!!!! Boy is somebody gonna be in trouble...!!!!!!!!

My wife was brought up on 'dozers, been driving them since she was 10 including the D9, though mainly D6's. They are big tractors but just a toy to that thing!

**Wasp** · 7th September 2006, 09:28

my mates parent got emailed that a few years ago, f***ing amazing how big that thing is......

**Flyingpony** · 7th September 2006, 10:15

Yeah, that earth moving machine is huge compared to the 'tiny' full sized bulldozer it scooped up.
When the boys play with big toys, they are BIG toys! Would be little hard to throw those out of their sand pit.

SpankMe: Would be nice if we could search for file attachments, Hmm

**Colapop** · 7th September 2006, 10:19

You very nearly said .... Hmmm ... something...

**Flyingpony** · 7th September 2006, 10:36

Originally Posted by Colapop

You very nearly said .... Hmmm ... something...

I know but I didn't did I

That bit was addressed to SpankMe purely as an example for him to test with, should the feature get developed.

**T.W.R** · 7th September 2006, 19:30

Originally Posted by Edbear

LOL!!!!!!!!! Boy is somebody gonna be in trouble...!!!!!!!!

My wife was brought up on 'dozers, been driving them since she was 10 including the D9, though mainly D6's. They are big tractors but just a toy to that thing!

I did 3yrs working at the Huntly opencast mines and drove & saw some pretty impressive machines, but nothing anywhere near that colossus.

One of the guys I worked with ran-over & squashed a 3mth old double cab hilux ute with a Trex dumper, that took some explaining

Originally Posted by Flyingpony

SpankMe: Would be nice if we could search for file attachments, Hmm

mmm? did a search and it didn't dig it out of the archives

**Edbear** · 7th September 2006, 19:53

Originally Posted by T.W.R

I did 3yrs working at the Huntly opencast mines and drove & saw some pretty impressive machines, but nothing anywhere near that colossus.

Jill was born in Taihape and worked for her father putting in roads and airfields for local farmers mostly, though they did work on the Mangaweka Deviation.

They were well known to Goughs and she's in the Gough, Gough and Hamer mag.

I had to court her on the bulldozer and I can tell you the side toolboxes are not that comfortable! (Not that it bothered me too much as I was somewhat distracted at the time...)

**Colapop** · 7th September 2006, 20:09

Originally Posted by Flyingpony

I know but I didn't did I

That bit was addressed to SpankMe purely as an example for him to test with, should the feature get developed.

Yes, yes of course that's it!!

Back on topic... Did you guys see that Discovery channel programme, one in the "Building the Biggest" series? They had what looked like standard digger only that it scoops up 55 ton of material in one go. Not on the scale of the behemouth shown here but pretty impressive nonetheless. I think they reffered to the one in here.

**Lil_Byte** · 7th September 2006, 20:35

I am sure we had a couple of those excavators down home for clearing scrub

**T.W.R** · 7th September 2006, 21:20

Originally Posted by Colapop

Back on topic... Did you guys see that Discovery channel programme, one in the "Building the Biggest" series? They had what looked like standard digger only that it scoops up 55 ton of material in one go. Not on the scale of the behemouth shown here but pretty impressive nonetheless. I think they reffered to the one in here.

That was a single bucket face shovel which was/is a monster of it's class. This Krupp rotary drum face shovel is one of a few around the world.

At Huntly the company I worked for purchased The Hitachi Face shovel that Doug Hood brought into the country when they had the contract, it took 2wks to transport from Auckland in bits another 2wks to assemble on site & had a workshop just for it as well as a truck & trailer fuel tanker just to service it, and 5 dumpers struggled to keep up with it.
We had a few 5130 Cat face shovels also along with a brace of D10s etc

The smallest excavator on site was a Hitachi EX200 and it's job was to maintain the water run-off ditches

thats my old baby

TR100 Trex, spent most of my time in that or a 748b Cat motor scraper