Machinery talk thread

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A Customers Kenworth.

Very nice. Did they used to have an old flat nosed mack?

[DrunkenMistake]

Very nice. Did they used to have an old flat nosed mack?

Not sure he is reasonably new to us, he had just bought the kenworth to expand his fleet and it was going into a photoshoot for a magazine so I sold him some bits and pieces to help Dress it up for the shoot.

[bogan]

One of our Western Stars when the side door didn't open while tipping 35 tonne of iron ore. All it needed was a bonnet strap and a new drivers exhaust stack shield and she was good to go. New king pin on trailer and 5th wheel inspect. No CVIU tossers walking around with pink stickers over here.

from that angle you would think the chassis would be a writeoff.

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from that angle you would think the chassis would be a writeoff.

Looks kinda twisted dont it.

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Not sure he is reasonably new to us, he had just bought the kenworth to expand his fleet and it was going into a photoshoot for a magazine so I sold him some bits and pieces to help Dress it up for the shoot.

No doubt I will see it on the Gough TWL page on faceache.

[DrunkenMistake]

No doubt I will see it on the Gough TWL page on faceache.

Dunno, i sold the countries worth of Mudflaps though

[rebel]

from that angle you would think the chassis would be a writeoff.

Yeah, the driver reckoned the fan was nearly hitting the radiator. I thought it would be going thru drive shaft centre bearings, uni joints and cracking cross members but it has done about 60,000km since with no dramas.
We were worried about the battery/starter cables, which sit in between the chassis behind the cab running down the LH chassis rail to the starter. From factory it only has a cab isolator, and they deemed it too unsafe to use a cheery picker to disconnect the batteries. If there was a short there would have been no stopping it. But hey these pen pusher safety fuckwits wouldn't know what a spanner is so we may as well talk to a brick wall.

[rebel]

Re battery cable short, this is what happens. Driver had just enough time to grab his phone and bailed. This truck had just been rebuilt with new Cummins and road ranger gearbox (about 30k and 12k AUD). Suspected short between battery box and isolator (the part that wasn't touched during the rebuild)

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Re battery cable short, this is what happens. Driver had just enough time to grab his phone and bailed. This truck had just been rebuilt with new Cummins and road ranger gearbox (about 30k and 12k AUD). Suspected short between battery box and isolator (the part that wasn't touched during the rebuild)

That,ll buff right out.

We had a allis charmers loader ended up like that. Same thing too, battery Isolator fitted by local auto sparky. Was parked in a fertilizer shed at the time and a couple of the Guys were standing around watching, I managed to get on it and moved it out into the yard. Otherwise the whole shed would of gone BOOM.

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A farmer with too much time on his hands????

[T.W.R]

A farmer with too much time on his hands????

Rural sculpture

Used to do similar things with bales too made thousands of the buggers, wore out two round balers. Harvest time was always a curse; easiest way to become a walking zombie make hay while the sun shines...yeah right most was done at night

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A couple of nice old cases there........WTF is that in the second pic? Looks like some kind of Holder on steroids.

[T.W.R]

A couple of nice old cases there........WTF is that in the second pic? Looks like some kind of Holder on steroids.

lol it's a Case 1200 crab steer We used to use it for cultivation work, just pulling a 30ft heavy grubber. The 1st pic with the 970 & round baler was my baby...spent 5yrs behind the wheel of that, during the winter used to pull a 7 furrow plough with 14" boards. If I wasn't in one of them I was in a Gorse Cutter

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Love the use of counter balance, she must be one hefty mama.

[awa355]

A russian version of a land crab.