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Recent content by Ian coombs

  1. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    After the mining job I went to work in a refinery as an operator where all maintenance was breakdowns.. having come from the military I was used to planned and preventative maintenance.. I saw the area maintenance supervisor who was a mechanical engineer and asked about planned maintenance, I...
  2. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    I would love to have seen that Ozdozer…I was going to ask about using an elevating v open bowl with a dozer, then. Twin power.. I think I have heard of a CAT book that gives all the efficiencies of machines.. ..
  3. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    I think that’s about it skyking1.. I am feeling there may be a sigh of relief… I don’t know whether it was the same in the US.. but it was a very English thing for people to go on holiday then some time later to have a ‘slide night’.. think.. bad photos, probably of places you can’t afford to go...
  4. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    Other than brief appearances of the occasional 627 or something the 633 were all we had.. that was the only mine I worked on but they had similar size machines on the mine next to ours.. in my years in Australia I have seen mostly these being transported..
  5. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    This is a pic of the area the 980 loader with no brakes on page 2 worked in..the liquid slurry level was usually higher..the photo is taken just by the bin the sand was dumped into.. This is of the stockpile that was constantly built and used as top up for the process.. there was a penalty to...
  6. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    What an amazing man..from an invention point of view but especially from a philanthropic view., just imagine if some of the world’s billionaires contributed more (I know some do) to making a better world..
  7. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    Well spotted on the Jeep skyking.certainly gives it some scale... an M38?.
  8. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    What an education you are giving me.. I had never heard of a dozer with two of everything, the tree crusher like something from a futuristic apocalypse movie and us Aussies think we invented road trains, a tundra beating version, astounding.. a weird part of me wondered what the Westinghouse...
  9. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    There was something different for me at every turn.. I had never heard of a LeTOURNAU and I thought Westinghouse only made fridges..
  10. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    Excellent videos Dave, What engines did the TC 12 have?. like the earlier comments about the Vickers Vigor, looks like it would be difficult to keep cool.. and another dumb question, did Euclid become Terex?.
  11. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    I googled of course, that brought me to yours and skykings post last year.. what an education.. mind boggling to me.. it would have been good to have a person next to most of that gear ..
  12. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    An Italian Vender.. I didn’t know until I just googled it.. https://www.grays.com/lot/0028-5049143/agriculture-and-tractors/vintage-1950-vender-tracked-crawler-bulldozer many more photos on this link..
  13. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    There is certainly a wide variety.. what a monster this Euclid is.. amazing to me that it’s a cable machine.. but an hydraulic angle ram?? I should have looked closer..
  14. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    My boss on the Canada job who had gone off the radar for years turned up on the squadron fb page which was a brilliant surprise.. he took this photo of us at the end of the job.. I didn’t know this photo existed.. blast from the past..
  15. Ian coombs

    Gainsborough Loading Shovel M.O.D.

    Any photos of what you saw Dave..??
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