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Recent content by Kiwi-truckwit

  1. K

    how do you move a dead excavator

    I've picked up a dead excavator from ACE before. We lifted it with a crane, but it got to their yard on a transporter, with the help of a guy who has built a remote power-pack for recovering dead equipment
  2. K

    Hot Crane

    Whoever was pulling those levers had absolutely no business sitting in that crane. Obviously doesn't understand the concept of differing boom configurations, doesn't know how to read a load chart, and would've had to override the LMI in order to go well past the structural capacity. What a...
  3. K

    Slow week in the office

    Here's one we did a year ago, which is a fairly typical type of build. The largest panels went around 15tonne plus rigging. They go up first, then a large toe footing is poured at the bottom of the panels, then structural steel. Props come down, floor grade is prepped as the roof is going on...
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    Slow week in the office

    I agree, which is why we probably don't see much of it any more and why factory cast panels are most common. Heated steel beds means you can cast as many panels as you can fit, every day. Once the site is established, footings poured/whatever the methodology might be, panels are trucked to site...
  5. K

    Slow week in the office

    Back in the crane today, installing tilt slab. This isn't something that's done much here any more, usually they're cast off-site in factories and trucked to site.
  6. K

    Novice operator - can't stack gp buckets in mud bucket to transport. What am I doing wrong!?

    Weld a couple of slotted plates at the top of the buckets, then you can just hook your cutting edge into them.
  7. K

    Slow week in the office

    Somehow I've ended up in the office, not quite sure how that happened. So these days I end up running counterweights more often than pulling levers, but it's nice to jump back in the seat every now and then.
  8. K

    Slow week in the office

    Been a while between posts, but here I am back in the seat again. Installing round culverts for a stormwater retention system.
  9. K

    Fuel Cost

    I'm in the central NI, and I payed $3.04/L for 95 octane on the weekend.
  10. K

    Fuel Cost

    Depends on the usage. Trucks that are double shifted can do around 300,000km a year. Our trucks typically do around 50-100,000km a year
  11. K

    Fuel Cost

    I have little doubt that we will. Our current govt is determined to move away from ICE vehicles, meantime we're importing record amounts of coal to generate electricity in our ageing Huntiy power station, which is already on borrowed time
  12. K

    Fuel Cost

    Currently a bit of a mix, however our refinement plant is going to be closed down, & all fuel imported.
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    Fuel Cost

    That's in $nzd. Diesel vehicles also need to pay a separate road user tax, which is $78/1000km for a passenger vehicle. If you were to own a typical truck& trailer in NZ, you'd be paying $400/1000km for the truck, and $238/1000km for the trailer. So for our fleet that runs on average...
  14. K

    Fuel Cost

    Our petrol in New Zealand is over $3 a litre now. Diesel over $2 per litre
  15. K

    Autonomous Construction Sites

    I think the realistic place for automation to make a meaningful start would be haul trucks on mine/quarry sites. If they can't figure that out, then nothing else will work
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