old skool iron
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60,s farmall to work the dirt at flat track motor cycle races. well that got me hooked .there's nothing like it.
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Your first piece of equipment owned or operated was?
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back in the eighties as a kid i used to go with my dad every weekend on the diggers would never miss the opertunity my first digger i drove was a 1983 jcb 3cx they were everything back in those day and my first owned machine was a pel job eb30 naw replaced by volvos in the eighties i rember driving old mf50d and 50 hx aswell as the 3cx
Hendrik
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A little 30hp Fahr tractor similar to this when I was about 7 or 8
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Fahr_D17N_1955.jpg
used to pull sleds behind during winter until the local schoolteacher dobbed on us. Next winter I run myself over with it whilst doing time trials around the barn, that hurt for a while.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Fahr_D17N_1955.jpg
used to pull sleds behind during winter until the local schoolteacher dobbed on us. Next winter I run myself over with it whilst doing time trials around the barn, that hurt for a while.
Same story here!
assocpowertrain
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This was an awesome thread to read! Great pics and great stories in this thread!
Leyland became leyland daf i have 2 of them i dont see much seddis about naw i think iveco took them over but as for the leyland dafs they are very good trucks i prefered my older daf compare to the newer ones
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bell142
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47a d7, 1985, I was 8, back when cell phones were a coffee can full of quarters for the nearest pay phone. Dad had to go make some calls and told me to degrass ahead of the scrapers. i learned quick how to make every pass count! First i bought was a 613c 92x1367.
willie59
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I hated it when my grandfather put one of these machines in my hands to help in the garden. :Banghead Oh well, I guess it taught me the value of hard work.
First piece of "live machinery"? Hmm, construction forklift, just don't remember which one. The only one I remember was an old "skeleton frame" Lull with a Chrysler slant 6, that thing was a contraption of the oddest sort.
First piece of "live machinery"? Hmm, construction forklift, just don't remember which one. The only one I remember was an old "skeleton frame" Lull with a Chrysler slant 6, that thing was a contraption of the oddest sort.
rockmuncher
Active Member
First machine I operated would have been a KATO 1220 excavator sitting on dad lap somewhere between 4 & 6 and the first I operated completely by myself was a CAT 375 ME at about 10.
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tippatone
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I totally agree, my uncle had I think a 70's Leyland, I loved the way that thing sounded when it cranked up, the new daf's are ok but nothing like the early models.
liebherr1160
Senior Member
Kabota MK7500 or something ...realisticly ..1972 P&H T750.. ...
Without supervision ...Krupp KMK 5125
Without supervision ...Krupp KMK 5125
devils2619
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1946 IH Farmall. It was a great tractor if you had set jobs. It would not do anything that it was not used to, or made for. Treat her right, she'll be good to you.
977 track loader. Was 13 yrs old and got to push down my first house. WAY COOL! First machine to learn on full time was 743 melroe bobcat. Great little machine. I dont own any machines yet, but have 2 trailers if that counts. 14' gooseneck dump trailer and 30 ft 12 ton equipment hauler.
special tool
Senior Member
Some of you guys were operating pretty serious machines your first time out.
jimmyjack
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in high school i worked on a dairy farm,first day there i was in an early 80s ford 555 backhoe i was loving it even if it was cleaning up manure, also ran a hand full of international tractors and an old (im guessing) 70s JD 350 dozer,after that i knew i wanted to work outside:drinkup
Dug Overburden
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1st machine
Cat D8K, about 1984. I was employed as a pilot car driver,waiting for a truck driver to arrive. My only experence was putting a machine in gear to go back & forth. A foreman ask me to cut a V ditch. Had no idea what to do, but it was fun.
Looked just like this machine.
Cat D8K, about 1984. I was employed as a pilot car driver,waiting for a truck driver to arrive. My only experence was putting a machine in gear to go back & forth. A foreman ask me to cut a V ditch. Had no idea what to do, but it was fun.
Looked just like this machine.
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Dug Overburden
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D8K serial number 77V18842
Don't know if this is considered a thread hijack. Thats the highest serial nunbered D8K I have ever seen, must be one of the last ones built?
Don't know if this is considered a thread hijack. Thats the highest serial nunbered D8K I have ever seen, must be one of the last ones built?