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Gravel Resheet

cuttin edge

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Last job on this project was dealing with an eroded gully that was threatening to eat into the road during the next good storm.
Luckily, there were some good size goolies close by that we were able to loosen up with the dozer and carry down to the job with the loader.
Some were a metre plus in diameter, so didn’t fancy tossing them into the side tipper.
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Any of the Americans on here know how to read his survey rod? I see it every day, but not sure if any of you guys would.
 

cuttin edge

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Centimeters?????
Being a Canadian, I build my fence 50 feet long, and 2 meters high. My daughter is all metric. Every number on the rod is 10cm or 0.1 of a meter. Each block is 10 mills. When you get to 1.0, that's a meter. If I see a stake with a cut of 0.1, it's about 4 inches. 0.2 is 8, 0.3 is a foot. It's not a super accurate conversion, but to my eye, it's close. Our surveyors get annoyed when I talk in inches
 

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My boss likes the 10ths of a foot as well. We used to have a new Bosh level with a rod in inches in the truck, but a little crew shale up, and the 30 year old with me does the metric thing. Sometimes I forget that the rest of the world is metric, and that Canada is soon going to be once us old guys are gone. It's up to you Americans to hold the line.
 

Queenslander

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The metric system was first introduced here in the early seventies, but we’re yet to be fully converted.
Pony and myself discussing the length of trucks in feet but the weight in kilograms for example.
 

seatwarmer

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The metric system was first introduced here in the early seventies, but we’re yet to be fully converted.
Pony and myself discussing the length of trucks in feet but the weight in kilograms for example.
It does make for interesting oopsies :D
 

Pony

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I was just thinking the same thing myself Queenslander, it's funny how certain things are still imperial measured and others simply aren't.
Like you said we're talking about 28ft stock crates, no one is going to call it 8.53 metres. Even the manufacturer was talking 27ft, 30ft etc.
But at the same time we'll go and buy 8m lengths of steel.
I'm still firmly intrenched in pts/inches for rainfall, but find I am slowly becoming a dinosaur there as well.
 

DMiller

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The US is still trying to convert yet reached the IDGAF attitude where cars and trucks still come mixed bag for fasteners
Tires are still Diameter inches but metric sidewall and profile, dashes can be M or US distance as well speed limits and highway markings all in mile.
Lumber and raw materials for consumers still in inch/foot/pound, Service manual torques are no longer ft/lbs with NM in parentheses but now reversed
All my torque wrenches and so many have seen recently still read Ft Lbs not NM.
I suspect will not ever fully change.
 

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Who cares which measurement system is used? I need a hardware system that is common. With metric, the hardware system depends on which country made the parts. German? Its DIN. The rest of Europe? Its ISO. Japanese? Then its JIS. China? Your best guess as to the origin of the component the Chinese copied.

Take the lowly 10mm hex head screw. JIS, 15mm head, ISO, 16mm head, and DIN is 17mm. Interchangeable metric my a$$.
 

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Same thing goes for hydraulic fittings. At least so far the high pressure flange fittings from Japan are the same as what we use in the US. At one time in my life I had to work on Proclain excavators. It used a French system that was totally different from all the rest. An I'm told the metric system was invented by the French.
 

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Same thing goes for hydraulic fittings. At least so far the high pressure flange fittings from Japan are the same as what we use in the US. At one time in my life I had to work on Proclain excavators. It used a French system that was totally different from all the rest. An I'm told the metric system was invented by the French.
I think I learned in school that it was invented by the Catholic church in France in the late 1600s
 

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About 10 years ago a good friend who was a senior engineer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (among other things, the Corps designs and manages the construction of buildings for the U.S. Army) told me that the Corps required their designers (in house & contract) to design in metric, but that the Corp. would hire a firm to convert the metric plans to U.S. Standard so that U.S. contractors could build as planned.
 

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Seeing as we've gone from roadworks to bullbars to cattle crates and then onto the metric system we might as keep on hijacking Queenslander's thread.
I picked up this dunger on the weekend. ;)
Been flat out mustering since then so it already covered in sh!t.
"Wineberry" my ar$e. That's f'kin maroon.........
 

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Don’t worry about the hijack... I can look at new trucks all day.
How do you like the amt?.

Maroon is the official state colour of Queensland, hence the concern about the name.:rolleyes:
 

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Looks nice. I hope the side ramp is better built then ours. I just finished straightening it, reinforcing it and welding up the broken welds. Apparently ours did not like cows and bulls jumping on it.

The tray floor on ours is suffering bad rust after six years. It still has a fair few years in it yet as it is 6mm, but now I realise we should have gone a stainless floor.

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