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  1. Aussie John

    Liebherr T282 Ultra Class Trucks

    Has anyone on this site been involved with the Liebherr T282 haul trucks? I am currently working on a minesite here in Australia, involved with a fleet of more than 40 of these trucks. Also have a lot of yellow iron operating too.
  2. Aussie John

    A potential scraper project? Wait & see

    It has been 3 years since I started this thread. The project has been underway for a while now and about half way completed as far as the earthworks are concerned. Expected to be completed by the end of next year. Over the 41km length of the project, there is a large variety of equipment with...
  3. Aussie John

    Your dozer photos

    Here are some more photos showing the rippers being transported and two from my work truck-a Bell Jet Ranger.
  4. Aussie John

    Your dozer photos

    Here are some photos taken in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea quite a few years ago when I was involved with a project to move 3 Komatsu D85 dozers to an oil refinery site which had no road access. The helicopter used was a Russian Mil27 with a lifting capacityof about 25 tons at sea...
  5. Aussie John

    Big loads or large tow truck Pictures-earthmoving

    Leibheir 996 on the move Here is another 996 being moved in the Pilbara recently
  6. Aussie John

    A potential scraper project? Wait & see

    After more than 10 years of political football, a massive road construction project is about to get underway in the Toowoomba region in south east Queensland. Costing over $1.3 billion, it consists of 41km of new roads, with about 29km being 4 lane with 2 twin lane tunnels passing through the...
  7. Aussie John

    What are all the things you do with a grader?

    Anothe use for a grader is replacing a broken track on a dozer. Had a D9N once that broke a track (this happens when they are run to destruction sometimes and another story) in a mine pit. Used the Cat 16G to remove the old track, drag a replacement out from the used parts storage area and push...
  8. Aussie John

    Wanting knowledge on torque converters ? Curiousity stricken.

    Hey Scrub Puller, what was the model of the D8 that had the diesel converter fitted? Were these the early D8s that were built in Scotland? Remember doing a re-seal on one back in the early 70's when with the MOW at Twizel. Carbon face seals were used as rotating seals to feed the diesel into the...
  9. Aussie John

    Loader kit for a crane

    This is a Fowler crane from the 1940's based on an IH Farmall farm tractor with a front loading bucket attachment. These cranes were built on an assortment of farm tractors in Melbourne. I also found a photo from the Melbourne Museum of a Massey Harris with a similar set-up. May be basic but...
  10. Aussie John

    651 Elevating Scrapers

    This thread has been around for some time now and I thought I would kick it off again with some close-up photos of 2 of the 651Es fitted with the elevators. There were 4 of these working at a mine site in the Pilbara recently. There does not seem to be many photos around of these scrapers. I...
  11. Aussie John

    LeTourneau-Westinghouse Model C Tournadozer with a v-plow and wing plowing

    If anyone wants to learn more about RG Letourneau, his autobiography "Mover of Men and Mountains" is worth reading. Book is still available ISBN-10: 0-8024-3818-0 and published by Moody Publishers, Chicago. Bought my copy recently from Plough Book Sales, Victoria, Australia.
  12. Aussie John

    Early motor scraper

    Would the tractor be a Oliver Cletrack? I enlarged the photo and looking at the tracks, the front track idlers and rollers all have large external flanges. Looking at the house in the background, it does not have the English styling of the era. I rekon that this photo was taken somewhere in the...
  13. Aussie John

    Big loads or large tow truck Pictures-earthmoving

    I received these photos in an email today too. Here are some more details on moving this Liebher that were in the email. "This is the biggest load to be moved in West Australia. It weighed over 700 tons with four trucks towing and two pushing it on the gravel. They were travelling at 4...
  14. Aussie John

    16M shifting issues

    Regarding 16M transmissions, I have seen three to date now where the transmissions have failed big time before 10,000 hours. The latest blew a flywheel coupling with metal going through the system and filled the suction screen up with pieces of spring and coupling plate. According to the Cat...
  15. Aussie John

    Britstand HL60 Motor Grader

    Being a Britstand, it probably has a dry type clutch fitted like fitted to a truck, and if it is not releasing properly it I suggest checking the following: requires adjustment or linkages worn the clutch plate is worn out or covered in oil or rusty clutch pressure plate worn out I suggest...
  16. Aussie John

    Interesting reading

    Andrew, In the scale of things, here in Oz & NZ, we were only a small player in the manufacturing side. How-ever, there were a few big projects over the past 50 years here but unfortunately, none were mentioned. The book is centred on the American, British & European manufacturers and projects...
  17. Aussie John

    Interesting reading

    For anyone interested in the history of earthmoving / mining / agricultural equipment the book "Yellow Steel" by William R Haycroft is great reading. It is available in soft cover, consisting of over 450 pages and covers the rise and fall of the industry since 1908 when the first internal...
  18. Aussie John

    Terex 24b load runners compared to the other competition

    The S24s that Higgins ran were powered by the 12v71T engine and were painted yellow with straight chrome exhausts. looked mighty smart and always well looked after. I had a short drive of one of their first ones early 1972 when Twizel was starting off. My first drive of a scraper. Later on...
  19. Aussie John

    Your dozer photos

    Ian, nothing has changed much in the past year. Hope to get some more done over the next few months. How about a few of your dozers up here Ian?
  20. Aussie John

    Your dozer photos

    Oldie but still going Here is my D4 model 6U in use on our property clearing weeds. It is a 1952 vintage and sometime in it's early life, fitted with a custom made 200 litre fuel tank and dry type air cleaner. Also I have a 1958 David Brown 50TD Mk 2 which I am restoring. Fitted with a...
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