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    D6R shifting hard when changing direction.

    I dont know about the operating temp, but many years ago I ran a new D7R that had that problem. Many software updates, discussions from NZ to USA didnt solve the issue. I found if you dont use the decelerator when shifting from forward to reverse, or vice versa, it is as smooth as silk. But I...
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    Cat D8T Engine Miss Firing

    Yes it is a hire machine, and the owner is paying to fix it, but we have to put up with the inconvience. We actually had a second D8T , because we had so much trouble with the damn things. All sorts of issues, so when one went down we would use the other. Unfortunately they have now taken the...
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    Cat D8T Engine Miss Firing

    Thank you for all your input and advice. This one is not an emission engine, so none of those issues apply. Sometimes it seems to drop 2 cylinders, sounds really sick then. That's the problem, getting it to do it when we have the serviceman on site, you cant have those guys sitting around...
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    Cat D8T Engine Miss Firing

    Not sure what year this one is, it has the " D8T" on the side of the bonnet, not on side by fuel tank, so later model, it has done 6600 hours. We tried filling up at lunchtime, but still did it once or twice, which isn't as bad as other days. Very intermittent which makes it hard to trace. Some...
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    Cat D8T Engine Miss Firing

    Wouldn't that show up on the laptop diagnostics, that there had been misfiring, technician said it came up all clear? Doesn't seem to do it in the morning, just in the afternoon. Can you think of a reason for that?
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    Cat D8T Engine Miss Firing

    I am operating a Cat D8T here in New Zealand. It has an engine miss firing problem, usually later in the day when fuel gets lower in the tank. No problem early in the day We have had the Cat dealer look at it twice, but nothing shows up on their computer, making us think it may be a fuel issue...
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    Terex 24b load runners compared to the other competition

    I ran English(should be Scottish actually)TS24B's on the earthworks and site prep for the Torness Nuclear Power Station in Scotland in 1979/80. Tractor Shovels of Edinburgh had 12 of them,plus 2 A's that they had traded in then hired back again for the job. They had 2 8V 71's with 6 speed...
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    Historic NZ Earthmoving Projects

    I was at Twizel for about 10 months 1976/77. Worked for Doug Hood on his D8K mostly on Tekapo Canal Camp 5 and 6. Some of the names I can remember were Bondy, who was tempory boss for Hoods until John Cairns came from Goughs to take over. Cant remember the guys full names, there was Matey, drove...
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    D7e now in New Zealand

    Merv, yes the D7R was brand new. Belongs to Douglas Logging in Dargaville. It has a C9, 260hp, performs better than the 230hp D7R of Tony Elmiger's that I drove in Kaingaroa. Back up in old stamping ground, theyre logging the forests I roaded for when they were planted. How long have you had...
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    D7e now in New Zealand

    I'm operating a new D7R in Northland, near Dargaville. Delivered in Nov last year, coming up for 750 hr service. Has C9 engine, 260hp, can push like a son of a bitch. Being used in forestry roading and skid formation. Owner didnt want D7E due to reduced ground clearance. D7R's are apparently...
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    Terex 82-80 Euclid TC012 wanted

    D6 Merv, The reason they only used Terex dozers on the rollers was something to do with the difference in the transmissions. Alan Grimes who built up the roller on the 82-20 explained it to me, but I cant recall how the story went. The Allison transmission had some feature that the Cat didnt...
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    Terex 82-80 Euclid TC012 wanted

    Scrub Puller, The area being crushed could be hundreds of hectares or maybe less than one hundred. Bigger units usually did the big blocks of land due to the cost of transporting the machine and roller. The young trees are all hand planted at 1000 per hectare then thinned to 350 by year 10...
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    Terex 82-80 Euclid TC012 wanted

    I Googled " NZ Gravity Rollers" and came up with this.... http://www.nzjf.org/free_issues/NZJF26_1_1981/5A680FBC-F8DE-4D02-8D02-0E20B10F6238.pdf
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    Terex 82-80 Euclid TC012 wanted

    Brainzie, the Terex's that Mike Johnson had were 82-40's, not TC 12/ 82-80's. I used to live up north and saw one of them on a job I did at Herekino on the Hokianga. Scrub Puller, the machines were gravity rollers, used for crushing scrub on steep country(some of it bloody steep), in...
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    Terex 82-80 Euclid TC012 wanted

    Just been out to Hautapu this afternoon, talked to the Ross's. They said they hoped to buy the TC 12 back so they can restore it.They have a lot of old dozers and they plan to build a big new workshop to repair their machines in and to use their existing workshop, which is near new, as a museum...
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    New Zealand Loggers: Kaingaroa Forest

    The book sounds interesting Haddy. You're right about the area of Kaingaroa, 168,000 sounds familar, but you say 150,000. Wasnt sure if it was acres or hectares so I put acres, if i put hectares, and it was wrong, the Aussies and Yanks might think we were big noting. There is Kaingaroa Forest...
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    New Zealand Loggers: Kaingaroa Forest

    Yes he was a good old guy Curly, he used to come out with Tony to help service the D7 (oil and filter changes etc). We usually only worked 5 day weeks and I would finish about 4pm on Fridays to head back home to Hamilton. They would be there when I knocked off and would do the service then.
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    New Zealand Loggers: Kaingaroa Forest

    I'm not a logger but spent nearly 5 years in Kaingaroa Forest roading and building logdumps (skid sites) from 1998 to late 2002. I was on contract to Tony Elmiger operating a brand new Cat D7R. It had done 11,000 hours when I finished. There was only the D7R and a D6H plus one EX200 and one...
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    Terex 82-80 Euclid TC012 wanted

    Wabcoman is right. I was talking to Nick Ross of C & R Developments today, the Ross's have a tie up with Bakers. He said they had a TC12 but sold it to the guy across the road from their workshop at Hautapu. He said the guy drove it across the road into his paddock then a final drive promptly...
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