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  1. RocksnRoses

    Hyundai Wheel Loaders.

    I would be interested to hear of members experiences with Hyundai Wheel Loaders, particularly the HL760-9 and what they think about Hyundai Equipment in general. Hyundai have an established dealership here in Adelaide now and are another contender in the earthmoving field. The feedback so...
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    Vintage Caterpillar Sale

    This clearing sale coming up at Bordertown, in the south east of South Australia, on the 28th of November, is rather unique, for the amount of vintage crawlers that are for sale. It is very rare here, to have as much vintage equipment in one sale...
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    Crane fire in Sydney this morning.

    I thought the crane people here on the forum might be interested in this. It happened a couple of hours ago in Sydney. I guess we can only speculate what might have happened...
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    Mitsubishi MG430 Grader

    We are looking at a Mitsubishi MG430E grader. Has anyone here had any experience with these machines, if so, I would appreciate hearing your comments on them. RnR.
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    Simple Chain Tensioner.

    They say 'necessity is the mother of invention'. We have a small screening plant that was built out of scrap, in a hurry to fullfill a particular need. Another contractor needed a small screen to screen gypsum and we needed one to screen soil, so we knocked it up in a hurry a few years ago and...
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    Using soft slings, what are your your thoughts?

    I am not a crane operator, but we use wheel loaders for lifting anything that needs lifting and do use a soft sling occasionally, but mostly chains. There was an accident in Adelaide yesterday, where a steel beam slipped from a soft sling, killing one worker and injuring another. What do...
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    Deadliest Catch.

    The young bloke operating our crusher was getting a bit toey, after his old man, who was operating our loader, served up a couple of these to him yesterday. They hibernate in the rock piles and mice are in plentiful supply at the moment. RnR.
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    For Wolf: Demolition of an Aussie Icon!

    The Outback Dunny!:falldownlaugh
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    Here is another 'wotisit' .......and what is it's purpose?

    What do you think this machine is, and what does it do? More to come later. RnR.
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    A fire story, to warm you all up.

    About three weeks ago, we had six days straight where the temperature reached somewhere between 100 F and 105 F every day. We then had a couple of cooler days and then the temperature soared again. It is harvest time here and all of the farmers are flat out harvesting. On the 19th of November...
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    Dresser 540 transmission overheating.

    The transmission on our Dresser 540 has suddenly started to run really hot. It has been working fine up until recently, but now in about 45 minutes to an hour of average work, the temperature goes up to about 240 degrees F, where the buzzer starts. When it first got hot, the oil level dropped...
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    Yorke Peninsula Field Days

    Last week, the Yorke Peninsula Field days were held at Paskeville on Yorke Peninsula, about an hour north of where we live. These field days are held every second year and have been running for 113 years. They are predominately agricultural, but also include some earthmoving, trucks, cars and a...
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    House Demolition - Aussie style

    The other day I had to demolish this old stone home and cart it away, so that a base could be built for a new re-locatable home, to be put there on the same spot. The roof and floors had been removed for recycling, so it was relatively easy. I shifted a little over 400 tonnes all up. The...
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    Spreading clay on non wetting sand.

    In South Australia and southern Wesern Australia, a percentage of farming land consists of non wetting sand. This sand has very little goodness, repels water and drifts extensively in our hot dry climate with frequent strong winds. In most cases, there is good clay underneath this sand, varying...
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    Wheel loader Operators: Please be careful!

    This happened at a quarry a few days ago. I believe the operator had the bucket up in the air and turned. Fortunately he was OK. I see so many operators travelling and turning with the bucket way to high, when the machine is least stable. Rn'R.
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    Macks and Whites in Oz

    A request was made for some B61 and White pics on the New Zealand truck thread, so rather than hijack that thread, I thought I would start another thread with some pics of trucks down under and hopefully a lot more from down under will get added to it. These trucks are kept at the National Road...
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    Rude Awakening.

    I was mixing loam today with our Dresser 540, minding my own business, thinking about all sorts of things, probably HEF, when suddenly I thought the world was coming to an end. A hydraulic hose from the bucket ram came out of the fitting and decided to pay me a visit inside the cab. It came...
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    Harvesting In South Australia

    The Agricultural Forum has been quiet lately, all you farmers must be busy working. Harvest is in in full swing here in South Australia following a year full of promise and ending in absolute disaster. The year started brilliantly, then the rain stopped at the end of August and the crops just...
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    High Lifting Tailgates

    I have noticed on some of the threads that the dump trucks shown have what look to be hydraulically operated tailgates to lift them clear of the body when dumping. We are having a semi tipper built which will be carting rock, demolition material and tree stumps and that system looks like it...
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    Tractor In Oz.

    A mate of mine rebuilt and still operates this tractor from the 1970's. Does anyone here on the forum know what it is? Rn'R.
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