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    Site issues

    Yair Well after nearly three and a half thousand posts I have had it with this site . . . It seems the designers have decided I don't need to format posts( and use bold and colour and quotes) and I still cannot access some posts until I put up a post (xxxx) of my own. And, to top things off...
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    An interesting bridge

    Yair http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beipanjiang_Bridge_Duge Worth a look I reckon. A whole slew of interesting techniques were used to get this built. Cheers.
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    Fixed track frames on dozers

    Yair . . . I notice a member here with a D5 that appears to have non oscillating track frames. I know such machines exist but I don't know which of the machines have this configuration. I imagine they would be the ducks guts for finish work but how do they compare to a conventional machine...
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    Ripping in good ground.

    Yair . . . I took some time out to watch a bloke struggling to rip dryish clay with three tines on a hitrack D6. As I have mentioned the dirt is just the same as it was fifty years ago when I decided Mother Caterpillar only put the three slots on the main beam so you could pull one tine at...
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    I think this is concerning

    Yair . . . This may be of interest . . . how far can this go? https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ Cheers.
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    Caterpillar on road trucks and engines

    Yair . . . Guday folks. I'm back home in Australia after a couple of weeks touring north island of New Zealand . . . and I saw perhaps a half a dozen Caterpillar road trucks which was a very rare sight for me. My New Zealand friend tells me they are the latest thing with Caterpillar engines...
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    Modular air

    Yair . . . It's pretty hot here at the moment and I have heard at the port there are a couple of large coal pushing dozers down and unusable with air conditioning problems . . . apparently these are conventional systems with an engine driven compressor, in cab evaporator, a condenser somewhere...
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    Mining trucks

    Yair . . . Does a right hand drive rigid mining truck exist? I see one on a financial services outfit TV add and wonder is it real or a function of a reversed transparency or Photoshop. Cheers.
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    Just curious

    Yair . . . Maybe not to other Aussies, but to me, heavy trucks set up as a tipper with a single axle look really weird. What about would be the payload in pounds of a rig such as this . . . . Thanks to anyone who cares to answer . . . as the thread title says I'm just curious...
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    Redneck ruminations and thoughts

    Yair . . . . I started a fourteen pound brisket on the drum early this morning and, and for some time I was busy laying back in the hammock soaking up the morning sun. As often happens my mind wandered back in time and I thought about how things are done “different” these days. It...
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    PAT blades pushing trees.

    Yair . . . In have had nothing to do with power angle and tilt but yesterday I used up a bit of data watching various clips of little PAT equipped jiggers pushing trees. Those blades are apparently pretty tough as some of the operators were giving them a hard time tilted and angled digging...
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    Old pictures

    Yair . . . These have turned up. They are of terrible quality but may serve to show some of the country I was cutting tracks into up in PNG. They were taken by a friend of mine in about 1968. Unfortunately the ones up in the steep stuff and jungle were destroyed in the '74 floods I believe...
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    Idlers on Hi-tracks,

    Yair . . . What would be the criteria used to determine the idler diameter on Hi-tracks? To my eyes they always look "out of scale" and on the small side . . .I have heard certain models "scallop" rails which is what would be expected if a chain was running at those acute angles around a...
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    Unique sound of a direct drive working.

    Yair . . . I have been on the road awhile and chanced to happen on a few folks watching a stickshift D7 digging out a real large stump. I parked up and joined them and listened in delight. The operator knew what he was doing and was pushing the old girl pretty hard, she'd lug down and...
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    Why is it so?

    Yair . . . I am always interested in the thinking behind machinery design. If anyone is interested in land clearing gear, if you have a few minutes, have a look at these clips. The two rakes that obviously work well. They utilise the principle of material passing across the face of...
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    Not environmentaly friendly

    Yair . . . I know little about forestry and logging and wonder how it could be worthwhile to operate under these conditions. This vid surprised me and may be of interest to others . . . I must say the operator is an artist with the grapple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNAA02Lt6bY Cheers
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    Right to repair legislation

    Yair . . . I have been wandering around the "right to repair" cases and it seems there is some sense of understanding that when a machine is purchased the manufacturer should be obliged to provide technical and repair details in full as part of the contract . . . along with updates for the...
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    Cleaning out ponds

    Hello folks. I was no excavator hand but have enough seat time to understand the frustration of folks who can’t “reach that bit in the middle” when cleaning out small ponds. For years I’ve had this odd-ball simple/relatively inexpensive idea that could extend the reach of any excavator for...
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    What is it do you reckon?

    Yair . . . I stumbled upon this tidy old girl, a Cletrac maybe? I don't remember the engine side screens and the overhead gear like that though, maybe an Ansaldo? Cheers.
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    Turbocharger horsepower

    Yair . . . I was speaking to an acquaintance about Shimmy1's unfortunate experience with his compound turbo system on a European designed tractor. He couldn't get his head around the concept that a little turbo could actually provide direct usable horse-power to the wheels/tracks of a machine...
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