Like mitch504, I am curious as to the fate of the Carter Bros.
I recall a time when I was very young, would have been around 1960, when my parents and I were parked at the top of Porter's Gap on the Kingaroy - Dalby road having smoko. A Mack(?) pulling a lowloader with a D9 on came up the hill past us and my father remarked that it was one of Carter Bros dozers. It was the first 9 I had seen and was a pretty big deal for a young bloke like me as we operated a single D6 around Kingaroy at the time.
Many years later when I recounted this memory to my father, he said "Yair, and I probably said, listen to the gear changes." He knew the driver and remarked that that driver was missing his left hand and had a hook in place of it. The truck had a ring welded to each gear stick and he used to put the hook thru the rings to change gear and operated the 'box as good as anyone.
As my father died several years ago, I cannot get any more detail than that, but that truck pulling Carter Bros 9 up Porter's Gap remains one of my childhood memories.
If any of you blokes (Queenslander, ianoz, Scrub Puller) who are familiar with the land-clearing game in Qld those days can fill in any details on the Carter boys, I would be very grateful. I am also interested in that DVD.
Cheers,
Gary
