OzDozer
Senior Member
Greetings, all .. just checking in to your interesting site ..
I'm an old Catskinner from way back, with a background of agricultural earthmoving .. open pit gold mining and general mining contracting .. wheat and sheep farming .. Vietnam Vet (Engineers - road construction, quarrying, land clearing, forklifts, mine warfare, and generally keeping Commies at bay .. ) .. and nowadays .. an interest in antique earthmoving equipment ..
I've driven equipment from the day I left school (and before) .. 99% as an Owner/Operator .. owned maybe 150+ items of equipment .. from backhoes, trucks, semis, lowbeds, up to crawlers, graders, dump trucks, and excavators, up to 103 tonnes gross operating weight .. and shifted my share of yardage in the 42 years since I left school ..
Machines I've owned and driven? .. D6C's (2) - (beautiful little tractor), D7F's (3), Cat 930 (1), Cat 12E (1), Cat 14E (1), Cat 140G's (2), JCB 3DII (1), LeTourneau Model LS Carryall, Aveling-Barford TS-500 (1), Komatsu D375's (3), Komatsu HD-465's (19), Leibherr 974 (2), Liebherr 984 (2), Kenworth, IH, Deutz and Mack trucks (numerous) .. farm tractors .. semi trailers, tippers (end dumps), low-loaders (lowbeds), watercarts, .. associated small items of equipment, too numerous to list ..
Machines I've just driven? .. Case 310 backhoe/loader, Cat 955H & K, Cat 950, Cat 966D & E, Cat 834, Cat 973, Cat 966B & C, LeTourneau LW16 wheel dozer, LeTourneau LW-18 Dump truck, LeTourneau Model M Carryall, LeTourneau Model D Scraper, Euclid S7 Scraper, Euclid S17 Dump truck, IH TD15, D7E, D7G, D8H & K, D9G, D8L, D9L, D9N, Case 1300 watercart .. KW and Mack trucks ..
I hope this little list qualifies me to open my mouth and put my foot in it .. anytime I see a thread, that I think I can add my .02c worth of opinion, to .. and just remember .. when ya get my comment on a subject .. ya get exactly what ya paid for ..
I'm an old Catskinner from way back, with a background of agricultural earthmoving .. open pit gold mining and general mining contracting .. wheat and sheep farming .. Vietnam Vet (Engineers - road construction, quarrying, land clearing, forklifts, mine warfare, and generally keeping Commies at bay .. ) .. and nowadays .. an interest in antique earthmoving equipment ..
I've driven equipment from the day I left school (and before) .. 99% as an Owner/Operator .. owned maybe 150+ items of equipment .. from backhoes, trucks, semis, lowbeds, up to crawlers, graders, dump trucks, and excavators, up to 103 tonnes gross operating weight .. and shifted my share of yardage in the 42 years since I left school ..
Machines I've owned and driven? .. D6C's (2) - (beautiful little tractor), D7F's (3), Cat 930 (1), Cat 12E (1), Cat 14E (1), Cat 140G's (2), JCB 3DII (1), LeTourneau Model LS Carryall, Aveling-Barford TS-500 (1), Komatsu D375's (3), Komatsu HD-465's (19), Leibherr 974 (2), Liebherr 984 (2), Kenworth, IH, Deutz and Mack trucks (numerous) .. farm tractors .. semi trailers, tippers (end dumps), low-loaders (lowbeds), watercarts, .. associated small items of equipment, too numerous to list ..
Machines I've just driven? .. Case 310 backhoe/loader, Cat 955H & K, Cat 950, Cat 966D & E, Cat 834, Cat 973, Cat 966B & C, LeTourneau LW16 wheel dozer, LeTourneau LW-18 Dump truck, LeTourneau Model M Carryall, LeTourneau Model D Scraper, Euclid S7 Scraper, Euclid S17 Dump truck, IH TD15, D7E, D7G, D8H & K, D9G, D8L, D9L, D9N, Case 1300 watercart .. KW and Mack trucks ..
I hope this little list qualifies me to open my mouth and put my foot in it .. anytime I see a thread, that I think I can add my .02c worth of opinion, to .. and just remember .. when ya get my comment on a subject .. ya get exactly what ya paid for ..