What do you think about this Dozer?

[glenlunberg]

What do you think of this one? This dozer is from Australia. It's owned by a great company there.

 

[Oxbow]

I didn't know Jeff Gordon was big down under! The stairs may become an issue, but I'd still be tickled PINK to run it.

 

[Shenandoah]

I didn't know Jeff Gordon was big down under!

Apparently not as big as Jimmy Johnson...

 

[Oxbow]

Apparently not as big as Jimmy Johnson...

Oops, that's who I meant, talk about a NASCAR faux pas, I stepped in it big time:nono

 

[Nige]

Believe it or not the stairs are a factory-installed attachment......... no further comment.

What's NASCAR..? Is it is exciting as this..? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-ynRoqDEs

 

[bill onthehill]

What do you think of this one? This dozer is from Australia. It's owned by a great company there.

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This could well be painted up for breast cancer awareness. See lots of ag tractors and UTV's painted for the same reason.

 

[The Peej]

Believe it or not the stairs are a factory-installed attachment......... no further comment.

I'm speechless! but have so many qustions

 

[plantman.uk]

another kardashian toy

 

[Nige]

Believe it or not the stairs are a factory-installed attachment......... no further comment.

I'm speechless! but have so many qustions

The powered access stairway and the railings around the fuel tank are both factory installed (optional) attachments. AFAIK both started as aftermarket mods by Australian mining companies which is from where most of the "safety" mods these days appear to emanate. The Shackle Draggers have a lot to answer for.

 

[Oxbow]

The stairs may become an issue, but I'd still be tickled PINK to run it.

Pehaps I need to clarify: The reason that I would like to operate this critter has nothing to do with the color, but rather because a 9T is the largest dozer that I have had the privelege of operating, and I would enjoy the experience of a 10 or 11 at some point. I could get past the pink were that opportunity to present itself.

 

[Shenandoah]

another kardashian toy

The Shackle Draggers have a lot to answer for.

Is there a connection here???

 

[Oxbow]

Evidently over my head. I'm confused.

 

[mitch504]

Shackle Draggers is mildly impolite slang for Australians, since it started as a penal colony.

 

[Oxbow]

Ah, I get it now, thanks Mitch! I had in my mind shackle like clevis, not handcuff type.

 

[mitch504]

Yeah, I once worked with a group of aussies, scots, irishmen, and south africans. Any time one of them got drunk and wanted to fight an aussie, "shackle dragger" would be heard among other things, there'd be busted lips, etc.; then the next day they'd all be great friends again. they were all crazy :beatsme

 

[Nige]

One of Australia's most known exports is Bundaberg Rum, commonly known as "Bundy". The only downside to the stuff (apart from the fact it gives the meanest hangovers known to man) is that fact that anyone who gets drunk on it immediately wants to pick a fight with the largest person in the bar..............

http://www.bundabergrum.com.au/

 

[dabsfabs]

I uses't to wind up an old foreman years back by asking him if he was returning to since of crime. Still works today if you want to get an Aussie to bite.

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . . Well there you go then, you never stop learning . . . I've never heard the term "shackle dragger" and I live here. (grins)

Cheers

 

[glenlunberg]

The powered access stairway and the railings around the fuel tank are both factory installed (optional) attachments. AFAIK both started as aftermarket mods by Australian mining companies which is from where most of the "safety" mods these days appear to emanate. The Shackle Draggers have a lot to answer for.

I agree to you Nige.

 

[RayF]

I've seen haul trucks painted up like that in the Hunter Valley (Coal). Bill nailed it. Its for breast cancer awareness.