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RollOver Pete

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Nicely done!
Especially when you don't have to worry about 8 657's, a H20 trk, an 834, a D9L, a 660 BG and the soils guy... I kinda miss those days. Regardless, nicely done. Keep em comong.!
 

RollOver Pete

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My wife liked the music... I had to show her that this was not the Sahara tent at Coachella, but a tractor video on HEF.
 

John C.

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The music was my question as well. Did you find it anywhere special? Nice set up on the visuals.
 

Tones

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A true yarn. In the late 90's I was operating a Hitachi EX100 with a knuckle boom and a Powertilt hitch which had just come on the market here in Oz. I got sent to a council job where they upgrading a road and the foreman was a scone doer( bad tempered) The machine had been delivered overnight and the truck only left 1 bucket, a 5ft wide mud bucket. Anyway the foreman says, I want an open drain dug along side the road and it has to be 2ft wide on the bottom. No worries, I can do that. Foreman, but your bucket is 5ft wide, you can't sit on the road and dig it and there's no room between the drain and the fence , you'll have to get the other buckets. She'll be right I says I'll do the job with this bucket and about that time his face is getting really red. Tell you what while tring to calm him down, if I can't do this job with this bucket I won't bill you but if I can you give me 6 weeks work. Its a deal so I put the digger on line tilted the bucket to the max and dug the drain. From then on we had an excellent working relationship
 

TrentNz

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A true yarn. In the late 90's I was operating a Hitachi EX100 with a knuckle boom and a Powertilt hitch which had just come on the market here in Oz. I got sent to a council job where they upgrading a road and the foreman was a scone doer( bad tempered) The machine had been delivered overnight and the truck only left 1 bucket, a 5ft wide mud bucket. Anyway the foreman says, I want an open drain dug along side the road and it has to be 2ft wide on the bottom. No worries, I can do that. Foreman, but your bucket is 5ft wide, you can't sit on the road and dig it and there's no room between the drain and the fence , you'll have to get the other buckets. She'll be right I says I'll do the job with this bucket and about that time his face is getting really red. Tell you what while tring to calm him down, if I can't do this job with this bucket I won't bill you but if I can you give me 6 weeks work. Its a deal so I put the digger on line tilted the bucket to the max and dug the drain. From then on we had an excellent working relationship


I can only imagine the response haha, a tilt hitch back then would have been rarer than hens teeth.

I still get funny looks for having a tiltrotator
 

Tones

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I can only imagine the response haha, a tilt hitch back then would have been rarer than hens teeth.

I still get funny looks for having a tiltrotator
it's amazing, tiltrotators are common az in Europe. The quick hitch and powertilt were invented by Jack Blaney, Auckland, New Zealand hence the name JB POWERTILT. :D
 
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