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Hi All, Thought I would put this up for you. Nice Cat D8K?? But in the background is a Terex TS-32 about to be either push-loaded, but it appears to be well and truely loaded already, or\\so it may well be bogged down. In the 1970s a company in NZ brought in about 6 second-hand 32s for a stripping j...

Hi Deas, You may well be right, Im not really up with the earlier British crawler tractors, more with the yankee Cats etc. I thought they might have been a conversion like this one I found in NZ in 1996. Its a Fergie and a little machine I would have really liked to get, but no it didnt happen. The ...

Hi all,
On Nicks thread. Here is a Fordson/Roadless conversion I found in Roma, a town several hours west of Brisbane, Queensland in 2000.
This one was still a goer and just having some minor repairs.
Dozeron.

I reckon you guys are right but seeing it on a navvy is rather strange. Worked in an open-cast coalmine here in NZ in the 1960s. The company operated three 120-RB navvys that had been destined to go to Russia. For some reason, I think it was political they ended up in NZ, bought by the Government. T...

Hi all,
I think the Cat 621 is mated to an Athey reardump. Looks very like the model made by NZG back in the 1970s. Could be wrong!!
Dozeron.

I was sent this photo a number of years ago by Benjamin Beytekin. I think hes from Sweden. I hope he dosent mind me putting it up. Its taken in Russia and looks very like a 110-RB to me but what that item is hanging off the dipper, I dont know, does anyone have an idea?
dozeron.

Took this shot of a Cat 793C heading out west in March 2000. Taken at a truckstop at Dalby, couple of hours out of Brisbane in Queensland.

Shot of yours truely taken at a dealership yard in Brisbane about 2000. No thats not a beer gut, its a fat shirt.

Previously I had showed some Dresser 350 dumptrucks and a PC1000 at a minesite where I worked in the early 90s. That company lost the stripping contract and a new outfit moved in with a PC100 F/Shovel and a fleet of Cat 773s & 777s. Here is the F/S being assembled.

A few weeks back I put up a thread that showed 38RBnavvys at a quarry not far from where I lived. They were put out to pasture by this rig, a Komatsu F/Shovel. Here it is loading a couple of the Euclid dumptrucks they also run. They have about 8 dumpers, mostly Euclids but also at least one Wabco. N...