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- Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:42 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 20/04/2024
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Re: Classic pictures Update 08/01/2017
ERF dumtrucks: From a book by Nick Baldwin comes this info - First ERF dumptruck was model 54G in 1958 (the first production truck with disc front brakes, which soon gave way to drums). 5LW powered, half cab, 7 cu yd body. Also offered with 6LW (model 64G). Developed through 60s and 70s - last model...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:04 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 20/04/2024
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Re: Classic pictures Update 08/01/2017
Thanks Paul - I had not imagined it might be a bought in cab that Federal used, but certainly looks that way.
Cheers,
Tony
Cheers,
Tony
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:52 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 20/04/2024
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Re: Classic pictures Update 08/01/2017
The wide cab on that dumptruck looks very familiar Paul - USAAF Federal C2 wrecker? No air springs on the dumper, so maybe a Federal but not a wartime chassis? Bit odd as that wide cab was to accommodate the wrecker crew - a dumper chassis cab would be narrower. Maybe a classic New Zealand 'bitsa' ?...
- Sun Jan 29, 2017 7:47 pm
- Forum: Leaflets and brochures
- Topic: SPOTLIGHT! Caterpillar Comic books
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Re: SPOTLIGHT! Caterpillar Comic books
Thanks for taking the trouble to share this gem on dropbox - a great publication!
What is your 1/50(?) model on the cover - looks like an early crawler loader? EDIT: think I found it - a 977?
Tony
What is your 1/50(?) model on the cover - looks like an early crawler loader? EDIT: think I found it - a 977?
Tony
- Tue Oct 18, 2016 6:18 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 20/04/2024
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Re: Classic pictures Update 16/10/2016
essexpete wrote:….. I'll bet those old Fodens were hot b@stard places to be on a long day in Oz!
I wonder if the heat-reflective silver paint job had any effect?
- Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:37 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 20/04/2024
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Re: Classic pictures Update 16/10/2016
That last roadtrain hauler (green) looks like a Rotinoff. Were there many of these out in widebrownland?
- Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:53 am
- Forum: Dumpers
- Topic: Peter ph1 engine
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Now that sounds more like a stiff lever shaft :lol: - must be tight to beat the injector element spring! If engine runs ok the element must be returning. I guess all engines had these priming levers but I confess I never knew my old Benford belt drive dumper had one, so I reckon that might have been...
- Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:15 am
- Forum: Dumpers
- Topic: Peter ph1 engine
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Re: Peter ph1 engine
That sounds like a cold start lever - allowing fuel rack to open more than normal and as soon as the engine starts it drops back out.
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:53 am
- Forum: Dioramas
- Topic: Something's missing!
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Re: Something's missing!
Hey Martin - DIORAMA this!
- Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:52 pm
- Forum: Misc earthmoving equipment
- Topic: The way we were
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And a tipping tumbril at that! I sometimes use one on rubber tyres and a drawbar behind a tractor. I was discussing their use with an old retired farm worker - he said when on muck carting duty they would make a muck heap somewhere on the fields and described how they were used. The tumbril would be...