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Re: 639,s

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:22 am
by Gavin84w
One sold on an auction not long back for over $500,000.00 in WA after 90 odd bids on it, some one was making someone pay that day, wouldn,t have been that dear new!!! i checked once and there were about 45 built and 30 + resided in WA

Re: 639,s

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:22 am
by Gavin84w
Is Thomas Contracting related to L & S Thomas?

Re: 639,s

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 10:00 am
by Elfonz
Yes that would be uncle Les,he,s got Dozers ripping in limestone pits.Thomas Contracting have around 30 machines,mainly diggers,dozers and mulchers,they do alot of clearing.They also have a few loaders and artic watercarts.All the Thomas clans are around Baldivas area near Rockingham,just south of Perth.

Re: 639,s

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:13 pm
by Elfonz
Hopefully we are going to be joined on this great site by the owner of the shiny 39 soon.He goes by the name of sandshifta and he would have moved hundreds of thousands of tons of the stuff.He will have some good photo,s and clip,s to look at.He,s like me and many other,s that love the big moon buggies.

Re: 639,s

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 4:52 am
by rare ss
use to play with one when I did my time, this unit was a genuine 99X prefix.. there are afew made up 639D's getting around WA which are built up from a 633D, another trick for young players is a 639D also has x2 extra paddles than a 633D (abitta useless infor for ya!)

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another shot of Geogiou's unit when it was working near my place, like Gav said.. they're everywhere in WA!

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Re: 639,s

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 9:52 am
by Jeremy Rowland
I know it can get a bit dusty down under and the 'egg beater' whips up the dust but surely a much higher air intake stack for the rear motor would have made more sense than the drain pipe extension to the neck of the machine? :o

Jeremy

Re: 639,s

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:27 am
by Mrsmackpaul
the air cleaner pipe is different and I would have to wonder why as the farm gear we use we can be in dust were you can hardly see past the end of the bonnet and never have any dramas with a normal air cleaner maybe that fancy air cleaner piping is for mine regs because with all those hand rails and reflective stickers the look like they maybe working in the mines

Paul

Re: 639,s

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 1:10 pm
by rare ss
The trouble with mounting the aircleaner up high is it's gotta be removed for transport and refitted.. somewhat of a hassle when working civil construation as its always jimping from job to job, the remote setup had been fitted to that machine well before the handrails and snot were fitted ;)

Re: 639,s

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:38 pm
by Mrsmackpaul
so Adrian whats this rare SS sounds like it may be fast and cool LOL

Re: 639,s

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 1:01 am
by rare ss
Not very fast at the moment.. only 48 were made with about 26 known to be alive

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