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« on: June 20, 2006, 09:57:58 PM » |
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Thought this might be of some interest  You could dig over the odd allotment with this but be careful  Spot the missing Bulldozer!!! |
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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2006, 10:01:07 PM » |
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2006, 10:08:50 PM » |
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Jeez, that's a scarey looking thing!
I was riding through the Swansea area years ago & my mate told me the machine we were passing was the biggest in the country. Something similar to that but I don't think it was that big. Where's that one? Wonder what licence you need to drive one of those?
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2006, 10:14:38 PM » |
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I think it was in France. I whatever license you like cos no buggers gonna argue with ya!
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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2006, 10:30:38 PM » |
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What does it actually do? Cut trenches or canals or something? How did they manage to scoop up a bull dozer?! Nice to know that no matter how impressive the technology, someone somewhere can still bugger it up! |
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« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2006, 10:55:33 PM » |
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Opencast mine work me thinks! Many moons ago I worked in the Direct mail industry and used to handle some very high profile clients and some bloody expensive marketing activities. late one night I'm sitting at my desk talking to the client whom is getting a tad miffed cos they are waiting for the final proofs that I have sent by cab to be signed off. (As with the giant digger). It suddenly ocurred to me that weeks of work and the best part of a couple of hundred thousand pounds was now in the hands of a somali cab driver who had gone to Farnborough in Kent instead of the one in Hampshire!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Humans always are the weakest link!!! |
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« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2006, 11:30:17 PM » |
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Some are weaker than others! G'night matey.
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2006, 03:25:45 PM » |
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When I was in the raf they were forever going on about safety & how much the equiptment cost, and not to leave spanners, ect lying around.
Mostly my job was to fix Hawks, but also to go and strap in the jockies and be there to put out any fires if the plane went bang.
Now we had this bloke with us called Stevie, who had this thick Glasgow accent, which got more more like giberish the angrier he got.
There was also a French exchange pilot, who of course could speak very good english, but one day he was late for his slot- bad weather, and other stuff had made him very iffy.
Before he got in, he was supposed to walk around the plane to check that every thing was ok before he flew it, with the ground bod (us) double checking. The frog only had five minuetes to get his slot in, or he would not fly that day, so he said to stevie to do one side of the jet, and he would do the other.
This they did and the plane was started and seen off.
Trouble was that the frog had left an engine intake blank in, the one on the far side of the plane which Stevie had not seen, because of rushing about.
It was alright while the jet was taxiing, but as soon as the bloke pushed the throttle foward, the intake blank got sucked through the 1.5 million quid engine and out the back onto the runway.
The frog was sent home the next day, and Stevie got off with a slap on the wrist, as it was the frogs responsibillity to check himself.
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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2006, 10:58:43 PM » |
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Oops! |
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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2006, 11:23:53 AM » |
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ooooooh fukc, i used to operate one of these but i never ever parked it like that. mine was 13ft across the blade and weighed about 45 ton  |
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what do you mean, I cant do that !! |
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« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2006, 12:04:03 PM » |
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Would love to take one of these machines for an SVA Might fail in the sharp edges and protrusions section |
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« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2006, 01:13:10 PM » |
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my kamatsu dozer had swamp tracks fitted, they were just over a meter wide each side. silly low ground pressure as i found out one day when jumping down from top of tracks and nearly up to knees in mud. and before you say anything andy....i was smaller then. heheheheheeee i would need ladder to get up/down nowadays  |
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what do you mean, I cant do that !! |
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