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    EDGE&TA Best Of The West Show.

    EDGE&TA show Hi, Deas. Gee Deas, thanks for posting that. It looks like it will be a good show. I think I'll make an effort to attend. Digger242j, your response is an example of why I don't post here much these days. I come here to let the members know about an upcoming show...
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    EDGE&TA Best Of The West Show.

    Hi, Folks. Just wanted to let you know about the upcoming 4-day Early Days Gas Engine & Tractor Association show at Santa Margarita Ranch near San Luis Obispo, June 24 to 27. Here is the web site link: http://www.edgeta2010national.com/ You all have a wonderful day. Best...
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    Other Heavy North Slope Transport Vehicles.

    Different worlds Hi, Randy Kreig. Great photos of very interesting content, as always. Posts such as yours help me to begin to understand some of the shifts I would have make in my thinking to cope with living in the environment shown in your photos. Thank you.
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    660/666 Cat Scraper info

    Watching the beasts at feeding time. Hi, ShaunR. I faintly suspect that where two of them work pretty regularly is subject to some level of security. Another site where they work from time to time is subject to low-level security, i.e., you need a reason and a name of a person...
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    Here it comes

    Who's to blame? Hi, AusDave. Thank you for your views on the issues being discussed here - although I personally think that this thread would be more appropriately placed in the TGIF forum as it does not specifically apply to dozers as such. Just my 0.02 on this tiny minor...
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    Here it comes

    Links. Hi, Dozer575. Thank you for posting that link. I found it interesting that Al Gore was inciting the youth of not just the U.S.A. but the whole world to ignore their parents and get on his bandwagon. I also found it interesting that Glen Beck compared Al Gore's call...
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    New Cuttings Hauler

    Two Wrongs..................... Hi, RonG. Would this be a case of two wrongs making a right? LOL.
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    New Cuttings Hauler

    Neat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi, Randy Kreig. That is one neat-looking rig. Have they actually got them working yet? If so, how are they handling it? Thanks for the photos.
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    McAninch pull type scrapers

    Yer entitled. Hi, $Maker. I'd be interested to hear what it tells you up front when someone confuses a 'scraper' with a 'pan'. Please feel free to share. I've got a pretty thick skin. Let's not get into semantics here. Local names regardless, a SCRAPER is a...
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    660/666 Cat Scraper info

    The book. Hi, Alan627B. Not much progress in that area lately - too busy gallivanting around the countryside, taking photos of old machinery, sniffing the 'backsides' of Cat 660's with a D9G blade and meeting long-time 'net acquaintances. Getting addicted to all the above too...
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    Here it comes

    Me a genius? Hi, Randy. Me a genius? No, M8. I didn't take the time and trouble to put that stuff together. Other people did that. I just happen to know where to find that particular site. I'd bet that a Google search would turn up a lot more of it too. Yes, I have seen the...
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    Different type of scraper?

    Wottizzitt? Hi, Folks. Nisha-Menck, Menck-Frutiger and one or two other names, commonly called a scrape-dozer, it has a 7-8 cu, yd scraper bowl between the tracks and the blade on the front. In good conditions, it can take a full bowl plus about 5-6 cu. yds in front of the blade...
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    Here it comes

    Global Warming???????????????????????? Hi, Stumpjumper83. You might like to visit this site: http://jimball.com.au/ or this one, from the same site: http://jimball.com.au/Warming.htm for some other views of global warming and CO2 emissions. There are...
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    McAninch pull type scrapers

    On Using Scrapers. Hi, $Maker. In case you hadn't noticed, those strange box-like thingies on wheels behind the D11's ARE scrapers. They just happen to be drawn or towed scrapers, which require a separate tractor to pull them and control them, instead of having the prime...
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    660/666 Cat Scraper info

    Fashion Police. Hi, CMark. Yep, it's 'G'-bucks paying for it, $A4.2 billion worth of 'em on a 3 1/2 year design and construct job. Wanna bet that won't be blown out a bit by the end of the job? And, at 3 1/2 years, if I last till the end, I think this one might see me out. Too...
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    Wheel-dozers

    Where would that gem be now? Hi, Gavin84W. Haven't a clue, M8. Back in those days, Bell's only kept their front line machines for 3 years and that was about late 1969. I did see one of them rigged in Wigmores' (as it was then) yard in Guildford, prior to delivery to...
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    660/666 Cat Scraper info

    Today???????????????????????? Hi, Gavin84W. Imagine trying to do a LOT of things today that were commonplace 20, 30, 40 years ago. Imagine the paperwork that would be needed for Cherokkee's broken draft frame incident if it happened today. Back then they just got into it and...
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    worth rebuilding?

    Parts Commonality. Hi, Chasman. The control knobs, fuel and hydraulic tank and radiator caps and a lot of the bolts, nuts and washers. Pretty much end of story. Sorry.
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    Wheel-dozers

    Hough D500's Hi, Dug Overburden. I didn't run them a lot but did do a few hours on a couple that were set up as coal dozers. They were somewhat dangerous when working around semi-tippers hauling coal into the stockpiles. The air cleaners were mounted on the front...
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    660/666 Cat Scraper info

    Been around. Hi, Cherokkee. Sounds like you've been around a bit since Dora Creek. I've done all my work here in Australia since then, most of it Qld, since I moved up to Hervey Bay in 1993 and then here to the Gold Coast in 1999. The first time I worked with the 660's...
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