mike newman Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 ...a big old beast !! Kiwi modified with a 'dead' axle postioned in front of the drivers...... ...and an F1800with a load that today would have the ''troffic craps'' in a frenzy of ticket writing excitement... Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td9inidaho Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 13 hours ago, mike newman said: ...a big old beast !! Kiwi modified with a 'dead' axle postioned in front of the drivers...... ...and an F1800with a load that today would have the ''troffic craps'' in a frenzy of ticket writing excitement... Mike But if fits officer 😂 Nice pics Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 ...two Macks and the 55B Michigan Loader..pictured at a remote part of the South Island's west coast...The cab had to be removed from the 55B due to a rock bluff to negotiate, with very limited over head clearance Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35desoto Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 48 minutes ago, mike newman said: ...two Macks and the 55B Michigan Loader..pictured at a remote part of the South Island's west coast...The cab had to be removed from the 55B due to a rock bluff to negotiate, with very limited over head clearance Mike XA/B falcon ute ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 16 minutes ago, 35desoto said: XA/B falcon ute ? XA Brett.....it did huge miles on forestry roads...one day the front suspension fell out on the right hand side.....It was quite close to the Caterpillar 930 Loader at the time....so we lifted the old XA onto one of the Macks...and the three of us squeeeeezed in and went home ..not a very pleasant trip over 60 odd miles..... Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 ...this seems to be a site to deviate slightly on...in respect of the content !! I have a lot more truck pictures to come...as I un-scramble hundreds of 35 mm slides picture of an AD7 Fiat (Allis ) that I had for many years...dragging some questionably ''legal '' native logs from our property...some years ago.....I used the timber to line out the inside of our house...at the time t'other pics are the D7 and the Cat 930 loader tearing down our sheds after a major flood in 1976...(no talk of globull warming back then.....) Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 ....back to trucks ..an early Republic truck, with solid rubber tyres..carting log's ...well one at a time Photo taken in 1927 in the upper half of the North Island NZ The truck / jinker unit featured a sliding draw bar !!! Mike 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td9bcf180 Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 And I thought some of the logs in the pics. I posted on "Logging Sleighs" were big. Nothing compared to these dandies in NZ. Does Oz have the same kinds and sizes of timber? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 2 hours ago, td9bcf180 said: And I thought some of the logs in the pics. I posted on "Logging Sleighs" were big. Nothing compared to these dandies in NZ. Does Oz have the same kinds and sizes of timber? Australia has some big trees...still upright over in South Western Australia....I don't about any other place..We have some huge trees i n NZ....and whats left of the native indigenous are protected....or...there is a major hurdle to over come to fell any of these remnants ..pictured is the humble ''Monterey Pine'' an insipid apology for a conifer in its Southern California home.... but in New Zealand they bloody grow like weeds ...anywhere...and this no doubt is an old planting/....perhaps 120 yrs old but it is massive...this down at the Rainbow Station ''wet' farm Mike 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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