jacks other toy with a pics

wrxer · Post by **wrxer** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:36 am

gotta love work when this is what you do.
it has 150ft of boom and 50ft of fly (little boom on end of big boom) will pick up 250t and can pick up 9t from 60m away.
you can turn it 15 times in 1 direction before the top unscrews and falls off.
travels at about 1/3 normal walk speed, but people stop to let you by.

Post by **Captain Obvious** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:49 am

Awsome!!!!

Porty · Post by **Porty** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:40 am

9t at 60m..!!!! fark, im flat out getting 1t at 30m, lol.

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:43 am

isn't that in a mine or something. You have a awesome job mate.
Cheers
AP

wrxer · Post by **wrxer** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:03 pm

at a place called telfer. address is c/o great sandy desert. 500km ese of port headland. is 27c at day and 10c at night in winter and 50c in summer, only here till friday then off somewhere else to drive something else. i havent seen a cloud in the week ive been here. wont be here in summer!
http://www.whereis.com/wa/telfer/telfer ... DA1C5293B9

the top doesnt really unscrew.

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:26 pm

hey mate.,.,...if your in telfer...thats a HUGE coincidence... i drive haulage to telfer... i work for Mcmahon haulage....we take ALL the freight up there...i go up there in a road train every few weeks to deliver!!

what a small world it is!!

i wont be back up there for a trip for a few weeks still as i dont have a licence, but by the time i get back up there youll prolly be gone ..ahaha....

interresting:P

dave

wrxer · Post by **wrxer** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:16 am

yea, small world, eh

Willie · Post by **Willie** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:31 pm

wrxer wrote:

gotta love work when this is what you do.
it has 150ft of boom and 50ft of fly (little boom on end of big boom) will pick up 250t and can pick up 9t from 60m away.
you can turn it 15 times in 1 direction before the top unscrews and falls off.
travels at about 1/3 normal walk speed, but people stop to let you by.

As a mechanic in the Army many years back, we used to tell the Armoured Corps guys (tanks and Armoured Personnel Carriers, etc) that if they rotated their turrets more than 13 times in a anti-clockwise direction, it would unscrew and fall off. Told them each afternoon they should rotate it at least 10 times clockwise before shutting-down. Amazing how many of them believed us and rotated their turrets each afternoon!

mattw · Post by **mattw** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:03 pm

HA HA HA. I work for a Defence company, on APC's.
unscrew your turret.......that's hilarious.
Glad I didn't fall for it when I was first feed it.
Nice unit by the way.

tex · Post by **tex** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:45 pm

Heard it all before including the tankies and their tug of war I haven't seen it done but half of them used to believe they could win a tug of war between their tank and a little old TD15 dozer and even the komatsu 155s, But in reality its an unfair fight as they dont have cleats for traction so just sit there and spin!

wrxer · Post by **wrxer** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:12 am

yea i think the unscrewing thing is funny too. jobs nearly finished here now, got a couple of 45t lifts 2morrow and friday and thats it, back to the brumby.

wrxer · Post by **wrxer** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:55 am

changed location, now at dampier, still nice and warm.
new crane is same as this one

is 220t grove, can add up to 70t counterweight

dukbilt · Post by **dukbilt** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:16 pm

Imagine what the Gympie boys could do with that!

Ewan

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:58 pm

This is hEaVy duty mate! what kind of license you would require to drive it?
Cheers
AP

wrxer · Post by **wrxer** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:41 am

we drive it on the road with a hr license, is easy to drive. is twin turbo mercedes v8 (or v10), with automatic and has a great retarder to slow the big girl down. just gotta be aware of left hand drive and overwidth and with the rear steer, the tail swings out a fair bit when you go around a corner.
if you not sitting on the white line you are a long way into the other lane.

Thalass · Post by **Thalass** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:00 am

Awesome stuff. And it is indeed a small world - I work for a company that flies the FIFO workers up to Telfer (or at least we used to, can't remember if we lost the contract).