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Yep, it's three joined together. We didn't have a single chain long enough for the job.

Wonderful pictures,Jonathan, it surely is a monster. Is it new, or has it been brought from another site ?

Top pictues, Jonathan.
That extra front bogie (I'm sure there's a proper name for it) must make it very hard to reverse

Hi Patrick and welcome to CMN. That's a nice piece of video there, the HD50 looks in great condition.

Great pictures, Jonathan and welcome to CMN !!

Great pictures, Sean. It's good to see a very nice example still earning her keep !

Hi Deas, Thanks for the link. The article is interesting, I see the pages are part of an attachment from http://www.acmocbb.org ! I'm definitely going to have a go using the 'plate' method on my sprockets when I get around to it. The tractor will not do a lot of work and this method should give me e...

Great pics Gary. I'm curious as to how you rebuild 'components'. Do you mean wearing parts, things like rollers, idlers etc. ? On a somewhat different scale, I'm thinking of rebuilding some sprockets for my D2 (1940), and wondering what sort of steel (plate / welding consumables) to use. Any advice ...

Very interesting pictures, Marcus, thanks for posting them and welcome to CMN !!

They are some very interesting articles on that NZ website Bob, Thanks for sharing with us.