D9H and D8H + Box Working at Rhymney OCCS 1976

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D9H and D8H + Box Working at Rhymney OCCS 1976

Post #1 by Jim M » Tue Oct 29, 2013 10:05 pm

More pictures form the Roger Champion archive. Pictures taken at Mertye-Tydal ? OCCS in 1976 . Wight Plant hire stripping overburden. A local person took the pics and sent them to him.
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Post #2 by modelman093 » Wed Oct 30, 2013 12:37 am

Great atmospheric pics - thanks for posting.
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Post #3 by County1174lwb » Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:27 pm

And no Hi vis or hard hats in sight... How did they survive?... :D
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Post #4 by Green Dragon » Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:28 pm

No cab on the 9, wouldn't be allowed to move it nowadays. Great pics bring back a lot of good memories.
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Post #5 by Rustypete » Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:12 am

County1174lwb wrote:And no Hi vis or hard hats in sight... How did they survive?... :D


Plenty of beer and other alcohol. ;) :think:

We rarely broke anything, we used to bounce :dizzy:

The cabs in the late 60s were no more than angle iron and glass.
ROPS were only just being developed over here.

Cats had a choice of a couple of suppliers, Leverton's own and Tractorvision, generally on Bowmaker-supplied machines.
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Post #6 by 4FODENS » Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:26 am

My D8K which i imported from America a few months ago is nearly completed & ready for use, am at the moment arranging to buy a D6D & a D9H both from the Netherlands & they should be with me soon. (more work to keep me busy)
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Post #7 by tctractors » Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:09 pm

If your Final Drives, Transmissions or engines calve down and you need any help dont be slow to ask me for a hand, tomorrow I am working on a Fockersberger winch outfit its fitted with a 70'000 kgs winch on a single line, the cable is Die-Formed 44mm and the blade/anchor at the back is some lump of iron, its all mounted on a Morooka rubber tracked dumper style unit with a 14 ltr Cummins poking out the beans, the winch is powered via Rexroth V.P. pumps, the rated line pull is on a near full drum, it has a return block to put things on 2 falls/lines and make things a bit more civilized with the 140'000kgs worth of tug comming through, oh and just thought I would say I have just about every service tool needed on cat dozers that you are polishing up.
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Post #8 by essexpete » Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:45 pm

modelman093 wrote:Great atmospheric pics - thanks for posting.


Exactly!
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