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IH150B
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:26 am
by Rusted
Found some long lost slides ...apologies for the quality, they've seen their best day I'm afraid. I've tried to tidy them up a bit.
Re: IH150B
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:54 am
by JimInOz
Hi Rusted,
Thanks for the pics....a nice looking Drott.
Was that you in the seat?
Did you like operating the old girl?
I remember a demolition Co in Melbourne had a 150 or 175 in the late 70s.I always thought the IH Drotts looked good in working mode.
Jim
Re: IH150B
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:45 am
by Rusted
Hi Jim,
No, not me in the saddle...these pics were taken in about '69 in Brisbane. The old 150 was pretty tired and wasn't popular with the operators; it was traded on a new 951B not long after these pics were taken.
Re: IH150B
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:06 pm
by Basilbrush
Nice to see a 150 again, we had one on a site back in 1974 in Bradford on Avon. I remember it arriving on the low loader as a non runner & I pushed it round on the deck then pulled it off the low loader onto the grass verge & onto site with my 8D. Once it was running, I recall using it to move concrete one day & the linkage was that worn the bucket flopped about like mad. Most of our kit was Ex coal board & this was one of two IH track shovels we had. The other was a Drott 250 & was in very good condition. Never got to drive that one though.
BB