Thread: Antarctica and Tractors

Arthur, you do realise you've started a tractor porn thread, don't you? Give us more!!!

I like this, looks a natty machine.

Ref; My Antarctic Adventure


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Ref; My Antarctic Adventure: Tuesday 29th January 2013

Unloading the 30 tonne excavator at Davis station,

I did my time on MF tractors. One call out was to a little grey fergie, stuck with out drive in the middle of a green grassy paddock with nothing attached to the tractor, It just stopped! I was told by the farmer. The engine ran fine but had no drive, clutch and g/box were good,found that it had shorn off the crownwheel rivets. Never seen that before! It was then I noticed two bare patches of earth a few meters behind the tractor the same width as the rear tyres. What happened here? I asked the farmer, Well he said I was trying to pull that tree down over there. (it was a big dead bluegum) using a rope (nowhere to be seen)and I took a run up and the backwheels came off the ground when it came to the end of the rope . Wish I'd seen that! he did clear the bonnet and the exhaust was still standing. I'll never forget that one.

Cheers Steve

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

I like this, looks a natty machine.

Ref; My Antarctic Adventure


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Can-am with tracks . Can I have one haha. Very nice

I have been working my way through Craig Hayhow's blog, who is wintering over at Mawson.

Ref; My Antarctic Adventure: Friday 16th August 2013


I left him a poem after reading his last blog posting.

Friday 16th August 2013
Today was a bit of a tough one after last night's lengthy movie debrief session. I think the low polar latitudes and the lower spin rate of the Earth leaves more beer bubbles inside your head in the morning exasperating what would normally be a mild if not nonexistent hangover the next day. Anyway, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Work wise there is not a lot to report. After ARPANSA I started the commissioning testing of the radio console system to make sure it's all tickety boo for V1 aircraft landing here in November. I also ripped a heap of ******************************** from out newly rebuilt entertainment server.

I really wanted to have a spa but when I got there the cover was missing and the power had been turned off and the water was a chilly ten degrees. The cover had been taken away for repair and the spa turned off. What a bummer, so I turned it back on so I could at least have a spa tomorrow.

Luc our weather observer predicted our first one hundred knot blizzard this weekend so no one will be going out into the field this weekend. After dinner I watched a couple of music videos including Kings of Leon and the rolling stones.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
from Macbeth

A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.

Enter the three Witches.

1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.



brinded - having obscure dark streaks or flecks on gray
gulf - the throat
drab - prost***
chaudron - entrails
The above appears at the beginning of Act IV, Scene 1 as found in:

Ref; Shakespeare, William. The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated. Howard Staunton ed. New York: Gramercy Books, 1993.

After ARPANSA I started the commissioning testing of the radio console system to make sure it's all tickety boo for V1 aircraft landing here in November.

Stallie ?????
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Ref; Aerodrome Plant/Grader Operator — Australian Antarctic Division

Grooming the skiway (Photo: Jeremy Smith)



Schmidt snow blower clearing runway



Snow groomer preparing the runway (Photo: Greg)



Grooming the skiway at Casey (Photo: T. Taylor)



Caterpillar Challenger 65B and driver, 2008 (Photo: Todor Iolovski)


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