I don't remember that bogging incident, but it sounds like the same machine I moved from what was going to be the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, opposite the Sally Army hotel in town, to Forrest Glen, to construct the now motorway.
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I don't remember that bogging incident, but it sounds like the same machine I moved from what was going to be the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, opposite the Sally Army hotel in town, to Forrest Glen, to construct the now motorway.
I pegged a lot of the new Road Centreline for that stretch.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
If you travel south through Somerset Dam, just past the store there's a bridge you go over. Doesn't look much now, but we went down a fair way to find rock. The haul road was black mud, behind a coffer dam. Bloke was walking an 1800 KATO esky across there. Got it well and truly. Foreman's first though was to leave him there, he was making so much noise. Anyway, tried to pull him out with the Cat 12E, and then a drott, and then both. Next day they walked the D8 down from the other end of the job to snig it out. Dozer driver's nick was Grumpy. Found out why after he had to come four miles down and four miles back. AND he got his chains all muddy. Bloke used to wear ironed overalls. Only machine on site with AC ( this was maybe '83 ), and he didn't like getting out.
Same bloke would get out at smoko though. Had one of those unbreakable Aladdin thermos things. One day he left it on the track where he had been sitting... Did I say "unbreakable"? I suppose that's true, but he had a bugger of a time filling it again.