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Post by NFA on Aug 10, 2023 0:19:58 GMT 8
One of our longs units, I think it’s the only one working in the lower north island ?
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Post by NFA on Aug 10, 2023 19:42:53 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Aug 16, 2023 22:12:31 GMT 8
Mark A says, Believe it or not, we inherited one like this and used it drive a chaff cutter when dad still had dairy cows.
NFA says, you should have seen my Dad's first welding machine set up!
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Post by NFA on Aug 16, 2023 22:24:10 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Aug 16, 2023 22:25:02 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Aug 17, 2023 21:47:15 GMT 8
Mark A says, The Corinth Canal, a man-made wonder, is a waterway across the Isthmus of Corinth, connecting the Gulf of Corinth in the northwest with the Saronic Gulf in the southeast.
NFA says, It is amazing... search it on the internet
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Post by NFA on Aug 17, 2023 21:48:44 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Aug 27, 2023 7:31:02 GMT 8
My Father had a D2, the smallest!
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Post by NFA on Aug 27, 2023 7:35:20 GMT 8
Mark A says, How did they manage to load it up? When you look at the size of timber felled in those days....
NFA says, probably skids and either bullocks or horses. I once met an old bloke from Tasmania who worked in forests down there with a team of bullocks.
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Post by NFA on Aug 28, 2023 4:10:39 GMT 8
Mark A says, A commenter said it's an early Leyland.
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Post by NFA on Aug 29, 2023 6:17:37 GMT 8
Mark A says, I have seen these in action, beats hand-sawing but pretty slow.
NFA says, the old redgum railway sleeper cutters could cut a sleeper with an axe faster than that can saw its way through...
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Post by NFA on Aug 30, 2023 5:40:41 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Aug 30, 2023 5:45:08 GMT 8
Mark A says, Karakorum Highway connecting Pakistan to China, Look it up, it took ages to construct, I think it started in 1959??
according to their wiki started in 1962 and completed 1978. Only (!) About 810 Pakistanis and about 200 Chinese workers died,[7] mostly in landslides and falls, while building the highway.
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Post by NFA on Aug 30, 2023 5:52:14 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Aug 31, 2023 8:35:35 GMT 8
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