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Taken me a while to see them like that so next will be with the body on in NSW.
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Gavin84w wrote:Taken me a while to see them like that so next will be with the body on in NSW. Any ideas what mines in NSW
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Yes, but you will have to wait and see!
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ahh man i cant wait. might be lucky enough to get pics of the transport.
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I am drooling at you guys from Oz having all this big mining stuff and the icing on the cake of the Cat 797F. Over the past 6 years I have had the good fortune to see(and in some cases even sit in) a Sarens TC3200, Mammoet LTM11200, LTM1500, AC500 plus all the support trucks, Port Services TC2800, an 8000t offshore module being unloaded with 6 rows of spmt etc, etc But, and the crane fans may call me crazy here, I'd swap(ok, very tempted) it all to see a working Cat 797B/F 
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Jeez thorleif your defineatly lucky there, I've had the privelige to see a M18000, LR1750, many small LR's, LTM 1300's and 1 LTM 1500, and the only LG 1550 in aus.
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Robert Heuston wrote:Jeez thorleif your defineatly lucky there, I've had the privelige to see a M18000, LR1750, many small LR's, LTM 1300's and 1 LTM 1500, and the only LG 1550 in aus. Ha, ha!. Yeh, I guess I am and I'm dreaming of what I might see in the next 2-3 years because there's a new £500 million offshore gas plant/project being built here  Mind you, when the time comes if any of our Austrailan friends could get me some nice(camera steady!) dvd footage of a 797F at work then I have some nice dvd footage of the stuff mentioned above that I could give them a copy of in exchange..... 
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thorleif wrote:But, and the crane fans may call me crazy here, I'd swap(ok, very tempted) it all to see a working Cat 797B/F Don't let anyone tell you that's crazy Thorleif, it's a perfectly sensible way to feel! Brian
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Don,t start this crane crap on this thread, they are only good for putting large bits of yellow iron together and then the real action starts on site. As a side note 2 of the 797F,s being assembled in Rockhampton are halfway up the wheels in water as the dealership has gone under from the floods there. Here is a link to a pic. http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/photos/galleries/aerial-view-rockhampton-flood-03-jan/#num=8&id=aerial-view-rockhampton-flood-03-jan Image 8 shows the 797F,s.
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Hopefully the cost of repair won't be to much there is also three 793F trays underwater.
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So, uhhhhh.......what's that do to the warranty on them Gav?
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Greasemonkey wrote:thorleif wrote:But, and the crane fans may call me crazy here, I'd swap(ok, very tempted) it all to see a working Cat 797B/F Don't let anyone tell you that's crazy Thorleif, it's a perfectly sensible way to feel! Brian Ha, ha!. Yes some on the lift side might even call it sacrilage  , but then I'm half lift side myself so I don't know where that leaves me That's a bit of a sorry picture seeing the 797Fs half submerged and the dump bodies all but submerged 
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What about the other parts in the cases etc you cannot see under the water usually around the assembly area.
How water tight is the transmission??????
Some rebuilds on new components coming up I think.
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Yeah, i reckon some of the manifest will be a bit light on, back in 2008 when there yard flooded they had a croc in the car park!!
It looks like the water would be just lapping at the bottom of critical components so as long as it does not rise any more it should be OK, Few oil samples and maybe change some oil and fire them straight up. I bet the boys were out there with the nitrogen kits gassing the struts to max height!!
Rockhampton is HD,s engine rebuild shop and it looks like we may get some more work now!!
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I didn't think the crocs came that far south
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The wet 797F's in Rockhampton are far from the worst of their problems at the moment, those waters won't subside for weeks. Rowan.
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Just a small question about the truck on the first pics, will this one be equipped with some kind of autonomous haulage system? Think I had seen similar additions on an autonomous Komatsu.... 
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Robert Heuston wrote:I didn't think the crocs came that far south They don,t have much choice in raging torrents of rivers, lotsa other things in the water too, snakes are the big ones.
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Out of curiosity... when you said the dealer had "gone under" due to the water, do you mean that it went bankrupt or that it was also submerged?
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