Kiwi6920

Coming along nicely Nick .... And why would we lose interes? I love your topic i love the way the 'contracting yard'  is evolving. It's great mate keep up the good work. One little thing that is only a suggestion but to make things look a bit more realistic i would try not to just shove everything on your diorama. If you see what i mean. Maybe box a few unneeded tractors because then you have more room to work with and then you can really start making your diorama look amazing. Keep us posted 

There is going to be a big re arangement tommorw when i get a whole heap of new stuff. alot will end up in the cabnet again.

The enternce scales up to 6.4 m and the road is 9.4m. they dont look that wide to me.

Can you tell me where u got that manitou teleporter from??? got any other pics of it???

I got it from my local book store. its ALL plastic and dosent have steering . it has screw system for lift , extending and crowd/dump. it looks ok its the closest to a 1:32 manitou i can find. PM me if you want more pics

coming along gr8 , i think the entrance is fine. what does it scale up at. like your tar mac/ chipping, is it the stuff you can get on a roll . keep up the good work. :)

The lighter stuff is the stuff on rolls. the darker stuf (same colur as the the road) is pva and ballest.

Hey guys got a bit more done. ive got all the yard that i can reach sealed now. ive also go a new shed up. Im going to widen the entrence way out a bit as i dont think a artic will ever fit in it  \ shes a little tight for the fendt and tandom trailer. how would a truck and semi cope?

These are my last pics for a while as you guys eam to have lost intrest. ill start posting again when i have the next door farm padocks put in place

Here you are then Kiwi 6920 there,s about 5 missing they are loaned out at the moment

That makes my colection look like nothing. i love it. Its just so nice to look at. Top marks. Mine sould look around the same buy june this year

Hey has anyone noticed how crap the dump and croud angles are on this model? mine wont even sit level the bucket has to be inline with the wheel centres to be level.

I love it it  looks super. I cant see a thing wrong with it. Question about the tractor. does the linkage move or is it set at that fixed height?

Cheers Nick

yeah i used fine track ballast for mine, ,slapped down some pva, and sprinkled it over failry thick, rolled it down with a rolling pin or simialr, then left it to dry, just tip it to remove the excess after a few hours

Wow thats getting flash TM I just put mine on fairly thick on pva glue. (just poured the ballest in piles then spreed it out with a ruler) then left it and swept it with the mrs make up brush It looks good. I never thourght about sealing it in. I think it looks nice open.

Looking Good there GGG Can you do a green line up for me buy any chance??

Im guessing this is to see if there was truely 9999 made?

Mine is 2390and

2389

Wow both are in neumerical order

finaly took it of the stand to look at it 

Cant wait to see the digger. sounds like a good little model to do.

Hey guys my fencing stuf turned up today. I got the road layed and some grass sowen and its starting to look realy good. Im waiting for my next base board to make padocks. Here are soem pics for you to cast your comment on . I think i have the yard entrence is to thin  \

Hope you like them

She looks like a nice old girl. cant beet the old 40 series ford/nh tractors

well it depends how much your farming in your imaginery farm, i always try to match the gear used with its workload and if anything i have a bit less gear so that the farm is kinda under a bit of pressure like in most cases on a real farm 

Some good points there. Only thing is im not doing a farm. Im doing my contarcting depot that covers a huge regon .

I personlay dont mind them aslong as they are hidden as a beacon light. It looks good and functional

Hey guys been out working on the yard today. ive started to make my road and have started to put some padocks in. Im just waiting for the hard ware store to get more dowl so i can make more fences before i do so pics. Im waiting for the ute to go get the second large board to start the road and a coupple of padocks. Im realy strating to enjoy this but i think im trying to put to much gear in my yard. What do you guys think ?

new design as asked by you all (we do listen ) in the process of making it stronger and it will hook on the original carrige so bucket can still be used or siku attachments will also fit onto the jd 3200/3400

no price as yet but will be sold on its own if wanted or with loader/ attachment sets DT is working alongside this with us now so should be good (hes casting the pattern for us)

So if i have read this rite the hitch will work on both models?

Super Pics the TOG i love it. I hope i can get my 32 one to that detail

Ok i confess i hadndt atcualy read it. i just red the top bit. i just gave the book to the mrs and said can you type this plz. I hope it wasnt to boring for you. And RICKY you owe me now for getting that up  ;)

To me sounds like UH could do just one of the 3 and you can repaint in to what ever you want

And the story goes...

Cat. boought all rights to the compact range that Claas had on the drawing board before it was launched. They were produced as the Claas Targo C series for agriculture and as the Cat. TH210 and TH215 for construction.

PLAYERS EMERGE

Caterpillar's decision to out-source production of its telescopic handlers has touched off an intriguing series of networking deals.

Cat. has entered into a 20-year partnership with America's JLG Industries; and Claas, which had been sourcing its handlers from Caterpillar, has linked up with German wheeled loader maunfacturer Kramer.

JLG Industries, which operates here through seven regional sales/ service offices, has bought all rights and production tooling for current Cat. telehandlers for the equivalent of more than Au$68m.

It plans to spend US$30m developing the North American product line and adding capacity to its headquarters production facility in Pennsylvania and the European operation in Belgium.

The resulting telehandlers will be manufactured using a number of Caterpillar driveline and other components, for sale in Cat. colours exclusively through the Caterpillar dealer networks worldwide.

JLG chairman and CEO Bill Lasky said the company was honoured by Caterpillar's endorsement of its manufacturing capabilities and looked forward to an expanded relationship with Cat. as a major component supplier.

For Caterpillar, Ed Rapp, vice-president of its building-construction products division, said the deal played to the partners' respective strengths, combining Cat.'s global brand, distribution and component expertise with JLG's strong design capabilities in the telehandler and lift industry.

JLG Industries already produces a wide selection of telescopic handlers under the various brand names it has acquired in recent years - including JLG, Gradall and Lull.

Its involvement in the agricultural sector has been limited but the company signalled its intentions two years ago when it purchased a small Belgian manufacturer for its hydrostatic drive handler design and secured a deal to produce handlers in Deutz-Fahr colours for the Same Deutz-Fahr organisation.

Caterpillar became a telescopic handler manufacturer when it launched the first TH models. Still built in the UK but to updated specification, th TH was the first modern handler to feature an engine installed between the right-hand wheels rather than in the tail.

This layout has now been adopted by most manufacturers because of the advantages it brings in terms of rearward visibility and ease of service access.

Claas entered the materials handling market in the 1990s by purchasing the British firm Sanderson Teleporters, founded by a former pig farmer who pioneered the telescopic handler concept.

In 2000, Caterpillar struck a deal with Claas to buy the intellectual and manufacturing rights to the German manufacturer's Targo telehandler range, and negotiate an OEM deal to make and supply the machines to Claas for sale into agricultral markets.

The rights package included a new range of side-engine, hydrostatic drive compact handlers that Claas had on the drawing board. Procuced by Caterpillar for Claas, these machinews - being smaller and more nimble than the TH models - also fitted Caterpillar's growing line of compact construction machinery.

Cat.'s decision to exit telehandler manufacturing in 2006 has forced Claas to seed a new partner.

Rather than turning to an established maker of telescopic handlers, it has negotiated a deal with Kramer Werke, the wheeled loader division of the Austro-German company Neuson Kramer Baumaschinen.

Kramer has made telescopic boom versions of its rigid chassis, four-wheel steer, hydrostatic drive loaders - which are also sold as Gehl machines - but has not previously made a side engine, side cab design.

The new telescopic handlers developed jointly by the partners will be sold by Kramer into the construction/industrial sector, while agricultural versions with a number of different specification details will be sold as Claas machines.

Claas has taken a minority shareholding in Kramer Werke to cement the relationship.

Joint managing directors, Karl-Friedrich Hauri and Martin Buyle, said the venture would double Kramer's production output and within a few years would represent 40 per cent of the division's sales turnover.

Lothar Kriszun, Claas manager of marketing and after-sales, said that in Kramer, the company has found a well-respected and, above all, competent partner in the industry. He described Kramer's wheeled loaders as being at the cutting edge of technology with a strong reputation for reliability.

If you want a more construction based machine then yeah! Why havn't Cat made more agricultural type handlers?

The ag spec cats are class telehandlers. If there is enuf intrest ill type out the article in a mag i have on it. ( power farming )

She looks super. Just missing one thing........ The oil puddle underneath her other wise its super

come on with the pictures boy im eager to see this peat harvesting 

I recon i didnt even know we had peat in NZ Im keen to see the pics

Looks Good. Id take one. Can you still use the standard hitch also??

Yeah tyres are what make a clasic worth the $$$ Its going to cost me nearly $1000 nzd to re tyre my 25c david brown. Try and screw trhe guy down hard if the tyres are fooked.

400notes seams a bit seteep for a non runner.

My best m8 brought his running b250 for 600nzd ( so around 200 pounds) id have a very good look at it. Does it turn over can you rock it to check the beerings arnt stufed in the wheels?

What is this sexy beast made out of I want to try it