Remits115

ow wow thank you SO much!!! This is so cool! more?

A bulldozer does cost a lot! Our dozers are rather small. My dad told me that both de Komatsu's costed around 80.000 Euro's, that's about 160.000 NZ Dollars. That really surprised me!

is there any reasen you don't use a bulldozer? I have only seen bulldozers @ work in our Area (Holland, Germany). I saw pictures of Canada a while ago, but they don't use bulldozers there either.

The owner of the Terra Gator treats them like ****! It's difficult for me to explain how we do it. In don't really know how to use the right words. We push the peat in one long row with 2 five meter blades (Komatsu D41P, 2x), 5 meters is about 15 ft I think. After that, we use the trailers to move the peat to one central point. Of course we also cultivate the peat. But we have to do a lot more then that of course, but i don't really know how to explane, sorry!

The terra gators are bad machines...We hire them, sometimes. It's cheaper to hire them. The man ho owns the Gators doesn't ask a lot of money. I went to New Zeeland 4 weeks ago, but we couldn't find any peat! I really look forward to see your pictures. I would really like to take a look in Canada, they do a lot of peat harvesting over there. Most people use machines which are to heavy for peat harvesting. That's a shame.

Thanks Doc, I think I will be the next owner. I really want to continue my dad's work. My dad has his peat in Germany, but he has only got peat for 6 years now. After that? we don't know yet. Maybe we can go to Canada, there is a lot of peat in Canada. I really love the Ford 8210's, and the trailers. The trailers are self-built trailers.

Rich. NH: Thx BGU: Good to hear...I don't understand why the links don't work!!!

here is our Ford 8210 gen 1: http://www.farmphoto.com/fpv2/message.aspx?mid=348822 does it work now? Mattias: did you see it @ the sikuforum?

hmm...weird! I CAN open them. You can also watch my pictures at: www.sikumodels.com/forum then: ''schaal 1:1'' ''tractoren'' ''Dagboek van Remi''

Hi, I'm new here. My name is Remi, I'm from Holland. My dad has a peat company. Peat is rather unknown in Holland, it's rare. We have a small company. 2 employers (dad and his brother), 1 employee. We have got 21 machines. 6 tractors (Deutz D25, Ford 3910, NH TS115, 3 x Ford 8210) 5 excavators (Atlas 1302D, Atlas 1622DLC, 2 x Atlas 1604LC, Doosan 225LCV) 4 machines to transport peat into a truck, no brand 3 bulldozers: Cat D4D, 2 x Komatsu D41P 1 Track type tractor: Famo, which is from 1937 (!!!). 1 Linde H25 1 Machine to clean our company Here one of our Fords, a 8210 gen 1. We have never repainted it, just like our Ford 8210 gen 2's. We wash and wax them a lot. http://www.farmphoto.com/fpv2/message.aspx?mid=348822 The Doosan excavator @home: http://www.farmphoto.com/fpv2/message.aspx?mid=353611 We can only work with the tractors ford 6 months a year, afther that, we clean and wax the machines we don't use anymore. Here you can see a few pictures of Ford 8210's with the trailers @work, the newest Komatsu D41P and Ford 8210's after I cleaned them. http://www.farmphoto.com/fpv2/message.aspx?mid=317402 The 2 Komatsu bulldozers @ work: http://www.farmphoto.com/fpv2/message.aspx?mid=295354 That's it.