Anyone have or regularly use a Mini lathe for steel or wood?

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I'd rather have me hands on the pointy end of a cobra,than a 22 on air with cold clutches
Me pal is on a new LT11-350 with Mammoet,out in Spain...not jealous

I could tell some bonny tales from that industry,as you probably could,too.
Trouble is,you end up either sounding untruthful,or like Rutger,at the end of Bladerunner

 

[ruston]

Yes , it has to be seen to be believed , my mate sent me a pic of his D9 after being boged up to the tracks on the drift after a rainy spell.

Ps , it's in up to the cab door.

 

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...You've set me off,now...

Years back,(and this is legally important),a pal of mine had a piece of land,he was tipping on,and we needed a sizeable dozer,to strip off and start pushing in.
Another lad we knew,said we could borrow his 20 tonne Komatsu (them were the days) but it needed "bleeding and checking over..."

The machine was on Irlam Moss,up the road,which is a large,peat bog.
When we got there,only the cab was visible,and the farmer said it had been there since bogging,six months previous

We had to dig out to open a door,and dig out the front side,to clear some set debris from around the fan,which had locked up the engine,bleed and hey-presto...out of the ground she rose...like that mole Thunderbird yoke

On arrival at me pals place,one of it's first tasks,was to track in,12 dead and bloated sheep carcasses,which we had on the back of a transit tipper,and had already extracted much mirth,by taking it through a local drive-through Mc Dee's

I can still taste and smell the result of their exploding mess,when the dozer applied last rites...

...Now,who is going to believe that?

 

[ruston]

I will ask him to send me the pic of the 184 Marion that 'fell' over the dig and landed on it's side. About the size of a BE 195 and around 350 tons at a guess.

 

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Sweet,nothing sadder than stricken plant

We had a BE 61 on diaphragm wall grab excavation,in Israel.
It could snap the 32mm digging ropes,like they were cheap cotton.

The Menck sat a lot closer to the grab,and when a rope broke,you had a few seconds to set the brakes,and dive over the seat,into the rear carbody,as the barbed loose rope,came down through the top covers,and maybe tattoo'd you,black-jack style

On site,now,you get a written warning for having your hard-hat,at a jaunty angle...

 

[ruston]

Lol , same mate, working for a plant hire company now , got the red card - off the site for opening the door and tapping the beacon on top of the cab because he had been parked up two hours waiting on his team coming out.
The reason he got the red card was becuase he did not have his hard hat on.
Ironic thing was the beacon came back on.