Specialised Heavy Machinery- Snow Groomers
My interest in machinery started like most small lads because of my dad and a handful of second hand books. Lego embellished my enthusiasm. My pa was a final trim grader operator for 25 years finishing on a Cat 120G grader. My dad managed three macadamia nut farms, and often required trees pushed out and plantations developed. I rode a few times on Cat D6D and Komatsu D160 dozers. In the early 90s my dad and I visited Stahmann farms at Morree in NW NSW in Australia to buy a pecan harvester. Dad had the harvester shipped to a Macadamia nut farm where he converted it from a front drive rear wheel steer, removing the rear axle and replacing it with a single hydraulic powered single rear wheel. The advantage was to increase the turning circle at the ends of the tight steep rows. My interest picked up speed when Dad gave me a copy of a Deutz engine brochure which was full of specialized machines pictures using Deutz power. When the internet sprang up, this propelled my interest ever furth...