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I didn't know Jeff Gordon was big down under! The stairs may become an issue, but I'd still be tickled PINK to run it.

Oxbow said:I didn't know Jeff Gordon was big down under!Click to expand...Apparently not as big as Jimmy Johnson...

Shenandoah said:Apparently not as big as Jimmy Johnson...Click to expand...Oops, that's who I meant, talk about a NASCAR faux pas, I stepped in it big time:nono

Believe it or not the stairs are a factory-installed attachment......... no further comment.What's NASCAR..? Is it is exciting as this..?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-ynRoqDEs

glenlunberg said:What do you think of this one? This dozer is from Australia. It's owned by a great company there.View attachment 103543Click to expand...This could well be painted up for breast cancer awareness. See lots of ag tractors and UTV's painted for the same reason.

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Nige said:Believe it or not the stairs are a factory-installed attachment......... no further comment.I'm speechless! but have so many qustionsClick to expand...

another kardashian toy

The Peej said:Nige said:Believe it or not the stairs are a factory-installed attachment......... no further comment.Click to expand...I'm speechless! but have so many qustionsClick to expand...The powered access stairway and the railings around the fuel tank are both factory installed (optional) attachments. AFAIK both started as aftermarket mods by Australian mining companies which is from where most of the "safety" mods these days appear to emanate. The Shackle Draggers have a lot to answer for.

Oxbow said:The stairs may become an issue, but I'd still be tickled PINK to run it.Click to expand...Pehaps I need to clarify: The reason that I would like to operate this critter has nothing to do with the color, but rather because a 9T is the largest dozer that I have had the privelege of operating, and I would enjoy the experience of a 10 or 11 at some point. I could get past the pink were that opportunity to present itself.

plantman.uk said:another kardashian toyClick to expand...Nige said:The Shackle Draggers have a lot to answer for.Click to expand...Is there a connection here???

Evidently over my head. I'm confused.

Shackle Draggers is mildly impolite slang for Australians, since it started as a penal colony.

Ah, I get it now, thanks Mitch! I had in my mind shackle like clevis, not handcuff type.

Yeah, I once worked with a group of aussies, scots, irishmen, and south africans. Any time one of them got drunk and wanted to fight an aussie, "shackle dragger" would be heard among other things, there'd be busted lips, etc.; then the next day they'd all be great friends again. they were all crazy :beatsme

One of Australia's most known exports is Bundaberg Rum, commonly known as "Bundy". The only downside to the stuff (apart from the fact it gives the meanest hangovers known to man) is that fact that anyone who gets drunk on it immediately wants to pick a fight with the largest person in the bar..............http://www.bundabergrum.com.au/

I uses't to wind up an old foreman years back by asking him if he was returning to since of crime. Still works today if you want to get an Aussie to bite.

Yair . . . Well there you go then, you never stop learning . . . I've never heard the term "shackle dragger" and I live here. (grins)Cheers

Nige said:The powered access stairway and the railings around the fuel tank are both factory installed (optional) attachments. AFAIK both started as aftermarket mods by Australian mining companies which is from where most of the "safety" mods these days appear to emanate. The Shackle Draggers have a lot to answer for.Click to expand...I agree to you Nige.

I've seen haul trucks painted up like that in the Hunter Valley (Coal). Bill nailed it. Its for breast cancer awareness.

Scrub Puller said:Yair . . . Well there you go then, you never stop learning . . . I've never heard the term "shackle dragger" and I live here. (grins)CheersClick to expand...Makes two of us scrub i've never heard it either but it's a goodun... (grins)...and my grandfather 6 generations ago got life for cutting down trees and was transported over here in 1801 - poor b*****d - fortunately he was pardoned after 2 years for assisting an early explorer to discover and open up land from Sydney south to the Monaro district then spent the rest of his life cutting down trees.....

Wick said:Makes two of us scrub i've never heard it either but it's a goodun... (grins)...and my grandfather 6 generations ago got life for cutting down trees and was transported over here in 1801 - poor b*****d - fortunately he was pardoned after 2 years for assisting an early explorer to discover and open up land from Sydney south to the Monaro district then spent the rest of his life cutting down trees.....Click to expand...That' s great, spent the rest of his life cutting down trees. :thumbsup

Wick, now thats just awesome.

I spent 7 years in an office full of Australians (and the occasional Kiwi), and as a Brit was regularly the subject of baiting regarding the relative sporting prowess of the 3 countries. My office nickname was "PC" and I can tell you it didn't stand for Politically Correct - referring to them as Crims was always another good wind-up ........Back to the late 1700's - a convicted felon in UK could get 10 years transportation to Australia for something as simple as strealing a loaf of bread.......

Had a call from an Indian lady a while back to inform me that she was from Microsoft Security and she would help me fix the security problem on my computer. I played along for a bit then told her I thought she was taking advantage of my kind nature and that she was nothing but a crook.She denied it so I told her again she was a crook. She then lost her temper and shouted down the phone,"WE are NOT crooks,YOU are CONVICTS!" and then hung upI thought that was the best comeback I'd heard for a while.

Yair . . . Just to set the record straight I'm actually a Pommy b*****d from Suffolk, my Mum bought me over here looking for my father in 1948 . . . unfortunately she found him but that's a whole 'nother story.Cheers.

We won't hate you for that Scrub, it takes all sorts.... LOL

RayF said:I've seen haul trucks painted up like that in the Hunter Valley (Coal). Bill nailed it. Its for breast cancer awareness.Click to expand...Oh I see. Thanks for that information RayF.

ha Wick well if the old bugger was around to day we have too send him back to pom land for cutting down trees

Within a few miles of my House is "Hangmans Hill" a more bleak and spooky spot would be hard to find, the Gallows still stood untill fairly resent times, the Courthouse and Log Book of Crimes and sentencing is still to be seen, the reading of it realy makes your eyes water, it would seem that if you were from Wales the rope was the standard penalty, the crime was the area you came from not what you had done, the amount of people " Exported " to the Big Rock for the most simple thing is staggering to read, so a large percentage of the people Shipped off would not be classed as Ned Kelly (Who is held High in the U.K.) so it would be a fair bet that the real crooks and villains never left England as they were better at not getting caught, I dont think Australia is a place I would ever visit or tour, due to all the poison critters that run about, plus its to far to travel for a dog like me.

One man's musings about Australia .............. after the recent epidemic of bush fires threatened to raze vast areas of the country to the ground. Best taken with a large pinch of salt whilst reading.Surely, after 20 days of trial by fire, the Australians must now realise that God never really intended this enormous tinderbox to be used for human habitation. Plainly it was created as a giant dustbin, a place far from civilisation where all His failed experiments could be left to their own terrifying devices. “Oh no,” said God on the fourth day, “I’ve gone and made a spider which can kill a man just by looking at him. I need somewhere to put it.” So on the fifth day He created Australia.This then became home for all the horrid snakes and the bitey crocodiles and the baby-eating dingoes. And to make sure that man stayed away, He made the land itself completely infertile and filled the sea around its shores with deadly sharks and killer jellyfish. He even built an enormous barrier reef. Frankly, He did everything possible to ensure that humans never went there, short of putting up a sign saying, “Trespassers will be eaten”. Nobody knows what drew the Aborigines but we do know that the first white man to sail this way was the world’s most useless explorer, a Dutchman called Abel Tasman. In a three-year voyage he found Fiji, New Zealand and Tasmania, but in one of the most inept pieces of navigation ever he completely missed the big bit in the middle. That was discovered by Captain James Cook who stepped off his ship, sniffed the air and declared, “Yes. This would make a fantastic prison.” He was right, of course. For millions of years Australia had harboured all the world’s dangerous animals so why not use it as a waste disposal unit for dangerous people? And even when the transportation of convicts stopped, it was still a good place for people who couldn’t get on anywhere else.Think about it. Nobody ever went to live in Australia because of the success they’d made of things at home. “I have thousands of friends, endless party invitations, a wonderful, happy family, a great job and even better prospects. So I’m off.” All Australians are descended from Billy No Mates.You’d expect them to have some sympathy with the refugees from central Asia. But no. They’ve turned their former prison into a fortress and the doors are now firmly closed. Australians stand on their porches with flames licking at their backdoor, telling us that life over there is peachy. “It’s always warm enough for a barbecue,” they say. Never mind that the most recent Barbie was so enormous and so hot that it had to be extinguished by a fleet of helicopters. They’re even using wildlife as a scare campaign, telling the world what we already know: that the top 10 most deadly snakes found anywhere in the world are all Australian. They run PR campaigns throughout Asia, showing pictures of boats used by refugees marooned on beaches with big fat crocodiles lolling nearby.However, the reception from the indigenous wildlife is as nothing compared to the reception you’ll get from the locals. It’s bad enough for a British person who’s only there on holiday. Every time you walk into a pub, you get the same reaction. “Backs to the wall everyone. There’s a Pom in the bar,” followed by: “Hide your wallet under the soap. He won’t find it there.” Not desperately imaginative but then what do you expect from a people who named a blue spotted ray that lives in lagoons “the blue spotted lagoon ray”, or a range of mountains with snow on them “the Snowy Mountains”. And that’s before we get to “the Great Barrier Reef”.Anyway, if we have a hard time, imagine what it’s like for Abdul. In a recent poll, 96% of Australians said they wanted the refugees out, dead, buried, eaten, anything. Last summer an advertisement appeared in one of the newspapers there asking people with a military background to join vigilante-style patrols.Refugees who get caught by the authorities are sent to the fantastically remote detention centre near Woomera, where the British did their atomic tests in the 1950s. They can get out easily but it’s an 18-day walk to the nearest telephone box and that’s doubly hard when you’ve grown two heads. So what sort of volume are we talking about here? Well, last year the number of people who arrived in Australia illegally from the usual refugee hot spots was 4,500. That works out roughly at one for every 666 square miles. You could put the downtrodden masses from all over the world in the Northern Territories and not even know they were there. Australia says that it took in thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodian boat people in the 1970s and 1980s, along with most of Britain’s displaced trade union leaders who were no longer welcome at No 10 for tea and buns. It won’t now fulfil the legal and moral obligations of other nations. Well, Europe has a falling birth-rate and can take a few refugees. The Americas are dropping food parcels on their heads. Africa is hopeless and Asia is the problem, which leaves either Antarctica, which seems a bit anti-social, or the very place specifically designed for misfits: Australia.

Holey-Christ, Nige. What Contractor is pissed off at Caterpillar? Pepto-Bismal Pink. Makes me shiver just looking at it. You agree or am I !#!!$@up. Mike Nebergall.

As other prople have pointed out the paint job was for breast cancer awareness. I've seen photos of quite a few trucks painted that way for the same reason. First time for a dozer though.

My wife is HUGE into breast cancer awareness(and I must say I've been doing my best to help her carry those points):http://www.the3day.org/site/TR?px=3720054&fr_id=1814&pg=personalAnd as such, I seem to notice most anything pink out there, I've seen, Pink hoes, garbage packers, concrete mixers(I actually have a old co-worker who is driving that one), roll off trucks, locomotives, dozers, pretty much anything that is out there and can be seen is getting the treatment these days.But my first thought on this thread was "boy, now that's quite the comment on the aussies, they sure are a phunny people"

We got big shoulders down under. The funny thing is, the crim's first arrived by boat in the 1800's, now in 2013, they come by plane from all walks of life and they just keep on coming. As for creepy crawlies and dangerous animals............"what a load of dogs bollocks". I was born here and apart from living in NZ for around 10 years, have yet to see a dangerous snake in my backyard or a funnel web. As for crocodiles, you have to go to the top of Oz to even see one . We get redbacks all the time, but they wont bite you or come into the house. I wouldn't live anywhere else. Don't believe everything you read in books, magazines or see on the idiot box.

I hope to have the good fortune to be able to visit Australia someday.

Yair . . .I hope to have the good fortune to be able to visit Australia someday.Click to expand...Oxbow.If you do, we are on Highway1 six hours north of Brisbane, drop in and say g'day . . . same goes for any HEF'ers who get over this way.Cheers.

Was that Down Under, or down low?

Bluetop Man said:Was that Down Under, or down low?Click to expand...Down under for sure.

I am aussie and i have never head of this name for us. and i think you will find the Pink will have something to do with Cancer foundation. as a few guys have painted there dozers and loaders Pink to help raise funds.

EDGLimited said:We got big shoulders down under. The funny thing is, the crim's first arrived by boat in the 1800's, now in 2013, they come by plane from all walks of life and they just keep on coming. As for creepy crawlies and dangerous animals............"what a load of dogs bollocks". I was born here and apart from living in NZ for around 10 years, have yet to see a dangerous snake in my backyard or a funnel web. As for crocodiles, you have to go to the top of Oz to even see one . We get redbacks all the time, but they wont bite you or come into the house. I wouldn't live anywhere else. Don't believe everything you read in books, magazines or see on the idiot box.Click to expand...Well mate but hounestly I hav seen a ton of snakes and others that i would not like to be in my swag in my back yards over the years espically when you get out side of the citys . i have never really lived in a big city in aus so i cant comment on that but mate if you head out west a bit i think you might change your story a bit on that one. these is a reason why a lot of farmers out where i am from carry a shotty to the dunny mate.

JGS Parts,Down low does not refer to Aussies. No disrespect was intended. The term down low is American slang for, well, never mind, I am not going to put that up here. Just google it if you really have to know. And if you want to further expand your knowledge of America, google .I made the post for the punch line. It was just too good to resist. As a father of three daughters and a cancer survivor myself, I took a little license. But it was nothing about Aussies. As they say in Brooklyn, "Here's to youse":drinkup

Taking the p i double 5 is a favourite Aussie pastime. We love giving and receiving. I'm having fun with a Canadian Line Borer who I work in with. He's simply known around town as the Seal Whacker.

JGS Parts said:Well mate but hounestly I hav seen a ton of snakes and others that i would not like to be in my swag in my back yards over the years espically when you get out side of the citys . i have never really lived in a big city in aus so i cant comment on that but mate if you head out west a bit i think you might change your story a bit on that one. these is a reason why a lot of farmers out where i am from carry a shotty to the dunny mate.Click to expand...I couldn't agree more. my comment was aimed more at the cities, where a lot of travellers come for a visit.

RayF said:Taking the p i double 5 is a favourite Aussie pastime. We love giving and receiving. I'm having fun with a Canadian Line Borer who I work in with. He's simply known around town as the Seal Whacker.Click to expand...We refer to them as Seal Bashers.......

Scrub Puller said:Yair . . .Oxbow.If you do, we are on Highway1 six hours north of Brisbane, drop in and say g'day . . . same goes for any HEF'ers who get over this way.Cheers.Click to expand...Thanks Scrub Puller, will do!

Scrub Puller said:Yair . . .Oxbow.If you do, we are on Highway1 six hours north of Brisbane, drop in and say g'day . . . same goes for any HEF'ers who get over this way.Cheers.Click to expand...Ha Ha Ha......... always chasin' the odd he(i)ffer eh scrub,.....cheers

Nige said:Believe it or not the stairs are a factory-installed attachment......... no further comment.What's NASCAR..? Is it is exciting as this..?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-ynRoqDEsClick to expand...NigeIt is nice to see there is still some places left that have not tried to make even extreme racing safe.That is nuts!

Jerry, The Irish love their road racing. It goes back to the days when a few fellas with bikes in some village or other would talk to local law enforcement (the village copper) and then close some roads so that they could race. Quite a few of the big racing meetings years back used the main street of the village where they were held as the Start/Finish straight. Things have changed a bit now but it's still mental. You don't need to look at the on-board telemetry to see how fast they're going, just check out the speed the scenery's flying by ......

Yair . . .always chasin' the odd he(i)ffer eh scrub,.....Click to expand...GotchaWick. . . but the ol' grease gun's not as reliable as it used to be an' it seems to have developed one of those flexible nozzles. (he grins)Cheers.

I have no idea how those guys on those bikes can even walk...If you know what I'm saying.

And I shall be there perched on a bank in a couple of weeks time ........!! Where else in the world can you sit no more than 6 feet away from something doing the best part of 200mph..? Hopefully the weather stays nice, it's no fun watching races in the rain even though the riders seem to go no slower when the road's wet.

Nige said:And I shall be there perched on a bank in a couple of weeks time ........!! Where else in the world can you sit no more than 6 feet away from something doing the best part of 200mph..? Hopefully the weather stays nice, it's no fun watching races in the rain even though the riders seem to go no slower when the road's wet.Click to expand...Enjoy Nige, but I'm thinking a view on the inside of a corner may be safer than the outside.

In these "enlightened times" of Elfin Safety there are a few areas on most road racing circuits that are designated as Prohibited Areas. No-one, even track workers, are allowed to be in a PA during racing.My wifes gets all worried about it but as I always say to her - "You have to die of something"

I've never heard the saying "Shackle Dragger" either.I always wryly smile to myself when I think of our "unlucky" ancestors being sent to this "horrible" place of beaches,sunshine,temperate climates,great scenery,open spaces. Then I think about all the "good people" left back in the UK......I'm so lucky to be a Shackle Dragger.Jim

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