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28-04-10, 12:27
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Welcome David
Its about time you joined MLU David.
Welcome, It's good to see your finally part of this great WWW forum. You have plenty to share I'm sure. regards to Maggie Rick
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28-04-10, 16:22
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Thanks Rick.
I'm still battling with the technology so enter with some trepidation. Besides, I've always held that your better to keep your mouth shut and look a fool than open your mouth and prove it. I'm better at listening. Cheers
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29-04-10, 01:40
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Having read right through this thread again, it seems that not much is known about these larger airfield cranes be they atached to GMC, FWD or C60X.
I must confess that when I was looking at the one on the GMC 6x4 near Tullamarine I had no idea whether the crane was military or civilian. There was nothing to tell that from. Gradually over the years I became aware that it wasn't just a one off. It would also seem that they don't exist anywhere else on the planet so they must be a home grown product. The questions remain:- Where were they built? Who built them? Was there more than one manufacturer? How many were built? Is anybody attempting to preserve one? And the fellows that knew these things are dying off fast. That should be a tasty morsel for an archive excavator to chew on. David
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29-04-10, 12:23
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Cranes
Motto, Yes I remember there was another cletrac in the symons st yard. In the later years Huey would not let us move the cletrac because he was afraid the cables in the tracks would be rusted and break. As I wrote before I have no idea who built the cranes, But it certainly wasn't Letourneau, They had their own lift and carry crane design which was completely different.There was a Touracrane at Rickeys quarry . One possibility is Garwood, apparently they built a lot of machinery outside their usual fields during the war years.
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09-04-15, 18:05
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Other truck mounted crane photo:
 source:http://www.allappys.com/Intakes/8trade/RSTT.html I would like a lot to build a model, anyone has found some more info about them? G_Mendes Last edited by Goncalo Mendes; 16-04-15 at 20:43.
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10-04-15, 01:54
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The crane we are looking at here Goncalo is based on a Long Wheelbase GMC CCW 353 6x4 hard cab truck that has had the cab top cut away. This is exactly what I saw out Tullamarine way years ago and described in an earlier post.
David
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Hell no! I'm not that old! Last edited by motto; 10-04-15 at 02:22. Reason: Spellink
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11-04-15, 20:50
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Many thanks for the reply. I´m sure that the crane was from australian made source, all the photos were from there. As for the maker, from what I had searched, it was built on purpose, and I had seen a lot of smaller cranes using the same type of main wheels structure and carriage connection, to a tractor rear, instead of a truck, as seen on some posts. My toughts are that they were made by the same maker. It would be fantastic that someone take a complete photoset of one of these things, along with a few mesures... and surely, if someone restore and preserve one it would be great too  G_Mendes Last edited by Goncalo Mendes; 12-04-15 at 02:50. Reason: spelling
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