I don’t think it’s limited to ‘westie housos’ only 
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PENETRATION!!! 
Literally a rape charge if you do that in Victoria…but I can’t help saying…
PENATRISHUN!
I know @AusTac likes to post pics of him working on big truck tyres, but have you ever asked why he is not allowed near actual trucks?
https://www.facebook.com/rinalds.skila/videos/4330140113672346
Ahhh hot works, the safetys sallys favorite subject!
Funny as. I set fire to a customer’s car once…
My old car decided to set itself on fire, twice, while I was in it. Once, when I was stuck in peak hour traffic and had my dashboard dripping on my shoe as I cut across a few lanes to get to a fire extinguisher. Yeah!
My best effort for hot works, back in the day working on a fishing trawler, had to replace a broken lug on one of the trawler arms.
I end up in a position hanging off the side of the boat holding my weight with one hand, oxy in the other.
I’m cutting beautifully when a huge ball of red hot slag decides to skip out and go right under my support hand. I take the pain as long as I can then have to let go. I immediately fall into the water, the oxy swings down still on full cut mode and begins burning the side of the boat, next thing the side of the boat is on fire.
Skipper comes outside to see wtf is going on. Sees me soaking wet, smoke everywhere, hosing the side of the boat.
All good out here?
Yep all under control.
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Looks like he forgot the Loctite!
Bit of duct tape & some cable ties will sort that out.
Ouch! I’d say the steering wheel attendant has been doing some wheel lifts in that rig! Max production yo! Gets you a munted centre hitch
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The “boggers” I used to work on underground had larger than standard buckets installed by management in the name of “productivity”. They then installed larger diameter wheels to cope with the increased bucket weights. Then we had trouble keeping tyres up to them and blew the yearly tyre budget in under 6 months. They tried different brands of tyres and had “experts” come along to figure out solutions.
We also had an increase in wear and tear on the centre-hitches of the machines. The machines were bouncing up and down the drives. When I suggested the problem was overloading I was told by those that knew better that it wasn’t the case.
Fucked if any of them had ever driven a loader. Anyone who has knows, that if there’s too much in the bucket, it causes the machine to lift the back wheels off the ground and if you travel like that it will bounce. This causes the rock in the bucket, ( which by the way, was very hard and very sharp ), to spill out on the ground.
Remember what I said earlier about tyre damage? The extraction level is all concreted and they run water spray bars constantly for dust suppression as it is a very dry mine. During a tyre training seminar we attended run by Bridgestone, they showed us that water is one of the best lubricants for cutting tyres.
So, we had oversize/overloaded buckets, bouncing loaders, razor sharp rocks getting spilled on hard concrete floors swimming in mud and water and management couldn’t work out why we couldn’t keep tyres on the machines.
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Cadia ?
Northparkes, although I have done shutdown work at Cadia and worked on total machine refurb projects for them in the Sandvik workshop in Orange.
The only reason i guessed Cadia was they were destroying tyres on the boggers with high average speeds. I worked for Bridgestone over here in the West for 12 years so know the guys who did your training on the east coast.
We were running Sandvik LH514E’s but they were trying to match 517’s in capacity. They tried to blame the average speed but 90% of the tyre damage was punctures from rocks, I know, I had to change the bloody things!
The “rock-apes” ( operators ) had an unofficial competition amongst themselves to see who could get the most rock in the bucket. To do this they wouldn’t “trim” the load which was the main contributor to the spilled rock that was doing the damage. Tyres weren’t the only victims. The amount of damage to hydraulic hoses and lift and tilt cylinders from rock rolling off the back of the buckets kept us busy on top of the regular servicing/maintenance we were employed to do. Even when in automation, it was mine policy that the buckets were loaded manually by remote operators. PRODUCTIVITY,…NOT!!!
Here’s a pic of our workshop, 650m below the surface, with one of two diesel boggers they had.
( These had standard sized buckets and tyres. )
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Gantry cranes?! You were spoilt!
20 tonner in that workshop, how do you think we changed tyres?