Tonight's pics.

Todays pics.

[/quote] Someone alot more in the know can confirm or deny this, but I'm pretty sure the very first Swingwing Drake floats didnt have hyd widening and was designed to spread as you unlocked the pins and drove forward and to narrow it you would reverse it

even with the hyd rams to provide this function these days you still spread while driving forward and narrow while reversing (with a remote control if you're lucky enough to have one!)[/quote]

100% correct Adrian, you applied the trailer brakes to assist with the process.

Here is a story, i stripped a D10 one day at Epping railway station for transport and the Kingston float turned up to load it, an old White Road Boss with a billion klms on it and a big cam 350 in it (truckies are dead set spoiled these days), anyway the Drake he had was on it,s last job before being pensioned off to WA, from the back it was really bent and twisted even Stevie Wonder could have seen how bad, so he starts trying to widen it and its a manual widener, no hyds and it will not spread. So he gets a couple of single length chains and dogs them together so there about 80 ft long, then backs the float up to the D10 and 6 or so loops later he ties it off, now there is about 10ft of slack before its taken up. So he gives it a little "pull" and nothing happens, oh well give some more, nothing. So he backs right up to the 10 with heaps of slack now in the chain then starts going forward and even pulls a gear or 2 and then "BANG" everything takes up and the drives on the road boss are smoking up like the summer nats and the trailer has popped open, maybe 3 inchs!!!! 3 or 4 more goes and he got it but FMD it was some of the roughest stuff i had seen in a while i tell you.

I don't, but I have worked in HH, and most of the drivers are mates, either from meeting out on the road or meeting through facebook.
Majority of the time they gve me a heads up on loads and I work out a day off work if I can.

Any idear what the load is Robert?
Leon.

Thanks mate great pictures.
Leon.

Yes they are.

So aparently Betts Bowers just bought 2 HHA Macks according to their FB page. And Macalesse bought 50% of HHA.

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- Kyle

I had no idea, I had not been keeping up with them until recently.

So does that purchase of 50% put a strain on Jon's spending ability...

I really hope Betts repaint those Maks. As nice as the paint job is I would not want to drive around in someone else's colors.

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- Kyle

A few pics from last week.