Thursday, Oct 03, 2013 at 23:29
Oooh, Rockape! It's back to the Tractor ID class for you!! [;-)
That ain't no Inter!! It's an Oliver DDH fitted with a hydraulic Bristand Trail Builder blade!
The tractor would have been fairly new, or certainly not more than about 3 or 4 yrs old.
The dreadful conditions of the Hume Hwy in the '57 floods in N.S.W., along with the large number of stranded semi-trailers at Tarcutta (over 300 for a week at one stage) - and the resultant uproar from truckies and the large number of companies dependent on trucking - galvanised the Govt to upgrade that section of the Hume Hwy shortly afterwards.
Several semis overturned in the bogs, one with a load of drums of petrol. The petrol caught fire and the whole lot ended up as toast.
There were so many bogholes along the Hume Hwy, the bogs were given names! - such as the 12 mile and the 27 mile Bogs! (measured from Wagga).
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