Purchased some 23 years ago off an earthmoving contractor the boys are only the second owner of this very tidy tractor and now runs out at about 16,000 original hours. However of all the equipment they have in their fleet, the one that sticks out for me is the 1982 Komatsu D65E-6 Bulldozer. In their fleet are several tractors of 50-120hp, involved in making Hay and Silage, Ploughing and Planting, Harvesting, Weed Spraying, Slashing, Mulching and Power Pole suppliers for the region. Lachlan and Robert Grassick are Farming Contractors and also run a Machinery Hire business on the Border of NSW and QLD. nice and tidy, straight as a gun barrel and I immediately knew that this could be a good day providing the inclement weather could just hold off for a few hours. I pulled up at the last one of many sets of gates encountered along the heavily timbered lined laneway when I saw the old girl under a stand of tall gums, parked up in the scrub.įirst impressions count a lot for me and this was a perfect example. Not so up here in the bush … this old dozer is still pushing way above its 13.5t weight when it comes to a good long hard days work. It is always a pleasure to witness the old girls still making good money either on a construction site or in the bush, however, due to its age there are very few fully fledged current construction jobs that the old girl would get onto.
Such was recently the case when I was informed of a 1982 Komatsu D65E-6 Bulldozer, in excellent working condition, on a job and just over the QLD/NSW Border Ranges about 250k to the south.
I am often contacted and am invited onto their properties or job sites to view and test-run some of the old equipment that is still out there in a working mode and making good money for the owners. The beauty of reviewing new and old machinery for the magazine is that there are so many lovely people whom read and follow the articles.