Here it is on her side, can’t fall any further I suppose.

This was Heartland Contracting days out the Feilding area. The driver was going a little quick and lost it off the tilt deck trailer.

The story is the Komatsu PC 100-3 was put up for tender by the insurance company.

The cab was quite damaged and when rotating it made a horrible knock which sounded like the slew ring had teeth missing. It proved to be just the manual slew lock pin knocking on a floor panel.

We won the tender of around $32 k.

At that time we had a chap Ron Norris, a baker by trade who also was a good panel beater. He took the cab off and straightened it up like a new one.

The PC 100 was a great model with 6 cylinder fuel efficient engine. The biggest down fall of this era of diggers was the final drives. The Hydash unit was prone to failure if oils not changed at 250 hours.

Some short time later we sent the bucket out to an engineer in the city of Ashhurst where we converted the wide bucket into a tilt bucket. This being one of the few tilts around. Peter Walton was the engineer and trades under Rata industries.

So here we are some nearly 30 years later making the best tilt bucket available.

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