Built tough, built to last
Bill Perry has led a varied and tough life: Pest control, contract fencing, an army service with frontline combat duty, farming, civil contracting – and...
Author : Contrafed PUblishing
Let’s Make A Big Loader – The Caterpillar 983 loader
Caterpillar’s model 983 Traxcavator is the largest track type loader the Company has ever produced in it’s 90+ year history. Due to the rise in...
Dealing with waste on the City Rail Link project
A project the size of Auckland’s City Rail Link generates a huge amount of material waste in the centre of the country’s largest CBD. Getting...
A near miss
A truck crashing through the side of a Desert Road bridge in 2017 threatened to shut the entire highway for months. It didn’t, but it...
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Some ideas are brilliant but never seem to catch on, some are basically flawed from the start and others are the subject of nightmares and...
West Coast challenge – 50,000 cubic metres of spoil
It was a case of all hands to the pump – including the local fire brigades’ – as a massive slip closed SH6 north of...
Classic Machines: The Wabco 35 Haulpak
While somewhat better known for its range of scrapers, LeTourneau-Westinghouse (later Wabco) sought to diversify and expand its product range in the late 1950s. The...
Polytech plans a looming disaster
The Government’s plan to merge 16 polytechnics and Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) into one national institute managing apprentices and trainees will be disastrous for the...
Nevis Bluff – a work in progress
Controlling rock fall from Nevis Bluff alongside SH6 is a highly specialised undertaking and requires constant monitoring to ensure the highway is not blocked by...