Rural53's Off Topic and Interesting Photos Thread

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Fordson cable front end loader



David Brown hydraulic front end loader. Note it pivots off the rear axle.




Welger baler. PTO on the left and Petter diesel driven on the right.


Progression of bus design

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Cranes






Air cargo handling truck

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Amusement ride mounted on a Holden ute






Over the back fence is Wanaka Airport, home of Warbirds over Wanaka Airshow.

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Final building.




Victor Airtourer


NZ built Trekker








Seagull outboard motors

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Things that go bang

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Next stop was the Clyde Dam. This is the last hydro dam to be built in NZ and produces 440MW from four turbines.





Lake Dunstan, behind the dam. The landscape is definitely rougher.


Cromwell at the top of the lake.




Other end of the scale, Roaring Meg power station in the Kawarau Gorge between Cromwell and Queenstown. Built in 1936 it generates 3MW.

From Queenstown I headed south.

Lake Wakatipu looking back to Queenstown


Looking south

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At the bottom of the lake is Kingston, home of the heritage railway, the Kingston Flyer.

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Heading further south to Mandeville there is Waimea Plains Railway. They have this restored Rogers locomotive.

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More importantly, at Mandeville there is the Croydon Aircraft Company and the Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre. The Heritage Centre has a collection of, mostly flying, vintage aircraft.

de Havllanf 83 Fox Moth. This was the first regiistered passenger aircraft in NZ.





Locks for the folding wings

DH90 Dragonfly




DH83C Fox Moth, a Canadian built version


DH89 Dragon Rapide/Dominie. This one I've been for a ride in.




Another DH89 under restoration

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Non-de Havilland


Snark HA1 composite single seater microlight, the prototype of more successful Snark designs.


Bantam microlight, now built by Croydon Aircraft.


Musger Mg 19a Steinadler Gull Wing Glider



Ex RNZAF Aermacchi 339CB


Auster J-1B Aiglet






Replica - 1910 Pither Monoplane. Completed in 2006 and flown at Mandeville. The pilot was microlight veteran Jerry Chisum who declared the design controllable - just!

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A few DH82A Tigermoths









I finished the day in Invercargill.

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Are you going to pop into Burt`s place whilst your there?

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Sort of...

E Hayes hardware store has Bert's bike.



And two of the movie replicas

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How about a Britten.

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