Please ID the people in this pic...

Michael Alexander · June 16, 2008, 11:34:53 AM

Please help ID the people in this pic... the only person I know mis Jack Laubscher

i put in the results Georg

Bruce Davies, Martin Gerber, Eric van der Merwe, ,Arno Claasen, Jack Laubscher

georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) · June 16, 2008, 11:42:18 AM

Again, i know all faces but no names, but they will come for sure, well known in Omund

Cherry (Alcock) · June 16, 2008, 12:42:01 PM

Left: Bruce Davies, ?, Eric van der Merwe, ? & Jack
Faces are familiar of the other two but names escape me

Paula Gottsch (Willson) · June 16, 2008, 03:11:51 PM

Second from the left is Martin Gerber

Paula Gottsch (Willson) · June 16, 2008, 03:13:46 PM

Second to last guy I think is Arno Claasen.

georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) · June 16, 2008, 03:28:24 PM

Thanks for the Names.

Now we are complete, i have entered the names to the pic

L-R

Bruce Davies, Martin Gerber, Eric van der Merwe, Arno Claasen, Jack Laubscher

Paula Gottsch (Willson) · June 16, 2008, 03:30:44 PM

Your welcome, and there you were thinking I'm not a helpful gal!

georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP) · June 16, 2008, 03:32:06 PM

Quote from: Paula Gottsch (Willson) on June 16, 2008, 03:30:44 PM
Your welcome, and there you were thinking I'm not a helpful gal!

I never lost hope........keep it that way.

Paula Gottsch (Willson) · June 16, 2008, 03:35:16 PM

Hey, I'm not predictable so don't hold your breath!!

:emot19:

vampire

Michael Alexander · June 16, 2008, 05:34:55 PM

Wow, that was quick,... Super Sleuths in action again...

Paula Gottsch (Willson) · June 16, 2008, 10:46:38 PM

Quote from: Michael Alexander on June 16, 2008, 05:34:55 PM
Wow, that was quick,... Super Sleuths in action again...

Is that a complement that I'm getting from you Mike???

Jughead · September 26, 2008, 10:57:09 PM

Mike, these guys were standing in front of the Holland Loader in the mid 80's.

Bruce Davies · October 01, 2008, 08:21:14 AM

What a magnificent job you guys have done with this site - I was alerted to it today by Steve Woodward and have spent most of the day trawling it. That is certainly me on the left. I had to spend 12 hours a day in that stupid machine, supposedly mastering the operating techniques so that we could then train the eventual operators. We actually had a "hillbilly" out from the US training us for about 2 months before commissioning it. I wonder how long it lasted? It was an absolute nightmare, was never suited to the conditions and spent most of its early life in "sick bay". I'm sure Arno spent more time in it than any of the operators.!

Alfred Boehme · October 01, 2008, 08:10:29 PM

Would I be correct in saying this machine worked between 1 and 2 plant some of the areas it worked in there are still marks in the slopes where it used to grade off the soil before loding into the belly scrapers

Alfred

Bruce Davies · October 08, 2008, 04:52:52 AM

Yes it was used in the area north of 2 plant and it would have left markings. When in ideal conditions it did move a lot of earth very, very quickly. At times we had a fleet of 14 CAT 641's in the run and they still couldn't keep up. It was just that mostly the conditions in that area were not suited to it. It was also a totally different concept to what all the operators had been used to creating many challenges.