An underground bogger or LHD (load haul dump). It's name varies depending on what state you are in. In QLD, they are usually referred to as LHD's.
This made me laugh. There was moss growing on the LHD, and I'm pretty sure it couldn't start anyway, yet it was still tagged out.
To give you an idea of height - I'm about 175cm, and around the same height as the loader. This is the operator's seat beside me. You can see in the other pics they had to sit sideways.
Heritage Centre opposite the park.
2 comments:
Andy, what do you mean by the geo being turned upside down??
Hey Alessandra,
I'm no geologist, so I'll just pass on what I understand (which is very little!!). I think that it was like mountains forming, where the plates sort of change direction to vertical, only there are no mountains in Cobar - it happened a ages ago (even in geo terms), and has all eroded to leave a fairly flat landscape.
The geos referred to it as being inverted, or upside down (they had to dumb it down for me). There are heaps of papers on it though, and I can put you in touch with some people who know all about it if you like.
Otherwise, this might help: The
overall structural style of the Cobar Basin is NW-SE folding overprinted by NE-SW folding and
eastwards oblique left-lateral thrusting. (http://www.smedg.org.au/Daviab.pdf)
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