To ease Baker’s mind the dealer gave a complete guarantee that there had been significant repairs done to this machine and he could put it to any test because 'it will perform out of site'.įast forward to the very first job and bugger me dead: transmission failure big time. However, when the time came to buy a particular second hand bulldozer (Cat D5B), Baker knew he would have to step up to the plate and buy from a reputable dealer.Īll the checks and balances were completed, although not being able to demonstrate the machine in the yard prior to delivery was disappointing. Much of his gear is resurrected from the dead and already given the last rites before the gifted hand of ‘the Man’ gets a hold of it and takes it forward into another zone. Now Baker has been accused of living in a time warp, so appreciative and passionate is he of the old earthmoving gear that he never buys new and is always looking out for deals from the 'earthmoving op shop of the west' – none other than Tilly’s of Toowoomba. Trevor Baker – a quiet achiever with a passion for the old gear Having come to a suitable monetary arrangement we decided to bring some gear up to the demonstration block and put it through its paces whilst constructing some long overdue water storages up on the mountain.

In his fleet, Trevor has a D250 Cat AWD articulated dump truck, a home-made Hyundai-Sumitomo-Hitachi Long Reach Excavator (classic bit of ingenuity), skid steer, water truck, Cat 140G Grader, a couple of rollers, a tidy old Kenworth and a low loader, but the one that took my eye for a demonstration was the Cat D5B Dozer 1982 vintage.

Trevor Baker owns a nice array of earthmoving machinery, most of it from the 1982 era, none of it newer than say 1995 except his new Black Twin Cab Hilux, and it’s a spanker! Well, you get together, have a beer and talk about the old times and what’s on the agenda in the future for you and your gear. What happens when you meet up with a guy who has similar passion to both new and old earthmoving machinery as oneself, who loves operating them and appreciates the old gear a touch more than the new?

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