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Fiat- Allis 11B

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Topic: Fiat- Allis 11B

Posted By: West Logging
Subject: Fiat- Allis 11B
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2022 at 4:54pm

Would like to know if year of manufacture can be determined from serial number for this machine.

Mine is 25L-18802, believe it was sold in New Zealand about 1980 by Cable-price

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Posted By: HD6 Merv
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2022 at 3:46pm

Cables sold quite a few HD11 series B crawlers in nz, and still the odd one around.

The very last Allis Chalmers one was 18798 in 1974. So yours at 18802 will be a Fiat Allis 11-B from early 1975.

my records only go to 1974. But from what i have read they were made up until 1977. And go to at least 19612 which is highest s/n ive heard of in USA.

One of my mates here in nz has 25L 19219 which would have to be one of the very last sold in NZ.

I do know that by 1978 Cables were advertising the Fiat Allis 14C and a few were sold to NZ Forest Service.

Cheers Merv

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tits tyres and tracks

they all cost you money

Posted By: West Logging
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2022 at 4:55pm

Thanks for that merv, about what I thought, I brought mine from a man in Stratford taranaki who said it was a 1980 but it didn’t seem to add up as my father and I looked at that machine around 1985.

It was owned at that time by a tom scrobie used for logging in the waitanga’s, we thought it was too expensive so brought an 11b in Rotorua.

The ironic thing is I brought the same machine nearly 40years later and paid about the same amount as it was worth then.

So almost have come full circle trying to relive the past with the old FA11B playing around on a mates bush block at Awakino.

Cheers Allan

Posted By: HD6 Merv
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2022 at 8:54pm

Good one Allan, good to hear of HD11 s still be used in nz.. HD11 and 16 were popular logging crawlers down king country way. Have got a mate Pete up mohakatino valley with a mint HD6Ew.

Cheers Mervyn Pepper.

Thames

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tits tyres and tracks

they all cost you money

Posted By: West Logging
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2022 at 11:26pm

yep that would be pete raven i assume, used to stay in their different baches when his father evan was around and we logged the upper mohakatino, he would know of us

Posted By: West Logging
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2022 at 11:28pm

assume you have an hd6, i happen to have the complete set of manuals for those

Posted By: HD6 Merv
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2022 at 12:15am

yes got 3 HD6 s 2 Ew and a Eo. They are a excellent small machine. Do the odd days work.. Also got a HD11EP i was going to fix, but running out of motivation there lol. Main girls i make a living with is 2 D6D, one with rippers and other with a winch and a D4E, and towed scoops for them.

I know Bill Holloway from te kuiti quite well too.

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tits tyres and tracks

they all cost you money

Posted By: West Logging
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2022 at 7:03pm

Do not know Bill but supplied native timber to Tregowths mill in tekuiti, did actually drive one of their ac hd16 on a job we did, unfortunately most of the people i worked with in the native have now passed