cutting edge CAT

Tucked away in a little town just out of Ballina on the NSW north coast is where I caught up with Steve Hammond from Hammond Earthmoving, the very proud owner of a 2012 model D6T Caterpillar dozer.

I had worked alongside this bloke on a very difficult project at Urunga where the team completed the rehabilitation of an abandoned antimony mine for the NSW government.

The job was so successful it won the NSW Earth Award for its category and made the finals of the Australian Earth Awards in 2017.

So, when Hammond rang and said he had bought a new dozer and was knee deep in building a macadamia plantation in his home town region, I just had to go and investigate both the