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[Robban_C]

Nice picture of a classic machine!
What do your employees say about driving "that old machine"? Do they like it or do they keep telling you how nice it would be to have a new Cat instead?
I notice that you have a thumb on the dipper. Is it hydraulic or is it fixed?

Sizes are figured your way or in letters and numbers such as C50 where the letter indicates width and the number indicates length. Myself as an example uses C50 that is slightly big but I want the coveralls to be a little big so they don´t restrict me from "crawling" under the machines etc.
With your "language" that would about Medium. You can compare that to a length of about 172 cm (5 feet, 8 inch) and weight of 70-75 kilo.

I didn´t notice until now that you say "coverall" starting with the letter "C". In Sweden they are called "overall" although not with the same pronunciation as in English.

And you use the Swedish words correctly. Your Swedish is better than my English as long as you stick to those three words!


Anton:
Lite snack om fin maskin och om ifall hans anställda tycker att det är en ok maskin ett köra eller om dom tjatar om att få en klippny Cat istället.
Och så lite jämförelser om storlekar på overaller inom resp land.
Han vill kanske ha overaller både till sig och sina anställda, 3 heltidare och en deltidare.
Och bilden är några år gammal, maskinen är blekt i färgen idag.

[denick]

Tack Robban,

My guys do not complain much about the Akermans. We have rented new CAT, Volvo, John Deere and Komatsu excavators of different sizes for jobs. The guys always seem to find something that doesn't measure up to the old Akerman machines. Speed, travel speed especially, is probably the one thing they would want more of.

That is a fixed mount grapple made by Geith. 4 years ago we sold it and put a hydraulic thumb on. Again a Geith product.

In America "coveralls" are a overall like you say. "overalls" are a sleeve less bib type garment.

I am 95 kilo and 189 cm probably an extra large if I want room to work in them. Thank goodness for online measurement conversion programs.

Tack again Robban


Nick

[Robban_C]

It seems that your employees are really good guys, take good care of them!

I have heard that the H10 is slow compared to the standard of today and I have also heard that the H10B are faster than the H10 but still to slow. I have also heard about slow travelling speed.
But this is not my words, I have never driven anyone of them.
We have a memeber (Conny Kolsjö) that uses a H7C and a H25B, I know that he has lots to say about Åkerman performance, I´ll send him a PM with a link to this thread.

[Nick Drew]

This thread is making great reading !!

It is good to hear that our Swedish friends are offering such fantastic advice and help!!

Long live Nicks Akermans!!

Nick Drew

[Robban_C]

It is nice to see that our Swedish machines are still earning their owners their living out there all over the world. It makes us proud.

Swedish steel bites! I don´t know how that sounds to an English ear but the same in Swedish sounds so good to us, "Svenskt stål biter".
Did I hear the word "patriotic" somewhere?


Ok, let´s get back to the topic.

[denick]

Robban,

I have no problem saying " the Akerman excavators I have owned or operated are the best excavators made" In my opinion the engineering and workmanship is the best. I consider it a sin that people now think they are Volvo's. Everyone who was part of the Akerman Company and did their part should be extremely proud of their work. I am not the only one here that thinks so. Although Connecticut was the home base for the Akerman factory store and the largest concentration of Akermans was right here.

In America we would say Akerman Excavators were/are the Cadillac of Excavators

[Robban_C]

You have just got yourself even more good friends here!

I have to translate that word by word for Anton, he will be so glad when he reads it.

Anton, detta måste jag översätta åt dig:
"Robban,

Jag har inga problem med att säga att "dom Åkerman grävmaskiner som jag har ägt ller kört är dom bästa grävmaskiner som någonsin gjorts". Enligt min åsikt är ingenjörskonsten (ska nog egentligen översättas till "konstruktionerna") och hantverket det bästa som finns. Jag anser det vara en synd att folk anser att dom är Volvomaskiner. Alla som var del i företaget Åkerman och bidrog med sitt kunnande borde vara extremt stolta över det dom gjorde. Detta är jag inte den enda här som anser fastän Connecticut var den ort där Åkerman hade sin fabrik och dessutom är det område där koncentrationen av Åkerman är som allra störst.

I Amerika anser vi att Åkerman var/är Cadillacen bland grävmaskiner."

[Anton]

Tack Robban och Nick!!!!
Detta gör mig naturligtvis mycket glad och stold. Det är faktiskt så att man kände sej som ett medlem i Åkermanfamilien. Har aldrig innan eller efter kännt en som samhörighet.

/Anton!!

[denick]

Okay, I guess I said something wrong. No one has translated this one in 2 days. All those exclamation marks make me nervous.


Nick

[cekstam]

Sorry denick, here comes the translation

Thank you Robban and Nick!!!!
This ofcourse makes me very happy and proud. I actually felt like a member of the Åkerman family. I have never before, or after felt such a solidarity.

/Anton!!

Anton - Jag översatte bara rakt av vad du skrev.

[JohnE]

Hehehe
Everything is in its order denick. Robban translated your praises of Åkerman and this is Antons response:

"Thank you
Of course this makes me very happy and proud. Actually I did feel like a member in the Åkermanfamily. I have never before or after felt a relation [to my work] like that."



Edit: Too late, ekstam were faster.

[denick]

Tack ekstam och JohnE,

[Anton]

Tack pojkar, vad snälla ni är.

/Anton!!

[Robban_C]

Okay, I guess I said something wrong. ...

No, not at all. I just felt that it wasn´t that important to translate it and I didn´t realize that you could think that you had said something wrong.
And don´t worry if you do, we have a tradition of trying to deal with such misunderstandings in a mature and decent way. And we all know that different languages can be a barrier and a source of misunderstandings so we are extra careful when talking to our friends abroad.
And we actually have quite a lot of foreign members, besides people from the English speaking part of the world (and some other countries) there are lots of members from Norway (Norweigan and Swedish people usually find it very easy to understand each other) and from the Swedish speaking parts of Finland.

To ekstam, John and everyone else that translates:
I have done lots af translating for our foreign members but I really appreciates when someone else does it.


And a summary in Swedish:
Nick, trodde han sagt nåt fel men det hade han inte. Att jag inte översatte var bara för att jag kände att det kanske inte var av betydelse. Dessutom insåg jag inte att Nick kanske skulle tro att han sagt nåt fel.
Jag skrev också att vi brukar reda ut missförstånd på ett moget och trevligt sätt och att vi alla vet om att främmande språk kan vara en källa till missförstånd.
Och så ett par ord om våra övriga utländska medlemmar bl a från Norge och Finland.
Ja, ungefär så.

[Holger]