Grader operator Charlie Hutchinson is as humble as he is hard-working. The failed retiree explains to LAURA TURNER why he's still working 60-hour weeks at the age of 82 - and has no plans to stop.

OUT on Benetook Avenue, through the traffic and past the trucks barrelling down to Fifteenth Street, a grader churns through the dirt about 300m off the side of the road.

The big yellow machine moves u...