"Heavy Haulage through the years"

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Is that a wagon from that firm that was on the telly?

Yes Patrick a former Heavy Haul truck with a million dollar paint job unfortunately was sold off in the receivers sales,I.m not sure if its now West Aus based and the other photos are also W model Kenworths the red one I owned and the other other I drove during the late 70s in the cattle industry.

Dig

This Kenworth may bring back some memories Dig.

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Cheers Dean, reading the article already got me sweating!

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Some old adverts...

[oiltreader]

Various
Oily

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Can't fool me Oily, is this the wagon you use when you play "heavy haulage" on your game console? Don't blame the grandkids now

[oiltreader]

Can't fool me Oily, is this the wagon you use when you play "heavy haulage" on your game console? Don't blame the grandkids now

Just testing Patrick what's a game console
Oily
One for you to dream on.

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Can't fool me Oily, is this the wagon you use when you play "heavy haulage" on your game console? Don't blame the grandkids now

Just testing Patrick what's a game console
Oily
One for you to dream on.

Beats me Oily, you'll have to ask the younger ones on here...

Looks nice, but who's going to polish all that chrome?

[Fergie47]

Old French wagons ..

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Cheers Senior

This one is interesting, I reckon it's modified with that glass house to instruct new tank drivers?

I took a Leopard from Holland to Kraus Maffei in Munich once that was fitted with such a instructor pod, it was going to be fitted with a aircon unit on top of the pod because apparently temperatures reached the higher numbers during the summer...

Got a photo of it somewhere, I'll dig it up once I'm home again.

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[newmercman]

That's what's known as a Cali 9, it appears to have a California plate, which makes sense. They don't like tridem bogies down there, so instead of running a tridem and single axle booster, like you can in 47 other states, you need a very heavy duty tandem and a tandem booster.

[newmercman]

A tree feller/buncher and a stripped for shipping container fork lift that have kept me busy for the last few weeks. The forklift was made in Louisville Mississippi by Taylor, I did two of them, one up to Toronto and one to Edmonton, the feller/buncher got me home from Edmonton and delivered 10mins away from my place.

[rsg1234567]

A tree feller/buncher and a stripped for shipping container fork lift that have kept me busy for the last few weeks. The forklift was made in Louisville Mississippi by Taylor, I did two of them, one up to Toronto and one to Edmonton, the feller/buncher got me home from Edmonton and delivered 10mins away from my place.

Pretty truck....shame about the driver , as Alex deborgorski used to say lol...

Looks like your headlight lenses are starting to get hazed from all those miles your doing, when you switch em, have you considered those ones with the black interiors...look really mean them ones

BTW where's the roo bar we are all waiting to see fitted, especially with all that cash your in your pockets now ?

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A tree feller/buncher and a stripped for shipping container fork lift that have kept me busy for the last few weeks. The forklift was made in Louisville Mississippi by Taylor, I did two of them, one up to Toronto and one to Edmonton, the feller/buncher got me home from Edmonton and delivered 10mins away from my place.

Nice batch again NMM, cheers

Just wondering why the forklift was stripped of it's axles..?

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Back in the day... when going into London wasn't such a hassle...

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Fergie's idea of getting the job done rapidly...

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Spot the differences...

[DIG]

That's what's known as a Cali 9, it appears to have a California plate, which makes sense. They don't like tried bogies down there, so instead of running a tridem and single axle booster, like you can in 47 other states, you need a very heavy duty tandem and a tandem booster.

Sorry NMM you have me buggered now with tridem bogies tried and single axle boosters etc seem like its a different ball game over your way compared to the rest of the world still one thing we all have in common are the people who make the rules generally confusing for the men who do the job.

Tell me are those front wheel nuts on your prime mover got extensions ?

Dig

[newmercman]

Rsg123456789, I have LED bulbs in those headlights, they're very good lights, especially on high beam. I'm going to get the big bumper soon, I'm undecided which style to go for though, it will be a Herd, but which one I don't know, either the Big Tex or the Super Road Train.

PV83, the axles come off to keep the weight down,, that body weighed 80,000lbs, any heavier and it would need another axle. The mast, axles and wheels all go on a flatbed, together they weigh 45,000lbs so it makes a legal load, so it's the cheapest way to move it.

Dig, yes those spikes are extensions, they're only plastic chrome screw on things, they're completely legal too.

[Fergie47]

Older foreigners

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Those pictures of the DAF 8 wheeler jogged my memory Senior, was new in the Van Seumeren fleet, and sold on to Van 't Hek, I always thought Saan had it too, but that's another ex-Van Seumeren unit as I just found out...

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Found it! This is the other one I was on about.

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Van 't Hek used to buy "very well" used second hand units, this modified DAF was new in the v.d. Vlist and when it was worn out it was sold to Van 't Hek who had it for several years, giving sterling service...

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A bit o homegrown Patrick, courtesy of eastleighbusman.
Oily

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A bit o homegrown Patrick, courtesy of eastleighbusman.
Oily

Cheers Oily

[Fergie47]

Found it! This is the other one I was on about.

Nice one whips...I can't imagine the cost today of one of these heavies, if a normal tractor is around 100K euro.....what cost a 4 or 5 axle for the really big stuff... any idea ?...no wonder smaller companies buy second hand..

[EDTRUCK]

Fergie47, I bought two 250t 8 wheel heavy tractor units in the last 3 months, one brand new at just over 400k Euros, a 12 month old slightly used one at 130k Euros!

I'm glad I don't do that too often!,

Ed

[DEANB]

Patrick, what make is the truck pulling the statue of a horse. Possibly a early Scammell ???

Looks like along wheel base on the Renault unit.

Dyson trailer looked like a serious bit of kit back in 1964.

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Crane trailers advert from 1962.

[Fergie47]

Fergie47, I bought two 250t 8 wheel heavy tractor units in the last 3 months, one brand new at just over 400k Euros, a 12 month old slightly used one at 130k Euros!

I'm glad I don't do that too often!,

Ed

Thank you Ed...So Wow then,..... plus those multi wheeled trailers, maybe 28 axles, plus beams, all those tyres, and fuel, and well paid drivers (hopefully) and you could be looking at a half a million pounds worth of gear before the load goes on........far cry from my F89 and a tri-axle semi low , about 10k tops....
I've a photo somewhere of SCALE's outfit, 26 or 28 axles, double beams, with one pulling and two pushing......a lot of money tied up in that outfit, I'll see if I can find it.....





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[Fergie47]

Can't find the photo I was thinking about, but these are near enough to give an idea...cost that lot up eh ..

[Fergie47]

Here's how it use to be done...