ALE.
Slightly less substantial than the previous post, but here’s what I’ve been up to in my absence from these pages. I’m going to do an LDD of an A to B 4,500 mile trip I recently did when time allows, so don’t hold your breath.
Great pictures thank you for posting, I wonder what a VOSA tester would make of them front wheel trims over here.
Dave.
dave docwra:
Great pictures thank you for posting, I wonder what a VOSA tester would make of them front wheel trims over here.Dave.
+1 but:-
Did someone park next to you with longer spikes NMC? 
Haha no David unfortunately that was a bolt, fortunately it was in a rest area and I was doing 10mph. I had 200k miles on the tyre so I got my money’s worth out of it.
I expect she’s had some weight on here back over the years
NMM your keeping busy good photos.
I have difficulty in working out how what appears to be what here inOz we call a single axle dolly works in a load sharing capacity hanging on the back.
Is that dozer new it looks about Cat D9 size if it is Cat but I didn’t think they are still in production without triangular tracks
Cheers Dig
DIG:
NMM your keeping busy good photos.
I have difficulty in working out how what appears to be what here inOz we call a single axle dolly works in a load sharing capacity hanging on the back.
Is that dozer new it looks about Cat D9 size if it is Cat but I didn’t think they are still in production without triangular tracks
Cheers Dig
Welcome back NMM, some great pic’s, cheers for sharing 
For the ones that aren’t familiar with these “hip” terms… LDD means Long Distance Diary? I’m sure there are lots of people on here that would be curious about that!
Bit of a bugger to have a flat tyre on the steering axle, at least it happened at walking pace mate. Looks like the edge of the bumper is touching the ground…?
Looks like a John Deere to me DIG, or a Komatsu, I think they’re the only ones that build their bigger ones with such tracks fitted, but I stand to be corrected…
robthedog:
I expect she’s had some weight on here back over the years
Weren’t these up for sale some time ago?
DEANB:
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Interesting article Dean, cheers mate.
It says that the Contractor was bought from the Finnish Elektricity Board, would there be an article about that somewhere?
Dig, you are correct it isn’t a D9, the CAT dozers down to the D6 have the high drive now. That was a Deere 1050K. The single axle booster has a hydraulic ram and a pump to adjust the weight that it takes, there’s nitrogen involved too, but don’t ask me what that does, it’s something to do with equalization.
They’re tricky things to get right, basically they act as a lever, the more weight you impose on it the higher it lifts the arse end of the trailer, thereby taking weight of the tridem, the downsides are that you can overload the jeep and far worse, if you put too much on it you can easily flip the whole thing in a tight corner, especially if the road has a significant camber.
Excellent pics there Patrick, you certainly have a lot of variety in your work. That Volvo looks good too, the diagonal stripe in the grille rather than under the windscreen totally transforms the look of those V4 FHs.
newmercman:
Dig, you are correct it isn’t a D9, the CAT dozers down to the D6 have the high drive now. That was a Deere 1050K. The single axle booster has a hydraulic ram and a pump to adjust the weight that it takes, there’s nitrogen involved too, but don’t ask me what that does, it’s something to do with equalization.They’re tricky things to get right, basically they act as a lever, the more weight you impose on it the higher it lifts the arse end of the trailer, thereby taking weight of the tridem, the downsides are that you can overload the jeep and far worse, if you put too much on it you can easily flip the whole thing in a tight corner, especially if the road has a significant camber.
Excellent pics there Patrick, you certainly have a lot of variety in your work. That Volvo looks good too, the diagonal stripe in the grille rather than under the windscreen totally transforms the look of those V4 FHs.
Cheers pal, I’m quite happy that “management” opted to have the stripe in the grille, as you say, looks much better this way.
Aye, lots of variety, keeps it interesting
Proper Scania Patrick not sure about the beacons on the front bumper, position bit unusual, yes no 
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Oily
If you look closely you can see the roof has been cut away to give enough clearance for something overhanging the cab, the beacons would be ripped off if they were mounted on the roof if clearance is that tight that they need to cut down the cab.
pv83:
Some pic’s for the Scania lovers among us (you know who you are!
Wonderful pictures 
pv83:
Some of the stuff I’ve been doing these past few weeks…
You’ve been a busy lad… Not sitting in home-office then - or is it more an “on the road home-office”…
Since Scania’s seem to be permitted on this page, I’ll erm… quickly post a video of a train being delivered by a certain Swedish make of lorry… The driving is not bad either - in Patrick’s league…
oiltreader:
Proper Scania Patrick not sure about the beacons on the front bumper, position bit unusual, yes no
Oily
newmercman:
If you look closely you can see the roof has been cut away to give enough clearance for something overhanging the cab, the beacons would be ripped off if they were mounted on the roof if clearance is that tight that they need to cut down the cab.
To give you a better example Oily and to back up NMM explanation, here’s a pic of a outfit loaded with a pile driver (perfectly legal to transport those things like this in Holland). That orange circus I used to work for once replaced a R cab for a P cab, but the V8 was to be retained, it took some modelling, but eventually the mechanics were able to get it right, to say that the interior was a bit cramped was a understatement with that chopped roof and massive engine hump!
I once had the “pleasure” of driving such a combination loaded with a pile driver from the yard to the workshop, first corners were really interesting, as the boom sticks out in front of the cab! Not for the faint hearted I assure you, some of the lads bring those machines into city centres, if it really doesn’t fit , than they’ll lift the boom up, otherwise it’s just “crack on drive, we’ve had bigger than that down here”…
