Right, time to open up the archives again… 
Baumann from Bonn in action (nmp)
Some footage from the old German shoe box this time, all highly respected in the industry, some sadly not longer with us anymore, like Aug. Alborn.
These were bought second hand, apart from putting their name on it, I don’t think they ever went to the paintshop to be put in the Goll livery.
Going through the German shoe box collection, I stumbled upon these special MAN’s and tried to find some more info about it. Far as I can tell, only 8 of these beasts were build, 2 x 40.700 and 6 x 48.700, all in 8x8 form. These were the most powerful lorries at the time, and far ahead of their time, as we’ve only seen in recent years that Volvo and Scania entered the 700+ hp range.
Most went to South Africa, where they were employed by SAR and later on by Rotran. Not sure if they’re still out there, as I can only find one in Mammoet livery.
The ones pictured, were either tested or bought by both Aug. Alborn and Voss, but I can’t find any more info about what happened to both units.
Technical data sheet, it’s interesting to see how much the torque output of engines have changed, the third sheet is from the modern Volvo 16l engine.
pv83:
Meanwhile in Italy… pity there isn’t a more closer shot of the trailer
Would that be a Leyland Buffalo supplying the grunt. ?
Dig
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DIG:
Good day all
Some of you may know on the first of feb we had a large bush fire start here in West Aus it really was doozy travelled 20 kms the first day and destroyed 86 homes by the time it was brought under control, we evacuated from home 10pm the first night to our daughters home 10km away then got an order to evacuate from there at 2am ,we decided to stay that night but as you can probly imagine not much sleep.
The next day we just kept monitoring its progress via a very good appt on our computers meanwhile 2 jet powered arial water bombers flew in from NSW and those with a Hercules aircraft and 6 helicopters and some smaller aircraft attacked the fire from the air and later that day started laying a fire break with chemical retardant, at this time the fire had a perimeter of 110kms.
That night the winds picked up to 70km/h at times and i really thought we were in real trouble but the retardant held the fire enough for ground crews to keep on top of hot spots caused be burning embers and 2 more days of this saw the fire controlled and contained after burning some 11000hectares in 5 days .
Our thanks goes out to the aircraft and their ground support people plus the fire fighters on the ground many of who are belong to volunteer brigades without them the magnificent job they did we would have been in real trouble.
I know most of you that read this will have been shovelling snow having worked for BRS on the M1 in the bitterly cold nights of its early days when the cold was freezing the fuel all I can say is I think that I preferred that to what we have endured here of late.
We were lucky our home escaped any damage but our hearts go out to those that lost the lot.Cheers Dig
Heres a few photos
How’s the situation now in your neck of the woods DIG? As most of the snow and ice have disappeared here now, so hopefully everything is under control down there too… Isn’t it odd though that it wasn’t mentioned in the news over here? Not in the UK, France nor Holland… but a bit of snow and ice, a whole week of gloom and doom and the end of the world (according to the news that is…
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Thanks Patrick we have just received news that the all clear has be given to the fire affected areas they have had several crews patroling the area and dealing with any hotspots that may have been hiding waiting for conditions that would get the fire going again, and some rain has helped over the last week.
Don’t feel left out on the news front it didn’t get much interest shown in our eastern states,Perth is known as the most isolated city in the world there is some talk we should suscede from the rest of OZ but they won’t let that happen as we have most of the mineral and oil and gas wealth.
I can’t express thanks enough to all the people who combined their forces to fight this beast to a standstill we were very lucky. 
Cheers Dig
DEANB:
Some good pics there Patrick.Reckon the route planner wanted sacking looking at this pic…
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My first thoughts too Dean, but I wonder if enough weight could be put onto the drive axles, so that that errant front wheel could be ‘floated’ across that bit of ditch? It certainly looks as if they are already committed. 
It would certainly be interesting to know the outcome, any idea of source and date, Patrick?
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DEANB:
Some good pics there Patrick.Reckon the route planner wanted sacking looking at this pic…
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My first thoughts too Dean, but I wonder if enough weight could be put onto the drive axles, so that that errant front wheel could be ‘floated’ across that bit of ditch? It certainly looks as if they are already committed.
It would certainly be interesting to know the outcome, any idea of source and date, Patrick?
It does look strange, especially with that right front wheel being on the edge, but I think they’ve managed, otherwise they wouldn’t have put that pic in one of the company folders?! Haven’t got any more details I’m afraid David.
It’s quite remarkable what you can achieve with steering axles though, I had to offload a silo at a pencil factory in Bavaria this week and at first I thought the entrance to the site was going to be a pain in the bum, but it only took one shunt to get in! Does help if the man at the back is experienced too though, but still, long live remote controlled steering axles