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Loading a dismantled overhead crane yesterday.
Very impressive!
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Loading a dismantled overhead crane yesterday.Very impressive!
On behalf of MAP I can thank you for the kind compliment you have posted “elsa Lad” This is just one of the many “high wide and heavy” jobs that are required by MAP to regularly undertake for their impressive list of Clients.
Kind Regards
Bewick.
Pickfords Bedford 1977.
oiltreader:
Netherlands 1954, the prime mover an Albion.
Oily
Great pictures oiltreader.
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Loading a dismantled overhead crane yesterday.
Impressive Mr Bewick. What was the overall length and weight?
A couple of wagons from the Dutch company VD Vlist.
This DAF is taking in the beautiful scenery in Switzerland. (William Scheper (@williamscheper) • Instagram photos and videos)
moomooland:
Taken in 1967 these two pictures show Edward Becks ‘Big Bopper’ hauling a 100 foot long crane gantry section
heading East down the B1308 Monks Road in Lincoln.
One of a total of eight sections destined for Scunthorpe steelworks this route was taken due to tight turns and narrow roads
in and around Lincoln and required a figure eight route through the city to get on to the north bound A15.
Both photographs were taken by the late John Charles Walker who sadly passed away in 2005.
ODB793 in later life Not my photos (found on net)
Love the cabs of those Fodens, and others of that era. The high seating position of the driver coupled with the low and almost horizontal angle of the steering wheel made for a very comfortable workplace in the days when power steering was a rarity. Plenty of leverage for strong arms. 
Spardo:
Love the cabs of those Fodens, and others of that era. The high seating position of the driver coupled with the low and almost horizontal angle of the steering wheel made for a very comfortable workplace in the days when power steering was a rarity. Plenty of leverage for strong arms.
That’s how I’ve always preferred my steering wheel: the flatter the better! I reckon Foden probably did the flattest of them all though. I remember being slightly disappointed by the then new E-series ERF’s steering wheel having a sharper rake than the previous, flatter C-series one.
pv83:
Some more from the Trail King archives.
Some hefty freight on these King trailers Patrick but I doubt they would be any good here in Oz as some of the cattle grids protrude a little above the road surface and I fear the trailers could belly out and have you worked out how the Boosters work they say they have shims to adjust the load sharing but it sounds like a bit hit and miss to me.
Do like those old Fodens.
Dig
Spardo:
Love the cabs of those Fodens, and others of that era. The high seating position of the driver coupled with the low and almost horizontal angle of the steering wheel made for a very comfortable workplace in the days when power steering was a rarity. Plenty of leverage for strong arms.
But not good for drivers of 6’ 5", I had to bend my legs around the wheel of our S39/S50 cabs to operate the clutch and then the gearlever got in the way! 
Pete.
windrush:
Spardo:
Love the cabs of those Fodens, and others of that era. The high seating position of the driver coupled with the low and almost horizontal angle of the steering wheel made for a very comfortable workplace in the days when power steering was a rarity. Plenty of leverage for strong arms.But not good for drivers of 6’ 5", I had to bend my legs around the wheel of our S39/S50 cabs to operate the clutch and then the gearlever got in the way!
Pete.
I had/have a theory that most tall people are only tall because they have long legs. The manager at Toray of the warehouse when I was transport manager and deputy to him in the warehouse, is 6’ 7" and a definite problem for me from a neck ache point of view as I am 5’ 6", but when together in a car we were the same height.
Years earlier at Shaw’s in Stapleford, there was a driver, Bootsie Brown, of similar height who seemed to have no problem with all their various wagons.
I can see where the relationship between legs and the wheel could cause your problem, but I think my theory proves the point if you tell me you had no trouble looking out through the top of the windscreen. 
Spardo:
windrush:
Spardo:
Love the cabs of those Fodens, and others of that era. The high seating position of the driver coupled with the low and almost horizontal angle of the steering wheel made for a very comfortable workplace in the days when power steering was a rarity. Plenty of leverage for strong arms.But not good for drivers of 6’ 5", I had to bend my legs around the wheel of our S39/S50 cabs to operate the clutch and then the gearlever got in the way!
Pete.
I had/have a theory that most tall people are only tall because they have long legs. The manager at Toray of the warehouse when I was transport manager and deputy to him in the warehouse, is 6’ 7" and a definite problem for me from a neck ache point of view as I am 5’ 6", but when together in a car we were the same height.
Years earlier at Shaw’s in Stapleford, there was a driver, Bootsie Brown, of similar height who seemed to have no problem with all their various wagons.
I can see where the relationship between legs and the wheel could cause your problem, but I think my theory proves the point if you tell me you had no trouble looking out through the top of the windscreen.
Tall folk have to have long legs as they wouldn’t reach the ground if they were any shorter.
Pete.
windrush:
Spardo:
windrush:
Spardo:
Love the cabs of those Fodens, and others of that era. The high seating position of the driver coupled with the low and almost horizontal angle of the steering wheel made for a very comfortable workplace in the days when power steering was a rarity. Plenty of leverage for strong arms.But not good for drivers of 6’ 5", I had to bend my legs around the wheel of our S39/S50 cabs to operate the clutch and then the gearlever got in the way!
Pete.
I had/have a theory that most tall people are only tall because they have long legs. The manager at Toray of the warehouse when I was transport manager and deputy to him in the warehouse, is 6’ 7" and a definite problem for me from a neck ache point of view as I am 5’ 6", but when together in a car we were the same height.
Years earlier at Shaw’s in Stapleford, there was a driver, Bootsie Brown, of similar height who seemed to have no problem with all their various wagons.
I can see where the relationship between legs and the wheel could cause your problem, but I think my theory proves the point if you tell me you had no trouble looking out through the top of the windscreen.
Tall folk have to have long legs as they wouldn’t reach the ground if they were any shorter.
Pete.
Got to feel sorry for them though, as you get older dropping things and having to pick them up is a regular occurrence. I should hate to have to go any further to accomplish that than I already have to. Every time I drop something I offer up a little prayer ‘thank you God for making my life a little easier and couldn’t you do a bit more for the poor giraffes please?’
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> but when together in a car we were the same height.
I find the same thing with Women, standing up we can be way apart - but Head to pleasure parts is always the same whichever way round you go
Pickfords Scammell Super Constructor.
