Spardo:
Sadly they tell me they packed up with HH a long time ago.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Quite a sight to behold ! Must make Herr Sutherland very proud! 
Spardo:
Beau Nydel:
justpassing:
HTIsn’t this the unit that G.C.S. Johnson of Barton near Scotch Corner has as a show truck-the reg. seems familar.
If they did it might have been in the original form, I think Searson (or whatever his name was
) specialised in putting F88/89 cabs on Contractors.
Tom Llewellyn at Econofreight had similar ideas, once when my DAF was in for guarantie service up in their yard at Thornaby, they ‘put me up’, not in a local B&B, but in the converted sleeper cab of a Leyland Redline perched on a Scammel Contractor.
A bit of information about the HHT units when you click on the link above.
I read in an interview with Peter Searson that they opted for Volvo cabs because of the comfort it offered for the drivers Spardo, you should have been employed by HHT it seems
One thing I miss about these modern times that we’re living in, is the ability to come up with these self made units (as Heanor Heavy Haulage did) or heavily modified trailers (as Hill’s from Botley did among others). It’s obviously great that almost every truck and trailer maker can offer you a nearly tailored solution to your needs, but there’s just something about the idea that some lads in a greasy workshop came up with things that no one else thought about at the time.
jshepguis:
0Magnaload after loadout onto barge the older days with the lorries moving and providing power to the trailers, before the new SPMT (Self propelled modular trailers) that are mainly used now.
Quite the difference with how they do things nowadays jshepguis…
heavyliftnews.com/mammoets- … ery-video/
sarens.com/about/projects/world-record.htm
I read in an interview with Peter Searson that they opted for Volvo cabs because of the comfort it offered for the drivers Spardo, you should have been employed by HHT it seems
Yes Patrick, not sure what happened there though. I heard they wanted a driver and presented myself for a test. The bloke who went with me in a Big J (I think) and a loaded 40 foot trailer, was Big Neil, very senior there and who I had known for a long time. Everything went well, never put a foot wrong, snaking in and out of Ilkeston traffic, and Neil assured me he would put in a good word, but I heard nothing more. I should have got back in touch but jobs were 10 a penny in those days and, although I fancied adding HH to my CV I had other irons in the fire and carried on regardless. It was some years before I did anything approaching abnormal, at Econofreight.
pv83:
Buzzer:
BuzzerQuite a sight to behold ! Must make Herr Sutherland very proud!
Oh aye - Buzzer post some fine pictures of wagons in bonnie Scotland.
jsutherland:
pv83:
Buzzer:
BuzzerQuite a sight to behold ! Must make Herr Sutherland very proud!
Oh aye - Buzzer post some fine pictures of wagons in bonnie Scotland.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Nice one Buzzer.
Buzzer
The machine is a Norwegian Broyt face shovel no power to the wheels, the video shows how it gets about.
youtube.com/watch?v=3IFfn2f-ZMg
Oily
oiltreader:
The machine is a Norwegian Broyt face shovel no power to the wheels, the video shows how it gets about.
youtube.com/watch?v=3IFfn2f-ZMg
Oily
Love that machine, although I felt a bit queasy seeing him digging at the bottom of the slope with his back wheel in the air, I know that, done properly it is the right way to do
it.
I carried a half ton rock slung on the bucket down this slope which is steeper than it looks. At first it seems counter intuitive and the temptation to hang the bucket uphill as a counterweight is strong, but the sensible way is to have a leg downstairs thus only a few inches to fall before you have support.
