Old French street scenes, there should be a lorry or van in there some where, …sorry if some have been posted before
R.I.P. SAVIEM
Like the construction sites, Fergie. At a firm I worked for we had a solitary Poclain among all the Hymacs and Preistmans. Going from a Hymac to the Poclain was akin to driving an AEC after being saddled with a Leyland- looked similar but far superior to operate.
I love the pictures of the old french towns and villages . Lovely spacious airy looking and unspoilt . I suppose they are now full of one way systems , yellow lines and all the usual tat decreed by the idiots of the eu .
Retired Old ■■■■:
Like the construction sites, Fergie. At a firm I worked for we had a solitary Poclain among all the Hymacs and Preistmans. Going from a Hymac to the Poclain was akin to driving an AEC after being saddled with a Leyland- looked similar but far superior to operate.
Cracking pictures Fergie,
I’ve noticed they like 3 piece sticks on their machines ROF and how about the length of that boom on the HC300! Cheer’s Pete
Retired Old ■■■■:
Like the construction sites, Fergie. At a firm I worked for we had a solitary Poclain among all the Hymacs and Preistmans. Going from a Hymac to the Poclain was akin to driving an AEC after being saddled with a Leyland- looked similar but far superior to operate.
Talking of AEC’s ROF…hope you noticed the badge on the wagon, second to last picture…
rigsby:
I love the pictures of the old french towns and villages . Lovely spacious airy looking and unspoilt . I suppose they are now full of one way systems , yellow lines and all the usual tat decreed by the idiots of the eu .
Me too, first trip over in the late '60’s wasn’t quite like that, but pretty close…still is in parts of Brittany… 
pete smith:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Like the construction sites, Fergie. At a firm I worked for we had a solitary Poclain among all the Hymacs and Preistmans. Going from a Hymac to the Poclain was akin to driving an AEC after being saddled with a Leyland- looked similar but far superior to operate.Cracking pictures Fergie,
I’ve noticed they like 3 piece sticks on their machines ROF and how about the length of that boom on the HC300! Cheer’s Pete
Thought I told you about posting while on holiday Smithy… 
Fergie47:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Like the construction sites, Fergie. At a firm I worked for we had a solitary Poclain among all the Hymacs and Preistmans. Going from a Hymac to the Poclain was akin to driving an AEC after being saddled with a Leyland- looked similar but far superior to operate.Talking of AEC’s ROF…hope you noticed the badge on the wagon, second to last picture…
rigsby:
I love the pictures of the old french towns and villages . Lovely spacious airy looking and unspoilt . I suppose they are now full of one way systems , yellow lines and all the usual tat decreed by the idiots of the eu .Me too, first trip over in the late '60’s wasn’t quite like that, but pretty close…still is in parts of Brittany…
pete smith:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Like the construction sites, Fergie. At a firm I worked for we had a solitary Poclain among all the Hymacs and Preistmans. Going from a Hymac to the Poclain was akin to driving an AEC after being saddled with a Leyland- looked similar but far superior to operate.Cracking pictures Fergie,
I’ve noticed they like 3 piece sticks on their machines ROF and how about the length of that boom on the HC300! Cheer’s PeteThought I told you about posting while on holiday Smithy…
It’s tipping it down and Mrs Smithy is watching that Mrs Browns Boys on the TV…what a load of dross that is!
Fergie47:
Construction wagons…
Nice ones Fergie, cheers!
Those Poclain’s reminded me of one I’d saw once when I was stranded in the Czech Republic, don’t know if it indeed was a Poclain or just a cheaper alternative…
Same goes for the other machines, haven’t got the slightest idea about what make they are…
Some pic’s from the past week, loaded another piece of (Liebherr) scrap in Strasbourg, now that place was some sort of minefield, lots of used “rubber” was lying about, lot of…er…“intercoursing” going on there at night I reckon… 
Managed to keep me feet dry though thank you very much
Cheers, Patrick
pv83:
Some pic’s from the past week, loaded another piece of (Liebherr) scrap in Strasbourg, now that place was some sort of minefield, lots of used “rubber” was lying about, lot of…er…“intercoursing” going on there at night I reckon…
Managed to keep me feet dry though thank you very muchCheers, Patrick
Your motor certainly contrasts with the oldies…nice pics Patrick …
Fergie47:
pv83:
Some pic’s from the past week, loaded another piece of (Liebherr) scrap in Strasbourg, now that place was some sort of minefield, lots of used “rubber” was lying about, lot of…er…“intercoursing” going on there at night I reckon…
Managed to keep me feet dry though thank you very muchCheers, Patrick
Your motor certainly contrasts with the oldies…nice pics Patrick …
Cheers mate!
And bair in mind that my noble stead is becoming a classic itself as well… still keeping it’s earn though
This might be of interest (hopefully 
), not to far from where I live, they’ve lifted and transported a 325t generator, came in at first on a pontoon, the generator then was lifted and placed on a set of SPMT’s and transported to it’s momentarily resting place, alongside the motorway at a petrol station.
Next week part 2 of the operation will take place… 
Cheers, Patrick
Thanks Patrick. Quite a task to transport it!
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jsutherland:
Thanks Patrick. Quite a task to transport it!Sent from my Hol-U19 using Tapatalk
Aye, took some proper planning I reckon
Great contributions continue, credit to all those involved, then again it hits home that we are so missing the comprehensive and detailed response from our dear departed Saviem, a man held in such high regard in life will surely live on in character ad infinitum.
A Unic in Russia.
Oily
Evening gentlemen as Saviem often said in his openings in his postings on here, as I have already said before I never got to meet John but like many on this thread you felt like you had known him all his life. His contributions on TNUK from his vast knowledge within the transport Industry world shared with us all and don’t we just miss his input.
Now I have thought hard about weather to share the following item with all the followers of this thread and have decide that I would, back in January 2013 I sent a PM to John asking for a brief resume of his career as I found his posts of great interest and always with the detail from his evergreen memory and in his pleasurable manner back came the reply.
Now some of you will have known him personally and met him but I was not one of those lucky ones and that’s my reason for asking this of him, hope this does not offend anyone but I am confident that under the circumstances John aka Saviem would not have minded, Buzzer
Thank you for sharing that Buzzer. We’re all missing his wit and wisdom.
John