Stepthru asked for some shunter pics. Heres a couple to get started.
Found it at Snowies yard near Stirling back in August. I don’t think it is theirs as Carntyne are (were?) leasing the yard from them. All the Snowie wagons which I was hoping to get had been sold to Oran Waste and moved to their yard.
thats the sort of thing I’m looking for!
cheers
this is the dog i used to go in and do overtime on a sunday shunting trailers round the yard (doddle of a job)
it had proberbly been of the road about 2 years
jon
here is a few of the ones i have seen on my travels, think they have all been in t&d…
and the one which was still on the road when i worked there…
These ones have the added attraction of being currently for sale if you fancy a project!!!
…old ERF
…GUY Warrior
…Foden
check out the website, http://www.rushgreenmotors.com
chorcheela:
…GUY Warriorthat looks like a proper animal!!!
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What about that one then, an Atkinson from the 60’s…
…and that one■■? an old Seddon diesel tractor 
The last two are at Rush Green - they won’t leave unless a significant amount of money changes hands either…
marky:
The last two are at Rush Green - they won’t leave unless a significant amount of money changes hands either…
and they’ll need a little bit of attention before they go shunting too 
Denis F:
marky:
The last two are at Rush Green - they won’t leave unless a significant amount of money changes hands either…and they’ll need a little bit of attention before they go shunting too
Ok, the last two aren’t shunters (well not in the last 20 years anyway…I got a bit carried away!!!
They do look a bit beyond a viable restoration to’ I would have thought!!
are Rush Greenknown for being particularly pricey then>?>
Looking on their site they seem to have an awful lot of vehicles returning to nature!
stepthru:
are Rush Greenknown for being particularly pricey then?
Hysterically so - yes.
The fact that there’s so much stuff in there that hasn’t moved since it arrived (in some cases over 40 years ago) is a good enough indication that they aren’t known for parting with stuff easily.
marky:
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Hysterically so - yes.The fact that there’s so much stuff in there that hasn’t moved since it arrived (in some cases over 40 years ago) is a good enough indication that they aren’t known for parting with stuff easily.
seems a shame – there’s some nice old wagons on that website…
do they mind people visiting to take pics or should I be “looking for a part…” if I go??
chorcheela I remember when those Seddons first came out. BRS Ipswich had a couple & they were the biz in those days. I was trundling round in a clapped out Leyland Comet.
Heres a snap of our companies shunter, next to the newest motor we’ve got 
Mine is the new one. Thats the one with the three pointed star on the front.
No, mine isn’t the shunter before you ask, the MAN Roadhaus is. 
And heres a few of a local restoration project.
i do like those ERFs esp with that range of cabs - much nicer imo than the B series.
I;ll have to try and get a picture but a colleague’s plant hire yard still has a 70’s Foden unit (no idea what model) shunting - it’s a smoky old beast – but i can report from a test on a “private road” that it goes like a train though!!
very very strange gearbox to a youngster like me though!
It’s a Jennings-built 3LV - at least 7 years prior to the SP-cabbed B-Series.
Nice seeing the old ERF 8 legger, i’ve always thought an 8 wheeler looks
just right . Don’t know what the model it was but i drove an ERF with an
earlier cab than that, it was round at the front with a big oval in the middle,
man, was it ugly, but i liked it 
Charles
I drove the artic version of that ERF with a ■■■■■■■ 180. It went like stink .A good truck at the time.