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by hair bear
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:11 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961513
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024

I guess the line shaft would be from the Thorneycroft factory.
by hair bear
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: For sale
Topic: Spotted for sale - Schmiedag crawler
Replies: 2
Views: 259
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Re: Spotted for sale - Schmiedag crawler

Don't know if this is Whitlock?

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by hair bear
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:23 pm
Forum: For sale
Topic: Spotted for sale - Schmiedag crawler
Replies: 2
Views: 259
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Spotted for sale - Schmiedag crawler

Thought you might be interested...
1966 SCHMIEDAG CRAWLER WITH POWER LOADER & BUCKET
http://www.dmhtractors.co.uk/Tractors.html
by hair bear
Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:50 pm
Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
Topic: What switch for manifold heater?
Replies: 1
Views: 250
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Re: What switch for manifold heater?

Put a test light or voltmeter between the heater supply lead and battery earth. Turn the key slowly and somewhere between 'ign on' and 'start', you may see the light come on or a current register. If not, try turning the key backwards, see if that does anything.
by hair bear
Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961513
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 03/03/2024

Is the first pic Thelwall?
Like to know the result of the winching operation.
by hair bear
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:42 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961513
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 24/02/2024

'No waiting this side today'. I've seen signs in Belgium where the parking is odd days one side evens the other, but never anything similar here.
Who didn't have the Lesney model of the little Case?
I guess the bus is an early welfare unit.
by hair bear
Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:38 pm
Forum: Tractors
Topic: MF 20 INDUSTRIAL TRACTOR full restoration
Replies: 13
Views: 6999
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Re: MF 20 INDUSTRIAL TRACTOR full restoration

Hi, superb job.
Occasionally an industrial would have front mudguards (an option maybe?), have you ever seen any or know where I could get some?
by hair bear
Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961513
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 11/02/2024

In the second Berliet photo, I don't think I've ever seen other dumpers with a clevis/eye fitting for locking the body in the tipped position. If I were planning a quarry, and had the machinery available, I'd sure have done something about the rock on the top of the cliff above the plant building! I...
by hair bear
Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:26 am
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961513
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 04/02/2024

He's got a flat cap and a donkey jacket - how much more ppe do you need?
The second picture looks like a scale mock up of the NASA VAB. Maybe that's where they filmed the moon landings and are destroying the evidence. Surroundings don't look much like Florida though.
by hair bear
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961513
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 27/01/2024

Poor old boy with the pick is going to be there a while.
What's with the tailboards on the Renault tippers?

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