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hair bear wrote:Is the 6th down a Willem/Mol creation?

Not sure - I think it’s in Russia or the Ukraine.

Jeremy Rowland wrote:Is that a Pingon being used as a crane in the first photo? Most unusual, there is a Hymac 580C in the 5th photo down behind the Leyland Constructor cement mixer on its side, bet that was a fun recovery job not!

Jeremy

I know the feeling of that mixer driver Jeremy! Exactly the same thing happened to me on a 6 wheel Leyland Constructor fitted with Ritemixer drum

Whitlock 505 wrote:

Jeremy Rowland wrote:Is that a Pingon being used as a crane in the first photo? Most unusual, there is a Hymac 580C in the 5th photo down behind the Leyland Constructor cement mixer on its side, bet that was a fun recovery job not!

Jeremy

I know the feeling of that mixer driver Jeremy! Exactly the same thing happened to me on a 6 wheel Leyland Constructor fitted with Ritemixer drum

Not good Ian what happened, did the ground give way or was the weight enough to cause the mixer to tip over?

Jeremy

Steve

Jeremy Rowland wrote:

Whitlock 505 wrote:

Jeremy Rowland wrote:Is that a Pingon being used as a crane in the first photo? Most unusual, there is a Hymac 580C in the 5th photo down behind the Leyland Constructor cement mixer on its side, bet that was a fun recovery job not!

Jeremy

I know the feeling of that mixer driver Jeremy! Exactly the same thing happened to me on a 6 wheel Leyland Constructor fitted with Ritemixer drum

Not good Ian what happened, did the ground give way or was the weight enough to cause the mixer to tip over?

Jeremy

It was a road cut across a Welsh mountain side, just had the constructor back from ritemixer after they had fitted new chassis rails to the mixer unit, it was raining and the front wheels slipped off the track, tried to reverse out using diff locks and that only acted to straighten her up and pull it round down the slope, couldn’t get a machine round to support the pigs ear as I tried to empty the drum slowly, the weight of the concrete going up the drum was enough to send her over!

Scary Ian.

essexpete wrote:Scary Ian.

It was, the deafening silence until she hit the ground no mobile phone back in 1992 so went to a kiosk to ring the plant, by the time I got back somebody had jumped inside the cab and pinched the road fund license disc

Whitlock 505 wrote:

essexpete wrote:Scary Ian.

It was, the deafening silence until she hit the ground no mobile phone back in 1992 so went to a kiosk to ring the plant, by the time I got back somebody had jumped inside the cab and pinched the road fund license disc

Wow you really couldn't make it up about somebody pinching the tax disc on the bright side you were not hurt.

Jeremy

Steve

Nice one of the Poclain MC100 in the third photo down.

Jeremy