This e'll stop Em?

tiderus

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You know when we get blamed, and moaned at for holding up the traffic.

Well not as much as a caravan.

How do you fancy driving one of these.

(Woudn't want to replace a tyre)?

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Rgd's Graham.
 
Good grief, what is it?

I used to know an old **** of a Farmer who lived near Thurlestone in South Devon and he used to take his Combine out for a drive at weekends and Bank Holidays.
 
Ooooooow!!! I nearly swooned there for a minute. A Volvo VH12 hauling a bit of mining kit. I love big machinery. I know I;m sad but there you have it :mad1:
 
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My son used to work on kit like that. Big spanners needed!

As regards mh holding up traffic, there have been a few instances when I've had a queue of traffic behind me, doing 30 mph in a 60 mph zone. What the drivers behind can't see is that I'm stuck behind some stupid idiot - usually in a Rover - who is causing the problem and of course they are all cursing me.

I once sent an email to Ken Bruce on Radio 2 explaining this very point and he did read it out on air.
 
Back in the days I was towing a caravan, my best combo was a Daimler 4ltr straight 6 with a 13' Eccles of 1973 vintage. We could do 90mph & it didn't take long to get there. Overtaking a 7 car queue coming out of a cornet using the kick-down was great fun.
 
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Back in the days I was towing a caravan, my best combo was a Daimler 4ltr straight 6 with a 13' Eccles of 1973 vintage. We could do 90mph & it didn't take long to get there. Overtaking a 7 car queue coming out of a cornet using the kick-down was great fun.
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Did you ever used to get there with the 'van still attached?:lol-053:
 
That looks like the chassis part of a mine haul dumper truck. Those massive Tonka trucks you see hauling mineral ore out of open cast mine sites.

They are transported as a chassis and body separately or it would'nt get under any bridges!!

Probably a Komatsu, Terex, or Liebherr.

I used to machine the 78 litre V18 engine blocks that are used to power them in one of my previous jobs. All heavy stuff but from a machining point of view, really interesting work.
 
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