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A friend of mine Ivor Hannant was out their for 3 years he was on a crane. I think I could have handled being out there if I had something to do for 12 hours ,but 24 hours of boredom no way . As I had stopped drinking no way I could have stuck it out. Im sure a lot of the men out there were long te...

There must be forum members with experiences of this imo dreadful job. I went out there in August 1984 and have never experienced 5 months of total boredom . The journey getting there was an experience itself 14 hours Heathrow to Jbourg then 2 hours to Capetown. Then 12 days on The MV England throu...

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As Wullie was giving me a hard time over the oil on the boom ( :D ) had the stick ram off for a reseal: IMG_0223.JPG When i got the ram apart, found the piston seals in a state and the head seals hangin oot! bit of TLC and she was soon back together and on. SB Hi Stu, did a lot of these stick rams ...

argie wrote:One from the old scanned collection, West of Scotlands Liebherr R952.

Paul

Remember this one well from my Liebherr days
Innes

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This is mine "should foxhunting be banned?"

hi green dragon I think they had two of them if i think right they went for scrap when they were not to old. You may remember my dad Albert Tickhill(passed away 2 years ago cancer) :( .Was thinking someone must have a picture when they were clearing out fisherrow harbour.When they were pulling the ...

I gave up the computer a while back to get on with some work arround the house.Some got done and some didn't.My wife had our second child in late november 2009.He's called Tommy.Our first boy is called Teddy and is a cracker.Tommy however,is a bugger to say the least.He's not really into sleep :ins...

Welcome to the forum Ian. Blindwells was a very interesting site with a lot of big plant working there. Any pictures you have would be appreciated. Innes from Liebherr may chime in here too. :wave: I had an enjoyable time at Blindwells. I first went there in 1987 on hire from Wm Dow Plant Hire (Ban...

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Steve

Hi Steve,
I've heard of coiled springs but I didn't know they meant rope !!!!!!!!!!!1
Innes