Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:52 am
keepitbrief wrote:kieran cant seend mail to you mate??
keith
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Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:58 am
Keiran, do you remember a navvy driver called Len?, he was a bit overweight and he always had a little dog in the cab with him, he wore really thick lenses in his glasses, the last job he worked on for BCHC was a pipeline contact on hire to Ogdens up alongside the M6 somewhere, he hit some high voltage cables with the jib whilst slewing and I believe the banksman was killed because he was holding the brothers at the time!
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:54 pm
Pic from Bubbleman from Trucknet..................
Steve
Steve
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:29 am
This 61RB (?) is sporting a BCHC logo:
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:50 pm
IBH wrote:This 61RB (?) is sporting a BCHC logo:
KEEP EM COMIN IBH TNX
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:11 pm
Hope you like , My dad stan is far left.
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:08 am
Hi,
Here are two R&W Coles cranes in 1965 working on the demolition of the Crumlin Viaduct in South Wales. It was the tallest viaduct in Britain.
Fred
Here are two R&W Coles cranes in 1965 working on the demolition of the Crumlin Viaduct in South Wales. It was the tallest viaduct in Britain.
Fred
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:56 pm
keepitbrief wrote:hope you like
my dad is far left stan sutherland
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:28 pm
FOWLER MAN wrote:Hi,
Here are two R&W Coles cranes in 1965 working on the demolition of the Crumlin Viaduct in South Wales. It was the tallest viaduct in Britain.
Fred
Great photos Fred
looks a good hieght !!
Like to see the look on todays H&S officer's face if he had to inspect that they'd have a heat attack
Few quid in it for the weigh in with those girders, but interesting getting them down without losing the trestle columns
Dave
Re: Richards and Wallington
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 9:00 am
gah1950 wrote:hello chainmaker.
i can remember well the incident of the lorraine crane,it was doing a tandem lift of one of the girders on the walnut tree viaduct at taffs well nr cardiff.not sure of the crane that was basically sat on the a470 but during the lift the lorraine was pulled off the old railway track above and landed on the taff valley floor i cant remember any one getting seriously hurt in the incident. the main contractor was christiani shand and it was around 1969/1970.
graham.
I have a small piece of Cine film footage showing the aftermath of this incident as well as some of these huge cranes. I'm planning on uploading to YouTube. Let me know if your interested.