.... balance the weight of the jib and load, so........
Hatfield Plant Auction c1979
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Hello tony,
Nice photo.thanks for posting. I've seen them do that before.
The machine looks like a Smith 26.
Fred
Nice photo.thanks for posting. I've seen them do that before.
The machine looks like a Smith 26.
Fred
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[quote="canaldrifter"].... balance the weight of the jib and load, so........
Hatfield Plant Auction c1979
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nearly happend to me when i worked for bcl plant went to collect there 22rb never sat in one in my life ,finaly figured out how to move it
then had to load it on a andover stepframe on a hill on a one way street in croydon i kept getting halfway up the ramp then it would slide back again it`s allright for the men who know how to drive them but i was only 28 at the time and only ever drove excavators,i suppose it would be better on a low loader .that is one job i don`t miss.especialy when you are on your own with no one to help
Hatfield Plant Auction c1979
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nearly happend to me when i worked for bcl plant went to collect there 22rb never sat in one in my life ,finaly figured out how to move it
then had to load it on a andover stepframe on a hill on a one way street in croydon i kept getting halfway up the ramp then it would slide back again it`s allright for the men who know how to drive them but i was only 28 at the time and only ever drove excavators,i suppose it would be better on a low loader .that is one job i don`t miss.especialy when you are on your own with no one to help
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Re: Balance weights are there to-
In the end I used another machine to pull that one upright by slewing it. It was a dead machine. We then towed it on to the trailer cross-carriage. Being dead, it took some securing. I couldn't find any way of locking the tracks. The tracks were so slack that even jamming the drive wheels with 6x6s wouldn't have worked.
I only had a couple of miles to travel, illegally, as it was wide. Sure enough, going round the one roundabout very slowly, a chain broke. It rolled sideways a few inches, but luckily a toggle caught in the tracks before it went too far.
I had to swing into a plant yard, just by the roundabout and ask them politely if they would push it back on centrally for me, which they did. Probably the dodgiest load I ever carried. We took some chances in those days.
RBs and the like were the only machines that I wouldn't drive on to the trailer myself. They were all pigs to drive, and all different, although their own drivers worked miracles with them, usually after a few bevvies.
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I only had a couple of miles to travel, illegally, as it was wide. Sure enough, going round the one roundabout very slowly, a chain broke. It rolled sideways a few inches, but luckily a toggle caught in the tracks before it went too far.
I had to swing into a plant yard, just by the roundabout and ask them politely if they would push it back on centrally for me, which they did. Probably the dodgiest load I ever carried. We took some chances in those days.
RBs and the like were the only machines that I wouldn't drive on to the trailer myself. They were all pigs to drive, and all different, although their own drivers worked miracles with them, usually after a few bevvies.
Tone
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