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Balance weights are there to-

Post #1 by canaldrifter » Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:44 pm

.... balance the weight of the jib and load, so........

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Hatfield Plant Auction c1979

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Post #2 by Neversweat » Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:58 pm

Oops :D :D

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Post #3 by FOWLER MAN » Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:28 pm

Hello tony,
Nice photo.thanks for posting. :thumbup: I've seen them do that before. :doh:
The machine looks like a Smith 26. :think:
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Post #4 by v8detroit » Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:21 pm

[quote="canaldrifter"].... balance the weight of the jib and load, so........

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Hatfield Plant Auction c1979

Tone[/quot
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 :dizzy: i kept getting halfway up the ramp then it would slide back again :doh: 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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Post #5 by canaldrifter » Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:12 pm

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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