Classic Trucks with Plant

[hair bear]

Posted elsewhere but i thought here would be good.
edited to add... Not a rachet strap in sight! I think they were chained with dogs through the tow hitches front and rear, the rest was roped. A regular load for this truck.

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Hi all, a few pics of Bradshaw Plant Hire

[v8detroit]

I've got a permit like that, it applies after dark and at weekends!

How you doin' John? I've been meaning to get in touch.

hi Clive doing alright working on my house and put a new shed up in the yard .no work though it`s very bad here nothing doing.messing with the trucks got the k100 registered and taxed . cheers john

[bigkit]

Sorry to hear things are quiet there John. It has n't been too busy here with the lorry. Out everyday but I put it down to Xmas and the crap weather we are having. Turned down 2 dozer jobs stripping top soil for a new school and housing site! 'uck'ing mad, well thats a Balfour Beatty construction programme for you, it doesn't include a weather forecast! (or even looking out the window!) Twats.............but they got someone to do it, dozer landed 2 days ago!

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A few more of Bradshaws Plant Hire
Driven by either Mick Cartwright or Glyn Jones

[Mrsmackpaul]

a collapsable goosneck float or lowloader supose it depends on were your from unless your American then its a lowboy wonder did it lift up and down with a winch or rams dont seem to see many any more because of there weight at least in Australia thanks for sharing will have to find some piccys of mine to share seeya
Paul

[canaldrifter]

Don't know if you guys would be interested, but I'm a bit of a folk singer. I wrote this song years ago. I've just found this on YouTube, uploaded by my brother 15 months ago. The wagons were all ones I drove. It's had a few hits it seems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpU9vaP-9G4

Tone (with finger in ear)

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a collapsable goosneck float or lowloader supose it depends on were your from unless your American then its a lowboy wonder did it lift up and down with a winch or rams dont seem to see many any more because of there weight at least in Australia thanks for sharing will have to find some piccys of mine to share seeya
Paul

I think it was rope operated Paul, I will find out for sure when i next see Mick or Glyn next

Don't know if you guys would be interested, but I'm a bit of a folk singer. I wrote this song years ago. I've just found this on YouTube, uploaded by my brother 15 months ago. The wagons were all ones I drove. It's had a few hits it seems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpU9vaP-9G4

Tone (with finger in ear)

Great bit of singing there Tone Whats the instrument you are playing in Dream Captain called?

[canaldrifter]

Whats the instrument you are playing in Dream Captain called?

Thanks. The instrument is an autoharp. There is another track here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAdClw0qjys

All the accompanying shots were taken during the restoration of the Basingstoke canal by volunteers back in the 70s. The machinery was 'borrowed' (including DAF 2800 low loader) from sites where A L Peters & Sons plant was on hire, during one sunny Easter weekend. We put it all back and no-one was the wiser!

The 'navvy' with the split jeans was me!

cheers

Tone

[canaldrifter]

I had no idea this unedited footage existed until I stumbled over it this morning. It was uploaded to YouTube in Aug 2013.

It shows the loading of steam dredger, Perseverance, from the Basingstoke canal, en route to the canal museum at Ellesmere Port, in Oct 1993.

There is some nice tandem lifting by two mobile cranes and divers positioned the slings.

A good example of rear steer trombone trailer work, hauled by DAF 3300s.

My thanks go to canal enthusiast Nigel Durley, who filmed and uploaded it.

The irony of the last shot, wishing Perseverance good luck at the museum, is that it was just left to rust away due to lack of funds, after all that effort!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2NfJP2F3kw

Tone