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Re: Chaseside

Post #161 by FOWLER MAN » Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:51 pm

chenab wrote:With the cable loaders from the 1950s there is a lever with a weight (or disk) on the end on the drivers left side of the cab. What does that lever do?


The weight on the lever was an adjustable counterweight to hold the winch brake on when not in hoist or freefall.
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Post #162 by essexpete » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:19 pm

Fred did the driver simply release the brake to drop and how was the drum engaged?

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Post #163 by FOWLER MAN » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:09 am

essexpete wrote:Fred did the driver simply release the brake to drop and how was the drum engaged?


Hi Pete,
I don't know much about them realy but they did winch up and gravity down.
They were chain driven from the belt pulley drive on the side of the tractor.
If I remember rightly up and down was on one long lever and I think the brake was somehow self ennergising when the winch drive was dissengaged??
My cousins had one at a small quarry they used to work, but I was pretty young then, :lol:
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Post #164 by john » Sun Oct 18, 2015 3:49 pm

Hi Fred these might jog your memory
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Post #165 by essexpete » Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:33 pm

Hi John where did those come from! Brillaint photos and late example based on a new Major. I suppose the hydraulic Chaseside did not really emerge till '54 or '55 wouild that be right? Did the driver lift and lower with just one lever on the right?

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Re: Chaseside

Post #166 by shirtbox » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:49 pm

These were never made in Blackburn but at the old plant.


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Re: Chaseside

Post #167 by essexpete » Sat Oct 31, 2015 11:33 pm

Did the Switch to Blackburn follow the introduction of the Super Loadmaster range or was the Loadmaster range transferred from Herts to Blackburn?


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Re: Chaseside

Post #168 by hair bear » Sun Nov 01, 2015 1:43 am

Is there a reason for the rear tyres being fitted backwards from new?
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Re: Chaseside

Post #169 by mechman » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:52 am

Hair bear.
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Re: Chaseside

Post #170 by FOWLER MAN » Sun Nov 01, 2015 5:44 pm

hair bear wrote:Is there a reason for the rear tyres being fitted backwards from new?


Yes,
These loaders charged the heap and filled the bucket by virtue of their own momentum rather than traction.
The tractive effort was required to reverse out of the heap from a standing start with a fully loadad front axle.
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