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Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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hiluxman said:
When you know you've 1 cog left and if you fluff it up. You going back down to try again.

Or some twat pulls out spoiling your run up.

Never a good feeling
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Wish I could find pics of my mates defender....few years back as a keen nipper he took his 90 and 12ft tipper loaded with Indian stone up a ruddy steep local lane ...defender ran out of of grip started sliding back he became a passenger at that point....😄😄😄 Ifor hit a bank and flipped onto its side ...he had to casually walk up the lane and ask his customer to come and ask him help unload and carry up the hill 😆😆😆 never lived it down.
Ifor was fine when empty just flipped it back up and still uses it to this day . The odd scratch as a tattoo.
 
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Monkeybusiness

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Lancs Lad said:
Wish I could find pics of my mates defender....few years back as a keen nipper he took his 90 and 12ft tipper loaded with Indian stone up a ruddy steep local lane ...defender ran out of of grip started sliding back he became a passenger at that point....😄😄😄 Ifor hit a bank and flipped onto its side ...he had to casually walk up the lane and ask his customer to come and ask him help unload and carry up the hill 😆😆😆 never lived it down.
Ifor was fine when empty just flipped it back up and still uses it to this day . The odd scratch as a tattoo.
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I was dragged backwards down a hill by a 2.5 tonne mulcher on a 12 foot Ifor after running out of momentum in a Disco 1. It’s not a nice feeling!!!
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Russell said:
I remember towing a 6' ldv convoy on a trailer with another ldv convoy, I ran out of puf in 1st on a hill and had to reverse back down to make another attempt.
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did you leave the one on the trailer at the bottom, go back, drive it up and reload it ? :giggle:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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Monkeybusiness said:
Had to collect this and drop it off at a farm on top of the biggest hill in the county View attachment 51688for a charity last week - it’s heading to Ukraine so probably hasn’t got the longest life left ahead of it! I was glad the MAN is auto!
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bet that was exciting -- assuming you could get anywhere near 40mph with it
 
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Monkeybusiness

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V8Druid said:
bet that was exciting -- assuming you could get anywhere near 40mph with it
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My van would probably drag it at 80 if I had the bollocks for it!
(I don’t think I saw 50 anywhere to be honest, it towed fine but I didn’t fancy my chances if the tail started wagging the dog…)
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
hiluxman said:
When you know you've 1 cog left and if you fluff it up. You going back down to try again.

Or some twat pulls out spoiling your run up.

Never a good feeling
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Looking for a site in Bargoed, early 80,s .. stopped to ask a milkman for directions - it's 5.45 and I'm in a TMS300 Grove .. like this, but with two chain boxes with about 2.5t of chains in and 10 half sleepers on the deck -- circa 33t...
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"take the second left and just keep going - it pops out opposite the site - I'm up and down it all the time " rounded a couple of corners and I am confronted by the mother of all hills ... :oops:o_O
13 cog Fuller Road ranger - lovely box but 3 ranges and 'heavy' .. I've run out of anything usable in high, as wasn't going overly quick to start with and I am rapidly running out of the five in low ...
going from low to crawler was an art - which I managed to pull off to perfection that morning ..
I was now in 3rd crawler and the 240 Cummins was groaning ... 3 to 2 was a long travel, but doubling down makes all the difference to making it and I still could see no end in sight to this fkn hill ... :cry:
eventually had to double it down into bottom crawler, pedal to the metal and prey ... (even with the weight of the machine 1st crawler was an awesomely powerful gear - once pulled a fully laden artic out of a stream with 1st crawler, like it wasn't there), but that's another story :rolleyes::giggle:
this 'road' came out onto a main-ish drag and there was no way I was gonna make a pull away ... anything coming was gonna see 5-6ft of jib and hook block appear, slowly, fore me an' the cab started to fill the road, followed by two axles wearing 13.00-20 wheels... and I was gonna want ALL the available road:oops::rolleyes:
crested that junction with about 400 revs to spare and most of the seat foam up my bum, to a thankfully empty road .. and damn me there was the site :oops: ...... never, ever, EVER ask a milkman for bloody directions :mad:
 
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Stroppymonkey

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replaced the injection pump on my disco 1 - didn’t get the timing right and for a few weeks it was gutless and smoking . Took a 2.5ton digger on my Ifor for a drive up my local very steep valley. I was all the way down to bottom box and in first and loosing power when I reached top. Made me sweat. Not as cool as V8s story though. My old non turbo MK4 transit used to run out of grunt regularly. Had to back down a hill for a run up a few times when towing with that one. Gutless banana engine that was, and blew it up at 90K.
 
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Russell

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I thought the banana engine's were supposed to be good but my dad's one failed with not many miles.
V8Druid said:
did you leave the one on the trailer at the bottom, go back, drive it up and reload it ? :giggle:
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I think the second run with a bit less mechanical sympathy did it, luckily it was a short hill.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Russell said:
I thought the banana engine's were supposed to be good but my dad's one failed with not many miles.

I think the second run with a bit less mechanical sympathy did it, luckily it was a short hill.
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only experience I have of banana manifolded engines were the 4ltr petrol's in the P38s ... and they were bullet proof - 4.6 blocks only bored to 4ltr and didn't suffer the porosity problems the 4.6,s did with not a lot less donkeys
 
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Stroppymonkey

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Stroppymonkey said:
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Well I got it tipping today, hooked it up to the E10 aux circuit. Negative draw bar weight when tipped, so I think the swivel will be safest ignored . Tafe has a quicke loader so will run 2 extra hoses under the seat and quick couple them onto the loader aux circuit. Nice and easy (ish). Just need to run a hose to get the lengths measured then the man next door should be able to sort me out with a pair of hoses.
 

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Lancs Lad

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Can't be many of these about ...that be a sound investment if you had the wonga
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Lancs Lad said:
Can't be many of these about ...that be a sound investment if you had the wonga
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Guy by me bought the Japanese drivers car camel livery can't remember names from about 10 years ish ago, bought i think for about 20k used to rent it out for big money track day and showing, sold last year for around 5-600k
 
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