V8Druid
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fascinating story
Bucket on wheels
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Charlie
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V8Druid
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used to have an Edbro scissor lift flatbed ... gave you an 18'6" high work platform that'd lift 7.8t .... was originally an airport cargo/food handler for loading planes .. dismantled the 25ft box body, kept the ali plank floor, fitted new side raives and made it a set of side boards and drop in handrails ..... used to use it a lot for high level access and all sorts of things ... loading machinery in / out of 1st/2nd floors ... could chuck all yer gear/gas bottles/welding genny/materials on and press the button - remote start / stop / up / down and sat on 4 legs to level it up with
airside use only and had only done 50k miles ..... D series Ford - 18t on 2 axles - 10.00-20 wheels ..... had it for years and it drove well - popped along with its 6sp box and could carry 40+ft lengths easily .. bound to have some pix somewhere
will have some paper ones somewhere of it in use .... did a few jobs with it that'd've cost a fortune to scaffold and a few that'd've taken some doing by any other means
tinydigger
making machines look small since 1980
i have many hours clocked up driving them kinda wagons both half cab and cab set forward of the front axle in fact i used to be the trainer for them at one point. a favourite trick was to get them all set up an jacked to the max height with the new guy inside the body then hit the kill switch and leave them there for a while. also would flick the switch and override the body controls with the emergency cab controls rev the nuts off it and make it rise and lower a few times lol
V8Druid
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when the box body got dismantled I had to make it a waterproof wander lead for all the controls Andy ... stuck it on a 16 pin multiplug and it lived in the cab when not in use ... plus you had the masters in there too
.... always made sure there was a knotted climbing rope on the bed - in case .... that truck earned us some decent money over the years doing all sorts ... one mate of mine used to 'borrow' it to cut an enormous hedge at his old man's place .... and had to use trestles ON the bed to reach the top of it, 'til he gave it a hair cut .... had a great motor in it -- first flick-er ... I drove it onto that 8 legger in the last pic eagle eyed amongst you'll have spotted the 'different' roof on it ... funny story to that one
.....went over to Bristol one day with a whole mezzie structure on the back, to put it up for a mate in his unit ... wet, wild day, much like the recent weather and the old Severn bridge was 'interesting'
.... got to the middle of the bridge and was howling ... cab roof was flexing and making noises like a Rolf Harris's wobble board and suddenly the cab was a whole lot lighter and the only thing between me, the lad in the passenger seat and the sky was the headlining looked in me mirrors and was no sign of the roof panel ... guy in the truck behind us had a poker face, so'd obviously not seen it depart
.... or he'd've been wetting himself by the time we'd gotten to Nick's place in Fishponds we were ****ing drowned - was pissing down and the head lining was far from waterproof
.....spent the day assembling Nick's mezzie, 'fore driving home in the pouring rain ... was a long ride home
......on investigation, when we arrived, it would seem that the water standing in the gutter around the roof panel had eaten 95% of the roof panel edge (which'd been filled by the previous 'owners' to keep the water out) and the remaining 5% had just given up the struggle with the gale force winds ....
TBH I was surprised we'd not been turned around at the bridge ... was closed to high siders already, but she was a heavy old truck ....
took me a few days ringing around to find anyone that had a D series cab, I could cut the roof off of, but found one eventually and that's how come the paint job is as it was ... cut the pillars and changed the whole caboodle as the 'new' one had a fibre glass sheet rack and name lamp pod attached. Just never got around to painting it
Lancs Lad
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That be a good dashcam videowhen the box body got dismantled I had to make it a waterproof wander lead for all the controls Andy ... stuck it on a 16 pin multiplug and it lived in the cab when not in use ... plus you had the masters in there too
eagle eyed amongst you'll have spotted the 'different' roof on it ... funny story to that one
went over to Bristol one day with a whole mezzie structure on the back, to put it up for a mate in his unit ... wet, wild day, much like the recent weather and the old Severn bridge was 'interesting'
looked in me mirrors and was no sign of the roof panel ... guy in the truck behind us had a poker face, so'd obviously not seen it depart
by the time we'd gotten to Nick's place in Fishponds we were ****ing drowned - was pissing down and the head lining was far from waterproof
spent the day assembling Nick's mezzie, 'fore driving home in the pouring rain ... was a long ride home
on investigation, when we arrived, it would seem that the water standing in the gutter around the roof panel had eaten 95% of the roof panel edge (which'd been filled by the previous 'owners' to keep the water out) and the remaining 5% had just given up the struggle with the gale force winds ....
TBH I was surprised we'd not been turned around at the bridge ... was closed to high siders already, but she was a heavy old truck ....
took me a few days ringing around to find anyone that had a D series cab, I could cut the roof off of, but found one eventually and that's how come the paint job is as it was ... cut the pillars and changed the whole caboodle as the 'new' one had a fibre glass sheet rack and name lamp pod attached. Just never got around to painting it
V8Druid
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I often wondered if anyone in the bridge camera control room ever caught it .... was gone in a blink of an eye ..... Nigel the lad with me said WTF was that ... then looked up
........ was some bit wild that day
Charlie
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Lancs Lad
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Flip flops...and stick
bet he can dance
V8Druid
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Bucket on wheels
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Vinpetrol
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That is awesome engineering
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
it is ........ but the potential for disaster s huge
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Vinpetrol
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That kid is old school . The lever pattern isn’t conventional
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