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Great pics. Sad when things go wrong trying to do the right thing
V8Druid
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last few for a while' 'til I sort through some more pix and take some digitals of them .....
think you've all maybe seen some pix of this little girl ... Ransome Rapier HS10, self propelled, mobile crane ...
Perky 6354, torque converter and 3 sp FWD/REV - (can't recall the name of the TC or box - it'll come to me) - 4 x 4 - 48ft of full tele boom -
would comfortably do 5t FOW-360 and supposedly 8t on jacks - I've had 10 on it no sweat whatsoever - drastically under-rated weapon.
Bought from Tredegar NCB site when it closed - kids had destroyed the dash and I had to completely rewire it plus half the machine AND the bloody SLI
.. got there though and it turned in many years of reliable service ... eventually had the tranny recon.ed by the makers and the engine rebuilt by Perkins (they were a joke - smoked worse after, than before - couldn't find me a new lump for it - crane spec. was unavailable .. it still ran fine - just got smokey - might as well 've not bothered - Perkins failed to cure how it came back - supposedly as a new engine, in my block )
was an utter bitch to get out of the machine - built around it I reckoned and worse to get back in - a very long day to just physically get it back in with the box and transfer attached - impossible to get out or in separately - was some lump !!
she earnt some money over the years though, fair play and was exceptionally reliable .. always fancied an HS16 but could never find one
one you will have glimpsed earlier -- our old F86 .. great little truck and 'd tow like a train .. as said before got replaced by the Cruiser, for the ability to recover the bigger machines (if necessary, which it was occasionally) -- IIRC she was on a j plate and pretty good in the body - motor ran like a Swiss watch
and that's yer lot 'til I have a further sort through
think you've all maybe seen some pix of this little girl ... Ransome Rapier HS10, self propelled, mobile crane ...
Perky 6354, torque converter and 3 sp FWD/REV - (can't recall the name of the TC or box - it'll come to me) - 4 x 4 - 48ft of full tele boom -
would comfortably do 5t FOW-360 and supposedly 8t on jacks - I've had 10 on it no sweat whatsoever - drastically under-rated weapon.
Bought from Tredegar NCB site when it closed - kids had destroyed the dash and I had to completely rewire it plus half the machine AND the bloody SLI
.. got there though and it turned in many years of reliable service ... eventually had the tranny recon.ed by the makers and the engine rebuilt by Perkins (they were a joke - smoked worse after, than before - couldn't find me a new lump for it - crane spec. was unavailable .. it still ran fine - just got smokey - might as well 've not bothered - Perkins failed to cure how it came back - supposedly as a new engine, in my block )was an utter bitch to get out of the machine - built around it I reckoned and worse to get back in - a very long day to just physically get it back in with the box and transfer attached - impossible to get out or in separately - was some lump !!
she earnt some money over the years though, fair play and was exceptionally reliable .. always fancied an HS16 but could never find one
one you will have glimpsed earlier -- our old F86 .. great little truck and 'd tow like a train .. as said before got replaced by the Cruiser, for the ability to recover the bigger machines (if necessary, which it was occasionally) -- IIRC she was on a j plate and pretty good in the body - motor ran like a Swiss watch
and that's yer lot 'til I have a further sort through
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Oh I tell a lie ..... just saw these as I was checking what I'd taken ......
NO - we weren't on fire .... local fire service (retained) use to come around every couple of months for a bit of practise - had a river about 100 ft away so they always had loads of water available to play with
was in the days when we used to have a contract, servicing and maintaining the Red & White fleet for Aber and Brecon - 16 in all .. could get busy on times - looks to be late in the day there with a few in the yard ... they'd usually offer to wash 'em down, but generally made more mess than it was worth and stood a good chance of blowing the windows in ... yard always got a good hose down though
can just see the boom tip/cat head of my 30t TMS300 Grove on the left, (the blue one - ex London crane hire), next to the TMS 180's front end .. 8 legger, 6 pot Cummins 240 (IIRC) - usual 13sp Road ranger and a right hooker (unusually) 84 ft of tele, plus another 20ft of manual extension and another IIRC 22ft of swing away .... got some pix somewhere of the surrounding view from the top of the 104ft in a man basket - had the boom out greasing the pads one day and some of the guys asked for a ride - only two volunteered for a second go ....... the TMS300 was a little bit smaller than the TMS 475 .... but not a lot -- lighter boom and smaller ballast
the bus fleet contract was one of the main reasons for the f86 initially .... aging fleet of clapped out heaps, that'd had little attention in sooome time and 95% animals driving them ... we'd generally have to haul in 3 or 4 week when we started, but got that down to less than one a week after a month or two doing them ..... had three full time fitters and a part timer too - were also very useful for our own crane 'fleet' too and later took on several maintenance / six weeklies, for several small hauliers ... did it for many years, 'til Stagecoach bought R&W and the bills got slower and slower getting settled ... reached a point where I impounded all of their buses in the yard, 'til they settled in full ... was no buses 'round here for close to a week .. once in the bank, kicked 'em out - permanently ... left them high and dry with the traffic commissioners - tossers.
NO - we weren't on fire .... local fire service (retained) use to come around every couple of months for a bit of practise - had a river about 100 ft away so they always had loads of water available to play with
was in the days when we used to have a contract, servicing and maintaining the Red & White fleet for Aber and Brecon - 16 in all .. could get busy on times - looks to be late in the day there with a few in the yard ... they'd usually offer to wash 'em down, but generally made more mess than it was worth and stood a good chance of blowing the windows in
... yard always got a good hose down thoughcan just see the boom tip/cat head of my 30t TMS300 Grove on the left, (the blue one - ex London crane hire), next to the TMS 180's front end .. 8 legger, 6 pot Cummins 240 (IIRC) - usual 13sp Road ranger and a right hooker (unusually) 84 ft of tele, plus another 20ft of manual extension and another IIRC 22ft of swing away .... got some pix somewhere of the surrounding view from the top of the 104ft in a man basket - had the boom out greasing the pads one day and some of the guys asked for a ride - only two volunteered for a second go
....... the TMS300 was a little bit smaller than the TMS 475 .... but not a lot -- lighter boom and smaller ballast the bus fleet contract was one of the main reasons for the f86 initially .... aging fleet of clapped out heaps, that'd had little attention in sooome time and 95% animals driving them ... we'd generally have to haul in 3 or 4 week when we started, but got that down to less than one a week after a month or two doing them ..... had three full time fitters and a part timer too - were also very useful for our own crane 'fleet' too
and later took on several maintenance / six weeklies, for several small hauliers ... did it for many years, 'til Stagecoach bought R&W and the bills got slower and slower getting settled ... reached a point where I impounded all of their buses in the yard, 'til they settled in full ... was no buses 'round here for close to a week .. once in the bank, kicked 'em out - permanently ... left them high and dry with the traffic commissioners - tossers.
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V8Druid
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few for tonight then bed ......
the TMS 300 mentioned above ... must have some pix somewhere, but this is all I've found in the bundle I tripped over in the attic .....
doing her thing In Bawn Bro.s Foundry, Aberbeeg standing and installing a mould sand silo ... managed to 'tail' it with a couple of Bobcats under the legs ... Derek and his Bro., sold their site to Tescos and retired a year later - been going decades, but they had a serious pull and mountains of scrap too
and the TMS 475 at the local hospital, 'doing its thing too, lifting sheet packs onto the roof ... the one pic has been up before somewhere .. she was a lump of a tool ... don't appreciate it 'til you'm alongside her
looks like me stood beside the driver's door
this is how I bought my 18t lift bed truck ..... could see the potential immediately -- with the pink bit removed ... a foggy day in Aber ... she'd go up 18ft above GL - from the platform - put yer eyes at around 23ft
dismantled the glasron box off it, leaving a beautiful ali planked bed .. new side raives, dismantle-able head tree, side, head and tail boards and a full set of drop in handrailing for use as a platform ....
she made a great truck - could carry and lift 7.5t ...
ex airport food carrier for loading jets ...
been airside all her life and done under 50k miles, six speed box and drove real well
loaded with a large fire escape/access stair case, made for a local Jo JO Kingdom hall - 3 storey job - still there and see it often ...
built the two platform structures as a lump and then bolted the flights between 'em after craning them into place.
was the beauty of having our own lifting ....
often created with a view to simply lifting in at our convenience ...
I'll get a pic of these, in place, next time I'm passing them ...
would've taken some time to assemble on site in kit form and a damned sight easier to produce in fabricated lumps
IIRC was sorted, stood and done in a morning. Didn't take long for sure with the Rapier to chuck all the bits about
the TMS 300 mentioned above ... must have some pix somewhere, but this is all I've found in the bundle I tripped over in the attic .....
doing her thing In Bawn Bro.s Foundry, Aberbeeg standing and installing a mould sand silo ... managed to 'tail' it with a couple of Bobcats under the legs
... Derek and his Bro., sold their site to Tescos and retired a year later - been going decades, but they had a serious pull and mountains of scrap too and the TMS 475 at the local hospital, 'doing its thing too, lifting sheet packs onto the roof ... the one pic has been up before somewhere .. she was a lump of a tool ... don't appreciate it 'til you'm alongside her
looks like me stood beside the driver's door
this is how I bought my 18t lift bed truck ..... could see the potential immediately -- with the pink bit removed
... a foggy day in Aber ... she'd go up 18ft above GL - from the platform - put yer eyes at around 23ft dismantled the glasron box off it, leaving a beautiful ali planked bed .. new side raives, dismantle-able head tree, side, head and tail boards and a full set of drop in handrailing for use as a platform ....
she made a great truck - could carry and lift 7.5t ...
ex airport food carrier for loading jets ...
been airside all her life and done under 50k miles, six speed box and drove real well
loaded with a large fire escape/access stair case, made for a local Jo JO Kingdom hall - 3 storey job - still there and see it often ...
built the two platform structures as a lump and then bolted the flights between 'em after craning them into place.
was the beauty of having our own lifting ....
often created with a view to simply lifting in at our convenience ...
I'll get a pic of these, in place, next time I'm passing them ...
would've taken some time to assemble on site in kit form
and a damned sight easier to produce in fabricated lumpsIIRC was sorted, stood and done in a morning. Didn't take long for sure with the Rapier to chuck all the bits about
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Because the women's swim club was next doorthis is how I bought my 18t lift bed truck ..... could see the potential immediately -- with the pink bit removed
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Each to their ownnah Aiden .... was a vicarage
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Here's 1 of them waving to himEach to their own
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well you can joke but we had a few different vicars there in our time ... first one retired at 80 odd and his boss had had him within a month - fit, healthy, real nice chap.
His successor was a bloody disgrace to his cloth ... miserable c**t ... decimated a thriving congregation in about three months flat and was a constant source of aggro to us - his wife was a total bitch too.
He wasn't there long - the locals saw to that (thank ****)
next one was a lovely chap - gay as they come but a perfect neighbour/vicar ... there decades and did wonders for the parish. Got promoted to St Woolos cathedral, Zooport, but sadly died very soon after.
that church doesn't seem overly lucky for its custodians .. or their boss has a weird sense of humour
His successor was a bloody disgrace to his cloth ... miserable c**t ... decimated a thriving congregation in about three months flat and was a constant source of aggro to us - his wife was a total bitch too.
He wasn't there long - the locals saw to that (thank ****)
next one was a lovely chap - gay as they come but a perfect neighbour/vicar ... there decades and did wonders for the parish. Got promoted to St Woolos cathedral, Zooport, but sadly died very soon after.
that church doesn't seem overly lucky for its custodians .. or their boss has a weird sense of humour
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well you can joke but we had a few different vicars there in our time ... first one retired at 80 odd and his boss had had him within a month - fit, healthy, real nice chap.
His successor was a bloody disgrace to his cloth ... miserable c**t ... decimated a thriving congregation in about three months flat and was a constant source of aggro to us - his wife was a total bitch too.
He wasn't there long - the locals saw to that (thank ****)
next one was a lovely chap - gay as they come but a perfect neighbour/vicar ... there decades and did wonders for the parish. Got promoted to St Woolos cathedral, Zooport, but sadly died very soon after.
that church doesn't seem overly lucky for its custodians .. or their boss has a weird sense of humour
Had him?his boss had had him within a month - fit, healthy, real nice chap.
V8Druid
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V8Druid
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right -- having gotten through 60 odd posts/comments, let's find you all some more 'nostalgic pix'
had a good wratch through this morning waiting for it to warm up a bit out there and .......
a few 'odds an' sods ' to start ...
these were two LARGE silencers made for the local hospital to replace what had rotted out on the roof of the standby generator house -- the fence behind them is an 8ft high chain-link on cranked posts, to give you idea of their scale.
Gutted the originals out and copied them faithfully. 3 pm every Friday the maintenance dept. would run the massive (IIRC) twin turbo V12 CAT motor up and test the change over, which involved ensuring all phases were matched, before manually throwing the switch .... you could hear this motor all over town
then one Friday, maybe a year after we'd fitted and installed its new silencers, it ran up and howled as usual - and abruptly stopped ... new guy on the job - didn't get all the phase lights matching, chucked the change over and BANG!! stopped it dead and demolished the generator house - found the 'new' silencers some distance away in some trees
had a containerised beast there for months, whilst it all got rebuilt and the replacement new set up came with its own 'new silencers'.. I went and had a look at the carnage - was some mess
nocturnal visitors ... must've spent some time doing this .. and then tripped the alarms, as soon as they got inside the fence - had break beams all over the place - and fled
new panel required -- bit of chain link for the night
two of my 'toys' sat - the green one has the V8 in that I put up somewhere recently
next ....
local authority guy comes in one day .... " any ideas on how to stop the balconies dropping off the OAP flats on Y Sgu Bowen ... could you make some brackets to tie 'em to the brick work faces ?"
so suggested some supporting goal posts under each one - only issue was each one (being council built) was a different gap -- so had to measure each one, individually - weld idents into them and get 'em all galvied .. think there was ten altogether.
they're all still standing in place a good 30 years later.
went with a couple of the lads to do the first couple and make sure they were up to scratch on how, for installing them .. slotted the G/f one in and fixed it, climbed up to the next one and there's an old dear on the floor in her flat .. been there bloody hours .. three nines job - plod, ambulance, etc. .. medics reckoned she'd have died if we hadn't 'happened along '
one of me SDs, getting a clean off - V8 VDP Auto ('til I ripped the box out, installed a 5sp, clutch pedal and master cylinder - POP - all the bracketry is there) - the GM180 auto box was alright, but lacked the grunt of the 5 speed (and the fun)
must be pretty old pic - not a lot in the yard - could well have been when the top half got dug out and laid ?? -- obviously a Sunday - I'm in trainers and me mate's there with me putting the pressure washer away
used to make quite a few of these - one, two or three bike configuration .. most chose the three - and if they brought their own wheels it saved 'em the cost of new ones (sort of thing that'd probably only get used once a week / fortnight / month)
and yet another SD - V8S this time
Your average Sunday gathering in the bus station outside the workshop .... Matt Oxley of MCN (anyone remember Motor cycle News), put the area 'on the map' for good biking roads one week and it went mental .. the guy who owned and ran the snack bar (behind the bus shelter) thought he'd won the lottery .... bet there were a few bad guts from a weekend stop there though - he'd be cooking half the evening before to cope with demand and warming it up !! often there 'til gone eleven the night before .. we never ate from there once the bikers started coming - never knew how 'old' it was
this is a quiet day ... couldn't put a pin between 'em on a really nice day
got to the point where they were coming on Saturdays too and were seriously unpopular with the buses and coaches, who'd fill their parking bays, most weekends in the better weather months --- been some altercations out there, at times .....
pix taken from the flat roof above my offices - grand stand view when it kicked off
Kids in the a.m. - time for bed
had a good wratch through this morning waiting for it to warm up a bit out there and .......
a few 'odds an' sods ' to start ...
these were two LARGE silencers made for the local hospital to replace what had rotted out on the roof of the standby generator house -- the fence behind them is an 8ft high chain-link on cranked posts, to give you idea of their scale.
Gutted the originals out and copied them faithfully. 3 pm every Friday the maintenance dept. would run the massive (IIRC) twin turbo V12 CAT motor up and test the change over, which involved ensuring all phases were matched, before manually throwing the switch .... you could hear this motor all over town
then one Friday, maybe a year after we'd fitted and installed its new silencers, it ran up and howled as usual - and abruptly stopped
... new guy on the job - didn't get all the phase lights matching, chucked the change over and BANG!! stopped it dead and demolished the generator house - found the 'new' silencers some distance away in some trees had a containerised beast there for months, whilst it all got rebuilt and the replacement new set up came with its own 'new silencers'
.. I went and had a look at the carnage - was some messnocturnal visitors ... must've spent some time doing this .. and then tripped the alarms, as soon as they got inside the fence - had break beams all over the place - and fled
new panel required -- bit of chain link for the night
two of my 'toys' sat - the green one has the V8 in that I put up somewhere recently
next ....
local authority guy comes in one day .... " any ideas on how to stop the balconies dropping off the OAP flats on Y Sgu Bowen ... could you make some brackets to tie 'em to the brick work faces ?"
so suggested some supporting goal posts under each one - only issue was each one (being council built) was a different gap -- so had to measure each one, individually - weld idents into them and get 'em all galvied .. think there was ten altogether.
they're all still standing in place a good 30 years later.
went with a couple of the lads to do the first couple and make sure they were up to scratch on how, for installing them .. slotted the G/f one in and fixed it, climbed up to the next one and there's an old dear on the floor in her flat .. been there bloody hours .. three nines job - plod, ambulance, etc. .. medics reckoned she'd have died if we hadn't 'happened along '
one of me SDs, getting a clean off - V8 VDP Auto ('til I ripped the box out, installed a 5sp, clutch pedal and master cylinder - POP - all the bracketry is there) - the GM180 auto box was alright, but lacked the grunt of the 5 speed
(and the fun)must be pretty old pic - not a lot in the yard - could well have been when the top half got dug out and laid ?? -- obviously a Sunday - I'm in trainers and me mate's there with me putting the pressure washer away
used to make quite a few of these - one, two or three bike configuration .. most chose the three - and if they brought their own wheels it saved 'em the cost of new ones (sort of thing that'd probably only get used once a week / fortnight / month)
and yet another SD - V8S this time
Your average Sunday gathering in the bus station outside the workshop .... Matt Oxley of MCN (anyone remember Motor cycle News), put the area 'on the map' for good biking roads one week and it went mental .. the guy who owned and ran the snack bar (behind the bus shelter) thought he'd won the lottery .... bet there were a few bad guts from a weekend stop there though - he'd be cooking half the evening before to cope with demand and warming it up !!
often there 'til gone eleven the night before .. we never ate from there once the bikers started coming - never knew how 'old' it was this is a quiet day ... couldn't put a pin between 'em on a really nice day
got to the point where they were coming on Saturdays too and were seriously unpopular with the buses and coaches, who'd fill their parking bays, most weekends in the better weather months --- been some altercations out there, at times .....
pix taken from the flat roof above my offices - grand stand view when it kicked off
Kids in the a.m. - time for bed
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
V8Druid
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teaser for later ... this was mentioned a few weeks ago ... I don't recall ever seeing these pix, before I found this pile in the attic ... glad the old man snook round and took these - some great pix
... this was mentioned a few weeks ago ... I don't recall ever seeing these pix, before I found this pile in the attic ... glad the old man snook round and took these - some great pix 
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Iron fairy’s did a couple of split hydraulic pumps on those, nice to see the older stuff.
V8Druid
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more (in)famous for spitting the contents out of their gear boxes - 'bout the size of a Morris Minor
I've had a few from the little 4 tonner, couple of 5,s a 6t and the last one was a 7 tonner with less than 500 hrs on it .. she was a sweet little thing with a 5sp box ... only ever had it in top once for about 100yds on an empty dual carriageway, bringing it 10 miles home on trades - was never road reg. --100yds was enough
.... hateful things on the road
NA 6354 Perky - ran like a watch - garaged all its life and lived indoors with me too
shortly before/during the clear out - used her a bit for loading the 40 yarders with the 'heavier bits'
little bit smaller than the Rapier HS10, but not a lot ... mostly in the boom dept.
tandem lifting a load out - easiest and quickest way to get 'em on a truck in the yard - 'bout 7t the hull, from memory 45' x 8ft
s/h spare boom of a TMS150 mentioned above some where ... made a great barrier across the yard's narrow point .... 'strange' artics used to come boring up our access rd out in the bus station - see my yard and think - turning spot - this cured that problem, strategically placed - was pushing 5t .. H80C Hyster could handle it on the heels of the forks
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Dunno why but I love them little things. Proper industrious look about em.more (in)famous for spitting the contents out of their gear boxes - 'bout the size of a Morris Minor
I've had a few from the little 4 tonner, couple of 5,s a 6t and the last one was a 7 tonner with less than 500 hrs on it .. she was a sweet little thing with a 5sp box ... only ever had it in top once for about 100yds on an empty dual carriageway, bringing it 10 miles home on trades - was never road reg. --100yds was enough
NA 6354 Perky - ran like a watch - garaged all its life and lived indoors with me too
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How long did it take you to clear out from the moment you stopped or did you do it over a longer period? Was it single handed or did you keep the lads on for a hand clearing out?
V8Druid
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