craig
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It was on TV a month or so back.
Vinpetrol
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I poked my nose in at threkeld a couple of years back as my daughter lives nearby . No one was about but I took these pics .
My father in law , now past was very bad with dementia at the time . He had been an operator of draglines in his day . I showed him the pics I took and he could tell me chapter and verse about the machines . It was like the dementia briefly faded away . Really great memory . The 110RB was some size . The 22RB looks like a Tonka toy beside it .
My father in law , now past was very bad with dementia at the time . He had been an operator of draglines in his day . I showed him the pics I took and he could tell me chapter and verse about the machines . It was like the dementia briefly faded away . Really great memory . The 110RB was some size . The 22RB looks like a Tonka toy beside it .
Bob
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You forgot the noise the smells and dust from the drums but I still liked driving them but as at the time I was a youngster its was hop on the motor scrapers and Big loads and quick
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Pennine Hillbilly
Yeah they re-run them all the time, our recorder is set for them and it's got about 150 episodes on it now
barracane
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thank you for your clarifying replies, I thought they were the top Germans in mechanics and engineering, I have seen with deep respect and admiration that you Brits also have experience and a technical tradition in naval engineering you were pioneers of the forerunners of the veterans, I didn't know that thanks again and sorry for the inconvenience.
I am ignorant on the other hand if we read history the industrial revolution and technological progress we owe it to you English and to your ingenuity, you have a tradition both in the naval and mining sectors and in progress in the manufacturing industrial sector. Thanks again
I am ignorant on the other hand if we read history the industrial revolution and technological progress we owe it to you English and to your ingenuity, you have a tradition both in the naval and mining sectors and in progress in the manufacturing industrial sector. Thanks again
barracane
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Lancs Lad
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Bottom picture of the 10 is threlkeld ..highly recommend visiting on the VET working day weekends
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum - Vintage Excavator Trust
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum – Come and experience Lakelands industrial heritage.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
want to hope the hoist brake on that hitachi doesn't decide to let go in that first pic
barracane
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
dinky little Orenstein and Koppel in the second pic
and that F450 in the penultimate pic looks a nice tool ... strut jib cranes as mobiles were slow-ish to set up initially but had great duties for quite a small carrier, without all the boom weight of a telescopic machine ... would love to have my old Coles Victor sat about here ... very compact, with a good 10t capacity and even with 85ft of stick on, could be repositioned easily without having to de-rig
and that F450 in the penultimate pic looks a nice tool ... strut jib cranes as mobiles were slow-ish to set up initially but had great duties for quite a small carrier, without all the boom weight of a telescopic machine ... would love to have my old Coles Victor sat about here ... very compact, with a good 10t capacity and even with 85ft of stick on, could be repositioned easily without having to de-rig
barracane
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barracane
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History of Coles Cranes of Sunderland and workshop models made at the works.
Coles Cranes of Sunderland and the history with vintage model cranes made at the works
tonyonthemoon.co.uk
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
my Victor had a gantry mast, rather than flying sheave block ... much easier to rig with a mast
barracane
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It is not the excavator that makes the excavator, but the excavator that makes a great excavator???
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
first pic is a Coles Victor like my old one ... with gantry mast .. he's rigging a boom on the floor - the hard way ... shouldn't be lifting like that with the short pendants attached half way up the boom ... that position was for rigging only, not lifting and he's going to have to drop the upper half off the boom, offset from the main rig and try to juggle it all into line .... doesn't look like he has the jib section hoist on the back end of the tail weight to lift the sections off their racks on board, so presume his sections have arrived on a.n.other vehicle ...... he's a lucky lad having hydraulic riggers too .. must be a very late diesel/hydraulic, instead of the original diesel/electricsView attachment 47648
It is not the excavator that makes the excavator, but the excavator that makes a great excavator???View attachment 47649View attachment 47650
barracane
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where I come from there are no big cranes, for exceptional jobs they are hired by large companies equipped outside the area, ours is a small provincial town
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