Sci-fi Author Needs Heavy Machinery Advice!

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Brendan

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4x4 and a trailer and take to the train tracks or just take the train.
Any big bit of plant wouldn't make it, even if you could get enough fuel (or just pretend your fuel tank is like the runway in that fast and furious film) pretty much any breakdown other than an electrical issue or pin hole leak in radiator, would result in the machine being immobilised.
Nothing will manage 400+ miles of carving a path through parked/crashed vehicles, you could just go cross country and carve your way down the countryside although a dozer at 7mph you might want to invent a time machine, or just go farm to farm taking whatever tractors are laying around
 
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6feetdown

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Well if raiding a barracks is happening have a look for the fv180 combat tractors replacement .... the Terrier with its 700hp Cat diesel 🙂😁
And get the other person in the story to follow with the fuel tanker who inadvertently leaves the valve open leading to a big explosion whilst they raid a supermarket for food 🙂
 
Bob

Bob

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If you look on X twitter the start of the film is all ready written ( known as Conspiracy Theorist ) Switch on 5G and everyone who have had the jabba jabba will feel ill and slowly die off . Anyone who refused the jabba will be hunted down be the army which have been trained in Turkey and Ukraine and came over in dingy and housed in top hotels and just waiting for the orders and your heroes have got to escape 😂😂 😂😂
 
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6feetdown

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If you look on X twitter the start of the film is all ready written ( known as Conspiracy Theorist ) Switch on 5G and everyone who have had the jabba jabba will feel ill and slowly die off . Anyone who refused the jabba will be hunted down be the army which have been trained in Turkey and Ukraine and came over in dingy and housed in top hotels and just waiting for the orders and your heroes have got to escape 😂😂 😂😂
Don't be so silly you conspiracy theorists you'll be telling me next Mark Dickford is a ****
 
Canal Navvy

Canal Navvy

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And get the other person in the story to follow with the fuel tanker who inadvertently leaves the valve open leading to a big explosion whilst they raid a supermarket for food 🙂

Perhaps I'll stick with the pink one and it's shiny oversized beer keg trailer.....


...... caused quite a stir when local firm Fluid Transfer were building it , although that may just have been the blue spots 😁
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Well if raiding a barracks is happening have a look for the fv180 combat tractors replacement .... the Terrier with its 700hp Cat diesel 🙂😁
why not .... sounds like there'll be no one alive to stop you .... and they have some gloriously 'proper' toys to choose from :love::cool::cool:
 
Mick-the-fitter

Mick-the-fitter

It’s what I do!
I'd say the way your characters will be driving it, a holed radiator or a torn coolant or hydraulic pipe is the most likely breakdown!
Agreed, slowly losing coolant or hydraulic oil, small leak of coolant would eventually cause a heat seizure, but it would be a dramatic scene when one or more characters make a dash to an old combine out in a field to collect coolant or hydraulic oil!
 
Mick-the-fitter

Mick-the-fitter

It’s what I do!

And only your imagination limits what the grapple could be used for...😍
Try and find one that has anti puncture liquid in the tyres, or drive it under a fly over while changing a wheel! If you pull into Watford Gap services on the way down south, they’ll have all 6 off in 20 minutes🤭
 
Mick-the-fitter

Mick-the-fitter

It’s what I do!

And only your imagination limits what the grapple could be used for...😍
Try and find one that has anti puncture liquid in the tyres, or drive it under a fly over while changing a wheel! If you pull into Watford Gap services on the way down south, they’ll have all 6 off in 20 minutes🤭
 
Mick-the-fitter

Mick-the-fitter

It’s what I do!
The older the plant less electronic most older plant nearly any good fitter would find away round a problem like rad leaks,put in egg whites, burst hose good tape wrapped around etc
Not sure how an ecu would cope with a bullet hole in it!
 
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