video links thread anyone??

[V8Druid]

works well paired up like that

 

[Bri963]

No idea how efficient this is, but certainly looks and sounds good:

Well, those 657’s are self-loading with nearly 50 tonnes, travelling over 30 loaded, so probably fairly. You wouldn’t miss one or two if they broke down, would you. The other good thing with scrapers in the right dirt with good ops is they trim their own fill as they discharge, as well as partially compacting it. Not many places here where they could work like that, they don’t like rocks and water.

Good find, by the way.

 

[6feetdown]

The future. Enjoy the channel too

 

[Bob]

No idea how efficient this is, but certainly looks and sounds good:

big lumbering machines I tramped 1 from yard at Snetterton to opencase site at Chesterfield that was before bypasses at Thetford,Newmarket,Canbridge, Eton Socon or Worksop

 

[Smiffy]

big lumbering machines I tramped 1 from yard at Snetterton to opencase site at Chesterfield that was before bypasses at Thetford,Newmarket,Canbridge, Eton Socon or Worksop

My father got caught with one on suspended tow behind a 6x6 army lorry one night. With no hgv license and no lights!!

 

[Bob]

My father got caught with one on suspended tow behind a 6x6 army lorry one night. With no hgv license and no lights!!

When I drove them it was on a car licence and I drove artics on car licence as well when I went to apply for hgv licence on grandfarther rights I had been driving before the before it applied

 

[Bri963]

big lumbering machines I tramped 1 from yard at Snetterton to opencase site at Chesterfield that was before bypasses at Thetford,Newmarket,Canbridge, Eton Socon or Worksop

Wyatts?

 

[Bob]

Wyatts?

Yes uncle Ben

 

[Lancs Lad]

Optical illusion and only noticed it after I took it today but check out the clearance

 

[Bob]

I have tramped motor scrappers all over england and as far as glenfarg in Scotland which took us 3 days 1 hour traveling 1 hour resting ,one foreman took 3 TS 24 in 1 day and had a trye blowout in Princess street after that we wern't alowed down Princess Street in Edingburgh they use to divert us round by Lieth docks The police in Scotland were a bit vicious and told us if any cars get in your way so you cant get though just push them to the side we wil sort them out and how thy treated drivers amazed me, they closed the forth bridge and we were escorted single file in centre of bridge

 

[V8Druid]

I have tramped motor scrappers all over england and as far as glenfarg in Scotland which took us 3 days 1 hour traveling 1 hour resting ,one foreman took 3 TS 24 in 1 day and had a trye blowout in Princess street after that we wern't alowed down Princess Street in Edingburgh they use to divert us round by Lieth docks The police in Scotland were a bit vicious and told us if any cars get in your way so you cant get though just push them to the side we wil sort them out and how thy treated drivers amazed me, they closed the forth bridge and we were escorted single file in centre of bridge

old skool coppers job to get done

 

[Monkeybusiness]

This is bonkers!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=914478906130911&id=172500846224773

 

[TiltyShaun]

I was waiting for it to wrong!!!

 

[Smiffy]

I'm amazed that big shovel had the tracking power to pull it out. Considering they are only designed to track on the flat to there destination I thout it would struggle

 

[Monkeybusiness]

I'm amazed that big shovel had the tracking power to pull it out. Considering they are only designed to track on the flat to there destination I thout it would struggle

It gives some scale to the face shovel - makes the D11 look like a big toy!

 

[Mogman]

You’d have thought that the blade would have been put in neutral at least so the tracks would turn or better still tracked it backwards as they was pulling not unless a total engine failure

 

[Left hooker]

You’d have thought that the blade would have been put in neutral at least so the tracks would turn or better still tracked it backwards as they was pulling not unless a total engine failure

If tracks were in neutral might have rolled back towards faceshovel once up on the same level due to built up energy
When I tow people with wheel digger they try driving as well and tend to over run the strap between machine and vehicle some come very close to the bucket link in doing so
Always tell them to just let the machine do the work and to just steer
Just easier to tow with some resistance and it will stop dead if you stop

 

[V8Druid]

If tracks were in neutral might have rolled back towards faceshovel once up on the same level due to built up energy
When I tow people with wheel digger they try driving as well and tend to over run the strap between machine and vehicle some come very close to the bucket link in doing so
Always tell them to just let the machine do the work and to just steer
Just easier to tow with some resistance and it will stop dead if you stop

there's a lot of skill in being towed successfully .... that most have no experience of ... 's why rigid bars were mandated years ago instead of ropes/lines .... this is a bit different I know

 

[Bri963]

Dragging it through slime would do zero damage to the tracks, and the guy on the shovel had obviously done that exercise before. I feel sorry for whoever had to wade in and hang the strops on.

 

[Smiffy]

I'm just amazed it had the power to do it was all it's really impressive.
And I'm guessing it was submerged by what looks like 3 large pumps in the background