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I’ve long thought about shamelessly copying the great idea of Martin’s excellent Norwegian Trucks thread. Now I finally managed to put this thought into action and here we go, few pictures taken today.
Retired combat engineering bloke from Finnish army , originally from Ukraine, KrAZ-6322. This thing is huge. Few bits of snow still hanging around in the background wouldn’t offer much of a challenge to this beast.
This retired bloke was dwarfed in comparison to KrAZ.
Fancy doing a multidrop work with this outfit? Hint: you can access most stores this 2543 Axor delivers to with the trailer so not so much need to transfer the load from trailer to prime mover 
Typical 8x2 eight wheeler in Finland.
Still in quite nice shape despite this being at least 15 years old.
I guess this ex-rigid tipper got a new life when it was converted to an arctic tipper.
Tag axle, something hanging from the back and 520 horses hints what is or was regular country for this tractor unit to head into. I’d guess it begins with N.
Quite ordinary sight here. 6x2 tipper with wire lift, snow plough couplings and drawbar hitch to give much needed versatility.
Some more earth moving machinery.
Another typical 8x2 tipper from Finnish manufacturer.
This Scanny has just unloaded at RDC where Axor was heading.
Great pics Kyrbo, Thanks a lot
very nice, indeed; could we have some more?
HomoFaber:
very nice, indeed; could we have some more?
yes please 
More !
These are good pics Kyrbo, keep 'em coming please. Thanks.
great pics there mate … 
excellent beast in the first pic … wot the hell is it …and how many horses below…■■
Thanks for your kind comments. More pictures are to follow.
man-tga:
excellent beast in the first pic … wot the hell is it …and how many horses below…■■
Well, I’m fairly certain it’s KrAZ-6322. What I’m certain is this beast used to carry parts for “mobile bridges” built by combat engineering units where ever such bridge needs to be built. I’ll check later if I have picture from rear shoving the some sort of wirelift-look-alike superstructure. Main features of this thing is 6x6 drivetrain and ability to change tyre pressure while moving from the cab to increase terrain worthiness. When you combine this with over half a meter wide tyres you get very spectacular off-road abilities (from which almost all lorries coming from CCCP-era are quite famous)
Quick search with Google gave this page stating it has almost 15 litre (turbocharged) V8 giving whopping 330 horses 
Check the video below to see quite similar, but older KrAZ-255B in action:
Kyrbo:
I’ve long thought about shamelessly copying the great idea of Martin’s excellent Norwegian Trucks thread. Now I finally managed to put this thought into action and here we go, few pictures taken today.
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Wonderfull !!!Do you have pictures of Savikko and Kallot ?i see them quite often in Norway…
Martin Benjamins:
Kyrbo:
I’ve long thought about shamelessly copying the great idea of Martin’s excellent Norwegian Trucks thread. Now I finally managed to put this thought into action and here we go, few pictures taken today.
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Wonderfull !!!Do you have pictures of Savikko and Kallot ?i see them quite often in Norway…
Some more photos from you too please Martin When you live in such a beautiful area of the world you just have to share it with the rest of us
Martin Benjamins:
Do you have pictures of Savikko and Kallot ?i see them quite often in Norway…
I think I don’t have much pictures of their lorries (I take that Kallot means Kalotti). They are both based quite a bit north from area where I’ve mostly been driving around. Also what I’ve heard of is they (or at least Kalotti) drive quite excessively to “northern” Norway leaving “southern” Norway more or less to other hauliers. I have some pictures hanging around somewhere ™ 
so I don’t promise any fast posting of those pictures I was able found two pictures of Savikko which I’ve posted previously but thought to give them a second go:
May 2006.
August 2009. Single Savikko on the far left. Two lorries on the middle are hauling apartments.
While browsing though the pictures I also found this (previously posted) pictures and but I liked it that much I’ll post it anyway
Very typical car hauling outfit.
Not exactly a lorry but…
Misfocused picture of lorry most likely hauling foodstuff.
Another foodstuff haulier.
This caught me by surprise so I didn’t have time to do much more than press a shutter and hope for the best. This 110 has got nice retirement duty in hauling water for local “estate service” company (company taking care about maintenance of buildings and yards around them). Some water is needed this time of year when grit spread during the winter is washed away.
Note the typical HIAB used in Finnish “bricklorries” which differs from what seems to be typical over there (judging from pictures I’ve seen). You don’t sit up in a seat while you’re using this.
There’s still some piles of snow hanging around in the background! But that wasn’t point of this picture (really? ) The outfit here is somewhat typical with a fridge on the trailer and fully opening sides (doors are on the other side). This gives much needed versatility when dealing with relatively thin volume of goods moving around in Finland. Engine power of these two last Volvo’s is also very typical 440 horses.
Very nice Thankyou
Here’s a backside view of the bridge-hauling KrAZ seen also in the first post in this thread. It seems to be that I didn’t take any better picture of the superstructure.
Then two picture at the beginning of February. Here’s some sort of a combined shop and information stage moving around in Finland. This was parked at the central square of Tampere.
From the same date, R420 bulker going to paperboard mill at Tampere center. In previous picture you can see water vapours at the back rising from that mill.
Few weeks later in February I had couple free days and I thought to go to check how my camera batteries hold their charge around -15 to -20C. They worked fine with no visible diminish in charge for those three to four hours I spent shooting about which I was positively surprised. I even managed to capture some nice shots and saw old work mates, so it was a good day 
This oldie was sitting lonely but obviously it’s still in regular use.
This isn’t dedicated low-loader outfit although it might look like it. Tractor unit has wire lift superstructure so one can drop the fifth wheel easily if some other work comes around.
[zb] (bloody auto-censor, Prenault Weemium then if [zb] is too much for you) isn’t very familiar sight in Finland as high cab prime mover, but this looked pretty nice.
This guy appreciated my lorry photography efforts and decided to give me some more light to work with
I posted this lorry earlier, but here’s another front view which I like. Picture is taken two weeks ago.
Another tipper parked along the road here in Tampere.
Thankyou Kyrbo
Can’t get enough of Scandinavian trucks especially in winter more please 
I had just done the good deed of the day (I gave half a litre of myself to a charity), so I decided to reward myself by doing some photography at centre of Tampere.
Atego with wirelift superstructure looking worthy for some off-road driving.
Collecting your dirty laundry from a hotel.
Then I was off to watch this crane outfit taking apart a temporary building-time road next a new bridge in this lovely weather.
Lets do some fishing!
Here it comes! It doesn’t exactly look like a fish, but definitely something was grabbed by the “hook”…
Oh my… It slipped away…
It was standing on top of the temporary road. Similar was on the other side of the bridge.
This came to collect sections which were too long to fit to the drawbar (and maybe also some shorter as drawbar looked to be running out of space and maybe also out of loading capacity).
Nice fit.
This a-frame drawbar outfit is coming from a nearby cardboard mill where it has just unloaded whatever it was carrying.
What a lovely place to be dropping some beverages when there’s no snow or ice on the ground. The mill where bulker in the previous picture had just delivered is behind me. Stabilizers for the bridge can be seen in the background.
I’m sure I don’t have to say that next pictures aren’t shot recently, but for those who are interested these were taken late February this year.
This kind of outfit is somewhat unusual here because of the Trakker and axle configuration. Trakker itself is still somewhat rare sight and 2+2 axle configuration is also somewhat scarce as 1+3 has been preferred configuration in Finland.
There also seems to be artics in Finland… Surprisingly this one doesn’t have almost obligatory two extra headlamps on the sun visor.
Very typical fleet outfit with swap body superstructure.
Oh my, this guy has moving load!
Typical scrap hauliers outfit or then not. This one looks like it could have double drive which isn’t really typical for this kind of outfits but it’s not very uncommon either.
This one is quite atypical outfit as usually the dolliy used under the semi-trailer have two axles, not one like this one.
Doing foodstuff multidrop work in a nice -20C weather might not require a fridge but heater might be good idea.
Not a lorry, but there still is Scania 94 under this local transit bus.
Another variant of Scania 94. What makes this articulated bus interesting is the location of its drive axle which is not second as one might think but the last.
Typical outfit in Finland, 6x2 rigid with wirelift superstructure and snow plough couplings. Here it obviously is equipped for some snowploughing. At winter its also very common to see front loaders with snow ploughs, like the one in this picture.
Yesterday was a very nice day as I managed to get few shots of working pre-historical lorries 
They were working almost next to my balcony so immediately after noticing this I rushed outside to took pictures
Guy driving this 110 said it was from -72. It seems to be kept in a mint condition by a local property maintenance company despite it being mostly used only at springs for cleaning various yards from a grit spread during winter.
If I recall correctly this 111 was from 1980 and it was also in a mint condition. From the look it seems to be old fire engine.
Posing together with their broken light bulbs
Very nice! I wonder what that bendy-bus is like to drive on black ice?!
Zetorpilot:
Very nice! I wonder what that bendy-bus is like to drive on black ice?!
Lot’s of “fun”, especially when it goes uphill, stalls, slides back and jack-knives… and you don’t have to be at the wheel of it, it’s enough to be behind one. Regular occurence in any country that sees temps below freezing point.