jsutherland:
pv83:
MOL tractor unitThanks for the Mol pictrues Patrick. I’d never heard of the manufacturer until now. Apparently it has been around since 1944
I think I have found the specification of the tractor unit:
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Looks like the same one indeed, cheers Johnny 
Didn’t we mentioned MOL before on here? Related to some footage of Sarens?
pv83:
Can you post them on here mate, I’ve seem to “lost” them somewhere in space….
Yes I’ve done that before, if you reply to an email that has attachments and then delete the original email, the attachments do not travel with the reply. So I save both these days, just to be sure. 
Anyway, I’ll see what I can do, I have posted pictures before on TN, but that was years ago and I have been diverted by posting pictures to other sites with different systems.
DEANB:
Patrick, do you know the make of the huge dragline ? I assume that must be used in one of those huge open cast
mines and will be used until it packs up. It must surely be delivered in sections and put together at the mine.
What weight do you reckon it would be chap ?Nice Cauvas pics.
If I had to take a guess I would say it’s a P&H mate, not many manufactures out there in that field of expertise. And as you say, it’s being put together at the site, depending on which model it is, it takes between 20 and 60 lorry movements to get the parts there…
Weight runs up from 200 to 1000t…
I’ve added a link with some more info on it.
mining-technology.com/featu … s-4306332/
And here’s a clip of the biggest one… in the world…
Spardo:
pv83:
Can you post them on here mate, I’ve seem to “lost” them somewhere in space….
Yes I’ve done that before, if you reply to an email that has attachments and then delete the original email, the attachments do not travel with the reply. So I save both these days, just to be sure.
Anyway, I’ll see what I can do, I have posted pictures before on TN, but that was years ago and I have been diverted by posting pictures to other sites with different systems.
Long live modern technology eh… 
Maybe Herr Sutherland can help, he’s a specialist when it comes to those sort of things
This crept up and parked behind me during the night. Never heard a thing 
Obviously not a no smoking carriage. 
pv83:
jsutherland:
pv83:
MOL tractor unitThanks for the Mol pictrues Patrick. I’d never heard of the manufacturer until now. Apparently it has been around since 1944
I think I have found the specification of the tractor unit:
1
Looks like the same one indeed, cheers Johnny
Didn’t we mentioned MOL before on here? Related to some footage of Sarens?
They were probably mentioned before. But you know, at my age, and it’ll come to you eventually as well, one’s memory is not what it once was. [emoji16][emoji16]
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Johnny
Spardo:
This crept up and parked behind me during the night. Never heard a thing1
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Obviously not a no smoking carriage.
Cheers mate!
jsutherland:
pv83:
jsutherland:
pv83:
MOL tractor unitThanks for the Mol pictrues Patrick. I’d never heard of the manufacturer until now. Apparently it has been around since 1944
I think I have found the specification of the tractor unit:
1
Looks like the same one indeed, cheers Johnny
Didn’t we mentioned MOL before on here? Related to some footage of Sarens?
They were probably mentioned before. But you know, at my age, and it’ll come to you eventually as well, one’s memory is not what it once was. [emoji16][emoji16]
Sent using Tapatalk.
Johnny
DEANB:
How about this old beast !Click on pages twice to read.
More on Hendrickson is in their book “Hendrickson Hundred” a superb backflash and obtainable via the Society of Automotive Engineers in the US, quite acceptable in price
pv83:
Spardo:
pv83:
Can you post them on here mate, I’ve seem to “lost” them somewhere in space….
Yes I’ve done that before, if you reply to an email that has attachments and then delete the original email, the attachments do not travel with the reply. So I save both these days, just to be sure.
Anyway, I’ll see what I can do, I have posted pictures before on TN, but that was years ago and I have been diverted by posting pictures to other sites with different systems.
Long live modern technology eh… [emoji38]
Maybe Herr Sutherland can help, he’s a specialist when it comes to those sort of things
Hi there
Just to clarify (I hope) a small but possibly important detail.
Replying to an email
Almost always, if you receive an email with attached files and click reply, the attached files are NOT attached to the ‘reply’ email. They are however still attached to the original email.
Forwarding an Email
Just to add a bit of spice to it all, if you ‘forward’ the original email (which contains the attached files) instead of replying, the attachments WILL also be attached to the new email. Some email programs ask if you want to include or exclude the attached files in the new email.
If you are now more confused than ever and need help, send me a PM and I’ll try to be of help.
DEANB:
Patrick, do you know the make of the huge dragline ? I assume that must be used in one of those huge open cast
mines and will be used until it packs up. It must surely be delivered in sections and put together at the mine.
What weight do you reckon it would be chap ?Nice Cauvas pics.
DeanO I believe that dragline was called the Big Muskie built by Ruston Bucyrus.
I think it weighed about 25000tonns when it was scrapped enough steel recycled to make 9000cars.
Dig
jsutherland:
Hi there
Just to clarify (I hope) a small but possibly important detail.
Replying to an email
Almost always, if you receive an email with attached files and click reply, the attached files are NOT attached to the ‘reply’ email. They are however still attached to the original email.
Forwarding an Email
Just to add a bit of spice to it all, if you ‘forward’ the original email (which contains the attached files) instead of replying, the attachments WILL also be attached to the new email. Some email programs ask if you want to include or exclude the attached files in the new email.
If you are now more confused than ever and need help, send me a PM and I’ll try to be of help.
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Yes, you’re quite right, that is what I meant but you explained it better. What I do is reply to an email and then file it in my own system. The attachments do not follow it to file if I have replied. So, I always file the original as well as the reply, seperately, so that the attachments are always there for me to recover later if I need to.
DIG:
Can someone tell me what the scrapers are doing are they trying to tow a machine that walks?Dig
It says in the caption " tub change", as far as my knowledge goes on these, the tub is what the machine slews on and is basically a circular concrete disc, maybe the scrappers are trying to drag it out as the machine is on its “shoes”?
pete smith:
DIG:
Can someone tell me what the scrapers are doing are they trying to tow a machine that walks?Dig
It says in the caption " tub change", as far as my knowledge goes on these, the tub is what the machine slews on and is basically a circular concrete disc, maybe the scrappers are trying to drag it out as the machine is on its “shoes”?
Thanks Pete that gave me a clue so I did a bit of searching and found this which I assume is the “Tub”,apparently weighs about 1800tons,combined power of the scrapers is 27000hp not sure if the dozers are counted in that.
Cheers Dig
DIG:
pete smith:
DIG:
Can someone tell me what the scrapers are doing are they trying to tow a machine that walks?Dig
It says in the caption " tub change", as far as my knowledge goes on these, the tub is what the machine slews on and is basically a circular concrete disc, maybe the scrappers are trying to drag it out as the machine is on its “shoes”?
Thanks Pete that gave me a clue so I did a bit of searching and found this which I assume is the “Tub”,apparently weighs about 1800tons,combined power of the scrapers is 27000hp not sure if the dozers are counted in that.
Cheers Dig
That’s one helluva lump, Dig, imagine the Boss telling you ‘you’ve got a wide load today, it’s a bit on the heavy side too but, don’t worry, we’ve oganised some extra HPs to help you out’.
This Pete was filmed recovering the fuselage of the plane involved in ‘The Miracle of the Hudson’. I assume they needed all those axles for a load which, without wings, engines or tail assembly, could not have been very heavy, merely to provide the steering capacity through evening traffic in city streets.
They do put Patrick and his mates in the abnormal business through their paces in France by the insistance that they avoid the autoroutes, at almost any cost.
If I’d have known about them when I came to live in France, I would have visited Alte’Ad first before deciding where to live. They do have a wide variety of challenging work. This is just one example.
A very common sight these days, this Daf and its blade are just returning to the correct side of the road after wrong-siding the roundabout in the distance. I think it is just south of Niort. We had longer to wait, there were at least 2 more following on behind.
Returning from injury and the strike of '79, this was my first load with a brand new motor. I spent that morning struggling to drag the empty trailer up the snow covered slope between the top and bottom yards at Markfield. It didn’t take me long to realise that the Daf did not have a diff lock. 
I then went to load this 28 tonne lump near Swadlincote, 15 kms away, which took most of the rest of the day as at one point the road passed through a cutting which was full of snow. Once the council digger had made a path it was all plain sailing.
Tipped it in London docks, the pictures were taken while waiting to unload, with my step-son Stephen behind the wheel. He was about 15 at the time but Econofreight only had 2 casual ‘2nd men’ and, as often as not, merely said to us, ‘can you get someone?’ Steve, though hardly a ‘responsible adult’ did several trips with me. He loved it, and the extra pocket money.
After that, we loaded a large tank near Dagenham for Ford at Liverpool. No ■■■■■■ round the N. Circular but Bedfordshire Police insisted through their patch so we parked up with several others at Toddington. The first thing the copper, who took no notice of my very youthful assistant, asked was ‘how fast can you go?’ I was used to this question, they always seemed to be in a rush to get back to the canteen. ‘40 mph’ I said and enjoyed the expression on his face. ‘Unless, of course, you are prepared to crawl under the trailer and change the inside tyres that blow’. We proceeded at 40 but I did take pity and run up to 50 after a while.
As it happened that was about the max. They didn’t tell me but this wagon was fitted with a very early form of speed limiter. I only found out when, trying to pass a slower vehicle uphill the engine suddenly cut with a loud tick. The other bloke was not impressed as I hung him out to dry behind an even slower motor. The unit was the large box that I noticed on the passenger side floor. It didn’t trouble me for long, it ran through a simple fuse and, once that was removed, the rest was history.
Just had to remember to put it back in at service time.
By this time Tom had mellowed, he didn’t nick the DAF letters off the grill. Perhaps they paid him not to, or perhaps he had other fish to fry, like having a running battle with me to remove the rags on the mirror arms to keep the glasses pristine clean. That model was a terror for throwing up muck, he eventually compromised by giving us giant elastic bands (cut up innertubes) to stretch over the wheelnuts. Helped a little, but nowhere near as effective as my ‘gypsy caravan look’, as he called it.
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