Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

[oiltreader]

Loggers.
oily

[oiltreader]

Tracked logger for transport from felling area to loading bay.
oil;y

[oiltreader]

One Finnish and one Swedish logger.
oily

[spardo]

A 3+4 wagon and drag and a 3+2 wagon and dolly drag with a B-double tri to follow.

Sounds a bit like a menu order.

Now, who’s going to volunteer to reverse the Swede onto a loading bay?

[oiltreader]

Spardo:
A 3+4 wagon and drag and a 3+2 wagon and dolly drag with a B-double tri to follow.

Sounds a bit like a menu order.

Now, who’s going to volunteer to reverse the Swede onto a loading bay?

Hi Spardo,
This is the type of dolly 5th wheel used behind the drawbar unit in Finland and Sweden.
oily

[oiltreader]

Another couple of loggers, one Finn, one Swede.
oily

[oiltreader]

Going back a bit with a line-up at Garton’s Seed Warehouse, Warrington.
oily

[lawrence_dunbar]

This is where the famous Jesmona Black Bullets were made on the Tyne,

[spardo]

oiltreader:

Spardo:
A 3+4 wagon and drag and a 3+2 wagon and dolly drag with a B-double tri to follow.

Sounds a bit like a menu order.

Now, who’s going to volunteer to reverse the Swede onto a loading bay?

Hi Spardo,
This is the type of dolly 5th wheel used behind the drawbar unit in Finland and Sweden.
oily

Yes, I had one made up from a scrapyard by K. &. M. Hauliers of Hucknall for me when they used to maintain my fleet at Toray after we ended the ‘in house’ contract with Courtaulds at Spondon.

This was used purely on our site to enable us to move semis around when the dwindling number of tractors weren’t available. By that time most of the fleet were drawbars, Fodens, Mercs and Volvos, and so any motor on site could be put to good use.

The Scans like those 4 axle drags don’t they?

[oiltreader]

Livestock transport in Scandanavia, Australia and New Zealand.
oily

[oiltreader]

Bales in the Dales.
oily

[sir]

oiltreader:
This trailer has me pondering, any ideas what it is used for, looks like some sort of processing equipment at the rear, with no outlet visible, not many clues, the pic is in the public domain with no info.
oily

Google translate has gulvavretting as ‘floor levelling’

[robinswh]

oiltreader:

Spardo:
A 3+4 wagon and drag and a 3+2 wagon and dolly drag with a B-double tri to follow.

Sounds a bit like a menu order.

Now, who’s going to volunteer to reverse the Swede onto a loading bay?

Hi Spardo,
This is the type of dolly 5th wheel used behind the drawbar unit in Finland and Sweden.
oily

known as a converter in canada

[oiltreader]

Sir +:

oiltreader:
This trailer has me pondering, any ideas what it is used for, looks like some sort of processing equipment at the rear, with no outlet visible, not many clues, the pic is in the public domain with no info.
oily

Google translate has gulvavretting as ‘floor levelling’

That figures, thanks for that.
oily

[spardo]

The Kenworth train in Queensland is a bit outdated nowadays I should think, a semi and 2 dogs, the sort of thing I used to drive with Buntines.

I think they lean more to B-triples these days, there may even be legislative advantages with them.

[oiltreader]

Couple of ERFs courtesy of Ron Hann.
oily

[oiltreader]

Spardo:
The Kenworth train in Queensland is a bit outdated nowadays I should think, a semi and 2 dogs, the sort of thing I used to drive with Buntines.

I think they lean more to B-triples these days, there may even be legislative advantages with them.

Interesting that(Buntines), had a look and found this, abc.net.au/rural/nt/content/ … 702908.htm
oily

[harry]

oiltreader:
This trailer has me pondering, any ideas what it is used for, looks like some sort of processing equipment at the rear, with no outlet visible, not many clues, the pic is in the public domain with no info.
oily

martinsengulv.no/

[spardo]

oiltreader:

Spardo:
The Kenworth train in Queensland is a bit outdated nowadays I should think, a semi and 2 dogs, the sort of thing I used to drive with Buntines.

I think they lean more to B-triples these days, there may even be legislative advantages with them.

Interesting that(Buntines), had a look and found this, abc.net.au/rural/nt/content/ … 702908.htm
oily

That is interesting Oily but not entirely factual. While it is true that RTA (Road Trains of Australia) grew out of Buntine Roadways (the green and white B61s that I used to drive) when, after Noel’s retirement it ran into trouble. In fact he sold out before that but was unhappy with the way his old company was being run and bought it back I think before changing the name to RTA (legal reasons).

But, before that he was in association with a haulier or hauliers in the Alice (Alice Springs), I have details and will look them up, called Co-Ord, red and white mainly Macks, which formed to liaise with the railhead at Alice to move goods north.

But before that he was on his own with first of all a Commer 4 wheeler fighting flood and flies with varying degrees of success.

He was a great bloke, now gone, he gave me a go as a green Pom with no experience of that kind of terrain (I’d only been in the country for about 4 weeks working first for a grocer in Darwin driving a long nosed Bedford) and caught a long distance bus 200 miles down the track to see him.

It is true that he is very well known and revered in the Territory, they have even named an outback highway for him. The Buntine Highway.

[tribsa]

Oily
Do you just steal everyones pics & put them on your thread?