Saviem's fan club (Part 1)

[froggy55]

Fergie47:
Pic 3…there’s big…then there’s big…don’t know anything about this beast,

Definitely carrying a kind of river-boat or ferry, and maybe Dutch-registered. Certainly a monster, with its 12 axles!

Now, here’s a 1975 picture showing a Bernard TD 150 with a 0.60 m gauge steam loco in Pithiviers (France). I think it comes from a railway website, but not sure.

[retired_old_fart]

Let me stir up a bit of controversy-
Regarding the two rearmost vehicles in Fergie’s photo no. 1: are they pulling or pushing?

[kevmac47]

Retired Old ■■■■:
Let me stir up a bit of controversy-
Regarding the two rearmost vehicles in Fergie’s photo no. 1: are they pulling or pushing?

It’s not like you to stir things up ROF!!! Regards Kev.

[sir]

hooniverse.com/2012/03/22/the-maz-7907/

[retired_old_fart]

kevmac47:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Let me stir up a bit of controversy-
Regarding the two rearmost vehicles in Fergie’s photo no. 1: are they pulling or pushing?

It’s not like you to stir things up ROF!!! Regards Kev.

Of course not! Just waiting for Professor Leatherhead to put us all right.

[harry_gill]

Retired Old ■■■■:

kevmac47:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Let me stir up a bit of controversy-
Regarding the two rearmost vehicles in Fergie’s photo no. 1: are they pulling or pushing?

It’s not like you to stir things up ROF!!! Regards Kev.

Of course not! Just waiting for Professor Leatherhead to put us all right.

Hiya,
Ah’ but ROF is it even on the move.
thanks harry, long retired.

[windrush]

kevmac47:
I watched this team ploughing for a while, it was fascinating!! The skill of the driver! he had the horses walking backwards
as he lined them up for the next furrow. This is the first time I’ve seen this, although Im sure the “sons of the soil” will
not be suprised by this.210

Ploughing an acre could mean covering a distance of up to 9 miles depending on depth and width of furrow, I exhibit at a couple of ploughing matches and love watching the nags trundle up and down the field.

Pete.

[kevmac47]

Retired Old ■■■■:

kevmac47:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Let me stir up a bit of controversy-
Regarding the two rearmost vehicles in Fergie’s photo no. 1: are they pulling or pushing?

It’s not like you to stir things up ROF!!! Regards Kev.

Of course not! Just waiting for Professor Leatherhead to put us all right.

Hells bells ROF, leave him where he is, boring the life out of the “EU OUT” thread. Last time I counted he had forty four contributions on there. Regards Kev.

[retired_old_fart]

He’s just getting into his stride, Kev. You just wait until Smiling Dave lets him have his referendum!
And as for you, H, I’m disappointed that you should even consider that the vehicles were not moving. I can’t see any Pickfords or BRS logos on them so they won’t have stopped for an hour or two’s kip.

[deanb]

The old trucks shown on here certainly had charachter unlike all of the modern stuff today.
Some of them look fantastic with the unusual cab shapes,keep them coming !

Little and large.

[fergie47]

Few odds 'n sods

[fergie47]

Rural France…

[fergie47]

Slow doesn’t always mean sure, even the big boys get it wrong sometimes.

[sammyopisite]

Retired Old ■■■■:
Let me stir up a bit of controversy-
Regarding the two rearmost vehicles in Fergie’s photo no. 1: are they pulling or pushing?

That is an usuall set up as the two front trators are linked pulling and the rear two are linked from the rear tow hitch pushing which would not seem to have as much force as if they were connected from the front towing hitch ( if they have one ,as that would explain the set up )

cheers Johnnie

[sammyopisite]

Fergie47:
Slow doesn’t always mean sure, even the big boys get it wrong sometimes.

Fergie it could be that the road as given way but it is hard to say looking at the angle at which the Pacific is but what is certain there is a lot of hard graft to retrive the situation which they are in

cheers Johnnie

[pete_smith]

Hi Fergie,
I hope you don’t mind me re-posting one of your pics,I like the look of this old girl, what make is it? And why have they pinched Unigate’s livery! Cheer’s Pete

[sammyopisite]

pete smith:
Hi Fergie,
I hope you don’t mind me re-posting one of your pics,I like the look of this old girl, what make is it? And why have they pinched Unigate’s livery! Cheer’s Pete

Pete it is a Bernard but I don’t know which model

cheers Johnnie

[pete_smith]

sammyopisite:

pete smith:
Hi Fergie,
I hope you don’t mind me re-posting one of your pics,I like the look of this old girl, what make is it? And why have they pinched Unigate’s livery! Cheer’s Pete

Pete it is a Bernard but I don’t know which model

cheers Johnnie

Thanks for the reply Johnnie,Fergie’s got me hooked on some of these French motors I never knew existed! Cheer’s Pete

[pete_smith]

sammyopisite:

pete smith:
Hi Fergie,
I hope you don’t mind me re-posting one of your pics,I like the look of this old girl, what make is it? And why have they pinched Unigate’s livery! Cheer’s Pete

Pete it is a Bernard but I don’t know which model

cheers Johnnie

Thanks for the reply Johnnie,Fergie’s got me hooked on some of these French motors I never knew existed! Cheer’s Pete oop’s double post, I liked Fergies picture that much!

[retired_old_fart]

sammyopisite:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Let me stir up a bit of controversy-
Regarding the two rearmost vehicles in Fergie’s photo no. 1: are they pulling or pushing?

That is an usuall set up as the two front trators are linked pulling and the rear two are linked from the rear tow hitch pushing which would not seem to have as much force as if they were connected from the front towing hitch ( if they have one ,as that would explain the set up )

cheers Johnnie

Hi, Johnnie, Surely the two rearmost tractors are pulling from the rear tow hitch?