kevmac47:
Oops sorry! I’ve put my reply in the middle of Larry’s and Pv’s posts.
I don’t know how to change it without deleting it!! Regards “Donkey” Kev.
Dont worry about it Kev, Just go & sit in the drivers room, 
,& buy everyone a cuppa & all will be forgiven, Take care & stay safe my friend, Regards Larry.
Drove this fine vehicle in 2010 a 1970 dmm Mack 8x6 I couldn’t reach the door handle from the ground. Twin stick transmission
Lol it’s not an 8 wheeler I was told it’s a double tandem only wagon I’ve drove that you needed to wear a safety helmet when empty
pity you never drove it in the 70’s you would have reached the door handle with your platforms on… 
Ach. I wAs still a bairn till 76 then out o school in tae the big wide world, but yes I had a pair o Cuban heels, and aged 50 told tae drive the dmm it just wasn’t the metal ladder that was bad it was getting the. Chutes on and off .
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cav551:
MLL 570 L picture taken off the Henley thread. This was the longest eight wheel chassis built by Atkinson at the time. Bought for its double drive capability on site when delivering Charcon concrete sectional buildings, the chassis was built to take a 30ft body to enable a profitable 18 pallet load of fruit and veg at other times. The picture was originally published in either Motor Transport or Commercial Motor.
Hi all and Patrick another good thread to indulge in regrettably though most of what I have seen and read so far meant wrestling with multi combination gear boxes regrettably no A on the gear stick like the modern taj mahalls. 
Heres 3 8 wheelers as used in the Oz cattle industry I believe the bodies were 32 feet as that was a configuration used by the rail system here for stock transport and was called a K wagon that was cattle loaded at a station and trucked to a rail head for continuation of the journey without ending up with a few extra that couldn’t be fitted on the rail cars plus one used in the fuel industry when the crates are removed for off season work.
Cheers Dig
gazzer:
Here’s my accumulation of 8 wheelers.
Up to now, I had always thought that, in Spain, the Renaul KB cab had been fitted only on Barreiros trucks. Obviously, this one is a true Renault!
JIMBO47:
Drove this fine vehicle in 2010 a 1970 dmm Mack 8x6 I couldn’t reach the door handle from the ground. Twin stick transmission 0
Back in 2004, I remember overtaking a Mack DM 8x4 tipper on the motorway close to Gent, in Belgium; the only one I ever saw.
The company sold the three dmm they had plus enough spares to build two(job lot when a dam project was finished) . They went quickly a, cattle lot cleaning company bought them alll , took the mixer bodies of and fitted muck speakers to them. Still on the go well they were last yr
The company sold the three dmm they had plus enough spares to build two(job lot when a dam project was finished) . They went quickly a, cattle lot cleaning company bought them alll , took the mixer bodies of and fitted muck speakers to them. Still on the go well they were last yr
DIG:
cav551:
MLL 570 L picture taken off the Henley thread. This was the longest eight wheel chassis built by Atkinson at the time. Bought for its double drive capability on site when delivering Charcon concrete sectional buildings, the chassis was built to take a 30ft body to enable a profitable 18 pallet load of fruit and veg at other times. The picture was originally published in either Motor Transport or Commercial Motor.Hi all and Patrick another good thread to indulge in regrettably though most of what I have seen and read so far meant wrestling with multi combination gear boxes regrettably no A on the gear stick like the modern taj mahalls.
Heres 3 8 wheelers as used in the Oz cattle industry I believe the bodies were 32 feet as that was a configuration used by the rail system here for stock transport and was called a K wagon that was cattle loaded at a station and trucked to a rail head for continuation of the journey without ending up with a few extra that couldn’t be fitted on the rail cars plus one used in the fuel industry when the crates are removed for off season work.
Cheers Dig
A wee story about this one DIG, a Philip Schubert photo who grew up in the north west around Louisa Downs and Kimberly and the truck is a Hayes. I did correspond with him a few years back, all very interesting his dad had trucks pictures of which I have posted in the past.
Cheers
Oily
Road Train loading Cattle at Louisa Downs - August 1968
Road train Number Two.
When crossing the low level crossing at Fitzroy Crossing on the way to Derby, the driver “missed a gear.”
The road train rolled back down into the river bed partially jack knifing with one trailer falling onto its side. The cattle of course escaped, and a number had to be put down due to injuries.
A Foden this time.
Philip Schubert
“Loading Cattle into a Road Train at Louisa Downs in 1967
While sorting through one of the last remaining old shoeboxes of photos I have I came upon this gem. It was taken in 1967 at Louisa Downs Station when a herd of 600 bullocks were loaded into a number of road trains for transport to the Derby Meatworks. It was one of a series of about 6 photos I took at the time.”
DIG:
Heres 3 8 wheelers as used in the Oz cattle industry I believe the bodies were 32 feet as that was a configuration used by the rail system here for stock transport and was called a K wagon that was cattle loaded at a station and trucked to a rail head for continuation of the journey without ending up with a few extra that couldn’t be fitted on the rail cars plus one used in the fuel industry when the crates are removed for off season work.
Cheers Dig
