glenanderson
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Nov 12, 2015 11:55:16 GMT
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It's going to be in BRS "general fleet" livery, which is Ayers red, like the London busses. I know it's black and white, but picture this with red body and wheels, and black wings:  |
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Nov 12, 2015 12:22:51 GMT
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that sounds good , just like the route masters nice
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Nov 12, 2015 17:04:35 GMT
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awesome again ! i like the "bleachers" style landscaping too. now we know why you wanted the truck mobile, its so you can turn it round and always have a sit down job on the sleepers  |
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Last Edit: Nov 12, 2015 17:05:19 GMT by darrenh
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glenanderson
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Nov 12, 2015 17:18:48 GMT
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Rumbled! |
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Nov 12, 2015 18:12:38 GMT
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Not quite. No moonlight. No tractor. But yes, her face when she got home from work yesterday was... Interesting.... Ah the mysterious fairies at work again! Glad those tyres lasted the distance once spotted a Nuffield tractor that had obviously just escaped off the field and onto the road - the back tyre had split and the owner was legging it up the road for another whilst leaving it ticking over with a plume of white smoke coming out of the exhaust |
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MK2VR6
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Nov 12, 2015 18:13:57 GMT
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Brilliant couple of updates. Now the heart surgery can begin  |
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glenanderson
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Nov 12, 2015 18:47:24 GMT
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Ah the mysterious fairies at work again! Glad those tyres lasted the distance once spotted a Nuffield tractor that had obviously just escaped off the field and onto the road - the back tyre had split and the owner was legging it up the road for another whilst leaving it ticking over with a plume of white smoke coming out of the exhaust Yes, the tyres were a bit of a concern! There's a short, steep-ish, uphill section too. Heart in mouth there! Don't conk out! Don't conk out! Didn't miss a beat though. |
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Nov 12, 2015 21:05:42 GMT
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...and spend 5 mins sorting the slates on that roof |
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düdo
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Nov 12, 2015 21:10:23 GMT
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Well done for getting it moving and into its new home. Could be your new home too if mission control makes any more unreasonable DIY demands? A man could really stretch out in the back of that rig!
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Last Edit: Nov 12, 2015 21:11:06 GMT by düdo
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Nov 14, 2015 12:43:28 GMT
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Excellent
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Nov 14, 2015 12:54:49 GMT
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Rumbled! Don't suppose you know where around 5,000 are going cheap do you? |
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glenanderson
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Nov 14, 2015 14:52:34 GMT
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Afraid not mate. There is a massive, and I mean massive, track renewal scheme going on at London Bridge though. I don't know what kind of sleepers they've pulled out as I normally either run over them at 60 or I'm more focused on the cautionary signals, but somebody somewhere will have a glut of used ones coming up!
5000 though, that's a lot! What'd you need that many for?
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Nov 15, 2015 10:32:31 GMT
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I stumbled across this epic tale last night on a link from another forum and now, after 4 cups of tea and a couple of hours catching up, I'm hooked!
Excellent work, I've always loved the look of these old BRS Austins, they take me back to my childhood travelling the country with my dad and granddad, who had various old wagons, the last of which was an ex GEC FG "thrupenny bit" BMC.
Keep up the good work and I can't wait for the next instalment!
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glenanderson
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Nov 20, 2015 12:34:52 GMT
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...and spend 5 mins sorting the slates on that roof The whole roof is kippered guz, and that's the good bit. Next spring I'm going to strip the lot off and re-do it, but the short bit at the front that you can see in the picture ideally needs to be built up to the same height as the rest of the garage, and a new gable end to match the original (and the house) rather than being hipped back. Not a small job, and one that has to get done after various other "priority" house ones. Well done for getting it moving and into its new home. Could be your new home too if mission control makes any more unreasonable DIY demands? A man could really stretch out in the back of that rig! Yes, I'm going to have a bunk and a (very) compact "living" section. If I don't get the lounge done though I'll definitely be sleeping in it! I stumbled across this epic tale last night on a link from another forum and now, after 4 cups of tea and a couple of hours catching up, I'm hooked! Excellent work, I've always loved the look of these old BRS Austins, they take me back to my childhood travelling the country with my dad and granddad, who had various old wagons, the last of which was an ex GEC FG "thrupenny bit" BMC. Keep up the good work and I can't wait for the next instalment! Welcome aboard Derek.  Well, the latest news is more about serendipity and lucky purchases than actual work on the lorry... A few years ago a good mate of mine purchased, much to my jealousy, a new Chester Crusader lathe. It's about the size of a Colchester Student, maybe a little larger. No toy, certainly. Well, time has passed and his circumstances have changed. I had always nagged at him for first refusal should he decide to move it on and I got the call the other day and we struck a deal.  Having moved such kit before with my Land-Rover and trailer, I decided that I'd hire a tail-lift equipped van for a day, and that Wednesday after work would be D-day. So far so good. Those of you that have been with this project for a while will remember that I have always been planning on using the lorry's load-carrying abilities once done, and that I have had half an eye out for a tail lift. The issue with one of these on my lorry is that most of them are fixed to the rear columns of the box body, and mine being timber isn't really suitable for the extra loadings it's going to add. To be honest, it'd probably have ripped the back off the lorry when it was new, so I really don't want to be putting one on there now! Also, they are very visible at the back and really not in keeping with the "standard at first glance" look that I'm aiming for. The answer is a chassis mounted "fold-up-and-tuck-under" style. Now, these are really dear new, and secondhand fetch £300-£500, which is way beyond my means at the moment. They also all seem to be in the midlands or further north, so it hasn't been much of a priority to track one down. That said, as I'm needing to reconstruct the rear of the wagon anyway, it'd be nice to have one fitted and working in order to be able to build around it, rather than have to re-do work in the future, so I've had a "watch" set up on my ebay for anything within 50 miles and under £200 as a start price. Well, as luck would have it this popped up last week, local to me and finishing on Wednesday lunchtime:  I had the extreme good fortune to win it for the princely sum of £127. It was also available to collect that afternoon, and en-route from where I work to my mate's house where the lathe needed collecting, there was room in the van too. Bonus. When fitted they look like this:  And, as my lorry is similar skirted at the sides behind the wheels, when stowed it'll be invisible from the sides. I'll probably make a quickly detachable modesty panel for the rear, to make it even less visible. The heavy duty bumper will also give me a tow-bar mounting and somewhere to fix the rear lights and numberplate. Happy days!  That's it for now; I'd better get back to the decorating! |
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Nov 20, 2015 15:33:04 GMT
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When working to a tight budget, everyone deserves a little luck now & then - glad it was your turn this time Glen.
That tailift will be an exceptionally useful addition to the truck, and all the better for being able to hide it away too.
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Frankenhealey
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Nov 20, 2015 17:23:00 GMT
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I looked at those lifts for the Goddess but the thought of extending one and sticking a 1 ton car on it put me off.
Will it lift a lathe though?
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glenanderson
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Nov 20, 2015 18:54:59 GMT
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It has a lifting capacity of 1000 kg, but the load really needs to be centralised at worst, or toward the front of the platform. It would lift the lathe I've just bought no bother as it weighs (or at least books at) 460 kg. The lift on the back of the 3.5 ton box van I just hired was rated at 500 kg and that really was on the limit with the lathe; it wouldn't lift me and the lathe, and was clearly at near full stretch with just the lathe.
I think, if you wanted to extend one long enough to lift a car of 1000 kg, you'd need to start with something much higher capacity.
It's also worth remembering that the lift itself weighs the best part of 500 kg, so it all starts to eat into your payload. For your vehicle I think you've made the right choice. Particularly as you're working at 7500 kg MGW. I'm lucky that I have a truck plated at 9150 kg (nine imperial tons), a license to drive it and five tons of useable payload to play with. I anticipate the tail-lift and my planned modifications and additions to the truck will add more or less a ton to the current bare-bones minimum spec it's at right now; maybe a little more. It should still leave me a comfortable four ton payload should I ever need to use it, and makes the lorry much more capable than a modern box-bodied 7.5 tonner as tail-lift equipped ones of those generally come in around 5.5 tonnes unladen with around 2 tonnes useable payload capacity.
Other than collecting the odd bag of sand/ballast from the builder's merchant I don't really anticipate carrying many heavy lumps, but ask any lorry driver and they'll tell you that the ability to load/unload yourself is worth its weight in gold. One thing I can definitely see it being used for is to safely load/unload my motorcycle.
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eternaloptimist
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Top work there. Enjoying the progress and wondering how I can find space for a TK somewhere in my life. Not enough space at the side of my garage, clearly I wasn't thinking properly when I laid it out.
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glenanderson
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Clearly not!
I've a real soft spot for TK Bedfords, and the KM, MK etc. variants that shared the same cab. My dad had a couple of TK tractor units in partnership with my Uncle Ken for a while, and we had a "spares" breaker in the garden too.
I often wonder how things would have turned out if my dad had kept his health and fitness. He had a degenerative condition that started to show its effects when I was about nine, by the time I was twelve he'd stopped driving and he died when I was seventeen. I had a count up the other day and, at one point when I was about eight, we had fifteen various cars, vans, lorries, tractors and other wheeled bits of kit in the garden. I think my wife is tolerant, but my mum was a saint! :-)
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Nov 21, 2015 12:09:08 GMT
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Afraid not mate. There is a massive, and I mean massive, track renewal scheme going on at London Bridge though. I don't know what kind of sleepers they've pulled out as I normally either run over them at 60 or I'm more focused on the cautionary signals, but somebody somewhere will have a glut of used ones coming up! 5000 though, that's a lot! What'd you need that many for? Erm, the Department of Transport here have allocated some money to Philippine National Railways for the upgrade of some 50-odd km of line. Just not enough, so I was looking to help 'em out a bit! Anyway, keep on trucking, I love this thread. |
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Last Edit: Nov 21, 2015 12:09:26 GMT by georgeb
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