how would you move this? abandoned dragline content.

[hennabm]

A bit like Vin, my grandad worked at RB for many years. He was a machine operator.

 

I remember he took me to an RB open day and got to sit in the cab of an RB, when I were just a nipper.

[spike60]

It's of no help to you,but I've managed to shift one in similar looking condition. The engine had well and truly seized, so unbolted the hydraulic pump and powered it from a big electric drill running from a generator. Complicated by the fact the valve for the cab rotation had stuck open, so the whole thing was turning as it was (very slowly!) moving forwards.

 

Moved it a few hundred yards onto a beavertail truck, but it was painfully slow going.

Looking at those levers it probably pre-dates hydraulics. For RB at least,..

[DSdriver]

Is there someone local with a steam traction engine? They would probably* consider it fun to drag that out.

Oh, and have you  tried a can of:

[vulgalour]

You know how I like lost causes and vehicles I have no use for?  I really want this.  Fortunately* I don't have a passport or any money so I can't collect it from France.

 

 

HOORAY more useless post material.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I wouldn't have a clue even where to start shifting this. HTH

[michael1703]

That's got to be worth more than its scrap value on ebay

 

Please ebay and hope someone restores it

 

You've got pictures and a description already

[beko1987]

Nothing to add apart from that's great!

[Station]

Just pull in out with your bare hands, any real man could do this.

[mouseflakes]

Couldn't you just stand at the end of track with one of these?

 

 

(a magnet I mean, not a coyote)

[chaseracer]

Google-fu suggests 1930s RB10.  Could it have gone over with the BEF in 1940, or maybe with the Allies around D-Day?

 

Shame to lose it now.

[Timewaster]

"Bottom of the valley" that suggests that it is a the bottom of a hill. Bugger

 

Believe it or not, on hard flat ground that would shift fairly simply with a couple of jacks, some hefty steel plates and some sturdy rollers.

 

In my old job we would move 5 ton power transformers with just 4 blokes and a bit of technique.

 

Another unhelpful post!

[chaseracer]

We're especially good at those.

[Alexg]

What a thing of beauty. Pity getting it running is such a tall order 'cause it would be the most epically smokey, rattly and horrendously noisy experience in the history of Autoshitting.

[dave21478]

Yeah, my googling agrees that its an RB10, so more like 10 tons weight.

My teeny little Yanmar tractor isnt going to be shifting that, neither is the LandRover.

[Timewaster]

What are your environmental concerns like? You could try soaking the tracks and guides in oil everyday for a month and hope it frees enough to tow.

Is there anything you could attach to the drive wheels and use a big massive F off bar to try and turn them? Maybe even a jack under the end of the bar?

[Asimo]

TV Savage Squad did one of these: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTXThzOQ2P7Xmvn3F61TI5R7MzVrOFYdv&v=vylS9iZcBX8

[Albert Ross]

Certainly is a Good Ol' RB10. There was one near me for a while... Pillock saw it. Helicopter?

[Lankytim]

I'd just gas axe it up over a few months and weigh it in bit by bit. The huge counterbalance weight may have to be left behind though.

[brickwall]

Model Erie 10Rb is a fine we thing and many are still in action. What you really want is the steam driven one. Not very helpful, tho.

 

[New POD]

That is absolutely ace. Put it in your front garden as an ornament, I would.

 

 

I've seen your front garden and quite frankly it would be funny if you did that.

[320touring]

TV Savage Squad did one of these: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTXThzOQ2P7Xmvn3F61TI5R7MzVrOFYdv&v=vylS9iZcBX8

Fuckin hell- thats mah hametoon

[purplebargeken]

Burn it with fire. Real fire. 

[Matt]

TV Savage Squad did one of these: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLTXThzOQ2P7Xmvn3F61TI5R7MzVrOFYdv&v=vylS9iZcBX8

 

I wasn't expecting to see Suggs, less so to find out that the one in the episode used to reside just down the road from me. Neat.

[catsinthewelder]

How long does it take to get to from home/work?  I like Tontops idea of trying to unsieze it over time.  If you could do the engine too then who knows,  could it run again?

 

It would be a real shame for any machine this old to be weighed in.

[Luckythirteen]

Model Erie 10Rb is a fine we thing and many are still in action. What you really want is the steam driven one. Not very helpful, tho.

 

 

Still get a good days work out of it, etc...

 

Provided you were already deaf, and had a suit of armour handy.

[richardmorris]

[John F]

[Taff]

 

 

In an attempt to make the least helpful post on the thread, I have a Wily Coyote tattoo.

 

No, don't thank me, the pleasure is all mine.

[Pillock]

Certainly is a Good Ol' RB10. There was one near me for a while... Pillock saw it. Helicopter?

 

Did I? You'd think I'd remember something like that, but clearly not.....

 

Anyway, my helpful post is "Put a Corsa badge on the back, sell it to Billy and he'll have got rid by the weekend for a profit."

[Dead_E23]

Red diesel is surprisingly good at unseizing and de-rusting things.  

 

I usually soak stuff for a few days in a plastic container from the Chinese takeaway, but it looks like that might be a bit on the big side for one of those.

 

Maybe try wrapping or stuffing bits with rags and then soaking them in diesel.