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Visited a site for off-roading today littered with what can only be described as farmers scrap. Been used, parked up, worth a fortune but would probably never sell it. 
 

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old school unimog

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picked clean and rotten to hell

 

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Volvo looking worse for wear

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ww2 Chevrolet wrecker. Interesting thing. 

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commer of some sorts. 
 

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there was more, a lot more. But didn’t have time to snap them all. 

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8 hours ago, martc said:

That'll be a Commer VA, VB or VC I think the actual designation depends upon the carrying capacity and/or engine type..

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I think these Commer’s with the single headlights had the Perkins 6354 engines mainly, the two stroke TS3 was in the heavier models with the same cab but with twin headlights.

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On 11/7/2021 at 10:39 AM, sutty2006 said:

And this. Lovely ex long reach fire engine? 6625AA7E-34F9-4195-A041-9AA27DF8CA4B.thumb.jpeg.1b1e704d2f073f2dd01263a1b5c85b4b.jpeg
 

in the back ground to the left, you can just see one of two fordson super major tracked tractors. 

Recently, I had to do my Emergency Response Driver revalidation and the modern Iveco due to be used for assessment was unavailable. So it had to swapped out with a 32 year old Scania, instead:

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Result! I was right in my element!

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4 hours ago, Jon said:

Recently, I had to do my Emergency Response Driver revalidation and the modern Iveco due to be used for assessment was unavailable. So it had to swapped out with a 32 year old Scania, instead:

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Result! I was right in my element!

That looks a pearler!! Where did you do that? 

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1 hour ago, Jon said:

New Zealand!

Still a smattering of these Scanias about the place. A farmer's stock truck version overtook me on my bike the other day, with a reg number that dated it to 1984!

That’s ace. I’d love to visit NZ. Mrs sutty has distant family out there, she’s been once, apparently he’s got a tank or two….. y’know, as you do. Haha. 

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On 11/6/2021 at 9:38 PM, sutty2006 said:

Visited a site for off-roading today littered with what can only be described as farmers scrap. Been used, parked up, worth a fortune but would probably never sell it. 
 

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old school unimog

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picked clean and rotten to hell

 

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Volvo looking worse for wear

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ww2 Chevrolet wrecker. Interesting thing. 

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commer of some sorts. 
 

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there was more, a lot more. But didn’t have time to snap them all. 

4x4 Response Event?

I do remember seeing that wrecker driving around the field when I was a young lad a long time ago. They have sold stuff in the past, I bought a Vauxhall Carlton off them for the gearbox and Power Steering box, they even put it on its side with the loader so I could remove the parts.

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28 minutes ago, goosey said:

4x4 Response Event?

I do remember seeing that wrecker driving around the field when I was a young lad a long time ago. They have sold stuff in the past, I bought a Vauxhall Carlton off them for the gearbox and Power Steering box, they even put it on its side with the loader so I could remove the parts.

Yes exactly that. 
 

I spotted an omega estate stuffed up a corner in a hedge. Didn’t want to get covered in nettles trying to get close. Lol

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19 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Spotted the other day over at council playing fields - possibly a showman's wagon linked to a nearby travelling fairground.

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Can't imagine there'd be a lot of these ERFs still in regular use otherwise.

Looks like an ex Beechs ERF too, with a Stoke on Trent reg. 

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3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Spotted the other day over at council playing fields - possibly a showman's wagon linked to a nearby travelling fairground.

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Can't imagine there'd be a lot of these ERFs still in regular use otherwise.

Definitely a fairground wagon - that's the Showmen's Guild logo on the dashboard. Almost certainly started out as a 4x2 tractor unit and got stretched into that form in the classic fairground fashion.

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Spotted doing showman's duties recently: a pair of Iveco Stralises! I've got a soft spot for the bloody things for a few reasons, but I'm not blind to their shortcomings. Presumably the short journeys and long lay-ups work in their favour: less opportunities for them to go bang, more time to fix them when they do. And they do. I once inherited a Trakker (the tipper version) that went like snaw aff a dyke until it shat its' head gasket on the M876 one afternoon.  According to the fitter, that was the second replacement. It was under three years old and had 90 thousand k's on the clock...

On the other hand...imagine my delight to hear this roaring up the road...Newtyle Commercials' 'Dragon Wagon' which I've been after for ages. Think the plate on the grille says 'EC12' (but don't quote me on that) which means the Perkins (ex-Rolls) Eagle, unless it's a Cat or a Detroit DD60, which were options. It's not a Cummins anyway, but what a racket! Glorious...

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I shall duly stand corrected @Noel Tidybeard: I must be thinking of something else. But yeah, that narrows it down to Cummins 11 litre. I think...

Cadzow Heavy Haulage used to have one of the EC14-525's in eight legger, 150 ton+ form. That thing sounded brutal. I had a sound recording somewhere of that and their V8 Titan in convoy pulling big chunks of boat metal from Rolls Royce Marine, which sadly I can't find. I'd issue it as a symphony!

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1 hour ago, CreepingJesus said:

Spotted doing showman's duties recently: a pair of Iveco Stralises! I've got a soft spot for the bloody things for a few reasons, but I'm not blind to their shortcomings. Presumably the short journeys and long lay-ups work in their favour: less opportunities for them to go bang, more time to fix them when they do.

 

That'll be David Thomson. He has a liking for the Stralis for some inexplicable reason and I think has four or five of them now. As far as I know they're unique and no other showman has one, although the little Cargos are very popular.

I had an interesting conversation with the driver of one of the big and very rare Stralis 570s. He said it was his fifth Stralis and the first four were mostly okay but this one was crap and forever suffering various issues, so Iveco somehow managed to make them worse as the years went by!

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It does seem to be luck of the draw how your Stralis experience turns out. If you've got a good one, it'll be golden. If you haven't, you'd be better getting another one. The first one I had, was a gem, but at a year old the locker doors were rusting, and various bits of interior trim used to fall off at random, usually while at a standstill. The old acronym 'It Vibrates, Everything Comes Off' wasn't actually all that true. Still amusing though. The last one I had was the yard mutt, because all the other drivers favoured the DAFs they were replacing them with. The only concrete reason they could give for hating on the thing, boiled down to my old pal ArseTronic, and were problems common to (at least in my direct experience) MANs, if not all the other brands fitted with the hateful thing. And strangely enough, that one was 5-6 years old iirc, around 500thou kms and had no rust, and a mostly okay interior.

If I go back further, I had a EuroStar in my early days that confused me as to how the revs went up by 250 if I selected high split: yep, the factory put (or wired/plumbed) the splitter switch in upside down! Not so much 'Fix It Again, Toni', as 'why didn't you build the bugger right in the first place, Toni?' I did enjoy driving that one too, but it was my first object lesson in being on your toes with Italian trucks.

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44 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

90 thousand K's???

Yep. And to be clear, that was the second blown head gasket in under twelve months. Fixed at the Iveco dealer with genuine parts each time, too.

I'd had to fill the header tank before I set off that morning, and I had a 25L drum of water on board anyway. Used all that, brimmed it at lunchtime, phoned to explain the situation, and I was on the way to the garage when it let go. Bloody thing had character, or a sense of humour or something, I'll say that much!

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Does the Stralis still struggle in the rain? 
 

i started my apprenticeship in 2004 at an Iveco/Ford dealer. Every time it rained the breakdown guy slid down his fireman’s pole straight into his van and off out he went to the rescue of a dead stralis. 

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