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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭antomorro-sei


    Hermy wrote: »
    Thanks anto. You're spot on - they are indeed propeller thingys for wind turbines.:D
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    No bother! I won't dare upload my photo's of them. Shockingly bad camera phone pics :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Hermy wrote: »
    Caffreys always have gorgeous rigs...
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    Their Longline is amazing.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Slidey wrote: »
    This same crowd have a traction unit up in the hills beside Arigna. It is an 90's style Merc with 26t of ballast over the fifth wheel and it had hydrostatic drive.

    I could not believe how it pulled up the hills when I eventually got its fueling issues sorted.

    The roar from the V8 was savage, way way better than any of the modern v8's, you could hear each cylinder thump on tick over
    It wasn't this baby by any chance Slidey?
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    Is hydrostatic drive the same as a torque converter? And why do Mercs have such a distinctive engine note?
    No bother! I won't dare upload my photo's of them. Shockingly bad camera phone pics :o
    Rubbish Anto. It's not like my photos are all that good.
    Please post what you've seen.:)

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Hermy wrote: »
    An auxilary fire tender...
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    Someone in the Civil Defence can't spell Auxiliary!
    And neither can I.:o
    hunter164 wrote: »
    Their Longline is amazing.
    What's a Longline hunter?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    It was the same era as that but IIRC it was 8x4.

    The hydrostatic drive and the diesel tanks were in a big square unit behind the cab.

    Not sure how the hydrostatic drive works but basically he could hit a hill in 3rd high, that you would normally need to be dropping into the low box for, and when the revs would start to drop the HS would kick and it the revs would increase and it was just mow into the climb.

    Think the idea is to save jerking the bar on the climb when dropping gears.

    It impressed me no end.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    The one in the pic I found looks to be a 6x6 judging by the front tyres and ground clearance.
    Just had a quick peek at Wikipedia and a torque converter and hydrostatic drive are quite different animals. Silly me.:o

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Hermy wrote: »
    What's a Longline hunter?
    A Scania Longline? There's a couple pics of it, not mine btw.
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


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    It was something like this. You can see the cooler for the transmission behind the cab.

    There is a youtube video of one taking off here


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    hunter164 wrote: »
    A Scania Longline? There's a couple pics of it, not mine btw.
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    The penny drops...:o That's some bus!
    I thought you were calling the one I posted a Longline.
    Here's one I found online a while ago.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    Excellent picures. They are building a new wind farm on the hills above me, look foward to seeing some interesting traffic on the back roads around here!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Hermy wrote: »
    The penny drops...:o That's some bus!
    I thought you were calling the one I posted a Longline.
    Here's one I found online a while ago.
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    Yea the Caffrey one is lovely. That's a lovely longline too. Are you a Scania fan?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    101sean wrote: »
    Excellent picures. They are building a new wind farm on the hills above me, look foward to seeing some interesting traffic on the back roads around here!
    Get your camera ready Sean!
    hunter164 wrote: »
    Yea the Caffrey one is lovely. That's a lovely longline too. Are you a Scania fan?
    It's hard not to be a Scania fan - they've always looked the biz and the V8's sound fantastic.
    If I had the money right now I'd love this one...
    Scania_008_Medium.jpg

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Hermy wrote: »
    It's hard not to be a Scania fan - they've always looked the biz and the V8's sound fantastic.
    If I had the money right now I'd love this one...
    Scania_008_Medium.jpg
    143s are the business and that's a lovely colour.There's some lovely 143s around Ireland. Ever hear the roar of them with sidepipes?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    hunter164 wrote: »
    143s are the business and that's a lovely colour.There's some lovely 143s around Ireland. Ever hear the roar of them with sidepipes?
    Ah, the side pipes - what a sound.:):):)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Hermy wrote: »
    Ah, the side pipes - what a sound.:):):)
    Yea but not when you're going through Galway at 4 in the morning :P

    Here's a lovely 143.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    The ultra rare Land Rover MBE...
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    O'Reilly celebrate 50 years of something...
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    So this is what Allely's are up to...
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Did you take the pic of the Land Rover in the estate by the viscount pub?

    I like the O'Reilly Volvo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    I'll throw a couple more pics up.

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    hunter164 wrote: »
    Did you take the pic of the Land Rover in the estate by the viscount pub?

    I like the O'Reilly Volvo.
    The Landy is in Sandymount.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Hermy wrote: »
    The Landy is in Sandymount.
    Ah right looked a lot like a place I know :pac:. Do you be in the docks often taking pics of trucks?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    Nice pics hunter, had a look through your album, saw Cogans cattle wagon, it looked spotless as usual!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Ah man that ain't my album ;) It's my GFs Da's truck. Cogans cattle wagon is gorgeous and some sound out of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    Ah I see. nice pics all the same

    Thats the newer of the 2, no side pipes :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Yea he has some amazing pics. Could spend all day looking at them.

    Ah gay :( Lovely truck all the same. Do you drive?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    hunter164 wrote: »
    Ah right looked a lot like a place I know :pac:. Do you be in the docks often taking pics of trucks?
    Yeah, hardly a day goes by that I don't find an excuse to drive the taxi down cause you never know what might be parked up down the docks.
    When I worked with me Da we didn't take a single pic so I'm trying to make up for it now.
    What about yourself? Are you on the road much?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Hermy wrote: »
    Yeah, hardly a day goes by that I don't find an excuse to drive the taxi down cause you never know what might be parked up down the docks.
    When I worked with me Da we didn't take a single pic so I'm trying to make up for it now.
    What about yourself? Are you on the road much?
    Yea the docks is cool. Head into Topaz much :D

    In me Ibiza yeah :cool: I try to get into the gfs das truck when possible which ain't often seeing as I'm in school until 4. I'd like to some driving but it sounds like a serious mugs game.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    Great pics again, nice straight Land Rover.

    Didn't think IE had any money to spend on ballast wagons, their old ones must be about 60 yers old though. Allellys shift a lot of rolling stock and locos around the UK, it's often cheaper than paying access charges to Network Rail apparantly :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    thethedev wrote: »
    I wonder cpuld you use repeater lenses?

    im sure you could :) just wire up a switch circuit and it would work grand straight of the battery thru entire chain :)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Another Landy...
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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Slidey wrote: »
    Nice pics hunter, had a look through your album, saw Cogans cattle wagon, it looked spotless as usual!
    hunter164 wrote: »
    Ah man that ain't my album ;) It's my GFs Da's truck. Cogans cattle wagon is gorgeous and some sound out of it.
    What album is this you speak of?:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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