What is the largest vehicle you've driven?

nucker

Today, I was driving a 3.5 tonne van, it was really cool

L-M

Hummer H2.

I've bad hand eye co ordination and being on the wrong side of that was great fun!

dgt

nucker wrote: »

Today, I was driving a 3.5 tonne van, it was really cool

At the age of 13, I drove a setup similar to this :cool:



And one of these

Supergurrier

dodderangler

Limerick man wrote: »

Hummer H2.

I've bad hand eye co ordination and being on the wrong side of that was great fun!

Same as myself but was only bringing it to garage bout 100 feet away
Ropey driving with steering wheel on wrong side

Bigus

Kawasaki loader

68 lost souls

2001 Dodge Ram 1500 Conversion Van that I posted in the post a pic thread has probably been the biggest.

Empty the van is about 2.5-3 tonnes, converted with 7 people and a months worth of bags and food probably brought it close to 3.5 or 4. Did about 12,000 miles in it over 4 month as far as I remember. The driving was shared between 4 of us though.

nucker

Limerick man wrote: »

Hummer H2.

I've bad hand eye co ordination and being on the wrong side of that was great fun!

Well I had the same problem years ago, but on the right side of the road, a few cars had their mirrors swiped I swore I would never drive those vans again because of that :pac: My last few driving jobs never lasted long because of I told my employers..."No way" :pac:

Yakuza

An early 90's Ford Transit (hired by a mate who was moving house), it was only bleedin' massive, wha'?

One of these, was fun.

Voodoomelon

Mary Harney gave me a piggyback once, does that count?

Fannyhead

Actually quite fun to drive.

Paddy Fields

Did a course to learn how to drive a bus back in the 80's.

shanered

Dumper truck working as a labourer, loved driving it, especially the way it splits in the middle when taking turns, great ould yoke!

Mitch Buchannon

Drove one of these when I was 15 on a building site in Dublin in summer of 1996. I was grinning from ear to ear that summer job.

Thatnastyboy

Drove a very similar set up to this, a 144L 530 & scrap trailers - , not on main roads but shunting & grunting

V8 + sidepipes :cool::cool:

unkel

8 speed manual, 6WD (all axles are driven)

12 element

115bhp version

Toyotafanboi

something disappointing, a high roof, lwb transit :pac:

Horse1920

A W900l - 550 horse - had all the long switch dash , timed shutdown - miss that lady ...

Irish Steve

One of These







Often had one of These attached, which upped the ante some

KTRIC

A T-34 tank, bloody awful, hot and sweaty with really bad ventilation. Wasn't helped by the long hot summer of '43 on the western front.

A few years ago our small electric forklift at work broke down. We got an 8 ton diesel yoke while ours was being fixed. Totally unsuited to the small stockroom we had but a lot of fun anyway.
Similar to this thing:

carzony

A 1999 Old shape transit and a 1996 vw transporter

Chuck Stone

:cool:

biko

In the army, lots of big stuff. Largest was this:


Civilian life Volvo 245.

Chriscl1

antodeco

A lowly VW Camper van. No visibility, poor lights, about a 1/4 turn of play in the steering and old brakes. Drive it during torrential sleet and snow. Never more terrified in my life!

unkel

biko wrote: »

In the army, lots of big stuff.

You an artillery man too then?

Sam Kade

Nforce

Chriscl1 wrote: »

I got to help out driving one of these,back when I was 15....Dublin to Galway route



:cool:

BillJ

Volvo FM 12 rigid body oil truck, something similar to this



When I was younger (6 or 7) I was in a jet and you know the way you could ask to see the cockpit? Well I went up there and the pilot let me hold the joystick thing, This is more than likely something I made up to tell my friends but it's been so long now that I believe it myself and has become a fact in my head!

So yeah, I drove a Boeing 737 :cool:

Chriscl1

was it an old 71 class pullingthe mk2 carriages with a vacuum brake? they were a nightmare lol

nucker

So I've nothing on the most of the posters in this thread :pac:

coolisin

Driven artics down a yard a few times.
After that on a road I suppose a box body van.
With no radio it would drive you bananas it's so noisy and so slow!

Nforce

Chriscl1 wrote: »

was it an old 71 class pullingthe mk2 carriages with a vacuum brake? they were a nightmare lol

Haven't a clue,tbh, 141/181 class iirc. A relative of mine drove them for a living and I was offered a trip up front,something a 15 year old boy would never turn down! Would have been around 1986-ish.

Various different tractors with many different attachments on the back.

DonR8

Rigid Trucks, tractors,

sean1141

triple-M

One of these bad boys(although it belonged to airport school of motoring)

triple-M

BillJ wrote: »

Volvo FM 12 rigid body oil truck, something similar to this



When I was younger (6 or 7) I was in a jet and you know the way you could ask to see the cockpit? Well I went up there and the pilot let me hold the joystick thing, This is more than likely something I made up to tell my friends but it's been so long now that I believe it myself and has become a fact in my head!

So yeah, I drove a Boeing 737 :cool:

I have a vague memory from when I was in primary school(mid 90-s)of us reading an Irish book from the 70's I believe where a mammy and his son are boarding a plane and they just hand the pilot 5 punts fare and the pilot lets the kid mess around in his cockpit ;-)

Joe 90

Drove one of these a lot in my early teens. Not a lot of guards in Donegal in those days!

SEPT 23 1989

24FT box body

its not the size that was the problem it was getting used to the air brakes

Marcusm

12 element wrote: »

115bhp version

My SUV's heavier than that (and thankfully got a lot more HP and torque). That's got the same engine as an old Vectra. That being said, I did finance the plant which made the bodyshells!

Sobanek

My friend's 2001 Ford Crown Victoria which he has in Poland. Not huge, but it is certainly bigger than what we get in Europe!

Scarinae

I test drove a Doosan DA40 ADT last year



This is me driving it

reilig

One of these on road and rail:

guil

Biggest I've drove is a Volvo fm9 480



Daily i drive a fm9 340



Or else a Dennis

Yawlboy

Did the equivalent of a handbrake turn in this

Bpmull

Compared to some stuff here I haven't driven anything that big. Have driven plenty of 9 tonne dumpers teleporters tractors diggers not on the road. The biggest thing I've driven on the road is a lwb Renault master I was actually insured on it when I was learning to drive. It was about 1/4 the price to insure compared to a car somehow insurance companies thought this would be easier to drive. 2.5 dci 6 speed 120bhp good for pulling heavy enough trailers here's a picture below. Have to say I got a few looks driving it around on a provisional at 17.

H3llR4iser

This :P :P (pretty sure an Airbus or Boeing Captain/FO will now come along and put me to shame )