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cian1500ww · 04-06-2010 1:06pm

1955 Massey Harris 33, for sale if anyone's interested

Slidey · 05-06-2010 10:16pm

I hope there is someone comin to the truck show in Athlone. There is some savage machinery here and this spoon left his camera behind

antomorro-sei · 06-06-2010 12:27am

Slidey wrote: »

I hope there is someone comin to the truck show in Athlone. There is some savage machinery here and this spoon left his camera behind

I'd say Hunter164 will have a few pics. Think he headed down to it.

hunter164 · 08-06-2010 11:48pm

Yea Slidey I went down. I see you post on IrishRigs. I hadn't got me camera either. What did you go down in?

Slidey · 09-06-2010 11:09am

I brought the Golf.

Was along with a few lads that brought trucks though

hunter164 · 09-06-2010 6:16pm

Did you stay for the weekend?

I went down in the left hander 111 by the Spatz stand. :cool: :pac:

Slidey · 09-06-2010 8:33pm

Stayed Sat night and headed home on Sunday afternoon. I had had enough of knobends blowing airhorns and revving side pipes at that stage.

hunter164 · 09-06-2010 8:51pm

Haha yea it was pretty bad. If you don't mind me asking who did you go down with? Monday was sh1te and boring anyway.

Slidey · 09-06-2010 9:37pm

Western Casing. They had the Kraker walking floor trailer on demo down there

hunter164 · 09-06-2010 9:54pm

I think I missed it :L Were yas hidden behind Hunky Dory's and all?

Slidey · 09-06-2010 10:34pm

Black 6x2 FH16 660 t/unit, silver 6x2 660 unit and anothe black 520 6 legger. All '08 Volvos

hunter164 · 11-06-2010 6:16pm

I probably seen them but I've a sh1te memory.
Anyways here's what I came down in and then a group shot.

wirehairmax · 11-06-2010 11:19pm

The hilux is my latest hunting truck. Some machine, just needs a rollbar, some lights, mudtires, canopy and maybe a winch. Anybody know where to get some of these items. I can only seem to get chrome rollbars for newer jeeps, I want a black rollbar. Also what canopy other than an Ifor Williams is available? The trooper I just got rid of. Just wasnt worth doe'ing but great machine off-road and took some hardship.

Slidey · 12-06-2010 4:02pm

Some pics I took when in Darwin a few years ago

Lurching · 12-06-2010 4:46pm

Thought id throw up one of mine.

Im doing civil works in Oz now, so i should have a few good ones here soon.

101sean · 12-06-2010 6:31pm

Yes, lets have more please, proper big trucks and serious plant:D

Wirehairmax, like the Hilux, looks good in NATO green. Look at some of the suppliers on http://www.macks4x4info.com/ and http://www.milneroffroad.com/Default.asp?c=122558

If you still need help finding stuff, stick it the wanted section or start another thread if you've something that may be of interest to everyone rather than taking this thread OT;)

red menace · 12-06-2010 9:00pm

ormondprop · 14-06-2010 10:11pm

heres me in the bucket of an 85 ton cat

red menace · 14-06-2010 10:17pm

big girl!
that in ireland?

antomorro-sei · 14-06-2010 11:14pm

85 tonne :eek:

Christ. Smashing that is.

ormondprop · 14-06-2010 11:29pm

ya it was in ireland it was brought in from spain by epsa who were using it on the new motorway around moneygall, they also had a brand new 80 ton komatsu there, i had a few more pictures but lost them, i was showing them off one day when one of my friends who used to be a mechanic with komatse showed me a picture he had of his transit parked behing a 125 ton that he was working on, if it was a low roof transit it would have fit under the digger, a quarry about 2 mile down the road from me has another 80ton komatsu filling a crusher all day long, crushing upto 500 ton per hour, i've seen it a few times as we go hunting up around there but i have no pictures but heres a link that talks about it and has some pics http://www.mchaleplantsales.com/pdf/summer_08.pdf

oflynno · 28-06-2010 11:15am

yellowlabrador wrote: »

where were these tractors?

101sean · 28-06-2010 9:18pm

A few pics from Charleville which had the largest selection of classic trucks I've seen so far inc several that have featured in Irish Vintage scene. There were 100s of tractors but they're not my thing so I'm going to disappoint tractor fans.

Aveling and Porter coffee pot roller

Ford D series, once a common sight

Fine line up

Very shiny line up of early Hinos

Ergonomic cabbed AEC Mandator cattle wagon

Classic Atkinson, one of my favourites

Nice pair of ERFs

Stunning Thornycroft horsebox

Ford Transcontinental with 40ft ISO caravan

1950s Ford?

I did take a picture of one tractor, Ransomes MG6. There were several of these and I wouldn't mind one myself

Slidey · 28-06-2010 9:24pm

Excellent pics, the AEC and the Thornycroft are class

red menace · 28-06-2010 9:51pm

Looks like some lovely rigs there alright', love the cattle wagon.
looked like some decent tractors too judging by the background

red menace · 28-06-2010 10:01pm

101sean · 28-06-2010 10:12pm

There were a lot of tractors inc the Marshall MP6 in this months Irish Vintage Scene. This year's theme was to get the record for the largest number of single cylinder tractors together, 145 turned up. There does seem to be a bit of competition among collectors to locate rare tractors, several there I'd never heard of.

101sean · 05-07-2010 11:27pm

Not quite in the same class as the crane above but the cause of much local excitement (and a long detour), crane bought in for replacement of Goolds Cross bridge south of Thurles.

Hermy · 06-07-2010 11:01am

Allelys ballasted tractors and girder trailer...

A few from Baldoyle Industrial Estate...

And one more from the port...

hunter164 · 09-07-2010 10:52pm

Ah I love that 111

Went down to Athlone in it. It's an ex snow plough in an airport in Sweden.

oflynno · 10-07-2010 10:05am

wirehairmax wrote: »

The hilux is my latest hunting truck. Some machine, just needs a rollbar, some lights, mudtires, canopy and maybe a winch. Anybody know where to get some of these items. I can only seem to get chrome rollbars for newer jeeps, I want a black rollbar. Also what canopy other than an Ifor Williams is available? The trooper I just got rid of. Just wasnt worth doe'ing but great machine off-road and took some hardship.

i found a few bits for you here

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/carextras/1415946

also i am inviting you to join a forum,its free,all about hiluxes and landies and 4x4,from the sublime to the ridiculux.
its elite4x4.co.uk . there are a few of us here in ireland on it too and we welcome new members

you will find out all you need to know about 4x4 stuff on it.

i had a hilux crewcab with a 6" lift 33" tyres, and all the worx

recession and job gone then though:mad:,had to sell it

oflynno · 10-07-2010 10:16am

oops

MrFoxman360 · 14-07-2010 10:53pm

Something that aquired last week.... I now have one of the biggest japanese jeeps ever made and also one of the smallest!

I must fix that fog light before the DOE :rolleyes:

Got her running though, sweet as a nut!

oflynno · 14-07-2010 11:04pm

i want a commercial suki just as a toolbox

i bought a bedford rascal camper for that purpose,it was just so much fun,but i needed bobs and sold it again.craparse

Plug · 16-07-2010 10:46pm

Hermy wrote: »

Two more from MarTrain...

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What is this used for? big hydraulics in the middle of a trailer.

101sean · 16-07-2010 11:32pm

That trailer splits in the middle, it's returning empty. it's for transporting wind turbine pylons, the two halves bolt to either end of a pylon section.

Andrew33 · 17-07-2010 1:05am

101sean wrote: »

That trailer splits in the middle, it's returning empty. it's for transporting wind turbine pylons, the two halves bolt to either end of a pylon section.

So the Pylon actually becomes the trailer, its like the log haulers of old were the bogie is chained to the tree trunk and the trunk becomes the trailer.

Plug · 17-07-2010 12:06pm

Ah yeah i've just seen them a few pages back, cool!
Are some of these giants made in Ireland IIRC?

Claasman · 19-07-2010 1:37pm

Not me, but interesting vid.Taken from another forum. Language NSFW...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjLF0lXjUHE

Slidey · 02-08-2010 11:02pm

freighter · 14-08-2010 3:42pm

What are alleys 4 axle tractor units carrying. Are they just weights or something.. I see Gary Keville has one.

Hermy · 18-08-2010 9:24pm

freighter wrote: »

What are alleys 4 axle tractor units carrying. Are they just weights or something.. I see Gary Keville has one.

They are what is known as a ballast tractor.

Wiki wrote:

With a semi-trailer, the weight of the trailer presses down through the fifth wheel and adds ballast. In the case of a ballast tractor, the drawbar only transmits a horizontal force to the load, which is supported separately. Ballast is added over the driving wheels to increase the available tractive effort. The weight increases the friction between the tyres and the road surface. Without such ballast, the tractor would be unable to overcome the inertia and friction of rolling of a heavy trailed load, and its wheels would rotate without generating forward motion.

Cantona's Collars · 04-09-2010 9:43am

Saw this in the Daily Mail-thought I'd share it on here (wasn't sure where else to post it)

101sean · 04-09-2010 11:35am

Nice one, maybe the Gardai should get one to patrol motorway hard shoulders for errant tractors

Big Nasty · 19-09-2010 1:39pm

Here's a few from last weekend:
(Pic quality not great)

Slidey · 04-12-2010 2:16pm

101sean · 04-12-2010 5:04pm

The first pic is one of the Defence Forces new BAe RG32M LTVs, built in South Africa. They've ordered 27 of them, more pics here http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=248735&id=169367391165

Slidey · 04-12-2010 6:09pm

There was 2 of them in convoy, they seemed to be quite slow, kinda noisy and very smokey for such new machinery

101sean · 04-12-2010 8:04pm

They are supposed to be a Light Tactical Vehicle but weigh 9.5t :eek:
270hp Steyr EU3 diesel so shouldn't be slow or smokey!

Slidey · 04-12-2010 8:45pm

101sean wrote: »

270hp Steyr EU3 diesel so shouldn't be slow or smokey!

Well thats is not a smudge on my windscreen, thats good black smoke coming from it!

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