Classic Trucks, Wagons

[Profpointy]

How about excavators?

All the above at the Threlkeld mining and excavator museum in Cumbria. Whilst it's more an excavator graveyard as yet, some are starting to be done up. At least they've not been broken up, and have after all lived outside in rough conditions all their working lived

There's also a short little train ride and the small but very informative mining museum proper. Well worth a couple of hours on a wet day in the lakes

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Profpointy

I’ve passed the lane up to to quarry many times over the years, but never managed to convince my wife that l need to visit the museum

 

[gbb]

I could never differentiate between them visually, despite their being everywhere in the 70s and 80s, I struggle to know what individual trucks were...
Matador, Bison, the Octopus was a 8 wheeler rigid, Mandator perhaps, I'm sure thter were others...

 

[Profpointy]

@Profpointy

I’ve passed the lane up to to quarry many times over the years, but never managed to convince my wife that l need to visit the museum

I'm a lucky boy as my Mrs quite likes quirky industrial museums :-)

 

[DRM]

https://www.theaemt.com/DB/news-webpage/bucyrus-erie-1150b-walking-dragline-excavator
I've seen this beast at St Aidens in Swillington, Leeds, former Colliery site, it is absolutely huge

 

[Profpointy]

https://www.theaemt.com/DB/news-webpage/bucyrus-erie-1150b-walking-dragline-excavator
I've seen this beast at St Aidens in Swillington, Leeds, former Colliery site, it is absolutely huge

Wow! That's looks worth a big detour to visit

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

https://www.theaemt.com/DB/news-webpage/bucyrus-erie-1150b-walking-dragline-excavator
I've seen this beast at St Aidens in Swillington, Leeds, former Colliery site, it is absolutely huge

Wow! That's looks worth a big detour to visit

I've seen it many a time, & been in it, as they sometimes have open days
http://www.walkingdragline.org/

Yes, it's BIG
I'd have liked to have seen it 'walking', as it was into its final resting place (where it is now)


I certainly remember it as a working open-cast, the operatives of such places are dubbed 'Sunshine Miners', plus the breakthrough (due to old forgotten/uncharted working that allowed the River Aire to breach & flood it
The site is that vast that it took 3 days to fill, & equalise to river level!!
17 billion gallons of water, is the suggested/hypothesised figure

There's a few 'before & after' shots of the breakthrough here; https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/th...ast-mine-swillington-leeds.7010/#.XsU3Y0BFzIU

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 13th

‘Yorkshire Wartime Experience’

Spotted whilst returning to the car-park
It will have delivered something big!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 13th

‘Yorkshire Wartime Experience’

There’s a lot of these in civilian hands, working in heavy recovery

https://www.yorkshirewartime.co.uk/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 22nd

A brace of Foden Alphas
l’ve featured the white one, on this thread before

A local showmans yard

 

[gbb]

Re the drag line excavators up page, I remember as a kid , when dad drove into Lincoln (we lived in ?ins for many years on various RAF bases) , there was a massive sign 'Ruston Bucyrus'
I obviously found out what 'it' meant and always assumed that was where their factory was

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 26th

That’s a gorgeous T-Cab!

Bought from
Gulf Petrol Station
Saville Road
Castleford

 

[Datum2]

Hydrocon crane "resting" Dillington, Norfolk

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 1st

Scania T-Cab (‘tag lift’)
T124
470BHP?

Outskirts of Wakefield
Close to the M1

It’s lived there for quite a few years!

Plus an ex-Hansons Atkinson to the rear
This is probably a 8x4 tipper (or was)

 

[Jameshow]

Not a classic but a local firm Chris Wright riad innings had a heavy duty lo loader hitched up to a tractor unit not by one hitch but by another hitch and axle to the lo loader what's going on there?