*Your* picture thread

rightyabe

Hermy

Three recent spots in Longford...

Hermy

Saw these at an auction...

Slidey

Up on site the low loaders are a biteen bigger..


200t machine looks very small on the back of it now.

O.A.P

Thats a big truck :eek: .
Do you know what engine it has, how much HP and how many gallons per mile / hour ?

Slidey

Can't answer that OAP, I did hear that the machine it was moving (well one the same as it) burnt 2000 litres of fuel in 24hrs last week

101sean

It's an ex Cat 793C dumptruck with a 69l 2300hp engine. http://www.ritchiespecs.com/specification?type=Mining&category=Rock+Truck&make=Caterpillar&model=793C&modelid=93333

There's a few of those lowloaders around in the worlds biggest mines.

Hermy

Fantastic pics Slidey!:eek:
Meanwhile back in the land of normal sized vehicles here's a bus I saw in Rathowen yesterday...

Hermy

The neighbours mowing their lawn...

Slidey

Liebherr 9400 excavator



Traffic cones kinda gives a scale to the pic

Hermy

Y'know, even without the traffic cone it still looks massive!

cian1500ww

We're currently restoring a Massey Ferguson 35X at the moment and I'm planning to put a few posts on my website as the work progresses, the first post is on the site now here: http://www.cianmcgovern.com/35x-restoration-introduction-overview/

Hermy

On a related note we came across these tractors yesterday at Longford rugby club...

101sean

Was at this event for 5 days spanning last weekend in August near Rugby UK, had a great time. It was organised by the Alvis Fighting Vehicle Society and the Military Vehicle Trust and was on farmland owned by the show organiser.

The main feature was the CVR(T)s - Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked), originally powered by 4.2l 6cyl Jag J60 petrol engine and with a top speed of 60mph! The current versions have Perkins or Cummins diesels and are still pretty nippy. They have aluminium armour and a basic Scorpion or Scimitar weighs around 7t.

Took a few pics of the green machines, there were 40 privately owned CVR(T)s there (the Irish Army only has 14 >:D)

Home for 5 days


3 live firing Scorpions in action


My mate Brian's Scorpion, the guy on the left in the turret was an old friend over from Holland for the event


Perkins Condor 1200hp V12 from a Challenger 1 tank


FV432 playing


Line up of each type of CVR(T)


Foden IMMLC DROPS wagon, I so want one of these! :drool


and one of these, Foden FH70 gun tractor.


Pair of Snatch


Supacat ATMPs, wouldn't mind trying one of these off road


Reynolds Boughton RB44, the pile of crap that was supposed to replace the 101 but failed dismally ::)


View from the commanders position of a Scorpion, I got a ride but not a drive, the drivers position is a tad tight!


Spartans, low miles, one careful owner.

Slidey

O.A.P

What are they Slidey? Big cats I think but what ones ? and what are they worth £20-£30 million?

Slidey

The big ones are Bucyrus 4400/4200/4000 and the Cats are 777s and 798s.

Couple of million there alright

Blue850

At the Mountbellew vintage show last year

Slidey

A D11R dwarfed by 2 Bucyrus 4400s and a Leibher 9400

Hermy

In the normal world that D11R is massive!:eek:

Slidey

Hermy wrote: »

In the normal world that D11R is massive!:eek:

Yep, they are 30ft long, 900hp and 100ton

O.A.P

Slidey wrote: »

Yep, they are 30ft long, 900hp and 100ton

Looks like the woman of the house bringing the tea and sandwiches in your photo though. :)

beretta686s

Snow at the top of kilkenny

beretta686s

Snow at the top of kilkenny

brandon_flowers

A recent one from Singapore from a project I am working on, hire rate is €800k per day as it is not belonging to the shipyard we are working in.

Lifting capacity is 3600t inshore. What we are planning to lift is currently estimated at 3570t so a lot of nerves on the project from the strutural/operations lads but I am electrical so I don't give a sheet.

Image size is huge so I won't embed the full thing.

brandon_flowers

And to follow the theme of mining machines, here is a tyre changer for some of the smaller model of trucks. I saw it on a visit to a supplier near Lyon. Tyres up to 2.6m can be changed in this thing, they previously made one for up to 4m for Michelin. This one is being shipped to Brazil.

rightyabe

Hermy

Did anyone get pics of the new Guinness silos being delivered?

cruiser178

Not sure what make it is, was on ballybunion beach today.

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101sean

Could have been custom made or most likely adapted from a Morooka tracked dumper chassis.

http://www.cautrac.com/morooka-mst800vd.html

cruiser178

101sean wrote: »

Could have been custom made or most likely adapted from a Morooka tracked dumper chassis.

http://www.cautrac.com/morooka-mst800vd.html

I was thinking it might be custom made, pity i didn't get few pics of it in up to 4'-5' of waves, backing in and taking out search and rescue dinghy's.

Hermy

Nice Dutch MAN rigid in Mullingar...

101sean

Was on a tour of my local post Napoleonic fort here in the UK this afternoon which is also a business centre and came across a load of Unimog road railers and an old crawler tractor.

Thelostcountry

Sean,some nice gig rigs there! they just left to rot now?

101sean

They are still used although the rail certs are out of date on many.

The crawler appears to have been left to rot, belongs to the same company.

Got to hire a Land Rover road-railer for a job in the next couple of months, I'll post pics when I get my mitts on it

Thelostcountry

Savage!

Slidey

One of our machines had a hydraulic pump fail last week. Over 400 hours labour and a 7 figure parts bill to put it right















Finally back out of the workshop

Thelostcountry

400 hours labour!! get the finger out lad.


:-) Some Rig.

beretta686s

Audi Quattro rotten away in a yard in Wexford shame really

wildfowler94

Hermy wrote: »

In the bog today...

Taken In Longford by any chance?

Slidey

208t machine, one truck pulling it on unpaved roads

Kippure

A major lift.



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101sean

well not mine but I'll be hiring it for a weekend, not allowed to drive it on rail though







Reason for hiring it is to transfer the Lidar scanner off the the Disco to trial on Network Rail
The scanner produces a very accurate streetview type picture you can measure off and produce drawings from, the unit we are using has 5 scanners and costs £450k to buy :eek:

Hermy

Spotted recently off the N4 near Mullingar...

O.A.P

Hermy wrote: »

Spotted recently off the N4 near Mullingar...

I'd love a closer look at that . any idea what it is?

Hermy

O.A.P wrote: »

I'd love a closer look at that . any idea what it is?

No idea but it looks fantastic.
Anyone else got an ideas?

101sean

Hard to tell as the cab looks to be collapsing, reckon it's post war British but don't think it's a Bedford RL. There were a few other 3-4 ton military trucks by Commer and Ford etc but I'm 500 miles away from my library at the moment!

Hermy

Thanks Sean. I'll try to get a closer shot next time I pass but here's a link to the full size image if anyone wants.

Marlow

Hermy wrote: »

Thanks Sean. I'll try to get a closer shot next time I pass but here's a link to the full size image if anyone wants.

There's some sort of logo on the front. Just can't make out, what it is.

/M

101sean

It's a Ford Thames E4 4x4 truck



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