here you go rob
this is a pic of the FC that i used to drive , believe me there's nothing that would stop it .
look carefully at the lights & you'll see how deep the mud was that i had to travel through , on the back is a 1500ltr vacum tank built specialy for this machine , this is a W reg & the other was a V reg , not the best thing to have to work in all day , but at home time she'd get up to 18-19 mph.
on the rear is a 3 leg howard paraplow adapted to inject sludge / raw sewage to a depth of 18ins when it was time to move fields , a county 1184 was used to tow the sludge holding tank after me , the tank was an old artic tanker.
If the 1184 wasn't available i'd have to get someone out in the pick-up to take the paraplow & i'd have to tow the holding tank myself .
the tank on the front corner opposite the cab is an oil resorvior for the vac pump . the fuel tanks on this & the other were between the wheels , one on each side & had a pipe running between them for self leveling .
mine was fitted with "sugar cane" type tread tyres & the V reg was fitted with "michelin MX's"
only real problem with theses machines was if it got jammed in gear one of the front wheels had to be removed , not often happened on this one ,but the selectors were worn on the v reg ,so you'd have to be very carefull when selecting them.can't read it from here but all dawes tractors had the drivers name on the door, & this one has mine on it
pic taken in 1991, in a field next to the A37 on the fosse way heading from yeovil > shepton mallet