An Interested Spectator Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 Here are some pics of a rough cardboard mock up of a large transport box I am going to make. There is a story and an explanation that I will post after the pictures, so please hang fire with any replies for a few minutes. Quote
An Interested Spectator Posted July 16, 2009 Author Posted July 16, 2009 OK the story ! When I was a kid both my parents work at Bristol University vet college at Langford. The college had one or two small Massey's with a close cupled rear mast and these large transport boxes on the back. The first I recall was a 35x followed by a couple of 135's and then 230/240's. Now whilst the tractors changed the boxes didn't, and they actually went to some trouble to maintain them which was most unlike the college. Both boxes were of slightly different design, and i don't remember seeing any makes names on them. Given this i always assumed they were one-off's that the college had made up. Has anyone seen anything similar or is my one-off assumption correct ? Why did the college use these ? Well I don't known ! My guess is this. All the animals would have been at the college because they were ill or being studied. Given this they would have been kept separately and so would have been cleaned out by hand. The buildings were a bit tight for a tractor/trailer and and a normal link box loader bucket would have been too small, particularly in 1960-70's terms. Also a link box or trailer means you have to tip at the base of the muck heap, and then pile it up by hand or with a loader. With this box and mast you can tip onto the top of the heap. (The boxes had check chains at the top allow them to be tipped forward slightly without falling off the forks). So a fairly neat solution to the problem, again particularly in 1960-70's terms. As stated previously this is just a mock-up for me to judge the size, the real thing will be a lot more detailed. Quote
robbo Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 It's a fascinating story and a well thought out answer to a specific problem, look forward to seeing the real build Quote
An Interested Spectator Posted August 9, 2009 Author Posted August 9, 2009 Finally got around to making the actual model Quote
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