Deere-est Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 A load of spares ready to be lifted off at Cheffins. Doors, linkage parts, exhausts, cab, Ransomes spud lifter, gearbox parts. ... a lorry load a month goes up and it always sells. However, being a part time driver the lorry is loaded for me ready for my 4am start. .. . and the workshop guys arn't drivers .. .. and don't appreciate how annoying it is that they wrap any spare strap around everything in site and tie flipping knots everywhere > Friend of mine has 16 weeks off work after falling off his trailer last week and snapping his arm, so with that in mind it makes it all the more risky having to keep getting up and down and clambering over stuff to untie knots in straps. Drives me mad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 Whilst waiting for a paperwork error to be sorted I was watching the Cheffins guys put what I think was a 15/20t Hitachi slew in this container. Having already stripped down the cab, tracks and dipper arm it was tipped onto its side and slid in!!! With on handler as an anchor to stop the container sliding, another lifting and a third pushing I reckon it took them about an hour from the container truck setting the container down to it lifting the container back on again. That's swift! Never got a 'before' shot unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 Couple of other bits and pieces including a skyward 690 which I took home along with an MF565 with loader and two 575's - no pic of the load as it was business as usual on that front. The big tug looked a bit of an animal. The Willis jeep would make a nice restoration job, looking at the windscreen I'd say i had some sort of rear mounted gun.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 Polish lorry collects part of his cargo, a 7920. I was surprised , they did not even have to let the tyres down to get it in. Nice outfit, low ride height, sliding roof. ... Just shows how easy some of this machinery 'disappears' as from the outside you'd think it would be carrying rolls of paper, tyres, food. . . anything other than plant or machinery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 Finally, today (third 3am alarm and 4am yard departure of the week ) my load took me to East Tilbury to a trading estate on the sight of some sort of old factory. Been there before. Roads were awful, one crash going in my direction and three in the opposite. Anyhow, it stopped. ..... until I arrived here to crane the discs off when it decided to drop another dose of the wet stuff on me I was there, tipped and on my break by 08.15am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 do they manage to shift them cab parts ect ok then tris?? would have thought they would do a roaring trade in stuff like that themselfs, without sending them off via cheffins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 4, 2011 Author Share Posted November 4, 2011 They do, they sell a few but they'll only keep back minters or rarities. It has to be an exception as the space all this stuff takes up is incredible. Bonnets, doors etc. .. it gets rammed in the yard with spared, machinery, the lorries, staff cars. Quite an 'exciting' place at times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Tris.. I've just had an email from Mr Howard himself... he says he's taken your comments on-board and he's pleased to announce his new 'roping down' employee who starts on Monday Billiam E Cruikshank Anyway... up to Cheffins without a Dangerous Dave on the way there or back :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! :D No DD for me I'm afraid no, I cut across Bedford and up the A1 to Huntingdon when I go straight from the yard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 I mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkom3 Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Very interesting photo's Tris,'specially that container side lifter,I was always under the impression that they were only able to pick up empty containers,imagineing that with all the lift equipement hydraulic's etc there wouldn't be much weight left for payload,but a quick internet search reveal;ed the Steelbro sidelifter web site,and a very interesting wee video, http://www.steelbro.com/en/products/sidelifters/applications.html Regards Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 5, 2011 Author Share Posted November 5, 2011 Thanks for looking, I thought much the same Joe. Having seen this one with its donkey engine, sliding booms, hyd pack and jacks the only way wieght is saved is that it only lifted to the offside so no extra equipment to enable near side work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 good stuff this mate keep posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 27, 2011 Author Share Posted November 27, 2011 Quick update. Gradually getting through the hay, only one or two more trips to Wales to make now and the shed will be full of cattle as quickly as it is emptied of hay. One trip should be on for this week. The dealer has been mega pleased with the quality and it is selling very quickly, too quickly - once a customer has had it they are very reluctant to have anything else!! Some of this load was due straight out for delivery, hence loading straight onto one of their two Smyth trailers. Had a back load of tractors again this time, a non starting Belarus (which started once back at the yard with a can of 'sniff' and a 24V jump pack. And two 7710's of different generations. Knackered old Farm Master at the dealers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 27, 2011 Author Share Posted November 27, 2011 Cor, bit better on Photobucket isn't it?!!! Resurrected my stagnant account Winching on the Belarus. Driving on one of the 77's And ready for the jaunt home. Once back, the cab was up, batteries off and starter motor off. New Scania batteries and starter motor fitted ready for the next day. After failing to start for me at 4am after the first frost of the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHolland2 Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Nice updates Tris, still like those old Bubble cabbed Fords, the Gen II 77 looks tidy....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Lovely Belarus . Why was it towed on the trailer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 nice pics tris do you sheet the hay with a fly sheet tris cracking load, i bet that rides nice on that trailer she would roll a bit on normal trailer i would think ,nice back load to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 28, 2011 Author Share Posted November 28, 2011 Nice updates Tris, still like those old Bubble cabbed Fords, the Gen II 77 looks tidy....... Nice to see the two together too, I think the SQ cab was an early one being on a C plate Lovely Belarus . Why was it towed on the trailer? Quite a tidy old rig in all fairness, both doors had been victim to being left open whilst driving through gateways by the looks of it. For the hassle of trying to start the old thing it was quicker to just pull it up onto the trailer, Niels. nice pictures tris do you sheet the hay with a fly sheet tris cracking load, i bet that rides nice on that trailer she would roll a bit on normal trailer i would think ,nice back load to We sheet it with a tarp normally but the last two loads I have take the weather has been favourable so we have not worried about it. It does ride nice too, the road from Carmarthen up to where I take the hay is about an hour of the trip and it's a horrid road but having a nice tidy stack helps the running Big week this week, I think I have Wales as per this trip, spares to Cheffins in Cambridgeshire and tractors back and also a trip to Derbyshire via a drop off in Worcestershire I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Tris, if it were -25c I know which I'd rather start. The Belarus or the Ford's . She doesn't look a bad tractor at all considering most of these are regularly abused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 you get around tris on that job dont you ,do you go up through llandilio tris when you get to carmarthen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 No, I head up through Lampeter mate. There is a Sunnis lamb slaughter house on the road up. Early mornings the road is dead quiet, after 8am and I start to meet all the livestock hauliers and reefer lorries. Tomorrow the Derbyshire is off but I have a 6170 and a Class Markant to deliver to two different places in Worcestershire. Suits me fine as I seem to have picked up man flu today!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 great topic to follow mate , lampeter ? you think the A485 is bad , try doing the A484 , that is a truly awfull road ;D i dont do it for ages , then seem to run it 2-3 times a week keep an eye out for a 2wd fastrac with a small dump trailer up around the New Inn area tris , i seen it once parked up being loaded & twice on the road , but never had enough time to get me camera or phone ready apparently it belongs to a local builder who bought it as an insurance right off , replaced the front axle with a 2wd front axle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 I've a feeling I may have seen that, does it have floatation tyres on the front? Well anyway, been trying out the HTC's camera, not the best in the shadows but for point and click at work it's quite good and takes a reasonable photo. Last weeks collections around Cornwall and Devon consisted of two MF165's from Cornish Tractors and two Fords from private sellers, one near Davidstow milk factory by the airfield - bleak out there mind! And one on the way home near Wellington. The last one on looked a beauty.... till I got close and saw the brush marks in the paint!! No brakes either so trying to keep it on the trailer long enough to get a strap round the rear wheels was fun and games! The LP cabbed one is a little corker. The MF's. .... well the less said the better!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 Yesterday it was a simple trip up to the Worcester area to firstly deliver this - note the brand new wheels and Continental tyres all round. The farmer had it on row crops, during that time the original set got stolen. When he traded in he kept the row crops and these were put on through the insurance. They don't half set off the tractor well. I reckon the farmer got himself a tidy bargain! The Claas baler went to a chap getting ready for this years paddock contracting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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