Bill Glenns classic plant monthly

some more pics

I forgot about this old dog of a dump truck, im sick of fixing these things they only seem to motor for about a day at a time, its a TA30 Terex (terrible). this one has suffered a bit too much muck jammed around the prop shafts, I wont go into too much detail, but what a nightmare!!!

Tony,
It is beyond my imagination how you manage to repair all this big iron from out of a Land Rover. What do you lift heavy parts with? How do you manage to bring all your heavy tooling in such a light vehicle?

Is that a TC 12 in the background? Behind the the Old D8?

Tony,
It is beyond my imagination how you manage to repair all this big iron from out of a Land Rover. What do you lift heavy parts with? How do you manage to bring all your heavy tooling in such a light vehicle?

Is that a TC 12 in the background? Behind the the Old D8?

[quote="Warren"]Tony,
It is beyond my imagination how you manage to repair all this big iron from out of a Land Rover. What do you lift heavy parts with? How do you manage to bring all your heavy tooling in such a light vehicle?

Is that a TC 12 in the background? Behind the the Old D8?[/quote]

Warren,if I ever hit the lottery there is one man on this earth I would like to meet and that is Tony Coates.I am astounded at what he gets done with apparently very tools AND he is handy with a camera as well!!We are watching you Tony.😉 Ron Gordon

TCtractors, I really enjoyed the old photos of the RD8. Thanks for posting. I'm not sure that the D8 undergoing repairs is that early. I did note the spoked front idlers. A classic machine. Thanks for posting. GWH

The RD8 that we are stripping out the back end of must be fairly early as the top pinions have a ball race instead of a roller race to spin on I will get the serial no of this old banger asap,the important thing is it was modified in the War effort to travel in a fare depth of water after leaving the landing craft, it has a high level starting handle for the donkey (pony) motor, and is historicaly a rare and important tractor in the history of England,
This week I have been making a sub-frame to a Scania Truck to enable the fitting of a 45ton/m crane so I have been arc welding up £3,000 of steel to carry this lump, I dont bother with the MIG welder much as I am a time served master at the stick method???
I have also bought myself a early C/Present a new 105 ton pulling ram for the push /pulling of sprockets, its on its way to me from the factory in Italy, as my old one is now scrap metal, did you notice the old service tools I was using to strip out the clutches with ,they are old CAT tools that I have heaps of,
still working hard ,and happy. tctractors

WOW

Hadn't noticed the Dozer in the background. Maybe because it resembles a wall.
What size Cat would this compare too? Makes the RD8 look small.

Matt

Warren I only have a metric adjustable spanner and a big hammer to fill my tool-box????, as for lifting big bits ,like track sections or frames, if its an excavator it has to lift its own bits about,(more pics soon on this topic) if its a Bulldozer its still able to help lift afew bits with its own power,
Finaly yes that is a TC12 in the background , I am getting closer to it by the week , I am mad keen to try my spanner on it????
On the rip, tctractors