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Former Go North East DAF/Northern Counties 4983 (R971FNW) awaits its fate at the Alpha Recovery yard in Weetslade.
New to Speedlink.
Yet another Volvo arriving at the heavy repair shop next door off the Kenworth with Centaury recovery gear.
Freightliner FLC 120 heavy recovery truck from 1987 B16 VGN
Seen at the 2016 Kettering Vintage Rally & Steam Fayre
Freightliner belonging to V G Nash & Son
Forest Floor recovering after a "Controlled Burn" in 2021. All of the trees in the photo are dead and haven't come down yet.
We wanted to make a couple of hikes at the Glen Coe area but we first drove through the town of Ballachulish to find Chisholm's. Arriving there a couple of vintage wreckers were parked outside. We spoke to the owner for quite a while and he told as the DAF 2800 was just sold to a guy from Ukraine. He was wondering was such a guy would do with a rhd in his country but he didn't mind. We were quite lucky seeing this DAF because it already left the day after.
One of the latest vehicles at Chisholm's yard at Ballachulish. It's a former Dutch unit. Chlsholm's stretched the chassis at their own workshop. Note the position of the 2nd steered axle. The owner claims this one's better balanced than a standard triple. It's equipped with a Century Rotator 1075.
While recovering from triple bypass surgery, one good out the window early Junko. Hope to get out there again in the spring.
Scania recovery truck M40 M40 TOW
Seen at the 2021 Peterborough Truckfest
Recovery truck belonging to Crouch Recovery
Stagecoach Merseyside's venerable Volvo wrecker gets moved around the yard at Gillmoss depot at dusk. The 1984 built monster looks the business in Stagecoach corporate livery after previously being in very faded allover yellow.
MAN slide bed recovery truck BX07 UES
Seen at the 2022 Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival
MAN belonging to Norfolk Fire Museum to transport the Austin K2 NFS truck to shows.
West Yorkshire Road Car ERF LV tow truck GHD 725H, about to assist a Bristol VR outside York railway station in June 1987.
Pentax K1000/50mm
Fujichrome 100
This is capable of taking a crippled bendy bus, and is equipped with a winch. Sliding bed equipped, it's perfect for moving delicate vehicles.
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Species Of Fishes - Crash Recovery
Volvo Olympian 16339 being towed home in fine style by Furness Cars And Commercials awesome Scania recovery truck. It doesn't just look good, it sounds great too!
Resting birds on a power pole in the evening. Northern Germany, near Bremen. 01/2024.
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Ruhende Vögel auf einem Strommast in der Abenddämmerung. Norddeutschland, in der Nähe von Bremen. 01/2024.
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Minus God Knows and the Main Air pipe was Completly Blocked with Ice when Robin Smith Came for it early one morning to tow it away with His MK5 Aec, and had to be De-Iced with Burner to Build air up!!
This was Ex London Brick and Robin still has it, the only Lorry ive had with Suicide Doors!
Paul Parker Used to own this as well in the past Before i got
it...
Note -Super Singles on Rear!
Whilst being more for show than hard work, LHG620X the Leyland Cruiser recovery vehicle has to do its bit on the rare and infrequent occasion that demands it.
Failure of the coach's nearside hub-reduction gear mechanism meant that it was not sensible to drive it any further. Otherwise a total loss of drive and further damage to the axle would have been the probable result. Therefore the the Cruiser was summoned to drag the errant Leyland Tiger back to the company's depot for further investigation.
A couple of weeks ago whilst I was driving PUI9321 I experienced an irregular dragging sensation and a noise akin to something metal being wrapped around the propshaft, as I moved away from a bus stop. Nothing further was heard or felt during the rest of the school contract journey and return to base. I spent time whilst driving mulling-over what could be the cause, without reaching a firm conclusion. However when I drove the coach again in the afternoon I realised that the back axle was "singing" more than usual. Upon my return I discussed this with our mechanic and when he drove it the next day he was able to agree with my prognosis of "one of the hubs is in trouble". Due to operational requirements the coach had to continue be used on a near daily basis. Things were getting noisier at the back end when I drove it again yesterday and sure enough, this morning the noise changed to a much heavier clonking.
After recovery the hub was stripped down and the true extent of the damage was revealed. The four planetary gears are housed in a cage and run on needle-roller bearings which are in turn running on a large pin. These pins wear with age, the wear becomes much accelerated once the hardening is worn through, then the bearings have too much room to move about and fail. The resultant disintegration allows the bearing components to become "grist to the mill" of the reduction gears which in turn become damaged and or siezed which adds even more metal fragments able to circulate in the hub mechanism. We were unable to remove the gear cage due to damage of the hub casing teeth and the reduction gears were all damaged with chunks missing from their teeth. One was completely jammed and there were no remaining bearings to speak of. The hub casing contained a fair amount of a metallic paste formed of well-ground pieces of metal and the lubricating oil ! The remedy to enable the vehicle to be returned to service on Monday was to rob a complete hub assembly from a sister vehicle that is presently parked-up out of service. As a precaution the axle oil was also changed after cleaning the area of the main axle exposed when the hub was removed.
Scania heavy recovery truck M40 TOW
Seen at the 2021 Peterborough Truckfest
Recovery truck belonging to Crouch Recovery
This is the Heavy Recovery truck i bought off Paul Adams and is on Bison 2 Photo stream and its original Reg was SFX 550
Out of the three new vehicles I've built in the last two days, this is definitely my own favourite. It has lots of fiddly bits and a degree of functionality. It also reprents my first use of long-desired green cheese slopes!
Olha, eu nem ouço Eminem nem nada, mas me deu vontade fazer uma capa pra esse cd dele que não sei de onde veio. Haha Acho que ficou ótimo o resultado, eu gostei demais, espero que gostem também.
20 miles at 27F made for a painful re-entry, sort of like a diver coming up from too deep of a dive! The hair dryer was helpful for the final bit of recovery.
The weather is filthy outside today and conditions weren't much better in early 1976 when I got this shot of Derby Corporation's Daimler COG5, no 6, on 040 CH trade plates, cut down for recovery work and 'doing its thing' on the A38 near Burton on Trent.
The errant decker is Derby Corporation's 61 (UBX 48), one of the five Leyland Atlanteans with lowbridge Weymann bodies bought new by James of Ammanford, three of which arrived at Derby, via South Wales Transport and City of Oxford, after the loss of the ex-Blue Bus vehicles in the fire at Etwall garage.
61 lasted another year or so before being sole to Paul Sykes for breaking in late 1978 and 6 is said to have gone for preservation in the same year. So, the question is, did the Daimler ever survive?