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CONQUEROR ARV, METEOR M120, UPDATE


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Shot on Slab Common, 20 November 2011.  Funnily enough, as a result of something I saw in Windscreen magazine I've given a set of these to the editor, so they may appear in print shortly.

This one is my favourite!

 

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Hi John , here’s a few pics of the the Scammell with ARV stuck and bogged down at the big steam rally at South  Cerney army camp when you got stuck in a soft gravel patch entering  the military  section .   Think from memory you said (tho you may correct me ) the your train weight was something like 104 tons .  We pulled it out using 2x  heavy military straight bars with my  Leyland Drops along with my 1984 John Deere 4650 tractor . Drops with comms repair box weighed in a tad over 18 tons and 350 hp , had all diff and cross locks  engaged and the John Deere weighed just over 9 tons , 4x4 with powershift and diff lock on and another 200 hp . Other than the tyres digging to grip on both it was a effortless extraction  and  reckon the Drops might well of done it on her own (Think I have a short video tho not great  quality ?. ) 
Not long after this at another rally I put the Drops on the tractor pulling sledge and it dragged the sledge with weight box fully up , ground spikes fully extended and brakes  locked on the whole 100 metres and when asking I was told it pulling a dead weight of approx 75 ton . 

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Some photos of Martin's DROPS pulling the sled at the 2017 Heddington & Stockley steam rally, also a Scammell Pioneer which didn't quite make a full pull due to a fluffed gear change and a Foden 6x6 wrecker which did make a full pull.

All this happened on the Saturday evening after the public had left.

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Happy days!

Unfortunately Headington is on the same weekend as Capel.  At the REME Museum we are taking the Scammell Contractor loaded with the Cent ARV to Capel.

The big trailer is unlikely to be operational this year, the Conqueror will not be able to escape from MOD Lyneham.

 

John

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  • 3 weeks later...

10 year or so ago, I did a 65meter run with my Scammell in second gear pulling a 22ton sliding weight sled with chains and spikes underneath. The newer tractor pullers were quite impressed but I should have used 1th

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