andym Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 This one? 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attleej Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 That is the one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attleej Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 Yes, I can imagine the AA towing dolly working well. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Any footage of the AA truck towing the Conqueror?🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinsaunders06 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 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 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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martinsaunders06 Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Hopefully these pics are ok 🤞 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwardle Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attleej Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnwardle Posted July 2, 2022 Share Posted July 2, 2022 Heddington & Stockley tonight, Jim Clark did a full pull of 105 metres, unfortunately the Scammell only made 65 metres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 I saw a "Tractor pull" with an FV432, can't remember where now, full pull & into the weeds at the end. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels v Posted July 3, 2022 Share Posted July 3, 2022 (edited) 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 Edited July 3, 2022 by Niels v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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