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Might be able to get hold of a 6x6 (718K) manual, drop me a PM so I don't forget

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Technically all 432s are over-width...

In theory you need an H license (or a full cat B license, aged over 21, L plates and someone else in the vehicle who's held cat H for 3 years) but VOSA could give you six different answers if you asked them the date so see what you can get away with

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Czech ones are OT-90s like Neil's, aren't they? Better spec...

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There was an in-service Foden DROPS causing minor chaos in Luton town centre on Friday. Looked LHD, do we have any right-handers? From the way he was driving it didn't look like he could see much :rofl:

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But if funds run out due to lack of work I will have to lose it - £800 transport bill to W&P this year showed that quite clearly..

In fairness it'd hardly be a lot cheaper if VOSA let you drive it there, would it? You'd need a fair bit of diesel

(and don't forget you're technically limited to 20mph on the road!)

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Only need to remove neg lead on car 1 battery as car 2 and truck (the one with earth lead) neg.s are both to earth.

Hadn't thought of only removing one lead

Erm! don't think that is a good idea!

Well, so long as the jump leads are thick enough for double the current, you just have to worry about setting their battery and radio on fire when the alternator kicks in :rofl:

If you are trying to jump start a 24V motor from a 12V motor, then connect the jump leads across one battery only on the 24 vehicle. (if you have a voltmeter, try and find which of the two 12V batteries, used on the 24V vehicle, has the lowest voltage and jumper the helping battery across this one).

Makes sense to me. Probably easiest if we just carry a single spare battery around then - we can swap it over to get it started and then recharge the duff one on the generator, and not too much extra stuff to be carrying. Not a bad idea having some jump leads in the back, though!

He must have noticed my concern and said it was reasonably safe he was delivering heating oil ! Anyway we did it and he was able to continue his delivery.

Rather you than me! :shake:

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Bedford was flat the other day (someone left the isolator on, not me!) - we ended up taking the batteries out and charging them individually, but what's the correct procedure for jump starting a 24V veh from a pair of 12V vehicles?

If you just parallel each battery with a car battery (still in a car) using two sets of jump leads, if an electrical connection is made between one car and the truck chassis or both cars, at least two batteries are shorted! Could remove chassis earth connections from the cars but then why bother with jump leads, might as well remove the batteries.

So, have I missed something?

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This makes for interesting reading: http://nds.coi.gov.uk/clientmicrosite/Content/Detail.aspx?ClientId=257&NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=408248&SubjectId=36

 

I'm not going to speculate whether this 'incident' led directly to the controls we now see, but it couldn't have helped.

'Can we have an export license, please?'

'No'

'Never mind we'll send them anyway'

Did they honestly think nobody would notice?! :stop:

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For reference, you can jump to a known lat/long in Google Maps by searching for it with spaces between the groups and a comma in the middle.

Exampe: For 51 degrees 15 minutes 25 seconds north / 1 degree 10 minutes 20 seconds east enter "51 15 25, 1 10 20"; for south or west of the meridians put a minus sign in the right place. Should give you a random spot in some fields near Margate.

HTH

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Google earth location N50deg53'13.56 w1deg17'50.1

Thanks for that, here's a link if anyone wants to look (might save you 30 seconds!)

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I think the truck is about 11ft tall with this box and the height above the road when on the trailer was about 13' 6". There were no bridges on my route back so the height didn't matter.

Ours is labelled 13'6" inside the cab - that's with a box body and generator pallet though (both of which protrude well above the cab) so that sounds pretty accurate. A mast mounted on the rear of the box body adds another 8" or so...it all adds up!

This diagram might be of use...

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Do any Landing Craft (Assault) still survive?

Was having a chat with my granddad (an ex-Royal Marine who piloted one in Burma) and he said he'd seen piles of them being burned as scrap after the war - but were any preserved?

Look awkward as anything to drive, mind!

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So........is it going to improve my cocoa or make it worse?

 

Do I think of it as a sweetener?

Try it with and without I think of it as an acquired taste - if it's the same as the British one it doesn't make it much sweeter but it does make it go white, hence the name. Doesn't taste much like milk (or indeed any natural substance) - I used to drink the cocoa powder mixed with the dried coffee and chuck the tea out though!

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http://www.marshallsv.com/pdf/Matrix_Expandable_Systems.pdf

Not 100% sure but AF35AA in the first pic looks like a Foden DROPS.

They had one at DSEI this year, and I think there's an Eastern European (Czech? Turkish?) manufacturer that does them too.

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I bet that'd go like the clappers with a modern electric scooter motor and some chunky batteries in! We've come a long way.

The Beverage Whitener burns up a treat if you tip a mug of it on someone's hexi burner! :-D

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Neil, Marshall SV make those expanding shelters as transportable hospital units - maybe there are some surplus ones around? They're definitely fairly common things...

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Bar armour is usually fitted here, but as late as possible as they're no longer road legal when it's fitted!

The bottom pic is definitely Tracked Rapier. Not sure what it'd be doing at the docks, they were out of service ages back...

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Any chance of some pictures rather than abreviations / acronyms?

Here you go, some Google action:

BAT M

OT-64 SKOT

UAZ 469

BREM (BMP recovery vehicle)

VT55 (T-55 recovery variant)

DAC 6x6

ATS-59

MTLB

Better?

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You haven't been out to Mortar Investments, have you? (the recovery BMP is ringing bells)

You need an MTLB

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We had trouble with a bunch of surplus Ptarmigan kit for the same reason. In the end a dodgy guy with a Transit took it away for us :rofl:

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Try reading this.

Interesting choice of camper van to say the least....

 

I'd start your journey now if I was you. It'll take you a few years to get to France, let alone Africa.

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Drive it to your local weighbridge and see! (obviously, 7.5t - unladen weight = load capacity) They all vary depending on how many extra bits are bolted on; ours weighs a shade over 5t unladen. That's without side panels but including the Ptarmigan cable reels etc bolted under the bed - think it's 5060kg.

VOSA supposedly require 2t of carrying capacity to remain on any 7.5t downplated vehicle - personally I wouldn't be happy carrying more than that on ANYTHING downplated as the penalties for transgression are severe!

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Given that the pads are bonded to the link and irreplaceable (as such).

Thinking outside the box, would a company like this lot be able to attach new pads? They do say they do custom fittings...

Obviously for the time being the only answer is to fit NOS track but collectively we'll run out one day!

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Linky for the hard of thinking

Doesn't look all that bad, though you might worry if the disk 'breaks', err, did!

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