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More likely it is because it as an offence to park any HGV on as street without sidelioghts during the hours of darkness

Going to get my balls chewed of for this " how can anyone get excited about this a copy of some thing" It reminds me of Mick Harding stating " Old wool mills now churning out fibre glass wooden wheels for inserting in brick walls on modern housing estates"

Probably wrong but looks like civvy Kenworth North West spec for logging. Going by grill and badge.

got to be honest thats the one i posted originaly but i changed it straight away after looking on you tube because when i copyed it it linked to my facebook page

got a milatry theme to it and it tickled me Something went wrong...

Flipping Heck didnt know the winch was that big how much rope on storage drum

Heres another video taken at scene not good quality but gives a better understanding of what they where doing and what lead to chain of events causing wrecker to flip. The manouvre is called an end roll and as long as wreckers are big enough capacity and have twin overhead winches it is a fairly safe procedure. When i saw first video i thought a cable broke but after seeing this video i can see a pully block in the rigging so that side of it was rigged correctly. So it must have been the chain looped into the eye of the container thats gone. down to selecting right tackle i guess.

Even the good guys get it wrong http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/7601855/

No fair enough but what i am getting at is a guy posted on here asking for advise on ownership of a bog standard road vehicle and was advised on all the ways he could dodge MOTing it by simply calling it something else. The vehicle in question was a milatry vehicle but the exact same vehicle is used by power supply companies and councils and can be MOTed at council depots

so the guy who asked for advise on buying a truck to go to rallies etc. Would your advise be tax it speceal types recovery showmans plant what ever just to avoid MOT

Ok then is it in order for me to ask the the poster who prompted this post under the relavant section why his vehicle is special when the picture he shows is clearly that of a normal bog standard truck. It is blatently obvious he has done it to aviod MOTing his vehicle. This is not a problem to me but i do take great concern that he he is advising someone who is asking for advice to do the same. Even to the piont of keeping clear of motorway service stations as thats where VOSA hang out. Whats wrong with Moting a vehicle if road worthy why not.? to reiterate every one here is free to do what whatever they want but it is wrong to encourage others to do the same

Look again its got twin rear wheels but i am been unfair as i know your half right its a scammell crusader with martian gear there is another video on you tube of same truck winching an mt 8 wheeler out of soft to be honest the crew seem to be making a meal of that job as well

yes got me a bit confused shear laziness i think. Didnt win them any browie pionts in my eyes. anyone spotted what is doing the actual winching

i do know david 56 has read thread and awaiting reply

Having been on this forum for a little while i have noticed there is a distinct trend for people to look for loopholes to avoid moting vehicles. I have no problem with this whats so ever. My theory is that the bulk of the people on here are like a cross section of the general public law abiding. But it does get my back up when people suggest spurious ways to do this or avoid other rules and regs

The winch trucks are much more expensive, but they can be registered as "recovery". When I was looking to buy I was Thats me on google street maps last summer. [ATTACH=CONFIG]70761[/ATTACH] What you decide good luck. Care to elaborate on that statement does it mean that if its got a winch it atuomatically becomes a recovery vehicle. If not what does it mean is the one in the picture recovery if so how and is it MOTed/Plated

completly of topic but i was called out by a recovery club to a member who had a non start VW camper. he had driven from cumbria to a garage in north yorkshire for prearranged repairs to a much cherished vehicle however he was late getting there and had parked in a pub yard and gone in for a bite to eat and a drink . next morning he tryed to start vehicle no go dead. i went on arrival curtains were drawn so walked round i noticed back bumper on floor i lifted engine flap on back and spotted no engine. then owner walked out of pub where he had been having breakfast. i gave him my considered opinion why his camper would not start. He had slept in it all night and heard nothing but said it would be easy to reognise the engine as it had many chrome parts on it. i rung our base to ask recovery club asking for permission to to relay to owners home address as engine had gone. permission refused not specific details was it it a piston crank ignition problem ?. No SOMEBODY HAS PINCHED THE BLOODY ENGINE

Only driver to blame should not have had body in the air when going down motorway Sorry about that just relised commented on video that appears after above one finishes.

Although not a slide like that modern day leaf spring trailors have a slpper ended spring that slips inside a cast bracket using the same idea. I have worked on commercials with the same arrangement but cannot think of sort maybe old ford cargo. Only thing stopping axle droping out of cast bracket was a small 5/16 th bolt.

as i said iam pretty sure its for Donaldson reactor on militant but dont worry if you had all the parts you would never use it anyway

Now heres a thought it is maybe a very rare piece of kit for a militant. i think its part of the kit for a Donaldson reactor that fits on on the last set of holes nearest the land anchor. If you find the rest of of it must be worth more than the truck its self

Could be wrong but from size if pulleys in relation to wheel in background only small diameter rope. So that rules out main larger recovery winch equiped vehicles vehicles. although pin sizes of its atatchment pionts looks like its for some thing heavy Back to my original thoughts was there an armoured vehicle tracked or wheeled were the back door was in two parts and the winch was inside but had a longish roller mounted under the lip of the door.

Was there a smaller armoured tracked vehicle where the winch came through the lower section of the back door. Nagging doubt i have seen photo of one fitted when in winching mode.

I remember this problem but it was common to most manufacturers, I think it was ERF that suffered a lot of problems with snapped wheelstuds rather than loose wheelnuts. Several people were killed by wheels coming free and at least one haulier and his driver went to jail although were freed on appeal after several months. The road deaths brought things to a head and the Road Research Lab were called in to examine the problem although I don't remember hearing anything about the results. All our drivers were under strict instructions to check all wheel nuts every day and although we suffered the odd broken wheel stud probably due to overtightening we had no more instances of lost wheels. During my apprenticeship we we were told to tighten well oiled wheel nuts till the sqeaked when you jumped on cracker bar never lost any wheels but did suffer broken wheelstuds. at the time worked on all british range of vehicles plus volvo scania and daf it always seemed to be british trucks that had problems though the scandanavian and dutch trucks gave problems when actually trying to remove wheels as the seemed to be froze to the axles as they relied on hubs to hold wheels on not cones on wheel studs

to be fair i think the best think to have done with both the scammell and the foden was to have strapped up the non driven axle completely or thrown them away and forgotten about C U regs while in crown service. i belive the extra axle was a liabilty in off road work although the scammell i had never let me down in down right difficult situations what little time i had it