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Thanks ! That would be one of the rigs we used to repair. It had a Bedford 500 under the cab, and very little room to work on it :(

 

 

Did you have much trouble with the 500 Richard? We had one, never again, took it out and threw it away, strangely the Leyland 500 was another load of crap.

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Did you have much trouble with the 500 Richard? We had one, never again, took it out and threw it away, strangely the Leyland 500 was another load of crap.

 

 

Degsy,

Now you mention it, I had to lift the cab off one of these boring rigs, but do not recollect what the problem was, could have been a head gasket. There were only a few of them, it was a normal aspirated 500.

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[Tony,

 

Now you mention it, I had to lift the cab off one of these boring rigs, but do not recollect what the problem was, could have been a head gasket. There were only a few of them, it was a normal aspirated 500.

 

 

I'm not talking to you again:n00b:

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we bought four but they are a tad too big to fit into the Explorer carrying brackets. They only need about 1/4" shaved off so no problem.

 

Presumably a MK 2 scotch, didn't fit in mine either, had to grind the bit where the pin goes and cut a bit out of the support angle iron thingy, made me wonder if there was one for trial fitting at Scammells place!

 

Sadly this has made me look at others and there are a lot of variations about.

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It matched exactly one that an Explorer owner said fitted his stowage space. When we got it back and tried it it didn't fit ours, so we asked the bloke we borrowed the pattern from, and he couldn't get his one to fit his Scammell. It transpires that Allsops of Ashby had rebuilt the body of his Scammell, covering over the stowage with a skirt. He then subsequently cut of the bottom of the skirt they had made, exposing the stowage, but decided he'd keep the scotches in the back were Allsop's kept them, and it was a trick of memory that he had actually fitted them for a while, under the body.

 

Everyone Crouch had was the same size.

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Why didn't they sit the (mark3) Militant over the bank, next to the dozer with it`s anchor dug into the bank, facing the RB and take the first line of the pull down to the RB, round a snatch block and back to the Dozer, etc. As they have rigged it, the Dozer is taking an unecessary return on the rope, meaning it has to work harder as an anchor, and there are greater frictional losses in an un-neceassary snatch block? Ok they got it out but was it the best way?

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Why didn't they sit the (mark3) Militant over the bank, next to the dozer with it`s anchor dug into the bank, facing the RB and take the first line of the pull down to the RB, round a snatch block and back to the Dozer, etc. As they have rigged it, the Dozer is taking an unecessary return on the rope, meaning it has to work harder as an anchor, and there are greater frictional losses in an un-neceassary snatch block? Ok they got it out but was it the best way?

 

 

It probably was the best way. You should never put the recovery vehicle in a situation that it requires recovering itself. The bank where the dozer went over looked like it could have been a ditch or dyke the other side. He would have better traction to extract himself. If the AEC had gone over the bank, once the earth anchor was deployed, he would have to move forward to lift it and without doubt have to rely on winching himself over the bank.

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So why not turn the Milly round, leave it the RB sde of the bank, and have the first line of the pull going to the RB. Thence via a pulley system to the Dozer. I just cant see why the first pull goes to a snatch block on the dozer to change the direction of pull back to the RB. Why not ditch the first snatch block and go straight to the RB as the first line? This just increases the load on the Dozer anchor, whithout inceasing the pull on the RB and leads to unwanted frictional losses....

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It probably was the best way. You should never put the recovery vehicle in a situation that it requires recovering itself. The bank where the dozer went over looked like it could have been a ditch or dyke the other side. He would have better traction to extract himself. If the AEC had gone over the bank, once the earth anchor was deployed, he would have to move forward to lift it and without doubt have to rely on winching himself over the bank.

 

But should you take it over the bank alongside the Dozer if it got stuck self recovery is a piece of pizz cos you would have the winch rope aleady out to the rear and a suitable anchor point, namely the RB. It would be no risk to get the Milly over the bank, because it is so easy to self-recover from there.

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