There was one of these parked up at my workplace today and my excitement nearly got the better of me as this is my favourite digger type vehicle. Don't know why, just is, and it has to be the bobcat with wheels not cat tracks! If I had one I'd spend all day in it digging stuff and moving rubble around as if I were a kid with a Tonka toy again!
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So, what's everyone else's favourite industrial vehicles...
It's a close-run thing between a red tractor:
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and a yellow combine harvester:
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The UK's most expensive Truck and trailer combo. All up cost 1.2 million (I did the graphics part)
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Shouldn't need an introduction!
Gotta love a bonkers big road going crane!
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househusband, I saw an ad for a Unimog set up for adventuring, it even came in it's own 40ft container!
Here in Norfolk we get some weird and wonderful farm machinery, articulated tracked, ultra wide wheeled, ultra narrow wheels high ground clearance (you could drive a sports car under), and a whole host of other cool looking beasts.
i'l see you your unimog and raise you one of these
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we hired one for 3 weeks, what a great machine, especially when paired with one of these
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which was also fun to drive.
unimog is great though...
That crane is redonkulous
My lovely little sister is ace at driving/doing stuff with these:
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And these are just genius!
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Look, if you have a lopsided vineyard, it goes lopsided too!
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Mmmmm, steeeeaaaaam... 😀
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Unimog!
beaten to the Unimog, so can I have this instead?
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Tractor.. Doh! of anykind 🙂
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58162507@N07/8665521382/ ]New Holland Tractor[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58162507@N07/ ]SGMTB[/url], on Flickr
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used to be pretty fast on one of these...
I'm lucky enough to work with these (the spmt's)
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I also love piling rigs which I used to work with in a previous work life:
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I'm geeky enough to have driven right across town to watch these things shift huge castings out of the steel works in the middle of the night.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/abloadescort/2731698195/ ]ALE HeavyLift / Teahan[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/abloadescort/ ]abloadescort[/url], on Flickr
I love 'big', for years those tonker toy dumper trucks had my full attention,
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but of late...
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this one is the main one that springs to mind..
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I love timber harvesters
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Track renewal train
Mind boggling how it all works together!
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Cranes, fire engines,big stgo trucks, tank transporters,
Walking Excavator:
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makes me think of...
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Haha 🙂
If you only see one picture of a crane, lifting a crane, lifting a crane, which is lifting a crane, make it this one...
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a little less than glamorous in this distinguished and spectacular company.. but my Uncle always used to be driving one of these when he came to visit, and they were quite popular with the hippies of my youth..
one day I will have one of my very own..
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This conjures up very similar fond childhood memories too..
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Cranes. Even now at 43 if we have a big lift on site I get all giddy and excited.
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Really lusting for one of these at the moment,
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Wow @ Z1ppy!
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Yo dawg, I heard you like boats...
Until recently I was a driver operator on this, now when I see it its like looking at an ex girlfriend that got fit
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/beamans3/6474052067/ ]038-Truck 2[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/beamans3/ ]Mark and Kirsty Beaman[/url], on Flickr
No snowplows?
TowPlow:
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Train Plow:
Both American hence the 'wrong' spelling 🙂
Unsurprisingly I'm into big forestry kit, but still rather like these with direct mount winch, probably one of the original weapons of mass destruction.
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I used to have an intimate knowledge of the parts and maintenance programs for lots of big bits of mobile plant.
always liked the CAT loaders
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and of course the mighty kress carriers
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I'm a sucker for a steam shovel
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£5 please.
I've always loved these. The finest sounding Diesel engine I've ever heard.
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Has to be one of these:
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Or these - Sugar Beet Harvester:
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We had this crawler built up to lift pre-cast panels onto Duke St. multi-storey in Glasgow, long-reach as it had to be done from the adjoining side (each storey's around 4m) –
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Still got jib-bound, so re-configured to this, which looks less impressive due to perspective but was even longer –
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Do mobile cranes count? I love the look of old cranes:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/6122175924/ ]Cowans, Sheldon & Co., Ltd. 41[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr
Gone now, it was a good landmark...
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Ah yes, that always provoked a double take 😉
