Favourite industrial vehicles

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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Cowans, Sheldon & Co., Ltd. 41[/url] by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Gone now, it was a good landmark…

Ah yes, that always provoked a double take 😉

NASA Crawler transporter

Always been a fan of the long reach diggers…

Mig 15 powered Snow Blower?

Although I do like my tractor quite a bit (partly becuase I rescued it from a scrap yard in 2 pieces and put it back together)

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I have a hankering for one of these:

which probably came from this lot:

and keep coming back to videos of old engines like this:

On a lighter note, ever heard of the Swiss Tree-Bicycle…?

Great site for old forestry photos – discovered when researching for my one of my MSc modules. Just type something in the search box, ‘ploughs’ or ‘tractors’ etc., & marvel just where these boys got to back in the 50’s – 70’s…

I’ve always loved big dozers

Particularly he CAT ones with elevated drive sprockets

Worked on these for a few years, much fun to be had

Edit….. I haven’t sussed this photo posting thing

Getting a bit long in the tooth now but she’ll be missed when she’s replaced next year.

Tree eating robo spider

and, mega claw

The Saipem 7000

Coming to where I work in 2015-ish to lift new kit onboard.