Beamish heavy transport

Lang
Gudday M8
Looks like an ancient pic



I can remember the olman cart n Barber Green bucket wheel trenchin machines
he would load the beast over the side of float from blocks then disconnect sum linkage on the bucket frame
and walk the buckets out to lower the height
no pix tho as twaz a common occurrence

LOL
cya
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There is still a Barber Green trencher operational here. The aero club use it for ditches around the airfield. Standard Dodge sidevalve 6.

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Looks like Beamish colours to me.

Lang mate, does your aero trencher have a rifle and ammo belt hanging off the engine cover?

Yes, they use it to bring down first solo pilots who can't put it on the ground.

Operated Barber Greene Entrenching Machine during service with 17 Construction Squadron RAE in South Vietnam 1971.
Dig 18" wide 6' deep in almost anything bar solid rock. Built 1940's.
Inter TD24 petrol start - diesel run motor, air assisted clutch, steering and gearshift. 5 speed non syncro box for road travel,
about 35 mph. Truck fromt axle with 24" wheels and large lugged tractor tires on rear.
At site, disengage transmission, all power to a hydraulic pump. Buckets, elevator, crowd and waste conveyors all hydraulically
driven with variable speed control. Waste conveyors could be shifted to either side, run slow to windrow or fast to spread.
Powerful old thing, way ahead of its time in many ways. Problems with burst hoses due to age but did the job.
Sadly no pics but someone may have taken some. Museum at School of Military Engineering had one or two some years back,
not sure where they are now. Some info on Google.
Famous specialised earthmoving machinery makers. Paul.

Gr8 pix lang

Twould imagine the top pic with the solid rubber tyres

to load:
place 2 jacks @ rear of main beams
undo axle 'U' bolts
lower jacks to ground
push wheels out of way
walk machine on to deck of float
wheels back in
Jack main beams up
fit U bolts
n away u go
LOL

3rd pic looks a little modern.... nu matic tars...... detach neck n outriggers to

cya
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PaulFH,
A bit off topic, but those Barber-Greene's were quite common back in the late fifties-early sixties, before backhoes and tracked excavators took over, but you would well know that.
Area I grew up in had water mains put in around that time and can well remember the massive (to us at the time) bucket wheel trenchers cutting them for the following pipelayers.
They worked alongside the public primary school and all the kids, the whole 40 or 50, would run down to the fence at smoko and lunch to watch. Quite a large machine I remember with the bucket wheel at ground level, would have stood tall enough that the power lines had to be raised. Don't know how they got on transporting it, I was only a little tacker.
They also had a somewhat smaller machine, but the belt/bucket affair which was easier to manoeuvre, but didn't cut quite as wide or deep a trench.
Reckon it was about the size of that one being used by the Corps of Engineers in the photo, maybe have even been Army surplus, who knows?
Dave

Swishy

Bet you have never carried a heavy load like this.

1920 Perry Brothers Circus, Brisbane with AEC truck.

Took a Barber Green from Rydalmere to Carnarvon many moons ago.It was to be used for salt harvesting .They were not the best thing to carry as all the weight seemed to be at the top. cheers Don