Cop a Load of This

I worked with these solid rubber, cushion, tyres for many years for forklifts and underground mining stuff. They are speed restricted when working at maximum loads as Lang has suggested and yes the core does get hot, expand or heat the bond between rubber and steel band. A typical top speed is only 12 - 15 kph.

Cobba

I think it is Eightpot giving us the drum on the solid tyres. It is sort of intuitive that they are speed limited and will throw rubber from the wheel at high speed but the melting blowout info is a surprise to me. Learn something new every day.

Lang

Lang wrote:

Cobba

I think it is Eightpot giving us the drum on the solid tyres. It is sort of intuitive that they are speed limited and will throw rubber from the wheel at high speed but the melting blowout info is a surprise to me. Learn something new every day.

Lang

Lang, you took the words "You learn something new every day" right out of my mouth.

The maximum road speed allowable in Victoria (Eightpot, that is a State in Australia) last time I looked, before we went to metrics about forty years ago, for "any vehicle with one (!) or more solid rubber tyres was 13 miles per hour.

Some more Scammells

They came a long way but I dont think these Scammells ever were built for their sex appeal

Is that a Churchill tank on the back of the top photo ?

Paul

Check out this Scammell in NewZealand



Paul

Those Scammells certainly were an amazing range of machines.
The car to the right of the "coffee pot' Scammell pulling the huge pressure vessel reminds me of my first car, a 1948 Vauxhall.

Roger Mahan's collection, shown here with Bill Hohepa, is on my bucket list for my visit to New Zealand which was to have been this month or next month but has been postponed due to lack of funds.

Is this Swishy unloading. Damn good effort I say!




These blokes are good.








And finally these oil rig blokes are inches away from amputation and death all day long.

Lang
m80
some of the antics eye get up to
to git er dun
LOL
last episode
front wheel sunk down on the grass after sliding off a 40' container
No traction with diff n cross locks enguaged
I used the traveeling axles on trailer to suk me back out
did this a few times .............. to get er dun
LOL
I can't use the camera n perforn @ the same time

LOL

cya

A transformer on its way from the Bruce Peebles factory in Edinburgh passing through London