Post by Dave.K on Jan 11, 2010 20:30:32 GMT 12
Antipodeanandy, You requested some info on loaders, here's my two cents worth ;D
My main loader was a 1957 Commer, when the old straight six engine died, it go transplanted with a International V8 392 cu in., with a big 4 barrel carby, it had some grunt. The throttle rod that ran along in front of the radiator was to small to open the carby right up so I had a piece of rope out through the cover into the cab so when going up hills one just haulled on the rope to get full tit. It would do about 80 mph if game.
Worst thing was in winter having no heater in the back so can up with all sorts of in genious inventions to keep warm, like have a bit of avgas burning in a baked bean tip on the floor.
A lot of loaders wre J bedfords with ungoverned engines, these could nearly fly as well, this one we called the grey goose, it had another set of controls the other way around in the passenger seat so you had to look out the small back window, just about needed binoculars to see the plane, in the summer you had to tie the doors open to get some draft , a very much hated truck that would not die.
This was the snow loader,by colour, as the aircraft got bigger more space got welded onto the front of the bucket and more weight got bolted to the front to counteract the imbalance, occasionally when loading downhill you would loose steering and slid into the wing or the bucket would sit on top of the hopper, hopefully without to much damage.
Another J beddy.
They got a few TK Bedfords, 2 had hydaulic tiller steering run by a ram off the valve bank, very quick and unsteerable in mud, some put a light in to show when the wheels wre straight, they had a slide to let the super into the hoppe and turnarounds of less than 10 seconds were the norm.One funny thing was one TK came out with a 6speed gearbox and one with a 4 speed so they took the 6 speed out and replaced it with a 4 speed but left the 6 speed knob on the gearlever, used to get some great comments from new drivers.
Then they bought a few Fords, but only cab and chassis and bolted the old loader on again so the pilot got a sparkly new plane and the driver got to sit in his old rustbucket again.
This is doing carrots the hard way, by shovelling the carrots into the cutter, instead of having a hopper the loader filled up. These guys when a stone was to be heard clunking around inside the currte used to dance to the music it made until it jammed up and would take ages to fix much to the annoyance of the pilot wanting to get finished and away
This is mixing the 1080 and vegatable dye with the carrots doing the poison. Different rabbit board more proffecional.
My main loader was a 1957 Commer, when the old straight six engine died, it go transplanted with a International V8 392 cu in., with a big 4 barrel carby, it had some grunt. The throttle rod that ran along in front of the radiator was to small to open the carby right up so I had a piece of rope out through the cover into the cab so when going up hills one just haulled on the rope to get full tit. It would do about 80 mph if game.
Worst thing was in winter having no heater in the back so can up with all sorts of in genious inventions to keep warm, like have a bit of avgas burning in a baked bean tip on the floor.
A lot of loaders wre J bedfords with ungoverned engines, these could nearly fly as well, this one we called the grey goose, it had another set of controls the other way around in the passenger seat so you had to look out the small back window, just about needed binoculars to see the plane, in the summer you had to tie the doors open to get some draft , a very much hated truck that would not die.
This was the snow loader,by colour, as the aircraft got bigger more space got welded onto the front of the bucket and more weight got bolted to the front to counteract the imbalance, occasionally when loading downhill you would loose steering and slid into the wing or the bucket would sit on top of the hopper, hopefully without to much damage.
Another J beddy.
They got a few TK Bedfords, 2 had hydaulic tiller steering run by a ram off the valve bank, very quick and unsteerable in mud, some put a light in to show when the wheels wre straight, they had a slide to let the super into the hoppe and turnarounds of less than 10 seconds were the norm.One funny thing was one TK came out with a 6speed gearbox and one with a 4 speed so they took the 6 speed out and replaced it with a 4 speed but left the 6 speed knob on the gearlever, used to get some great comments from new drivers.
Then they bought a few Fords, but only cab and chassis and bolted the old loader on again so the pilot got a sparkly new plane and the driver got to sit in his old rustbucket again.
This is doing carrots the hard way, by shovelling the carrots into the cutter, instead of having a hopper the loader filled up. These guys when a stone was to be heard clunking around inside the currte used to dance to the music it made until it jammed up and would take ages to fix much to the annoyance of the pilot wanting to get finished and away
This is mixing the 1080 and vegatable dye with the carrots doing the poison. Different rabbit board more proffecional.