Quite rare to see an XF Euro 6 with manuals because I know they’re specially commissionned for recovery vehicles. I wished I learned to drive trucks on manual gearboxes too.
As a kid the trolley buses turned round at Barnet church I used to catch one to Whetstone where I sold evening papers from a corner pitch. The bus stop for home was right next to the pitch and as I was about to board the trolley bus the owner shouted me, I looked his way for a second stepped up on the bus and fell flat on my face. The buses were near silent and the acceleration was instant, the conductor pushed the bell and stopped the bus, waiting passengers helped me up and I got the bus. No harm done and I got the ride home for free. When the power connection poles jumped off the overhead wire, the conductor used a bamboo pole with a hook on the end to connect em back on. The bamboo pole was kept in a tube under the bus.
I remember these as a child .... serious acceleration and no fumes! Tricky if the pick up left the wire in the middle of a road junction though, especially with the sort of fogs London had in th 1950s. Brilliant piece by Steve. Thank you.
And yet the old 1959 Land Rover which pulled it out didn’t get a mentioned! Would have been nice to see that mate. Anyway another nice video and I’m amazed that that’s all you boys use… metal to metal normally wants to slide and the chains you can’t even hanker down… not saying it’s wrong just surprised me! I remember having the same conversation with a wrecker bloke when a scania I was driving broke down and needed recovery…that must have been 20 years now.
Well done Steve. Great work. Maybe a few tips with chaining down as you go along and what not to do! Delighted to see such a well presented view of what you do !
Morning Steve, Like how you take great care in every part of your work… from start to finish. Hope you have a great day Will be checking out more of your videos as the day goes on. Cheers buddy 😉
Awesome vid there Steve, and with them steering wheels you certainly knew when you did a full shift pulling them about, as no power steering gadgets back then unlike todays modern motors, powered steering, powered assisted steering, A.B.S, Airbags etc
Hi John thanks for watching , it is a shame mate i didn't think it would be so hard to film my work , all vehicles breakdown but companies dont want there's on film.
Very interesting video the old and new recovery . Would have been a lot different back in it's earlier years hand draulic as opposed to hydraulic .. With Harvey frost or Holmes gear .. Stay safe and healthy ..
Thanks for that remember riding on them as a child from Uxbridge to Shepherd's Bush. See AEC made better job of designing the front end than Mercedes. They used to have a bamboo pole with a hook on the end stowed under back to put it back on the wires. You can tell how old it is a single rear light on the offside. I'm told they could stop a bit quick as they had re-gen braking compared with cars of the day.
I had an oppo who, at the 'Bush, pulled out the bamboo pole to take down the trolley poles and then could not lift it. He had run the pole out under parked cars behind and was trying to lift the cars as well!
Yes you never said about that 1959 land rover but nice job Steve whoud bee nice to have said about land rover 1959 and that buzzing noise keep the 🚌 moving well dune not wit for next one soon let's get it loaded
The road lobby. The same arguments now applied to the trolleys that were once applied to the trams they replaced (and why the trams were never brought up to European standards such as kerbside loading and segregated tracks)...'unsightly wires, holding up the traffic, can't cope with diversions...'does not seem to affect all the trolleybuses I've seen in Europe!.
The big problem was lack of money to replace the wiring infrastructure as it reached the end of its life. Remember most bus services were run by public bodies in those days. It was cheaper to buy diesel buses which also had the advantage of greater flexibility.
Great. The view from inside was class. So bare and minimal compared to a bus of similar fashion today. Great job Steve. I've subbed. Can I ask what type of truck is yours? Like, how much weight can it lift/tow? Is it your own truck? Thanks for the vids, looking forward too seeing what else you get to recover
Thanks for watching , Truck is a Daf XF530 and is company owned by R & S Recovery and has a 80 000kg GTW so can recovery upto 57 500kg as it weighs in at 22 500kg.
I'm a trucker too, but have to ask, when you first turn your beacons back off after having collected it, but still taking up a majority of the road, why do you not just keep them on as you are actively towing? I don't drive wreckers so don't know, but personally I think I would do at least for that bit.
Hi thanks for watching, we dont normally tow with beacons on unless causing a hazards such as narrow roads or busy road junctions to cross.At night they can dazzle other vehicles so you have to be bear that in mind aswell.
These often turn up powered by a towed generator. Alternatively a Battery Pack can be attached, (There was an electric Leyland National with extra towed batteries, the most prior present generation of electric buses were the Seddon inter-station buses, heavy with Exide batteries !, other than that the Battery electric was tried very early days of buses, with the Petrol electric being quite useful - for drivers used to horses it avoided clutch usage as such. Rhondda Transport Company's Trolleybuses lasted 4 days, before a landslip on the route and general not very good supplied vehicles caused it to revert to Trams and Petrol Buses.
That's a Q1, built 1948 (same as me) and, I believe, 8ft wide. She is not listed in my 1961 ABC so must have been sold out of service. There were not many Q1s remaining in '61, many having been sold to Spain.
How do Steve, like others just found your channel and loving the content so far. Tis nice to get a oddball job like this now n again. Just curious as no break away chains they not fitted to your wrecker ? subbed and stay safe out there fella, cheers ken
Excellent work Steve. Quick question, how do you measure the height on unusual loads like this? That power pick up on the roof adds a good 4 or 5 foot to the standard height.
Hi Jason , most commercials i pick up have height mark in cab, i have measuring stick also but this job the Trolley Bus Society advised me as best practice we removed the front wheels.
@@HeavyRecoverywithSteve Looking at the cab reminded me of me of my early days as a bus driver on DD's with retrofitted cash trays and other bits and bobs, all sharp edges and terrible angles. Forever bashing an elbow or twisting your back. Ah the days...
Hi Leon - you’ve probably been used to using wheel grids and strapping the vehicles wheels into the frames that’s how I started recovering smaller trucks. When using lifting forks use the nearest fork you have to fit around the axle and make sure if makes full contact with base of fork that will stop sliding back and forth. Now try to locate fork on axle up against a U-Bolt or maybe where axle changes thickness as on a lot of European trucks that will stop any sideways movement. I would now chain over axle to keep in base of fork and with same chain come in from side of axle at a angle to reduce sideways movement. Good luck thanks for watching! 👍🏻
Watch where your standing and lying down in era bays some drivers think they're a toilet I found this out the hard way (technically the soft squishy way)
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Quite rare to see an XF Euro 6 with manuals because I know they’re specially commissionned for recovery vehicles. I wished I learned to drive trucks on manual gearboxes too.
Could be an automated manual. A lot of trucks have them now and they sound the same.
As a kid the trolley buses turned round at Barnet church I used to catch one to Whetstone where I sold evening papers from a corner pitch. The bus stop for home was right next to the pitch and as I was about to board the trolley bus the owner shouted me, I looked his way for a second stepped up on the bus and fell flat on my face. The buses were near silent and the acceleration was instant, the conductor pushed the bell and stopped the bus, waiting passengers helped me up and I got the bus. No harm done and I got the ride home for free.
When the power connection poles jumped off the overhead wire, the conductor used a bamboo pole with a hook on the end to connect em back on. The bamboo pole was kept in a tube under the bus.
I remember these as a child .... serious acceleration and no fumes! Tricky if the pick up left the wire in the middle of a road junction though, especially with the sort of fogs London had in th 1950s. Brilliant piece by Steve. Thank you.
Thanks for watching the channel Nick.
nice job ,went on one of the last trolley buses in London about 1961 when i was 7 years old
Thanks!
Brilliant work.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for the Super Thanks David! The first one too!
Fantastic to keep our transport heritage alive and well, great professional work moving her as well.
Many thanks!
And yet the old 1959 Land Rover which pulled it out didn’t get a mentioned! Would have been nice to see that mate.
Anyway another nice video and I’m amazed that that’s all you boys use… metal to metal normally wants to slide and the chains you can’t even hanker down… not saying it’s wrong just surprised me!
I remember having the same conversation with a wrecker bloke when a scania I was driving broke down and needed recovery…that must have been 20 years now.
Well done Steve. Great work. Maybe a few tips with chaining down as you go along and what not to do!
Delighted to see such a well presented view of what you do !
Thanks, will do!
Steve, When backing up do you tap your horn to let others know - might heip in the long run.
That's a nice piece of history
Thanks for watching.
Great job, nice variety, and no stress from traffic.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching , your welcome.
I don't know how I got recommended your videos but I love what I see.
Morning Steve,
Like how you take great care in every part of your work… from start to finish. Hope you have a great day
Will be checking out more of your videos as the day goes on. Cheers buddy 😉
Thanks very much for watching glad you like them.
@@HeavyRecoverywithSteve always a pleasure my friend 😉
Another job well done cheers steve
Thanks for watching Gary.
Towed a few of them for LT Museum always did the same dropped feont wheels , Some height on them. Nice job Steve
Thanks Lee see you out on the roads mate.
What a cool trolleybus, what a neat job!
You do a great job on those tight roads 👍
Hi Tim thanks for watching.
Nicely done Steve!
Is your DAF got the 12 speed manual gearbox?
Remember seeing them buses at at Aldgate, late 50’s early 60’s.
Just stumbled into your video channel. Very interesting. Love the trolley bus really bare necessities but ran well.
Having driven service buses throughthat road near Reading, I know that the railway bridge is an absolute pig! Thanks for a great video!
HI Chris, thanks for watching.
Awesome vid there Steve, and with them steering wheels you certainly knew when you did a full shift pulling them about, as no power steering gadgets back then unlike todays modern motors, powered steering, powered assisted steering, A.B.S, Airbags etc
Interesting video, enjoyed the drop-off at the farm as well, shame you can't show more deliveries and drop-offs. take care mate.
Hi John thanks for watching , it is a shame mate i didn't think it would be so hard to film my work , all vehicles breakdown but companies dont want there's on film.
I am glad I am not a recovery driver! Good video.
Very interesting video the old and new recovery . Would have been a lot different back in it's earlier years hand draulic as opposed to hydraulic .. With Harvey frost or Holmes gear .. Stay safe and healthy ..
Thanks for watching Roger.
Big boyz duty, keep the great job. I wonder if there is any hvy towing/ recovery group where guys like you share the great job.
Not that I know of in UK, thanks for watching.
Thanks for that remember riding on them as a child from Uxbridge to Shepherd's Bush. See AEC made better job of designing the front end than Mercedes. They used to have a bamboo pole with a hook on the end stowed under back to put it back on the wires. You can tell how old it is a single rear light on the offside. I'm told they could stop a bit quick as they had re-gen braking compared with cars of the day.
Hi Roger, thanks for watching was hoping it would bring back childhood memories!
I had an oppo who, at the 'Bush, pulled out the bamboo pole to take down the trolley poles and then could not lift it. He had run the pole out under parked cars behind and was trying to lift the cars as well!
Roger - Didnt in wartime they had a big white spot on the back so they could be seen in the black out and identified from normal buses
Nice one Steve good video as always👍
Thanks Colin for watching giving it a go.
Yes you never said about that 1959 land rover but nice job Steve whoud bee nice to have said about land rover 1959 and that buzzing noise keep the 🚌 moving well dune not wit for next one soon let's get it loaded
Hi Steve thanks for watching
GREAT JOB STEVE, WHY DID WE STOP USING TROLLEYBUSES ?
The road lobby. The same arguments now applied to the trolleys that were once applied to the trams they replaced (and why the trams were never brought up to European standards such as kerbside loading and segregated tracks)...'unsightly wires, holding up the traffic, can't cope with diversions...'does not seem to affect all the trolleybuses I've seen in Europe!.
The last network (Bradford) was closed in 1972, less than a year from the first oil crisis.
The big problem was lack of money to replace the wiring infrastructure as it reached the end of its life. Remember most bus services were run by public bodies in those days. It was cheaper to buy diesel buses which also had the advantage of greater flexibility.
Great. The view from inside was class. So bare and minimal compared to a bus of similar fashion today. Great job Steve. I've subbed. Can I ask what type of truck is yours? Like, how much weight can it lift/tow? Is it your own truck? Thanks for the vids, looking forward too seeing what else you get to recover
Thanks for watching , Truck is a Daf XF530 and is company owned by R & S Recovery and has a 80 000kg GTW so can recovery upto 57 500kg as it weighs in at 22 500kg.
I'm a trucker too, but have to ask, when you first turn your beacons back off after having collected it, but still taking up a majority of the road, why do you not just keep them on as you are actively towing? I don't drive wreckers so don't know, but personally I think I would do at least for that bit.
Hi thanks for watching, we dont normally tow with beacons on unless causing a hazards such as narrow roads or busy road junctions to cross.At night they can dazzle other vehicles so you have to be bear that in mind aswell.
What are you censoring to the left of the screen at 0:07?
Hi Steve. Need a review video of Your Truck..
hi steve i like your videos
These often turn up powered by a towed generator. Alternatively a Battery Pack can be attached, (There was an electric Leyland National with extra towed batteries, the most prior present generation of electric buses were the Seddon inter-station buses, heavy with Exide batteries !, other than that the Battery electric was tried very early days of buses, with the Petrol electric being quite useful - for drivers used to horses it avoided clutch usage as such. Rhondda Transport Company's Trolleybuses lasted 4 days, before a landslip on the route and general not very good supplied vehicles caused it to revert to Trams and Petrol Buses.
That's a Q1, built 1948 (same as me) and, I believe, 8ft wide. She is not listed in my 1961 ABC so must have been sold out of service. There were not many Q1s remaining in '61, many having been sold to Spain.
Hi John, the Trolley Bus in film i believe did return back from Spain.
How do Steve, like others just found your channel and loving the content so far. Tis nice to get a oddball job like this now n again. Just curious as no break away chains they not fitted to your wrecker ? subbed and stay safe out there fella, cheers ken
Hi Ken , thanks for watching the truck not installed with breakaway chains as not legal requirement in UK.
And people make out that electric vehicles are something new. 1940's and we were in EVs
Thanks for watching Benny.
Excellent work Steve. Quick question, how do you measure the height on unusual loads like this? That power pick up on the roof adds a good 4 or 5 foot to the standard height.
Hi Jason , most commercials i pick up have height mark in cab, i have measuring stick also but this job the Trolley Bus Society advised me as best practice we removed the front wheels.
@@HeavyRecoverywithSteve Looking at the cab reminded me of me of my early days as a bus driver on DD's with retrofitted cash trays and other bits and bobs, all sharp edges and terrible angles. Forever bashing an elbow or twisting your back. Ah the days...
What tips you got for a new young pup heavy lad starting out?, done a few jobs Harley used forks but scared to use them
Hi Leon - you’ve probably been used to using wheel grids and strapping the vehicles wheels into the frames that’s how I started recovering smaller trucks. When using lifting forks use the nearest fork you have to fit around the axle and make sure if makes full contact with base of fork that will stop sliding back and forth. Now try to locate fork on axle up against a U-Bolt or maybe where axle changes thickness as on a lot of European trucks that will stop any sideways movement. I would now chain over axle to keep in base of fork and with same chain come in from side of axle at a angle to reduce sideways movement. Good luck thanks for watching! 👍🏻
@@HeavyRecoverywithSteve I think it’s just confidence really
Watch where your standing and lying down in era bays some drivers think they're a toilet I found this out the hard way (technically the soft squishy way)
It is so weird seeing three windsheild wipers! (coming from an American)
I didn’t think there were any 1940 electric trolley buses left
I thought they were all scrapped
Hi thanks for watching, there's a Trolley Bus museum in Doncaster with over 50 restored buses there i believe.
@@HeavyRecoverywithSteve ok
Btw have u ever towed a double decker bus
I probably went to school on the old girl at one time or another! 667 from Twickenham to Hammersmith.
Hi Les thanks for watching, hope it brought back happy memories for you.
Lovely accent, by the way. Where are you from?
Hi thanks for watching, Surrey
Trolley busses are superior than diesel busses
electric isn't new as people think
And trolleybuses are far better and efficient than battery buses.
Time to ETS2.
Dang I thought Elon Musk invented the electric vehicle
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Museum has his parents' electric car that was built in the... I can't remember, but 1910s or '20s, I _think._
Excellent video!!! Use a service like P-R-O-M-O-S-M.
Hi Jay,thanks for watching.
You might consider wearing your camera elsewhere, rather than on your head…?
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