I've always had a soft spot for Fodens: When I was growing up the local aggregates contractor had a fleet of Foden tippers; badge has stuck in my mind since then. The recoveries look superb.
@@Brigadier9 when it comes to steam wagons I'm a Sentinal fan, in particular the DG 6 as my grandad had one when he delivered coal. Like a good thornycroft too.
I’m excited to see this turn up at Cody’s. I have no idea how long it will be before the mud guards get ripped off, but I know it will be entertaining :D
@@ThePilzor i love watching him destroy things, i just hope he doesnt damage something irreplaceable on the centurion, it is a fairly old piece of machinery
The quiet "right we're going to get Diane Abbott in next" caused a coffee / keyboard interface moment. Thanks. But well worth it. 🤣🤣👍 There is the clinically clean engineering you see in nice warm well equipped workshops on most YT videos about building this or that and then there is the real world of tank and military engineering like this. Its heavy, its mucky and its very difficult. And its done outside in the freezing cold. Unless you are the Australian Tank Museum restoring Panzers when its heavy, its mucky, its all seized, its very difficult and BLOODY hot! BZ to all these lads and lasses who muck on and have a laugh. (Had to smile at the lady's shoes coming off to climb up on the AVRE).
When were shipping some armoured vehicles to Canada for a major exercise, we had to do the same getting all trace's of mud out of the running gear which meant we took the tracks off laid them out, and had to take all the track pads off so we could jet wash the tacks. That was what I had to do on the 432s it was emotional but not as bad as the poor guys that worked on the AS90 😭
Those Fodens really are a beast. I was serving in the falklands in 1995 and we had to get the Army Recce Mech to push a C130 Hercules aircraft out of the hanger as both of the aircraft tugs were unserviceable.
Great video mate, gonna be a shame to see old phill the chieftain go, still cant get over how much of a stunner that Foden is... gonna look even better when it's painted all black 🤣
1:27 "Build Joe a Shitbarn". I cracked up. A year later, after watching a few of the FV restoration videos You are pretty much on target. Time to send Jack back to the North Pole.
i can't help it but from a distance the silhouette of the abbot is not far of of that of the M-109 (early versions, not the latest ones with all that stuff on the turret).
We were always told that the Fodens were too heavy under UK Construction and Use regulations, coming in at a tad over 33 tons (max of 11 tons per axle) Perhaps by removing the rear plough ground anchor is enough to get it within limits
You lucky people would love to do work on the those (I suppose not after all the clart). Out of interest what's the going rate for someone to pay for a chieftain. Obviously depending on work required to bring it upto scratch. Brill channel, keep it up. 😎👌
Love your program. I love the Foden sticker but I don"t think it would be understood over here in the states. Watching you working on some of those Russian tanks,not much chance of escaping in one of those death traps. Just getting into one was enough to get me claustrophobic let alone losing an extremity from a revolving turret or cannon recoil if your not paying attention.
@@davidcloudsdale4167 Incorrect!! The Recy Militants were Mk3s, as were the Mk3 Cargo, which unlike the Recy, were all LHD. The Cargo ran on 15.00 - 20 Cross ply tyres, & the Recy on 16.00 - 20 radials, Michelins, as the Fodens do.
Can you please explain Mr Hughes why you seem to be the ONLY person towing tanks around ? Is it . 1 your the ONLY person safe enough to do it ? ( ie you don't trust the others !!) Or 2 if you ding something it's your property so what the hell ?? Lol These videos are getting better and better !! one day You MIGHT even make a 30 minute version lol😁
Who’s Mr Huges? 😉🤣 I’m the only one with HGV license. Yes it’s my old man’s farm so if we going to hit a building it’s best it was me doing it 🤣 Thanks and do you think people wouldn’t fall asleep if i do?
" who's Mr Huges ? " yea yea lol How could ANYONE fall asleep listening to your dulcet tones !! Stick there head in a bucket maybe !! Lol I'm GUARANTEED people would be chewing at the bit to have a longer video !! But theres only one way to find out .. do one and see people's comments and reactions !!
Silly question perhaps, but wouldn't it have been cheaper if Cody bought a tank in the US? Also, why do you needle gun and not say, sand blast to remove old paint?
Do customers ever want to have the tank with the old and crappy paintjob? I think they look much better that way... And why do you needle gun the paint off? It would seem like blasting would be much faster.
never nice to see a chap injure himself, but i am surprised you didn't bite it back, still, no DNA spilt and nobody died this time round - i think i have seen everything now, Jack fisting a Chieftain - its a bit like Baldrick stuffing a chicken (if that's what he was doing) Jacks new name then Baldrick
Surprised to see you rude guys taking care of each other - putting on shoes - 😅- do you also clean each others nose, when somebody has got dirty hands or is intensively wrenching 🤔 Greetings to the Sheffield area , Me, speaking school and tourist-englisch, I´m kind of amused and enjoy your local accents. - Have you ever been to Germany, guys? - Our accents are also different, depending on the area. Comparing Ruhrgebiet Bochum / Dortmund -abos to "Hoch-Deutsch" = commonly spoken in the media and in the Hannover-area, to Saxony (Sachsen) or Bavaria(Bayern) is also funny, even more for foreigners. Bla bla bla, by the way I like the colour olive and as an ex - 23.Base R.E.M.E., brit. tanks 🖐
“Diane Abbott” 🤣
I see why those fodens hold their prices, what a piece of kit!
I've always had a soft spot for Fodens: When I was growing up the local aggregates contractor had a fleet of Foden tippers; badge has stuck in my mind since then. The recoveries look superb.
I must admit that foden looks and sounds amazing, even if it’s got Rolls-Royce eagle in it
Love old Foden steam lorries and traction engines too.
@@Brigadier9 when it comes to steam wagons I'm a Sentinal fan, in particular the DG 6 as my grandad had one when he delivered coal. Like a good thornycroft too.
They were made in sandbach Cheahire
I also watch the Australian Armour Museun site. The contrast to the baking hot (there) and the freezing cold (this) on the same days!!
I like your way of life and will be watching and donating.
If the designer's brief was to produce the world's best sounding tank, they WON!!!!
I’m excited to see this turn up at Cody’s. I have no idea how long it will be before the mud guards get ripped off, but I know it will be entertaining :D
WD durability test department is going to take good care of that centurion. And it will be good fun for us!
@@ThePilzor i love watching him destroy things, i just hope he doesnt damage something irreplaceable on the centurion, it is a fairly old piece of machinery
@@ThePilzor it is a chieftain not a centurion
Great to see Mr Hewes is now an equal opportunities employer 👍
The quiet "right we're going to get Diane Abbott in next" caused a coffee / keyboard interface moment. Thanks.
But well worth it. 🤣🤣👍
There is the clinically clean engineering you see in nice warm well equipped workshops on most YT videos about building this or that and then there is the real world of tank and military engineering like this. Its heavy, its mucky and its very difficult. And its done outside in the freezing cold. Unless you are the Australian Tank Museum restoring Panzers when its heavy, its mucky, its all seized, its very difficult and BLOODY hot!
BZ to all these lads and lasses who muck on and have a laugh. (Had to smile at the lady's shoes coming off to climb up on the AVRE).
06:40 - god that sounds good
I really like that Daf truck. Wish I had the parking space for one. Would make shopping runs more fun.
Tanks for watching.
Always a good laugh and a bit of an education on these old bits of kit!. Nice one!. Nuff said!. 🍺
finally getting around to WD
hopefullly they bring on more guys to help and make the tank look good and fix every thing
gEES YOU MOB HAVE ALL THE FUN!!😂👍👍
We do 🤣
amazing video as always, love the AVRE but nice to see the chieftain getting a little love. hope we can see more of the t34 as well! keep it up
Great video mate, hopefully your channel continues to grow.
When were shipping some armoured vehicles to Canada for a major exercise, we had to do the same getting all trace's of mud out of the running gear which meant we took the tracks off laid them out, and had to take all the track pads off so we could jet wash the tacks. That was what I had to do on the 432s it was emotional but not as bad as the poor guys that worked on the AS90 😭
Nice sign off at the end👍
Surely SURELY you guys know somebody in the concrete paving business??!! Have a care! All that mud! Love to all, especially the ever-patient Ted!
That JCB will never move Dianne Abbot! 🤣😂
Nice Abrams.
I lived on Vancouver Island for three years, all it did there too was rain. Couldn’t deal with it, just couldn’t.
I feel your pain, I grew up in Chilliwack then lived in Mission, got the hell out of there, moved to the interior, definitely don't miss the rain !!!
Thanks to all your team + the 4 Legged one, and yourself. I really enjoy seeing the movement and sound of all your military stuff. Mr JR ex Inf
If you scraped off a few inches of dirt around your cement slab, and put on crushed concrete the driveway I think you will like the result
Excellent!👏😊
Those Fodens really are a beast. I was serving in the falklands in 1995 and we had to get the Army Recce Mech to push a C130 Hercules aircraft out of the hanger as both of the aircraft tugs were unserviceable.
Pedantry, I know, but it's "Recy Mech". "Recce" is the abbreviation for Reconnaissance.
I love how the Brits keep their workshops so tidy.
Nice one Joe, great vid 👍👍
Great video mate, gonna be a shame to see old phill the chieftain go, still cant get over how much of a stunner that Foden is... gonna look even better when it's painted all black 🤣
Watching you put the pin and Castle nut on the towbar you could get a job at Boeing fitting the doors . 😂
You work wonders in getting old ww 2 tanks up and running
Brilliant
1:27 "Build Joe a Shitbarn". I cracked up. A year later, after watching a few of the FV restoration videos You are pretty much on target. Time to send Jack back to the North Pole.
Video how you get into the drivers cab with the gun rear. As a tankie would do back in the day.
Will do 🤣
love those recovery trucks, had chance to work on one at military times, was daf model but beasts :P
Love it all top content 😎❤️👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Another great video👌🏼
Fowdens known to me as the grunter Hunter when they used to come for the poorly pigs
Thanks for a interesting vid 👍
Nice worck.
Just subscribed as now I'm really curious how you are handling these lovely AFV, sure the "lovely" weather is not helping much 😀
Cor, you get to play with the nicest toys!
We have plenty of fun
i can't help it but from a distance the silhouette of the abbot is not far of of that of the M-109 (early versions, not the latest ones with all that stuff on the turret).
Chally made me cough and Im just watching the video!
We were always told that the Fodens were too heavy under UK Construction and Use regulations, coming in at a tad over 33 tons (max of 11 tons per axle)
Perhaps by removing the rear plough ground anchor is enough to get it within limits
It weighs less than 30 tonnes, actual weight depending on kit being carried, eg snow chains aren't light!
Just found the brochure which quotes 25.3 tonnes, but not sure whether that's the ex factory weight before the Army adds the tools etc.
i expect you'll be getting some free flights to america when he breaks it
You lucky people would love to do work on the those (I suppose not after all the clart). Out of interest what's the going rate for someone to pay for a chieftain. Obviously depending on work required to bring it upto scratch. Brill channel, keep it up. 😎👌
It's time to break out the roll of duct tape to fix the Shop-Vac hose. Have an excellent day
Moving the tanks around looks quite easy. Would it actually be possible to pull it with a normal car? Perhaps you can make a video from that ???
Nice vids guys. greetz from holland.
Cheers bud
Love your program. I love the Foden sticker but I don"t think it would be understood over here in the states. Watching you working on some of those Russian tanks,not much chance of escaping in one of those death traps. Just getting into one was enough to get me claustrophobic let alone losing an extremity from a revolving turret or cannon recoil if your not paying attention.
The Foden is a mighty recovery beast. I wonder what happend to all those AEC mk3's "Militants" that they replaced in the late 80/early 90's ?
All AEC Recovery Militants were mk2s and Rhd all mk3s were Lhd
@@davidcloudsdale4167 Incorrect!! The Recy Militants were Mk3s, as were the Mk3 Cargo, which unlike the Recy, were all LHD. The Cargo ran on 15.00 - 20 Cross ply tyres, & the Recy on 16.00 - 20 radials, Michelins, as the Fodens do.
Does it ever stop raining where you guys are ? asking from Sunny Aussie
Ahh the best laid plans of tank Gods and Goddesses😆
And the Green Godesses!
Dianne Abbott.....PMSL at that one. Good times!
I’m amazed you don’t grit blast these tanks rather than needle gunning, would be a hell of a lot faster and better surface for coatings to go on after
Unless you completely stipe every part out Sandblasting isn’t good for the vehicle
Why do you needle gun rather than media blast (sand, glass .etc)? wouldn’t blasting be safer and reduce risk of getting white finger?
Sand blasting isn’t good for the vehicle unless you strip off every single part even turret
What ever happended to the D plate Foden?
Looks like he is the only one with a driving license :D
Not seen them 302 and 802's for a few years, where did you get them from?
Don't tell me Whistling Diesel is gong to destroy it!🙈🤣👍
What's the model of that foden 4:36 ?
Introduce us to the tank ladies please. 😃
Will do!
What is that tank at 10:28
Can you please explain Mr Hughes why you seem to be the ONLY person towing tanks around ?
Is it .
1 your the ONLY person safe enough to do it ? ( ie you don't trust the others !!)
Or 2 if you ding something it's your property so what the hell ?? Lol
These videos are getting better and better !! one day You MIGHT even make a 30 minute version lol😁
Who’s Mr Huges? 😉🤣
I’m the only one with HGV license.
Yes it’s my old man’s farm so if we going to hit a building it’s best it was me doing it 🤣
Thanks and do you think people wouldn’t fall asleep if i do?
" who's Mr Huges ? " yea yea lol
How could ANYONE fall asleep listening to your dulcet tones !!
Stick there head in a bucket maybe !! Lol
I'm GUARANTEED people would be chewing at the bit to have a longer video !!
But theres only one way to find out .. do one and see people's comments and reactions !!
So is a hgv license like a CDL in the states
Silly question perhaps, but wouldn't it have been cheaper if Cody bought a tank in the US? Also, why do you needle gun and not say, sand blast to remove old paint?
No real tanks in us for sale
You can’t bleep swearing. It’s part of your channel! Ha
Duck tape essential tanker equipment.
Duct tape is pretty good, too 🙄
Do customers ever want to have the tank with the old and crappy paintjob? I think they look much better that way... And why do you needle gun the paint off? It would seem like blasting would be much faster.
Some but most don’t. Would be faster but wouldn’t do the vehicle any good
I’ve seen bigger exhaust pipes on boy racers vw’s and astras than that Chieftain 😊
I know what I’d rather have lol
Is there any Museums of your Work?
Not yet
Dianne Abbot? You mean nothing adds up or makes sense on that one? :)
I bet Teds coat is some sort of chemical health hazard with all the tickles he gets.
He’s actually a golden retriever.
@@sebbrady8927 lol, maybe after a damn good wash he is. I used to have a Vizsla myself, wonderful creatures.
@@ChullsterOG good rolling papers, them Vizlas.
@@johnnunn8688 🤣
never nice to see a chap injure himself, but i am surprised you didn't bite it back, still, no DNA spilt and nobody died this time round - i think i have seen everything now, Jack fisting a Chieftain - its a bit like Baldrick stuffing a chicken (if that's what he was doing) Jacks new name then Baldrick
🤣
You need it when? The phase to chill the blood of anyone in cavalry or engineers.
I’m confused 🤷♂️. You moved the AVRE out so you could work on Cody’s beast, then you put DA in and started work on that?!
Tested how easy the paint will come off on DA
Carnt believe u don't give a shit about smashing the headlights on the chieftain when it was immaculate before 😣
You should contact EBC they make brake rotors in the UK
Surprised to see you rude guys taking care of each other - putting on shoes - 😅- do you also clean each others nose, when somebody has got dirty hands or is intensively wrenching 🤔
Greetings to the Sheffield area , Me, speaking school and tourist-englisch, I´m kind of amused and enjoy your local accents. - Have you ever been to Germany, guys? - Our accents are also different, depending on the area.
Comparing Ruhrgebiet Bochum / Dortmund -abos to "Hoch-Deutsch" = commonly spoken in the media and in the Hannover-area, to Saxony (Sachsen) or Bavaria(Bayern) is also funny, even more for foreigners. Bla bla bla, by the way I like the colour olive and as an ex - 23.Base R.E.M.E., brit. tanks 🖐
All that mud must drive you all mad 😡?
For real
fk needle gunning the entire thing, just use a grinder with a wire wheel to do as much as possible to cut down the amount of work.
I choose quality over speed
Stop mucking aboot. Vlad needs you're help !
T34?
Are you ex REME
Ex farmers Son
This channel is sick lol don’t even know how I ended up here but keep coming back 😂
Il do my best
@@MrHewes good content my bro ! 😎
All hail the algorithm!
вау супер ,когда встретимся на Украине?