The weights were used to compact fill for runway repairs. Push a load of gravel in the hole. Crane lifts the weight and drops it from a height onto the fill. Repeat as necessary then cover - & pin down - with steel roll runway mat. Good to go. Used by Royal Engineer Airfield Damage Repair teams.
That thumbnail. I was in Afghanistan and a mate of mine used to drive those big old container handlers there. We ended up losing him on Valentines day 2011, to a stupid fire, of all things! I never thought I'd see another one, I must say. I always thought they were so awesome! Gawd, those 432's look ancient now. I remember even in the 2000s they looked old but somewhat ok. Seeing it in that state just makes me feel old!! xD
The white defender will have come from the Electricity Board. Looked after by in house mechanics and repaired regardless of expense. The programmable diesel heaters are an absolute god send when it's cold.
In the more northern parts of Canada and the USA, battery heaters are quite common, we call them battery blankets. They plug into the household power, they keep the battery warm enough to get the maximum engine starting power out of them for the temperature outside.
I've watched so many of your vids that I knew what the injector pump procedure was for what you were going to do! From one of your biggest fans, John in Maryland USA.
That place reminds me of Jackson's at Bawtry near Doncaster.Used to go in the 80s with my dad buying series 1 land-rover parts.They had acres of stuff,aircraft parts wings jet engines,tanks cranes just everything you could think of.We would spend the day there and I roamed free climbing on massive machines,sitting in cockpits.Happy times.My dad is still selling land-rover parts in his eightys.
Good man... My old man is still ticking as well... Real man, still independent. I don't think much of our generation will see 80. It's been a heavy haul.
I would love to have a walk round that place, cheque book open... At least in my dreams anyway! Joe does it again, really ignites the interest and then walks away. who knows what he'll come home from that auction with. Thanks gang for the ride anyway.
Great stuff! Good to see all the Case track loaders are in England! Hurry back stateside! Westin needs yer personalities n you guys need his followers! Loved seeing yer trucker riding in nice US heavy hauls. Now come west n see how we do it!
That white Landy is just like my brother's. Ex electric board. Hydraulic driven front winch. The roller shutters are very useful, although we do call it his burger van.
i drove 3 or 4 of those cranes 10 miles each to get them off of sierra army depot. took hours and hours to do each trip. biggest machine i have ever driven.
Takes me back to the early 70s when me and my mate used to go to the ex milatery sales at Ruddington Notts , there would be landrovers in various state of repair some clearly victems of Ireland, Ford Zepher staff cars , trucks were every where Bedford RLs Albion workshop trucks complete with lathes pillar drills and tooling , (probaly fetched around £500 ) I rember looking in the back of Leyland Martin with a cargo body and it came complete with several large crates of god knows what and 3 BSA motorcycle and that lot was probaly again around the £500 mark , happy days long gone
The triangular shape weight is actually a compactor Wait for compacting runways . It weighs 5 1/2 tons was lifted by Priceman 350 wheeled crane . We have one and use it for squashing cars .
Those Snatch Landrovers we used in Ireland had V8 petrol engines in them. The sound of that V8 is forever engrained in my brain. PSNI may still hold some in their fleet but that was a long time ago I was there. Love your videos some of them bring back memories.
Amazing engines. One test we used to do was to get them up to speed, then let them down to idle in top. They would chuff along at idle, at walking speed, then floor it. Apart from a small hiccup, they would accel back up to speed, incredible.
Get ya some of that 50ton,been watching awhile, It would make a hellova video. Raising a Chieftain in the air,Glorious, a real show stopper, chuffed with just the thought of it, I'm sure Ted would approve!
I have a sneaking suspicion that white Landie is heading back to Hewes Towers ..... But nicely done with the 432. Must be worth 50% discount on the Landie.
Back in the day we used an old Land Rover as a break down vehicle.. To fill with fuel you’d to removed the drivers seat cushion and the fuel tank filler was underneath 😳 Great video as usual, kids in a sweet shop🤔😉
@Mr Hewes Good spot on the weights Those were used as drop weights on the end of a compactor 8 wheeled square crane with about a 60foot gib They were used by airfield damage repair squadrons of The Royal Engineers ( nowRAF air base disbanded) I. Was a royal engineer at RAF Marham in Norfolk 216FD Sqn RE. They weigh roughly 5t. Lifted 30 feet then free fall drop on to bomb crater repairs after you put type 1 or type 6 chipping in the hole Compact, then metal road over the top then taxiway/ runway repaired. From crater to active with a great team 45-60 minutes
@ I think you will find that it was a relay circuit the idea being that the battery was heated when the engine ran. Remember the box on the right hand side under the sloping plate it contains three buss bars and they feed the power socket outside the rear door if I remember. The heat would stay for a considerable while when stationary and these vehicles had several roles: they were battle taxis, used for med evac on swept ground, command posts as well as more active roles in other guises. In the earlier roles they could spend considerable time stationary with just the odd engine run to charge communications. The heater was supportive in this format. Remember, it is very cold with the winter wind blowing off the Baltic and armour soon chills. Tracks freeze in snow on a bad day. I don’t think the batteries warmed themselves when not being charged. Cold on the Continent is of a different calibre to here.
Wow!. Normally I'm a complete mechanical 'Noddy' watching these vids!. However I knew what you were doing and what was going on when you were testing from your previous vids. Nice one! 😊.
I need a @MrHewes with me every time I buy a used van/truck 😆 I’d bloody love one of those landys but I can’t overload it with crap quite as much as I can my Transit! Excellent video, more of the same please Joe!
everyone else gets giddy at going to a Ferrari showroom Mr Hewes and the Team, wait you have 40 year old landrovers, and cranes not sure the roads could take
Look at the weight on the crane.........wouldn't want it on your foot would you, 🤣🤣 brilliant vid, that crane def deserves a place next to the Foden!!!!
Wow it must have over 15 years ago doing the transmission on a Grove crane just like that one , me and my mate Robin at an American air base down south somewhere, could not get over the barbecues all over the place and when it time for a cup tea , Brack time was anounusted over the speaker system, so if its got a Clark 2800 remote mounted transmission with a remote valve it may be the one ?Happy days,
Hi there, on the Skoda the Skoda rapids the handbook originally said start your car in temperature is below -20 the first job turn your headlights on for 20 or 30 seconds 1st to actually help throw the battery out that was actually in the Skoda handbook crazy but true
That silly large forklift reminds of the one we had at my old job at an industrial conveyor belt manufacturer. Everything was sized to transport up to 16 metric tons. Including a forklift that looked very similar. You won’t believe how often that thing damaged something in the factory. As with a 16 tons conveyor belt in the front, the driver did see nothing, and did feel nothing 🤣.
The white 110 Land Rover looks very much like an ex western power distribution (as they were at the time ) and could well have been built by my old dealership Roger Young who used to supply them hundreds of them all workshop body’s were built in house
Little Elsa's PTO driven winch is much like the factory installed Koenig PTO winch on my 1956 Willy's CJ-5. the thing will pull itself up a tree if you let it.
All those Land Rovers you were looking at were in fact Defenders which RAF TCW started to use about 1983 but i was stuck with the old Longbase soft top Land Rover which were rubbish.
Love watching your videos from Canada, do you boys have company shares in WD40 lol.. keep up the bloody great videos, look forward to your new ones, tell Jack and Adam to get stuck in.
That K60 engine sounded good when you ran it up. I noticed that 432 had what looked like a secondary door catch fitted. I wonder if that was to stop the problem of the main door catch releasing while driving ?
I do like the utility defenders but with a TD5 in. Was never convinced by the pto witches, you can’t drive and winch🤷♂. 50t crane would be handy! Think of all the diesel you’d save from not running tanks round 🤔😆
Couple of Good old boys stateside were in the market for a couple of British Tanks state side on UA-cam Rather nice to here your name dropped after they sort advice on how to start the tanks Of course they could of got advice from any number of subscribers as we have all been schooled in the art of starting a Chieftain Tank
During the test drive on the way back to park the tank you passed by a green building with great garage doors on the other side of the tank looks like a folded wrecker . Is it time to add a new Folded wrecker to your Collection Of recovery vehicles? Have an excellent Sunday
The landrover is a 3.5t full spec utility vehicle built for one of the power company's i have one myself the list of extras and upgrades made to them is extensive and quite a lot of the parts used are not genuine landrover parts if you want more info let me know i have had mine for over 10 years and done nearly 500k miles
Who thinks the 50 ton US Crane needs to come home with us? 😂 🏗️
yup
Perfect timing! Just sat down with a coffee!!
Yep
Definitely. It would save shuffling everything around the yard. Just pick it up and pop it down where you wanted it
Definitely 👍 😅
When you have watched enough of Hewes video's that you actually start to know what is being talked about...
🤣
The weights were used to compact fill for runway repairs. Push a load of gravel in the hole. Crane lifts the weight and drops it from a height onto the fill. Repeat as necessary then cover - & pin down - with steel roll runway mat. Good to go. Used by Royal Engineer Airfield Damage Repair teams.
Remember 10 field squadron RE doing that at RAF Laarbruch in the early 80's as part of their annual excercises. Interesting to watch.
Dynamic compaction
That thumbnail. I was in Afghanistan and a mate of mine used to drive those big old container handlers there. We ended up losing him on Valentines day 2011, to a stupid fire, of all things!
I never thought I'd see another one, I must say. I always thought they were so awesome!
Gawd, those 432's look ancient now. I remember even in the 2000s they looked old but somewhat ok. Seeing it in that state just makes me feel old!! xD
The white defender will have come from the Electricity Board. Looked after by in house mechanics and repaired regardless of expense.
The programmable diesel heaters are an absolute god send when it's cold.
In the more northern parts of Canada and the USA, battery heaters are quite common, we call them battery blankets. They plug into the household power, they keep the battery warm enough to get the maximum engine starting power out of them for the temperature outside.
Northern europe just heats up the oil or water and mayby chucks a battery tender
You regularly get - double figures thought
So not many EV cars there?
You on any MOD Disposal Yard is gonna be good because your clearly out Christmas shopping to see what you can take home with you to fix up!!
Man that 50 ton needs a good home cranes are fun to operate. I operated a 23 and a 1/2 ton boom truck for about 10 yrs. best job I ever had
I've watched so many of your vids that I knew what the injector pump procedure was for what you were going to do! From one of your biggest fans, John in Maryland USA.
That place reminds me of Jackson's at Bawtry near Doncaster.Used to go in the 80s with my dad buying series 1 land-rover parts.They had acres of stuff,aircraft parts wings jet engines,tanks cranes just everything you could think of.We would spend the day there and I roamed free climbing on massive machines,sitting in cockpits.Happy times.My dad is still selling land-rover parts in his eightys.
Good man... My old man is still ticking as well... Real man, still independent.
I don't think much of our generation will see 80. It's been a heavy haul.
Always enjoy watching your videos Mr Hewes... many thanks as always
Who is Mr Hemes?
Spent some hours on the 432 on Sennelarger the kettle fixed to the back door was a life saver. Another great blog..
And the BVs were also a frickin death trap if they weren't secured!
@ I couldn’t remember the name of them, thanks
Superb talent!! Well done for your passion in restoring these vehicles 👏👏
We need more videos of this place!
@23:10 that was the Bug Cheese, is a modified aircraft tug used for towing dead tanks around, that particular one was used in BATUS Canada.
Perfect timing! Just sat down with a coffee!!
I would love to have a walk round that place, cheque book open... At least in my dreams anyway! Joe does it again, really ignites the interest and then walks away. who knows what he'll come home from that auction with. Thanks gang for the ride anyway.
Watching an enthusiast at play........
Outstanding! Thankyou.
You were like a kid in a sweet shop Joe !
Great stuff! Good to see all the Case track loaders are in England! Hurry back stateside! Westin needs yer personalities n you guys need his followers! Loved seeing yer trucker riding in nice US heavy hauls. Now come west n see how we do it!
That white Landy is just like my brother's. Ex electric board. Hydraulic driven front winch.
The roller shutters are very useful, although we do call it his burger van.
i drove 3 or 4 of those cranes 10 miles each to get them off of sierra army depot. took hours and hours to do each trip. biggest machine i have ever driven.
Big Lindy is a must!
I worked on the container lifters and recognised the head on the floor instantly. Kalmar/ Lindy and others. Wonderful pieces of kit.
You must have women chancing you
That Landy is probably ex. National Grid
It could well be. The timed cabin pre-heater makes sense then. Grid emergency crews would be on call at all hours for storms, heavy snow and ice.
ex western power - saw it on the front plate
Which means it will have a lot of hours on the motor. Standing there engine running with the headlights on all night is the usual thing.
Western power Distribution (WPD) be ame NG, Hinkley depot I believe
Thank you Joe and team, that crane is Teds dangly bits 🏴👍🏻
The place is like Vass' and Rush Green Motors were in the 80's, Idiot's Heaven. Thanks for the free tour, saved me a drive and ALL my money.
W Vass,theres a name from the past.Bedford area if I remember correctly
In 50'ish yrs time Jack is going to do some world class 'old man muttering' ..
Takes me back to the early 70s when me and my mate used to go to the ex milatery sales at Ruddington Notts , there would be landrovers in various state of repair some clearly victems of Ireland, Ford Zepher staff cars , trucks were every where Bedford RLs Albion workshop trucks complete with lathes pillar drills and tooling , (probaly fetched around £500 ) I rember looking in the back of Leyland Martin with a cargo body and it came complete with several large crates of god knows what and 3 BSA motorcycle and that lot was probaly again around the £500 mark , happy days long gone
A delightful sound.
Lads, ever heard of a head torch ? Another fascinating vid 👍🏻
The triangular shape weight is actually a compactor Wait for compacting runways . It weighs 5 1/2 tons was lifted by Priceman 350 wheeled crane . We have one and use it for squashing cars .
Those Snatch Landrovers we used in Ireland had V8 petrol engines in them. The sound of that V8 is forever engrained in my brain. PSNI may still hold some in their fleet but that was a long time ago I was there. Love your videos some of them bring back memories.
Amazing engines. One test we used to do was to get them up to speed, then let them down to idle in top. They would chuff along at idle, at walking speed, then floor it. Apart from a small hiccup, they would accel back up to speed, incredible.
So... "Run AWAY !" in a Monty Python style is ACTUALLY a REME command for "Let loose the CO2 !" = )
Joe , Jack & Seb in a candy shop 👍😂
Get ya some of that 50ton,been watching awhile, It would make a hellova video. Raising a Chieftain in the air,Glorious, a real show stopper, chuffed with just the thought of it, I'm sure Ted would approve!
Yet Again you and the lads have made another great video Thanks for making my weekend complete
I have a sneaking suspicion that white Landie is heading back to Hewes Towers .....
But nicely done with the 432. Must be worth 50% discount on the Landie.
That's an impressive moustache well done 👍🇬🇧
Brilliant video. It's shocking at the amount of equipment that gets disposed from the MOD
Back in the day we used an old Land Rover as a break down vehicle..
To fill with fuel you’d to removed the drivers seat cushion and the fuel tank filler was underneath 😳
Great video as usual, kids in a sweet shop🤔😉
Sound LEVELS !!!!😮
@Mr Hewes
Good spot on the weights
Those were used as drop weights on the end of a compactor 8 wheeled square crane with about a 60foot gib
They were used by airfield damage repair squadrons of The Royal Engineers ( nowRAF air base disbanded)
I. Was a royal engineer at RAF Marham in Norfolk 216FD Sqn RE.
They weigh roughly 5t. Lifted 30 feet then free fall drop on to bomb crater repairs after you put type 1 or type 6 chipping in the hole
Compact, then metal road over the top then taxiway/ runway repaired. From crater to active with a great team 45-60 minutes
12:34 You do need a bridge layer for the collection, Mr Hewes - will it complement the Chieftain bingo card?
Bob, rocks! What a great place to spend a day
Another great video lads....always entertaining.
A wintry Sunday and Mr Hewes treats us to 25 mins of brilliant content as usual!
My ideal day out
Thanks for posting 👍🏼
31C here today lads, I wish I could see the yard you went to, I went across one of those AVLB bridges with an M60A1 some 49 years ago, well done.
Battery heater was for cold climates as cold equals reduced voltage and difficult start.
To me draining the battery to heat it seams like a waste of time
@ I think you will find that it was a relay circuit the idea being that the battery was heated when the engine ran. Remember the box on the right hand side under the sloping plate it contains three buss bars and they feed the power socket outside the rear door if I remember. The heat would stay for a considerable while when stationary and these vehicles had several roles: they were battle taxis, used for med evac on swept ground, command posts as well as more active roles in other guises. In the earlier roles they could spend considerable time stationary with just the odd engine run to charge communications. The heater was supportive in this format. Remember, it is very cold with the winter wind blowing off the Baltic and armour soon chills. Tracks freeze in snow on a bad day. I don’t think the batteries warmed themselves when not being charged. Cold on the Continent is of a different calibre to here.
Wow!. Normally I'm a complete mechanical 'Noddy' watching these vids!. However I knew what you were doing and what was going on when you were testing from your previous vids. Nice one! 😊.
Love the big cheese name on the yellow tug!
I need a @MrHewes with me every time I buy a used van/truck 😆 I’d bloody love one of those landys but I can’t overload it with crap quite as much as I can my Transit! Excellent video, more of the same please Joe!
Those engines always sound sweet
get Jack some of those bridge sections then disappoint him by placing them over your cellar excavations
Battery heaters are very common in colder areas, been around for decades. Same as Pro-heaters on diesel pickups.
everyone else gets giddy at going to a Ferrari showroom
Mr Hewes and the Team, wait you have 40 year old landrovers, and cranes not sure the roads could take
I think what you guys need to do, is take one of everything you saw home with you, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les
😂😂😂😂 40 seconds to the first moan 😂😂😂😂 ffs give him a biscuit 😂
Yes! I need a Foden also.
That 50 ton crane, could never beat the mighty Foden!
Need to release a 'Do you know who i am?' shirt next 😂
My mate has been working there recently preparing the Army's new 15t hook-lift trucks. Has been doing 500 of them on one of the big sheds.
What's his Name??
@@reecewarren3091 Initials AK.
My favorite will always be the M113/FV432 APC on Fort Hood there's a M113 with a Vulcan rotary cannon 😊
The only problem with the forklift or the crane is having the ground to support them!
Look at the weight on the crane.........wouldn't want it on your foot would you, 🤣🤣 brilliant vid, that crane def deserves a place next to the Foden!!!!
Most things they sell are over the top price wise.
Fun fact the lads in the armoured divs in Germany used to call there 432.s panzers !
Great video take the crane home make a great addition to your collection
Wow it must have over 15 years ago doing the transmission on a Grove crane just like that one , me and my mate Robin at an American air base down south somewhere, could not get over the barbecues all over the place and when it time for a cup tea , Brack time was anounusted over the speaker system, so if its got a Clark 2800 remote mounted transmission with a remote valve it may be the one ?Happy days,
Hi there, on the Skoda the Skoda rapids the handbook originally said start your car in temperature is below -20 the first job turn your headlights on for 20 or 30 seconds 1st to actually help throw the battery out that was actually in the Skoda handbook crazy but true
The |Hewes gang at play! Good job on the 432
The last time I went there a Sankey Widetrack MKII followed my Landrover 101GS home.
Soon as I saw the Landy had the 2.4 Transit engine I thought, bet the crank seal is pissing out.
That silly large forklift reminds of the one we had at my old job at an industrial conveyor belt manufacturer. Everything was sized to transport up to 16 metric tons. Including a forklift that looked very similar. You won’t believe how often that thing damaged something in the factory. As with a 16 tons conveyor belt in the front, the driver did see nothing, and did feel nothing 🤣.
The white 110 Land Rover looks very much like an ex western power distribution (as they were at the time ) and could well have been built by my old dealership Roger Young who used to supply them hundreds of them all workshop body’s were built in house
Little Elsa's PTO driven winch is much like the factory installed Koenig PTO winch on my 1956 Willy's CJ-5. the thing will pull itself up a tree if you let it.
I've stopped watching Star Trek to make way for Mr Hewes Adventures! 😀😀
I knew Jack, his mum, Adam, Seb, Ted and Chisel. I have seen you (not doing much work) but never knew you were Joe.
Man that first tank was creating its own smoke screen 😂
Freed up loads them old inline pumps in boats not being used and the damp fords seamd to be the worst for so reason 🛠️great stuff 👍🤠JB
Does that Crane Identify as a Foden?.
All those Land Rovers you were looking at were in fact Defenders which RAF TCW started to use about 1983 but i was stuck with the old Longbase soft top Land Rover which were rubbish.
The first minute looked like Jack wiggling a spanner and mumbling to himself
Love watching your videos from Canada, do you boys have company shares in WD40 lol.. keep up the bloody great videos, look forward to your new ones, tell Jack and Adam to get stuck in.
Great vid m8s!!
That K60 engine sounded good when you ran it up. I noticed that 432 had what looked like a secondary door catch fitted. I wonder if that was to stop the problem of the main door catch releasing while driving ?
I quite fancy that 432.
Keep an eye out on the website for the auction!
I do like the utility defenders but with a TD5 in. Was never convinced by the pto witches, you can’t drive and winch🤷♂. 50t crane would be handy! Think of all the diesel you’d save from not running tanks round 🤔😆
“Someone’s been smacking it with a screwdriver”…. Proceeds to smack it with a screwdriver 😂
That Land Rover you liked was an ex Electricity Board.
Thanks :)
What a Shop! A Big Toys R Us.
What color green is on the newly painted foden? Looks great.
Think it was green
@MrHewes lol. Olive, Forrest green. British military shade, paint code? Great shade whatever it is.
Couple of Good old boys stateside were in the market for a couple of British Tanks state side on UA-cam
Rather nice to here your name dropped after they sort advice on how to start the tanks
Of course they could of got advice from any number of subscribers as we have all been schooled in the art of starting a Chieftain Tank
Super , very interesting, quite a few bits you could of brought home , 50ton crane umm ,
Jack is your brother, so Joe is older Jack younger, that explains why they get along, snooping around the yard, yep Joe likes his lifting machines !
During the test drive on the way back to park the tank you passed by a green building with great garage doors on the other side of the tank looks like a folded wrecker . Is it time to add a new Folded wrecker to your Collection Of recovery vehicles? Have an excellent Sunday
Get the bridgelayer! If you don't snap it up Aaron will probably get it 😀
The landrover is a 3.5t full spec utility vehicle built for one of the power company's i have one myself the list of extras and upgrades made to them is extensive and quite a lot of the parts used are not genuine landrover parts if you want more info let me know i have had mine for over 10 years and done nearly 500k miles