Thank you for every thing you do to keep us entertained Joe , We feel your pain , well not really im sat in the warm drinking tea and eating bacon . but its the thought that counts
Yes, dreadful, definitely feeling his pain as I sip my coffee and program this uncomfortable website while sat inside, in a nice chair and the heat on. We're all pulling for you Joe.
Great watching you guys work. Comedy and real life comments and honesty aside, I really respect how much knowledge and skill you all have. Another brilliant video. Thank you for sharing
You guys are like watching the classic British comedies like The Goodies and The Young Ones that we used to get here in Australia when I was a teenager in the 80,s. Absolutely hilarious with everything you do. I love it. Educational and entertaining!👍🇦🇺🤣
“Nobody likes being a mechanic”… Truest words ever spoken..😂 19 years as a mechanic, now I work in a lovely warm factory repairing big spinny things that fly.. Bliss.
@@babalonkie at home, at my own pace, as a hobby yes. Plenty of satisfaction working on the machines in the conditions I do now though, genuinely the best move I ever made. 👍🏻
@@ninjabob8170 Mabey if you are retired. But casually fixing up some old civilian car or lawnmower is not my idea of good work or even a hobby... to me that's just called essential common everyday life.
This video brings back memories of some 60 years ago of me lying on my back in below zero temps in Korea cleaning the bottom of a duce and a half with solvent because water was useless and we needed to get ready for an inspection. I can still feel the solvent running down my arm. I love your show you guys are totally hard core. Keep it up.
The only thing stronger than the sum of this channels entire awesome vehicles collection, is your self control and ability to stay positive throughout all of it. Brilliant.
You're suffering for our entertainment is beyond Nobel. Bloody good video as always, hope the wood burner was kicking out lots of heat and the wine went down well afterwards! 💪💪
Quote of the day " Your boiler suit is like a wetsuit. Yes, but mine's wet inside." They are all wet inside, Joe. Hence the name 'wetsuit'. Great video again. 🙂
The mr Hewes channel.......tonka toys for real.......brilliant each and every video. Its no wonder you get a million views within three minutes of releasing a video.
You are right being a mechanic of 40 years I can conclude you would have to be bonkers to want to be a mechanic lying on the hard shoulder of the M6 motorway in pouring rain with trucks flying water at you every second even being blown out by a torrent of water hitting you sliding you out from underneath the vehicle you were working on with slush half-melted snow yes it's not fun soaked to your underwear and you still have 6 hours to go before you can go home yes it's NOT FUN.all the best from John from Rugby UK.
I am addicted to this channel. The varied content, the humour, mechanical knowledge, and no nonsense approach is fantastic. Thanks for brightening our day.
Whats good about this channel is it shows just how much hard work goes into doing these vehicles and how dirty you get not like some where they work in nice clean cloths and in a warm building. Hats off to you guys 👍👍👍
Mr Hewes. That bit when you were underneath undoing bolts, wearing your less than waterproof ovies and getting wet and cold? That reminded me of the time I never did that and was warm and dry; what an amazing coincidence.
Top tip removing a bucket from a excavator. Lift the bucket just free off the ground. Move your dipstick til the bucket wobbles ( now your center off gravity is above the hinge pin. With some luck you will puch it out by hand. And for the second , get a small bar or crowbar and shuff it in the missing pin and find the center off gravity for your second removal. Seen,it have been there, done to much times,
I remember watching a video called "Shaking hands with danger" and it was all about heavy machine and worksite safety. You guys should check it out lol.
This took me back to a perfectly miserable memory, working forty feet up a CCTV mast on a sea wall on a January day with a freezing gale blowing, unchecked, straight in off the sea, I couldn’t wear gloves because I had fiddly little electrical terminals to work with….. and I still wouldn’t trade places with you because even though I was frozen to the bones and couldn’t feel my hands, I was at least (mostly) dry!
Great video as usual, watching these takes me back to when I left school & went into Forestry work, working on tractors, swing shovels dumpers & landrovers, I had no mechanical knowledge but Boss tell you how to do it then leave you to get on with it. We’re great time’s & always better when surrounded by mates enjoying the banter & pranks… keep the vids going 👍👍
The way I'd look at things is that you have Saturday morning to struggle on. Then the weather turns crap. At which point spend the time with the girlfriend, warm and cosy. It's 10.36 am and the wind is already starting to howl in Yorkshire. have fun. 😊❤❤❤😊
Hell, everything you guys touch needs help to start, and heavy as F K. Keep warm and be safe handling the heavy stuff. Looking forward to the next on. Love it when these old war machines crank up.
I've seen dog owners out walking their dogs, bending down and then letting it lick their faces and I'm thinking "Yeah I've just seen your dog eating shit...🤮"
I can remember doing that on Lunaberg Heath in Germany in 1978 in the snow. Now I'm sitting watching you whilst living in Kenya drinking a nice cold Tuska Malt beer. The sun is just setting on a nice 35 deg day. Please keep up the great banter and videos. It just brings back somany memories.
Was anyone else holding their breath from the smoke when they were cranking the cat over ? Please remind Seb to keep both fingers upright when he's showing his displeasure , it's the British way old chap . Another excellent episode .
Personally think you should mount the top half of that janky cat 360 onto an old tank body and make a 360 excavator tank thing. Speed+Mobility of a tank plus excavator arm, it would be an asset to your fleet.
Don't laugh , but in WW1 the RE's in France did that with a hull from a Vickers Gun carrier a steam powered railway crane.Running the tracks off crane drive .Tippy as all heck and dog slow. But what a concept
yep. Used to be an M2 Bradley turret mech. Which means I was also assisted hull mechs and had my own M113A2 to wrench on. I watch videos of tank restoration and wistfully think it could be good fun to get back into it... Then I see you getting pissed on in freezing temps yanking the pack and remember why I left... 🤣
I’m glad you added the throwing the sledge at the end. Wouldn’t believe you were actually mechanic-ing without smashing something in anger. Glad your impact survived the scuba work.
Joe if you ever get flush enough you could build yourself a pit. Push you broken down kit over before pack lifts and you can stand up and undo your bottom pack bolts
As a 72year old mechanic with mechanics back. I warn you it’s no fun. Oh I wish I had listened to my dad and became a coal miner I would be happily retired in perfect health🤪
12:36 = Where would you be if you do any sort of mechanics, and you haven't got a Leatherman, what are you doing!?!? At this point i would like to point out the complete irrelevant use of the following tools (Seb) and other items: 1) Foden Truck 2) Forklift 3) Crowbar 4) Dead blow mallet 5) Sledge Hammer 6) Pry bar 7) Impact Gun 8) Wrenches & 9) adjustable spanners P.s. Great work, Mr Hewes, really love your videos!
I'm sure it's not just me but I find you it's not gone quite right videos just as good as a quick tap of the hammer, bucket of WD it's mint videos. It's been proper brass monkeys this week, I know I've been working in it so hats off to guys for even going out side.....let alone having a shower.
Start the thing to start the thing to start the thing, all the while moving heavy bits in sub-zero. What a life. When I joined the service, I had already been a mechanic for a few years. When they asked if I would mind switching from Jet engine school to radar, I was terrified to have my math skills exposed. Then I thought of all those weekends trying to get my hands and hair clean by Monday. Where do I sign?
Well brilliant top entertainment !! The experience you chaps have like gold , thanks for the hard work ain't easy in that weather , and thanks for sharing of course !!
What a lovely job working on these armored vehicles, must be like living the dream every day , such lovely spannering must take you to complete tranquillity..😁.....👍💨💨
Again, it would be lovely if British engineers designed a pack with side slides so it self centres, going in and out onto pins and bolt holes line up without snagging anything.... signed ... a British Engineer.
At least when I used to have to undo stuff from big heavy locomotives I tried to arrange to have them sitting over a pit so that I could stand up and have oily water poured over me. 🙂
Can we appreciate the lengths this man will go through to make a video for us.
My hats off to you Sir. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
The fourteen minute mark is some NASTY SHIT.
@@danielmarshall4587 That’s an understatement.
@@danielmarshall4587 dedication!
Thank you for every thing you do to keep us entertained Joe , We feel your pain , well not really im sat in the warm drinking tea and eating bacon . but its the thought that counts
gay
@@joshrides3676 Thank you for spending all that time on a detailed in depth reply about my sexual orientation.
Lol
True that, me too
Yes, dreadful, definitely feeling his pain as I sip my coffee and program this uncomfortable website while sat inside, in a nice chair and the heat on. We're all pulling for you Joe.
"Anyone who is a mechanic would not recommend it." Never a more true sentence.
Thanks for sticking it out Joe.
was told that 50yr ago..............was right
Great watching you guys work. Comedy and real life comments and honesty aside, I really respect how much knowledge and skill you all have. Another brilliant video. Thank you for sharing
snap on should sponsor you guys, that impact gun is a champ
...a battery powered sub-aqua impact gun...who'd have thought...
Vice Grip Garage meets BAOR!!! Brilliant!!! "Every good restoration starts with a dead battery!!!"🤣 Bringing back many happy memories guys.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that would like to see that collaboration. 👍
Yeah, but they're only 'happy memories' because you know that you will, never, ever be in that situation again!
You guys are like watching the classic British comedies like The Goodies and The Young Ones that we used to get here in Australia when I was a teenager in the 80,s. Absolutely hilarious with everything you do. I love it. Educational and entertaining!👍🇦🇺🤣
The Young Ones?
@@rachelcarre9468 I had a brain fade while writing that and made a mistake.
@@Spartan902 😀
@@rachelcarre9468
I don’t get why you question marked that ?…..please enlighten me
@@FloatingCroc Suspect a bit of editing may have taken place ...
And I thought the word ' fousty' was dead and gone - thanks for keeping rural language alive!
We use that word in Northern Ireland fairly often
My ex wife's beaver was rather fousty 😂
“Nobody likes being a mechanic”… Truest words ever spoken..😂 19 years as a mechanic, now I work in a lovely warm factory repairing big spinny things that fly.. Bliss.
But don't you get a warm feeling inside making a machine come back to life?
@@babalonkie at home, at my own pace, as a hobby yes. Plenty of satisfaction working on the machines in the conditions I do now though, genuinely the best move I ever made. 👍🏻
@@ninjabob8170 Mabey if you are retired.
But casually fixing up some old civilian car or lawnmower is not my idea of good work or even a hobby... to me that's just called essential common everyday life.
@@babalonkie did I mention I literally doubled my salary?.. pays for a lot of nice things to work on at home..😂👍🏻
@@ninjabob8170 i bet it does... but either are no tank lol
Adam loosing his compassion again gives me the strength to make it through another day. You boys are the best
This video brings back memories of some 60 years ago of me lying on my back in below zero temps in Korea cleaning the bottom of a duce and a half with solvent because water was useless and we needed to get ready for an inspection. I can still feel the solvent running down my arm. I love your show you guys are totally hard core. Keep it up.
I'm glad someone does this stuff. Also glad it's not me. You need a coffee, lol :)
Legend
Love watching pack lifts, never liked doing them but love watching them.😁
It's my favourite spectator sport 😆
The only thing stronger than the sum of this channels entire awesome vehicles collection, is your self control and ability to stay positive throughout all of it.
Brilliant.
You're suffering for our entertainment is beyond Nobel. Bloody good video as always, hope the wood burner was kicking out lots of heat and the wine went down well afterwards! 💪💪
Quote of the day " Your boiler suit is like a wetsuit. Yes, but mine's wet inside." They are all wet inside, Joe. Hence the name 'wetsuit'. Great video again. 🙂
i'll go with calling anyone "naughty poo nack"
now added to my list of insults.
BONKERS, a word invented just for you guys!!!!! Great work!
Loving your classic British sense of humour!! Always cheerful in the face of adversity!! Keep it up🤣🤣
The mr Hewes channel.......tonka toys for real.......brilliant each and every video. Its no wonder you get a million views within three minutes of releasing a video.
I wish I did get 3 million views 🤣 that would up then anti on the stupid situations we get ourselves into 🤣
You are right being a mechanic of 40 years I can conclude you would have to be bonkers to want to be a mechanic lying on the hard shoulder of the M6 motorway in pouring rain with trucks flying water at you every second even being blown out by a torrent of water hitting you sliding you out from underneath the vehicle you were working on with slush half-melted snow yes it's not fun soaked to your underwear and you still have 6 hours to go before you can go home yes it's NOT FUN.all the best from John from Rugby UK.
I am addicted to this channel. The varied content, the humour, mechanical knowledge, and no nonsense approach is fantastic. Thanks for brightening our day.
_Show_ the Foden the easystart can. And it starts. I'm impressed.
Always brilliant, putting a smile in to thousands of people’s weekends - thank you for sharing, be well and stay safe.
Whats good about this channel is it shows just how much hard work goes into doing these vehicles and how dirty you get not like some where they work in nice clean cloths and in a warm building. Hats off to you guys 👍👍👍
Everything you up load I will allways thumps up..... mick Australia 🇦🇺.
Although I never have and will never work on a tank, you never cease to amaze me with your knowledge of the machine!
this channel is the opposite of whistlin diesel, which is why I like it.
two completely different channels lol
Mr Hewes. That bit when you were underneath undoing bolts, wearing your less than waterproof ovies and getting wet and cold? That reminded me of the time I never did that and was warm and dry; what an amazing coincidence.
6:55 "watch the paint"...........OH yes I like the cut of your jib. Another smashing vid cheers.
Just luv the way you take old iron , get it running and put it back to work. That foden has turned out to be brilliant
i think we should crowdfund a sump collector with a drain on it and a dry suit with eye protection.
Once again thank you for an excellent video Mr Hewes.
Top tip removing a bucket from a excavator.
Lift the bucket just free off the ground.
Move your dipstick til the bucket wobbles ( now your center off gravity is above the hinge pin.
With some luck you will puch it out by hand.
And for the second , get a small bar or crowbar and shuff it in the missing pin and find the center off gravity for your second removal.
Seen,it have been there, done to much times,
Thanks
This episode was a great laugh. Thank you for brightening an otherwise dark day for me.
I remember watching a video called "Shaking hands with danger" and it was all about heavy machine and worksite safety. You guys should check it out lol.
agreed, it's only a matter of time. It won't take much to be a little less gash but it'll be far safer and less work in the long run.
"I used to laugh at safety... but now they call me, three finger Joe"
This took me back to a perfectly miserable memory, working forty feet up a CCTV mast on a sea wall on a January day with a freezing gale blowing, unchecked, straight in off the sea, I couldn’t wear gloves because I had fiddly little electrical terminals to work with….. and I still wouldn’t trade places with you because even though I was frozen to the bones and couldn’t feel my hands, I was at least (mostly) dry!
Love you guys not shy to get stuck in. Rare breed now.
Love this channel and the lads. The flashbacks for the BAOR lads must be epic.
Great video as usual, watching these takes me back to when I left school & went into Forestry work, working on tractors, swing shovels dumpers & landrovers, I had no mechanical knowledge but Boss tell you how to do it then leave you to get on with it. We’re great time’s & always better when surrounded by mates enjoying the banter & pranks… keep the vids going 👍👍
Entertaining, informative and amusing. My advice for anyone wanting to be a mechanic. specialise in clocks and watches. You're welcome.
Oh, you are soo lucky to work on tanks! I wish I had your job, it looks so easy. Thank you (all of you) for so very many hours of fun watching YT :)
The way I'd look at things is that you have Saturday morning to struggle on. Then the weather turns crap. At which point spend the time with the girlfriend, warm and cosy. It's 10.36 am and the wind is already starting to howl in Yorkshire. have fun. 😊❤❤❤😊
Hell, everything you guys touch needs help to start, and heavy as
F K. Keep warm and be safe handling the heavy stuff. Looking forward to the next on. Love it when these old war machines crank up.
Ted doing the "walk of poo-eating shame"... Don't let him lick your face for a bit. 😂
I've seen dog owners out walking their dogs, bending down and then letting it lick their faces and I'm thinking "Yeah I've just seen your dog eating shit...🤮"
Mr Hewes "We're not experts" result fixes everything.
I watch you crawling around the chieftains and APC's etc and it brings back so many memories. I feel sorry for your knees later in life.
I can remember doing that on Lunaberg Heath in Germany in 1978 in the snow. Now I'm sitting watching you whilst living in Kenya drinking a nice cold Tuska Malt beer. The sun is just setting on a nice 35 deg day.
Please keep up the great banter and videos. It just brings back somany memories.
Was anyone else holding their breath from the smoke when they were cranking the cat over ? Please remind Seb to keep both fingers upright when he's showing his displeasure , it's the British way old chap . Another excellent episode .
You know its a good day when you have just sat at the 'puter, with a brew, and there is a Mr Hewes vid in the feed!
My husband worked in mechanics his father and family and now my son works on big machinery and he loves it ❤
Ted and a Foden, great video.
Personally think you should mount the top half of that janky cat 360 onto an old tank body and make a 360 excavator tank thing. Speed+Mobility of a tank plus excavator arm, it would be an asset to your fleet.
Don't laugh , but in WW1 the RE's in France did that with a hull from a Vickers Gun carrier a steam powered railway crane.Running the tracks off crane drive .Tippy as all heck and dog slow. But what a concept
Doing that on a frigging freezing cold January day takes some beating, You deserve new overalls.
Made my day....seeing Ted just sitting in the cab ...living the dream ....."Topdog".....
Watching your pack out vids makes me appreciate the fact I was a REME B Mech and not an A Mech.
yep. Used to be an M2 Bradley turret mech. Which means I was also assisted hull mechs and had my own M113A2 to wrench on. I watch videos of tank restoration and wistfully think it could be good fun to get back into it...
Then I see you getting pissed on in freezing temps yanking the pack and remember why I left... 🤣
You guys are the best show in town, hands down. All i ask can we have a list of people who help out, Other than that keep it coming.
That Foden is awesome, love that truck.
I’m glad you added the throwing the sledge at the end. Wouldn’t believe you were actually mechanic-ing without smashing something in anger. Glad your impact survived the scuba work.
Your doing a great job Joe! I love watching people getting wet under tanks !
Is it cold?? Is it Fucked?? is it Heavy?? is it shite?? Is Ted a Boss?? is it a brilliant channel??? YES ...
Is it running (when it ain’t) is the one that cracks me up every time 🤣❤️🇷🇴
Great stuff.
Add an inspection pit to your list!
yep, or one of those ramps you see on Salisbury Plain
Could of picked the front end up!
Excellent video, always great, can't wait to see if you get engine pack working, keep it up guys.
Now I see where I’ve been going wrong for years. Everyone should have a spare CAT330 for jump starting your car etc.
Project suggestion: digging an inspection pit.
Hi folks cracking video no messing about great fun and we don't have to get mucky well done
Good on ya boys, love ur work. Bundaberg, Queensland.
Joe if you ever get flush enough you could build yourself a pit. Push you broken down kit over before pack lifts and you can stand up and undo your bottom pack bolts
As a 72year old mechanic with mechanics back. I warn you it’s no fun. Oh I wish I had listened to my dad and became a coal miner I would be happily retired in perfect health🤪
Thanks lads appreciate your work and dark humor. Certainly some heavy mechanics.
As always, effin entertaining! Keep it up boys!
12:36 = Where would you be if you do any sort of mechanics, and you haven't got a Leatherman, what are you doing!?!?
At this point i would like to point out the complete irrelevant use of the following tools (Seb) and other items:
1) Foden Truck
2) Forklift
3) Crowbar
4) Dead blow mallet
5) Sledge Hammer
6) Pry bar
7) Impact Gun
8) Wrenches &
9) adjustable spanners
P.s. Great work, Mr Hewes, really love your videos!
Another great weekly video and fabulous array of humour mechanics & banter
Climbed in Diane Abbott’s back door?
Love your video's Joe always look forward to watching them ❤
This takes me back to the 70s & 80s when this was exciting & I was keen
I'm sure it's not just me but I find you it's not gone quite right videos just as good as a quick tap of the hammer, bucket of WD it's mint videos. It's been proper brass monkeys this week, I know I've been working in it so hats off to guys for even going out side.....let alone having a shower.
Great job! Cold work! Can relate to cold Diesels!
Great shout for bonding and reline..they helped me out years ago. Great to know they are still going
Start the thing to start the thing to start the thing, all the while moving heavy bits in sub-zero. What a life. When I joined the service, I had already been a mechanic for a few years. When they asked if I would mind switching from Jet engine school to radar, I was terrified to have my math skills exposed. Then I thought of all those weekends trying to get my hands and hair clean by Monday. Where do I sign?
Best channel on youtube by far
Well brilliant top entertainment !! The experience you chaps have like gold , thanks for the hard work ain't easy in that weather , and thanks for sharing of course !!
Looks mildly more enjoyable than removing the IRS from my XJS in the rain.
Another Oscar winning performance from the superstar that is Ted
What a lovely job working on these armored vehicles, must be like living the dream every day , such lovely spannering must take you to complete tranquillity..😁.....👍💨💨
A Foden day is a good day. I hope there is a Foden to play with when I get to Valhalla.
Get in! Got my Foden fix for the week!!!
Again, it would be lovely if British engineers designed a pack with side slides so it self centres, going in and out onto pins and bolt holes line up without snagging anything.... signed ... a British Engineer.
That doesn’t sound very British, have a cup of tea and sort your thinking out
Good effort Lads, its nice to see someone else just getting on with it..
As you were lying under the tank trying to take out the plugs I could nearly feel the cold of the 💦 water travelling my arm
Amazing to watch, when ever I touch a tool for any mechanical job i get an instant cut ... a real gusher! great video
Liking and subscribing, just because you went out of your way to not say “like and subscribe”. You guys are the best.
That turretless abbot looks like a modern Universal carrier, make a grand race vehicle to replace F1 !!
You cant beat a bit of Ted with Mr Hewes👍
Foden , Ted,Seb , banter awesome but more Jack 😅😅😅
Jack is on holiday in the Bentley currently
Employee of the month award 😅😅
At least when I used to have to undo stuff from big heavy locomotives I tried to arrange to have them sitting over a pit so that I could stand up and have oily water poured over me. 🙂
Most enjoyable, Thanks. Looks like a mortar vehicle...
Well done chaps,sterling effort🤓
That caterpillar needs some love. Good luck with the defrocked Abbot!
Doggy!
Great work lads, cheers for braving the cold 👏