That looked really hard because it was virtually a dead-weight pull due to the the dozers frozen tracks. The line pull looked higher than the weight of the dozer, or, to flip the math, it would have taken less force to lift the dozer vertically :o)
@@shandfan The multi-fuel Hercules,which was also built by Continental and White,that you're referring to didn't exist during World War ll and wasn't used in the 969-981 trucks. The American 969-981 had RXC I6's from Hercules before getting the small cam Cummins later during the war. The British 969-981 was most commonly powered by Rolls Royce engines. The Italian 969-981 mostly had two stroke Detroits used in them. Only the M35A2-M756A2 & M51A2-M543A2 trucks had the multi-fuel hyper cycle engines such as the LDT-465's & LDS-465's.
@@Slim_Slid Thanks so much for all the valuable doc/data stuff!!!! Hugely interesting!! I can add another truck- and engine manufacturer.It's the Canadian Waukesha.(vehicles and engines,gasoline & diesel)👆👆🖐🖐💗💗💗
Wanted to paint my old 1954 explorer that desert sand but had to sell her 😕 I had a Gardner 6LXB in mine. Youre near the Bluebell line! Beautifully turned out!
wow when I used to have my old 1954 Explorer if I had down this, I would have used probably three snatch blocks, thats probably taken a few thousand miles off your clutch :((( She did good though.
Scammells have cable hooked front wheel chocks that are intended for just those circumstances. The cable back and up to underside frame hooks and you back onto them driving them into the ground while tightening those cables so the Scammell cannot run back over the chocks but must drag the chocks and their baldes through the dirt with a few tons of Scammell sitting on them. They also have manual setting rear wheel clamp brakes you reach in between all the rear duallies to tighten That would have enabled the Scammell to sit there in neutral and simply winch that little booger of a dozer out of there like popping the cork, Those trucks can recover 30 ton tanks out of a bog using the equipment that comes with them. No need to fry the clutch like that doofus was doing trying to wheel the thing out. Even today's heavy recovery trucks don't do that silly stuff. Sorry but using the tools you have as they were designed to be used will give better results with less damage to the tool.
A handsome truck and lovely sound. That brought back memories. Also, I spent most of my life in Haywards Heath and Sharpthorne. I recognised Ardingly showground too - used to run a stand there for HHDAS at the Smallholder's Show, back in the day...
Love your Explorer, I was wondering if you could help? A friend and I are looking to restore an early Scammell explorer which was purchased from a farmer that lay in a ditch on his farm, we have now stored it in a large shed. We are looking for manuals on the Scammell especially anything that would helps us with replacing the old rotten wood panels, flooring and storage boxes as most have fallen to pieces.
