Finding abandoned vehicles in this Scrapyard! 

Can we start another fundraiser for lawrie to have a scrapyard shopping spree?

Those road rollers are exceptionally rare, even in that condition. If there's an industrial or heavy equipment museum or society around, you ought to alert them.

The rollers are 1920s Pioneer SD12's. They are pretty hard to find at all, let alone in partially complete condition. With two you might be able to piece one together, plus a lot of rust removal!

Great video, fascinating yard. The lorry is an ERF, either an 'LV' or an 'A' series. My dad used to drive them and I remember him taking me along with him, great memories, thanks.

28:30 - that old Comer Knocker is an interesting find - those engines are getting to be very rare, even in the "spares & repairs" category.

Save the rollers! 😁 Should be just about able to save one from 2!

There's a wolseley WD laying next to those railway wheels too

I absolutely wish there was a scrapyard near me like this

Thank god I don't live anywhere near that place. The Wolsey, Villiers and auto truck would no doubt have found a new home! Cheers for the walk around.

That rail trolley axle is interesting. I have one set at County School station that would match it. Those road rollers are things of beauty!

Finding abandoned vehicles in this Scrapyard! Lawrie's Mechanic LOVE LOUIS SHIRLEY

The inaccessible truck in the brambles could be an old ERF looking at the shape of the cab.

15.34 fordson model N chaseside over loader

I'm guessing you could start another fundraiser and get the rollers out :)

Lawrie did you end up buying the 2 foot gauge wagon or not?

Dude those road rollers would be an awesome little restoration project. Maybe find a restoration group that be able to save and restore them? Maybe

The blue tractors are Fordson Majors; the brakes are drum brakes - production was from circa 1953 until the 1960s. I have a 1955 model - they were mostly diesels. The machine that had a winch on the back of it with a sort of girder super structure was a Fordson 'high Major' that had a loader shovel on the front - the winch lited and lowered it - this was pre-hydraulics!

Yep, time for a new collecting round! I strongly believe a lot of those oddballs can be saved, including the old bandtractor with a bit of willpower... The old rollers are kind of obvious, i had taken them if i lived on the Islands and You hadn't... ha ha

Those old British Leyland tractors were real workhorses. BL is kind of a joke in automotive circles, and for good reason, but their farm tractors were very popular in the late '70s and early '80s. The reason for this, I think, is because they were basically built by Nuffield, a well-respected tractor manufacturer that was a part of Morris Motors Ltd., and got folded into BMC, and retained during the Leyland merger. BTW at 24:37, that's a "dump rake", which was a very primitive type of hay rake that was usually horse-drawn (although they were often converted to tractor-drawn implements later on), and basically just gathered up the hay or straw in a huge pile in the tines, and when you were done you "dumped" the hay or straw to pile into a hay stack by lifting the tines, hence the name. Most farmers don't use these anymore; you usually see wheel rakes (which just have big toothed wheels that go around and pile the hay into windrows for picking up with a baler) or side-delivery rakes (which have bars with tines that spin sideways and push the hay over to the side). A lot of people in rural areas of the USA have the "dump rakes" as yard art.

A series where Lawrie goes across the country visiting scrapyards to point out interesting stuff would be fun, although there is still the risk to his wallet with the temptation to buy more projects!

in future if you want to navigate the brambles with less difficulty, use something like a board or scrap metal to flatten a path. Can just throw it down and walk on it. Very interesting video!

Those medium-sized and smaller iron wagon wheels could have been from one of the Ironstone wagons that frequented the area feeding the furnaces. Standard became Triumph motor cars hence Stanpart labels on their car parts. Nuffields are fast and powerful tractors you can shear the rear studs on tarmac. Blue tractors with Orange wheels are 1950s, Fordson Majors.

Those last two cranes; one might be a Jones, the other, with the A frame, was of a type used by B.Rlys to lift small containers from single flat railway wagons to Scammell Scarabs.

Interesting scrap yard 😊 thanks Lawrie for sharing! Fun and educational!

Good place to not take your wallet. The tractors around 9:30 with the free standing “disk” brakes could be John Deere. Deere used that style brake drum for years. The scarifier at 24:40 is more likely a hay rake.

First tractor I drove was a Little Grey Fergie diesel in the early 60’s. I was in 5th class and was paid 10 shillings for two days out in the paddock. Been in love with them ever since. If ever you are in Wentworth (New South Wales, Australia) on the junction of the Murray/Darling Rivers you need to visit the Grey Fergie commemorative park. A major flood was imminent and Wentworth was likely to go under (Murray river has some serious water in it) and hundreds of Grey Fergies were brought in to save the day by building up the levee. They won.

Wow that place is a real time capsule, an engineers paradise. Thanks for sharing.

I believe it's cletrac crawler Hg model

Thanks Lawrie, sure you'll be back there to buy something! 🙏🙏

The horse-drawn wagon bits should be gathered. That's history - and a fairly easy rebuild.

33:46 it appears to be a ransomes rapier crane, I've heard they were used on railway and easily tip over with heavy loads.

Crawler @ 32:37 ish looks like an IH TD-24 from the fuel tank etc. layout. But difficult to confirm unless you remove the brambles!

The road roller's steering was a worm gear meshing with a quadrant over the front roller. This is much sturdier and more positive than the usual chains to the front axle like most traction engines and early tractors. I hope you got the flanged wheelsets as they appeared to be 24-inch gauge.

Well a kid in a sweet shop "NUFF SAID" love it 😄

At 31:30 I think that was a Humber 1 ton army truck. Cheers.

15:40 Reminds me of part of a winch from an artesian well boring machine but that was fifty years ago . . .

I think I know exactly where this location is, but I shall remain shush as you and the owner of said scrap yard wish to keep it a secret 👌

14:10 looks like a compressor, the sort they used on roadworks and construction sites. Can't remember the make though!

The crawler at 31:58 looks like an international harvester TD-6 or TD-9 going by the fuel tank size/shape and the look of the back end especially the drawbar.

The Priestman 'thingie. Made in my home City: Kingston-Upon-Hull. Nuffields and post-war Fordson Majors used to be the stars of boat clubs as beach tractors. Nowadays they are going for grungy 4x4 stuff like Zetor's. Whatever's cheap and still runs. This video was a total Gubbins-gasm for Lawrie.

Did anyone else notice It's " a Harrow " an "old school" one , this just gets better Lawrie 😅😅😅😅

Schön das ich nicht der einzige bin, der am liebsten alles Historische vom Schrottplatz retten will. Bloß gut das ich nicht so oft da hin fahre, sonst hätte ich Zuhause einen riesen Haufen Arbeit.

Cor Blimey rusty tractor & machinery heaven. I think that Lawrie should do a series of scrapyard walkabout videos as he has so much fun exploring these places 😂😂😊😊

@ 12.45 ish, Yep deffo Nuffields, those offset steering wheels.

The lorry in the bush looks like an ERF LV looking at the rear corner windows

I started building my first car out of a junk yard when I was 13. I bought a 1963 Buick special 2 door for $100 and it was in pristine condition, not a scratch and the interior was perfect. As I earned money I bought an engine , suspension, transmission and rear end. That was over 50 years ago now.

SO MANY ENGINES AND GEARBOXES, I'VE ME ALL OF THEM!!!!

That big cranework machine looks alot like some sort of SideBoom Crane usually used for things like pipeline laying

I like the little crawler!!

I close my eyes when i go to the scrappy to weigh stuff in, if i didnt i would come back with 7 tons of " projects".

In the early 60's my mates and me used to take some spanners and a puncture outfit to the local council scrap yard where we were allowed to rummage around. It was quite common for us to fix up a bike or two building one from bits and then riding it home. Happy days. I still cannot pass a skip without peering inside, multi tool at the ready.

15:35 I don't know exactly what it is, but I think it could be a Ransoms 6 ton crane, but it's a bit short. It could be but it could be something completely different.

These places are like the old Xmas displays in stores except in reverse. All the good stuff is rusty. We had two of these in Milwaukee WI USA Both have since been " cleansed" from the earth 1 to become part of an industrial park and the other to become a casino. Both were heavy on construction equipment as well as production lines along with pipes and beams. Sometimes it's the owner's can't bear to part with it some think it's worth a fortune and others must just be so laid-back there's no rush to send it off to the Mills. My interest in smaller industrial locomotives started back in 1973 in Beloit WI where the scrap yard had a small 8 ton Brookville. Loco gas powered but alas was gone by 1980. There still is some stuff on this property but it looks like nothing is moved for over a decade now. A great adventure thanks for sharing

Couldn’t stand to walk round a place like that, it would have me in tears! Nice one! Les

18:17 That could be a steam roller. Like the one they used for the character George in Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends.

Great video so sad to see all the lovely trackers just going to waste.

Just a guess as it's a long time since I was near one, but the tractor with a winch on the back at around 16 minutes looks like it might have been used to launch gliders.

As a nipper in the late 60's and the 70's I remember playing in my local scrap yard and years later I'm watching films pointing out the vehicles I played on in the scrapyard

There was a great automotive scrap yard a few miles from my house. Nothing really collectable, but a great place to find cheap parts for anything back to the 70s/80s. I went to get a part one day and the whole thing was gone. Just a grassy field. The owner retired and sold off EVERYTHING for scrap. ☹️

Lawrie have you seen the scrap yard up in Scotland in Kirkcaldy loads of nice old stuff in there including some saddle tank locos although the guy is asking for way too much for them.

Ya missed the Wolsey stationary engine ,the little piston was a compressor.Great look round man , I love these places.All getting rare now.

31:30 is a Humber 1 ton lorry, Dinky toys also made one lol! 32:42, my best guess would be Bedford o series, looks similar to my Bedford OY.

Much of my early engineering knowledge came from hiking round scrapyards like that, some for cars, some for buses and even a few railway ones. The semi-mobile Covventry Climax fire pump is worth saving, many of them date from WW2.

ERF LV, the corner windows appear to be perspex as well indicating it would have done hazardous work, fuel tankers maybe, the windows being designed to be able to be kicked out from the inside

I think the car in the under growth is a Triumph Mayflower..

'Oh, hello. Oh, you're coming home.' 10:23 Nice find. The only bad point would be if one of the wheels was toast and can't see it yet. Good luck!

The item at 1:24 is a Bamfords 'CLIPPER' Safety Chaff Cutter made by Bamfords at Uttoxeter.

The yellow tractors are called Minneapolis Moline

I've seen a few people have old horse-drawn wagons, plows, and other old farming equipment as lawn decorations. In fact, my family and I helped our neighbors pull out their old wagon axles to sell them off. I could tell by the markings that they could be from 1885-95. That excavator at 16:25 reminds me of some old machines that just lie around farms. Similar era, similar condition, nobody has bothered to repair it or sell it and it has plants growing around it.

Those rollers are a clear go!

After watching this I had to Google the sd12 road roller. I found lots of pictures. What an amazing looking thing. It would be a shame if one of those wasn’t saved.

That first lorry in the hedge row looks to be a ERF A series tractor unit looking at the headboard and the header tank on the back of the cab be interesting to see if there’s a engine in it prolly a Gardner or a cummins, and not all of them commer trucks had supercharged ts3 engines in some had Perkins 6354s fitted

Waiting for Lawrie to find a coach for his railway. He's already found a little rail trolley, here's to hoping.

Fantastic video,I'd be in heaven walking around there, some interesting items i could use too, a wolseley Wd engine, chaff cutters and a roller mill, the fordson is a E27n, the other contaption is a Fordson model N powered crane, the rollers are incredibly rare, being pioneers, the first one has its oribinal engine in still and needs to be saved. The rawlers were caterpiller and the firstvone could be a cletrac not a Ransommes. I look forward to more from here. Keep up the great work.

At 1:29 thats a chaff cutter i had one once to drive off a stationary engine

Look, it's the same flywheel that Tim from Way out West used in his air locomotive at 20:26

There are all fordson major industrial, that's ones with yellow paint on.and Nuffield tractors, the ferguson you have right hope that helps a bit .

The auto truck is worth saving Im sure. Is it a working scrap yard

Nuffield 3/60 the orange one , others are fordson majors

Alright everyone time for the buy lawrie a pair of rollers fund lol

The ‘horse drawn’ cart looks to be a typical Railways cart, or possibly Bowser/Tanker cart (could be Shell, Castro etc) the wheels and hubs are heavy duty for large loads. Also the harrow could be from a pair of steam ploughing engines.

Enjoying Lawrie's Scrapyard Tours sub series

That atco mower and suffolk punch would have been made in Stowmarket so local to you. The factory became the bosch lawn mower factory and closed a few years ago.

some projects for @ClarenceFudWeasel or a nice roller for @LordMuck !

I really enjoyed the video. Thanks Lawrie!

I started watching this video intending to point out all the other bits of farm machinery you didn't mention because I'm a nerd. but there is so much cool stuff there I havn't got the time haha

O&K are very popular for rail use, I used to operate one at the Helston heritage railway a few years ago. :)

8:32 that definitely looks like a Nuffield 8:45 definitely a fordson major

10:24 This is a field railway wagon, probably from a sawmill. These axles and bearings were extremely widespread in countries such as Germany and Austria. I am in a association that preserves such vehicles and we have a wagon exactly like this in our collection. And almost every other wagon has that same axles and bearings. It would be interesting to know what gauge this is. Can you possibly measure that?

That portable fire pump looks pretty cool, I have one similar but older I'm working on. Hopefully someone saves that one.

The ATCO mower you saw is vintage, probably 1930's era. My boss has a even older 1920's one with a brass torpedo style fuel tank and crank start, that we display in the entrance of the mower dealership I work at. He also has a very early Ransomes cylinder mower from the 1920's with the crank start. More importantly did you rescue the trolley and take that very useful metal work bench home.

some of those blue tractors are Fordson Major Diesels

I would also have jumped on that narrow gauge frame. Just for those wheels, admit it we all want to build a little narrow gauge railroad around the property. some meters of rails, a little engine and some industrial narrow gauge wheels and you got a little rail vehicle to pot around in. Those road rollers also looks cool but I know nothing about those. Amazing that a scrap yard just has so many old things laying around for years rather than processing them.

I was hoping he might've found some old war vehicles

That Priestman Mustang 120 looks a good project

You’d lose your mind if you came to Northern Ireland to clearway scrapyard which is full of old hymac diggers

10:54 it look likes a old ammunition car out WW2 i did saw last week on History channel.

Those wagon wheels must be old, a lot bigger than the ones these days you get in Tesco

this scrapyard is quite a job for my heart .... uff ... we should safe this old waggon ...

The Ferguson would be a TEF-20 when its diesel. TED-20 means petroleum/kerosene, and TEA-20 is just regular petrol/gasoline 🙂