Today we do some very important testing to find out what Heavy Recovery truck is the best! Will it be the British Foden? or the German Mercedes? We also carryout some Jobs on the Centurion ARV ready for Show Season. mrhewes.co.uk
Having someone from the Singapore army watching your videos and then telling you to take it down because they recognized their vehicle is quite the accomplishment itself :D
I've driven the Mercedes 6x6 here in Aus when the Singapore Army comes through for their Shoalwater bay exercises. -- Sadly I wasnt aloud to get in their leopard(?) tanks, + I was too tall anyway. Their army personnel were very professional to deal with.
Sure, but also... weird request. They sold it, so the onus is on them for having not cleaned it. It's not like Mr. Hewes is going to do some "stolen valor" type thing (is that what you'd call it if you used a vehicle like that pretending???). If this would've been in a museum, they would've done the same? A bit anally retentive if you ask me to zip someone half across the world because your people done frakked up and didn't clean their own mess. When that happens, take the L and don't push your mess on others. Just my 2 cents. I don't like people or groups of people who can't accept their own failure. You messed up, you own up to it.
@@aserta Not Sure how they do it in Singapore, but they may have given an entire fleet of vehicles to a contractor to make them "civilian ready" and the contractor just missed something
The vista of a green English countryside under a beautiful sky with two plus-sized wreckers playing tug of war in the foreground is almost too majestic to behold. Keep this sort of artwork coming.
@@vetrieska11 The Foden has a regular clutch, that's how it was able to keep yanking the Mercedes back. The Mercedes has a torque converter, so it couldn't be revved up to do that.
I used to be an aircraft engineer at Gatwick airport, the company I worked for had a Douglas aircraft tug similar to the one you had there. It was more than capable of pushing a Boeing 747-400 weighing around 360 tons back off the gate while the engines were being started. So it would be pushing against 360 tons static weight and against the idle power of 4 General Electric CF6 engines at idle power (the engines could move the aircraft forward at idle) I don’t know what the engine thrust was at idle power. But that tug would overcome the load and move the aircraft backwards off the gate, but it would be doing that on a solid smooth grippy concrete surface not grassy dirt. Watching the tug move all that weight against the engine thrust was always an impressive sight.
We had an ex AF one smaller than that but meant to push the much heavier B52, which I can say, that little bast was a heavy hunk but it could pull the barge in and out of the water
Just wouldn't be the same, while sensorship is rife on YT atleast they have complete control over their creative process so we wouldn't get episodes like the last Bentley episode.
It was like one of those school fights where neither of you wants to hurt the other but you need to put on a show. Very entertaining. The towbar is a beast.
Yup, all about massive weight for traction. I'd dare say it'd win against the Merc on Foden in a tug of war on concrete/asphalt. It never stood a chance on the grass, in fact I'm surprised it didn't just sink.
As you are always banging on about how good Fodens are. I went to a show a couple of weeks ago, Foden put on a pulling show and it ended up pulling 140+ tons around the show ground from a standing start and slightly up hill................Impressive
Ok so many moons ago I was in a Reliance mercury tug with another aircraft technician who shall remain nameless. We were on Nightshift, decided to kill some time by driving the long way back to the line building around the peri track. We suddenly both think, simultaneously, I wonder what this would be like off road. Steered it off the peri track onto the grass,straight in axle deep. Had to get on radio, get another tug, use the winch to get it out. Big bollocking, embarrassment etc. You tell kids stories like that these days, they don't believe you.
Im beginning to think that Gerry Anderson got his "big, hairy-arsed engine noise" for tanks and other oversized vehicles on Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and Stingray, by recording a straight piped Meteor 😂
Nice to see the Tedmeister is continuing to live his best life, I reckon the Foden would have beasted if the ground wasn't so moist... boys and their lifesize toys 👍🏻
Great video! However, the aircraft tug's tires were designed for the best traction on concrete or asphalt pavement, not dirt. Not surprising then, that the Foden (with tires better suited for traction on soft ground) was able to pull the tug relatively easily, apparently.
Claim bias on this one. A known Foden fanboi edited this. Not to mention Teddy wasn't driving both vehicles. Having German heritage, it's obviously clear, Brits greased the oppositions brakes. So unfair.
What people seem to miss is the fact that the foden has its roots in the late 50's and can still match fairly modern stuff. I can remember sitting in a motor vehicle engineering class at college (86-88) where my lecturer was pointing out the brute force of scammel trucks ( ex mod) were used in hauling old locomotives to scrap , saying not fast by any means but could haul almost anything. In reference to scrap metal merchants using foden and scammels during the 60's. He was "that guy" that brought in slides of a foden/ scammel low loader with 202 tonnes driving through wales...... Iirc it was about gearing not necessarily about horsepower. And he droned on about land rovers for the rest of the term......🤣 But I did find out after I left college that the hangar buildings we used were factories to make spitfires in the 40's......... in Wiltshire 👌🏻 Now a housing estate 🙄
Back in early 90's I was attached to a REME unit in Germany. Eventually I ended up being a standby driver for recovery jobs. Our vehicle, ( a Foden ), was a beast. I have to say, having seen them in action, that a good REME Reccymech operator would have made mincemeat of the Mercedes.
You know, i kinda suspected they'd be equal... but not quite like that. Eh, the tug in its original config stands no chance against anything short of another tug or smaller. BUT, put that on tarmac and load it properly, and it can pull mountains. This is why you take those, strip the tin off, give it a suspension and they make amazing farm vehicle. They will pull a lot. That said, on tarmac, properly loaded, they're really good. I genuinely don't get people who build custom pullers, when you can buy one of these even clapped out and they're still better.
In a nasal tone you have to say, are the tread patterns and depth the same on both wreckers, pressure and ground condition under both. Brilliant real world test and relevant to everybody.
10:29 And also - gotta say, the hat looks good. Looks to be a good quality one and as a former hat wearer myself, I can assure you, you’ll appreciate it when it rains. And also when it’s sunny. 👍🏻
Great video, as always. Always informative and also entertaining. I was wondering if the Foden will be given the moniker ‘Phil’ if England win the Euros ?. (Similar to the Diane Abbot !) 😄
I can see that you guys are back having fun with the Tonka toys much to the of the great supervisor Ted! Seriously the Foden is the all-around best against the the other vehicles with the great exception of the AVRE. In truth tracked vehicles always have better tracked handling in muddy conditions.... Good job as always 👏 👍 👌
@@biscuit715 in my opinion a wheeled is also more expensive because of unnecessary complications as each wheel has its own engine and transmission and electrical connections not to mention that many are steerable just to mention a few things...
Welll! I thought Ted, (with a little help from Adam) would have won hands down. I'm sure the Merc won't be as good without the emblem visible! 🤪 With equal tyre pressures, the tyres in the same condition, and water balast, it would be quite a match. You're going to have a good line-up at OMH.
I’ll just throw this video on in the background while I work. But first i’ll watch till I get an ad cause of tug of war, then get to work. 23min later, I didn’t get any ads! RU-vid, I’m not sure thank you or hahaha monetize this channel more! Oh was it the Mercedes 6x6 that gave you a strike? So you dont get ads for a while? Either way. Great video, included Ted, trucks and tanks!
Seeing as the kraut dug down to more solid ground i think the foden had it really and both should go again in the middle of the field v10 vs RR 6 cylinder. Those old fodens ate awesome bits of kit
Yeah, Spud has drawn me here (for someone who calls 'imself "not that posh", you did find an epic tune to put under that video. Props, m8) Anywhose, second video I see is you 'orsin' 'round with recovery kit, so that gets a subscribe 😆
You guys are nutters. That's what I like about you. Adam makes a great wing man. I was thinking why not just put a hole saw through that plate until I saw how thick it was. Great stuff guys, keep on doing what you do. Whatever that is. Mart.
Looking forward to seeing you at wellend steam rally my wife has a crafting stall there she does that I enjoy the working machines trucks and tractor pulling 👌
When you start things you may find pumping the throttle slower is better the accerator pump usually has a spring in the linkage so the diaphragm can only depress at the rate fuel sprays out of the jet.
21:18 has multiple tanks, tools, trucks, bulldozer, forklifts, Jim Bowens Bentley and no back of phone. Mr Hewes would be the sort of guy who'd go to a shopping mall to buy a new back cover for his phone and come back with a tank. And no phone cover.
Loved driving those tugs at Aberdeen airport, one afternoon I was pushing and airbus off the stand and next stand had a forklift (not a lie) pushing a KLM airbus off the stand as their tug was U/S 😮
Foden F-ck yeah! Regarding your Jet Provost.. Nice fiddly job for you. Get it started. Only a wee jet engine (known as Constant thrust variable noise power plant) Makes a great noise. Have a fire engine near by... Oooooh fun.