Low Gear TV - a 1960 Scammell

what welcome to another episode of low gear an episode 16 I spoke to Bruce Julian about his days driving this camel constructor for Shell BP taught in you plummet well I've actually found this truck in a moment will pop down to the wire wrapper and take a look at it but first a little refresher about this truck with Bruce that there that trucks lifting a 35-ton mud pump here that's used down around the car Pune gas field and in that occasion and she winches that onto her back winches just behind the cab it's got about 12 inch roller right across the back and run the winch rope out and onto this big skid and everything for the the rig sites and that was built on skids so they could ship them and for lifting with cranes you know anyway we hook onto the air and start sucking it up on the winch and it the Rope went over the over the roller and as it tightened that rope it just lifted the front wheels up lift to the front wheels six foot in the air and then it tied it pulled it straight up the trailer truck and once it over balanced just come up slowly and it just go down nice and steady like that just bring it forward another two or three inches cross chain your load on and then take it to wherever the next well site you might remember a few shows ago we did a story where we interviewed Bruce Julian and Bruce's job was the drive the pipes all the way from New Plymouth to Hadley and the the marrow gas plate you might remember that story then after that he told us about the truck that he drove ass camel well here it is and welcome to our little show thanks for Lauren again you're the proud owner of this scam all I'm the fat I don't at some I've had around about 20 plus years it came into my position sort of quite by chance after a long New Zealand search for weight of the scam will disappear - after sure BP taught and Bruce Julian days yeah it's a you see the photograph look at this photograph folks you might remember this one where it's up in the air dragging a load onto the back of it when the load got to the point the whole lot sort of went down and rinse it up further and often we went yes ace one can imagine these will the swill I'll be up about yeah but scary yeah but you can said me see those big coil springs that are in the front there when this thing is up in the air so and this is the original bull bar that yes on a little time yep yeah and one of the interesting things that you've told me is that there's these holes through the hole on the India folks and I probably wouldn't do that a horse in Australia but Bruce was telling us that it was a little bit of a storeroom yes am used to keep their work crowbars and there you probably get three or four good suitable links crowbars on there for them jiggling those heavy loads around yeah so they wouldn't see me fall out but and a bit more ballast in the front perhaps and I'll just gonna rip this walk to the back one that's bit of a dream a little down here three four five six seven eight nine didn't believe him twelve and a bit a good 13 metres long yes sort of track has a lot of tracking where are my only reference to this Campbell is the one we saw down at Christchurch and it was a 4x4 I think but it had the same differs what's under here which is interesting I hadn't seen it were the only time I've seen another diff like this was on their track he said it's quite small to skim over or double reduction system very immensely strong and also would take heavy loads and articulation because hints the torsion rods on here oh yeah there's a leaf and a torsion rod back end yeah it's not very strong very strong and the double Drive so it's got two of these two Drive shafts the same I mean two Duff's the same is great and two independent drive shaft so that where you lose traction so there's notes prefer needed and the situation a that under overdrive sure yes yeah I think of the drive shaft once goes on the bottom and in it goes into another one and it doubles down to the other come out of us but just before we gave size of this chassis then this is absolutely this heavy steel here was put on by a previous owner it had a Prentice log loader on it and when it operate on kind girl forestry so this is an extra but under there's just all pure deep chassis yes just Kerry meets lays I think Bruce mentioned that he was carrying a 35 tonne load on it and you could see how it's capable of doing it absolutely yes yeah look at these driveshafts Warren these drive shaft no it was this a just a like out a connector it's not a gearbox or anything it's just a place they have the top drive shaft in the bottom drive shaft with it's just where they yes it's a sectional drive shop things I'm drive shower support Bering Sea yeah and so that they were buy support around here so the longer went to the rear diff went through another support there then walked on again this one here went directly to the so this was a trick to there was no other support Deering involved so that's pretty simple isn't yeah so these it's our sure yes yeah yeah be huge rating all mate absolutely yeah but I once against a driveshaft that doesn't spend huge speech you talk but what up because truck was only a slow moving track but I'm still quite tremendous thrust reduce drive shots here the these these are the cables are they the brakes or the thing I think a posse will be part of the braking system although it's an ear over hydraulic system that's what you'll see a near chamber down there yeah networks a breakthrough that could be some other part of their ah but we should discover what it is full one day but we'll see and he'll be doing something on me you're telling me it's got a full time greasy system yes it's a central auto loop system on it leads of series of grease nipples which will go to various points possibly to do in the front end or summat towards the back end here Magnus till we infect some of the pipes of the consider the cup of pipes that will be part of the loop system still involved today it's a great system I'm auto loop systems every those squeeze points get greased amazing this is a brake system that will break the transmission for engagement either of high low transmission so we've got the rear input shaft going out here in the front and put shaft to the front of going up here and the other one picks up higher up there on the other side was the long drive shaft which is currently connected like three well so well engineered so they certainly could build trucks in those days yeah busy at least keep some walk engine nice and warm that looks very similar to the one that's down south it way this is a rolls-royce rolls-royce it says there yes it is it's a black black numbered rolls whistle black colored there were various colors on rolls-royce I believe it's about 180 horsepower naturally aspirated it's actually currently showing five thousand engineers so it's not high right impressively for braking system starter motor down here one bolt takes it off just one simple bolt blissful Zastava motor designed for um infielder Murphy beautiful rolls-royce some say that I mean old understand Williamson here rolls-royce and has some in this camel he said it a nice camera stays and not many people like him though they didn't take the pace they rather have a you know a GM easier the synergy GM to straight far more lively performer but I suppose and reality the rolls-royce at some built for quality and as I said though they will fix them any in the world because Rolls Royces didn't break down yeah okay there might be some people with some really hard to be corrected on it but it it's a bit it's an engine when it runs an XE sounds very much like a 350 comments it's got that English gazelle English heritage of course with the comments is dumb the rolls-royce a true let's head work on escape there's roughly beaux-arts all eyes are really wanna have a look at the gearing system which is the same as the one before just looking into that cab folks look at that there's a big flat pan gear stick with the rails that you move the gear stick along with here's the seat that Bruce with a set on back in today it's actually looks quite well sprung not yeah I don't think it's a spring to be seen on it name is another knob on the other side of that what's it for so they've got a gear second in there's another sticks to here oh that's for drive or the engagements are six wheel drive okay and this is the hand breakers that's a hand brake yeah electric and the other long leave is a wood sorry this is one control the other one is a hand brake the hand brakes right beside you right down into your head when you hold me okay moving right over until we have Bruce spent a lot of us time squeezed over now the steering wheel sort of way up here put your foot up onto the accelerator which is sitting on its own pedal I'm put pedestal I can see what he brake clutch somewhere to put your boot when you're not doing anything and the high/low the gears this is for the winch and the hand brake is right here everywhere I guess where it should be now just looking around this cab you have to say it's a pretty much an olv bed fit and I'll talk to warm in a minute but Bedford NS camel we were in bed together so obviously yeah you build us this will make you a yeah we'll make you a can come up and have a look at this and you might remember Bruce saying this you want reverse you've got to go away all through all these gears to get there so it's the start from the beginning ho first second third fourth fifth sixth so if you want to go backwards you got that that that that that all the way back down to here with us gearstick so there's no there's no shortcut you don't just go like that you're going a little bit above interesting and in the problems that think of something like that really and on the steering wheel we've got a we've got a horn we've got a hand throttle we've got a the brakes and we've got a hill start that's a whole start assist they call that and yeah metric windscreen wiper on the top the visibility sure there's a bit of lichen on there now but the actual visibility is very good looking at the front because of the bonnets going in like that is that you're good good visibility on the side so you're going to see if there's anybody in front of you and this is that the dashboard at some the other one had and the olv Bedford Canet it run along quite badges you can see that where this one's actually gone to the next stage it's your the same panel to put the put the instruments and there looks like the starter just there clean the key on push the startup away we with says on this little notice here on the top of the engine cowling it says the use of this vehicle for any private purposes is prohibited Shell BP and Todd oil services limited so there you go you're not allowed to do homers with it ok but must have been a real buzz Bruce sort of you know shipping around the countryside in this thing it was just this massive that cab has got olb Bedford written all over are very much so yes and you're telling me that they were in bed together scamming on Bedford it was a long relationship when they got them to a cab over trucks or conventional cab trucks when they went away from the very early scandal design they need a partner so it was bid for who was choosen being English but what variant of cab that is I don't really know but ER I'm sure a good Bedford and thews is fair to say that is exactly so and so the truck was possibly manufactured between 55 no so it was late on that 50s for to about 62 so that cab air also fit some in that group so yeah someone have tell us yeah yeah as their cab offset here's the offset on that because possibly I don't know I'd say three four hundred mils Bopha after the right off to the right visibility for the driver hints to see am also in front because otherwise you'd be looking purely at a bonnet and anything down close it's quite a common thing in um he'll be off highway trucks or on road in this case came but it's a dual purpose truck but quite a thing was to offset the cabs Canadia if it's american left hand drive the cab would be offset to the left but in this case offset to the right that's just the sheer structure of the trucks as we all known for the heavy off highway tracks log trucks off seat cubes it's America and I sitting in it just now although that likens on the render but I can certainly see now the visibility was better than what I thought it would be Auto visibly could I've actually driven that truck around and had a lot of fun on the end you can see the road quite clearly and I've hunted that lovely vision just between on that offset of the K is amazing yeah hey bull bear certainly yeah certainly impressive general factory am sophistication that was built one all the oilfield model as a strucker's uh and that's a standard specification build for them not all the trucks came with bull bars some did this is a factory fitted optionally and notice or not it came as a standard and that radiator is just the era that is the era time but I understand that right if I call breaks on that radio it can be taken out each individual call can be taken out manually and a new core put in or repaired and put back in once again been out to be serviced in the field under extreme conditions so it's no good being in the radiator I mean sorry in the desert and ringing up the radiator or p.m. and saying I want a new core that's not going to work so that can be repeat possibly a very efficient radiator to with that extraordinary little cooling system on each individual core and the size of those tires 1420 s good god yeah so there are the greatest are designed to carry big loads absolutely yeah and there looks like it might have a crank handle buzzes in the front there right look between the two holes in the front there's that little shaft but sticking out there is that for a great handle I haven't found the green handle your bill money there's some about I'm sure that as a cranking huh skim all some even the earlier models they had various systems of it cranking without electric start so they could be manually start in the field if need be so I haven't found a decompression lever on there they could will be hints you would be able to crank it and decompression ender I'm sure would fire it pretty quick but other than that would be a big crank but I'm sure would be there certainly a big tractor it's time in fact probably one of the biggest tracks in New Zealand a 1960 MIG that the purpose the Civic's and the keen wits were no they went no 1960 this would have been one of the biggest tracks in the country ice mostly wasn't it the early Pacific's came in and they were capable extraordinary but this bear in mind this truck was also an on-road truck as some of the Pacific's were but this is a dedicated specialist specialist built truck for the oil fields into the hind cab winch its load carrying abilities just what I could do but it is one of the biggest widget trucks pasa em to the stay that was ever came up to New Zealand Shores well there it is yep all this time how many years later okay plus 50 video courses I don't know there was a gap from when Bruce Julianne finished driving - what happened we know some of the history of it but it's been here for some time but an interesting little pain fit you've given me Warren it's all about this truck and there it is constructor sex wheel drive 21 foot 9 wheel brace full oilfields truck fitted with a winch tail roller headache rack and gin poles low capacity 40,000 pounds and Bruce used to put on 35 tonne I think that's exceeded the 40,000 a wee bit but hey sitting within capability of the tracker if it says here the stability sound design and workmanship discerning operators choose scam wall that are nested if these the oilfields 12 foot mountaineer constructor explorer and those were the the models I guess like these the gin poles up on the roof of model showing it to an operation yeah and they came with it yes yes over standard they folded down lengthwise down the D conducted mostly folks Bruce telling us about pulling one of those ships anchors and the poles just put it onto the back of the track they just said on the side of the deck put them up and then he can lift up the ship's anchor but he needed a forklift in front of a taxi offered descoth makes a probably I'm sorry anyway Warren thank you so much thank you know yeah and it's just you know great to see the photos and listen to the man who drove the thing his story about that but to see the thing in real life an absolute treat so there you go folks the all scowl if you're a farmer why not take a look at J shop stock foods we're Paige first choice for New Zealand farmers J swap stock foods swap stock food supplies proven stock food supplements to beef and dairy farmers throughout New Zealand swaps have worked hard for farmers over 70 years they know farmers well and 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workers so check out Mahindra today dub-dub-dub Mahindra doc oh god in Zed join in our travels we've seen lots of graders that have been towed by something that do motorless machines but looking at this one and it's got a obviously the horse rider so you know these it's up there this puts us boots on there and the horses are at the front that's right and all the wheels are operated by somebody at the back exactly a two-man machine a two-man machine yes or two-person I think to be politically correct these days one to drive the horses and the other one to operate the controls governing the blade which lifts the road surface hopefully nice and smooth exactly yeah it's just a work about this it's just easy on the eye yes and what sort of Ages are pre sort of like in the teens 19 10 11 12 somewhere around about there if it's bent over horses I can't be precise about this but yes it would be very very early in the 19th 20th century I'm sorry and things like this would have been in production right through into the 1920s the horses giving away has obviously happened with this machine has got a rigid drawbar to the tractor either a wheeled tractor or a crawler tractor so he's gone from this nice smooth sprung seat to earth for a jogging track yes Oh peas to fillings were nice and secure but not getting rid of anybody no but looking at the operating wheels all the little gears and levers to make the stuarts job which brings me to the point where is graters isn't new graders have been around for a moment indeed yes they've been around for at least a century now yes exactly and the blade will now come to putting blades on the front of tractors wheel traders especially sorry tracked tractors especially somebodies oh let's just put a blade like the operator and so nothing's new just a question of size yes right nothing new Under the Sun of all bone no let's have a look at the operating let's think God now you need to have a look at this folks just how this man standing on the back here it's got the to do things so first of all I got a wheel between my legs that I have to adjust myself for and that's what this does is John was telling me it actually moves this frame over to there or over this way so I can get a bit of view down the sides of this machine this one here turns the turns the blade somewhere so I've got this one on this one these two alter the angle one way or the other then I've got a lever in front of me here that will lift it up and lift it down that I'm just saying there's a break that looks like some sort of a break as on the side there's one and down here there's another little leaver so yeah a little bit like a like a one-armed paper hanger John comments yes the grater operator as you can see had no powered controls who hit me at least to be quite muscular it also need to be very alert because he'd be forever making adjustments with all of these controls to leave the road surface nice and smooth behind him so yes he'd be a very very busy man not just sitting up here in the Sun having a snooze like the tribe with all the driver could probably get away with it bapak fellow back here it's just interesting and every one of these has the same amount of controls that we've looked at but they're all also beautifully seem to follow a particular pattern of providing for the precise person positioning of the greater blade in the wheels who operate in wheels who are all built like this who's got this little yes wave curve very ornamental aren't they here yeah 'days we just put straight spokes on them that week we all the evilest has got a bit of pain t-to it you know so the men who made these these must be quite proud of the wick to make it just that little bit special that's right the inner office or the machinery design I popped out to the surface every now and again the game well you don't see these everyday folks and I was oasis fascinating that graders go way way back couple of shows ago route down at Marlborough looking at very old graders and this one was built in Christchurch in 1921 it's the motor ice that's got a a case engine Anita push it along with and like the little bulbar grater where it had this type of wheels but they had one between your legs went over here and a couple of big ones on the side to it to adjust everything this we've got one two three four five steel wheels have all got the steel spinners on them make them easy to the spinner belt it's got a hand clutch and a gear lever and prettier even I can see right down there no worries at all where I'm going what I'm doing and just interesting in 1921 this was doing its thing and here's this other grader I was telling you about this is 1886 long before diesel engines long before petrol engines steam was going all right but this is a horse-drawn greater than look like the one and none mol bruh the man who operated horses to tear feet there out to the horses and then his offsider is on the back and it's pretty similar to the one that we saw in Mowbray although it's a seems to me to be a bit lighter the grade of Steel seems to be a bit lighter but when I'm standing on the back here this is the the operating platform and like the one in Mowbray I've got a wheel between my legs I've got a another wheel off to the side here but in order to get these things I've actually got to lean forward a wee bit so there must have been a bit more of a plateful coming forward so I can operate and reach all these different levers but and this is a lightweight version compared to what we were looking at in Marlborough but as I think graders have been around for a long long time I think just to conclude our little story on graders as we're looking at something that's probably if that last one was 1886 this has got to be 1870 something that shows you how far back graders actually go but this one it's very very a brake is that's got a first little pinion and riveted there and if I start to in here and you can see here sort of done side of pulls up you'd have to be a big strong man doing this all day long just doing it all by hand if you wanted the other side is a little simple little locking device here just put that up pull back on this one up she comes ha let's do the go when I'm happy with the angle like you just lock it so it just stays there and you get pulled along by the horse till you're ready and then you implicitly move that out of the way and lower or alright lift it that's required and this one I'm not sure what that one does with it probably goes that way I guess up and down and a little lever here this is rubber not quite sure what there's a little lock here just unlock and then I can haul on that I've got that side of the blade when you're happy with the angle you just move the little lock back in or if you want to lift it up you're traveling want that blade right off the ground let's pull up the other side and now we're free we're going all the way back to morning tea yeah the lower the blade okay this side down goes that bleep awesome so as I was saying graders they've been around a very long time indeed and of course who have you got the the easy job I suppose would have been just sitting up on this and seat here and G up naughty off we go member

Channel: Bill Hohepa

Views: 67,765

Rating: 4.7423315 out of 5

Keywords: vintage trucks, classic trucks, NZ History, English trucks

Id: 8vMVMZPJabQ

Length: 29min 0sec (1740 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 05 2016