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These are of interest to those of you who are into railways as well as tractors. The one on transport is fascinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmScl ... pp=desktop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vljRhfLH ... pp=desktop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUobQpIR4Lg

Thanks Brian, brilliant stuff, anything showing soft / runny metal

Have you seen Snowdrift at Bleath Gill ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugIoMD495E there is a lovely bit at 4:30 where the hand diggers sit on the fence while the plough goes through at speed, apparently none of them remained sitting after it had passed..........

Can't have been the wrong sort of snow that apparently falls these days

Hi Brian, I am also into railways, ive seen the bottom two videos on youtube, but not the top one. It fascinates me how things like that were made.


My grandad was a mechanic in world war 2 in germany repairing tanks etc. They were allowed 8 hours to remove and replace an engine in a tank, with three blokes......sometimes in field!

He also worked in this country towards the end of the war with gardner engines, and still has the machines and tooling for preparing the face to face fitting of the blocks and heads etc.

He owned a garage in the town I live in and he head all sorts of tools, like a machine for replacing valve seat, crank grinding etc etc, some of which he still has (he is 91 now mind).

He told me the other day, that he has left me all this in his will!

As you can imagine, i was quite happy about this!