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« on: July 23, 2014, 09:17:31 am »
I spotted this at the entrance to my work in burton on Trent. Didn't get a chance to stop and look properly but managed to grab a pic. Looks very heavily equipped. :-)

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Re: Spotted
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2014, 12:39:20 pm »
Scorpion ballast levelling machine driven one of those many years ago, very heavy I don't know how many of them there are but a rare find. If I remember they were about £250,000 new.
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« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2014, 02:37:33 pm »
Bloody hell that's expensive. I wasn't overly impressed with the trailer build quality tho. Heavy frame work and axles with small weak looking draw bar. I certainly wouldn't want to carry much weight on it.

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Re: Spotted
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 08:10:03 pm »
They were 214 ps engines and it was slow enough without the trailer !
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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2014, 05:59:10 pm »
How come you you have so much knowledge on these things Moose? Whats your profesion if you dont mind me asking, a heavy industry mechanic or something of that ilk or just a serious interest in all things mechanical.

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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2014, 06:40:06 pm »
He is a unimog dictionary :)

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Re: Spotted
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2014, 08:05:04 pm »
Long long story  :D

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Re: Spotted
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2014, 07:27:44 pm »
I'm starting to think he designed, built and repaired most 411, 406 mogs on the UK roads :-p
cant beat the smell of diesel and 2stroke in the morning :)