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Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: Defender on July 24, 2007, 22:32:28

Just had this come in at work:
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q221/Defender_90_photos/County02.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q221/Defender_90_photos/County01.jpg)
It's an ex-forestry vehicle. Six cylinder Ford diesel engine. Tyres over 5ft high & a throaty exhaust roar, courtesy of the silencer from a chav-mobile. :lol:
We're constructing a flat-bed to go on it so it can carry eight pallets of plants across a muddy field.

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: The Landy Guy on July 24, 2007, 22:34:34

where on earth do you work?

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: Defender on July 24, 2007, 22:47:12

Quote from: "The Landy Guy"

where on earth do you work?

I work in a place called Banks, near Southport. The fields around here get a little muddy at times as it is extremely flat eluvial plain on the banks of the River Ribble.
The guy we are building this for actually managed to get one of his machines stuck in a field today. :roll:

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: Drift on July 25, 2007, 00:22:35

I know Banks, flat and muddy, just by the Riverside Caravan park  :wink:

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: clbarclay on July 25, 2007, 01:09:08

Forward control county?

So called a county because when you come to a corner and started turning you would end up in the next county before it made it round.

Even it that condition I bet it cost a fair few bob.

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: Highlander1 on July 25, 2007, 02:20:01

:(biglaugh):

I would love to swap jobs.

If someone came into my drive and asked for a bit of welding  upgrades etc i'd be as happy as a pig in <edit>.

LETS HAVE PICTURES OF THE OUTCOME PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE. :D

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: strapping young lad on July 25, 2007, 09:40:30

me dad had a variant of the county called a roadless

very ford-y but no ford badge anywhere that i can recall

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: Defender on July 25, 2007, 12:38:25

Quote from: "Highlander1"

:(biglaugh):
LETS HAVE PICTURES OF THE OUTCOME PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE. :D

No problem. I intend to take loads of before, during & after photos :)

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: The Landy Guy on July 25, 2007, 22:01:31

Quote from: "Defender"

Quote from: "The Landy Guy"

where on earth do you work?

I work in a place called Banks, near Southport. The fields around here get a little muddy at times as it is extremely flat eluvial plain on the banks of the River Ribble.
The guy we are building this for actually managed to get one of his machines stuck in a field today. :roll:

so that thing is just the job then

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: Defender on August 01, 2007, 22:53:29

Getting on with the fiddly bits at the moment.
As it's having a flat bed, all the ancillary bits above the engine had to be moved.
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q221/Defender_90_photos/P7272385.jpg)
Had to move the air filter, battery tray (after fabricating a new one) & re-route the exhaust to exit forwards to eventually end up as a vertical stack pipe.
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q221/Defender_90_photos/P8012390.jpg)
The fuel tank also had to be removed & a couple of replacements sourced to fit either side between the front & rear axles.
The steel for the main body arrived today, so I'll be able to start fabricating that tommorrow.
Only problem is that the body will have to be built up on the floor of the workshop & lifted onto the chassis with the vehicle outside as the finished project will be too tall to fit through the door of the workshop. :roll:

Title: The Ultimate All Terrain Vehicle?
Post by: barmiebrumie on August 01, 2007, 22:55:48

I want them wheels on my Disco  :lol: