The Leyland Martian Recovery Truck Is Finally Fixed and Fully Working!
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- In this video we have a look around the leyland martian heavy recovery truck and work out how the crane and other bits and pieces all work!
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hi,i was 3rd person of a 3 man crew on one of those wreckers ,219 REME WKSP, (V).EARLY 80S ,Doncaster.great bit of kit.Went to Germany for 2 weeks ,route clearing on Exercise .only got to drive it off road ,sadly .2 mile to the gallon,petrol.doing 30mph with a 10 ton on suspended tow was something to see ,floor boards smoking lol.
124 Recovery Company 1984-87. Windows open wide, sat in your t shirt driving with smoking floorboards, been there, done that ahahha made me laugh.
Our Lad guys had one back in the day. It was in superb shape nearly mint. Loved them ever since.
Interesting , Thank You . Glad to see Machinery restored and operated
Cheers!
When it did catch fire it kept us warm in winter lol. I drove one for 150 miles that was a experience back in REME 1986 7 ARMD
Matt some of the things you come out with makes me chuckle. Keep it up lol
Cheers!
Big Boy's toys don't come much bigger or cooler - nice job there guys
3:14 just before you said you laugh if it falls out ... I was thinking the same
Thanks
No idea how to change the message. Have 10 bucks for some new shoes when you burn yours off
@@theb0mbsquad 🤣 most appreciated
Drove one of these in the army
Still had one of these in service when i was in colchester in 86 ,it was so slow it was towed on exercise by an AEC ,Then the Foden came in to service to replace them
We had one that decided it didn't like it's floorboards anymore in the 90s in Germany at FVD Recklinghausen.
Didn't have to piss on it though we had our own Fire Station on camp....just because it was such a regular occurrence....
Stallys and Ferrets also used their services on a regular basis
Hey just a thought ..
As its going to cost you an arm and a leg in fuel ( I personally think your MAD if your gonna drive that Tommy cooker lol )
How about setting up a go fund me page ? ..... OR ..... just have people standing on the side of the road with Jerry cans as you pass lol 😆
Great videos as always guys and hope to see you there !!
crikeythey made a recovery truck back then cheers
You are meant to clip up the legs before using or damage can result
That is a great looking beast, but it sounds like a angel, I would like to put up my hand for the job of assitant driver, thanks for sharing.
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Good stuff guys, thanks.
Thanks for another awesome video from you guys.
Awesome machine.
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Ah I was going to ask if you use red diesel in all these heavy vehicles, finally got the answer in this video.
Awesome content as always, thank you. You folks REALLY need some lapel microphones, though. We miss a lot of what is being said.
We’re going to be using them for the more planned videos, but a lot of what we do we film on the fly or just in a break from work so can’t use them for everything
@@fittermat Take a look at the Dutch channel: Werkplaatsvlog , Milo uses this microphone continous during work on his projects (T69 and T55) it really makes his videos a lot more fun to watch 😉 But also without this mics I really like your video's! A lot of fun between you guys and great machines!!
I ment to say in your last video that it looks like someone's been busy with the cement mixer 👍
Many ongoing improvements!
Got a question about fuel, are you running on regular unleaded petrol or super (non E number), just curious as i wanted to know if the Leyland needed "modding" to accept regular and if so how did you do it?
We try and run super wherever possible, the regular unleaded is no longer recommended for older engines, something to do with the new blend not being the best for older rubber pipes and seals
thank you for the share - great video
What no scrap dealers with old vehicles around.
Did you lads keep this or end up moving it on in favour of the fodens?
Proper rear old beast is that lass! I want that reg of it though 🤣😁. There used to be a personal carrier version (I think) near my mates. Always wanted to stop and have a gander round it!
They are lovely old things
Did u buy a tow pole for it to drag the tanks around
What's your route to the Harborough show?
Awesome toys
Good looking old truck, what was the brand name before the evil empire changed it to Leyland?
I have no idea but I will try and find out for you
Wonder why the hook is attached to a chain instead of hooking to the A frame like everybody else did!
Dave crouch will be the man to ask
amazing truck.
Thanks for the upload/s
Could we see it in low range?
Cheers
Jim
Ile see what I can do!
@@fittermat thank you
yeah i like that - very typical British design and squaddies resorting to standard tactics to rectify fire procedures
space between exhaust and floor sounds like a good plan
Well we’re not ones to break with tradition so will make sure to drink plenty of ‘water’ before driving it anywhere!
@@fittermat much 'water' and i thought y'd be more a babycham man or is that Jo haha
You need to deploy the outriggers
We need to unseize them first
R u going to fix the rust in the cab MAT
It’s on the to do list
What's show qt Peterborough called and date
I literally live up road in Lincolnshire
A vehicle of this age should be easy to convert to LPG. That would be far more practical than running it on petrol .
Probably cheaper to make it run on printer ink 😆
@@ianstarcroft Yea. or Greta's tears.
Could you convert it to Diesel ⛽️ ??
She's a Bute. Vintage voltage??!!!😁
24v if I remember rightly
@@fittermat I think Christian mean for you to swop the B81 for 400v electric!
Bottles of piss, bottles of petrol, just remember to label them as piss makes absolutely terrible fuel and petrol's fire extinguishing properties aren't much cop either.
The effectiveness of piss as fuel is directly related to how much cheap vodka you drank the night before
The crane was smoother than the pair of you
Did you say that it drives nicer then a DAF ???? Are you a madman sir ???
Super Truck, is what I'd call it,.. but that silly name aside, is there any way to re-route the 'hot' exhaust piping, so you guys don't end up as 'crispy critters',... Or is fiddling
around with original as supplied equipment a forbidden thing to do?
It’s more a lack of time on our part, ideally an engine swap to something diesel would be the best thing for it but that’s only if we get the spare time to do it
@@fittermat Thanks for this Mat,.. I too restored / rebuild three Willys Jeeps over the years, and I can appreciate 'time', when you are busy at a 'day job'. How else can we afford to have a great hobby like this? :)
All the best, and thank you too, for a really interesting channel here.
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Good shit, just Cummins swap it and run it on kero
Should have put a Detroit two stroke diesel in it n burry the b80 rolls deep in the ground wher it belongs
Made me laugh nearly spat my coffee out. Piss on the floor put the fire out . Don’t piss on the battery’s .
Standard Army solution. I am old enough to have been trained on the Bren gun. How do you cool the barrel down? Piss on it. I thought about that, if you had fired 500 rounds and changed the barrel and fired another 500 before the first barrel had cooled down, sound like you are in the middle of some sort of war, and standing up to piss on the barrel just seemed a strange activity with all the muck and bullets flying past your ear'oles.
Covert them all to electric.....
Apart from the front mud guards it’s just a big scammel pioneer :D
I would happily swap it for a scammel 😂
@@fittermat :D Absolute icon of a machine.
grow more food!
Spend some of your millions on a decent mic😍
That thing is struggling to pull itself lol needs a big dirty Cummins
I was gonna say put a 12v71 detroit in it...
Your quite right
Did it get sold .? I had a friend who had one in chudliegh devon , pile of crap , it’s now 2023 hopefully he’s sold it or Burris it deep deep under ground . Ile see thee 😂
Burried
Should of gotten an foden 6x6
Really need to get yourselves some wireless mics....
its on the list but a lot of the videos are filmed off the cuff and unplanned so we could only really use them on the more planned longer videos
That thing sounds like a wrecker SHOULD sound. How it does so with that tiddley fart little exhaust pipe beats me...
Definitely doesn’t identify as a foden