Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 2083
Hardly any wheel slippage
28th Feb 2018 9:44 am
Ceekay
Member Since: 17 May 2009
Location: Bury
Posts: 2089
that isnt the Scania you can here ticking over its the D4 crank shells slipping
I take it thats a 40 tonne strap there using is it or is the trailer empty ?
After 10 years of ownership the disco still amazes me D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
D3 HSE MY06 missing her still…
28th Feb 2018 10:05 am
Landybandy
Member Since: 10 Jul 2013
Location: Neath
Posts: 181
Can’t say wether the trailer is empty or fully laden.
But looking back on history with the older discovery’s pulling trains, I think 40 ton would be a breeze for the disco.
28th Feb 2018 10:15 am
Sheepy
Member Since: 20 Feb 2013
Location: Bedfordshire
Posts: 630
I'd guess unladen, the tractor unit doesn't have the extra axle lowered.
28th Feb 2018 10:30 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 4540
Ceekay wrote:
I take it thats a 40 tonne strap there using is it or is the trailer empty ?
They are only pulling the truck along, not lifting vertically off the ground! Richard
D3 SE 2007. Triumph 2.5Pi 1973. Ferguson TEA20 1948.
Discovery 2 4.0 ES 2001- Gone
Discovery 1 300Tdi ES '95 - Gone
Range Rover Classic '79 - Gone
28th Feb 2018 10:55 am
L319
Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 2083
I went round the Police Control room covering Spaghetti junction some years ago and was told they would regularly pull fully loaded , 38 Tonne then, units off the motorway with Range Rovers. I think the advantage of D3/4's is their weight. They must be maxed out with the on-board kit.
28th Feb 2018 11:23 am
comedyharvey
Member Since: 03 Jul 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 1727
The third axle would be off the ground even if fully laden in those conditions so as to put more weight on the driven axle and improve grip. Perfectly permissible to get you out of trouble at low speed in snow and ice.
.Arthur.
Comedy was a horse, Harvey a dog, both sadly gone. Thought I was choosing a password!
Currently;
Discovery 3 HSE 2009
101" Fwd. Control 1976
Nuffield 10/90 Tractor (10/60 with 6 cylinder conversion) 1964
Previously;
Series III Lightweight. 1976.
28th Feb 2018 12:12 pm
Scottbrad
Member Since: 20 Dec 2014
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Member Since: 23 Dec 2012
Location: birmingham
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THEY ALL need telling off .
You neva drag /pull a weight off the tow ball just looked at both vids and both doing the same should be shackled to the chassis through the metal towing eye by the plug in electrics.
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