Where is military tank expert?

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startinghandle

Member

• Feb 27, 2021

• #1

There is or was someone who posted messages in this section and knows all about military tanks.. I said sometime ago that a tank was coming up for sale in a marriage break up,
I have just found out in the last couple of days is still available but there are conflicting reports to the value . I don't know what it is yet but I do know it's a non runner so moving it will be interesting .
If and it's a very big if I do buy it the only way I can think of moving it is jack it up on heavy sleepers and make a frame or chassis underneath and fit axle

 

Dave W

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Location

chesterfield

• Feb 27, 2021

• #2

Just pay a professional haulier. There's no way you'll shift a lump like that legally or safely

 

Y Fan Wen

Member

Location

N W Snowdonia

• Feb 27, 2021

• #3

If you do get it we'll expect plenty of pics..

 

davedb

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Location

Staffordshire

• Feb 27, 2021

• #4

Unless the tracks are seized it should winch on a trailer with it out of gear that is if it’s even got tracks on still

 

diesel1

Member

Location

North Yorkshire

• Feb 27, 2021

• #5

Have you a pic of it, are you buying it or just moving it, may winch on to low loader with help of telehandler pushing.
If your not buying, I may be interested depending on make and model.
www.tanks-r-us.co.uk

 

diesel1

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Location

North Yorkshire

• Feb 27, 2021

• #6

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br jones

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• Feb 27, 2021

• #7

startinghandle said:

There is or was someone who posted messages in this section and knows all about military tanks.. I said sometime ago that a tank was coming up for sale in a marriage break up,
I have just found out in the last couple of days is still available but there are conflicting reports to the value . I don't know what it is yet but I do know it's a non runner so moving it will be interesting .
If and it's a very big if I do buy it the only way I can think of moving it is jack it up on heavy sleepers and make a frame or chassis underneath and fit axle

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Another of your wild ideas mr davies ? And where are you going to keep a tank ,since youve neen kicked off your farm ?

 

Wellytrack

Member

• Feb 27, 2021

• #8

 

farmerdan7618

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Feb 27, 2021

• #9

Just get Metcalfe Farms to shift it. Loads of lorries moving tanks all the time. Can't imagine they wouldn't have seen it before.

 

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mf7480

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Mixed Farmer

• Feb 27, 2021

• #10

Moving an immobile tank could be as much a challenge as a dead horse!

 

Kevtherev

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Location

Welshpool Powys

• Feb 27, 2021

• #11

Dave W said:

Just pay a professional haulier. There's no way you'll shift a lump like that legally or safely

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It go on an ifor Williams 12ft no bother

 

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startinghandle

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• Feb 27, 2021

• #12

br jones said:

Another of your wild ideas mr davies ? And where are you going to keep a tank ,since youve neen kicked off your farm ?

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Don't have wild ideas ... now looking for suitable property to buy

 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD

• Feb 27, 2021

• #13

diesel1 said:

Have you a pic of it, are you buying it or just moving it, may winch on to low loader with help of telehandler pushing.
If your not buying, I may be interested depending on make and model.
www.tanks-r-us.co.uk

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Interesting website.

Really needs some sort of MBT in the mix though

 

Dave W

Member

Location

chesterfield

• Feb 27, 2021

• #14

startinghandle said:

Don't have wild ideas ... now looking for suitable property to buy

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Your idea of towing it on a home made chassis and axle is a bit wild and frankly irresponsible

 

Shutesy

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Arable Farmer

Location

Essex/Herts Border

• Feb 27, 2021

• #15

startinghandle said:

There is or was someone who posted messages in this section and knows all about military tanks.. I said sometime ago that a tank was coming up for sale in a marriage break up,
I have just found out in the last couple of days is still available but there are conflicting reports to the value . I don't know what it is yet but I do know it's a non runner so moving it will be interesting .
If and it's a very big if I do buy it the only way I can think of moving it is jack it up on heavy sleepers and make a frame or chassis underneath and fit axle

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So the question your asking is who is the forum tank expert? Or how should I move it? The whole thing sounds ridiculous, you dont move a tank by lifting it up and building a chassis with an axle under it to go on public roads!! You pay a proper haulier to do the job correctly. I would also say there aren't many people buying a tank that dont even know what it is they are planning to buy!! Quite a difference between a smallish APC and something like a Challenger One MBT!

 

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Pennine Ploughing

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Mixed Farmer

Location

200 miles N,NW of New York

• Feb 27, 2021

• #16

Sounds like there could be a second divorce if you get it, after shooting to fame in the local rag for doing 75mph on a Dexter getting pushed down hill, and after getting stopped in your tracks by the police, just to see get off the seat with brown stinking stuff running out of you camouflage pants, shouting "hail mussolini" followed by "is the war over yet? "

 

Wellytrack

Member

• Feb 27, 2021

• #17

It’s said an eccentric is just a monied lunatic..

 

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startinghandle

Member

• Feb 27, 2021

• #18

Shutesy said:

So the question your asking is who is the forum tank expert? Or how should I move it? The whole thing sounds ridiculous, you dont move a tank by lifting it up and building a chassis with an axle under it to go on public roads!! You pay a proper haulier to do the job correctly. I would also say there aren't many people buying a tank that dont even know what it is they are planning to buy!! Quite a difference between a smallish APC and something like a Challenger One MBT!

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I have yet to see the tank, all I know it's a non runner and if it cannot be towed the only way I can think of moving it so it can be loaded onto lorry is by jacking it up to put suitable
Frame underneath and fit axle , I have been welding since 1975 , I have engine driven 200 amp arc welder and
I can weld vertical and overhead

 

Kevtherev

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Location

Welshpool Powys

• Feb 27, 2021

• #19

What tank is it do you know?
(Interested in military vehicles)

 

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startinghandle

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• Feb 27, 2021

• #20

Dave W said:

Your idea of towing it on a home made chassis and axle is a bit wild and frankly irresponsible

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Who said anything about towing it home ??? Not me