Dutch club The Minitruckers September 2010
 

This photoshoot was made at a demo of The Minitruckers, one of the clubs in Holland that gives demo's with their portable truckcourse.

Their website is www.minitruckers.nl , it's in Dutch, but the website contains lots of photo's.

This demo was in september 2010 inside a gymnasticshall.

This is one of the cranes. a Terex AC200, and it is completely hydraulic.

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Nr 2

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Last one, here you can see how large the crane is, and the flyjib isn't even mounted yet.

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Here a Scania with a hydraulic crane. The crane was completely selfbuild and uses a Leimbach pump.

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On te background an oldtimer Volvo F88. This club is known for its models that are in most cases completely selfbuild and they have a lot of oldtimers.

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The last one, the crane has three boomsections and can fully extended still lift about 0,5kg, like a Bruder container.

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They also have some American truckmodels.

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The next truck can be used in two versions, one as a tippertruck and one as a heavy transport hauler. First the tipperversion.

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You can see here that they bring an amount of potterydirt to dig with excavators.

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Here the truck in heavy transportversion. It has a ballast on the back and pulls a Nooteboom trailer, wich is fully steered. As a load there is a Hitachi KH160 crane, that is completely functional.

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Here a picture of the crane fully operational.

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Here another oldtimer, meanwhile this model is finished, but here it was in the make. It's a Daf T 2400 DO, and is completely build from brass.

In my opinion an absolute beauty.

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From the same builder, an Scania Torpedo wrecker.

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Next two Scania Torpedotrucks, one tracktor and one heavy transport tracktor.

The first is a T143 with walking floor trailer.

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Detail from the tracktor.

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The next is a modern Scania, with a jeepdolly and a fully steerable 5 axle lowloader with detachable front neck, to be able to load heavy machinery by just driving them on the deck.

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Here the neck is off and an excavator is driving on.

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Attaching the neck again. The rideheight can be altered by the neck and with hydraulic suspension at the back. This way the deck is on the ground and won't drive away while loading.

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And here the combination is driving off. The steering of the trailer works with a rotatable kingpin with servocontroller. The sharper you steer, the more the trailer steers.

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Here the same tracktor with a semi lowloader. This also has the steeringsystem, but it has 8 axles. The trailer is completely build from brass.

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The last from this Scania. The trailer is also extendable, it becomes almost twice the length of the deck when extended.

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Here a converted Bruder excavator in the dirt.

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Here a Bruder tracktor that is converted to RC. In the back you see a FTF truck, a Dutch company that use to build special trucks. You see it with a working Hulo stonetrailer crane, that can load and onload the stone packages.

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Here a Volvo NL 12 with a hookloader.

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The truck has some nice airbrush details as well.

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Here a very old Volvo truck, from the 1930's, onfortunately the fuelprices are from today:mad:
In the back again the Volvo F88, here with the Nooteboom trailer, the backaxles swing 90 degrees open when backing up the truck, so you can drive an machine on the trailer.

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Finally to end this photoshoot, an Spiering foldable crane, a mechanical masterpiece if i may say so.

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There is a nice video of this crane how it folds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VVD8MyYtmug

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Great pics. and very talented builders. Thanks William.

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On request I place the link to the buildthread of the Spierings foldable crane.
It's in Dutch, but there are a lot of pictures:

http://www.minitruckers.nl/cgi-bin/2...msg=1094835180