Pickering Steam Traction Fair (pic heavy)

GVstu · Last edited by GVstu on Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:16 am; edited 1 time in total

Took my son to see the Steam Traction fair in Pickering Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago and I've only just got around to uploading some of the (many) photos I took.

I'll post a couple of highlights and link to the album on photobucket as there are too many photos to post up here without murdering everyone's connection.

Some lovely old stuff here and a great car boot type affair for heavy duty engineering and the like, if you need a stub axle for your vintage Foden truck then this is probably the place to pick one up Very Happy

One of the many fine examples of traction engine:

Big boots on these wheels...

Impressively large torque settings on this thing:

Gorgeous old bikes:

They had a tractor pull

This APC or self propelled gun or whatever it is had no problem pulling the trailer

(I have a few videos of the tractor pull that I'll try and stitch together then I'll post a link as there were some lovely plumes of black smoke)

The fair was massive and naturally I had to visit the beer tent. Elliot was bored in here but dad wasn't Laughing

more below:

GVstu · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:09 am Post subject:

Some sort of Russian monster towing vehicle...

...with impressively large running gear

Elliot got excited by the collection of landrovers and various military gear, here he is dragging along my father to see the volvo with portals parked up a couple of pitches along...

Gigantic heavy haulage vehicle:

Considering what was written on the side I'd liked to have seen in the engine bay of this bad boy:

GVstu · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:12 am Post subject:

My father told me this is what roadworks used to look like:

Everything was shiny and polished:

Lovely example of an early FC:

GVstu · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:15 am Post subject:

Decided to take Elliot on the big ferris wheel but kept a good hold on the slippery rascal:

Lovely old Fodens:

If you zoom into this pic you can see a boy standing about five inches from that swinging boat there... a health and safety nightmare Shocked

Anyway there's millions and I have millions more I didn't upload, a great day out and I'd recommend it to anyone!

Here's a link to the full album on photobucket:

http://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb42/td4dotnet/steam/

Thanks for looking!

Stal1878 · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:51 am Post subject:

Really love the heavy haulage stuff! That Russian thing is awesome Cool

Thanks very much for the pictures buddy Smile

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I've been to the Pickering Steam Fair twice in previous years - it poured down both times so most owners didn't have their engines in steam Sad

landzuki · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:18 am Post subject:

We have camped for the whole show every year since 2001 but not this there was too much trouble from a certain group. Personal items stolen, intimidating behaviour , toilets removed for their personal use and at one point the toilet people refused to come on to site due to aggression and abuse when they tried to put toilets back in right place.

GVstu · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:45 am Post subject:

landzuki · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:51 am Post subject:

Last year they were constantly driving up and down the road ways between the caravans slowly. in previous years they have been in a seperate field but last year the camping field was moved and they were put at the bottom of the public camping not good

big col · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:06 am Post subject:

thats my 1st ever s3 landrover reg no mjm 682k i sold it in 2006 looks alot diffrent now it was a blue hard top when i had it

Toseland · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 11:20 am Post subject:

well it looks good now lol

i love the last pic of a real landrover in that first post XD

(queue all the fanboys Laughing

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peterrogers28 · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:44 am Post subject:

Nightbar · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:49 am Post subject:

Brilliant photos - thanks for sharing.

GVstu · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:21 am Post subject:

Hey guys I'd have posted more but I was worried about monstering everyones bandwidth - if you go to the following link there are more that I didn't post:

http://s205.photobucket.com/user/td4dotnet/library/steam?page=1

DD · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject:

Brilliant! Love these pics!

Stuff the bandwidth......get the photos up. If people can't handle the bandwidth, then they don't have to let it load...you already stated in the title it's pic-heavy, so that's good enough Smile

GVstu · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:42 pm Post subject:

GVstu · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:49 pm Post subject:

More...

Another Prime Mover of some sort... I'd loved to have had a chat with whoever had brought these beasts to the show but there was never anyone around which was a bit of a shame as I'd like to have got some pictures of the engines!

Some Military stuff:

Logging Trucks:

Here's some kind of heavy duty winch which is probably OTT for your 90.

GVstu · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:04 pm Post subject:

Last...

It's the rozzers!

I suppose this is some kind of swamp or sand type thing.

Me and my younger brother used to rally one of these around the bottom field that was too steep for pretty much anything. I could get mega air with the brick and plank jump. It was great until my brother drove it into a barb-wire fence and ******** it up somehow. I was gutted.

A shot of one of the set pieces of old Roadworks hardware. They look old to me...

...Ivor would know Wink

Earlier I talked about the tractor pull event but I forgot to mention that this thing was doing well, belching out great clouds of black smoke until the gearbox let go in spectacular fashion, much to the dismay of the hillbilly crowd.

It took nearly 5 and a half burly pie eating farmers to move it to the pits. Think

DD · Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:10 pm Post subject:

Love it!

MMMMmmmmmmilitary vehicle porn.... Smile