Carrier grave yards

RichardT10829 · #1 21-01-11, 08:01

Nooooooooo. hahahaha it is sad though guys you have to admit

Hanno Spoelstra · #2 21-01-11, 17:38

Richard, indeed it makes you cry, but in all fairness Pounds Yards is one of the major sources of surviving AFVs today. Many Sextons, M10s, Churchills, Centaur Dozers, M5A1 Stuarts and T16s seen today come from there. Luckily they were not all scrapped due to a slump in scrap steel prices and the fact that Harry Pounds likes/liked military vehicles - reportedly, of each type coming in his yard he kept the best. Also see this earlier thread: Carriers in Pounds shipyard

Some more pictures here: http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...205#post296205

George McKenzie · #3 22-01-11, 19:43

One thing is that if all this stuff servived the thing s you have now wouldn't be worth as much .I have collected for over 50 years ,putting over 250 machines in a museum .When you first get the bug of collecting You hear a rumor about a vehicle ,the excitment sets in , Then the looking for it starts .My first carrier that I went to look for turned out to be a snow tractor .So you don't give up till you are firmly convinced that it is just a rumor There has been many times the thing I went to look for turned out to be a better thing than what I was looking for .I just bought a M38 Jeep that was sitting 10 miles from me on a fence line for 25 years and I never knew it was there . I can't get over how things rust in the UK and Europe .In western Canada it can sit out for a 100 years and still be ok .

RichardT10829 · #4 22-01-11, 20:07

i think the extreme cold over there kill the rust beasties of the night.....

shaun · #5 22-01-11, 22:50

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Originally Posted by George McKenzie

One thing is that if all this stuff servived the thing s you have now wouldn't be worth as much .I have collected for over 50 years ,putting over 250 machines in a museum .When you first get the bug of collecting You hear a rumor about a vehicle ,the excitment sets in , Then the looking for it starts .My first carrier that I went to look for turned out to be a snow tractor .So you don't give up till you are firmly convinced that it is just a rumor There has been many times the thing I went to look for turned out to be a better thing than what I was looking for .I just bought a M38 Jeep that was sitting 10 miles from me on a fence line for 25 years and I never knew it was there . I can't get over how things rust in the UK and Europe .In western Canada it can sit out for a 100 years and still be ok .

Thats very true George, I had been following the rumors for about 5 years the day i found the carrier in the farm scrap yard back in 1984, i had actually given up looking for them that day as i had been told about a German half track laying in a hedge, it turned out to be a 1940 GMC with a lime spreading body on the back. its was originally destined for France but got diverted to the UK as France had fallen, the lime body was a post war conversion. It was recovered and has been restored. Anyway while searching for the "half track" i need to stop for the call of nature (to much tea) , so i stopped the car and dived behind the hedge and found my self face to face with a T16. You must always follow up a rumor as you just never know !

maple_leaf_eh · #6 27-11-11, 23:22

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Originally Posted by George McKenzie

One thing is that if all this stuff servived the thing s you have now wouldn't be worth as much .I have collected for over 50 years ,putting over 250 machines in a museum .When you first get the bug of collecting You hear a rumor about a vehicle ,the excitment sets in , Then the looking for it starts .My first carrier that I went to look for turned out to be a snow tractor .So you don't give up till you are firmly convinced that it is just a rumor There has been many times the thing I went to look for turned out to be a better thing than what I was looking for .I just bought a M38 Jeep that was sitting 10 miles from me on a fence line for 25 years and I never knew it was there. I can't get over how things rust in the UK and Europe. In western Canada it can sit out for a 100 years and still be ok.

If we were collecting farm implements and agricultural equipment, the Canadian Prairies would be the veritable holy land. The average old farmer is too stubborn to sell his fourth old tractor or combine - never know when a pulley or piece off it might be needed. He refuses to sell the old grain truck, for fear of being taken advantage of. He'd rather let something rot into the dirt than allow it to be sold. There is a steel recycling plant in Regina, Saskatchewan for a reason. When old Herbert finally passes on, that old scrap iron goes to the shredder for cash and the farmyard is liveable again.

eddy8men · #7 28-11-11, 00:22

yes i bought the t16 from john price a couple of weeks back, the main reason being that i might have to sell my mk1 to keep my head above water financially and the thought of being carrierless was too much to bear

as fate would have it i already had a 24 stud engine and box aswell as the tracks and i know of a fella with an axle for sale, so all i need is the idler wheel assemblies and i'll be up and running !

shaun · #8 28-11-11, 00:37

i have one front idler bracket you can have as well as one of those rads i got from you . give me a call tomorrow mate

eddy8men · #9 28-11-11, 10:18

shaun you're a life saver

i'll give you a bell later on.

cheers mate

rick

Ron Pier · #10 23-01-11, 10:01

Some of you will have heard the story and seen the pictures of Peter Gray's Sherman that he bought from Pounds back in the 60's or 70's. Most had their turrets removed for scrap. So he bought the one at the bottom which still had a turret because it had other tanks on top of it. They hauled the resting tanks out of the way and began to tow his Sherman out (which had been left standing in gear) All of a sudden there was a cloud of smoke and the Diesel engine started up. There was a re-write up about it in 'Windsreen' a couple years ago. Ron