Carrier grave yards - Page 2

Hanno Spoelstra · #31 21-01-11, 20:51

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Originally Posted by shaun

T16's - there were 3 in the pile on my first vist , and only 2 the next time so i made sure they were not going to cut them up. i recovered them about 2 years later, one is now being restored by a friend near manchester the other i sold to Kevin Wheatcroft, but i have seen it on milweb in the last year for sale again and still not restored.

Thanks Shaun, sorry to hear that T16 you rescued is still awaiting its turn.

Is it one of the two shown below? They were offered for sale last year by John Price.

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shaun · #32 21-01-11, 22:14

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Thanks Shaun, sorry to hear that T16 you rescued is still awaiting its turn.

Is it one of the two shown below? They were offered for sale last year by John Price.

Hanno - both of those T16's i recovered and are the ones in the photos. the one with the complete side armour was out of pounds.

George McKenzie · #33 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 · #34 22-01-11, 20:07

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

shaun · #35 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 !

Ron Pier · #36 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

lincwel · #37 23-01-11, 13:49

Last summer my son and I found 2 carriers in a local yard. One is under a pile of scrap and maybe top armour is cut off and the other was shortened to be a snowplow. Owner said they could be for sale but I've never followed up on this. I don't have a price on them but may go back in spring to have another look

Smith out

RichardT10829 · #38 23-01-11, 14:27

Save them........save them now !!!

shaun · #39 23-01-11, 14:44

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Originally Posted by lincwel

Last summer my son and I found 2 carriers in a local yard. One is under a pile of scrap and maybe top armour is cut off and the other was shortened to be a snowplow. Owner said they could be for sale but I've never followed up on this. I don't have a price on them but may go back in spring to have another look

Smith out

So what are you waiting for ????? if you post the location you will be trampled in the rush !!!!!!!!!! go get them now

George McKenzie · #40 25-01-11, 17:45

I'm still waiting till spring to go see a carrier that I saw last fall , way back in the bush It was painted black and had steering levers .The CT number was stamped on the right side of the fan cover .It was not a normal type of carrier .The levers looked like a Loyed they wern't home made .I should have taken some pictures . Another trick that works is .Put a wheel or armor plate in the back of your truck for people to see and park it in front of the local coffey shop ."fish bait" You will have more people tell you where there is more things than you can remember .I got my halftrack and 8 ton Fruehauf lowboy trailer that way .This trailer was used to haul the carriers and small cats D2,D4,s

Hanno Spoelstra · #41 27-11-11, 20:22

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Originally Posted by shaun

T16's - there were 3 in the pile on my first vist , and only 2 the next time so i made sure they were not going to cut them up. i recovered them about 2 years later, one is now being restored by a friend near manchester the other i sold to Kevin Wheatcroft, but i have seen it on milweb in the last year for sale again and still not restored.

One of these is now back in the hands of the MLU carrier family - see Eddy's posting over on HMVF.

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Originally Posted by eddy8men

there was a nice complete t16 in belgium a couple of months back for £8.5k which was a fair price but it's sold now, as for the one in the states i think once the shipping cost is factored in it just doesn't stack up, if it were me i'd look closer to home first.
i bought this one a couple of weeks ago from a fella in stafford for £2.5k which goes to show they are still out there if you know where to look

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shaun · #42 27-11-11, 22:22

Rick well done matey !!!! i owned that one for about 15 years and never did a thing to it . I know you will get it done !!!!

maple_leaf_eh · #43 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 · #44 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 · #45 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 · #46 28-11-11, 10:18

shaun you're a life saver

i'll give you a bell later on.

cheers mate

rick