Building and Breaking Birt
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Bob and Alex taking part in the 'Fluid design process' used when we built the truck. The overhead lockers are above them. |
Johnny 9.5 Making the drop down steps. Johnny was a jet engine designer for Rolls Royce so we have the best step design of any vehicle in the world. |
Bob hammering the welder building the main locker catches. We built the truck up from the chassis over three months in a barn in the cotswold's |
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Dave building the climbing wall panels with our Hilti drill and entreprise holds. The frame of the bouldering wall is on the truck behind him |
'The Barn' where we built the truck always had a steady flow of visitors wondering what we were up to. |
Stig fixing the springs and wheel bearing in Northern Kenya. The very poor roads there really give the truck a hammering |
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After being forced of the road into a low tree in north India by a psychotic oncoming driver the roof was severely mangled. Nobody was hurt and we soon started making it safe for the days drive north to Nepal |
Everybody hacking and cutting off the mangled bits. Gutting to see all that hard work on the side of the road but all was well. |
'Topless in Tibet' We had a vote and took the truck across the Himalayas as a convertible. Bit chilly but the view was out of this world. |
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The truck in Northern China after the road collapsed under the rear wheels. Everybody spent all night digging and re-building the road. Then they had to get a JCB to drag the rear axle back into line. |
The amazing flying truck! Whenever we ship the truck between continents there is the pucker factor of seeing local crane operators launching her onto a shipping flatbed. Scary |
The lads 'helping' Bob fix the brakes and springs in Turkey. This hot rock work ethic means things always get done at a cracking pace
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What no prop! A large clattering sound indicated the drive shaft had broken in Jordan. A bit of magic welding saw the job a goody once more. |
The spring hanger sheared off in the middle of the Sahara. Read the story in the strory section. They had fun spending a week in a mining camp in the middle of the desert getting the hanger welded back together. |
Never a good sign. As soon as the cab goes forward then Bob, Fi or whoever will be twirling large spanners and grumbling. |
