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Unimog Alert, overwhelming desire!!!
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jamesmartin
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id have it
Dr_evil
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lecturer has two of them, think he bought them in belgium and shipped them over as they were real cheap
buckshot
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####in rubbish, the steering wheels on the wrong side and the tyres are toast 
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####in rubbish, the steering wheels on the wrong side and the tyres are toast
yeah but for 5K id buy it.
Her indoors would kill me if i came home with one of them. :lol:
Now theres an idea. :lol:
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waldershelf
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Awesome piece of kit but the 40 mph top speed is a bit limiting, would make a terrific off road toy.
lorri789
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Unimog is on my bucket list.
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It would be a five minute toy and you'd get bored. try taking it greenlaning and you'd demolish the roof and windows on the trees.
Axle twisters would be like mole hills.
Strip it and put the axles on a 110.
Now this is a proper toy!
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KillaJoules
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Come off it, the MK was a feebly 4x4d truck, The mogs are the amazing beasties
We used to borrow this from our tree surgeon mate for site runaround when we ran the Langley Farm weekends
And this was the baby of the range, being an Agri it was like the original in this thread limited to by gearing to 40mph
Because he was a tree surgeon he was allowed to run it around on Red diseasle
Pity the one on ebay does not have the hydraulics as the three way tipper body was extremely useful in tight spaces.
Also the PTOs, he had a huge pto driven chipper that was attached by the agri three point linkage, the only downside is that due to the power of the thing it could munch 8" trunks but it could whip them around dangerously fast while munching.
It would go everywhere the Defenders would go in just 2 wheel drive. But engage 4x4 and the diff locks and wow!
poot poot, want one. But has already been mentioned, the wife would shoot me if I even hinted at bringing one home
Hey Stu, maybe we could park it at the farm
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Come off it, the MK was a feebly 4x4d truck, The mogs are the amazing beasties
We used to borrow this from our tree surgeon mate for site runaround when we ran the Langley Farm weekends
And this was the baby of the range, being an Agri it was like the original in this thread limited to by gearing to 40mph
Because he was a tree surgeon he was allowed to run it around on Red diseasle
Pity the one on ebay does not have the hydraulics as the three way tipper body was extremely useful in tight spaces.
Also the PTOs, he had a huge pto driven chipper that was attached by the agri three point linkage, the only downside is that due to the power of the thing it could munch 8" trunks but it could whip them around dangerously fast while munching.
It would go everywhere the Defenders would go in just 2 wheel drive. But engage 4x4 and the diff locks and wow!
poot poot, want one. But has already been mentioned, the wife would shoot me if I even hinted at bringing one home
Hey Stu, maybe we could park it at the farm
Oh i'm not disputing what awesome machine they are. But for play value i think it's a different matter.
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My friend had one of these and it was a great bit of kit and pretty useful as well. He had the winch fitted on his and it could pull serious amounts, he once recovered a low loader with a traction engine on the back when the whole lot was down to the axles in mud... proper toy.
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I'd much prefer one of these Daimler Ferret Scout Car | eBay
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Killajoules, what happened to Langley Farm? I went a couple of times round '96 ish but I haven't seen owt since?
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I've used them for towing aircraft etc. Biggest problem is lack of weight on the back end and good brakes, there have been reported occasions of people doing emergency stops and rolling it over onto the cabin (like an overcooked stoppie on a bike). We used to have two spare tyres chained down in the back to weigh it down a bit. Was also taught to reverse down steep hills when off roading to prevent roll over!! Best thing was the sound of the straight 6
