On-Track Plant - Photo - OYH 310Y - Bruff Flail Unit

OYH 310Y - Bruff Flail Unit

Photo of OYH 310Y at Three Bridges OTPD

Photo of OYH 310Y at Three Bridges OTPD - 19 June 1993. Chas Tallis.

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  • michael wilson

    16 February 2004, 19:51:35

    Appologies for sounding ignorant but what are the main duties of the above vehicle?

  • Mick Whitworth

    9 October 2005, 18:18:58

    It's used for lineside vegetation control, It appears to be fitted with a chipper at the back where cut down tree trunks & branches are fed into the horizontal funnel at the back, shredded & blown out on to the lineside.

  • Kevin Flynn

    8 March 2006, 18:59:01

    I used to drive the Flail Tractor the FORD TW10 when they were new.

    Then it was fitted with a large Bruff flail ,there were three machines all fitted up the same.In the BR. days early 1980's I cherned up many a old mattress,and one of my fellow opperators cut throgh an HV. cable comming up the bank and put all the lights out at London RD. Guildford woops !

  • kev

    18 April 2007, 01:58:08

    do u know if thismachine is still about or one like it that might be for sale somewhere thanks kev

  • Ben Williams

    18 April 2007, 09:29:27

    Theres a similar one at Great Central but suspect they use it. It was formerly owned by Amey. I think this one is long scrapped though.

    photo of A685 PYD here

  • David French

    20 June 2007, 10:09:58

    In answer to Kev. Jones Plant Services are putting the contents of their Rail division up for auction on Saturday 7th July through the auctioneers Malcolm Harrison (www.malcolmharrison.com). Venue is Garretts Green in Brum. One of the lots is their Bruff/Ford tractor A 686 PYD. Unfortunately minus it's rail wheels, according to it's last observer, but hopefully they hav'nt been thrown away.

  • Alan Stotton

    15 February 2008, 11:11:26

    I used to do the training of the operators for these machines from around 1990 onwards the machines were based at Nottingham and Manchester (Newton Heath) on the northern section of the LMR. Originaly they were fitted with Flails and then later on the Manchester based machine was fitted with a Tee Cee 960 wood chipper capable of chipping trees up to 10 inch diameter. To ontrack this vehicle the vehicle was driven onto the track and then the lift and slew mechanism was utilised to on/off track.

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