Modelling career for Little Giant
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[I n their time, they were the Rolls Royce of steam engines. The words belong to Dave Hardiman who was talking about his circa-1920
Tasker B2 chain-driven lovely.
His 71-year-old Little Giant, which spent its working life in and around Scottish quarries, now earns a crust modelling.
Its latest gig involved lending its eight tonnes to demo' the strength of Miles Nunn's new 10-tonne tail-lift, the Mega-lift.
With most of its weight being at the rear of the two-metre platform it did more than that, say MN's two founders Ray Miles and Gordon Nunn.
Ray reckons that it is the equivalent of lifting 15 tonnes at 1.5m and without any sign of deflection either.
What next?
Well, the trailer goes out to Bullens on a two-week demonstration and then to other prospective customers for evaluation.
As for the Tasker, one of only a dozen remaining and still on its original treads, it goes into hibernation somewhere in sleepy Hampshire.
Not a million miles from the Andover forge where it was fashioned all those years ago.