The beautiful English countryside, the wind blowing through the trees, the birds singing, about 200 ton of machinery and Ted chewing a squeaky ball in the background, perfect 😂

"Why Would You Buy a 40 Tonne Aircraft Tug" Because you can.

Poor Ted, he was just making sure everyone knew where he was with that squeaky ball.

Ted is a Treasure. Simply cannot script his moments on camera.

Just wanted to shout out to the camera person who never gets any cred....

I think (having worked with men in the logging industry in east texas,) you can turn that ripper backwards and it will dig in as it is pulled backwards so you probably don'thave to fabricate an anchor. BUT not for very heavy pulls. What i have seen done (a large bulldozer was mud stuck in Louisiana and they used one of the same size to get it out) is the pulling bulldozer digs a pit so that the whole dozer is sticking up at about 55 degree angle but the blade was extended downward as far as the machine would go and on top of the blade they ran the biggest cables i have ever seen. Without a winch they lifted the blades. that got the stuck dozer out of the "suction stuck" it was in. And then both dozers, moving in the same direction were free. Neither machine had a winch and they did not have time to wait. I did not see the "pull" only the war scape of the aftermath. It really tore up the ground but it did not matter, they were in the woods not in someones pasture or farm.

Those infamous words… “Think this may end up in A&E” 😂

I'm glad you fully appreciate the dangers of winching. I used to load RAF aircraft, the Herc's were fitted with the Blackburn Heavy Duty Winch which we used to load equipment that wasn't self powered, like Houchin ground power units. We had no option to stay a good distance away from the winch cable inside a Herc, but we were very careful not to step over the cable when it was under tension. I also did recovery CPC training a couple of times, because that was my chosen instructors field of expertise. In South Sudan I saved some locals from being decapitated during the recovery of aid agency vehicles from the mud in the rainy season. Several people were stood a few feet away from the cable when they started towing, I urged them to take a few steps back, which was fortunate because the driver of the towing vehicle decided to take a run at the tow, the cable snapped and whipped back past where the people had been stood. Stay safe Joe!

I'm with you on the " dont stand next to the winch". I have seen a Matadore with all its wheels off the floor , spade plate buried trying to pull a fallen tree out of a pond. We snapped a chain which took out the wing mirror an was never seen again!

Yes, winching IS dangerous. When I was seven and on a road construction site, visiting my dad, a D9 got stuck in the mud, halfway up to the top of the tracks. Another D9 was being used to haul it out. The steel cable snapped and literally cut a roadworker in half. I'll never forget that sight.

Might have been mentioned but a small (milemarker/H14 sized) winch with big drum capacity or a capston on plasma would be useful space winch to drag the main cable out and back to the dozer to save a lot of donkey work. Even an old Harvey frost hand crank with a little hydraulic motor.

Have you considered converting it into the tank from Aliens?

Ted: They didn't dig holes in the lawn today. Today they tore up the entire yard. And they shout at me when I'm digging in the ground.

Sounds like a good plan. The rear window is the weak spot though, a few horizontal bars wont be protective enough. I'd say replace the back window with at least 1/2 inch steel plate, with either a narrow vision slit or a reversing camera and screen (if you want to be extra fancy)

Love Ted's contribution to the sound track 😀

Yong Ted, giving it his all with the "Squeaky Ball of Encouragement"

Whilst your in there ,put pipework and valves around to the front for another winch or attachment on the front. And put another couple of attachment points on the blade . Put guarding on all windows as I seen a cable come off and wrap itself around a cab (forest forwarding tractor) good luck to you all and thank you for another fine video of a day ar mr hewes!

That D9 is anything but subtle

Does anyone else think Mr. Hewes look like Oddball from Kelly’s Heroes?

Man, I dislike safety busybodies as much as the next person but seeing you all next to that winch, especially Ted, has my balls shrivelling.

Quickly becoming my favourite YT channel! Such a mix of Tonka Toys and tanks, well done!

I think we need a good walk around the property to see what other gems you have planted or sunken, kinda like visiting Treasure Island ! Ted as usual gets his squeeks in....good Ted! Hmm, that beast would be the perfect Grocery Getter....no parking issues for sure !

Tay does a great job of filming under Teds directions 😊

Here we have a Ted video rudely interrupted by the yellow peril mucking around with its ponderous self. But Ted being a gentleman (resplendent in a nice scarf) doesn't complain. No, as a professional actor he just smiles and carries his ball around on the off chance someone will toss it for him so he may display his athletic skills.

Probably came from RAF Brize Norton for towing lockheed Tri-stars and Vickers VC10 back in the day. Takes me back to my RAF days

It's probably the first time in its life that the winch has been used.....knowing MOD RM tugs .....over specified for intended task

Ted never fails to provide me with delicious content!

Key word: Yellow

Excellent video. I started watching you when you was driving your Bentley around your front garden and I thought you was an eccentric rock star,but several videos later I’ve worked out your an eccentric tank fixer. Bloody well done old bean

"Watch this, it's going to go wrong." Girl, you need to be in more of these scenes....😂

very impressed with the little tug's winch. super powerful and didnt slacken off when being pulled buy the dozer. seems plenty strong enough to me

My mates company had two D9's for recovery. Mostly used to get bogged excavators out of peat bogs . Also used to have a couple of nice Diamond T's.

It brings a whole new meaning to the term 'going for a Tug' 😅.

Another awesome video from you guys, thanks and keep them coming soon.

You should totally convert that into the APC from Aliens! lol

The winch looks plenty strong enough, once its mounted to the D9 it should be good, although you might still need to reeve it up with a snatch block or two to give even more pulling power plus the more turns of wire should help to reduce the strain on each individual length of wire, like when you reeve up the block on a crane it reduces the strain on each length or FALL of wire.

Great idea👍 the only thing id suggest is to have a boom for the winch so when the "spade" is down you still have the ability to pull up as well as out

The difference between men and the boys are the size of their toys. But seriously, the tension in those cables is enormous and if they snapped you could be cut in half. Keep safe!

A: 'cos you can & 2: you guys are going to fabricate the APC from the the film 'Alien' - ah, go waan, go waan! 😀🤞

A second I saw that winch on the back, I knew you got it for that winch, man what a unit, hope to find something like that

I was hoping you were going to make a replica of the APC from Aliens :) That was a Hunslet ATT77 Air Towing Tractor though much lower and 72ton and a bit larger overall i think.

How nervous were you having to stand unprotected and directly next to a winch line with 40 tons of force on it to operate the controls? Seems like whoever designed this vehicle had never seen those cables snap before.

CAT just casually towing 80tons.... out of a ditch.... handbrake on 💪🏼 crazy 😂

Well, it's going to be an interesting bit of bodging/ planned engineering to make the winch attach to the D9, and include an anchor spade behind it. Your comments about controls and cable safety are spot on. I've seen heavy cable snap under load, you sure don't want to be in the way when it happens.

Ted's commentary worth admission price.

In my day job, I am part of a ship berthing squad. I absolutely agree with your “winching is dangerous” statement! We are constantly reminded of wires under load and the fatalities that can result if something goes wrong. I feel a remote control with the longest cable available is essential if you don’t want to arrive in A&E in two different ambulances!

That is such a sweet-sounding engine in that tug and very smoke free for an old girl too

i must say i am quite curious now what else you got in your property, would be cool to have a video where you give us a tour of the vehicles you got there

Adding the winch so it sits above the ground anchor would give the added benefit of as the load is applied to the tow cable. The opposite force should be directed downwards on to the anchor blade. So self helping it self to hold position. Providing the ground is not too soft of course.

" What could possibly go wrong" is the British version of " Hold my beer "...😂 Great video. Looking forward to the next as always.

I was nearly screaming watching you standing at the back to operate the winch. Winch wire and metal fittings are horribly dangerous. Consider changing the wire to yankum winch line - i will be much stronger, but its main drawback is resistance to sharp cutting . They do enormous soft shackles, and superb doubling up systems and easy winch extensions. Not a seller, but a very impressed viewer. Casey Ladelle KZfaq has done many videos showing their use. Biggest advantage, if it breaks you don't get that lethal missile flying through the air.

Joe add some rollers/pulleys to the D9 so that you can run the winch under the chassis to the front and then you can use the blade as an anchor when pulling anything towards you

Sounds like a sensible idea, gearing up a recovery D9. Winch seems acceptable enough. I would perhaps add a small hydraulic arm between the back of the unit and the winch, both as a spacer but also to have auxiliary cutting/clearing if that's required.

I'd mount the winch to the D9. If you mount it to the spade, the winch pull will try to jack up or push down the rear of the D9, depending on the height of the spade & the angle of the arm

I used to drive the same tug towing aircraft. Gear 1 is for pulling/pushing stuff you shouldn’t 😂 I once did a power slide on ice whilst towing an aircraft with passengers on board with one of those. Get yourself a Schopf F396 won’t need any cables then, they can move 200T

my friend got his 20t excavator buried up to the halfway point of the cabin windscreen, (the engine deck was almost submerged) in a peat bog, it was rather scary as he'd sunk so fast that his door and the sliding front hatch were pinned closed, he had to smash the rear window and climb out of there and shimmy across the arm to the bucket then onto relatively harder soil.. there were 2 army corp engineers on holiday visiting their folks next door that gave us a hand digging down to the tow point on the main track pivot frame and we had a guy with a d7 or 8 i can remember bought out drive around and hook up a winch (similar in size to your one) from across the bog, it was impressive how it pulled that beast from the pit. an hour of hosing the mud off and a decent chunk of change in the d8 operators pocket and all was right..

You must paint “Tonka” down the side of that! 😂

super excited for this build. not even remotely interested in dozers or recovery vehicles but combine the two and you've certainly got my attention

Class job. Serious winch. The spade you mentioned you need to build in place of the ripper, could you modify the ripper you have as to be able to mount it backwards, with a steel plate (spade) attachment that bolts into the bolt holes in place of the ripper tooth (kinda like a giant camping shovel/spade)That way everything is still OEM, accept for the attachment on the ripper bar which bolts on. All that's left is to mount the winch and hoses to the ripper frame.

I would prefer to mount the winch on the bulldozer itself, so have all the hydraulic power etc for the blade. Winch above the ripper.

Anybody that works with Ground Support equipment knows that that machine is called a pushback. A tug is much smaller and pulls around baggage carts and GPU’s.

I have a custom built Winch setup in NZ, it is a pto drive winch off an International TD20, it has a 100:1 reduction, its set up to go on a 3 point linkage on a Wheel tractor, the winch has a small bulldoser blade mounted on it, on a 540 pto you can barely see the winch drum moving.. It is rediculessly powerfull, it sadens me that I have never needed to use it.. My dads Engineer built it, and dad used it to pull a Giant Kauri Log out of a swamp in 1982

Winch on the end of a lever arm? Calculate forces of each. A lever on a lever may not be the best idea.

lmao Ted was super happy about finding that ball Edit: the CAT D9 idea is super cool actually, and I am sure there is someone around that can help manufacture a spade for the winch.

BRILLIANT IDEA - love to see this evolve, great stuff

One thing i saw on a d9 with a winch... in Argentina ... not the most safety-conscious was having a rear plough with a mega eyelet for a snatch block in order that the winch cable could go under the vehicle and out the front, this allowed the main scoop with a narrow gap to work as a resistance plough.

Just got watching a C&C Equipment video from the US. He was saying they may be coming to Europe in the near future. That's one group of guys that do a lot of cat and tractor work!!

Some good old fashioned sketchy shit! love it!🤘

Fantastic idea. The fulcrum point seems essential to your calibrations. Mick London

Ted doing his impression of Sooty n Sweep.

Love a bit of variety, This will make for some good viewing and a test of your fabrication skills (and Jacks painting with yellow paint )

Tirfor and 10 snatch blocks 😂 Nice Boughton winch probably one of the best you could use definitely a remote control and some cab protection Mick goulds little bob cat winch does some amazing recovery imagine your D9 with a winch Top job 👏

(1) Instead of getting rid of the rippers could you turn them around so that they point away from the machine and use them as an anchor (I assume there is more than one) or (2) Could you mount the winch on the blade frame behind the blade. My thought is that you could make a window in the blade near the centre with a cover that could put in place when you want to use the blade. When you need the winch open the window, run the cable out then dig the blade into the ground and use it as the spade.

Forget the recovery dozer idea Joe, just use 2 Fodens, 1 to do the job and the other to sit there and look pretty. 😁

Al Quiring lives and works in British Columbia, Canada. He is a national treasure 🫡🫡

The problem I have with my yard is I'm constantly having to move tanks.. YAY

The idea that any of this was going to end up in A&E was incredibly optimistic.

Adding remote winch controls is probably the best idea. If you get that winch mounted strong enough on the back of that d9, then you don't actually have to winch you can just stretch the cable out, hook it up to whatever stuck, get in the D9 and floor it it obviously has enough power to pull the world into reverse so you might not have to rely on the winch motor entirely.

Ted with his squeaky ball was like a later day Fred Dibnah with his car horn 😂

You need Pat Cullen to stick it all together for you, that much I know… He’ll call you names, grumble a lot but if you want something that large welding together, he’s your man.

Great way to move your tanks around other than the clapped out forklifts, you could fabricate a v bar like the british tank museum or ausarmour so you can hook it to the tow mounts

2:23 The "nice driver seat" is an ISRI air ride seat - made in my hometown Lemgo. This is however more the commerial grade, industrial type, while the bigger and better ones can be found in overland trucks or busses. Volvo in the UK bought a hell of those for their coaches. And - according to the busdriver, who rode us from Glasgow airport to the IBM facility in Greenock in the mid-1990s with one Volvo coach - that this seat "is the best of the whole freaking bus". Well. He said it *slightly* different however. 🙂 I haven't figured out which particular seat this is. Need to ask a friend who makes them for almost 40 years by now. Thanks for sharing !

We need to see more of that back area and all the treasures you have stashed back there!

I love that truck. It’s so cool. One of those coolest things in the collection.

Another big toy to play with, awesome ❤

Good old Ted with his 'safety' whistle!. Bonkers idea, cant wait to see it done! 😀

Thats the M577 Armored Personnel Carrier from Aliens!!! :D

Joe personally if I was building it I'd be tempted to mount the winch up front, you have that massively constructed blade that will beat any spade on the back any day plus with a nice guard over the screen you can see what your doing perfectly, look at all the great military armoured recovery variants, centurion, chieftain, Tiger, chally 2.. blade and winch coming out the front

In 2005 I worked as a welder at a Shropshire heavy engineering company, making the cabs for this type of tug. The steel was very thick, something like 12mm, from memory. I've also been present when a winch wire snapped, and would not have stood anywhere near that tank or tug (as mentioned around 21:00; good idea to move the winch to the other machine).

Love the D9 I had a go or three in D8,s and that was excellent! as for Modding the ripper assy, why not repurpose the tooth? turn it round and have proper spec towing points put on it, and perhaps put a wide blade on the tooth for soft ground you wont be working in a quarry! (it can easily handle the pressures whereas the “spade” you make will need to be that kind of strong to cope with all the forces on it)

Ted wanted to drive. You should have let him.

Me thinks the D9 cracking up was the best music to my ears, but Teds squeaky ball came in second.

Great video and an unstoppable winching machine. Why not!

You’ll be able to drag stuff from crazy places AND build a haul road at the same time with that.

Could also make it into the world's most powerful ice cream truck... i mean, think about it... you could tow a looot of ice cream with it.

Mr Hewes with the Monster Max merch. 😂

Worthy of keeping and restoring

A winch you operate from the back of a vehicle while standing less then a meter from it that also has no safety against engaging in gear. Truly genius design but at least it makes for an exciting video!

AH yes a Hunting jet provost. Got a few hours on them 'back in the day'. And @ 01:04 did I spy the rear end of Gloster Meteor? I am pretty sure there is not much that cannot be pulled with that D9 / winch and a snatch block. A bit handy shifting tanks and stuff about as well. "Did that ship move?" "No but the earth changed orbit"

I'm not sure how I ended up here, but I think it's time to return to the Ren and Stimpy show.