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LesB
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GAM’s Canberra was picked up last night and dumped on its back side, all 10 odd tons of it! despite being chocked and pegged down at the front. There doesn’t appear to be any damage at first glance. We wont know until the old girl is put back down on all wheels, and the back end can be examined, at present her nose is pointing skyward.

The ability to sit down on its haunches is an endearing trait of the Canberra, :rolleyes: has been for years. Solution is a tail trestle as on MAM’s WF922 – any CanMan will tell you that. The moments and surface areas involved will still pick up a concrete block though.

There’s little likelihood of major damage unless it bounced around a lot. Some skin wrinkling, maybe back-hatch fit probs, but nothing that can’t be fettled.

Seen it. Been there. Sorted it . . . 😉 😉