ABANDONED Machine vehicles left stranded on an old WW2 RAF base.
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- This base opened in 1940, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces. During the war it was used primarily as a troop carrier airfield for airborne units and as a subsidiary training depot of the newly formed Royal Air Force Regiment. After the war it was placed on care and maintenance during 1947 when the RAF Regiment relocated to RAF Catterick.
( HAD PERMISSION ON THE DAY TO EXPLORE ) At my own risk. Nobody else's! - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I've seen comments saying I deserve to be shot in the face for being here or I should have my neck broke. For trespassing ( EVEN though I had full permission to create a video and be on this land ) Most of these comments are from the F###ed up elder generation that just hate to see other people enjoying their life. You are a bunch of fools hiding away behind screens jealous of others ability to have a fantastic life. PEACE ✌️
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
You made me laugh! Bit of a bugger if you walk off with something and he knows part number and you don’t. So much for those in the country not knowing!
I get an overwhelming sense of nostalgia seeing old machinery. Alot of this stuff I can relate to once seeing work. Each old piece of equipment has a story to tell. Thanks for this video. Very therapeutic.
Looks like 90% of that machinery is nothing but scrap metal now,they have been picked clean of of most of their parts. There were a few trailers and a couple of tractors that could have a little life left in them. Nice video , thanks for the tour👍
Commonwealth troops built an airfield in North East Thailand, 1963/66, when we left some of us flew back to Singapore while the rest along with the plant machines were shipped back. The broken down plant was tipped over board in the China sea, none of it was worth saving, but they had to take it all away from that airfield. By the way, it was abandoned as our PM Mr Wilson called it all off.
Wilson the communist. He was a real POS
Interesting but sad video!!
I like old industrial machinery especially massey ferguson!!
I have several and hope to get more!!!
Me an a mate were there a couple of years ago, I'm sure the Antar had wheels on it.
And there was a very see through Dukw definitely not ever going in the water again. Don't remember the Bedford QL refueller, but it seems a bit more organized than when we were there.
there used to be 10 times that amount there 40 years ago
Hello from Ontario Canada I just subbed too your channel I love old and Abandoned places the History behind it I am a Paranormal and History Researcher and Investigator I look forward too seeing more content .
Amazing Jack. Thanks a lot for this video.
Where are all the "Will it start" guys at ???
What a great place to visit even more impressive was the skylark singing its heart out in the background..👍👍👍🐦🐦
Munted, wrecked, carked, but fascinating. Thanks for the view.
Oh wow, what cool place! Some great pieces for restoration!
This is in Lincolnshire been there about 20 years ago the owner surpplies spares parts all over and as far as I can remember was run some plant as well
what a valuable vinage paradise hope machines can be preserved as it would be great to see them working again
Never ever happen
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
What a waste the old refuelled would make a classic camper ,there’s folks out there looking for parts and restoration projects this airfield should be bought by some aero club because you’ll never wear out the runways there about a metre thick thanks for the walk round👍👨🏻🏭
Yes and the owner of these machines sell spares from them. To keep going and restore other machines
Cool! Lots of scrap there. Wish you would have looked at the crane...
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
That is without doubt the strangest collection of old plant I have ever seen. Hardly anything is complete or salvageable. Several £100,000 in scrap value. Why hasn’t the owner scrapped it I don’t understand. So strange but interesting.
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
He obviously has plenty of money and therefore no need to scrap them....if we end up going to war with Russia the government will requisition them to melt down and make military equipment from
only the government can throw away this kinda money
Cool to see all the old equipment. But most of it is scrap now!
Extremely cool machinery, wish I was rich and could buy some of those old dozers
Thanks for sharing.
Had a wander around here 10+ years ago... spent hours in there, quite easy to stay hidden but eventually the owner showed up as we were about 100ft short of the gate on the way out. It does look like a lot has been removed.
Thats amazing, which part of the country is that in?
@@petewarne5138 It's near Bourne
Is this nelson m green and sons breakers yard?
@@mattyerfdog8873 I think so as it's near Bourne!
jeez thats a lot of metal in one place
Wish I could have the scrap value of that lot.
It's worth more as spares now
Scrappy sees this video it will all be gone in a heartbeat
I flew out of one of the RAF airfields in Southern England to Germany for a night drop. I remember some sort of Fighter Jet up on the post. Very green and rolly hill to the dining mess.
Wow 😱
Brilliant video thank you in heaven
There is lots of these places in the U.K. and it looks like most of the stuff there is obsolete vehicles used for parts ,the M.O.D. is all about cost & available money to spend storing these things . It would cost a fortune storing that lot under cover & keeping it under lock and key and after all most of the value would now be the scrap price ?.
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
love to know the story of how it all ended up here
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
I wish i could restore one of those old beauty,s! They don’t make it as strong as they use to do! Old is gold in this case!
You can tell the over taxation of a government by what they throw away.
At your 6:29/ 6:31 mark you missed the C-6 dozer a GM it has the 6-71 engine same as the one which I ran years ago ,shame would have been good to look at it.
Which is likely from 62?.
sshhhh don't tell Matt at Diesel Creek channel about this place🤣😂
Great video! And as I say to all explorers... Be Safe And Good Journeys!
Thank you for your words :)
You'd be safer by not being there! The site is clearly marked as private property. The owners are actually really nice people, but understandably they get a bit annoyed by people trespassing at this place.
About 100000 dollars US in scrap steel.
Are you trespassing ?
Yes most definitely
Land owner gave me permission.
It's stored not abandoned, big difference.
Stored permanently 🤣
Who are you to say? I'd say he's selling parts. Lots of salvage yards like this on the US. They do a good business. Where else do you go for parts for good machines? A couple of Cats and a couple of Masseys in there worth some money. Oh, and what kind of dumbass climbs up that boom with those rusty cables? Never mind, I have my answer.
Stored? You must be joking! It's an eyesore that should be removed immediately and turned to good use for the the good of us all.A.S.A.P
@@paulbissitt4754 if you are that concerned about it, go see your local council (assuming it's in your council area) and tell them how it is negatively impacting you, I'm sure they will give you the attention you deserve.
What an awesome place!
When scrap iron goes to 250 a ton there is a gold mine sitting there.
Cool old stuff looks like a old Airfeild . Just a tip from a guy that takes lots of pictures for fun and to document work done keep the Sunlight behind you . Lighting is key to picture quality. Keep doing wonderful things
Strange its not being recycled. Its far more easier to harvest this Iron then to get it out of the ground.
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
they're all abandoned because the steering wheel is on the wrong side
The steering wheel is on the right side, but they do drive on the wrong side 🙃
@@bchdsailor 😂touché
Most plant machinery has a central operating position, obviously you're not familiar with dozers/tractors/Graders/ECT.
Plus when we gave you instructions for your road building requirements, you had them backwards, hence you now drive on the wrong side of the road.
Love places like this. 👍👍
That would be an awesome location for a Madmax Production ....
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
That’s crazy to history rusting like some old tat
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq well I guess if things went south they now know where to find the gear to fix up. He must have 30 million in old vehicles alone.
The money that is just rotting away.......
I think Steve Green own that lot, used to be lots more there. People who keep this kind of stuff are to be admired I think for many reasons.
Should charge people to look round £5 a head, he would make a fortune.
Small fortune in scrap metal going to waste...
Does he have a 955L engine in working condition?
Why don't someone get permission and remove them to restore and use at different air show of the equipment used in WW2
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
How or why did all this equipment end up there?
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq Thanks for the info. I did locate it on Google Earth. I could not believe how much heavy equipment is there. There must be hundreds of thousands of $$$,$$$.00 just in scrap metal.
But do you know how or why did all this equipment end up at the airbase location. Did the owner obtain the equipment after they got ownership of the old base? Or was at least some of the equipment there when the base was acquired. Sounds like this could be a pretty good money maker. With the age of some of these pieces this business could be one of only a few places or possibly the only place to obtain parts for the older equipment.
@@billmorris2613
Bill, I read all the comments and selected William Willmot's as the one ypuo would probably find the most applicable.
There were people who bought old WW2 airfields with concrete runways and hardstands just for their execellent space to park as much as possiblte right there.
Obviously the owner of this did so with the exprss purpose of storing machines until breaking them.?
It probably cost him little if he just offered to take it away from where it last broke down....
I am on the other side of the world so I can't help any further...most of the machinery loks 1950's style so not "war surplus"?
If you want to go down a rabbit hole have a look at the channel Marty T....a Kiwi who takes old "stuffed" "scrap" machinery and gets it going...to be used again.
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq Thanks for the info. I watch Marty’s channel quite often.
Its called the MOD investing in the commodities market. Or basically couldnt care less as the next years budget is always guaranteed
Nothing to do with the MOD. All privately owned, including the site.
seems like a waste to not at least us it for scrap!
Can anyone identify the crane at 7:17 and the six wheel truck at 10:17? Love to find out more about those…
They drag them out in the fields for live targets
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
Looks like someone has/had a junk steel addiction problem!!!
My air strip would look the same if i had one.
From reading the comments it’s a breakers yard a lot of of it could be doing with getting the gas axe treatment and going for scrap but there also a lot that can still be used for parts
What a sad waste a lot of that stuff isn't from the 40s
William Willmott
10 hours ago
It is in Lincolnshire. Have not been there for 30 years. The owner is very knowledgeable and knows everything that is on the site. He can even quote the serial numbers of some of the machines! Parts are removed and sent all around the world.
There’s a few dollars worth of scrap metal there mate
Nelson Greens Place or one of them
Why don't they salvage all that steel for reuse? What a waste.
Cool stuff
You’d think that knowing you were going to explore a heavy equipment industrial scrap yard, that you’d outfit yourself with proper gear to provide some aspect of coverage/protection from the debris there….
Who owns all that equipment and can people buy for parts
If that is pre nuclear era steel with is worth scraping!
I would say it's still there cause its worth good money to right folk in parts
Some of those parts are like rocking horse sh#t
Wouldn't do what camera man did climb up lol
Cool to see all the same
So where are the scrap guys?
Is this nelson greens
Someone's had fun stealing parts.
Not stealing. Buying parts
Get it all cleared out I say.The scrap merchants would have a field day here.Then we could turn it back to agriculture.We might need some food sooner than you think.
Well considering you don't own this equipment... I don't think the owners would agree at all. It's their business assets, that help keep other machines going etc. Just because you view it all as scrap it doesn't mean it is. I and friends have bought and collected parts from this location over the years.
How typical, what would have been hugely expensive machinery just left to rust away, but of course there's always plenty more of the good old taxpayers money to play with!
vary is this place
Bourne, UK
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Looks like they have been cannabalized for parts.
rust bucket resting place!!
Tax payer money, oh well who cares, taxpayers are expendable.
I seen some Eimcos I own one. I'm doing a channel on one if you want to watch it. Under Adam kolm is my channel.
There are millions in scrap metal there,why? there must be someone who can delivery those machines to recycling
I would be easier to bring the recycling machines to the scrap yard.
They are being recycled, one part at a time
its the tax payers money stood here. the MOD dont care to them the tax payer has lots of money.
Absolutely nothing to do with the MOD. All privately owned, including the site. You would be better commenting on the fact the camera person's trespassing.
@@fredmargerum1486 guess you didn’t read the description where he said he had permission…?
Just scrap
No a valuable source of spares to keep other machines alive