Sweeper designs face the ‘Scrapheap Challenge’
Sweeping along the road to TV fame, far from the serious day-to-day business of
engineering state-of-the art equipment to meet the demanding environmental standards,
a leading British manufacturer faced an entirely different test when Johnston
Compact Sweepers' Chief Engineer, Mike Hasler, lent his expertise to one of the
teams competing in the popular Channel 4 show, "Scrapheap Challenge".
In an episode broadcast recently the challenge was to build a road sweeper and
Mike Hasler was drafted in as one of the "experts" to assist the Chaos
Crew. In this report for LAWE, he recalls the event, and gives some behind-the-scenes
insights into the way the programmes are made