Have Earthline still got the T cab six wheeler Scania tipper?
No, the T cabs have long gone from Earthline. They only keep trucks for around 3 years (lease I think), got some 60 reg Scanias and a few 59 plate Dafs/Scanias. The hiabs seem to be all Daf from what I’ve seen around Oxford. Those T cabs were originally wagon & drags although they were latterly run as plain 6 wheel tippers. They’ve got Daf XF artics with steel tippers so I presume they run muck from recycling sites as there can’t be many sites suitable for artics, they also move aggregates with them. They’ve even got some Scania 4 wheelers with muck bodies, rare now as most seem to be alloy aggregate or insulated ones.
Earthlines’ plant at Shellingford’s interesting; they wash and screen waste to produce recycled sand and gravel-the shingle’s multicoloured because’ve all the different gear that’s in it! 
Webbs of Armscotes’ L reg Merc 6 wheeler; They’ve got an L reg 4 and an R reg 4 aswell, all in fantastic condition for their age. This 6 wheeler can legally carry 17 tonnes-no wonder Derek Webb’s not replaced it!
Tuckwells’ washing plant at Radley. Ballast is fed from a ground hopper up the conveyor on the left, and washed/sorted. The bins contain various shingle sizes and are emptied by pulling the chains underneath (like an old toilet cystern!). The sharp and fine grade sands are piped off the tower on the right. The various pipes allow the sand to dry one day while it’s loaded from another, and the recently washed falls off the next.
You can tell how old this plant is, no modern tippers above about 7.5ton gross can fit under the bins; they use 4 wheel JCB dumptrucks to load shingle and move it to the stockpiles. In the days of Tuckwells J-Types, you’d load shingle yourself!
We used to backload out of Lafarge at Caversham,Reading a few years ago and nearly always under the hopper,alright with a weighloader other wise it could be a pain.
That method’s old hat now. Smiths Concrete had something similar at their pit at Hardwick near Witney. A blender on the end that mixed 20 to 5mm and drop bins like Tuckwells for straight sizes. Only the big pits like Mountsorrel and Wickwar use it now and it’s already weighed and batched like a premix plant. Smiths drivers used to carry a stopwatch when loading blended out of hardwick; the blender would drop about 4ton/minute so when I had my first 8 wheeler that carried 18.5ton I used to do just over 4 minutes, drive to the weighbridge and the loading shovel would top up the rest as there was a display on the side.
I think that all the gravel/sand pits that I worked from used to chain system, or similar. We used to load tarmac and asphalt in a similar way with air operated doors on the hoppers, had to be carefull not to put to much on else you were standing on material at 180 degrees shovelling it onto another truck. It certainly hurt if you had a hole in your boot, or the soles had worn thin, plenty of blistered feet on that job! Nasty too if it landed on your skin while you were hanging on the body side while working the air valve with your foot, the good old day’s eh!
Pete.
Chillswell Contracts MAN loading ballast at Tuckwells
Tuckwells’ Hydrema dumptruck loading under the shingle bins. The first bit of plant I drove was one of these abortions; had the same engine as a JCB 3CX at the time (97). Nasty uncomfortable things, I was a trainee with H.E Services…Didn’t stay long as they wouldn’t pay me any travelling money going to jobs “as I was only a trainee…” Went on for Sheehans’ for about 18months (including 5 months at CITB College at Bircham Newton, Norfolk) before Smiths took me on after having me on hire for a couple of months…
Benmat Haulage FM7 loading soil at Gill Mill (why is it that whenever there’s a soil job on, it always rains?)
Muckaway:
Benmat Haulage FM7 loading soil at Gill Mill (why is it that whenever there’s a soil job on, it always rains?)
So it all stick in the body and you get some exercise! 
Have about 300kgs of sand put in, spread it over the floor and load the soil-it flies out!
Following pics were taken at (by now closed) Worsham Quarry prior to part of it going back to agriculture and the “bowl area” being sold off to a tyre recycling company.
Different sort of green truck to see in a Smiths’ quarry!
A couple belonging to Kingston Minerals.
http://www.transportphotos.com/road/photo/CX00267
http://www.transportphotos.com/road/photo/CX00370
JOHN
Stanfield:
A couple belonging to Kingston Minerals.1http://www.transportphotos.com/road/photo/CX002670http://www.transportphotos.com/road/photo/CX00370
JOHN
I remember when they ran those little short 6 legger Dodges they didn’t like them, bloody things wouldn’t go around corners when it was wet, I know of one driver that refused to go out on a wet day, he did internal work until it dried up.
A Sands and Gravels ex driver reckon those Dodges wouldn’t pull back you ■■■■■■■■ either!
Muckaway:
A Sands and Gravels ex driver reckon those Dodges wouldn’t pull back you ■■■■■■■■ either!
Not to sure about that, the one’s at Welford had a V8 Perkins in them, there wasn’t much about that would keep up with them at the time.
altitude:
Muckaway:
A Sands and Gravels ex driver reckon those Dodges wouldn’t pull back you ■■■■■■■■ either!Not to sure about that, the one’s at Welford had a V8 Perkins in them, there wasn’t much about that would keep up with them at the time.
The one’s Sands & Gravels had had V8 Perkins in as well,6 speed with 2 speed axel if I remember correctly.
Muckaway:
Anyone know of a haulier that ran maroon F10/F12 artics in the Glos/Wilts area in the late 90s? Reason I ask is that my first plant job was on hire to MultiAgg at Kempsford pit moving soil (HE Services-don’t ask) and said lorries were running out of there. I remember one was on old T plate-I think company was John----? had white signwriting.
I reckon you’re on about John Allen, he used to park behind the Esso garage in Faringdon but I’ve not seen his name around on lorries for quite a while so he may have moved or packed up.
BB
Basilbrush:
Muckaway:
Anyone know of a haulier that ran maroon F10/F12 artics in the Glos/Wilts area in the late 90s? Reason I ask is that my first plant job was on hire to MultiAgg at Kempsford pit moving soil (HE Services-don’t askI reckon you’re on about John Allen, he used to park behind the Esso grage in Faringdon but I’ve not seen his name around on lorries for quite a while so he may have moved or packed up.
BB
That’s it, allways old kit. Land behind that garage is being re-developed now so maybe he sold the land for building? I would expect hauling for MultiAgg he couldn’t afford anything newish…