Muckaway:
Found on Bubblemans’ thread
I remember when they had them bloody things new, get behind them up the Gloucester road out of Cirencester and you had a problem. You had time to write a book.
A couple of Gloucestershire firms found on Bubblemans thread
Don’t know if it’s the same Elliotts, but I’ve seen a red Scania 8 wheeler near Gloucester with “Elliott, Muck” on it’s doors. Don’t know, maybe the same firm have changed livery from brown to red?
Two pics taken at Bekstone Pit, Brize Norton
Muckaway:
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I ran Blackthorne and Banbury from Hardwick.One taken at Smiths Concretes’ Manor Farm Quarry Hardwick c1971 before it opened properly. The loader is a Wetherill I believe
Hi Nathan, Smiths Concrete had a Wetherill loading shovel at their Barford plant, the batchor Bian Loveridge would very often get me to jump on the machine and top up the bins for him in between loads, they were the the days eh.
You wouldn’t get away with that now, Joe; You need a “ticket” just to use the bog these days and sign their risk assessment form incase you splashed your arse with bleach 
Courtesy of Bubbleman
Currently mothballed Hanson (Cassington) Pit. I’ve heard plans have been passed which allows Hanson to dig land between Cassington and Eynsham, using the old railway trackbed as a beltline
Moreton Cullimore RT.Com feature
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Muckaway:
You wouldn’t get away with that now, Joe; You need a “ticket” just to use the bog these days and sign their risk assessment form incase you splashed your arse with bleach
Is that after youv’e had a curry the night before Nathan? Dennis.
Bewick:
Muckaway:
You wouldn’t get away with that now, Joe; You need a “ticket” just to use the bog these days and sign their risk assessment form incase you splashed your arse with bleachIs that after youv’e had a curry the night before Nathan? Dennis.
More like H&S Waffles, Dennis
Smiths new loading shovel, Liebherr 566 loading Peter Mansbridge Hino
Muckaway:
Two pics taken at Bekstone Pit, Brize Norton
That looks like “crappy” stone on that quarry face Nathan! But great shot of the Guy artic/York tipper,now what sort of engine would the Guy have had in it? Think very carefully before you answer as there’s some “nasty” people lurking on the thread just ready to give you “stick” if you fail to come up with “right” result!! Cheers Dennis.
I don’t remember the Guy artic, I’d say something in the 200bhp+ margin 
The stone colour/consistency is a pain at Bekstone as it changes from golden to white, to blue and purple. When I’ve been on the same job for couple of days, it’s changed totally from one load to the next so you have to be on the ball or delivering topdressing can be embarassing!
Muckaway:
I don’t remember the Guy artic, I’d say something in the 200bhp+ margin
The stone colour/consistency is a pain at Bekstone as it changes from golden to white, to blue and purple. When I’ve been on the same job for couple of days, it’s changed totally from one load to the next so you have to be on the ball or delivering topdressing can be embarassing!
Very diplomatic answer about the Guy Nathan! with regards to variation in stone,we put 5 ton of Lydd sea washed gravel down around our bungalow,then about 3 years later we took a lawn up and ordered the same stone.When it came it was a differen’t shade to the first and apparently this second lot came from a pit about a couple of miles along the coast from the first lot.As luck would have it the merchant still had a pallet of the origional gear so we got away with it! Dennis.
I met five of M J Church M A N eight leggers coming up to the local quarries,we don’t see them up here very often,usually see them and all their plant working on M4 and M5 jobs.
Not good news Dave, whatever there doing you can be sure of one thing, they will be cutting the job up, unless things have changed.
altitude:
Not good news Dave, whatever there doing you can be sure of one thing, they will be cutting the job up, unless things have changed.
They are from Chippenhan aren’t they John,it never ceases to amaze me,how many excavators they have dotted along the moterway on a job,they had a lot between Gordano Services and the Clevedon junction on the M5 a few years ago.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
altitude:
Not good news Dave, whatever there doing you can be sure of one thing, they will be cutting the job up, unless things have changed.They are from Chippenhan aren’t they John,it never ceases to amaze me,how many excavators they have dotted along the moterway on a job,they had a lot between Gordano Services and the Clevedon junction on the M5 a few years ago.
Cheers Dave.
Yes Dave, their yard’s not far from FG Bond on the A420. They were up here recently working on RAF Brize, and more recently on Kidlington Airport. They must pay their drivers well; nearly all their lorries are blinged up. regarding the M4 work, didn’t they take alot of work off H. Hibberds? I remember they always did the M4 with old Hino 8wheelers.
Yeah they had a yard along by Marshfield Dave, don’t know if there still there, always in a bloody hurry must be how there paid.
They’re in the same group as Earthline…Not on the Xmas card list of many small firms.