Bewick:
Howay Vic we didn’t have to go to those lengths of welding the chains to the trailers ! Stiller musn’t have trusted anybody eh! Anyhow,whose that in the shot,he should have had some numbers on the bottom of the photo shouldn’t he ! Cheers Dennis.
Not sure about the trustworthy bit, but we did do a lot of steel and they were handy, and you could’nt ring in and say someone had nicked your chains. the lad in the photo he is one of the best you could find and came from not far short of ■■■■■■■■■■■■
What were the chains welded to Vic,the trailer chassis ? Mebe not a bad idea if you were on steel most of the time but if only a small proportion of the traffic was steel and you had 200 trailers well ? Cheers Dennis.PS go on then Vic,who is it in the shot ?
hodgeturbo:
my mate took this pic on monday at eggers,hexham
It’s missing a row of ties on the main sheet eyelets “hodge”,tut tut ! Dennis.
Well spotted Dennis, But it looks like the main sheets & the trailer aint Jakeys , That’s what it seems to me anyway, Regards Larry,
It maybe is one of Youngs Transport from Hexham trailers & main sheets, I know they do a bit of work for J.R.Adams & swap trailers sometimes , Regards Larry.
Bewick:
Howay Vic we didn’t have to go to those lengths of welding the chains to the trailers ! Stiller musn’t have trusted anybody eh! Anyhow,whose that in the shot,he should have had some numbers on the bottom of the photo shouldn’t he ! Cheers Dennis.
Not sure about the trustworthy bit, but we did do a lot of steel and they were handy, and you could’nt ring in and say someone had nicked your chains. the lad in the photo he is one of the best you could find and came from not far short of ■■■■■■■■■■■■
What were the chains welded to Vic,the trailer chassis ? Mebe not a bad idea if you were on steel most of the time but if only a small proportion of the traffic was steel and you had 200 trailers well ? Cheers Dennis.PS go on then Vic,who is it in the shot ?
Yea Dennis,they were welded to the chasis and were hung on hooks along the trailers,if you click on the photo you can see the idea better.i will P.M. you with the drivers name Vic.
Bewick:
A depot shot of 4 trailers loaded with scrap rail,2 tri axles will have 24/25 ton on board and the 2 tandems will have,well should have,about 22ton apiece on them all chained but bad to make out on this shot But the rail wasn’t always broken at equal lengths so weights varied But we always got paid on the weighbridge tickets at the steel works we delivered to Cheers Dennis.
Evening Dennis,I do remember the 70,s they were better times than now ,or was it that we were younger and keener for work.The photos of the railway lines reminded me of when i worked at colletts we used to load them out of edgar allens in shefield 60to 70 ft long and also some came out of barrow then the imported stuff from poland came into hull.i have some photos ill post when i get time .cheer,s Richard.
Hiya Richard,aye they were better times in the 70’s I’ll agree with you there I’ve dug an interesting depot shot out here,it is a load of Workington made rail but the shunters have stuck something else on top and were busy re strapping the load,I’m not too sure were it was loaded for but it will probably have been for Liverpool as that trailer was used on our drum traffic ex Liverpool to Whitehaven.The ERF was a double shift motor so they would have uncoupled it and it would have trunked another trailer to Daventry and back on nights. Cheers Dennis.
Evening Dennis i,ve just been sorting some photos out to post on here i started about two hours ago i forgot how many i .ve taken heres one of the daf i drove at colletts it was taken about 13 years ago ,i loaded these pilling bars in glasgow and took them to geatshead on the way home they went to nuttalls where i then loaded a crane jib section for leeds ,they kept you busy at colletts.
scud:
0Evening Dennis i,ve just been sorting some photos out to post on here i started about two hours ago i forgot how many i .ve taken heres one of the daf i drove at colletts it was taken about 13 years ago ,i loaded these pilling bars in glasgow and took them to geatshead on the way home they went to nuttalls where i then loaded a crane jib section for leeds ,they kept you busy at colletts.
Great shot that Scud,what length was that trombone trailer 60ft? Cheers Dennis.
This was the one and only Trombone trailer we ran for a while in the '70’s,shot here in late '74 standing in the layby at Belaside on the A6 at Milnthorpe,I think it was a load for the Shipyard in Barrow.The trailer was a Crane Fruhauf 38/58footer.The motor in front of the trombone is a load of new 45 gal drums which we ran from Liverpool to Whitehaven,busy days ! Cheers Dennis.
scud:
0Evening Dennis i,ve just been sorting some photos out to post on here i started about two hours ago i forgot how many i .ve taken heres one of the daf i drove at colletts it was taken about 13 years ago ,i loaded these pilling bars in glasgow and took them to geatshead on the way home they went to nuttalls where i then loaded a crane jib section for leeds ,they kept you busy at colletts.
Great shot that Scud,what length was that trombone trailer 60ft? Cheers Dennis.
Now then Dennis, the trombone trailer was actually a double extender and fully opened it was 90ft in this shot i have only opened the back half ,these trailers were also fully steering and at say 60ftyou could get them in where you could get a 40ft .i,ll sort out some more photos i have some when the trailers are fully extended.Cheers Richard.
Here,s one i did earlier.This was taken about 10 yrs ago it was the last fl10 we ran at joda the trailer was originally a tandem which was converted to a tri axle under the sheet is a load of cabinates and bench,s out of a factory clearance job.Cheer,s Richard.
Now then lad,s heres a photo of the daf again but this time with a vessel which i took down to witshire from manchester in 2000 ,it weighed 35 ton and was 90 ft long the trailer was the oldest in the fleet xs31 and had hydraulic surspension ,you can see that its a double extender well in this shoot it was taken in the midlands while waiting for the police ■■■■■■ to change.Cheer,s Richard.
scud:
0Now then lad,s heres a photo of the daf again but this time with a vessel which i took down to witshire from manchester in 2000 ,it weighed 35 ton and was 90 ft long the trailer was the oldest in the fleet xs31 and had hydraulic surspension ,you can see that its a double extender well in this shoot it was taken in the midlands while waiting for the police ■■■■■■ to change.Cheer,s Richard.
Now that is one extremely large bulk derv tank Richard !! totally out of our league !! Cheers Dennis.
This would be an early '72 shot of one of our first York SL 40 footers either no.7 or 8,interesting shot for another reason is we carried a spare wheel on our first few trailers,but I cannot ever recall the need to use the spares and once we started adding to our trailer fleet it became impractical as a result of the number of spares we required.I kicked the practice into touch and never carried spares again,besides I didn’t want our drivers jacking the motors up as I’ve seen a number of motors sat on their hubs on the sides of roads etc.,not to mention the danger involved to life and limb.On the odd occaision over the years when we had tyre failures we got the tyre firms out and they fitted a new Michelin or possibly a new Bridgestone,the new case was then removed from the unit or trailer when it returned to or passed through the depot next and put into stock…
Evening Dennis, Thats a tydy load looks like barrels at the back ,always arkward we use to load honey in 45gallon barrels and getting 22ton on a 30ft trailer we had to lay some on thetop then sheet up and rope between the drums ,now the trailers are long enough to get your weight on with room to spare.Iremember about 40years ago changing a front wheel blowout on an AEC mandator just as you get onto the m5 below birmingham when i was with my dad and without power steering he said it took a lot of holding ,it did.nt take long to change the wheel on the AECthe carrier wound down on a wire rope,all our motors had wheel discs on at the time standard on AEC which were fixed on with 3 bolts .we left it of until we got to our deliver later .the roads were quieter then.Cheers Richard.
scud:
Evening Dennis, Thats a tydy load looks like barrels at the back ,always arkward we use to load honey in 45gallon barrels and getting 22ton on a 30ft trailer we had to lay some on thetop then sheet up and rope between the drums ,now the trailers are long enough to get your weight on with room to spare.Iremember about 40years ago changing a front wheel blowout on an AEC mandator just as you get onto the m5 below birmingham when it was two lane i was with my dad and without power steering he said it took a lot of holding ,it did.nt take long to change the wheel on the AECthe carrier wound down on a wire rope,all our motors had wheel discs on at the time standard on AEC which were fixed on with 3 bolts .we left it of until we got to our deliver later .the roads were quieter then.Cheers Richard.
I’m sorry “scud” I should have said the trailer was standing in the Paper Mill at Beetham loaded with 20tons of reels.I know what you mean about the trials and tribulations of loading short trailers with 22ton,prior to the 40 foot trailer becoming the norm in the 70’s.Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
This would be an early '72 shot of one of our first York SL 40 footers either no.7 or 8,interesting shot for another reason is we carried a spare wheel on our first few trailers,but I cannot ever recall the need to use the spares and once we started adding to our trailer fleet it became impractical as a result of the number of spares we required.I kicked the practice into touch and never carried spares again,besides I didn’t want our drivers jacking the motors up as I’ve seen a number of motors sat on their hubs on the sides of roads etc.,not to mention the danger involved to life and limb.On the odd occaision over the years when we had tyre failures we got the tyre firms out and they fitted a new Michelin or possibly a new Bridgestone,the new case was then removed from the unit or trailer when it returned to or passed through the depot next and put into stock…
Tut tut Dennis,have you noticed the hole in the fly sheet,disgraceful!!?
Here,s a couple of photo,s .Sometimes at colletts if there was no work for the heavy boys you got sent out in a ridgid on the merc is a part load .satalite dishes loaded in nelson lancs destined for leven scotland.The joda motor is coupled to the ramp trailer loaded with a machine for poland.Regard,s.Richard.
Vic.
But the rail wasn’t always broken at equal lengths so weights varied 
I’ve dug an interesting depot shot out here,it is a load of Workington made rail but the shunters have stuck something else on top and were busy re strapping the load,I’m not too sure were it was loaded for but it will probably have been for Liverpool as that trailer was used on our drum traffic ex Liverpool to Whitehaven.The ERF was a double shift motor so they would have uncoupled it and it would have trunked another trailer to Daventry and back on nights.
