DIG:
A great mob of old and new on this page.Well done gentlemen .A couple more heading out of town [NMP]
Dig
Fair big lump of kit there DIG 
Dennis Javelin:
pv83:
Dennis Javelin:
pv83:
Some nostalgic stuff, from the archives of Ifor RobertsThanks for the John Young pic, my first employer in 1972. Looks like this wagon was registered in late 1939 but I think the pic is post war given the “don’t nationalise” display on the side of the tank.
Well, I did hope that some of the pictures would stir some memories Dennis
Got any footage perhaps of that period?Unfortunately not other than this pic that I’ve posted previously. Lots of memories in my head though so if someone can invent a machine that can transcribe memories into visual images I’ll fill this forum
Please entertain us with some of your memories mate 
ERF-NGC-European:
Now, this is really interesting, I wonder how that Kaeble ended up in the Middle East… ta for posting, I tried my best to “clean” it up as best as I could.
ERF-NGC-European:
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Looks like Locomotion en fête
Spotted this Cayon convoi earlier this week at Nivolas Vermelle, France.
Well, I did hope that some of the pictures would stir some memories Dennis
Got any footage perhaps of that period?
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Unfortunately not other than this pic that I’ve posted previously. Lots of memories in my head though so if someone can invent a machine that can transcribe memories into visual images I’ll fill this forum
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Please entertain us with some of your memories mate
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Mr truck memories are of a variety of Foden 8 wheelers and a couple of ERF LV tractor units. These were used to carry the sections of crane jibs as the majority of the fleet in 1972 was of that variety. The biggest hydraulic crane we had was an 18t Grove which was as big as you could get at that time IIRC. There is one personal story that always brings a smile to me when I think back on it so please let me indulge the forum.
I was just a raw 16yr old office clerk but I always listened to the discussions that the supervisors had whenever someone called us with an enquiry. At this time Young’s installed all the safes for a company called John Tann and I was used to them discussing access to buildings for the Iron Fairy crane as the safes were quite substantial in weight. One day when I was alone in the transport office - I think it was lunchtime - I took a phone call and the woman on the other end asked if we “moved safes?”. Of course I replied, eager to impress my bosses with an order for when they returned from lunch. She told me that they needed a safe taken from the ground floor of the building up to the first floor. The building was in the centre of Glasgow so, based on the address she gave me, I knew that it would be an old office block. I proceeded to ask her the same questions that I had heard the supervisors talk about, what was the location of the safe within the building?, depending on the size of the safe we might need to remove it out of the building and put it back in through one of the windows so how big were the windows?, what was the parking like?, would we be able to get a crane jib through the window? and other technical queries. She seemed quite flustered by all the questions and told me that she didn’t know anything about this, she had just been asked by her boss to “get that bloody thing moved upstairs”. On this instruction she had just looked up the Yellow Pages and our name appeared under the section for safes so she had called us. I continued asking her seemingly inane questions and then she said “can you not just send a man round to carry it upstairs?” It turned out that the safe was just a small one that sat on a desk and probably weighed around 20lbs. Naturally I didn’t tell any of the other staff about this call 
Hi Patrick and other viewers on this thread. When having a look at some Kaelble stuff I came across this very interesting 1930s Culemeyer system for heavy load rail/road transfer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Culemeyer
and a cracking video of it working
youtube.com/watch?v=_ODxu9PRSBs
Oily
The video is indeed very interesting! The rolling-on looks much more complicated that the rolling-off. The tractor must be a Faun. Thanks!
Froggy55:
The video is indeed very interesting! The rolling-on looks much more complicated that the rolling-off. The tractor must be a Faun. Thanks!
I think those fellas had done that before.Certainly entertaining.
Dig
A couple taken by the cook when down the village yesterday i was busy ploughing our firebreaks .
Dig
A clip of Rotran and the mighty Pacifics that they used, note that the engines were most deffo pre-Euro 6 
oiltreader:
Hi Patrick and other viewers on this thread. When having a look at some Kaelble stuff I came across this very interesting 1930s Culemeyer system for heavy load rail/road transfer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Culemeyer
and a cracking video of it working
youtube.com/watch?v=_ODxu9PRSBs
Oily
Ta Oily, I think I posted about Culemeyer some pages ago, but I’ve never seen the workings in the flesh so to speak, cheers for the link mate
As you say Paul, looks like they’re using a Faun tractor unit.
Well oiled team I would say DIG
DIG:
A couple taken by the cook when down the village yesterday i was busy ploughing our firebreaks .
Dig
Impressive looking Mack, make sure to thank the Cook on behalf of the HH team on here DIG
Dennis Javelin:
Well, I did hope that some of the pictures would stir some memories Dennis
Got any footage perhaps of that period?
Unfortunately not other than this pic that I’ve posted previously. Lots of memories in my head though so if someone can invent a machine that can transcribe memories into visual images I’ll fill this forum
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Please entertain us with some of your memories mate
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Mr truck memories are of a variety of Foden 8 wheelers and a couple of ERF LV tractor units. These were used to carry the sections of crane jibs as the majority of the fleet in 1972 was of that variety. The biggest hydraulic crane we had was an 18t Grove which was as big as you could get at that time IIRC. There is one personal story that always brings a smile to me when I think back on it so please let me indulge the forum.
I was just a raw 16yr old office clerk but I always listened to the discussions that the supervisors had whenever someone called us with an enquiry. At this time Young’s installed all the safes for a company called John Tann and I was used to them discussing access to buildings for the Iron Fairy crane as the safes were quite substantial in weight. One day when I was alone in the transport office - I think it was lunchtime - I took a phone call and the woman on the other end asked if we “moved safes?”. Of course I replied, eager to impress my bosses with an order for when they returned from lunch. She told me that they needed a safe taken from the ground floor of the building up to the first floor. The building was in the centre of Glasgow so, based on the address she gave me, I knew that it would be an old office block. I proceeded to ask her the same questions that I had heard the supervisors talk about, what was the location of the safe within the building?, depending on the size of the safe we might need to remove it out of the building and put it back in through one of the windows so how big were the windows?, what was the parking like?, would we be able to get a crane jib through the window? and other technical queries. She seemed quite flustered by all the questions and told me that she didn’t know anything about this, she had just been asked by her boss to “get that bloody thing moved upstairs”. On this instruction she had just looked up the Yellow Pages and our name appeared under the section for safes so she had called us. I continued asking her seemingly inane questions and then she said “can you not just send a man round to carry it upstairs?” It turned out that the safe was just a small one that sat on a desk and probably weighed around 20lbs. Naturally I didn’t tell any of the other staff about this call
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Nice one!
Here’s a clip of the two Hayes units in the fleet of Arbegui of Spain;
A fascinating half hour to accompany my toast and marmalade this Sunday morning Patrick, thank you.
The final comment of the Spanish move ‘delivered safely and on time to the correct address’ made me laugh though. How embarrassing if they turned up at the wrong power station.
A couple of other observations, can you imagine the knee trembles going down those steep sections, and not a lot of elfing safety in both SA and Spain, trailer mates hopping on and off and swinging round the fronts of the units, one slip and you are just a stain on the road. One bloke, launching himself from a sitting position, did stumble a bit on landing.
Spardo:
A fascinating half hour to accompany my toast and marmalade this Sunday morning Patrick, thank you.The final comment of the Spanish move ‘delivered safely and on time to the correct address’ made me laugh though. How embarrassing if they turned up at the wrong power station.
A couple of other observations, can you imagine the knee trembles going down those steep sections, and not a lot of elfing safety in both SA and Spain, trailer mates hopping on and off and swinging round the fronts of the units, one slip and you are just a stain on the road. One bloke, launching himself from a sitting position, did stumble a bit on landing.
Cheers David
Now, you would think, with all the planning that is involved in heavy haulage, such mistakes wouldn’t happen… however…
Not as big as the convoi shown in the clip, but I had to deliver a 50t stone crusher to an address in rural Germany, on approaching I already thought that it didn’t look like tippers and such came in and out of that street frequently, eventually turned up at a house, rang the bell, to be informed that this was the billing address… the actual tipping address was 20 clicks away, at a quarry… 
pv83:
Spardo:
A fascinating half hour to accompany my toast and marmalade this Sunday morning Patrick, thank you.The final comment of the Spanish move ‘delivered safely and on time to the correct address’ made me laugh though. How embarrassing if they turned up at the wrong power station.
A couple of other observations, can you imagine the knee trembles going down those steep sections, and not a lot of elfing safety in both SA and Spain, trailer mates hopping on and off and swinging round the fronts of the units, one slip and you are just a stain on the road. One bloke, launching himself from a sitting position, did stumble a bit on landing.
Cheers David
Now, you would think, with all the planning that is involved in heavy haulage, such mistakes wouldn’t happen… however…
Not as big as the convoi shown in the clip, but I had to deliver a 50t stone crusher to an address in rural Germany, on approaching I already thought that it didn’t look like tippers and such came in and out of that street frequently, eventually turned up at a house, rang the bell, to be informed that this was the billing address… the actual tipping address was 20 clicks away, at a quarry…
You should stood your ground and ‘said this is the address I have been given, and here it stays, ring me when I can collect the trailer’.
Spardo:
pv83:
Spardo:
A fascinating half hour to accompany my toast and marmalade this Sunday morning Patrick, thank you.The final comment of the Spanish move ‘delivered safely and on time to the correct address’ made me laugh though. How embarrassing if they turned up at the wrong power station.
A couple of other observations, can you imagine the knee trembles going down those steep sections, and not a lot of elfing safety in both SA and Spain, trailer mates hopping on and off and swinging round the fronts of the units, one slip and you are just a stain on the road. One bloke, launching himself from a sitting position, did stumble a bit on landing.
Cheers David
Now, you would think, with all the planning that is involved in heavy haulage, such mistakes wouldn’t happen… however…
Not as big as the convoi shown in the clip, but I had to deliver a 50t stone crusher to an address in rural Germany, on approaching I already thought that it didn’t look like tippers and such came in and out of that street frequently, eventually turned up at a house, rang the bell, to be informed that this was the billing address… the actual tipping address was 20 clicks away, at a quarry…You should stood your ground and ‘said this is the address I have been given, and here it stays, ring me when I can collect the trailer’.
For those of you on here who need their boat (or luxury dingy ) transporting, Coast 2 Coast could be company for you. They specialise in transporting boats (that probably cost more than my house) around the country and have been around since 2004. They run 6 wagons and 8 specialised trailers. More information and pictures can be viewed here. https://c2cboat.com/
