Tidy example here Dennis, cheers Buzzer
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Roped over the fly-it will end in tears 
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Is this an early pic of Carryfast?
Who else would handball that load and pull an a frame? 
Nah , now if it had a 780 bhp Cat in it then it well could be but i’m not convinced.
On a serious note how did they secure the front overhang. Obviously very safe but what was the secret of loading hops. Loading wool they would pin the bales not that i did any wool. It was a very skilled job and so was loading hops by the looks of things
Get it right Ramone, CF is a Detroit two stroke fanboy. 
Point taken i’m getting my Cats and Detroits mixed up. But he wouldn’t leave the yard now without 700 bhp under the cab. Especially on night trunking box van work
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Those hop pockets were bulky but light. I believe ropes were run longitudinally along the tops of each layer. Someone on here will have done it. I only did it with the smaller hop pokes on tractors with trailers on the journey from hop gardens to oast house, so load security wasn’t so critical!
A Pocket weighs around 70 to 75 kg and around the heavier end when they were hessian pockets rather than the more recent polywhatever which these days are loaded on end in cutainsiders. A 22 or 24ft body would be assumed to take around 70 depending how many were ‘slung’. That load would be from farm to store or Hop Marketing Board in Paddock Wood since it is not sheeted. It is possible to get another 3 or 4 per layer as ‘gunners’ by loading right to the edge of the body, these held in place with an elongated U shaped hook forced into the seam of the pocket. To go to the brewery sheeting up would be extensive with an obligatory floor sheet, and however many necessary to cover the load plus a flysheet. Could easily require 5 or 6 sheets in total. That load probably weighs around 9.75 tons assuming 50 on the trailer. The slinging rope is not anchored to the platform.
AF 57 would have been used on Scotch with a trailer at its 35mph top speed. The driver is an in-law relative.
Same vehicle different driver with a smaller load only 5 high. What happened at 7 high is the tale of legend,
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Buzzer , apart from the unit make, not a fan of Foden was Dennis i.i.r.c. [quote=“buzzer, post:93, topic:152628, full:true”]
Jobs a goodun just for Dennis, Buzzer
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Now I’d have loved to get behind the wheel of one of those! AEC Mk 5 Super-Mandator with LHD, 192 bhp AEC, TET constant-mesh 6sp 'box, LWB, Timken rear axle and a Bollekens sleeper cab from Belgium. We should have sold them here!
Ummm, well, I’ll let the jury decide:
I’m impressed that he even got the tarp up there. 
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Blowing up the picture I think that is a custom sheet with a large flap at the front. I guess it was on the sheet rack and then humped up onto each layer thereafter. Still a wobbly job spreading it out and then climbing down again.
Apart from those swinging ropes rubbing the paint off the back of the cab!