hiya,
Dave, you’ve caught me on the day I was trying out contact lenses. 
thanks harry, long retired.
you didn’t look anything like that in your photo harry , you had your cap on !!
rigsby:
you didn’t look anything like that in your photo harry , you had your cap on !!
Besides that Dave, that blokes hair is jet black, Harry’s is going grey! 
Norman Ingram:
rigsby:
you didn’t look anything like that in your photo harry , you had your cap on !!Besides that Dave, that blokes hair is jet black, Harry’s is going grey!
Typical lorry driver pose.
Norman Ingram:
rigsby:
you didn’t look anything like that in your photo harry , you had your cap on !!Besides that Dave, that blokes hair is jet black, Harry’s is going grey!
hiya
Norm you forgot to add a very mature shade of grey.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Norman Ingram:
rigsby:
you didn’t look anything like that in your photo harry , you had your cap on !!Besides that Dave, that blokes hair is jet black, Harry’s is going grey!
hiya
Norm you forgot to add a very mature shade of grey.
thanks harry, long retired.
What would I order Harry to paint my garage floor 
Pensioners Grey!
Norman Ingram:
harry_gill:
Norman Ingram:
rigsby:
you didn’t look anything like that in your photo harry , you had your cap on !!Besides that Dave, that blokes hair is jet black, Harry’s is going grey!
hiya
Norm you forgot to add a very mature shade of grey.
thanks harry, long retired.What would I order Harry to paint my garage floor
hiya,
Norm, could try asking for “Handsome Harry Charcoal” would look well
on the garage floor, you could always think of me when putting your
pushbike away next to your Zimmer frame.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Norman Ingram:
harry_gill:
Norman Ingram:
rigsby:
you didn’t look anything like that in your photo harry , you had your cap on !!Besides that Dave, that blokes hair is jet black, Harry’s is going grey!
hiya
Norm you forgot to add a very mature shade of grey.
thanks harry, long retired.What would I order Harry to paint my garage floor
hiya,
Norm, could try asking for “Handsome Harry Charcoal” would look well
on the garage floor, you could always think of me when putting your
pushbike away next to your Zimmer frame.
thanks harry, long retired.
Must be posh in Northampton to paint the garage floor.Lucky if you have a garage this way. 
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
I’m hoping to be painting the town red this weekend.
thanks harry, long retired.
Dave the Renegade:
Must be posh in Northampton to paint the garage floor.Lucky if you have a garage this way.
Cheers Dave.
Most probably Norm is doing Community Service Dave, if it doesn’t move then paint it!
Pete.
Dave the Renegade:
I don’t think some of these young drivers of today would be capable of carrying two one cwt bags of cement on their shoulder for 300 yards like I did at 20 years of age across a field to a cottage.I carried two ton of cement and a load of scaffold planks like that because there was no other way in 1967 with no road access to my delivery with a BMC 550FG builders lorry.Two at a time less trips was my motto.
Cheers Dave
Some of the wimmin drivers we have in Yorkshire could…big lasses…scary.
grumpy old man:
Dave the Renegade:
I don’t think some of these young drivers of today would be capable of carrying two one cwt bags of cement on their shoulder for 300 yards like I did at 20 years of age across a field to a cottage.I carried two ton of cement and a load of scaffold planks like that because there was no other way in 1967 with no road access to my delivery with a BMC 550FG builders lorry.Two at a time less trips was my motto.
Cheers DaveSome of the wimmin drivers we have in Yorkshire could…big lasses…scary.
Similar to Ivy out of the " last of the summer wine cafe " Brian.
Cheers Dave.
Never mimded the cement bags, it was the grain sacks you would collect from the farms, I hated taking them to the mills, up narrow stairs, they had to be over 2cwts, soon gave that the elbow after a year.
Norman Ingram:
Never mimded the cement bags, it was the grain sacks you would collect from the farms, I hated taking them to the mills, up narrow stairs, they had to be over 2cwts, soon gave that the elbow after a year.
My dad carried them for years.Many of them straight off the cornfield were catch-weight well over 2 cwt.Some of the granary steps on the farms had rotten boards or if they were stone steps they were crumbling and slippery.
Health & Safety and handling and lifting didn’t apply in those days.He had forty years driving for an animal feed firm,with all the loads being hand-balled.
Cheers Dave.
Dave it’s a wonder that he never had a bad back or chest complaint, I certainly thought of it when on hire to Hovis, a good mate of mine, who died a few years ago, aged 62 ■■■■ Smith, when he first started was on tippers, carting building rumble, asbestose took him from a strapping fellow like Desert Driver Keith, to a near skeleton. 
Norman Ingram:
Dave it’s a wonder that he never had a bad back or chest complaint, I certainly thought of it when on hire to Hovis, a good mate of mine, who died a few years ago, aged 62 ■■■■ Smith, when he first started was on tippers, carting building rumble, asbestose took him from a strapping fellow like Desert Driver Keith, to a near skeleton.
My dad did have back trouble from time to time,straight to the local bone setter and get a disc put back in,then back to work.I used to say why don’t you get on a tipper or another driving job.He said no bloody exercise on those jobs,sat behind the wheel all day.He could drive anything,was a driver in Italy and North Africa in the Army WW2 and had HGV class 1,but stayed with the same firm all his working life.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave I worked for a company called Harwood Meggitt of Darwen Lancashire back in
the 60s, they had a little Guy Otter with a four pot Gardner installed, this motor was
painted in either Bibby’s or Silcocks colours and was driven by anybody who happened
to be in the yard, it only ever did farm work from depot stock which was brought in by
any of us journey work drivers who happened to have tipped in the Liverpool area, when
taking this motor out on a delivery we always used the depot yard lad a huge farmers
son of about 17or18 now this lad and at his own insistence used to carry from the side
of the wagon 5x1cwt bags at one go to wherever the farmer wanted them stacked I
always tried to get the wagon as near as possible for him, he used to put 2 bags onto
each shoulder and one bag over his head and binding the lot together, I used to follow
on with one bag, no flies on me eh’.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Dave I worked for a company called Harwood Meggitt of Darwen Lancashire back in
the 60s, they had a little Guy Otter with a four pot Gardner installed, this motor was
painted in either Bibby’s or Silcocks colours and was driven by anybody who happened
to be in the yard, it only ever did farm work from depot stock which was brought in by
any of us journey work drivers who happened to have tipped in the Liverpool area, when
taking this motor out on a delivery we always used the depot yard lad a huge farmers
son of about 17or18 now this lad and at his own insistence used to carry from the side
of the wagon 5x1cwt bags at one go to wherever the farmer wanted them stacked I
always tried to get the wagon as near as possible for him, he used to put 2 bags onto
each shoulder and one bag over his head and binding the lot together, I used to follow
on with one bag, no flies on me eh’.
thanks harry, long retired.
He must have been a weak in the head character to carry 5 cwt Harry.It must have took him longer to balance that lot,than if he had just carried a couple at a time.
I remember a bloke from this area that used to be able to carry a fire grate weighing over 4 cwt on a building site.Lets just say to be politically correct,in the modern world he would have been classed as having learning difficulties.
When I worked for a Kington firm of builders,they had a yard at Aberystwyth ,and there was a bloke there that carried three bags of cement one under each arm and the other with his teeth via a belt strapped around the bag.He would also head ■■■■ a latched door open…until one of the others bolted it from the other side.He nearly broke his head in half and if he could have caught the bloke that did it,he would have broken his neck.
Cheers Dave.
Dave & Harry, my idea of a very good driver is, get labourers to do their work, and the driver to do the driving. 
Now they have forklifts, when they used to employ men. The same with navies, they have been replaced with diggers, dockers been replaced by containers. But the worst tragedy is " Men replaced by viberators".
Norman Ingram:
Dave & Harry, my idea of a very good driver is,
Trouble is Norm there are no jobs for the people that haven’t got the IQ to do a skilled job.Years ago there were labouring jobs and general farm work and such ,where people with learning difficulties could hold down a job with someone to keep an eye on them and tell them what to do. There is very little for those people in the modern world.
My dad had a drivers mate with him until the mid 1950’s,but those jobs came to an end. Everything is mechanised now.
Soon the women won’t need a man.
Cheers Dave.