Retired Old ■■■■:
I once worked on a site in Hereford with one of those beasts owned by a couple of Irish brothers. I was on hire with a Case 450 with backhoe at the time so the nearest I got to it was loading the spoil.
I drove it a couple of times, you operated the same way as a 360 but you needed to treat it like a dragline. I swung over the screener first time, stopped and tipped the bucket and dumped most of it on the floor. You needed to tip just as it was going over the hopper, just like a knavvy.
Retired Old ■■■■:
But you have to admit, it was a vast improvement on the Ruston Bucyrus!
When I started on Smiths in '99 they still had a Priestman Lion dragline as a spare to a RB 20-15. A long reach excavator that was really a dragline/excavator hybrid. I’ll find a picture of it.
Retired Old ■■■■:
But you have to admit, it was a vast improvement on the Ruston Bucyrus!
When I started on Smiths in '99 they still had a Priestman Lion dragline as a spare to a RB 20-15. A long reach excavator that was really a dragline/excavator hybrid. I’ll find a picture of it.
Wasn’t a Priestman VC was it ?
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Steve
They had one of those when Gill Mill quarry first opened. When it was replaced Priestman and RB had merged and the new model was the 20-15. A strange thing to drive but the theory was it was easier to train drivers on.
JAKEY:
He and his staff have found and restored this , cant recall the name now but Richard s dad had one of these when he started , this will look great behind a restored truck , he is looking for a F88 at a SENSIBLE price .
If that’s the original works colour, it’s probably a Poclain.
chazzer:
I left Dines in 75 and some of the names you mentioned were there then eg John Plester, the Taggs, Dutchy, John Beesley, I know Dave Leadbetter worked with him and Dave Hughes at Benetton in the 90’s, Ginger Harveys son whose name I’ve forgotten worked in the garage, Brian (?) was the traffic clerk, I did’nt know Mick Lawrence,do know Barry Washbourne, I did the first run for Dines to europe as a test run, over to Ghent tip and reload out of Dieppe doubled manned in a Big J with a lad from Bicester called Les (?) ended up getting a B & B in Dieppe and the ferry the next day.
Micky1865 what was the surname of the two brothers who were on Connell and Griffin, the elder one was called Malcolm and the younger one is I think still on for Dales at Banbury.
Gingers son was called Jeffery.he went on the fire brigade at kidlington as a mechanic.i cant remember the two brothers at connels.also can you remember leo who worked for dines done cowley to flockvale at Milton with the marina panels to be de rusted.also cliff jones I think from Banbury?.also the run from cowley to Workington with bus panels on one occasion I remember mick Lawrence and myself doing that run in a day a lot of hours.we started at 4 am and got back at about 10 pm.they were the days.
chazzer:
I left Dines in 75 and some of the names you mentioned were there then eg John Plester, the Taggs, Dutchy, John Beesley, I know Dave Leadbetter worked with him and Dave Hughes at Benetton in the 90’s, Ginger Harveys son whose name I’ve forgotten worked in the garage, Brian (?) was the traffic clerk, I did’nt know Mick Lawrence,do know Barry Washbourne, I did the first run for Dines to europe as a test run, over to Ghent tip and reload out of Dieppe doubled manned in a Big J with a lad from Bicester called Les (?) ended up getting a B & B in Dieppe and the ferry the next day.
Micky1865 what was the surname of the two brothers who were on Connell and Griffin, the elder one was called Malcolm and the younger one is I think still on for Dales at Banbury.
Gingers son was called Jeffery.he went on the fire brigade at kidlington as a mechanic.i cant remember the two brothers at connels.also can you remember leo who worked for dines done cowley to flockvale at Milton with the marina panels to be de rusted.also cliff jones I think from Banbury?.also the run from cowley to Workington with bus panels I one occasion mick Lawrence and myself doing that run in a day a lot of hours.we started at 4 am and got back at about 10 am.they were the days.
Micky, this is Cliff Jones. I did live in Banbury at the time but was from Coventry really, what took you so long on the Workington run, I parked on the quay there one night and met some of Compton Buildings, erectors, ended up at a party at Egremont ■■■■■■■ woke up in the morning to find they were erecting the market around me. do you remember Brian Oates.
Truck city was a great place for a kid , dad was always at there stores with those bloody 1800 a series engine Sherpas.
Any how I found these pictures in my YTS folder from a kid,also we moved Mrs Huggins who was married to Mr Huggins who was md of Hartwells ,sadley he died last year.
JAKEY:
Truck city was a great place for a kid , dad was always at there stores with those bloody 1800 a series engine Sherpas.
Any how I found these pictures in my YTS folder from a kid,also we moved Mrs Huggins who was married to Mr Huggins who was md of Hartwells ,sadley he died last year.
I can remember having a radio cassette fitted there in my Big J, when I was on Dines, rock on!
JAKEY:
Truck city was a great place for a kid , dad was always at there stores with those bloody 1800 a series engine Sherpas.
Any how I found these pictures in my YTS folder from a kid,also we moved Mrs Huggins who was married to Mr Huggins who was md of Hartwells ,sadley he died last year.
I can remember having a radio cassette fitted there in my Big J, when I was on Dines, rock on!
Could you hear a radio in a Big J ? I drove one with an AEC in it, and it would have been hard to hear a brass band.
The first radio I fitted in a lorry was a valve model (no transistors in those days!) that had to be warmed up for a few minutes before it started working. I had to mount the speaker- just the one, of course- on the rear wall of the cab, just behind my left ear.
