DIG:
One for you David I lost one half of the catwalk trying to persuade an old bull to get off the trailer. This is taken at Ingels Gap on the Gibb Rivver road in the heart of the Leopold Range.
Ha ha that looks like fun, good training for the high wire act in a circus. Come to think of it I have worked some places with enough clowns to qualify it too. 
Star down under.:
I didn’t realise there was a meatworks at Broome.
I used to deliver fuel up there. Roebuck Plains RH would take one trailer, then I’d sneak into Broome with two, under the cover of darkness, return to Roebuck, make up the train and go to bed. Leave in the morning and get back to Hedland in time to preload for the next day.
What year was that SDU and who were you working for if you dont mind me asking.
Dig
DIG:
Star down under.:
I didn’t realise there was a meatworks at Broome.
I used to deliver fuel up there. Roebuck Plains RH would take one trailer, then I’d sneak into Broome with two, under the cover of darkness, return to Roebuck, make up the train and go to bed. Leave in the morning and get back to Hedland in time to preload for the next day.What year was that SDU and who were you working for if you dont mind me asking.
Dig
2005/6/7, Caltex, based in Port Hedland.
Star down under.:
DIG:
Star down under.:
I didn’t realise there was a meatworks at Broome.
I used to deliver fuel up there. Roebuck Plains RH would take one trailer, then I’d sneak into Broome with two, under the cover of darkness, return to Roebuck, make up the train and go to bed. Leave in the morning and get back to Hedland in time to preload for the next day.What year was that SDU and who were you working for if you dont mind me asking.
Dig
2005/6/7, Caltex, based in Port Hedland.[/quote
Thanks SDU
Heres a problem photo I was heading for Lake Gregory near the top of the Canning stock route to pick up a load of cattle the first check 100kms from the depot I found a hot hub which resulted in me stripping it and neading a bearing and seal kit which the boss dispatched by a ute to me anyhow while waiting a south bound freight truck pulled up and offered help as it was under control I said I.m about to boil the billy fancy a brew with that he joined me and that was the start of a long friendship, he was an ex BRS driver out of Kentish town then came to Oz and drove interstate for a few years before venturing into the realms of owner driving and we finished up working for the same company and often travelled together, Regrettably heavy smoking caught up with him and I lost a good mate.
The Ford in the second phot was Joes we were on our way to Exmouth.
Ignore the other trailer that was on the way back the same trip on the Tanami hwy when the ringleader eye on the dolly snapped off.
Dig
Is the green W yours, Dig?
Star down under.:
Is the green W yours, Dig?
Yes that was my old girl.
The meat works would have been gone a while by 2005.Can I ask why you had to deliver the fuel in the we small hours.
Dig
That first pic with a giant lump on a downward slope looks a bit dodgy. Hope they’ve got it well chocked, especially with those blokes leaning on the back of it. 
DIG:
Star down under.:
Is the green W yours, Dig?Yes that was my old girl.
The meat works would have been gone a while by 2005.Can I ask why you had to deliver the fuel in the we small hours.Dig
Because I went into the guts of town, to the Caltex servo. It was well off the road train route.
Why did you have red lens on your bull lights and what did you think of them?
Why did you have red lens on your bull lights and what did you think of them?
I thought those were dust covers for daytime protection, was I right, Dig?
Spardo:
Why did you have red lens on your bull lights and what did you think of them?
I thought those were dust covers for daytime protection, was I right, Dig?
I think the cook purchased them and they disappeared one night parked in the Karatha truck stop but as David said while I had them they came off at night when travelling,I tried the clears as day and night but much preferred the plain spots.I could only run 75 watt globes the 100 watt couldn’t handle the vibrations on the bull bar, the light bars of today are brilliant compared to our old Bosh Marines.
The road train route in Broome originally went through the middle of town as that was the only way to get to the meat works must have been a pain for those that lived by the side of it with Detroits and 250 ■■■■■■■ rattling the windows on the way through all hours.
Dig
No cigar for you today, David.
There’re a clip on lens, available in any colour you can get the acrylic in. Only clear and Amber are legal, but if you do the right thing and dip your lights before oncoming lights come into view, no coppers get their knickers in a twist over it providing they’re not blue.
I had a beautiful burgundy (Montpellier Red) Discovery 1, upon which I mounted a pair of flash, chrome Narva Taurus lights (exact copy of the famous Hella Bull Light), then fitted red lens, because it matched the duco.
It soon became apparent that whilst casting more than adequate light, they didn’t make stock and wildlife freeze in the road, like the proverbial rabbit in a spotlight.
DIG:
Spardo:
Why did you have red lens on your bull lights and what did you think of them?
I thought those were dust covers for daytime protection, was I right, Dig?
I think the cook purchased them and they disappeared one night parked in the Karatha truck stop but as David said while I had them they came off at night when travelling,I tried the clears as day and night but much preferred the plain spots.I could only run 75 watt globes the 100 watt couldn’t handle the vibrations on the bull bar, the light bars of today are brilliant compared to our old Bosh Marines.
The road train route in Broome originally went through the middle of town as that was the only way to get to the meat works must have been a pain for those that lived by the side of it with Detroits and 250 ■■■■■■■ rattling the windows on the way through all hours.Dig
Was that the Shell? I used to break/make up my train there as we couldn’t take two into Karatha.
Did you know that the Caltex in Karatha has/had the biggest turnover of any Star Shop in Australia?
Thanks to Buzzer, Suedehead, servo88, Spardo, Star down under, DIG and Lawrence Dunbar for the photos 
also mushroomman for the link
Oily
Nice lineup credit to SCP for the photo.
Longthorne usually livestock but general as well, not a good snap by me but reckon it’s the same unit.
Oily
oiltreader:
Longthorne usually livestock but general as well, not a good snap by me but reckon it’s the same unit.
Oily
I think your correct Oily same jigger pretty flash to but tell me are you allowed to use those roof mounted spots.
Dig
Good afternoon Dig and S.D.U. I thought that I would stick these two photos on here of road train tankers, just in case you may have come across them about twenty years ago.
The photos were taken at the B.P. garage in Kununurra, Western Australia, where I am sure that Spardo used to stop on his way to and from the Wyndham Meat works.
I have been meaning to ask David this for about ten years now. Did the track from Kununurra to Wyndham go past the old prison tree.
And who is that company on that photo of the road train that Buzzer put on yesterday, with the Northline trailer in the middle. Is it Gillard’s or Gilberts 
I am sure that I have got an old photo of one of their road trains somewhere, but can I find it at the moment nooooooo.
mushroomman:
Good afternoon Dig and S.D.U. I thought that I would stick these two photos on here of road train tankers, just in case you may have come across them about twenty years ago.
The photos were taken at the B.P. garage in Kununurra, Western Australia, where I am sure that Spardo used to stop on his way to and from the Wyndham Meat works.I have been meaning to ask David this for about ten years now. Did the track from Kununurra to Wyndham go past the old prison tree.
And who is that company on that photo of the road train that Buzzer put on yesterday, with the Northline trailer in the middle. Is it Gillard’s or Gilberts
If Spardo used to stop there where the BP is it would have been bring your own tea cakes and fuel as that was virgin bush about his time.
I,m not sure but at a guess the BP truck was Darwin based the Shell tankers could have been owned by the Kununurra Shell agent he had several.
Is that your camper MRM.
Not sure about the Prison tree the only one I know was next to Myles bore at Derby.
Dig
