tonyj105:
yes being on top of a rollonof when it was full of scrap leather and then going up another 6 or 7 levels of hessian sacks full of scrap and in filling as you go wasn’t for the faint hearted , and that guy was like a galleon in gale when it was loaded like that . nearly lost a finger as well , i cut open a bag of scrap and nearly cut my bloody finger off
juddian did you ever get to do the good stuff, marinated bone, flershings , scutch , you know the stinky , slimy stuff
tony
Yup, the fleshings job was a regular for Hans, a more decent bloke i’ve yet to meet poor sod died only a few months after retiring (no man deserved a long retirement more than him), it was always a standing joke Pete would need to employ 3 drivers to replace him.
I did fleshings a few times when Hans was on holiday, carried a lot of wet bone and wet skins, skins were interesting to tip, you’d have to be ready on the brakes, get up to about 3 rams and nothing moved, get to 3.5 rams and it would all let go in an instant, you’d need to release the brake to make sure the tailboard didn’t get trapped but control the move cos it could shoot you forward at quite a rate.
Bermondsey (Croda?) was great, really sharpened your maneuvering up.
Compared to Chettles the smell was nothing to worry about, though Chetts had its good points, they said you’d never get a tug once they got a lungful of that.
DeanB, yes if you find any pics of Clarks it would be great to see them, obliged to you.
i know all about chettles , my uncle drove for chick crossley on it, we had hansons as subbies at ferrymasters and their 2600’s after night trunk heaved of it, and if that wasn’t enough when the wind was in the right direction i could smell it at my front door. my dad wanted me to go on chettles , he got a short answer on that , but we did get david abbotts day cab B series which had been on the anglesey night trunk, crackin motor.
one of the clarks drivers had to brake in wollaston , shot the fleshings over the headboard and all down the hill , right old mess, peter had to come up with a board contraption at the front of the body to stop the slop.i’ve had to help changing a trailer spring several times with that stuff oozong out the tailgate and down me neck. i was with a driver at bermondsey and the marinaded bone stuck in the silo , he gave it a bloody good prod and nearly drowned in the stuff it was up to his waist in no time , that was derek on the commer TS3 (hans got rid of that one, much to harolds disgust) . i didn’t mind the sprayed bone that was stored opposite the office in them open fronted sheds , that was innocent enough , but scutch was the worst, looked like porridge , stank like puke, and even worse was going to croda at mkt harboro with it.
what a learning curve it was for 16 year old.
Hi Dean,
The Scania is one of Gardner and Grandson who usually work out of Birds/Simms at Avonmouth and Medite Volvo would be a subby and could have been based in Southampton, Cheer’s Pete
Reckon there was a few snow plough’s out and about last night. Nearly -23 in Braemar overnight !
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“MaggieD” Popped a bit on about Barker Geary’s Foden on page 512 and did not think we had a pic of it,but just found one !
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Hi Dean Great stuff here again nice to see this old Routeman pic that is working over in New Zealand funny enough we have family living in Sydney and work there too Many Thanks for all the great work you chaps put in to this thread each day Regards Daz
pete smith:
Hi Dean,
The Scania is one of Gardner and Grandson who usually work out of Birds/Simms at Avonmouth and Medite Volvo would be a subby and could have been based in Southampton, Cheer’s Pete
Hi Dean Great stuff here again nice to see this old Routeman pic that is working over in New Zealand funny enough we have family living in Sydney and work there too Many Thanks for all the great work you chaps put in to this thread each day Regards Daz
Dont know how many Routemans were sold in New Zealand & Australia Daz. Fair few Crusaders ended up there !
Hi Dean
the CSG Foden looks a beast. Drinkwaters fitted the roo-bar bumpers to their Dumpmasters to stop the damage to the front as the wagon has to go up tight to the bin to hook onto it.The extra air flow on the grill should keep the 180 a bit cooler in the summer tho
“What make is the red shed ■■”
Hillman Avenger would be my guess Dean.
Oily
Done a google and find it is Chrysler Avenger '76 onwards simoncars.co.uk/chrysler/avengerc.html
oiltreader:
“What make is the red shed ■■”
Hillman Avenger would be my guess Dean.
Oily
Done a google and find it is Chrysler Avenger '76 onwards simoncars.co.uk/chrysler/avengerc.html
Chrysler Alpine fitted with a Simca 1200 engine that sounded like a bag of spanners being shook up, a horrible short stroke unit with a crappy gearbox and linkage to suit, plus they were rot boxes. The company I worked for had a couple of them in the wonderful Apricot colour they did!
oiltreader:
“What make is the red shed ■■”
Hillman Avenger would be my guess Dean.
Oily
Done a google and find it is Chrysler Avenger '76 onwards simoncars.co.uk/chrysler/avengerc.html
Chrysler Alpine fitted with a Simca 1200 engine that sounded like a bag of spanners being shook up, a horrible short stroke unit with a crappy gearbox and linkage to suit, plus they were rot boxes. The company I worked for had a couple of them in the wonderful Apricot colour they did!
We had a few of them as staff cars when Tilcon ran Ballidon quarry, they made more noise than the Rolls engined Fodens! We also had some of the smaller Talbot Samba’s with the engine layed ‘flat on its back’ and they were no better.
Hello Dean ,many thanks for the Rosser Pontlliw article …we both enjoyed reading …the old man adds that some of those Mandators were ex Texaco .
…and way back in time they had a few that were ex George Morris Pontyberem …
I can just remember Rossers hauling tinplate in and out of Swansea docks …happy days …lol …Geraint
oiltreader:
“What make is the red shed ■■”
Hillman Avenger would be my guess Dean.
Oily
Done a google and find it is Chrysler Avenger '76 onwards simoncars.co.uk/chrysler/avengerc.html
Chrysler Alpine fitted with a Simca 1200 engine that sounded like a bag of spanners being shook up, a horrible short stroke unit with a crappy gearbox and linkage to suit, plus they were rot boxes. The company I worked for had a couple of them in the wonderful Apricot colour they did!
We had a few of them as staff cars when Tilcon ran Ballidon quarry, they made more noise than the Rolls engined Fodens! We also had some of the smaller Talbot Samba’s with the engine layed ‘flat on its back’ and they were no better.
Pete.
French were good at laying engines on their sides, once had to perform an oil change on a Renault 14, 1.4 engine as i recall, engine slanted back with the oil filter on top, no way to remove said filter without all the oil within gushing out into all the nooks and crannies, brilliant.
