sammyopisite:
Dennis it seems as though you only did loads which were straight forward and easy to sheet and nothing difficult like machinery with pieces protruding at all different angles where you had to pack so as not to rip your sheet.
anon. wind up
It’s a good job you never saw a Pickfords outfit doing more than 40 mph,otherwise they looked liked the “Cutty Sark” in full sail rounding the Horn !! Which always led me to believe that the Pickfords crews couldn’t “sheet and rope a double bed” to save themselves,especially them from er !! Sheffield,now they stood out like “sore thumbs” not a patch on the Glasgow crews !!! Cheers,a seasoned observer !!
seasoned observer it was very handy with a tale wind you were a gear or two higher and in a head wind you dropped the main sail and stowed things away as you will gather I am not just a pretty face
regards not even a pretty face
sammyopisite:
Dennis it seems as though you only did loads which were straight forward and easy to sheet and nothing difficult like machinery with pieces protruding at all different angles where you had to pack so as not to rip your sheet. anon. wind up
It’s a good job you never saw a Pickfords outfit doing more than 40 mph,otherwise they looked liked the “Cutty Sark” in full sail rounding the Horn !! Which always led me to believe that the Pickfords crews couldn’t “sheet and rope a double bed” to save themselves,especially them from er !! Sheffield,now they stood out like “sore thumbs” not a patch on the Glasgow crews !!! Cheers,a seasoned observer !!
seasoned observer it was very handy with a tale wind you were a gear or two higher and in a head wind you dropped the main sail and stowed things away as you will gather I am not just a pretty face regards not even a pretty face
Ah! you learn something every day !! So thats how the heavyweight Pickford motors got over Shap summit !! They “sailed” over !!! Well blow me down !!! ( hows that for a “link” Blow me down !!!) Cheers “a fast eddie” spotter !.
Bewick:
Another handy load of 80 x 45 gallon drums, secured with a “life expired” fly sheet, before the criticism starts !!! Can’t say whats in them 'cause I might still get locked up !! Cheers Bewick.
Could be whisky I suppose…
Anoncoldcoldandwindyiom
Or Russian Vodka,distilled behind the garage !!! thinking about it,it was better “supping” than Russian Jungle juice,but still gay dodgy all the same!! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Another handy load of 80 x 45 gallon drums, secured with a “life expired” fly sheet, before the criticism starts !!! Can’t say whats in them 'cause I might still get locked up !! Cheers Bewick.
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Could be whisky I suppose…
Anoncoldcoldandwindyiom
Or Russian Vodka,distilled behind the garage !!! thinking about it,it was better “supping” than Russian Jungle juice,but still gay dodgy all the same!! Cheers Dennis.
I know what was in them Dennis,but wont say out!. .
Bewick:
Another handy load of 80 x 45 gallon drums, secured with a “life expired” fly sheet, before the criticism starts !!! Can’t say whats in them 'cause I might still get locked up !! Cheers Bewick.
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Could be whisky I suppose…
Anoncoldcoldandwindyiom
Or Russian Vodka,distilled behind the garage !!! thinking about it,it was better “supping” than Russian Jungle juice,but still gay dodgy all the same!! Cheers Dennis.
I know what was in them Dennis,but wont say out!. .
First law of the Jungle “Thou shalt not Grass” Cheers Dennis.
sammyopisite:
Dennis it seems as though you only did loads which were straight forward and easy to sheet and nothing difficult like machinery with pieces protruding at all different angles where you had to pack so as not to rip your sheet.
anon. wind up
Hey! JT who says we never carried any awkward loads of machinery!!!
sammyopisite:
Dennis it seems as though you only did loads which were straight forward and easy to sheet and nothing difficult like machinery with pieces protruding at all different angles where you had to pack so as not to rip your sheet.
anon. wind up
Hey! JT who says we never carried any awkward loads of machinery!!!
hiya,
Now that’s a lousy thing to do Dennis, putting those 80 crap thingy’s on when I’m just getting ready to go up the wooden hill, I have had to return to the drinks table for a another drink or else I’ll have bad dreams, and I thought you was a mate of mine.
thanks harry long retired.
wideboybob:
my first attempt at this fine art! my 111 with a load of chipboard out of KRONASPAN at chirk. circa 1988
New sheets to learn with unlucky!!! Straps under the sheets I was taught, I was also taught to do a hitch left handed but there you go, nice picture of a proper looking lorry nice 1.
is that lovely old scania the super 111 nice bit of pulling power for an old motor
sammyopisite:
Dennis it seems as though you only did loads which were straight forward and easy to sheet and nothing difficult like machinery with pieces protruding at all different angles where you had to pack so as not to rip your sheet. anon. wind up
Hey! JT who says we never carried any awkward loads of machinery!!!
hiya, Now that’s a lousy thing to do Dennis, putting those 80 crap thingy’s on when I’m just getting ready to go up the wooden hill, I have had to return to the drinks table for a another drink or else I’ll have bad dreams, and I thought you was a mate of mine. thanks harry long retired.
Howay “H” thats just how they were parked up,if you look over the top there’s two Atkis and an 8LXB ERF,so you wouldn’t have been forced into that 81 thingy !!! Or maybe you fancied the job with the TK,crane off and straight back M/T,can’t be bad and Class 1 rate to boot eh! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Yes Dennis will plump for the TK could still clamber aboard one of them, would need assistance to get aboard the ERF or the Atki maybe a Coles crane would do the job but don’t wish to be a hindrance and the tempter of class 1 pay for driving that baby and back MT swung it for me, I’m on my bike and en-route as from now.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Yes Dennis will plump for the TK could still clamber aboard one of them, would need assistance to get aboard the ERF or the Atki maybe a Coles crane would do the job but don’t wish to be a hindrance and the tempter of class 1 pay for driving that baby and back MT swung it for me, I’m on my bike and en-route as from now.
thanks harry long retired.
OK “H” I’ll meet you at Penrith and I’ll ride the bike back to Milnthorpe !! Dennis.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Yes Dennis will plump for the TK could still clamber aboard one of them, would need assistance to get aboard the ERF or the Atki maybe a Coles crane would do the job but don’t wish to be a hindrance and the tempter of class 1 pay for driving that baby and back MT swung it for me, I’m on my bike and en-route as from now.
thanks harry long retired.
OK “H” I’ll meet you at Penrith and I’ll ride the bike back to Milnthorpe !! Dennis.
hiya,
OK Dennis you’ll be alright with the crash helmet it’s adjustable and you can borrow my cycle clips don’t want you to get oil on your dress suit trousers, just remember the faster you pedal the quicker you’ll get home to bed.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi first time on this thread lookin thru some old pics and came acrss this one its a SCAC trailer with a return load of fertilizer which was a nice uniform load but what a crackn job the driver made of this. It’s a skill which is now in decline but i still like to see it. The F12 was ex Cavewood LHD which we ran in the early '80’s bought as a 4x2 and converted later by Hartshorne in Birmingham. Regards Buzzer of Davies International Southampton.
Shot of the last ever K. Fell liveried motor entering the depot at Milnthorpe pulling a Bewick tandem loaded for Forfar by the looks of it.This Scania had a major engine failure when only a week or two old,it put all the valves through the pistons,Grahams Commercials fitted a new engine and we had no further problems ! Cheers Dennis.
“H” must have liked driving that 82,his name is big enough on the grille !! actually they were a nice motor to drive !! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Yes Dennis, lovely to drive but only when empty, you resembled a whirling Dervish operating that gearbox when you was running over anything other than downhill or along the level when loaded, the minute they hit a pimple they gave up, horrible things, and that’s certainly not me at the handlebars I would have been in disguise and cetainly it would have had a different name on the grille maybe “village idiot”.
thanks harry long retired.
“H” must have liked driving that 82,his name is big enough on the grille !! actually they were a nice motor to drive !! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Yes Dennis, lovely to drive but only when empty, you resembled a whirling Dervish operating that gearbox when you was running over anything other than downhill or along the level when loaded, the minute they hit a pimple they gave up, horrible things, and that’s certainly not me at the handlebars I would have been in disguise and cetainly it would have had a different name on the grille maybe “village idiot”.
thanks harry long retired.
Sorry “H” the position of “village idiot” was already occupied at Bewick Transport by a day shift shunter (name with held to protect the “afflicted” !) but actually this lad could whip round Lancashire and get 3 or 4 drops off,reload,and be back in the depot filled up, coupled up, ready for the night man,never failed,some of the distance men had a struggle to get tipped,never mind re-loading and running back into the depot!! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Dennis for a very short spell I did answer to the name the “POWERHOUSE” but no way am I prepared to bolt that to the grille of an 80 thingy, any driver who has been lumbered with one of the darned things would make me a laughing stock, there you go got it “The Joker” now that would be very apt for those Swedish dustbins.
thanks harry long retired.
