kevmac47:
Harry, My screen is acting up,
I can only see the word HOUSE and possibly an S to start with, can you elaborate please
regards Kev.
Kevin you need to get H to reply 
, and you had better get your pc looked at by an IT
engineer. 
kevmac47:
Harry, My screen is acting up,
regards Kev.
hiya,
Go on Kev read into it what you wish but the word you think it may possibly be, will most likely have been tendered against me at least once or twice in my lifetime, but I do prefer Powehouse, had a plate made when I was a young fellah’ it got nicked along with my knight’s head the first time I overnighted at the Lincoln Farm Cafe after it was newly fitted, one of those Bewick gadgy’s I think, one of his lads had an Atki,with quite a few knight’s heads on the rad.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
kevmac47:
Harry, My screen is acting up,
regards Kev.hiya,
Go on Kev read into it what you wish but the word you think it may possibly be, will most likely have been tendered against me at least once or twice in my lifetime, but I do prefer Powehouse, had a plate made when I was a young fellah’ it got nicked along with my knight’s head the first time I overnighted at the Lincoln Farm Cafe after it was newly fitted, one of those Bewick gadgy’s I think, one of his lads had an Atki,with quite a few knight’s heads on the rad.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, if thats the only name I 've been allocated over the years I will be happy. looking forward to our next drink together. regards Kev.
Aye Kev whens the next gathering, it cant be too far away, for us old Kings of The Road Eh. Regards Larry.
waste paper out of Jebbs at Wallsend had a good number back in the early 70s, i used to tip Spicers at Washington and load 2 trailers at Jebbs 5 days a week.
A few of our loaded trailers stood in the Mill at Beetham ready to roll !!
harry_gill:
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.
Harry, who was “Brigante” at Bowkers? Maybe after your time, I think he drove an Scania 88 or some other Swede.
T.M.
Tankerman:
harry_gill:
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.Harry, who was “Brigante” at Bowkers? Maybe after your time, I think he drove an Scania 88 or some other Swede.
T.M.
hiya,
Never heard of that one Russell, can only remember that my old Atki had a bit of cardboard
with The Powerhouse written on it and stuck behind Atki “washbasin” I think the term was mean’t
for the ■■■■■■■ engine and not me, in my case there’s more power in a baking powder drink.
thanks harry long retired.
Bewick:
lurpak:
hi all
is this up to standard bewick just thought i would ask
hi Dennis,
thanks for the reply sorry i haven’t replied earlier but have been a bit busy, caravan show at Excel,in answer to your questions
A, Her indoors took the photo so carry on down that line if you want
B,One of my first loads and probably didn’t know any better here’s one i did later in my career not with one drop usually about six
C,If that’s the only sheets they gave me that’s all I could use, I have enjoyed looking at your photos on this site and on your own bewick page and would of been up to standard even if I needed the odd lesson to start with, here’s one of waste cardboard for Aylesford island site with reels back sorry no photos
delivering caravans now so a bit rusty if you perfection now
mines the one on the right, got tin hat on in case I got it wrong again
cheers
Ade
Dennis you have gone very very quiet, What are you up to. I dont suppose you have gone on a course on how to rope & sheet, because I dont think what they teach to-day would realley suit you, so what are you up to, you are not hatching a plot to rid us of Carryfast are you, Regards Larry, PS I hope you are.
Not said a lot for a long time but i got out of roping and sheeting a lot of years back and never looked back,went on to fuel tankers and retired from them!!!
a few from me 
hiya,
You’re not as up to date as me what about “cable ties” the repair anything gadget.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
You’re not as up to date as me what about “cable ties” the repair anything gadget.
thanks harry long retired.
lol a good stock of them is always handy harry
One of my first driving jobs was with Thanet Transport hauling Volkswagen parts from Ramsgate all over the UK with what to me at the time was a king of the road AEC Mandator. They showed me how to rope and sheet the cages which contained the spares and one of the drivers said to me, “Don’t bother to sheet up on the way back because you’ve only got empties.”
So I delivered the load I think to somewhere near Croydon, loaded up the empty cages and roped and dollied all the way down each side of the trailer. However what I hadn’t realised was that on the way out all the cages straddled the trailer width. The return cages were half size so they were loaded two across. I had zig zag roped each side of the trailer without throwing the rope right over the top.
I was bloodyi lucky. On the way back I made it all the way to the Thanet Way near Whitstable where rather predictably the whole of one side toppled over as I negotiated a roundabout. I watched it all in horror in my near side mirror. Thank God there was no one on my inside, a cyclist for example, they’d have been seriously injured or killed!
That was a salutary lesson to a novice driver! After all these years hopefully the statute of limitations will apply and I won’t be expecting a visit from Kent Plod!
I remember a pal of mine who worked for J Moran in Bradford had to go to Hartlepool to pick up a bull dozer that belonged to Andrew Fielder the demolition contractor and show jumper. He loaded it ok but never bothered to chain it, got all the way to Bradford without any bother then at Army Barracks at Stanningley went around the roundabout too fast and it fell of the trailer down a pedestrian subway !! Luckily nobody was hurt, except Morans insurance !!!
Cannot remember if I put this on here before - by Roger Kenney, Manchester I believe.