kevmac47:
Leyland600:
Hi Harry, Yes I will join your staff at the R&S academy but only if you supply the “keen ointment” as no doubt you do not approve of gloves. !!! Cheers L 600.L600, Harry doesn’t use the ointment for Keens, he uses it for Chaps!
Howay Kev,there is no way that our “H” has ever been a passenger on “the other bus” some of those old “boilers” round Aldgate might have looked a bit suspect like but they were sure “all woman”.Cheers Dennis.
Dennis, I’m just giving the poor old soul a helping hand to let rip with a mighty riposte, I am sure the air will be blue very soon.
Regards Kev. 
Bewick:
kevmac47:
Leyland600:
Hi Harry, Yes I will join your staff at the R&S academy but only if you supply the “keen ointment” as no doubt you do not approve of gloves. !!! Cheers L 600.L600, Harry doesn’t use the ointment for Keens, he uses it for Chaps!
Howay Kev,there is no way that our “H” has ever been a passenger on “the other bus” some of those old “boilers” round Aldgate might have looked a bit suspect like but they were sure “all woman”.Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Straight buses only nowt bendy and i’ve been married three times ( all women )
and all have been subjected to being interfered with with keen “inflicted” hands,
now if I’d worn gloves I suppose it would look a bit suspect, PS Germolene was my
cure all for R & S tattered hands.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Harry, I last sheeted a wagon in 1972 then changed to a bulk powder tanker, collar & tie I thought but was wrong, nowt but stoor and John Robert string on farm feed deliveries. However changed to a box bulk blower and became a semi curtain puller until 1980. PSVs only from then on until last November very rarely Scandinavian Bedfords but almost exclusively Leyland Leopards, but I reckon I could still sheet most loads offered.
Cheers L 600.
Always loaded with booze…
Leyland600:
Hi Harry, I last sheeted a wagon in 1972 then changed to a bulk powder tanker, collar & tie I thought but was wrong, nowt but stoor and John Robert string on farm feed deliveries. However changed to a box bulk blower and became a semi curtain puller until 1980. PSVs only from then on until last November very rarely Scandinavian Bedfords but almost exclusively Leyland Leopards, but I reckon I could still sheet most loads offered.
Cheers L 600.
Hiya,
I don’t see many sheeted loads about these days but some that I have seen have looked
terrible, there are still a few of the Scots boys who make a good job and would give my
seal of approval but some going up and down the A1M are proper horror stories, sheets
flapping ropes dangling just pleased for their sakes they are normally pulling vans or the
curtainsiders because when you see their attempts at R & S it’s obvious they don’t do it
very often, a dying art which will never return, and thousands of young fellahs’ will be so
happy about that, but I still like to see a proper loaded and “dressed” load travelling along
the road, poetry in motion so to speak.
thanks harry long retired.
Bringing this one back to the 1st page.What about this one Dennis is it to your standards or not 
and if not where has he gone wrong,let us know what you think.Looks tidy to me but then again I am no expert 
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hiya,
Very tidy nothing flapping, but a very easy one only being “top of shed” height,
what’s he carrying though, food products ■■, if so topped off with a flysheet is
really the order of the day, over to the “expert” DENNIS.
thanks harry, long retired.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well I must agree, not the best way to sheet a load of reels, unless it didnt matter if they got wet as in some cases if they were for making paper bags ? the manufacturer stored them outside like one of the drops we used to do Simms at Thornliebank , but having said that the security at Blyth Harbour would not have let you off the dock sheeted in that manner, so there you go ? Regards Larry.
hiya,
Yes Larry you couldn’t get out of Hownsgill Plate Mill without the load being totally
covered only to deliver to some shipyard or Caterpillar yard and be confronted with
acres of piles of rusty steel plates usually the unloading guys questioning why you
sheeted the load in the first place.
thanks harry, long retired.
Very tidily sheeted indeed however being a Rank Hovis McDougal motor all its regular loads (flour or cattle feeding stuffs) would be this size consequently an appropriate size sheet would be supplied. However it is nicely crossed in at the front corners and th top flap pulled down squarely as it should be also roped down about every third hook would make this load very secure with a nice tight sheet pulled tight from the back and crossed over again like the front and the rear flap tied down squarely below the back crossmember with diagonally crossed ropes over the back corners. Where was the nearest RHM mill to Tower Bridge ?
Thats the way to do it.
Cheers , Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Very tidily sheeted indeed however being a Rank Hovis McDougal motor all its regular loads (flour or cattle feeding stuffs) would be this size consequently an appropriate size sheet would be supplied. However it is nicely crossed in at the front corners and th top flap pulled down squarely as it should be also roped down about every third hook would make this load very secure with a nice tight sheet pulled tight from the back and crossed over again like the front and the rear flap tied down squarely below the back crossmember with diagonally crossed ropes over the back corners. Where was the nearest RHM mill to Tower Bridge ?
Thats the way to do it.
Cheers , Leyland 600.
hiya,
Tell you what Leyland 600. you are far more articulate than me how about
you delivering the roping and sheeting induction course, they would never
be able to understand what I was on about.
thanks harry, long retired.
Stanfield:
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Looks like this shot would have been taken a few years into this Commer 6wheeler’s life,a bit battered around the n/s mudguard so I wonder if it was on farm delivery work as L600 says ? Tidy enough load even without a fly sheet so maybe he wasn’t going a great distance,does the load look like it is on pallets? Overall it is a drab looking motor considering it is operated by a big concern like RHM,but maybe it is a contract haulier from out of the “Sticks” in the Home Counties.If he had to handball 12 or 13 ton of cattle food off each day he wouldn’t be bothered about a “drab” looking motor now would he? Cheers Dennis.
Bewick you have hit the nail on the head, the driver must have come from out in the sticks as not many drivers from out of the smoke could sheet a wagon as tidily as this one. This example is lacking a flysheet but perhaps it was summer and a fine day with little likelihood of rain, with not too far to go.
L.600.
The name on the door say’s Rawlings James & Phillips Ltd so must have been a contractor like you say Dennis.
Backend shot of a couple of loaded tri-axles in the rank at Milnthorpe.
Very tidy Dennis, Regards Larry.
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Stanfield:
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marks out of 10 for this one lads0
A Mess out of ten
one of my lads would not dare come back with a load looking like this.
MIKE P:
Stanfield:
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marks out of 10 for this one lads0A Mess out of ten
one of my lads would not dare come back with a load looking like this.
That was a tidy job for Reed Transport Mike !!! You should have seen a bad one,the Cutty Sark under full sail would have been put to shame !! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
MIKE P:
Stanfield:
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marks out of 10 for this one lads0A Mess out of ten
one of my lads would not dare come back with a load looking like this.That was a tidy job for Reed Transport Mike !!! You should have seen a bad one,the Cutty Sark under full sail would have been put to shame !! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Another candidate for the R & S acadamy methinks ( a mess out of ten just about sums it up ) well said that man.
thanks harry, long retired.
