I used to do a lot of these to Barrow or Faslane
This is a typical load for us, Neatly done as always,
All ok with you dennis,
cheers Mike.
Not Great loads , but richos were once a great haulier from my home town, and ran a big fleet of flat trailers, anyone with any intresting info on richos ? ,
first one’s not that bad is it?
straps over a flysheet gaz ! come on
GAZ70:
first one’s not that bad is it?
i never saw that ,sorry 
MIKE P:
straps over a flysheet gaz ! come onGAZ70:
first one’s not that bad is it?
Plus the sheets are just “draped” on the load,they should have been nice and taught,not good ! But then again some of those “pot throwers” couldn’t sheet a single bed !! More used to an unsheeted load of cobbles!! Cheers Bewick.
MIKE P:
This is a typical load for us, Neatly done as always,
All ok with you dennis,
cheers Mike.0
Tidy job that Mike, but is it that your drivers are short arsed that you don’t use a normal height tri axle,or that you are required to use a stepper for some of your traffic !!! Cheers Dennis.
Theres already a sheeting and roping thread!
Bewick:
Theres already a sheeting and roping thread!
hiya,
What’s this Dennis “ten ton ten of toilet tissue to take to Timothy Whites and Taylors”.
That’s a lot toilet tissue Tosh, yes Guv they’re our sole agents, sorry Dennis.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Bewick:
Theres already a sheeting and roping thread!hiya,
What’s this Dennis “ten ton ten of toilet tissue to take to Timothy Whites and Taylors”.
That’s a lot toilet tissue Tosh, yes Guv they’re our sole agents, sorry Dennis.
thanks harry, long retired.
Its been a year or two since I roped and sheeted a load, but its nice to see a properly dressed load once in a while, If they are youngish lads who have sheeted up you can almost guarantee their dads where old time drivers. My son ,like me, could sheet and rope before he could drive, and like swimming it never leaves you, except like in my case Mrs itis’s little lad Arthur. 
that one wouldn’t be bad to sheet . it was the loads of reels on end and staggered all the way along the trailer that tested your skills . it was hard work to get the front end neat and tidy cheers , dave
rigsby:
that one wouldn’t be bad to sheet . it was the loads of reels on end and staggered all the way along the trailer that tested your skills . it was hard work to get the front end neat and tidy cheers , dave
Do you mean a load like this Dave?,only criticism I have of this particular load is the fly sheet should have been draped down the near side,well thats how I was taught if you had to split your sheets to cover a load !!We had a good number of sets of sheets that would have covered that load fully then use the Fly for it’s intended purpose at one time but after we stopped running out of Bowater Scott in Barrow we didn’t have a great demand for the 27 ft 6" wide mains.Most of our loads were then lower and heavier and then we started changing over to Tautliners.
Stanfield:
Bringing this one back to the 1st page.What about this one Dennis is it to your standards or notand 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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Rawlings, James & Phillips was an agricultural merchants with its own animal feeds mill at Hungerford, originally James & Co. Cerebos bought the company in the mid-60s and amalgamated other local feed millers to form R J & P. Cerebos was itself bought out by RHM in 1970. This Commer was not a typical RHM lorry of that era and it would have collected a load of feed from an RHM mill in London, either Silvertown or possibly Robinsons at Deptford Bridge.
Bewick:
rigsby:
that one wouldn’t be bad to sheet . it was the loads of reels on end and staggered all the way along the trailer that tested your skills . it was hard work to get the front end neat and tidy cheers , daveDo you mean a load like this Dave?,only criticism I have of this particular load is the fly sheet should have been draped down the near side,well thats how I was taught if you had to split your sheets to cover a load !!We had a good number of sets of sheets that would have covered that load fully then use the Fly for it’s intended purpose at one time but after we stopped running out of Bowater Scott in Barrow we didn’t have a great demand for the 27 ft 6" wide mains.Most of our loads were then lower and heavier and then we started changing over to Tautliners.
Who were Disley?
disley is the paper mill where btw loaded , just outside new mills .
i think my keyboard is (ZB) that should have read bts
rigsby:
i think my keyboard is (ZB) that should have read bts
That’s right Dave, blame the tool’s! 
Pete.
Disley mill was origionally the two, MG, machine operation of J & J Makin Ltd of Rochdale,their other mill,a single Fordrinier machine operation was at Oakenholt,Flint.I’m not too sure how long the Makin family owned the two Mills but it was a good number of years.Their base in Rochdale was mainly one of Converting,putting foil onto board for the likes of Benson & Hedges and Gallaghers cig packets,they were also involved with metal powder manufacture for the like of Ferodo brake linings.They also,wait for it------ manufactured Organs,which were shipped all over the World and apparently the last “Makin” to run the business thought this was the most important part of the operation!!.In 1985,J.Bibby & Son PLC bought out the J & J Makin group and proceeded to invest heavily in both Mills,particularly Oakenholt where they doubled the output from 10,000 tpy to 20,000 tpy.The Disley mill made the same sort of paper as their then,by now, sister co.Henry Cooke in Beetham.There was a subtle difference though as the Disley M G’s glazed the top of the paper whereas the Beetham M G’s glazed the bottom of the paper web.The glaze finnish was alway better on the upper side of the sheet and in the early days of the takeover when Beetham produced some of the Disley orders one or two customers complained about the slightly poorer glaze,although overall quality was the same.In the early '90’s,Bibby’s sold the Disley Mill to Kruger Paper of Quebec,Canada.Kruger pulled out of the M G market and converted the Machines to produce Tissue and they also invested heavily in the infrastructure putting a brand new entrance road in,which had been badly needed for years.Bibby’s by this time had been completly taken over by Barlow Rand of S. Africa and they eventually divested theirselves of the Paper mills completely by the the early 2000’s.At their height in the later 80’s the 4 mills owned by Bibby Paper were producing circa 100,000 tpy of various grades and qualities,mainly for the Food packaging,Medical and Wallpaper makers and from their Mill in Cullompton high quality filter paper for every Oil,Air and Derv filter manufacturer in the UK,they also made the coloured paper that is used in the making of Formica.I hope this info helps you “george”, They were Happy,but extremely busy times,Cheers Dennis.