Photograph courtesy of Brian Mc Bride
You very very seldom ever saw a rough sheeting and roping job on a Scottish motor,but IMHO the further you travelled south in the UK the rougher sheeting and roping got and when you got down to Cockney land OMG the standards were atrocious and the quality of the sheets and ropes left a lot to be desired but that was no excuse !! Cheers Bewick
Hey, the days of hundreds loads a day for England, later I delivered in Cowi factory big as ten together here.
Most have gone here.
Eric,
Bewick:
You very very seldom ever saw a rough sheeting and roping job on a Scottish motor,but IMHO the further you travelled south in the UK the rougher sheeting and roping got and when you got down to Cockney land OMG the standards were atrocious and the quality of the sheets and ropes left a lot to be desired but that was no excuse !! Cheers Bewick
That explains why yours look shabby compared with the jocks !!!
I like the way DAN slips them in. A CRACKER. Eddie.
Dan Punchard:
Bewick:
You very very seldom ever saw a rough sheeting and roping job on a Scottish motor,but IMHO the further you travelled south in the UK the rougher sheeting and roping got and when you got down to Cockney land OMG the standards were atrocious and the quality of the sheets and ropes left a lot to be desired but that was no excuse !! Cheers BewickThat explains why yours look shabby compared with the jocks !!!
They don’t like being called “Jocks”,they are “Scotsmen” and I say this even if a lot of them did actually vote “Yes” 
Bewick.
Dan Punchard:
Bewick:
You very very seldom ever saw a rough sheeting and roping job on a Scottish motor,but IMHO the further you travelled south in the UK the rougher sheeting and roping got and when you got down to Cockney land OMG the standards were atrocious and the quality of the sheets and ropes left a lot to be desired but that was no excuse !! Cheers BewickThat explains why yours look shabby compared with the jocks !!!
Bollox !! and remember that you live further “south” than I do Dan !! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Dan Punchard:
Bewick:
You very very seldom ever saw a rough sheeting and roping job on a Scottish motor,but IMHO the further you travelled south in the UK the rougher sheeting and roping got and when you got down to Cockney land OMG the standards were atrocious and the quality of the sheets and ropes left a lot to be desired but that was no excuse !! Cheers BewickThat explains why yours look shabby compared with the jocks !!!
They don’t like being called “Jocks”,they are “Scotsmen” and I say this even if a lot of them did actually vote “Yes”
Dennis is this appropriate
cheers Johnnie 
sammyopisite:
Bewick:
Dan Punchard:
Bewick:
You very very seldom ever saw a rough sheeting and roping job on a Scottish motor,but IMHO the further you travelled south in the UK the rougher sheeting and roping got and when you got down to Cockney land OMG the standards were atrocious and the quality of the sheets and ropes left a lot to be desired but that was no excuse !! Cheers BewickThat explains why yours look shabby compared with the jocks !!!
They don’t like being called “Jocks”,they are “Scotsmen” and I say this even if a lot of them did actually vote “Yes”
Dennis is this appropriate
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cheers Johnnie
Summat like that Johnnie eh!!
Bewick:
Dan Punchard:
Bewick:
You very very seldom ever saw a rough sheeting and roping job on a Scottish motor,but IMHO the further you travelled south in the UK the rougher sheeting and roping got and when you got down to Cockney land OMG the standards were atrocious and the quality of the sheets and ropes left a lot to be desired but that was no excuse !! Cheers BewickThat explains why yours look shabby compared with the jocks !!!
Bollox !!
■■■■ off Dan ! your only jealous 'cause I’ve got a new F88 and your sat in a poxy Commer. 
Dennis.
Now then Dan,when can you start ? 
Now that’s ok ,I could make these artics look stupid that little beauty .
I reckon that the ‘Southern Sheeter’s’ were possibly more concerned about getting goods loaded and delivered Dan than making sure every dolly was in line and then standing around taking photographs of them, probably running on poorer rates than those Northern ‘Empire Builders’ such as Bewick and Steady Eddie? Wouldn’t mind a spell in that little FGK 30 myself, just do me nowadays, it would have either the 2.2 petrol or diesel engine and a nice little syncromesh gearbox, not like the larger models with a 3.4 or 3.8 diesel screaming its head off and a constant mesh box!
Pete.
windrush:
I reckon that the ‘Southern Sheeter’s’ were possibly more concerned about getting goods loaded and delivered Dan than making sure every dolly was in line and then standing around taking photographs of them, probably running on poorer rates than those Northern ‘Empire Builders’ such as Bewick and Steady Eddie?Pete.
What you are forgetting Pete is that it always was quicker and easier to do a good roping and sheeting job,well that’s what I was taught in double quick time when I started as a trailer mate in my teens at Bradys and never a truer word was spoken and the saying still holds good to this day ! But how “fast eddie” figures as far as sheeting and roping goes you have me at a loss mate ! Cheers Bewick.
windrush:
I reckon that the ‘Southern Sheeter’s’ were possibly more concerned about getting goods loaded and delivered Dan than making sure every dolly was in line and then standing around taking photographs of them, probably running on poorer rates than those Northern ‘Empire Builders’ such as Bewick and Steady Eddie?Pete.
I drove two of those FG’s Pete, one when I was 19 when the regular driver was off, and then a fairly new one when I was 20 for six months doing 1,500 miles weekly often with 6 ton onboard. As you say just a four cylinder engine, which was reliable, but under-powered and heavier on the steering than anything else I drove, and that includes an AEC Matador and a Scammell Routeman both breakdown wagons.
Cheers Dave.
Bewick:
windrush:
I reckon that the ‘Southern Sheeter’s’ were possibly more concerned about getting goods loaded and delivered Dan than making sure every dolly was in line and then standing around taking photographs of them, probably running on poorer rates than those Northern ‘Empire Builders’ such as Bewick and Steady Eddie?Pete.
What you are forgetting Pete is that it always was quicker and easier to do a good roping and sheeting job,well that’s what I was taught in double quick time when I started as a trailer mate in my teens at Bradys and never a truer word was spoken and the saying still holds good to this day ! But how “fast eddie” figures as far as sheeting and roping goes you have me at a loss mate ! Cheers Bewick.
Hiya,
I, for a while did a changeover with a Newport Mon driver he like myself took a preloaded
trailer and did this changeover on nightshift I on many occasions had to re-sheet before I
departed knowing that the trailer I would be getting would be perfection, I did ask the
Welsh lad did he have the same problem as me having to tidy things up before departure
he assured me that the shunter at his end always did a perfect job, and perfect it was, I
could have put a straight edge along the pigs ears down either side of the trailer and they
would have been perfectly in line the least I could do was make the trailer perfect for
him on the next nights return .
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Bewick:
windrush:
I reckon that the ‘Southern Sheeter’s’ were possibly more concerned about getting goods loaded and delivered Dan than making sure every dolly was in line and then standing around taking photographs of them, probably running on poorer rates than those Northern ‘Empire Builders’ such as Bewick and Steady Eddie?Pete.
What you are forgetting Pete is that it always was quicker and easier to do a good roping and sheeting job,well that’s what I was taught in double quick time when I started as a trailer mate in my teens at Bradys and never a truer word was spoken and the saying still holds good to this day ! But how “fast eddie” figures as far as sheeting and roping goes you have me at a loss mate ! Cheers Bewick.
Hiya,
I, for a while did a changeover with a Newport Mon driver he like myself took a preloaded
trailer and did this changeover on nightshift I on many occasions had to re-sheet before I
departed knowing that the trailer I would be getting would be perfection, I did ask the
Welsh lad did he have the same problem as me having to tidy things up before departure
he assured me that the shunter at his end always did a perfect job, and perfect it was, I
could have put a straight edge along the pigs ears down either side of the trailer and they
would have been perfectly in line the least I could do was make the trailer perfect for
him on the next nights return .
thanks harry, long retired.
Monmouth is not strictly Welsh Harry, it was no mans land for years, had you have crossed over the border into proper Waless, you would have found the roping and sheeting, up to a very high standard.
Cheers Dave.
The sheet on that 8-wheeler looks like it would go over the load twice!
old 67:
Bewick:
20ton on this trailerCheers Bewick.
Looks as if part of that photo is missing, Dennis ? Something you do not want us to see ?
I cannot think what it might be, because I know the back end ropes and sheets will have been spot on ?
Regards. John.
Hi, it makes interesting reading this roping & sheeting page, it sorts out the “driver’s from the truckers”, and regarding changing wheels make me sick which stopped my going back on the road last year, not because I was sick, but the rules of “driver’s” who are not allowed to change wheels when you have a flat, I started driving way back in 1957 in the army then when I came out in 1960 went on the road in Bradford carrying wool etc, knowing how to rope and secure a load which were all on flat lorries was a skill only known to the drivers who had to do it all day long every week every month every year, if you didn’t get it right you lost your load, and regarding the guy’s from north of the border there’s no doubt they were the best because they had to drive further possibly an extra 150 200 miles down south, regarding going back on the road, my problem was not being too old but I refused to be told I couldn’t change a wheel because they say I couldn’t do it because I’m not skilled enough, to to say I did it not every week but at least once a month not only in the UK but for 25 years in east and west Europe too, I often changed 2 wheels on a trip, so to say I don’t know how to do it is nothing but an insult, I never had a wheel come off, but did have wheels come loose after a tire company changed them, “which we wont talk about”, but standing on a bar like in the photo that’s the way to do it, only one or may-be two cracks and it will stay on for ever it served me well for over 50 years it’s a proved method of making shore they wont fall off, in fact I did have a fall out with a fitter who came to change a wheel for me long ago who tole me “I wasn’t qualified what ever that means” unless it means that piece of paper they give you after a weeks learning of how to change a wheel. :- Jack Graham 
