Bewick:
A newish Crane Fruehauf standing in the depot,circa 1976,loaded with 20ton of Libby Foods from the factory next door.
The ropes look frayed on the ends Dennis.Is that your Commer on the left of the trailer ?
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Bewick:
A newish Crane Fruehauf standing in the depot,circa 1976,loaded with 20ton of Libby Foods from the factory next door.The ropes look frayed on the ends Dennis.Is that your Commer on the left of the trailer ?
Cheers Dave.
The Karrier is stood in the old goods yard and is nothing to do with me Dave !!! This shot was taken about 3 years before I managed to persuade BR property board to sell me the yard,in the event I offered £30k and they asked £60,I got it for £40k plus I had to spend £2k fencing the boundary along the Main line to the specification of the regional Permanent Way engineer!!!.Good deal all the same as it gave us another 2 acres and a seperate additional access to the whole site. Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Dave the Renegade:
Bewick:
A newish Crane Fruehauf standing in the depot,circa 1976,loaded with 20ton of Libby Foods from the factory next door.The ropes look frayed on the ends Dennis.Is that your Commer on the left of the trailer ?
Cheers Dave.The Karrier is stood in the old goods yard and is nothing to do with me Dave !!! This shot was taken about 3 years before I managed to persuade BR property board to sell me the yard,in the event I offered £30k and they asked £60,I got it for £40k plus I had to spend £2k fencing the boundary along the Main line to the specification of the regional Permanent Way engineer!!!.Good deal all the same as it gave us another 2 acres and a seperate additional access to the whole site. Cheers Dennis.
Old railway yards were brilliant for a haulier Dennis,plenty of hard standing and loads of room.There are several in this area which were snapped up by hauliers after Dr Beeching closed the lines down.
Cheers Dave.
Managed to find an old ariel shot of the Libby factory at Milnthorpe, looks like it was taken in late '76/early '77,we had taken over the K. Fell depot which is in the top left of the shot and shows the workshop and offices with a motor or two in the yard. The disused Goods yard is to the top centre which we moved onto later, the MOT Station is over on the far right and the Main West coast line borders the top of the shot. The Libby factory had been expanded over many years from its opening as a Milk factory in 1933. At it’s height it was probably producing about a 1000 tons of various products a week,maybe more at times.
[A shot of our “one and only” lady driver that ran on nights from our Luton base.
You kept that quiet Dennis.not heard her mentioned on any of your threads before. 
Bewick:
Managed to find an old ariel shot of the Libby factory at Milnthorpe, looks like it was taken in late '76/early '77,we had taken over the K. Fell depot which is in the top left of the shot and shows the workshop and offices with a motor or two in the yard. The disused Goods yard is to the top centre which we moved onto later, the MOT Station is over on the far right and the Main West coast line borders the top of the shot. The Libby factory had been expanded over many years from its opening as a Milk factory in 1933. At it’s height it was probably producing about a 1000 tons of various products a week,maybe more at times.
No covered loading bay then dennis!!!
scaniaontheroad:
Bewick:
Managed to find an old ariel shot of the Libby factory at Milnthorpe, looks like it was taken in late '76/early '77,we had taken over the K. Fell depot which is in the top left of the shot and shows the workshop and offices with a motor or two in the yard. The disused Goods yard is to the top centre which we moved onto later, the MOT Station is over on the far right and the Main West coast line borders the top of the shot. The Libby factory had been expanded over many years from its opening as a Milk factory in 1933. At it’s height it was probably producing about a 1000 tons of various products a week,maybe more at times.No covered loading bay then dennis!!!
Interesting to see though!!
EDDIE STOBART FAN:
No roping and sheeting at Stobarts, it’s curtainsiders only as they are more efficient.
Because Stobart only employed drivers that couldnt do the job,thats why he ran tautliners!!!.
not the best picture
but still a good example of how its done with with 32 x 16 main sheets that most drivers nowadays would s**t themselves if they had to use,
ROGERTYLER:
wideboybob:
seems a lot of you are split between loving it and loathing it.it does make me smile when i see young drivers today struggling with curtains when i think i used to load trailers of cardboard out of tillotsons ,monmouth (tri wall) on a flat 15’ high ,lifted up on a forklift with the sheets and no saftey harness to be seen! health and saftey would have a field day. mind you i have been hit on the head by the pole in the curtain on a windy day(and had it blow up onto the roof)I also used to load out of tillotsons monmouth with multi drops London roped and sheeted and miss them days
Loved it and loathed it.High winds,torrential rain,Hyster lift and yep,miss it…thanks for the reminder lads.I had a curtain snagged on a telephone wire and that was fun.Gi’ me the sheets anytime.What was Rikki wrote about rose tints 
Maybe some ex driver/entrepreneur could come to some arrangement with their friendly local supplier and offer roping ‘n’ sheeting lessons 
(the 50 quid “suggestion box” prize will come in handy thanks 
)
A nice example heading off to one of the British Gypsum factories,probably.
And a couple of wrinkly,crinkly ones in between jobs and windblown at the end of a distance run.Bet they started off nice.
Stanfield:
[A shot of our “one and only” lady driver that ran on nights from our Luton base.
I’m sure I did mention the fact in an earlier thread John,her partner Kenny worked for us on nights as well.Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Stanfield:
[A shot of our “one and only” lady driver that ran on nights from our Luton base.I’m sure I did mention the fact in an earlier thread John,her partner Kenny worked for us on nights as well.Cheers Dennis.
Did she rope n sheet ? 
ROGERTYLER:
wideboybob:
seems a lot of you are split between loving it and loathing it.it does make me smile when i see young drivers today struggling with curtains when i think i used to load trailers of cardboard out of tillotsons ,monmouth (tri wall) on a flat 15’ high ,lifted up on a forklift with the sheets and no saftey harness to be seen! health and saftey would have a field day. mind you i have been hit on the head by the pole in the curtain on a windy day(and had it blow up onto the roof)I also used to load out of tillotsons monmouth with multi drops London roped and sheeted and miss them days
sheets lifted up on a forklift on thick lovely cardboard…you should have tried loading at NACANCO at Norwich for crown paints Haltwhistle . new empty paint tins,ok they were shrinkwraped,but no cardboard to kneel on,just thick paper to CRAWL on, as long as the sheets ewre folded square you were ok ,you did’nt want one side too short cos you did’nt want to pull down on one side,mind you,i certainly miss them times.If only this was friday 20 years ago,WAH,HEY,tea at normans then a good night out at PONTY.
I ALSO LIKE ROGER TYLER, WORKED OUT OF TILLOTSONS AFTER IT HAD BECOME TRIWALL EUROPE, FROM1981 TO 1995 . ROPING AND SHEETING FIRSTLY A D1411 FORD 24 FOOTER, AND THEN A 1617 MERC 26 FOOTER WITH 28 X 36 FOOT SHEETS!!!. 1 to 5 drops ANYWHERE FROM CORNWALL TO SCOTLAND.OF COURSE WITH IT BEING CARDBOARD YOU COULDNT RISK IT GETTING WET. SO IN VERY WET WEATHER I USED TO PUT HEAVY POLYTHENE SHEETS UNDERNEATH, THE REELS FROM SUDBROOK MILL WOULD COME IN TRIPLE SHEETED WITH POLYTHENE, THEN 25 BY 30 SHEETS, AND A FLY SHEET .SO THERE WAS ALWAYS A READY SUPPLY OF POLYTHENE.
It was the same at the Metal Box Factories the truck driver lifted the sheets up for you, & if they were wrapped up right they were no bother, if not you had a job pulling them over even just a liitle was very dodgey, the boxes tended to come with it., but drivers allways seemed to manage it somehow, but there again every body mucked in & helped each other in those days, the good old days to me, Regards Larry.
ramone:
Bewick:
Stanfield:
[A shot of our “one and only” lady driver that ran on nights from our Luton base.I’m sure I did mention the fact in an earlier thread John,her partner Kenny worked for us on nights as well.Cheers Dennis.
Did she rope n sheet ?
Does she look like she could to you “ramone” ? No? Well don’t ask ------- questions then !!! She was a steady driver but her only failing was she couldn’t reverse square on to couple the trailer up very well, I know, I know, but I can’t explain it any other way !!! I watched them changing trailers at Charnock Richard services one night and another time at a customers premises at Stalybridge and it was a right shambles,it’s a wonder she never had the trailer into the back of the cab !!! Otherwise she was a very careful driver,but the traffic office lads didn’t reckon her as they couldnt accept that a female was fit to do a mans job !! I can honestly say that I wouldn’t have started another female driver but it was a worthwhile excercise IMO. Phew I’m going to hide now !! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
She was a steady driver but her only failing was she couldn’t reverse square on to couple the trailer up very well, I know, I know, but I can’t explain it any other way !!! I watched them changing trailers at Charnock Richard services one night and another time at a customers premises at Stalybridge and it was a right shambles,it’s a wonder she never had the trailer into the back of the cab !!! Otherwise she was a very careful driver,but the traffic office lads didn’t reckon her as they couldnt accept that a female was fit to do a mans job !! I can honestly say that I wouldn’t have started another female driver but it was a worthwhile excercise IMO. Phew I’m going to hide now !! Cheers Dennis.
She wasn’t the only one that couldn’t back square on to a trailer Dennis,plenty of blokes couldn’t do it either and missing t’pin was a regular occurence.I used to watch 'em coupling up at an angle and asked if they could lie straight in bed.Tossers.
BXL at Plenmellar always sticks in my mind for sheeting high and light loads.
At Waughs we always had the proper sheets for the job as we did a lot of
work out of Kimberly Clark and the sheets were made for the job, BXL was
a bit of challenge as the load was so light that when you were spreading
the sheets the load would spread apart!!! The H&S brigade would have a
fit now. I always seemed to be there with the late Geordie Graham (aka
Cuddles) George was a very big lad as lots of you will remember, so the
load was very precarious when he was on top so he would aways make sure
that I was “upstairs”. George often brought his son Peter to help also. Can you
imagine a factory allowing a schoolboy on the premises now ? never mind
climbing on top of a high load. Times have changed eh? regards kevmac.