Buzzer:
Fergie I see you have nominated me and “Carlos” for transportation of cheese and wine up Norf, this is all very well but you must realize the cost in shoes for "Carlos alone could make this prohibitive. He would need at least six sets of shoes to complete that run plus feed and a small consideration for me, shoe’s run out at £75 a set so that’s £450 for a start. All things considered I do think you would be better of using Palletline or some one like that as it would certainly work out cheaper. All the same thanks for the thought but I would make that Dennis come and collect the gear as it would be an eye opener for him as he only ponsed about in the UK when he was in the job, no offence meant of course, Buzzer.
A nice looking “yoke” there “Buzzer” I would fancy my-self driving a smart horse like that one,is that you on the box ? Cheers Dennis.
Buzzer:
Fergie I see you have nominated me and “Carlos” for transportation of cheese and wine up Norf, this is all very well but you must realize the cost in shoes for "Carlos alone could make this prohibitive. He would need at least six sets of shoes to complete that run plus feed and a small consideration for me, shoe’s run out at £75 a set so that’s £450 for a start. All things considered I do think you would be better of using Palletline or some one like that as it would certainly work out cheaper. All the same thanks for the thought but I would make that Dennis come and collect the gear as it would be an eye opener for him as he only ponsed about in the UK when he was in the job, no offence meant of course, Buzzer.
A nice looking “yoke” there “Buzzer” I would fancy my-self driving a smart horse like that one,is that you on the box ? Cheers Dennis.
michel:
Inside a Berliet TLM 10M2 from 1963 with the 2 gearsticks , one for the gearbox and the other for the split. At the rear,the sleeper…
Evening all, now that is a “proper” drivers lorry!!! “Tricateuse”, boy I could jump behind that wheel now…(.if the Sciatica would let me)!
Buzzer, and Dennis have fine taste in Horses, Our Farrier is giving me driving lessons, on a nice little Polish built 4 wheel cart, …brakes and everything…but the motive power is far less of a “high stepper”, than Buzzer and Dennis can control…(.Im more of a non HGV, with aspirations of becoming a class one)!!!
Fergie, that “Gendarme” with the red Berliet, (ROF and I would have put at least another 4 rows of Bales on there)! bet he would be in a bad mood…those boots are new, and bound to be pinching his toes like mad!!!
First lorry I drove with a bonnet, O serie Bedford…and yes I bent the nearside wing on a Shropshire farms Oak gatepost…and endured the tongue lashing afterwards…but I was only 16!!!
My good lady wife had an “on line shop” from ASDA delivered today…I was away mending a length of aged fence, when my phone rang…could I, (oh yes dear), as a priority come home as the ASDA driver had a problem…yes he had, …ever seen one of those “toy town” fridges nearly on its side…in the ditch I deepened yesterday…oh dear…but the Deere swiftly rescued him, but all the mauling set my Sciatica off again…
Still a large Bollinger is good for the pain relief!
Saviem, Please don’t attempt the Berliet seat with it’s “full range of adjustment”. Not good for sciatica, pal! But the photo does bring to mind that the approved method of vertical adjustment in those days was the acquisition of a lump of foam rubber (that stuff used to make pilot’s seats pre-1950 was better, but it went out of supply pretty quickly!)
Interesting that you used Mister Deere’s equipment for hauling the Asda van- I suppose it would be rude to enquire if the Eastern European cra, sorry, tractor has been abandoned in some muddy potato field?
Evening all, Michel, congratulations, that will be a most interesting book…put me down for one!..(signed by the Author I hope)!
ROF, my only experience of East European farm equipment was a very worn Zetor tractor…acquired for a modest cost when I first returned to Farming…and she was an utterly dependable old girl. Never let me down, got me out of almost impossible scrapes, (totally down to my “ham handed” approach to jobs), crude, but easy to repair, a real gem of a girl!!
Perhaps you were referring to my Finish Valtra? Well despite Benkkus warnings, she has been a wonderful tractor, rather inelegantly I christened her “The Camel”, simply as she drinks nothing…the most economic per given horsepower that I have ever come across, beats any one of the Deeres hands down…but the exhaust note of the Deeres is magical…like a symphony on a field, a rival to the Larks call…and I love them all!
Sadly I must leave you all, as age, sciatica, and the need for an infusion of both Bollinger, and a Salmon steak, have overtaken me. For tonight I intended to write a few words about Wolverhamptons “Super Truck”, (and not from Fallings Park)…but another night,…I hope!
MaggieD:
Hi Dave (Fergie 47)
Many thanks for the Magirus Photo,great pics keep em coming.
Hope you and Liz are well we’ll come and see you soon.
Regards
Richard
Hi Richard…We’re both well thanks, …you’re welcome to stay anytime of course. Love to Angie…
Not many of the old air cooled Maggies seemed to have survived, I think there are only a few on the UK show scene…
Here’s a 480 ( did you have one ? ) Same as the one Graham Richardson had, V8 with the factory bling…someone mentioned on here it was last seen in Whites Shipyard at Woolston a few years ago, doubt it’s been saved…
And another pair, 190.32’s perhaps ? the last one on the French show circuit…
Retired Old ■■■■:
Hi, Fergie, just wondering, is there a story about how Citroen came up with their inverted chevron badge?
Hi R.O.F. How are you me old mate ?
Not sure about the answer to your question, but l think l know a man who might ! When he’s finished his farming chores and tatty hoicking, he may come on and tell us all…and we’ll look forward to it…
