Resurrection time - sorry. Someone asked me today why is a tilt called a tilt? I’ve heard something about old english for the canvas on a boat - anybody??
The Sarge:
Resurrection time - sorry. Someone asked me today why is a tilt called a tilt? I’ve heard something about old english for the canvas on a boat - anybody??
That’s right, funny enough seen one today don’t see many now.
i think DSV have just got rid of the last of their tilt’s, but DB schenker have still got fair few, and show no sign of stopping…
I used to strip out a super cube tilt,that was fun specially when it was windy,happy days 
philgor:
i think DSV have just got rid of the last of their tilt’s, but DB schenker have still got fair few, and show no sign of stopping…
Have you had any of those weird half measure tilts that Schenker have? I seem to remember a lot of them looking like a conventional tilt and having standard tilt canvasses on the side that needed to be dragged up and over to access the side but they actually had a Euroliner sliding roof. Very odd morph of a Euroliner and a Tilt.
Never understood the point of the ones similar to posted above where it looks like a tilt side on but the actual curtains slide like a normal curtainsider. 
Dalessi, Smeets Ferry BV, Transaliance etc run quite a few of them.
Still see the odd full traditional tilt kicking about but a rare site.
ajt:
Never understood the point of the ones similar to posted above where it looks like a tilt side on but the actual curtains slide like a normal curtainsider.Still see the odd full traditional tilt kicking about but a rare site.
I’ve had a few of those but they’re basically just Euroliners with alloy tilt doors down the side, I suppose the side doors just give extra load secrurity. Some of the ones Schenker have are tilt sides that you still need to throw a strap or rope over with and pull the curtain up, they still have the alloy side doors and all that, but when you look inside them they have a sliding roof like a normal Euroliner. I’ve never tried opening the roof so don’t know if its just a Euroliner shell with a tilt sheet all the way over the top meaning that the sliding roof is moot or of the tilt curtain is fixed to the top frame and the roof opens like any normal Euroliner.
These are the ones you mean aren’t they?
That is a euroliner. Sheet on the back instead of doors, less weight and easier and cheaper to repair a split in curtain instead of putting a new door on!
The roof will slide. Side doors are just to help hold the load in.
kindle530:
That is a euroliner. Sheet on the back instead of doors, less weight and easier and cheaper to repair a split in curtain instead of putting a new door on!
The roof will slide. Side doors are just to help hold the load in.
Yes I know. I’m differentiating between a Euroliner as in my photo and the Schenker trailers that are half tilts, half Euroliner as I describe but don’t have a photo of.
defiantly a two man job.
I had a blow over, loading stuff from the Channel Tunnel compound
at Ashford.
me; Tilts ropin n sheeting “I’ve read about it in books”
oik; you what, read about it
me “yeah that’s where history belongs”
scunthorpe rod mill used to have great fun watching sheets get blown all over, worst was when they wouldnt let the crane pull the sheet back.
robinhood_1984:
kindle530:
That is a euroliner. Sheet on the back instead of doors, less weight and easier and cheaper to repair a split in curtain instead of putting a new door on!
The roof will slide. Side doors are just to help hold the load in.Yes I know. I’m differentiating between a Euroliner as in my photo and the Schenker trailers that are half tilts, half Euroliner as I describe but don’t have a photo of.
sorry mate, i read it wrong 
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As 12 year old kids say… my bad!
I know exactly the tilts you mean!
They are a fully fledged proper tilt, but with a sliding roof.
You undo them as you would a tilt getting ready for a stripout, but instead of getting a board and pushing the tilt back, you slide it back like a euroliner.
You can usually spot them by looking where the side of the sheet goes over the top corner onto the roof, thats where you will see a kind of ^^^^^^^^^^^ shaped bulge down the side of the roof.
As you mentioned, its a job to find a decent picture showing it.
brados:
I too have bad memories of tilts, why do we all remember stripping the bloody things in sweltering heat, my worst was a vinyard in France in summer - god did I sweat, I had a Volvo FL10 with no aircon either, I seem to remember crying myself to sleep that night - poxy tilts.[/quote
You had to strip a tilt in a vinyard ? assuming you were loading wine, why didn’t they load it through the side ?
kindle530:
sorry mate, i read it wrong
As 12 year old kids say… my bad!I know exactly the tilts you mean!
They are a fully fledged proper tilt, but with a sliding roof.
You undo them as you would a tilt getting ready for a stripout, but instead of getting a board and pushing the tilt back, you slide it back like a euroliner.
You can usually spot them by looking where the side of the sheet goes over the top corner onto the roof, thats where you will see a kind of ^^^^^^^^^^^ shaped bulge down the side of the roof.
As you mentioned, its a job to find a decent picture showing it.
Lol yes, those are the ones. I was never sure if they were intended to be that way or Schenker being cheapskates bought Euroliner shells and threw some old tilt canvases over the top, covering the sliding roof in the process. They seem an odd contraption though and I can only imagine it was that they had to be enough of a tilt to conform to TIR regulations as they use them extensively on the Finland side going in to Russia and it wasn’t that long back that Russia/TIR allowed standard Euroliners from what I recall.
I always thought tilts looked wonderful, but the best looking tilts are always on the back of someone elses truck or in photos!
brados:
I too have bad memories of tilts, why do we all remember stripping the bloody things in sweltering heat, my worst was a vinyard in France in summer - god did I sweat, I had a Volvo FL10 with no aircon either, I seem to remember crying myself to sleep that night - poxy tilts.
Assuming you were picking up wine, why didn’t they load it through the side ?
Agree with what you said there RH.
Especially the last bit!
I think my old 143 looked better with this
than this
(bloody things! they did keep me thin thou!)
i used to pull on for lkw walters scunny steel full strip, tip italy full strip, load pipes italy full strip, tip uk full strip etc etc mind i was bloody fit and 3 stone lighter 
Oh the HORROR still suffering from P.T.S.D. from one of these things first time ever stripping loading and refitting in sheffeild a load of coil
i thought i was doing quite well until i lost my footing and fell inside twisting my ankle so badly i had to have a week off from that point on NEVER AGAIN. …!!! its a two man job with all the climbing hammering at recalcitrant cross bars typically done by one man to save money also now adays with health and safety (not a bad thing in my veiw) it would be hard hat ,harness and gantry
I used to drag a tilt from Southport down to StPol De Leon in Brittany and back twice a week, via Poole - Cherbourg, back in 81 … great job … except … alternate loads always seemed to be carrots and caulies, and for carrots the sheet had to be closed, for caulies it had to be rolled forward to let the caulies breathe … bloody hell that was a pain 
I hated getting Tilt trailers i used to pull them for P&O Ferrymaster when they came through Dover in the nineties old or new they was a pain, i once had to strip one 3 times, steel through the roof nightmare, i was a lot younger then don,t think i could do it now, send,s a chill done me spine just thinking about it. I understand they use Euroliners through Tilbury now.