I remember, years ago, double maning with my dad and we had to backload out of KGV docks in Hull, with peanuts. Stop every 20 miles to re-rope
those wee the days
I remember, years ago, double maning with my dad and we had to backload out of KGV docks in Hull, with peanuts. Stop every 20 miles to re-rope
those wee the days
i remember doing loads of bagged pistachio nuts for a fellow out of Rotherham years ago, Harvey somebody, bit of a character as I recall - had a roaring trade going importing them in containers from Iran, and knocking them out to various wholesalers on the Costas, Algarve and Balearic islands, which is where we got involved - not a bad job even though it was 5 or 6 drops on a full tilt load
Rags that were in polythene (spelling) sacks.Bit of a job stacking them on a flat, even worse trying to sheet the kin load.Was from Durham prison to Brizzle.
I had a full load of polythene resin pellets once, in large bags - to rope and sheet on my 16t flat. All I can say is they didn’t fall off… but if Liverpool docks had been any further away they probably would have
coco bean ended up as an over wide load lol
I did cocoa powder in big sacks on pallets, they settled into each other by the time I got to the drop and left a fine layer of brown powder everywhere, the truck smelt of chocolate for weeks after that.
About 30 years ago I used to deliver bricks to the London area ( handball unload btw ) and collect pallets of lard from Bamford Bros, Surrey docks. The lard was palletised and boxed. Once you had roped and sheeted with corner boards to prevent the ropes from damaging the load, you had to stop every 30 miles to re-rope due to the load settling. The good old days.
I did cocoa too, not only finished up with a wide load, but I looked like something out of the black and white minstrel show as well.
Fullers earth used to settle rather nicely as well.
jj72:
i remember doing loads of bagged pistachio nuts for a fellow out of Rotherham years ago, Harvey somebody, bit of a character as I recall - had a roaring trade going importing them in containers from Iran, and knocking them out to various wholesalers on the Costas, Algarve and Balearic islands, which is where we got involved - not a bad job even though it was 5 or 6 drops on a full tilt load
Don’t mention barsteward pistachios to me, held up in Pompey for 3 days on one return trip coz the bags said “product of The Peoples republic of Iraq” they emptied every bag coz could’nt x-ray them due to density. that was a joy
Used to carry raw rubber in 2cwt bales stacked 3 high back in the 60s. The trick to stop it shiftingwas to rope each layer - no need to sheet though
About 27 years ago, out on a 7 ½ toner flat back and no sheets. I was asked to go and pick up some canoes from a place near Preston Brook on the M56
. has anyone ever tried to rope fibreglass canoes without damaging them
. You can’t put the rope to tight and when you put the rope over one end they tip up at the other end and flip out
. I got them on eventually and in one piece. The lesson to learn here, always have a sheet even if you don’t need one at the time.
AG:
About 27 years ago, out on a 7 ½ toner flat back and no sheets. I was asked to go and pick up some canoes from a place near Preston Brook on the M56![]()
. has anyone ever tried to rope fibreglass canoes without damaging them
. You can’t put the rope to tight and when you put the rope over one end they tip up at the other end and flip out
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. I got them on eventually and in one piece. The lesson to learn here, always have a sheet even if you don’t need one at the time.
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Would there have been a problem if they got wet ?
I’ve had a few strange loads. In 1977 I took parts for a bailey bridge that had been damaged in the gails North of the Kyle Of Lochalsh that was in a good old Ford D series 7.5t. They used this bailey bridge to lift segment’s that made up a floating oil storeage tank BUT it looked like a chuck of cheese with holes in it. I think the firm was Roland Duce.
Another run out in the D series was to take a condenser up to Baxters of Fochabers urgently in mid winter. 2nights out NO sleeper cab OR night heater & chip the ice off the inside oif the windscreen so you could see out.
When they gave me a DAF 2100 tautliner with a sleeper & night heater I took peanuts for wild birds in those small nets up to Boness about 6 pallets of them & brought back fat sticks about 6pallets of those.
hiya, china clay in two hundredweight bags was good you could a loop the loop with that on wouldn’t move, thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Sorry to resurrect this oldie, but why not!!! way back in the sixties i used to do a lot of stuff out of Crown Paints and i did a lot of work in the South West,it was usually a full load on the trailer but usually a few drops handball and palletised sometimes as many as six or seven drops nothing unusual about the load but when delivering a couple of "urgent"trays of paint to a small decorating shop in Truro a little old lady asked me is that the "pollyurinate"thingy they tell you about on the telly i said yes “white gloss polyurathane”, she said thank goodness that’s what i’ve been waiting for my husband is wanting some for the living room the shopkeeper had to drop down behind the counter to stop her seeing him laughing and i had a smile on my face from ear to ear,good job that one, free digs and parking my sister and her husband owned a large farm just outside Truro with a yard big enough to accomodate all of Stobbies motors but no parking ticket, bet i had a suitable one filed away though which would pass BRS scrutiny.
thanks harry long retired.
i once collected a container from ipswich which had " car parts " on the paperwork , it was but not what i thought it was going to be . the box had to be taken to customs clearance in bicester as i remember , and the load turned out to belong to a baggage handler from heathrow airport , he apparently traveled to the usa and bought old british sports cars and re’imported them to the uk . they stripped the container completely looking for whatever and then re’loaded it . very interesting but boring as i was’nt allowed to look properly … E types and healys they were …
i once collected a container from ipswich which had " car parts " on the paperwork , it was , but not what i thought it was going to be . the box had to be taken to customs clearance in bicester as i remember , and the load turned out to belong to a baggage handler from heathrow airport , he apparently traveled to the usa and bought old british sports cars and re’imported them to the uk . they stripped the container completely looking for whatever and then re’loaded it . very interesting but boring as i was’nt allowed to look properly … E types and healys they were …
I picked-up a fossilised Dinosaur once, not a difficult load, quite well behaved really, but I did get a bit of ■■■■ taking from the other drivers and goods in staff, They reckoned I drove so slowly it fosillised during the journey.
Had a load of about eight Calendonian Boulders (big rocks) that I took from Purfleet Essex down to St Austell in Cornwall to put in a playpark in the middle of a housing estate, why they didn’t get some out the local quarry is beyond me but hey
Also ran six boulders up to Bridgenorth near Leeds for another playpark, and they got refused because they wasnt round enough
Grayham:
Also ran six boulders up to Bridgenorth near Leeds for another playpark, and they got refused because they wasnt round enough