1970commer:
You want to be careful thinking about calling in at Longford Pete, while you would be most welcome to come and have a cuppa at my yard you might get spotted by my neighbour Mr. Leedham, He’d have you on the big Scania in Cauldon Lowe, you could manage a 10.30 pm start to resurface the M6 at Stafford couldn’t you.
Licence has just lapsed Robert, otherwise I would have been there like a rat up a drainpipe! Actually I managed 20+ years without going into Cauldon quarry, and also without driving any of this foreign crap, so I might just have turned over and gone back to sleep.
My brother had this 88 when he first passed his test & me being 10 years younger went everywhere in holidays kipping across the seats happy days even better when he got the Transcon!
JAKEY:
Great Photos Andrew , you not posted for ages ,have you seen Chris (adr) he is quite these days too .
Hi Jakey I post on Davies more put a few on here now n again.Spoke to Chris yesterday he’s just back off holiday so concentrating on getting back into work mode lol
oiltreader:
Thanks to newmercman and Chris Webb for the pics
That’s a fair bit of kit newmercman, very impressive, you mention lower climes on the way and being a follower of this family I have a photo or to to share. The family Rempel (Dad, 2 brothers and Uncle Billy)l of Fort Frances, Ontario, log haulers and dyed in wool Peterbilt men until a couple of years ago Jeremy acquired a Kenworth his Peterbilt now piloted by Uncle Billy.
The 4th pic shows “squaring” the load by reversing through the rotating barrels.
Oily
Cheers Oily. Always wondered how they get the logs so straight, now I know, very clever stuff indeed. The W9 is a very good truck, for me it’s Peterbilt over KW though, as it was always Scania over Volvo, brunettes over blondes, HP over ketchup…
In the last shot the black 379 looks to be a 379X, those things are worth a fortune, I looked at one a few weeks back, an 06 with a freshly rebuilt C15 CAT, it was a bit scruffy, nothing a few quid and some elbow grease couldn’t fix though, they wanted $120,000 for it. To put that into perspective I’ve got a 579 Peterbilt being built in November with a big spec that’s going to cost $176,000, when it is 12yrs old in 2030 it will be worth two balloons and a goldfish, if it even lasts that long, that 379X will still be working and probably still be worth six figures!
Andrew Morrison:
Myself & brother parked in Huntly I think many years later0
Hello Andrew, Cheers for the pics Huntly, my old home turf, left that area 1955 for Kirkcaldy then Aberdeen then to Grangemouth and finishing up in Oxford, spent 37 years there, leaving 1996, Ross-shire now this last 22 years, doesn’t time fly
Cheers
Oily
Thanks to Andrew Morrison, Buzzer and coomsey for the pics
Oily
OK it’s a car, Ford V8 Coupe, late 1930s first photo A82 coming off Rannoch Moor, then again parked at The Green Welly, Tyndrum, walked over to take a snap and could faintly here the V8 purring away, dunno if there was a starting problem but the couple were off having a cuppa.
Oily
Oily I have borrowed this off the Southampton thread but a classic picture of time gone bye, Dukes of Bishops Waltham every thing handball note the sack trucks on top of the load. Personally I worked for Dukes Romsey mill this was a brother of the owner of this setup as a trainee sales rep and general dogs body delivering small amounts of feed so no one ran out till the big trucks delivered, I had a Bedford HA van on an F reg and that was in 69, Buzzer.
Actually I managed 20+ years without going into Cauldon quarry, and also without driving any of this foreign crap, so I might just have turned over and gone back to sleep. 
snapped June this year and looking good.
