Aye, well at you can’t accuse this one of roping over the flysheet! Robert
Bewick:
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Watch carefully I will only do this once !!
I can sympathise with you there Dennis, I’m also at the age when you forget how to do repetitive things after only a few minutes! 
Pete.
At least he has roped over what look like home made cornerboards (Two T&G floorboards tied together with wire or John Robert String) thus preventing carton damage, maybe it was a fine sunny day. Dennis will explain this very rare string species and its universal usage.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
At least he has roped over what look like home made cornerboards (Two T&G floorboards tied together with wire or John Robert String) thus preventing carton damage, maybe it was a fine sunny day. Dennis will explain this very rare string species and its universal usage.
Cheers Leyland 600
You and I both know Gerald that if all the ubiquitous Baler twine a.k.a. “Michael” or “John Robert” was removed from ■■■■■■■■ farms they would grind to a halt ! Bull amangt’t heifers, Yows gone astray, next doors Stirks in’t hay field !! Absolute chaos eh! Cheers Dennis.
Aye Dennis Despite H&S plus VOSA warnings there are still yan ot two farmers about here roping their round bales onto their trailers with John Robert which is better than the usual nowt at all, mebbe a brick or two behind the back row.
Cheers, Leyland 600
backsplice:
Ropes but no sheets Saudi style …42 tons of Rice …but how much the load of cement is ■■?
They look like 50kg bags, so got to be 20 ton on there at least.
Suedehead:
backsplice:
Ropes but no sheets Saudi style …42 tons of Rice …but how much the load of cement is ■■?They look like 50kg bags, so got to be 20 ton on there at least.
20 ton ? Keep going
A fair load of cement, approx 10 rows from headboard to tail each row 10 x 4 bags high = 40 (2 ton x 10 =20 ton.) Back in 1969 as a regular haulier out of Cement Marketing Co (Blue Circle) Whitehaven I and numerous other regular contractors were hauling cement up to a builders merchants in Stranraer. Each morning about 10-00 am when the ferry docked from Larne a cluster of 5 & 7.5 ton Bedfords, Fords etc raced up to the yard. The drivers would say, “O’il just put 4 or 5 tons on out of the store, here’s a £1 and O’il meet you at the ferry lorry park and tranship the 15 tons off your wagon” I remember one Saturday morning when we were transhipping when a pensioner in a raincoat wandered down the ferry park, the driver of the wagon I was transhipping onto became anxious asking who I thought this man was " Do you tink he is a Ministry Man" ■■ when I enquired why he replied " well I got caught for overloading the other day" I asked by how much "Oh just 14 tons " He indicated a four wheel Commer 14 ton gross wagon parked over by the fence sheeted level with the cab roof which could have passed for 10 tons of cattle cake but was indeed cement. This went on for two or three weeks until the ferry linkspan was damaged and the shipping company clamped down on the would be millionaires. We ended up putting about 60 tons in fishing boats at Portpatrick Harbour, they were sailing out with about 1 foot of freeboard above the water.
Happy days, Leyland 600.
^^ probably the best restored B series on the classic scene and the best spec too 
ERF 64CU:
Roping and sheeting on a smaller scale.
You’d better stretch the wrinkles out of that sheet Iain, I taught you better than that!! 
And don’t forget! No double loops on the dollies. Ps that ERF looks great . Regards Kev.
Super glue for the rope. Wallpaper paste for the sheets and a hair dryer for the wrinkles, Kevin. That’s the way to go!
ERF 64CU:
Super glue for the rope. Wallpaper paste for the sheets and a hair dryer for the wrinkles, Kevin. That’s the way to go!
So nothing’s changed then Iain your still bodging it after all these years! 
regards Kev.
Bewick:
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Watch carefully I will only do this once !!
Dennis
Those were Dad’s words to me.
regards
Jeremy
Badger:
Bewick:
Watch carefully I will only do this once !!Dennis
Those were Dad’s words to me.
regards
Jeremy
That’s what the Bloke on the left said to me when I stared with him as an 18 year old Trailer mate on the Octopus !! Cheers Dennis.
Punchy Dan:
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Ready for tomorrow,Leeds ,Redcar ,Glasgow .
Wait and see if it gets the boss’s approval