Long Departed Southampton Hauliers (Part 1)

Hi all, seeing the sack’s on the Scatt’s lorry reminded me of when i was only a boy helping with the harvest the first combine we had you stand on it and filled the sack’s tied them then slide them of the back, we then got modern and had one with a tank but no bulk trailer or anywhere to tip so when it was full pull along side a flat trailer and fill the sack’s that way but which ever way was hard work as the sack’s were West of England hire sack’s AKA Westlake’s and when full were the best part of two to two and a half hundred weight, they got heavy by eight o’clock at night when we finished had to be put in grain store park in the road and winch them in move with a sack truck then stack two high. Oh to be a fit young boy again. :sunglasses: ( i suppose this should have been on the Davies farming thread. oh well ) :frowning: