Astran / Middle East Drivers

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
6821

I’m surprised that the photo above has been such a conversation killer :smiley: No posts for 3 days

6822

jsutherland:
I’m surprised that the photo above has been such a conversation killer :smiley: No posts for 3 days[/q

freshir wrote ;- I dont think that my health and beauty photo has any bearing on the posts because I know that the lads count their winnings midweek and the posts go a bit quiet - ‘BUT’ I actually did get a PM from from Playgirl magazine and if they up the offer
then I’m coming out of retirement - Watch this space, regards Fred

6823

Oh Roger, that one will cause all sorts of grief on the “Stobart Trucks & trailers” thread about drivers using gas stoves on fuel tanks. Has anyone got a photo of a fire underneath the fuel tank■■? :laughing:
[/quote]
What like this one at Taspinar, of a "Hitlers revenge"seller that I was taking down to Doha one winter.


Health and Safety !!
GS

6824

I think you’ll find the Merc fuel tank is on the other side.
This fire could be set for thawing out his air tanks maybe?

6825

Hi Ian
You are right, I was “thawing out” my air tanks. I also had another fire on the other side to de-frost the diesel.

GS

6826

How cold could it get at night in winter? I read somewhere on this forum that it was under -25C sometimes. How did the night heater perform in such conditions? Come to think about it, were night heaters around in the early 70s or was it more a case of wrapping up in a couple of sleeping bags?

6827

Hi J.S.Ive experienced temps as low as min 40c in Turkey and Afghanistan in the 70s.It was a case of leaving the engine running day and night and hoping that nothing froze in the night.Islept in a truck when it broke down with a seized piston.Iput all the clothes on that i had plus my boots then all the blankets and tried to sleep.It went down below min36c.Inearly bloody froze to death.Happy days.Mike

6828

i was on bolu -40 no night heater motor never stopped running for 10 days,was parked up in pristina nice and warm all night when i got up in the morning bottom half of rad was frozen

6829

hutpik:
Hi J.S.Ive experienced temps as low as min 40c in Turkey and Afghanistan in the 70s.It was a case of leaving the engine running day and night and hoping that nothing froze in the night.Islept in a truck when it broke down with a seized piston.Iput all the clothes on that i had plus my boots then all the blankets and tried to sleep.It went down below min36c.Inearly bloody froze to death.Happy days.Mike

Wow, -40C, that doesn’t bear thinking about. I’ve only experienced -16 C, and that was bad enough!!

6830

Hi JS.min 40c is not so bad if it’s a dry cold like we have up here.this winter we’ve had a few weeks with the temp between min30 and min45c but if you have the correct clothing life goes on.The problem in the 70 and 80s in the M.E. and U.S.S.R was that we didn’t have the experience of the temps and were learning as we went along.[this applies as much to the heat as the cold].
If you scoot over to the ex pats forum and look at the thread ‘‘driving in Norway’’ there are some photos taken during a hot air balloon festival near my house in Lappland in february this year.The temp was on average min30 to min 40c for that week. Mike

6831

jsutherland:
How cold could it get at night in winter? I read somewhere on this forum that it was under -25C sometimes. How did the night heater perform in such conditions? Come to think about it, were night heaters around in the early 70s or was it more a case of wrapping up in a couple of sleeping bags?

I got my first night heater in 1985 in a DAF

6832

My first night heater was called Alice and was she hot ,took some turning off I tell you ,trouble was she was fired up and ready to go to early in the morning :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Roger

6833

sinbin31:
My first night heater was called Alice and was she hot ,took some turning off I tell you ,trouble was she was fired up and ready to go to early in the morning :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Roger[/quote

Didn’t Christopher Robin go down with her Roger ■■
Fred

6834

freshir:

sinbin31:
My first night heater was called Alice and was she hot ,took some turning off I tell you ,trouble was she was fired up and ready to go to early in the morning :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Roger
[/quote

Didn’t Christopher Robin go down with her Roger ■■
Fred

WTF is Alice?

6835

Oi Wheelnut
Wasn’t Alice Kevin “bloody” Wilsons bird !!!

6836

Blimey I thought every driver had an Alice to keep them warm at onetime ,-there was also Luci-lu,sheila of Top deck fame ,dont you all say you dont remember her, :laughing: :laughing: the count is emmense ,for some ,for me it was just a few :wink: :wink: :wink: ,which is why I took so long to do a trip .

Roger

6837

Wheel Nut:

freshir:

sinbin31:
My first night heater was called Alice and was she hot ,took some turning off I tell you ,trouble was she was fired up and ready to go to early in the morning :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Roger
[/quote

Didn’t Christopher Robin go down with her Roger ■■
Fred

WTF is Alice?

Wheelnut,
Didn’t you ever learn the rhyme when you were a kid:
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace,
Christopher Robin went down on Alice…

6838

jsutherland:
How cold could it get at night in winter? I read somewhere on this forum that it was under -25C sometimes. How did the night heater perform in such conditions? Come to think about it, were night heaters around in the early 70s or was it more a case of wrapping up in a couple of sleeping bags?

On one trip during the winter,I was driving through Germany heading for Waidhaus and I wondered why there were so many trucks of all nationalities on the hard shoulder of the autobahn.
Not only that,although I was warm enough in the cab with the heater on,there was no outside temperature readout like you have today,the humidity in the cab was freezing on the INSIDE of my drivers window
When I got into Czech,there was parked up motors everywhere and I knew it was cold,but when I got to the service area on the motorway south of Prague to park up,went to bed with the night heater on,but after an hour it packed up,so I started the engine.That ran for half an hour before that stopped also.
With two layers of clothing on and inside my sleeping bag,I was ■■■■■■■ frozen stiff,where ever I lay I was getting pains,it turned out to be hypothermia.In the early hours I along with some other drivers bailed out and went into the motel where it was lovely and warm,and they had a temperature gauge showing the outside temperature was minus 36!After that,I modified my night heater with a separate fuel supply so I could run it on a 50/50 mix of petrol and diesel.
There was several of us from Expo Freight there,as well as myself,there was Alan Jones and Gordon McMillan.
We had to use a tin of grease with a rag in it set alight under the derv tanks to thaw them out.


This was my motor with Alan Jones stood in front.

6839

bestbooties:

Wheel Nut:

freshir:

sinbin31:
My first night heater was called Alice and was she hot ,took some turning off I tell you ,trouble was she was fired up and ready to go to early in the morning :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Roger
[/quote

Didn’t Christopher Robin go down with her Roger ■■
Fred

WTF is Alice?

Wheelnut,
Didn’t you ever learn the rhyme when you were a kid:
They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace,
Christopher Robin went down on Alice…

Sorry I was in Chubby Brown mode :laughing:

6840

GS OVERLAND:
Oi Wheelnut
Wasn’t Alice Kevin “bloody” Wilsons bird !!!

Gav is that the same guy who lives next door to Alan as he sings about me in the nursing home and when I first started school :laughing: :blush:

Johnnie