v7victor:
Getting back to the thread,Dennis was this an inhouse load for the trotters
Evening all, Dennis, nice lorry and trailerâŚbut what a poor quality loadâŚjust look at the colour!!!
Only fit for laying hens!!
Just had a fantastic THIRD cut on sileageâŚand its organic,
Chris sends his best regardsâŚretired to the Isle of ManâŚand giving me a lot of stick for not being there, told him about your photosâŚKellys Heroes!! you should have seen what he looked like when he was cutting them up!!
You know we never realised it at the time, but we were luckyâŚwe could all build on our experiences, (disasters), and just have a go! and there was no one to sayâŚâyou cannot do thatâ, the youngsters today are told âyou need trainingâ, by people who really could never ever, ever,in all the realms of" Pigs Pudding" achieved anything themselvesâŚtruly the constipation, and contraception of British Industrial growth!!!AND our Countries future!!1
Im away to copious Bollinger, the new knee must have been New Old Stock, âŚor a cheap Polish ImportâŚand today I upset âmyâ Consultant by reminding him that I have had better men rebuilding Lorry Gearboxes than him!!!..Did not go down too wellâŚprobably had my payment down as a deposit on a new Jaguar F TypeâŚBâŚy Barsteward!!!
v7victor:
Getting back to the thread,Dennis was this an inhouse load for the trotters
Well Vic,one thing for sure âthatâ driver would not have loaded the straw,defo !He would have dropped an empty in the field at Tadcaster and picked the loaded one up after it had been loaded by a couple of our lads who were âbrought upâ in farming familyâs and knew how to handle bales which in this case were loaded by a âflat eightâ grab then placed in position.Who would have taken this fine shot ? We couldnât go 9 rounds high because of a low bridge on the way home.So,Vic,we could claim to be both indusrial and Agricultral hauliers eh! Cheers Dennis.
Good Evening Monsuier âSaviemâ,now come on,come clean,is Chris your farm Steward on the IOM and itâs just getting a bit much for him now looking after all your holdings on the I.O.M. Then again I saw on the news that the IOM was being designated an âNoahs Arkâ for endangered native âspeciesâ so,without much stretch of the imagination Chris and your goodself must surely qualify for inclusion in such a worthwhile scheme! When you speak to Chris again please give him my kind regards,I bought a good number of Scanias from Keltruck,all very good motors,great firm to deal with ,and a great Gâuvnor! The straw !! We used to bring 7 or 8 loads every year for many years,from Sam Smiths(Brewery family) farms at Tadcaster to the farm that surrounded our depot at Milnthorpe.There was a family connection(with the Farmer) and as Smiths wouldnât allow the straw to be burned because of the wildlife consideration (âshootingâ) the straw was there for the cost of baling and transport.It was only used for bedding the pedigree Holstein young stock as well as at December and January lambing of the Suffolk ewes in the buildings.It wasnât our usual traffic,but it was for our good neighbour who,for a Farmer ,was (and is) one of the finest men you could wish to know Cheers Bewick
v7victor:
Getting back to the thread,Dennis was this an inhouse load for the trotters
Well Vic,one thing for sure âthatâ driver would not have loaded the straw,defo !He would have dropped an empty in the field at Tadcaster and picked the loaded one up after it had been loaded by a couple of our lads who were âbrought upâ in farming familyâs and knew how to handle bales which in this case were loaded by a âflat eightâ grab then placed in position.Who would have taken this fine shot ? We couldnât go 9 rounds high because of a low bridge on the way home.So,Vic,we could claim to be both indusrial and Agricultral hauliers eh! Cheers Dennis.
Talk of âlow bridgesâ in your area, Dennis, reminds me of having to access Maryport via Carlisle when I used to bring up charcoal from the Forest of Dean. The hessian bags were a good 14 feet high on my little Ford D1275- quite a bit of RockânâRoll involved on the bends! Unloading was by the traditional, âJust stack 'em in that shed, Driverâ method.
v7victor:
Getting back to the thread,Dennis was this an inhouse load for the trotters
Well Vic,one thing for sure âthatâ driver would not have loaded the straw,defo !He would have dropped an empty in the field at Tadcaster and picked the loaded one up after it had been loaded by a couple of our lads who were âbrought upâ in farming familyâs and knew how to handle bales which in this case were loaded by a âflat eightâ grab then placed in position.Who would have taken this fine shot ? We couldnât go 9 rounds high because of a low bridge on the way home.So,Vic,we could claim to be both indusrial and Agricultral hauliers eh! Cheers Dennis.
Talk of âlow bridgesâ in your area, Dennis, reminds me of having to access Maryport via Carlisle when I used to bring up charcoal from the Forest of Dean. The hessian bags were a good 14 feet high on my little Ford D1275- quite a bit of RockânâRoll involved on the bends! Unloading was by the traditional, âJust stack 'em in that shed, Driverâ method.
Sounds a bit like Liverpool docks Eh, Regards Larry.
v7victor:
Getting back to the thread,Dennis was this an inhouse load for the trotters
Well Vic,one thing for sure âthatâ driver would not have loaded the straw,defo !He would have dropped an empty in the field at Tadcaster and picked the loaded one up after it had been loaded by a couple of our lads who were âbrought upâ in farming familyâs and knew how to handle bales which in this case were loaded by a âflat eightâ grab then placed in position.Who would have taken this fine shot ? We couldnât go 9 rounds high because of a low bridge on the way home.So,Vic,we could claim to be both indusrial and Agricultral hauliers eh! Cheers Dennis.
v7victor:
Getting back to the thread,Dennis was this an inhouse load for the trotters
Well Vic,one thing for sure âthatâ driver would not have loaded the straw,defo !He would have dropped an empty in the field at Tadcaster and picked the loaded one up after it had been loaded by a couple of our lads who were âbrought upâ in farming familyâs and knew how to handle bales which in this case were loaded by a âflat eightâ grab then placed in position.Who would have taken this fine shot ? We couldnât go 9 rounds high because of a low bridge on the way home.So,Vic,we could claim to be both indusrial and Agricultral hauliers eh! Cheers Dennis.
No good putting all your eggs in one basket eh!
Aye Vic we always had a good spread of customers/traffic but very little of it was Agricultral which more-or-less consisted of these anual loads of straw,a few loads of beet pulp in the season and a number of loads of both new and secondhand farm tractors and machinery. Cheers Dennis.
v7victor:
Getting back to the thread,Dennis was this an inhouse load for the trotters
An earlier years shot of two ex Tadcaster loads stood in the depot at Milnthorpe awaiting âcall offâ to go down to Ackenthwaite farm for unloading
is that a âbaggy ropeâ on the right hand trailer? across the back near the bottom?
tut tut
(tin hat on and awaiting sh!tstorm)
Aye it sure does âLeeJâ,well spotted though have a look down the sides and frontâs there might be a wisp of straw hanging out of place However,they only had about half a mile to travel when they left the depot to run into the farm yard for tipping.Cheers Bewick.
An August '82 line up of four new tractor units at the Milnthorpe depot,the Scania was the very last new motor to join the K.Fell fleet so it was âthe end of the lineâ for this old livery after many years Cheers Bewick.
Back to basics this evening,this is a shot of my first tractor unit a BMC Mastiff standing,brand new, in Castle St. Kendal, December '69,it was a 26ton GVW motor which was coupled to a Primrose tandem 4 trailer which I had built on wide track axles and fitted with the same hub assemblies and 1100X22:5 wheels as the Mastiff front axle.Contrary to the poor reputation the Mastiffs had this tractor unit gave us 100% reliable service during the time we ran it for about two and a half years,well it did have one of the finest drivers (not me Iâd hasten to add! ) behind the wheel for itâs first couple of years
cattle wagon man:
Did you park the Mastiff outside the Church whilst you were in that Sunday morning congregation , Dennis ?
Anon 2
Now does that look like it is a âmethodyâ shop to you CWM ? itâs a bit bigger than that 'lal chapel you attend up Gashdâll though ! now remember,no hay timing on Sundays,no matter that itâs going to â â â â down on Monday according to the forcast eh! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Back to basics this evening,this is a shot of my first tractor unit a BMC Mastiff standing,brand new, in Castle St. Kendal, December '69,it was a 26ton GVW motor which was coupled to a Primrose tandem 4 trailer which I had built on wide track axles and fitted with the same hub assemblies and 1100X22:5 wheels as the Mastiff front axle.Contrary to the poor reputation the Mastiffs had this tractor unit gave us 100% reliable service during the time we ran it for about two and a half years,well it did have one of the finest drivers (not me Iâd hasten to add! ) behind the wheel for itâs first couple of years
Iâd love to get a new Scania or the like in the same spot, and see just how different they are these days.
We couldnât go 9 rounds high because of a low bridge on the way home.So,Vic,we could claim to be both indusrial and Agricultral hauliers eh! Cheers Dennis.
Then again I saw on the news that the IOM was being designated an âNoahs Arkâ for endangered native âspeciesâ so,without much stretch of the imagination Chris and your goodself must surely qualify for inclusion in such a worthwhile scheme! 
Cheers Bewick
Cheers Bewick.
