This is R44 in Tracy Island ex “snapper” Morrison’s ride minus the fly swatter all washed off ready for the next pilot, who that will be uncertain maybe the grass wont be so green after all like last time we shall see .
Now Country File report, my friends who come most days for a little bread and believe they are nesting nearby. They have been here four years in a row and think they are the same pair, how do they find us without a satnav, cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer i am enjoying your own country file,the truck looks good for then next pilot,i am sure it will be some one with experance, ill be down tomorrow. i wish. have the trailers got meat rails in?
I have no gardening tips or advice ,only,fresh runners,now your talking, new potatoes ,and sorry ,mrs duck, but one of your breasts,
i am trying to post a picture of my latest dumplings,[ no],the cooked ones, i will keep trying …
Imagine the new driver arriving ,all eyes will be on him, the best job for him will to give him a trip away on his own, no local crap, about a week to blend himself in.and get use to the unit.and burn his stobart uniform?? only joking.
Do you think Andrew will be posting from his new stead/silver fox. Just back from my ultra sound on both feet, doctor said,! if i had “feet” like theses, i would give you a foot. no i had two choices live with it, or cortisone between toe injections, and no cure…i said good- bye. ill stick with my sciatica back i have had for 2 weeks thanks… .Many thanks to the old lorry seats ,and howling gales from the floor holes, pedal-i-tus and steering col- um drafts .yes it was a good job then its pay back…so new driver who ever you are, get a camera. pdb. please.
PDB got two new drivers starting nex week, one is the son of a driver we had in the 90’s, he used to go with his dad back then in the school holidays and like so many that did that it fired a spark that one day they would do the same, he is 32 now where the time gone ? we shall see how they do as the job as you know aint for every one.
We don’t run any meat railers in the fleet and that work is always flat out every where that’s why the Irish boys were good at it as most knew nought else and just got on with it.
As our tractors are all LHD we usually break them in doing UK for a couple of weeks till they are used to it, there are still one or two who have done the left ■■■■■■ bit before but there thin on the ground now.
Sorry to hear about your ongoing feet problems must be pain full just keep the old pecker up. Now as for beans I prefer the French ones, I grow climbers as I cant be assed to bend down to pick em of the ground just let em come up the fence and i’ll get mine there. You are right as nothing beats fresh out the garden and eat within the hour, as for the duck prefer the dark meat so I am a legs and thigh man me self.
Don’t know whats on the cards tomorrow guess we will wait and see and report if ought happens, cheers Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
Well were cracking on with lambing about 240 lambed and another 120 to go, they should start to slow down a bit now so the attention will be looking after the lambs that are outside, which is now a full time job we got in the house at 8.15 this evening.
Been back at work two days now so catching up on a bit of sleep, tip Leeds in the morning then back to Settle to pick up a load of cream for Westbury on Wednesday morning. Snappers unit is looking very tidy if you fancy basing a motor in North Yorks I know a reliable man 
hopefully he will keep posting photo’s of his travels as I for one find the European ones very interesting.
Like you we seem to have a lot of ducks about, I think it’s the copious amounts of water everywhere but all the same ducks are nice birds and we quite enjoy having them about…
PDB hope the feet aren’t giving you too much grief, just sit back and let the wife mow the lawn and dig the borders, oh hell I think Alice has just read that last b…
Cheers Wrighty.
Nice photo on Facebook of one of the DAF,s being recovered from being stuck in the snow in Bosnia.
Hello Buzzer as the time is 12 20pm you can see i am not busy i put the garden bin out does that count as gardening.it is £60 a year
Do i feel guilty sitting here on the computer at this nice day ,NO, like you i have done my bit, especially when it crept into the 2nd 24 hrs on the meat, and yes 100% correct the Irish lads south, and north, needed no lessons at all.
i did find though , there was a Irish driver on his own from north or south they would be more social with us ENGLISH,
than if there was a gang of them mixed N. or S
For instance in Rungis Paris on a Sunday all waiting to clear at night there were near a hundred trucks all nationalities the IRISH would and did put on a display of intimidation, [yes true] one or two would dress up in the IRA uniform ,IE black berert, dark glasses,brown gloves, black jacket and trousers , a baton and do a small show of drill. some may scoff ,but it happened more than once i was there,so after that i just kept away from them all. even the lads on from east -west.
I thought i would share that , you had to be there… any way, the next step for the feet is cotizone between the toes, not a cure ,its like going to a brothel im thinking about it…haha.
Wrighty and wife have been busy ,keeping our butchers shops full soon,it is a good job people like them are dedicated to do it .
As for the left hand driving, maybe there is a call for a simulator for left hand drive needed,.or firms keeping a old one for off road learning on old air fields, the trouble is it is so easy to [F] IT up,after my first shift nearly home i had done 4 London markets without a miss hap, on a single track road,i had got a bit cocky with myself, i whacked a car, IT CRUNCED ALL 3 STEPS off side DAF 33 space cab, the drivers pride and joy, and i had fu-----d it up, very near home, talk about ,heart ,mouth,guts dropping out.stomach cart wheels, the lot i was more worried telling the driver than the BOSS…However it all went well i stopped there, instead of going home, to tell the boss and driver.
The most amazing story was i did not know what lorry i would be driving before i got to work,at 8 pm market run ,and to my amazement there it was, no one told me i just got on with it …as you know we all took chances, especially abroad , i used to know myself that HANG ON THAT WAS CLOSE .i would then tell myself to calm down remember the DAF AND IT WORKED. I think a lot of accidents are caused by drivers like i used to, being a bit to flash,[look at me] and they pay for it.
I hope the new drivers make i, the main person is the one at home, if a driver starts to get hassle from his wife ,when being away ,they will never make it, i found that once i left the UK i never had any contact with home until i had finished on a Satuday night, you used to hear drivers on the pay phones about 2 days out getting crap from home ,why did you do the job i used to say, it looked good in books, I would ring once a week, the job was enough ,let alone having silly worries from home. if it was important the boss would tell you…50 years last year, Trust is the key…lunch time.pdb
I think this was the salesman who superceded Roger Leopard at MC truck and bus Nursling
Was his name Tony someone
I think he was the guy who sold IHT there last truck GK52 WFE
“Just sayin” Richard Tappers Mother was Ollies teacher at primary school. !!!
NNV the Globy that you broke Mr Davies was ex Patricks of Kettering
Terry Sparrow RIP drove her for me for a year or so subbing for Robert Armstring
traniht:
“Just sayin” Richard Tappers Mother was Ollies teacher at primary school. !!!
Ian one day in our office Tapper told me he was in his mothers Church choir but they would’nt let him be treasurer, I wonder why that was I cant imagine can you. He must have fixed up finance for more ( puffing billy’s ) as he used to call them, owner drivers with no real accounts of any substance but he was a fixer and he definitely made things happen in that department, went from (Allied Irish Finance) to
(I lied finance) subsidiary of Tapper Internatinal Trailer Hire and Magnum tractor units with the same reg number went to court with that one and got away with it remember that, oh the memories cheers Buzzer.
What would cause this, fitting rails to a standard reefer or overloading? I know it has nothing to do with Davies Int but as they run fridges I thought I would wack it on here, Cheer’s Pete
pete smith:
What would cause this, fitting rails to a standard reefer or overloading? I know it has nothing to do with Davies Int but as they run fridges I thought I would wack it on here, Cheer’s Pete
Hi Pete we don’t have any meat railers but we did do some of that work early on from Tadley I think it was in Surrey and back load for Chingford Fruit Packers in Warspite Road London, later Solstor was formed and we did traction for them from there inception. All I can tell you is one has to be careful with swinging meat as if you corner at speed it would have you over. With your picture either this has happened or the front corner of the trailer has struck a bridge or some un forgiving object and caused this failure and as you say it may be a lighter weight trailer as with rails and hooks they are considerably heavier and less payload than a conventional fridge cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer:
pete smith:
What would cause this, fitting rails to a standard reefer or overloading? I know it has nothing to do with Davies Int but as they run fridges I thought I would wack it on here, Cheer’s PeteHi Pete we don’t have any meat railers but we did do some of that work early on from Tadley I think it was in Surrey and back load for Chingford Fruit Packers in Warspite Road London, later Solstor was formed and we did traction for them from there inception. All I can tell you is one has to be careful with swinging meat as if you corner at speed it would have you over. With your picture either this has happened or the front corner of the trailer has struck a bridge or some un forgiving object and caused this failure and as you say it may be a lighter weight trailer as with rails and hooks they are considerably heavier and less payload than a conventional fridge cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer,
Someone got some explaining in that pic! Thanks for the reply,Cheer’s Pete
Hi Buzzer, it was Tadworth near Reigate where we did the hanging beef from…
If you remember in those days, it was the start of multi leg trips…Mr Viner certainly kept us / me busy then…
The job became a lot easier, though still hard when you got your own fridges minus the hanging rails…
Very happy days back then…
Jimski:
Spotted this on Facebook sorry if you’ve seen it b4
Hi,evening all.
Me thinks this pic might be when Silly Keith, Dale Martin, a lad from Cardiff ( name escapes me) , and myself where stuck in the cold store for seven days in the snow and ice in minus 17 degrees. Ops room said nothing was moving , not even "Tracked vehicles. Just got near Kupress tunnel when the heavens opened - as they do , and we were buggered. Got in through the cold store gates 2 made the loading bays, got tipped, others had to wait on the weather. Next crew in brought some snow chains and we got back to split on a single chain each . All’s well that ends well. Dunno where the wrecker came from, but he had all wheels chained up and took ages to get us moving .
Hope all and everyone is doing fine @ Tracy island…
Joe C …
Ah the memories first Mappo correcting my failing memory on name places, remember when me and you were tipping meat near Nantes and it was boiling hot outside, you jumped out of C789 cool as a cucumber air conditioning bin flat out and you nearly passed out with the sudden heat. Then Joe C good days were those going to Bosnia during that conflict, good loads out and Primafruit back remember one Chrismas in the old yard we had 27 trailers loaded ready for shipping.
Now for today well went out with the horses to Lee On the Solent nice hot proper mug of Tea but parked the hosses behind the beach huts as the breeze was fair nippy I can tell you and they wuz warm when we arrived and don’t want any getting a chill. Further along on the way home took this shot of a large container ship it don’t look that big but it dwarfed the IOW ferry but its a long shot so you cant see it clear, well that concludes todays goings on see what tomorrow brings cheers Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
Parked up in Chester tonight tipping north Wales in the morning then back home for a Skem, then off for three more days of lambing. Spoke to Alice earlier and she said it was snowing sleeting raining and bloody windy at home…, let’s hope spring starts soon.
Cheers Wrighty.
wrighty:
Evening BuzzerParked up in Chester tonight tipping north Wales in the morning then back home for a Skem, then off for three more days of lambing. Spoke to Alice earlier and she said it was snowing sleeting raining and bloody windy at home…, let’s hope spring starts soon.
Cheers Wrighty.
Don’t think spring is near yet mate had warmer days in February down here and the grass definitely aint growing, went to Salbury Market yesterday and there were 35 cows and with mainly Lim calves good things topped out at £1400 for Hereford x and steer calf 5mo genuine dispersal and all were a credit to the owner but as always the best makes the money , cheers Buzzer
PS. bet you got the night heater on.
HI BUZZER them ears on the horses says it all they were looking for the carrot shop…as for the meat lorry i blew it up a bit and the trailer has got pallets on the floor plus all hinds on i bet but a proper meat railer,just imagine the phone call, err boss just tipped…was the mr viner [mark]
Wrighty that job you have got driving,is a cream job…them old ewes will be watching the gate. pdb
