It’s a crazy world PDB I would gladly work for £180 a day driving a truck Mon to Fri 9 till 5. Unfortunately we work weekends bank holidays etc, who’s the mugs?
On a lighter note Alice has just been and retrieved our other Jack Russell,she was in the middle of the road eatin a dead rabbit that’s how Hungary she was now back at home fed and watered. A better night’s sleep for us tonight…
Cheers Wrighty.
wrighty:
It’s a crazy world PDB I would gladly work for £180 a day driving a truck Mon to Fri 9 till 5. Unfortunately we work weekends bank holidays etc, who’s the mugs?
On a lighter note Alice has just been and retrieved our other Jack Russell,she was in the middle of the road eatin a dead rabbit that’s how Hungary she was now back at home fed and watered. A better night’s sleep for us tonight…Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty good news eh about your dogs, just having a quick look before we off driving the horses in Dorset, relief all round at your end Buzzer.
Great news Wrighty!! Big relief for you…
Brilliant bit about the Blacksmiths and also Bewicks pic of the Grandfather on the war horse…
Have read much in my lifetime about the Great War… Incredible what they went through , both men and horses.
My brother and I always say we are lucky to have been of a generation and age that never had to fight in a war… 1st , 2nd , Korea , Falklands , Afghanistan and Iraq…
On a trucking note…
As interesting as this thread is, with farming , politics and banter. Where are all the Davies drivers , past ( of which there must be scores ) and present ( 17 is it? ) it would be nice to have some input and new photos of back in the day , when there were 30 plus trucks…and the current goings on with the new generation…
Day out in Dorset today with the horses, good company good food and banter, this was our ice cream stop at half way.
Balders the pictures stopped when “snapper” jumped ship and no one else does it so your stuck with “an every day story of country folk”
cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer it is a shame not more pics of your trucks id bee interested to see where they go etc
What are the black booties type bandage on the hoses rear legs,is it to stop them catching their legs with the front legs, or dirt and stones thrown up i do not know…
you could employ a older retired [not retarded]driver, to accompany other drivers as a roving cameraman ,on long trips ,would bring his own nose clips to stop snoring, and do all the dohbey,and cooking and buy the beer at weekends…doubt any one would want such a job,a lot to ask of a man ,but you never know there maybe some foolish person around ?
Nice photograph of the team. i bet your out on a o.a.p outing ,and told them the driver wants a wee,so pulled over, ohh look a ice cream van that is a result…but i have got no change .nurse .pdb. yes lovely day ,lots of people about,they are all not in London demonstrating,a friend of mine said"BLOODY HOT HEADS"these youngsters ,all self …it cracked me up .i said calm down,its the weekly ARCHERS soon, that did it, comotosed…pdb come ex drivers of DAVIS GIVE US SOME STORIES or ill keep writing crap.pdb
PDB those thing on the horses legs are called brushing boots to prevent just that, I thought you had caught sight of the lovely Gemma readjusting the lead horses boots, I was going to bend over and offer assistance to the young lady but thought it might be a bit obvious.
Funnily enough I got two miles up the M27 this morning and realised I had not a penny on me but at the end of the day did not need any
cheers Buzzer.
An old long gone Horseman once recited this verse to me Buzzer —
One white leg buy
Two white legs try
Three white legs pass by
Four white legs, shoot it and feed to the crows. 
Have you ever heard of the same verse Buzzer ? Old superstitions I think ! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
An old long gone Horseman once recited this verse to me Buzzer —One white leg buy
Two white legs try
Three white legs pass by
Four white legs, shoot it and feed to the crows.Have you ever heard of the same verse Buzzer ? Old superstitions I think ! Cheers Dennis.
Evening Dennis…
That is a Midland expression…
and Ive got one in the back paddock…head shy…ex didicoy…and two white socks…
But she is beautiful…and I keep on trying!
Cheerio for now.
Bewick:
An old long gone Horseman once recited this verse to me Buzzer —One white leg buy
Two white legs try
Three white legs pass by
Four white legs, shoot it and feed to the crows.Have you ever heard of the same verse Buzzer ? Old superstitions I think ! Cheers Dennis.
Dennis never heard that saying before about horses but have another an old chap once said to me about cattle and that was about the size of cows which was “you cant make rats out of mice” so in other words if its too small it will never give you a good calf.
Saviem John you keep showing that horse of yours kindness and maybe you can turn it round but horses do have very good long memories Cheers Buzzer.
Not wishing to sound too insulting buzzer , but the carriage looks suspiciously overloaded on the front axle . Something to do maybe with the two gentlemen of advancing years ( and waistlines ) . Maybe a sliding seat to distribute the weight back a little ? .dave
Dave ime relatively skinny to what I was 8 years ago tipping the scales at 28.5 stones had a stomach bypass (done by Kier construction) and now I weigh in at 15.5 stone, cant speak for the other gentleman but he is 82 so guess he eats what he likes, love watching him eat a dinner he loves his food.
The carriage does have a sliding 5th wheel (seat) it has independent suspension on air all round as well as four wheel disc breaks and that itself is 600 kilo’s so when we were loaded up we are rolling along at well over a ton, but luckily no ministry in Dorset on a Sunday, Buzzer.
Saviem:
Bewick:
An old long gone Horseman once recited this verse to me Buzzer —One white leg buy
Two white legs try
Three white legs pass by
Four white legs, shoot it and feed to the crows.Have you ever heard of the same verse Buzzer ? Old superstitions I think ! Cheers Dennis.
Evening Dennis…
That is a Midland expression…
and Ive got one in the back paddock…head shy…ex didicoy…and two white socks…
But she is beautiful…and I keep on trying!
Cheerio for now.
Thanks for that John ! verses like that tend to stick in the mind. Hope you manage to overcome the Mare’s problem, but that is the problem when you buy “secondhand” so to speak as you don’t know what has gone before. Our two best horses, full brothers 3 years apart, we had from weaned foals and they were well handled and had impeccable manners as they trusted us, and they were both “full hosses” .We also had super mare from being a yearling which I sent to Carriages Raceway to an old Trainer/Driver to break ( a right miserable old B-----) and I remember on the day I went to collect her he put his arm around my shoulders and said “name your price, if I owned that filly I’d kick the wife out of bed and cuddle the filly!” and he was a right old tight B----- who had dealt in horses all his life. Needless to say I couldn’t have parted with the filly as I’d bought her off a Pal for the Wife. We went on to have many wins with this mare and she was a top Free-for- Aller, I did eventually sell her back to the chap I’d bought her off as a brood mare after her racing days were over. But she was a Christian,never put a foot wrong and as honest as the day is long. Regards Dennis.
Buzzer:
Day out in Dorset today with the horses, good company good food and banter, this was our ice cream stop at half way.
Balders the pictures stopped when “snapper” jumped ship and no one else does it so your stuck with “an every day story of country folk”
cheers Buzzer.
I don’t think those three “lads” would have any problems pulling that outfit Buzzer even with all that weight on the carrige 
! I see you use Breast Plate harness which I always think is better and more comfortable but do you ever use neck collars ? Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Buzzer:
Day out in Dorset today with the horses, good company good food and banter, this was our ice cream stop at half way.
Balders the pictures stopped when “snapper” jumped ship and no one else does it so your stuck with “an every day story of country folk”
cheers Buzzer.I don’t think those three “lads” would have any problems pulling that outfit Buzzer even with all that weight on the carrige
That is George Bowman Zilco harness it is made off plastic coated webbing made in Australia, George is from up your way ■■■■■■■■■■■ very famous man been world champion many times and he put his name to the harness and I think they supply him his FOC. Think he was in the scrap business but there are loads of his family into driving horses.
Yes I do have a team set of collar harness but only for showing purposes, it is white metal fittings but still a pain to clean, takes me and the wife best part of eight hours to do it right, by that I mean take it all apart to do it proper like, cheers Buzzer.
Ha Buzzer,what is it, that a glimpse of a breast and we are on it ,yes i spotted it straight away…,all though i do not know you, you were never that weight were you, i bet there are some 3 legged donkeys around your area…
Bewick, what a brilliant describing word for a horse it was “Christian” yes i get it, although some pillars of society do drop a “shoe” now and again…-the saying i like is “you cannot make a silk ■■■■■ out of a sows ear”… or “,you have made a right hash of that” but i used to like “corn-beef hash”
Hows you beans doing buzzer,!i wonder if i am the only bloke with broad beans, obliviously i shell them when i get them, but i also pop the bean out of its little skin ,and they are like peas …,summer cabbage,not very tight,…i cut the thick veins out of the leaves ,then roll them like a cigar, and then chop/slice them as thin as i can like shredded paper, like big Kathrine wheels, boil for 5 /10 mins put in a colander to dry/then fry it all off off in meted butter or i cut up some nice bacon thin strips, and boil in the same pot as the cabbage then fry off…see you young old boys, this is what years of driving lorries does to you…not just ■■■■ ,food skills from years of self catering while up the road…pdb.
Zilco Harness now that was my favourite racing harness Buzzer ! When I first started out Harness Racing my first three or four sets were American KA,I never used any leather harness too much work wereas the plastic just washed off. I then got my first set of ZILCO in about '82, red and black from memory then that was it ! only Zilco from then on ! but mine was New Zealand Zilco I never had any Australian but I was aware of it. I suppose it was the same firm but from a different factory. Cheers Dennis.
PDB that young lady from Malta incidentally was helping me that day as groom but she is certainly well endowed or round here we would say “she wouldn’t break her nose if she fell over”, makes it hard not to stare while harnessing up sometimes I wish I was boss eyed then they would’nt know you were gawping.
As for the beans picked me first French climbers on last Friday and more today so they should start coming on stream pretty quickly now, the runners wont be far behind but I don’t like them as much as the French ones, got some black fly though and I never ordered any of that, have sprayed them with a fairy liquid /water mix several times but needs ten thousand lady birds to get busy.
Dennis did not realize Zilco had been round that long but as you say its easy to work with just rinse off after use and every now and then I spray it with truck wash and power wash with me little machine comes up like new.
Morning Buzzer
Parked out in the sticks near Pwllheli last night 70 cow rotary parlour in the middle of a field, a quiet night with no internet…
Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty how many cows on that farm, when I went to Ross on Wye the nipper who was selling the bull milked on the farm next door and they had 850 cows, that’s the way its going now with huge numbers.
Well I had a good start to the day strimming the road side into me haylage field, then did the loading bay they built with crash barrier, good thing only gates aint high enough so will rehang them.all done by 11.30 so I thought I would strim the front of the barn and round the side as I need access to turn on the recycled water supply caught of the barn roof, there I was busy as you like and one off the steers appeared so quickly shut the gate but within minuets all ten were in there and I could not leave as the fence is not high and had visions of them pushing into the hay field.
Called for emergency help and got it and made make do repairs with some old gates and a couple of rails so hope this keeps the beggers out. They got acres of grass about a foot deep but never satisfied always looking for something else. If it were mine I would have good fences all round gives piece of mind and you can rest easy, just got to go down in a mo and clean out the tanks and refill will take a couple of pictures and post later, cheers Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
Not sure how many they were milking but it certainly looked a lot when the collecting yard was full, the farm is just over 700 acres farmed on a New Zealand system where they live outside all year round.
Parked up on Anglesey for the night tipping at six in the morn then home for a local, then off for three days of silage making weather permitting.
Cheers Wrighty.
