Dennis I never knew you went over the water with trucks, how long did you do that ? and was the traffic generated by companies you did the UK work for as some times this used to happen. Buzzer.
High Buzzer i just wondered if you are going to make some nice apple jelly jam ready for the little old porkers to get ready, i bet some have got names??
Fine looking hogs there Buzzer.when you mention drivers who were none too tidy
I thought of Mappo. However I did stick up for him. One of his so called friends told me that he wasn’t fit to live with pigs. I said he is fit to live with them! That’s what friends are for! Regards Chealie 
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I cant believe you said that Charlie 
I was always houseproud in the wagon, as Buzzer should testify…
mappo:
Fine looking hogs there Buzzer.when you mention drivers who were none too tidy
I thought of Mappo. However I did stick up for him. One of his so called friends told me that he wasn’t fit to live with pigs. I said he is fit to live with them! That’s what friends are for! Regards Chealie
I cant believe you said that Charlie
I was always houseproud in the wagon, as Buzzer should testify…
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I’m so sorry Tony. I don’t know why I said that.It must have been the drink and drugs.
I know how house proud you are. Also your Lorry was always number one whoever you worked
For. I think the clue was the pinny hanging in the cab. Stay tidy. Regards Charlie
Moved my cows and calves and bull up from there summer field as they are being transferred by truck to new grazing on Tuesday, Lims are usually a bit sparky especially the calves but with gates all set in place I went with a bale of haylage to entice them to the gate and that worked so we let them out and ran the track up into the barn. It all went well which was good as I had visions of fence jumping and the like.
Here they are in the barn for a couple of days cows munching and calves not sure what to do.
Buzzer when them beasts go to market they will fighting over them… have you ever run cattle and pigs together in the same field,i do not know if they live together ok.
Wont be long ANDREW WILL BE BACK get a few trips in and all is not as it seems…put him on the Christmas rota SHIP OUT BOXING DAY…
There was a chap EDWARD from Gloucester way ,who used to stay in RUNGIS IN PARIS MEAT MARKET all over the Christmas holidays and look after most of the uk fridges,cadies,etc…when he was not doing that he used to have a doughnut stall at shows…we went together on his first trip to Spain ,he didnt do many after …a nice chap though…
Wrighty will be weak after his holiday, lazing around, i would put money on that he would not keep still on a sun bed for half a day ,unless he took on a bit of casual goat herding…and milking just to keep his hand in…goats,sheep and cows milk,together makes cheese ",Haloumie " Greek but the Cypriots eat it.lovely fried in slices, squeaky sound when you eat it…pdb.
Morning Buzzer
Well that went quickly a week soon goes when you’re relaxing in the sun lazing next to the pool with a beer in hand, got back at 10-30 last night so back to it today. Will break myself in gently today ready for work on Thursday, here’s one or two photos from Cyprus.
Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty good to see you back in the real world too much of the lolling by the pool with beer to hand aint good for you. Went to Crawley in my Scania today to take back the carriage I borrowed for the shows, how you put up with the traffic today gawd only knows it took half an hour to circum navigate Chichester alone. Came back Petersfield and that is all bendy twisty as well.
Moving me cows and calves tomoz to take advantage of the after growth from the haylage field so suspect we will have fun and games loading them on a truck, we shall see will report later, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Wrighty good to see you back in the real world too much of the lolling by the pool with beer to hand aint good for you. Went to Crawley in my Scania today to take back the carriage I borrowed for the shows, how you put up with the traffic today gawd only knows it took half an hour to circum navigate Chichester alone. Came back Petersfield and that is all bendy twisty as well.
Moving me cows and calves tomoz to take advantage of the after growth from the haylage field so suspect we will have fun and games loading them on a truck, we shall see will report later, Buzzer.
Buzzer, did you buy any chance borrow that carriage from my mate Bob?
ERF MAN:
Buzzer:
Wrighty good to see you back in the real world too much of the lolling by the pool with beer to hand aint good for you. Went to Crawley in my Scania today to take back the carriage I borrowed for the shows, how you put up with the traffic today gawd only knows it took half an hour to circum navigate Chichester alone. Came back Petersfield and that is all bendy twisty as well.
Moving me cows and calves tomoz to take advantage of the after growth from the haylage field so suspect we will have fun and games loading them on a truck, we shall see will report later, Buzzer.Buzzer, did you buy any chance borrow that carriage from my mate Bob?
Yes indeed I did and he has a wonderful collection of carriages, I have known Bob for some time now and have bought a good few horses from him. A proper gentleman and we do compete against each other but never beaten him yet as he is a perfectionist. Sad to say I inflicted some damage to said carriage but Bob was really good about it and he will get repaired and then I pay the bill.
Picked up a horse near me that he had bought so one good turn deserves another so to speak, in his yard there was a stand alone steam engine that he is doing up, not to running standards just as an ornament. He said he bought it from a scrap dealer in Southampton and it worked in the docks to drive an electric generator when the old ships were along side with there engines off. The bloke he got it from has had it 52 years before Bob got hold of it but at least it was not scrapped, cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Dennis I never knew you went over the water with trucks, how long did you do that ? and was the traffic generated by companies you did the UK work for as some times this used to happen. Buzzer.
We started in 1990 at the request of a couple of the Paper Mills we worked for so I bought out a two vehicle operation and built up from there. We mainly hauled Paper and Textiles outward although we loaded any Groupage that came our way, one job was shipping Vauxhall parts to Germany and returning with Opel parts, don’t ask me why but there was money to be made by these car dealers interchanging certain GM parts. We also worked for Schenker Cargo outward bound. The main of our return traffic was for Convent Spd in Emmerich on the Dutch border.I got to the point where we sent a few units over for 5 or 6 weeks and we fed them with unaccompanied trailers, only those drivers that wanted to be based in Germany and Holland the others would do a round trip or occasionally we might slip them an unaccompanied one if it was a quick turn around and they were still back home in the week. Kept out of France other than the odd drop in northern France. No Spain and defo no Italy ! We always had plenty of traffic to and from Holland and Germany. Cheers Dennis.
A shot of a Bewick Scania loading drums ex Unichem in Emmerich. Tell you a funny tale about an un-accompanied trailer on Sally Line into Ramsgate which had set off in the teeth of a force 8 or 9 gale and it couldn’t dock for 24 hours until the storm subsided, so our trailer was on deck and three of them, including ours keeled over, it was loaded with 80 drums of Unichem and topped out with boxes full of either Adidas or Nike trainers ( not sure which now) so when it finally docked I had our Insurance assessor right on “the job” but it was futile ! He told me that every Pub you went in in Ramsgate all the “Lads” were stood with brand new Trainers on !! He said it really was ■■■■■■■ hilarious but he could do nowt about it ! the trailer had been “looted” 
Cheers Dennis.
Any idea what wheelbase the 4x2 was Dennis - I thought 3.7m was the norm for the 3 series at the time, but that looks longer judging by the fuel tanks. Very nicely presented too.
kmills:
Any idea what wheelbase the 4x2 was Dennis - I thought 3.7m was the norm for the 3 series at the time, but that looks longer judging by the fuel tanks. Very nicely presented too.
Now that is an interesting question “kmills” ! Now you come to mention it that left ■■■■■■ 380 was a bit longer wheelbase than normal but I’m blowed if I can recall what it was, 3:8 maybe ? Cheers Bewick.
Here is todays farming report starting at 6.45 am retrieve water bowser and refill and take back to the cows and calves who yesterday got moved by my mates truck to the after growth from the haylage field, this was a surprise to me to be granted permission for this but the new man in charge is a bit more lenient on the rules than his predecessor. The ground is under SSSI so no sprays or fertilizers and not even muck allowed. Nice bit of grass come back none the less and they are enjoying the fresh
bit of green, I was allowed to put a creep feed in the field and the water bowser and it does not take them long to suss that out, it is self feed but slow to fill but does the job.
Today I purchased two IBC tanks to supplement the steers I have in the adjacent ground, had two on my trusty pickup but she was well laden as when full they weigh over a ton each. Tonight I had to jab one of me steers as a bit lame but I have a harpoon type affair no bigger than a stick but once you have had them a couple of times they get wise to whats coming.
Here are some shots of there scenic field and nice for them as they get a breeze up off the river and a nice out look, cheers Buzzer.
robthedog:
JD
That’s where my nick name came from the BT ads, Maureen Lipman and Bernard Cribbins both featured in those and I still have a metal badge that I got of Ebay Buzzer.
PS. funny how nicknames stick over the course of time eh and was awarded that as when in Les Slaters garage running my empire from thereI was always on the phone to such a degree Les put in a second line as his customers had a job to get through.
Evening Buzzer
The cattle are looking well obviously thriving on that fresh land of yours, have you had much rain lately ? our land is pretty wet now especially after Tuesday nights thunderstorm which lasted about an hour.
Got some cows in at home on Wednesday and spaned the calves took the cows back up to the high land leaving the calves, a cow and the bull in the pens next to the house when we came back there was a cow 2 calves and a bull walking around my bloody lawns 
what a mess it will take a bit of time sorting the divets out but hey ho life goes on…
Busy on Monday fitting cow mats in the cubicles and Tuesday was day 2 of the annual mule gimmer sales at Hawes auction, we had 130 in and averaged £96.77 ph up £10.00 on last year with the top pen making £138.00 so very happy overall.
Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty funny that story of yours about the bull escape and I can relate to that, about four years ago on a particularly wet and windy night went to bed at about 9.30 and it was a proper hooley outside so I cracked open the bedroom window as I heard a noise outside like some thing falling over only to discover twelve steers on our lawn and I reckon they had been out for several hours, well what a bloody mess. Any ways in’t morning got on me ride on mower and went round and round using its wide wheels as a roller, did this twice which took ages but my did it pay dividends, in three months you would not know they had been on there.
Went down with water in my IBC containers as I have a couple troughs in addition to the bowser for the cows, there were a couple calves who have a job to fit in the creep feed now and there backs rub on the bar as they go in and out, but they are nine months old.
My mate said when we moved them on Monday you ought to sell them and not keep em all winter, he said they would make as much now as in the spring, less work and no feeding so when they come of the grass at the end of October I may re evaluate the situation, dehorn them and send them on there way, we shall see.
Well it’s nice to here that your sheep sold well, it’s a never know what might happen when you go to market but nice you were happy with the result and at the end of the day that’s what you do it for, a fair return on all the hard work put in. Suppose Alice is in line for a bit of a shopping trip now as a bit of a reward but if she is anything like mine you cant get her to spend money on herself, Cheerio for now Buzzer
Evening Buzzer
Well I started patching the lawn when I got home this afternoon two wheel barrow loads of sharp sand and probably another two to finish.
Back in work tomorrow 1 load to Skelmersdale, 1 to Manchester and another load down to Droitwich to finish the day off, so should keep us busy. In the yard this afternoon they were preparing to set off for Truckfest northwest I think they are taking four trucks down, a tractor unit a farm collection 8 wheeler and a couple of Palletforce rigids so we will see how they get on…
Cheers Wrighty.
