Driving Job You'd Never Do?

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Harry Monk:
Any kind of train is fun to drive, it’s just the sheer weight of them, here’s one taken late at night at the controls of a Class 33 diesel.

Trains are like trucks in a way, anyone can make them go forward, it’s getting them to stop in the right place that’s the hard part…

Anyone else disappointed that it’s not actually Harry in his avatar? :laughing: Spoilt the illusion now.

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Denis F:

Paul-H:
Taking animals to the Slaughterhouse, just couldn’t bring myself to do it although I do like a good bit of steak. Every time I go past one of those lorry’s I keep wondering if those buggers know what’s in store for them

good job some of us do it then, otherwise you’d be living on beans and lentils :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

Too true…and while you lot wont do it my hourly rate keeps going up :wink: :wink: …

I wouldnt go back to the dreaded 3663,i enjoy take away food,just dont like handballing 9 ton of stock a day into the kitchens :open_mouth:

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Driveroneuk:

Harry Monk:
What a lovely piece of machinery.

I love driving a truck but the simple fact is that when you climb a hill, the only thing that changes is the pitch of the engine note. A steam engine will approach an incline enthusiastically and when it reaches the summit will sound like a marathon runner who has just completed 26 miles. They are living creatures.

Steam engines are like mechanical dragons, absolutely wondrous to behold whether from the footplate or the lineside.

Couldn’t agree more.

Somebody should take Muckaway to Europe and “convert” him.

I’ve been on the footplate here thanks quite a few times; City of Truro probably being the most notable but generally anything from Swindon’ll do :sunglasses:

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Yes 8wheels, Harry seems sadly normal now, not so much of a character as his avatar. As for steam power, regularly getting up at 3am, sadly, may not be that unfamiliar to some on here, but then taking 2 hours to get the thing started - not funny.

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Rob K:

Coffeeholic:

kr79:
Oh any job that involves double manning I’m far to anti social :smiley:

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Works for me.

Poor jimboy… :frowning:

It worked for me as well !

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I use the same ID on other forums and you would be amazed how many people think that is my real world persona. I frequently have internet foes point out that my name is cockney rhyming slang for “■■■■■”, and mocking me for that.

No… you don’t say? :wink:

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Snudger:
As for steam power, regularly getting up at 3am, sadly, may not be that unfamiliar to some on here, but then taking 2 hours to get the thing started - not funny.

Not to mention the polishing which goes ■■■■ up as the fire is built up…And at the end of the day a similar amount of time to shunt coaches into sidings, fill the tender with coal and water,drop the fire over a pit, then get into the smokebox (the clockface bit on the front) and clean the ash out…hoping the water’s hot enough to limp it into the shed if there’s no shunter… :laughing:
The old days the shed staff done it :laughing:

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Melchett:

Muckaway:
concrete mixers (start at 7am, work until 9.30pm as happened to one of our drivers),

Nothing wrong with mixers, never 2 days the same. Yep, you can work long hours in the summer but get paid o/time, winter is a different story…

kr79:
Never fancied driving a cement mixer if it sets you have to get in the drum with a jack hammer [zb] that.

If it was a full load then they would just scrap the barrel, it’s cheaper! It’d take months to remove 6 metres of set concrete!
Jobs I wouldn’t do?? Not many but anything involving nights out is a big no-no.

My dad had 6 metres go off in the drum when the fuel pump went on the truck, It certainly wasn’t cheaper to scrap the drum but it did take us 2 weeks and 4 jack hammers to get it out. :imp:
for those of you that wondered what it would look like, heres a pic. :laughing:

Oh and I’d hate to drive a car transporter or a road sweeper.

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Muckaway:

Snudger:
As for steam power, regularly getting up at 3am, sadly, may not be that unfamiliar to some on here, but then taking 2 hours to get the thing started - not funny.

Not to mention the polishing which goes ■■■■ up as the fire is built up…And at the end of the day a similar amount of time to shunt coaches into sidings, fill the tender with coal and water,drop the fire over a pit, then get into the smokebox (the clockface bit on the front) and clean the ash out…hoping the water’s hot enough to limp it into the shed if there’s no shunter… :laughing:
The old days the shed staff done it :laughing:

Yep… and you still get some ■■■■-ends saying we ought to go back to steam! As I said before I’ve only played at the job in preservation, but my best mate is an ex- Nine Elms fireman, and it was through him that I was lucky enough to work on NYMR.

It’s a bit like the mines; for all the honest sentiment about the job, if you really get talking to the boys who’ve actually done it for a living they’ll tell you they’re glad they don’t do it any more.

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gnasty gnome:

Muckaway:

Snudger:
As for steam power, regularly getting up at 3am, sadly, may not be that unfamiliar to some on here, but then taking 2 hours to get the thing started - not funny.

Not to mention the polishing which goes ■■■■ up as the fire is built up…And at the end of the day a similar amount of time to shunt coaches into sidings, fill the tender with coal and water,drop the fire over a pit, then get into the smokebox (the clockface bit on the front) and clean the ash out…hoping the water’s hot enough to limp it into the shed if there’s no shunter… :laughing:
The old days the shed staff done it :laughing:

Yep… and you still get some ■■■■-ends saying we ought to go back to steam! As I said before I’ve only played at the job in preservation, but my best mate is an ex- Nine Elms fireman, and it was through him that I was lucky enough to work on NYMR.
PM BigGUnit; he’s an ex Oxford fireman :smiley:
It’s a bit like the mines; for all the honest sentiment about the job, if you really get talking to the boys who’ve actually done it for a living they’ll tell you they’re glad they don’t do it any more.

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Driving jobs you’d never do

Anything that involves manual labour :laughing: . If it’s not on pallets or doesn’t unload itself (or someone else unloads it) then it doesn’t go. :laughing: Removals/furniture/white goods deliveries/multidrop parcels are at the extreme end of what I won’t do - I don’t care how much money you’re offering :laughing: :laughing: . Cage work (eg. Tesco/Arla), general handball I’ll do if there’s absolutely nothing else and I’m running extremely low on finances :laughing: . Everything else is fair game incl tippers, bin trucks, road sweepers, livestock, animal waste, etc. Not actually done either of the latter 2, but smell doesn’t bother me as a general rule - I worked on agency for Leeds CC on the gully tankers emptying residential and industrial septic tanks for quite some time and actually enjoyed it :open_mouth: .

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Chipliners, would hate to be picking bits of wood out of every crevice all week :imp:

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I couldn’t drive that UK Border Agency scanner lorry at Purfleet, driving 50 feet forwards and then 50 feet backwards isn’t my idea of trucking :wink:

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Harry Monk:
I use the same ID on other forums and you would be amazed how many people think that is my real world persona. I frequently have internet foes point out that my name is cockney rhyming slang for “■■■■■”, and mocking me for that.

No… you don’t say? :wink:

Well I’d been reading your various posts for about a year before the penny dropped when someone referred to Harry Monk all over a mattress :laughing:

And whilst I never actually thought it was you in the pic it was the mental image I always had.

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8wheels:

Harry Monk:
I use the same ID on other forums and you would be amazed how many people think that is my real world persona. I frequently have internet foes point out that my name is cockney rhyming slang for “■■■■■”, and mocking me for that.

No… you don’t say? :wink:

Well I’d been reading your various posts for about a year before the penny dropped when someone referred to Harry Monk all over a mattress :laughing:

And whilst I never actually thought it was you in the pic it was the mental image I always had.

The next thing he will try to tell you is that he doesn’t live in Peckham :open_mouth:

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Any tipper work - did it once with a local haulage firm whom turned out to be a total cowboy… never ■■■■■■■ ever again. :imp: :imp: :imp:

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kr79:
Oh any job that involves double manning I’m far to anti social :smiley:

:arrow_right: Oh,I like it,but i eat lots of Garlic

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dlote2009:

Melchett:

Muckaway:
concrete mixers (start at 7am, work until 9.30pm as happened to one of our drivers),

Nothing wrong with mixers, never 2 days the same. Yep, you can work long hours in the summer but get paid o/time, winter is a different story…

kr79:
Never fancied driving a cement mixer if it sets you have to get in the drum with a jack hammer [zb] that.

If it was a full load then they would just scrap the barrel, it’s cheaper! It’d take months to remove 6 metres of set concrete!
Jobs I wouldn’t do?? Not many but anything involving nights out is a big no-no.

My dad had 6 metres go off in the drum when the fuel pump went on the truck, It certainly wasn’t cheaper to scrap the drum but it did take us 2 weeks and 4 jack hammers to get it out. :imp:
for those of you that wondered what it would look like, heres a pic. :laughing:

Oh and I’d hate to drive a car transporter or a road sweeper.

We pulled a second Mixer Site by Site,connected Hydraulic Hose from good to the bad’s mixer and emptied them,A Hiab loaded then the (Edited) on his Tipper and tipped it in our yard where the Cat flattened it out.

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toby1234abc:
Any truck with a twin splitter gear box or crash box,like the ERFs had and Stratos,getting the revs right,a knackered knee joint,and muscle pain in the leg.Stopping the truck when you have messed up the gears,and have to start again in the middle of a busy roundabout!!!

There are those who can, then there are those who just cant!!! Drivers and Screwdrivers.

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Harry Monk:

orys:
Yes! Yes!

Steam engines are briliant!

I’ve been lucky to drive one of these:

What a lovely piece of machinery.

I love driving a truck but the simple fact is that when you climb a hill, the only thing that changes is the pitch of the engine note. A steam engine will approach an incline enthusiastically and when it reaches the summit will sound like a marathon runner who has just completed 26 miles. They are living creatures.

Steam engines are like mechanical dragons, absolutely wondrous to behold whether from the footplate or the lineside.

Not wishing to derail this thread, but for those of you interested in this kind of stuff, you might find this thread of interest: (although the vids aren’t working yet :frowning: )

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