Bewick:
The 4-in-line flat trailer is a totally different animal to the “knock out” 4-in-line bogie low loader,OK the axle configuration may have been the same,albeit on different size tyres,but there the similarity ended!Cheers Bewick.
hiya,
Dennis never had any bother with with low loader “knock out bogie” type four in lines apart from the “very” hard graft when removing/replacing the rolling gear especially when on uneven ground which believe me was always the case when i got an abnormal lump to shift, but those old girls was stable enough, the new stuff must be a doddle with the hydraulics for this and the hydraulics for that. do drivers do any work these days, I might even make a comeback, then again I might not wouldn’t get tired enough to get to sleep.
thanks harry long retired.
Bewick:
The 4-in-line flat trailer is a totally different animal to the “knock out” 4-in-line bogie low loader,OK the axle configuration may have been the same,albeit on different size tyres,but there the similarity ended!Cheers Bewick.
hiya,
Dennis never had any bother with with low loader “knock out bogie” type four in lines apart from the “very” hard graft when removing/replacing the rolling gear especially when on uneven ground which believe me was always the case when i got an abnormal lump to shift, but those old girls was stable enough, the new stuff must be a doddle with the hydraulics for this and the hydraulics for that. do drivers do any work these days, I might even make a comeback, then again I might not wouldn’t get tired enough to get to sleep.
thanks harry long retired.
I understand that those “knock out” axles were a right bloody pain “H” in their day!! Thats why you would see them trying to slew the tracked machines round on the bed without knocking the axle out.It looked like a right bloody struggle sometimes but some of those lads would do owt to avoid knocking the axle out!!! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
The 4-in-line flat trailer is a totally different animal to the “knock out” 4-in-line bogie low loader,OK the axle configuration may have been the same,albeit on different size tyres,but there the similarity ended!Cheers Bewick.
hiya,
Dennis never had any bother with with low loader “knock out bogie” type four in lines apart from the “very” hard graft when removing/replacing the rolling gear especially when on uneven ground which believe me was always the case when i got an abnormal lump to shift, but those old girls was stable enough, the new stuff must be a doddle with the hydraulics for this and the hydraulics for that. do drivers do any work these days, I might even make a comeback, then again I might not wouldn’t get tired enough to get to sleep.
thanks harry long retired.
I understand that those “knock out” axles were a right bloody pain “H” in their day!! Thats why you would see them trying to slew the tracked machines round on the bed without knocking the axle out.It looked like a right bloody struggle sometimes but some of those lads would do owt to avoid knocking the axle out!!! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Guilty as charged Dennis always carried a swan neck full of big timbers on the off chance the “trax man” would take the old RBs off the side I did plenty out of Trafford Park.
thanks harry long retired.
Can’t teach an “experienced old dog” new tricks can you “H”!!! Just imagine it “H” we could be,to-night, sat in the cocktail bar at Reids in Funchal,after a slap up dinner (as your guests!) we could be rubbing shoulders with the “hoi poloy” OK ya! and so forth!! Nice warm evening lovely jubbly!! Cheers Dennis.
My dealings with 4 in lines, I didnt care much for them the earley BTCs brakes were poor, but if they were loaded correctley the were quite stable, a lot of drivers had it in their head to put all the weight up the front for traction, rubbish the trailer had to be loaded correctley for saftey, not to mention the W&Ms. who in my book were proper w<>kas, book mem I called them They new every thing about nothing, & nothing about everthing,Regards Larry
Bewick:
Can’t teach an “experienced old dog” new tricks can you “H”!!! Just imagine it “H” we could be,to-night, sat in the cocktail bar at Reids in Funchal,after a slap up dinner (as your guests!) we could be rubbing shoulders with the “hoi poloy” OK ya! and so forth!! Nice warm evening lovely jubbly!! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
Dennis have done that in Reids sister ship namely Raffles at Singapore with some rather wealthy people from Bolton who we met on holiday they did insist that we was their guests and when i saw the price list I didn’t argue but i did offer to share the bill honest but they wouldn’t hear of it, ■■■■, twenty years on and we still swap Christmas cards well I’m not a total tight-wad.
thanks harry long retired.
We used to have 4 in line lowloaders at E Hull limited in Bedford in the early 70s .The trailer brakes worked by cable which were unhooked to remove the rear wheels after jacking up the bed . Trouble was the cables stretched in use leading to hardly any trailer brakes after a few miles with a heavy load. .
Eric minto used to knock this one out 2-3 times a day for mowlems
Well he obviously did not knock that oneout!!!
Pat they might have thought we would not notice but there is to many old salts on this thread I would say that between us we know every trick in the book as well and some that have not been thought of yet
cheers Johnnie
Marcus 22 if you were knocking back wheels out you may know more than us but things were done in the 60s and early 70s ( before elf &safety) that you would end up in the lock up for nowadays but things have changed so much and some of them for the better like moving crawler cranes with the jib on cross carriage and over 20 of over hang.
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Marcus 22 if you were knocking back wheels out you may know more than us but things were done in the 60s and early 70s ( before elf &safety) that you would end up in the lock up for nowadays but things have changed so much and some of them for the better like moving crawler cranes with the jib on cross carriage and over 20 of over hang.
cheers Johnnie
hiya,
You know what they say Johnnie about not being able to kid the kids who’ve kidded millions eh’.
thanks harry long retired
i dont kid anyone harry, i know what i have done
all i done was post a photo which i have removed. my father and mr minto will be at labour club the 28th they will tell you how many times a day the back axle was knocked out
marcus 22:
i dont kid anyone harry, i know what i have done
all i done was post a photo which i have removed. my father and mr minto will be at labour club the 28th they will tell you how many times a day the back axle was knocked out
hiya,
They might just decide to “knock me out” at the next do Marcus, I think I’d better come in disguise now where’s did I put the Cherry Blossom all in good fun mate no harm mean’t replace the pic eh’…
thanks harry long retired.
marcus 22:
i dont kid anyone harry, i know what i have done
all i done was post a photo which i have removed. my father and mr minto will be at labour club the 28th they will tell you how many times a day the back axle was knocked out
hiya,
They might just decide to “knock me out” at the next do Marcus, I think I’d better come in disguise now where’s did I put the Cherry Blossom all in good fun mate no harm mean’t replace the pic eh’…
thanks harry long retired.
Don’t you think “H” that if you turned up looking like a B & W minstrel you would defo get knoced out!! and proably thrown out to boot!! Cheers Dennis.
marcus 22:
i dont kid anyone harry, i know what i have done
all i done was post a photo which i have removed. my father and mr minto will be at labour club the 28th they will tell you how many times a day the back axle was knocked out
hiya,
They might just decide to “knock me out” at the next do Marcus, I think I’d better come in disguise now where’s did I put the Cherry Blossom all in good fun mate no harm mean’t replace the pic eh’…
thanks harry long retired.
Don’t you think “H” that if you turned up looking like a B & W minstrel you would defo get knoced out!! and proably thrown out to boot!! Cheers Dennis.
hiya,
That’s torn it Dennis, the only option left open to me is turn up as the invisible man forget the Cherry Blossom where’s the Vanishing cream but I don’t think It’ll work the wife’s been using it for years and I can still see her.
thanks harry long retired.
ainacs:
Sorry but I saw a pic of a machine obviously tracked on sideways and some one takes offence and removes the pic!!!
Can I please ask why■■?
I know people got away with murder in those and fair play to them but why take offence at a fair comment please tell me why?
Regards Pat
hiya,
Yes Pat a blind man on a flying horse can see that particular machine was put on without any “knocking” out being needed and I like a few more of us on here who have “done a bit” spotted that, then again unlike me the particular driver may have liked to remove the “backend” just for fun, or he might have been on bonus,
thanks harry long retired
