"Heavy Haulage through the years"

[pv83]

DEANB:
Bakers 1967.

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Cheers Dean

[dennis_javelin]

pv83:

Dennis Javelin:
The “penny farthing” of heavy haulage

NMP

Not the first thing that comes to mind if you think of a Mclaren

It reminds me of the cartoon strip “tramps” from the Daily Express where they had a pram that they pushed all their worldly belongings about on that had Pickfords on the side. I know that Pickfords paid them for this, don’t know how much though.

[dig]

Good day all
Some of you may know on the first of feb we had a large bush fire start here in West Aus it really was doozy travelled 20 kms the first day and destroyed 86 homes by the time it was brought under control, we evacuated from home 10pm the first night to our daughters home 10km away then got an order to evacuate from there at 2am ,we decided to stay that night but as you can probly imagine not much sleep.
The next day we just kept monitoring its progress via a very good appt on our computers meanwhile 2 jet powered arial water bombers flew in from NSW and those with a Hercules aircraft and 6 helicopters and some smaller aircraft attacked the fire from the air and later that day started laying a fire break with chemical retardant, at this time the fire had a perimeter of 110kms.
That night the winds picked up to 70km/h at times and i really thought we were in real trouble but the retardant held the fire enough for ground crews to keep on top of hot spots caused be burning embers and 2 more days of this saw the fire controlled and contained after burning some 11000hectares in 5 days .
Our thanks goes out to the aircraft and their ground support people plus the fire fighters on the ground many of who are belong to volunteer brigades without them the magnificent job they did we would have been in real trouble.
I know most of you that read this will have been shovelling snow having worked for BRS on the M1 in the bitterly cold nights of its early days when the cold was freezing the fuel all I can say is I think that I preferred that to what we have endured here of late.
We were lucky our home escaped any damage but our hearts go out to those that lost the lot.

Cheers Dig

Heres a few photos

[spardo]

Blimey Dig, that didn’t hit the headlines here at all, I had no idea that you had such a close shave. I’ve had storm and wind and flood but never have been subjected to the terror of fire.

Really glad you both made it through safely, your daughter and family too. Being surrounded within 2 metres here on 2 sides by forest I do have my worries when having a very dry summer like the last one, but I know that nearly all our strong winds are sou-westers and I make sure that there are no trees close in that direction.

All our firefighters here are volunteers too and I have 3 ponds, one which I swim in contains a lot of water, for them to source if necessary. Our nearest neighbours are retired firefighters too and came to our rescue years ago when I stupidly set a very high tree on fire trying to light a BBQ. They put it out very quickly without ringing the Pompiers who would have charged me. Their son decided to go professional and has been for a long time a Pompier de Paris. They are military, like the Gendarmes.

The really dangerous fires like yours here are normally in Provence, in the south east of France and our neighbour when working has been taken down there to assist for several days. I don’t know how much they get paid but I am sure it isn’t enough.

[dig]

Spardo:
Blimey Dig, that didn’t hit the headlines here at all, I had no idea that you had such a close shave. I’ve had storm and wind and flood but never have been subjected to the terror of fire.

Really glad you both made it through safely, your daughter and family too. Being surrounded within 2 metres here on 2 sides by forest I do have my worries when having a very dry summer like the last one, but I know that nearly all our strong winds are sou-westers and I make sure that there are no trees close in that direction.

All our firefighters here are volunteers too and I have 3 ponds, one which I swim in contains a lot of water, for them to source if necessary. Our nearest neighbours are retired firefighters too and came to our rescue years ago when I stupidly set a very high tree on fire trying to light a BBQ. They put it out very quickly without ringing the Pompiers who would have charged me. Their son decided to go professional and has been for a long time a Pompier de Paris. They are military, like the Gendarmes.

The really dangerous fires like yours here are normally in Provence, in the south east of France and our neighbour when working has been taken down there to assist for several days. I don’t know how much they get paid but I am sure it isn’t enough.

Thanks David I have fire fighting equipment of my own and several fire hoses hooked up to our domestic supply also a 5 Kva generator as usually the first thing that you lose in a fire is electricity so I have that covered but this was different and when we were first notified I could see that a garden hose wasn’t going to do the job.

We have a 20metre break around the house and shed but the trees are quite tall so i guess I.m going to need to get the chainsaw out and try to fall a few with out dinting the house roof .

Dig

[oiltreader]

Thanks for sharing your experience Dig, our anti weather moaning pales into insignificance when reading that. Take Care
Cheers
Oily

[dig]

oiltreader:
Thanks for sharing your experience Dig, our anti weather moaning pales into insignificance when reading that. Take Care
Cheers
Oily

Thanks Oily
Keep healthy and safe

Dig

[deanb]

DIG:
Good day all
Some of you may know on the first of feb we had a large bush fire start here in West Aus it really was doozy travelled 20 kms the first day and destroyed 86 homes by the time it was brought under control, we evacuated from home 10pm the first night to our daughters home 10km away then got an order to evacuate from there at 2am ,we decided to stay that night but as you can probly imagine not much sleep.
The next day we just kept monitoring its progress via a very good appt on our computers meanwhile 2 jet powered arial water bombers flew in from NSW and those with a Hercules aircraft and 6 helicopters and some smaller aircraft attacked the fire from the air and later that day started laying a fire break with chemical retardant, at this time the fire had a perimeter of 110kms.
That night the winds picked up to 70km/h at times and i really thought we were in real trouble but the retardant held the fire enough for ground crews to keep on top of hot spots caused be burning embers and 2 more days of this saw the fire controlled and contained after burning some 11000hectares in 5 days .
Our thanks goes out to the aircraft and their ground support people plus the fire fighters on the ground many of who are belong to volunteer brigades without them the magnificent job they did we would have been in real trouble.
I know most of you that read this will have been shovelling snow having worked for BRS on the M1 in the bitterly cold nights of its early days when the cold was freezing the fuel all I can say is I think that I preferred that to what we have endured here of late.
We were lucky our home escaped any damage but our hearts go out to those that lost the lot.

Cheers Dig

Heres a few photos

Morning Dig,

Never saw this in the news !

Glad you are ok and that your house was undamaged. Hope your daughter’s house was also ok.

The only news we get here is about the covid virus.

[deanb]

Econofreight 1984.

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[dig]

DEANB:

DIG:
Good day all
Some of you may know on the first of feb we had a large bush fire start here in West Aus it really was doozy travelled 20 kms the first day and destroyed 86 homes by the time it was brought under control, we evacuated from home 10pm the first night to our daughters home 10km away then got an order to evacuate from there at 2am ,we decided to stay that night but as you can probly imagine not much sleep.
The next day we just kept monitoring its progress via a very good appt on our computers meanwhile 2 jet powered arial water bombers flew in from NSW and those with a Hercules aircraft and 6 helicopters and some smaller aircraft attacked the fire from the air and later that day started laying a fire break with chemical retardant, at this time the fire had a perimeter of 110kms.
That night the winds picked up to 70km/h at times and i really thought we were in real trouble but the retardant held the fire enough for ground crews to keep on top of hot spots caused be burning embers and 2 more days of this saw the fire controlled and contained after burning some 11000hectares in 5 days .
Our thanks goes out to the aircraft and their ground support people plus the fire fighters on the ground many of who are belong to volunteer brigades without them the magnificent job they did we would have been in real trouble.
I know most of you that read this will have been shovelling snow having worked for BRS on the M1 in the bitterly cold nights of its early days when the cold was freezing the fuel all I can say is I think that I preferred that to what we have endured here of late.
We were lucky our home escaped any damage but our hearts go out to those that lost the lot.

Cheers Dig

Heres a few photos

Morning Dig,

Never saw this in the news !

Glad you are ok and that your house was undamaged. Hope your daughter’s house was also ok.

The only news we get here is about the covid virus.

Thanks Deano for your concern and the fact it recieved no news report your way is mirrored by the fact it recieved very little in our eastern states maybe because last year with similar fires in the east there was some tragic accidents which fortunately weren’t mirrored here but you know how ruthless the major news people are " if you haven’t heard a good story by 10am start one " only way to sell the news.

Cheers Dig

[deanb]

Morning Dig, heres a bit from 1963 from your part of the world.

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[dig]

DEANB:
Morning Dig, heres a bit from 1963 from your part of the world.

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Thanks Deano
I learn something every day,I didn’t arrive in WA until 1969 and never got to Kalgoorlie for the first time until 1978ish and crossed the Nullabor via the Eyre Hwy for the first time in 1986 and it was a sealed all the way but I remember seeing the bitumen tankers here and there easily recognised at night when running with the burner lit when the section between Port Hedland and Broome was sealed.
There is a depot not far from where I live that has a fleet of the newer type tankers I will take some photos and post them.

Dig
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[zb_anorak]

The Scammell is the first 6x4 Highwayman I’ve seen- they are usually 4x2. In addition, it looks to have its cab mounted a bit higher than usual:

[oiltreader]

Other side of the country(not all the way) from you Dig at Adelaide, credit to Jack Chambers for the photos.
Oily

[lawrence_dunbar]

[froggy55]

Between Hirschberg in Thuringen and Rudolphstein in Bavaria (Germany). The trucks must be Kaelble.

[froggy55]

theguardian.com/us-news/202 … SApp_Other

[deanb]

DIG:

DEANB:
Morning Dig, heres a bit from 1963 from your part of the world.

Thanks Deano
I learn something every day,I didn’t arrive in WA until 1969 and never got to Kalgoorlie for the first time until 1978ish and crossed the Nullabor via the Eyre Hwy for the first time in 1986 and it was a sealed all the way but I remember seeing the bitumen tankers here and there easily recognised at night when running with the burner lit when the section between Port Hedland and Broome was sealed.
There is a depot not far from where I live that has a fleet of the newer type tankers I will take some photos and post them.

Dig
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Glad you enjoyed that Dog,check this one out from 1962.

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[dig]

oiltreader:
Other side of the country(not all the way) from you Dig at Adelaide, credit to Jack Chambers for the photos.
Oily

Thanks Oily rail delivered by road nothing wrong with that.
Dig

[dig]

DEANB:

DIG:

DEANB:
Morning Dig, heres a bit from 1963 from your part of the world.

Thanks Deano
I learn something every day,I didn’t arrive in WA until 1969 and never got to Kalgoorlie for the first time until 1978ish and crossed the Nullabor via the Eyre Hwy for the first time in 1986 and it was a sealed all the way but I remember seeing the bitumen tankers here and there easily recognised at night when running with the burner lit when the section between Port Hedland and Broome was sealed.
There is a depot not far from where I live that has a fleet of the newer type tankers I will take some photos and post them.

Dig
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Glad you enjoyed that Dog,check this one out from 1962.

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Thanks again DeanO excellent article. woof woof
When i took delivery of the KW I went straight to Derby in the Kimberly loaded my truck and trailers on to a company truck [Superliner} and off we went to Windora and loaded out a drilling rig for the east Kimberly area.Didnt see any AEC Mamoths at the time lots of cattle train activity mainly Yank tanks but one thing I do recall was going to the pub in the evening as we had several road trains loaded parked near the caravan park and purchasing a carton of beer for purely medicinal purposes from the publican who visited us later that evening in his day job uniform sergeant of the police.

Cheers Dig