I think leg end is more like it…
Jeff…
Jelliot:
I think leg end is more like it…Jeff…
Leg is better than bell 
Retired Old ■■■■:
Are you tipping again, Nathan?
Yes Casey. See the Oxford thread, have put some pics up.
Oh Well here goes then…seeing as no one else has aspired to it the one on my wish list is …
A Big J 8LXB 240… 
Sorry couldnt resist 
EW…
Jelliot:
I think leg end is more like it…Jeff…
A bit off topic Jeff but I was wondering which Loosely built you had pulling the triple ,I had a couple of mates with LNT9000s one with a Triple 4 ■■■■■■■ and the other a B model 3406 Cat ,both went quite well and I.m assuming it was a while ago was it that model truck or the previous short bonneted model and as a point of interest how close did you get to Perth before breaking up at that time.
Cheers Dig
Louisville 9000, ■■■■■■■■ I think it was either a 390 or 420, Fuller, Rockwell, 6 bar, 36" dog box. I remember doing the math and working out that that my F12 was a 385 hp and I was happy with that at 24 tons, so I reckoned the road trains should be around 1400 hp, which of course they weren’t…
I started pulling fertilised out of Adelaide with a single trailer and about 6 weeks after that the guy I was working for said reverse onto the trailer over there with the dolly under the front… My training consisted of him saying" hang wide to the left as you go out the gate, and mind the mail box. The only way you’ll get to know how to drive one of these things is to get in and have a go"
A couple of months of dong that the fertiliser season had finished so he sent me to the Bell depot with his son in the other truck. I headed of to Alice and his son went to Perth, we ran as far as Port Augusta together and that was my training on triples… I mainly did Bell Ipec TNT or NTFS… It was hard to tell as every one used to use each others trailers and dollies were just “grab what ever you could if you were making a train up your self”. I think that I was only given an assembled train twice, the rest of the time it was just a list of trailer numbers, and get on with it your self. Don’t bother the office staff unless death was imminent.
I was told by the Ipec guys to split up at Northman but my boss told me to play dumb and just go for the docks. At the time we were using a massive dust bowl at Northan. I ended up running with another guy form Kalgoorlie and he told my it wasn’t advisable to got past Northan with a set on the back . I only did Perth twice as his son had a bit of stuff out that way and always had dibs on the West run. I was more than happy going up and down the red bit…
Jeff…
ps sorry to high jack your thread Robert…
EW car truck & bus:
Oh Well here goes then…seeing as no one else has aspired to it the one on my wish list is …A Big J 8LXB 240…
Sorry couldnt resist
EW…
I was resisting the impulse to comment on the grounds that ANYTHING- even a Big J- was rubbish with a 240 Gardner in it!
Cor blimey !
Where do you start ! A series ERF with the 220 ■■■■■■■■ then an F88-290, then a flat top F12 so I can appreciate the step ups ! Then I can got to hell a happy boy !
I was only 13 when my dad had his brand new 1972 Gardner 240 powered ERF A Series
He worked for Kinneils Transport of Edinburgh it was the pride of the fleet it wasn’t the most comfortable lorries on the fleet but it gave the Scania 110 supers and F88s a good run for their money which Kinneils ran plus it was lighter and more economical
It’s one lorry I’d of loved to have driven on the road I did drive it on private land
Just my personal experience
I quite fancy squeezing a larger engine than standard in to a lorry ,such as putting a cat c 15 in to my foden Alpha or a 220 ■■■■■■■ in to one of my 15 tonne Dennis ,either is possible yet .
Well if you insist on being ridiculous, how about putting one of Bewick’s spare Gardner 8s into Saviem’s Scarab? 
How about squeezing the 8 pot in to the big j ,the worlds shortest propshaft !
Here you go Dan…
But you’d be better of with one of these…
Jeff…
Having driven a hell of a lot, starting with Albion lad cabs, this is the one I missed out on and would have liked to have driven in anger.
Leyland Roadtrain
Seddon Atkinson
Foden
Erf although i did drive one or two Erf’s when i worked at Panic Link around the site with twin splitters loved it 
Big American Trucks like a Mack or Kenworth owt like that lol
tango boy:
Leyland Roadtrain
Seddon Atkinson
Foden
Erf although i did drive one or two Erf’s when i worked at Panic Link around the site with twin splitters loved it
Big American Trucks like a Mack or Kenworth owt like that lol
No 1 you’d need ear muffs ,no2 a big cushion and a strong back ,no3 a mega strong left arm ,a hat ,gloves ,and coat ,no4 now your talking ,
Jeff ,I’ll take the ISX thanks .
Dan Punchard:
tango boy:
Leyland Roadtrain
Seddon Atkinson
Foden
Erf although i did drive one or two Erf’s when i worked at Panic Link around the site with twin splitters loved it
Big American Trucks like a Mack or Kenworth owt like that lol
No 1 you’d need ear muffs ,no2 a big cushion and a strong back ,no3 a mega strong left arm ,a hat ,gloves ,and coat ,no4 now your talking ,
My dad had a Roadtrain at the coal board went like a train lol
Agreed on the ERF
Dieseldog66:
Having driven a hell of a lot, starting with Albion lad cabs, this is the one I missed out on and would have liked to have driven in anger.
Evening all, Dieseldog66, the 76 is nice to drive, but of a period. The later LB110 is more of a modern lorry. Back in their time the 76s, and 88s seemed massive, yet today they are quite small compared with the “modern” stuff. Personally I prefer a 16 speed 88 230,yet when I have a drive in my 76…well she is lovely, and quite capable of doing a real days work, and that white steering wheel just feels and looks quite exotic.
ROF, the very last FAR 3 wheeled tractor units were 6 cylinder 110 hp, and according to one of Gerard Fraikins men who actually drove the “works” demo, “very hairy”, (plus some words so impolite as to offend many French speakers on here)! My own little Scarab can give you an exciting ride if you miscalculate your cornering velocity…all that excitement, at under 30mph!
But the one I would really have liked to drive,…a “cheese grater” Pegaso 8x2, somehow they always looked a real drivers lorry, and always well balanced however heavy the load on them! Saw them quite a lot in Holland`s used dealers, Van Vliet, and Kleyn, but never investigated them at all…lost opportunities!
Cheerio for now.
May I suggest that you train up a “near-sider” to lean the Scarab into bends, much like those lairy old geezers who should know better do on the Isle of Man? Of course, you would need to remove the doors and weld up a few grab handles but I feel the resulting cornering improvement may well save you at least half a second a trip.