oiltreader:
Catching up, brilliant input and all the craic . Thanks to DEANB, Kempston, Buzzer, coomsey, ERF-NGC-European, lurpak, Froggy55(links), Ray Smyth, pv83 and vwvanman0 for the pics .
Had a chat yesterday at Lochmaddy Ferry Terminal, North Uist with Danny Mears of Portsmouth on a boat recovery job, some crane on the Volvo, quite a machine.
Nice crane & great pictures, I do wonder what the axle weights on that unit are, I only ask as a local company to me after 11 years of running a 6x4 Scania unit with a slightly smaller crane without any issues on the road, which got stopped by DVSA and the front axle was almost two thousand kgs over when pulling an empty trailer, it has now had the crane moved back & has been converted into a rigid.
Hi Dave, I could hear the ferry loading checker asking Danny Mears what his weight was and he replied 32ton approx. the boat didn’t look to heavy. With a boat cradle etc on his mate was 22ton
Oily
Thanks to Buzzer, ERF-NGC-European, coomsey, DIG and robthedog for the pics
When taking this snap was thinking a wee bit unusual top stack and so it turned out a tight fit going aboard actually very slight touch to deck above with ferry man up a ladder watching progress. Click on pic a couple of times to get a close up.
Oily
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, ERF-NGC-European, coomsey, DIG and robthedog for the pics
When taking this snap was thinking a wee bit unusual top stack and so it turned out a tight fit going aboard actually very slight touch to deck above with ferry man up a ladder watching progress. Click on pic a couple of times to get a close up.
Oily
What a messy way to carry cars hope all the fluids were drained
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, ERF-NGC-European, coomsey, DIG and robthedog for the pics
When taking this snap was thinking a wee bit unusual top stack and so it turned out a tight fit going aboard actually very slight touch to deck above with ferry man up a ladder watching progress. Click on pic a couple of times to get a close up.
Oily
Thats a tight squeeze on the trailer & also on the ferry, I suppose doing it that way they get an extra three scrap cars on.
oiltreader:
Thanks to Buzzer, ERF-NGC-European, coomsey, DIG and robthedog for the pics
When taking this snap was thinking a wee bit unusual top stack and so it turned out a tight fit going aboard actually very slight touch to deck above with ferry man up a ladder watching progress. Click on pic a couple of times to get a close up.
Oily
What a messy way to carry cars hope all the fluids were drained
Added another photo Rob, 15 shells and to my knowledge there is no car crusher on the Islands other than a JCB or excavator bucket, they would not be allowed on the boat with leakage.
Oily
This street is Standishgate in the centre of Wigan, part of the old A49 road. Although Standishgate is a
Pedestrian Zone, it always seems very busy with many delivery vehicles large and small. 13/08/2021.
I parked up a couple of times at The Devils Marbles about twenty years ago, as it’s only about sixty miles from Barrow Creek I always wondered if that’s where Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees were going to park up for the night just before Peter was murdered.
Buzzer:
DIG actually that is Rinus Rynart from Holland who runs Rynart trucking a pretty large company, he must have been on vacation, cheers Buzzer.
The giveaway Buzzer is the sandals with socks all the friends from UK that have visited have all worn them Cant say I have seen any OZZ wearing them they tend to favour thongs [Flip Flops ]
Also I think that may have been at Timber Creek on the Victoria River a magic spot and one of 4 road houses in the NT that had a 24 hour liquor licence about halfway between the WA border and Katherine.
Dig
oiltreader:
What a messy way to carry cars hope all the fluids were drained
Added another photo Rob, 15 shells and to my knowledge there is no car crusher on the Islands other than a JCB or excavator bucket, they would not be allowed on the boat with leakage.
Oily
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Could be me, but I couldn’t see much in the way of protection from sharp edges under all those straps.
Thanks to Ray Smyth, DIG, mushroomman, Froggy55 and Buzzer for the pics and all the craic
From Chile, Fiat and Merc credit to RLGNZLZ for the photos.
Oily
After I was made redundant by Cheverall’s of Luton, about 6 months later the transport manager, Pete Farbrace, rang me to say that a firm called Howse from the Cotswolds had bought the wagons and whatever was left of permits.
They were a family firm long established in logging I think, but had never done general or international work before. Anyway, on his recommendation they offered me a job and I went down on the train to start. My MAN was still in the paint shop adopting their colours, orange and cream as in your picture, and they treated me royally for a couple of days, in a smart hotel, until it was ready.
Sadly, they didn’t understand the permit system and how to get round it, despite Pete being a wily bird ( ), and 6 months later they called a halt and I was ‘back on the shelf’.
This was late 70s I think, after that Guy was registered(?), I’m glad they didn’t offer me that job though, handballing sacks was not my first choice of occupation.
. Thanks to DEANB, Kempston, Buzzer, coomsey, ERF-NGC-European, lurpak, Froggy55(links), Ray Smyth, pv83 and vwvanman0 for the pics
