Buzzer:
Oh what a beauty just had to share, Buzzer
What is the model/body Buzzer?
Thanks
DIG:
I.m not familia with the Leyland Buffalos owners either David it looks like they maybe based in Cloncurrie but not 100per cent on that.The last company I worked for on the cattle had centre boards on the all their crates an absolute must on double deckers, my first trip with D/D crates was a nightmare getting used to the sway but the height gave me some issues so I crawled along the walkway on the top the bullocks loved it they tossed their heads and rattled my fingers with their horns which I had curled around the edges of the boards to hang on but I.m happy to say i soon found my feet so to speak and as our A frames were only 4foot 6inchs long jumping the gap between crates became the norm rather than climb down then up again.Dig
You mean they swayed while standing still simply by the cattle moving around? 
Even with our single deckers some of the beasts had horns long enough to poke out higher than the crossbars. Swinging down between two bars trying to get them to move away from a faller you had to be very alert to avoid having a very pointed horn up your arse. 
Nevertheless I soon found out why, when a group of us were parked together, everyone was keen to get up top while I thought I had a cushy number standing on the ground and poking at them with a stick.
Cows crap, and cows stamp around, and when they do both, you can imagine why I spent so much time under the opened tap of a water tank, and also why the next time I was up the sides like a bloody monkey. 
Spardo:
DIG:
I.m not familia with the Leyland Buffalos owners either David it looks like they maybe based in Cloncurrie but not 100per cent on that.The last company I worked for on the cattle had centre boards on the all their crates an absolute must on double deckers, my first trip with D/D crates was a nightmare getting used to the sway but the height gave me some issues so I crawled along the walkway on the top the bullocks loved it they tossed their heads and rattled my fingers with their horns which I had curled around the edges of the boards to hang on but I.m happy to say i soon found my feet so to speak and as our A frames were only 4foot 6inchs long jumping the gap between crates became the norm rather than climb down then up again.Dig
You mean they swayed while standing still simply by the cattle moving around?
Nevertheless I soon found out why, when a group of us were parked together, everyone was keen to get up top while I thought I had a cushy number standing on the ground and poking at them with a stick.
Cows crap, and cows stamp around, and when they do both, you can imagine why I spent so much time under the opened tap of a water tank, and also why the next time I was up the sides like a bloody monkey.
Not so much sway when stationary i dont have much of a head for heights but it was noticeable when travelling snd our trailers were all bogeys not tris which made a huge difference.
I had one station that had a bull catcher operating and I was booked to load every thursday afternoon and those animals were for the most part completely wild so a horn up the ■■■■■■ was always a possibility and as we travelled the 600kms to the Broome meat works during the night I found they travelled better at night plus it was cooler, over the season I carted a thousand head of those cattle and losses were less than 3percent which was pretty good for those types of cattle.
Dig
The bull catcher
DIG:
Not so much sway when stationary i dont have much of a head for heights but it was noticeable when travelling snd our trailers were all bogeys not tris which made a huge difference.
I had one station that had a bull catcher operating and I was booked to load every thursday afternoon and those animals were for the most part completely wild so a horn up the ■■■■■■ was always a possibility and as we travelled the 600kms to the Broome meat works during the night I found they travelled better at night plus it was cooler, over the season I carted a thousand head of those cattle and losses were less than 3percent which was pretty good for those types of cattle.
DigThe bull catcher
I can see why you were worried if you were on top while travelling. 
We always travelled outward to Wyndham in the early morning, got fed and kipped in the dust in the pm then loaded in the evening for the overnight drive back to Katherine. Same thinking then. And these were wild too, total meaning of free range, some looked as if they had cross mated with buffalos.
Thanks to Buzzer for the photos 
and Froggy55 for the link Buzzer’s Bentley coachwork some skill, panel beating at its finest all the curves done through rollers.
Oily
Posted this one before, name on the door looks like Hansen and its at Quilpie Queensland year 1962.
Friday past and well respected old hand George Campbell heading to Dingwall Mart with 2 decks of Blackies.
Oily
oiltreader:
Burke Development Cloncurry to Normanton 1972, Ford trucks?.
Oily
I think the lead truck is an International Oily the other maybe a Ford the white road train is a Dodge, that model was available with a V6 53 series Detroit.
Dig
Removing a railway bridge in Birtley Co. Durham. The main gate to the Komatsu (ex Caterpillar) factory is now to the left of the picture and Cawthorn Sinclairs yard was about 500 yards away.
Tyneside
Spardo:
I can see why you were worried if you were on top while travelling.
We always travelled outward to Wyndham in the early morning, got fed and kipped in the dust in the pm then loaded in the evening for the overnight drive back to Katherine. Same thinking then. And these were wild too, total meaning of free range, some looked as if they had cross mated with buffalos.
We were up that way about twenty years ago Spardo. I.I.R.C. that’s the Wyndham Meat Works or what’s left of it in the back ground.
You might be interested in this article which was written four years ago.
A cold murky and windy day opposite Agrial Fresh Produce at Martland Park, Wigan.
I was surprised to see that the artic unit from Agricola Eulalia at Totana in Murcia
Province in Spain is a Ford, It is the first one of these that I have seen. 04/04/2022.
Cheers, Ray Smyth.
mushroomman:
Spardo:
I can see why you were worried if you were on top while travelling.
We always travelled outward to Wyndham in the early morning, got fed and kipped in the dust in the pm then loaded in the evening for the overnight drive back to Katherine. Same thinking then. And these were wild too, total meaning of free range, some looked as if they had cross mated with buffalos.We were up that way about twenty years ago Spardo. I.I.R.C. that’s the Wyndham Meat Works or what’s left of it in the back ground.
You might be interested in this article which was written four years ago.
I had no knowledge of the Wyndham Meatworks and no idea why we were collecting cattle from within a few miles of it to transport them nearly 400 to Katherine. I wonder if that one is still going, probably not in reading that very interesting link you posted.
mushroomman:
Spardo:
I can see why you were worried if you were on top while travelling.
We always travelled outward to Wyndham in the early morning, got fed and kipped in the dust in the pm then loaded in the evening for the overnight drive back to Katherine. Same thinking then. And these were wild too, total meaning of free range, some looked as if they had cross mated with buffalos.We were up that way about twenty years ago Spardo. I.I.R.C. that’s the Wyndham Meat Works or what’s left of it in the back ground.
You might be interested in this article which was written four years ago.
David just to clarify I didn’t travel on the top deck but i did have a couple of french journalists one trip to Broome meat works and the cameraman insisted on doing just that so he travelled for about an hour up there and was flyblown when he got down.
Imagine the cafufle if you did that these days.
Good photos Mushroomman it has all changed now probably only the stock yards still being used for holding the live export cattle the rest gone.
The works were multi storey.
I took a few loads into the works in the early 1980s we unloaded into their holding yards with the works on our left, the cattle walked up an enclosed ramp to the killing floor and then the carcases were processed moving down floor by floor until into the snap freezers and then the the main freezer holding rooms.
Dig
I do like the Yeoman F88, is that a crew cab or an extended sleeper?
I assume it’s not an 89 due to the position of the wipers. And kerb mirror.
I am surprised though given the nature of their work, I think my beloved 89, without extension but also without passenger seat, was an R reg also. But I could be wrong. 