peterm:
May I draw your attention to my good friend Mr Carryfast who tells me that you can’t have over a hundred ton of anything on a vehicle.
Actually I should have worded it better, my gross weight was over 100 tonne. I’d be carrying 100,00~120,000 litres so 80,000~96,000 kg.
But why would truck manufacturers offer GCMs of 200 tonne, off the shelf, or higher with a selection of beefier components, if 100 tonne plus was not possible?
Thank goodness Carryfast has been put in a home.
SDU we used a guide line with bulk diesel 1100 litres to the metric tonn so I reckon your pretty much on the money with your loads.
The picture below is a rig move when we decided the truck push and my self we would load every thing we had left on the old rig site to get us home a day early as we had done 3 moves on the trot .Our estimate on weight was around 160 tons pay load ,the old KW 8V 71 twin stick balked at take off so I received a push from the loader which did the trick ,in field shift so only 15kms to go.
Not a Koala, and not in Oz, but France. I was heading north up an autoroute and I saw a Jay arriving across my path from starboard. He disappeared from view below the bonnet and I assumed he had cleared us and continued off away to the west.
Stopped at a service area for a drink and as I walked round the front, there was the Jay posed just like that Koala and seemingly undamaged but stone dead jammed in the grill. I thought the Magpie family was supposed to be brainy but this daft sod had turned right to outrun me.
This Pigeon, the other day, survived to tell the tale. Not bad, zero to 40 in 2 seconds.
Eddie Heaton:
Another nice motor , that eight legger of Richard Read’s .
Now if I appear to come across as having some kind of strange fetish regarding Kleervue cabs , then I’m blaming it on the possibility that my tenuous boyhood connections with Fred Rose of Blackrod’s fleet in the late 50s early 60s may have a prominent part to play in my attraction to the KV cab styling … But for this I make no apology .
And with regard to the placard mounted on the front of the dray , “ Ansell’s Beer is Best “
Well … Ansell’s beer may very well be the best , in fact I’ve supped it … in Caernarfon of all places , and it’s a decent pint of mild and no mistake , but at least give me a list of the alternatives and allow me to make my own decisions eh ?
By the way , on the subject of mild , can it still be obtained these days ? , does anyone know ?
It’s been years since I’ve supped mild . All they seem to sell these days as far as I can ascertain is fancy foreign lager … The phrase that comes to my mind is the quote from the veterinarian , “ This horse is fit for work “ .
At least that’s all they the appear to sell in the hostelries that I infrequently patronise anyway .
Maybe I need to get out more .
“on the subject of mild”
Eddie, Back in my fond of a pint days I got to know one or two landlords fairly well and remember one confiding that mild was the cheapest pint and also the most profitable, dark in colour it concealed most if not all of the bar ullage from barrel connection pulling thro the first draught to emptying and saving the drip trays contents, this after the clientele had gone home and collected in a pail and added to the mild barrel which wasn’t gassed, so quite often a bit stronger than the mild abv.
Oily
Great shots of the Vaux Dray horses which brought back memories of the 80’s when Vaux used to send a pair of those grey dray horses and lorry to Kendal for the annual torchlight procession in September and they also attended the County Agricultural show the same week. Vaux owned a large Pub estate in and around Kendal at that time so they got masses of publicity with the Dray Horses and they stabled them at the ■■■■ & Dolphin pub near where we lived so as it was our local we used to have some good craic with the three Draymen . They always sent the grey Percherons to Kendal as they were the biggest and most impressive maybe even it was one or both of them in the shot that visited and we used to go into the stables to see them and usually got rid of half a dozen packets of Polo mints ! Big gentle giants ! The other shot is the Gelderlander team which was the lighter end of the dray horses and I understood they were kept more for show purposes like appearing at The Horse of the Year Show in London ! Buzzer will be the one to give the low down on the Gelderlander horses.
Thanks for that Dennis, very interesting. We have the annual Gatton Heavy Horse Day not far from me. They show various heavy breeds in working situations that were common and mundane before internal combustion engines made them redundant.
There are displays of ploughing, civil engineering, goods and passenger haulage.
There are also displays of all the ancillary industries, such as wagon and coach building, blacksmithing, wheelwrights, farriers, painters and signwriters et al.
It’s a most entertaining and educational day.
As you say, they’re gentle giants. My favorite are Clydesdale and Shire, but I did have a very gentle and empathetic natured Arab/Thoroughbred cross, who was a pure joy. He was brilliant with handicapped kids.
peterm:
May I draw your attention to my good friend Mr Carryfast who tells me that you can’t have over a hundred ton of anything on a vehicle.
Actually I should have worded it better, my gross weight was over 100 tonne. I’d be carrying 100,00~120,000 litres so 80,000~96,000 kg.
But why would truck manufacturers offer GCMs of 200 tonne, off the shelf, or higher with a selection of beefier components, if 100 tonne plus was not possible?
Thank goodness Carryfast has been put in a home.
peterm:
May I draw your attention to my good friend Mr Carryfast who tells me that you can’t have over a hundred ton of anything on a vehicle.
Actually I should have worded it better, my gross weight was over 100 tonne. I’d be carrying 100,00~120,000 litres so 80,000~96,000 kg.
But why would truck manufacturers offer GCMs of 200 tonne, off the shelf, or higher with a selection of beefier components, if 100 tonne plus was not possible?
Thank goodness Carryfast has been put in a home.
gazsa401:
A pair of Shippos hosses (Shipstones Brewery) being passed by a Nottingham Corpo bus
Simply beautiful, Gazsa, I have never had any relationship with horses, only ever ridden one once I think, but I remember those Shippos drays very well. For some reason whenever I see those heavies it brings a lump to my throat.
We used to have a heavy horse rescue centre just down the road from here (sadly covid killed it off I think), called Brantome Horses and, as well as the heavies, they used to take in retired horses from the Met. Police for re-homing. A visit down there was well worth while and the bonus was I used to meet a lot of dog people too, many former ‘clients’ of mine.
BTW, I don’t think it was my late brother driving that bus. His new wife insisted he give up the long distance and took a ‘regular job’ closer to home. He got his own back though, later promoting himself to the long distance coaches. Less pay but better tips . Also it got him away from her.
During a short period of redundancy he persuaded me to go along for a test. If it had been that bus I would have been alright, but it was in an Atlantean and, not being used to sitting in front of the front wheels, a just clipped a kerb with the rears on a corner. Fail.
I was outraged and told the bloke, especially as I had done a perfect blindside reverse round a corner entirely on the mirrors. Told them I would never darken their doors again.
