Leyland600:
I have spent a good deal of time in a similar position with a wooden “collar rake” pushing poor flowing material, grain, soya, hen meal etc up into the top circumference of the tank just to get my weight on, luckily not falling off or banging my head.
Cheers Leyland 600.
With a howling wind blowing & ice on the catwalk and tank! Then someone invented the collapsible handrail- never saw them in my day!
ROF
So you remember the days of loading through every hatch, tank part way up ,get as much on as possible then drop tank down ,shut hatches and go for a ride round then come back,hoping nobody has gone on to load and repeat the process until you got your weight on.
Then you go to weighbridge and are told ,sorry, overweight, blow some off.and all this without high-viz or hard hats.
the crowning part was after all this rigmarole,you got to the customer and he didn’t have silo space for the product,“take what’s left back driver”.
They don’t realize how much getting that last 5 ton on takes,but if it has kyboshed your back load it makes you annoyed .
Cheers Bassman
Don’t think I ever had to take any back, matey, but it was a regular occurrence to be told, “There won’t be enough room in the silo until tomorrow, driver”. Eventually you would spend four or five hours trying to blow the stuff through about five miles of pipeline consisting mainly of ninety-degree bends.
Happy days! 
never had to resort to riding dound baseman , . fill to the brim , shut hatches , pressurise to 2 bar , release pressure and top up . that was with hydrated lime though , couldn’t have done it with a denser product , cheers , dave
why was the product silo put up as an afterthought ,? and always at the furthest point in the works .
Rigsby
Tried pressurizing once,don’t know if it was cos I only had a 1 bar blower or the product was too dense but it didn,t work . Still had to have a ride round to settle it.
Agree with you ,product silo’s were deliberately sited to have the longest run of pipe and the most bends possible,at least that’s what it seemed like.
Cheers Bassman
kevmac47:
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Great snap there kevmac47 
Cheers
Oily
the three panalpina trucks were boarding the ferry from holland to port of tyne
Rigsby & Bassman , Electric power lines always directly above where you tip up the tank, as an added bonus the ground sloped away one way or the other sideways , farmers were past masters at the dark art of siting bulk feed bins.
Happy days, Leyland 600
Fine and varied lot there Chris (adr) , the Bedford artic van, well that’s about as odd as gets 
, I can just imagine access through a trapdoor, for the agile only, I guess, and with a comic connection , not a problem for Stan Laurel, but his mate Oliver Hardy, a definite no no. .
Oily
iamupforit:
the three panalpina trucks were boarding the ferry from holland to port of tyne
Cheers iamupforit for the pics , caught this one last month on the A1 on my way south.
Oily
Hi Oily, As you are probably well aware top of public discussion at the moment in your part of the world is the A9 “Killer Road” and Transport Scotland’s bright idea to install average speed cameras all the way from Dunblane to Inverness which they say will save two deaths per annum, and all the comments in the Press & Journal stating that if the HGV speed limit is increased to 50 mph it will take motorists another 5 or 6 seconds to overtake. The Police steadfastly agree that to increase the HGV speed limit would be dangerous and are enforcing the 40 mph limit rigidly at the moment. Whats the betting the accident statistics will increase with such a blinkered outlook. ? However I read one ex police inspector who had worked the road for 12 years advocated an HGV limit increase to at least 50 tending to make the pampered motorists/tourists happier. Those drivers who stick to 40mph are dammed if they do and similarly if they get their foot down. Better signage informing strangers when they are on single carriageway or dual carriageway I feel would help on the exposed sections from Bruar to the Slochd and more.
Cheers Leyland 600, PS. AN INCREASE TO 56 MPH would be better still. I will go and hide now !!!
we had that problem with sloping ground sorted l600 . ours were on a 40foot step frme and the chassis was boarded on under the tank . an assortment of dunnage for levelling up under the wheels plus spare clips , short pipes etc . oke hampton water works was a bad one , we had to get close to the wall on windy days so the tank had something to lean on when it was getting empty . cheers , dave
For Dave (rigsby), forget the trials and tribulations of tank loading and emptying, dream, like hook up the van and head for Gods own country.
Topping the hill out of Glen Orchy heading north and the Pass of Glencoe.
Cheers
Oily
Leyland600:
Hi Oily, As you are probably well aware top of public discussion at the moment in your part of the world is the A9 “Killer Road” and Transport Scotland’s bright idea to install average speed cameras all the way from Dunblane to Inverness which they say will save two deaths per annum, and all the comments in the Press & Journal stating that if the HGV speed limit is increased to 50 mph it will take motorists another 5 or 6 seconds to overtake. The Police steadfastly agree that to increase the HGV speed limit would be dangerous and are enforcing the 40 mph limit rigidly at the moment. Whats the betting the accident statistics will increase with such a blinkered outlook. ? However I read one ex police inspector who had worked the road for 12 years advocated an HGV limit increase to at least 50 tending to make the pampered motorists/tourists happier. Those drivers who stick to 40mph are dammed if they do and similarly if they get their foot down. Better signage informing strangers when they are on single carriageway or dual carriageway I feel would help on the exposed sections from Bruar to the Slochd and more.
Cheers Leyland 600, PS. AN INCREASE TO 56 MPH would be better still. I will go and hide now !!!
The powers that be with a’ mooth an’ troosers in charge in Scotland are determined to introduce the “yellow vultures” (SPECS) using statistics* to argue their case against that of experienced professional drivers. There is a strong campaign led by an Inverness trucker for the increased HGV speed limit, a running blockade, sticking rigidly to the limits has been mentioned to try and get their point across. Tesco livered wagons and the Co-op seem to stick to the 45/46mph rate, but they do (most anyway) pull in and allow overtaking. IMHO inexperience and frustration are the main factors of accidents on the A9. There are also Sunday afternoon type drivers tootling along, taking in the scenery, on a main trunk road 
… bah humbug.
You’ll be pleased to hear I’ve just fell off my soap box .
*From Wikipedia “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” is a phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments. It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent’s point.
Oily
Leyland600 &Rigsby
Everyone of us had his own solution to a problem site. One particular farm had that many low wires overhead you could only get the trailer up 1 ram,get as much off as possible ,using the auger as well. Then stop blowing ,uncouple and go back out on the road, tip it up to the top and lower it down then go back in and finish the delivery.
Any problem drops that you knew you were going to you made sure you had the tackle to do the job .
Sometimes headscratching days but mostly good days.
Cheers Bassman
i wish oily ! but it’s too cold for my old bones up there this time of year , but come next may we’ll be off again for our annual pilgrimage to the centre of civilisation . it gets in the blood you know , especially when you are married to a scotswoman !!! cheers , dave
