roping and sheeting

[bewick]

windrush:
There’s those same three words yet again! Poor, Southern and Pensioner; not a problem when written singularly but when put together in the same sentence it turns the whole article into a work of fiction and you will get no sympathy from me. Anyway ROF, Macclesfield was reasonably North (of Leatherhead at least!) the last time I passed through there which was on Sunday? Oh and I can’t afford ANY of the sheeting courses offered on here, I will just settle with chucking a sheet over my 8ft trailer and pulling the elastic bands tight! The sheet has a few holes in it but any water can run out through the gaps in the floor.

Pete.

Do you “sub” for Punchy Dan by any chance Pete ? Cheers Dennis.

[bewick]

robert1952:

Retired Old ■■■■:
I wonder if BRS would have me back?

Careful what you wish for, ROF!!! Robert

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That single drive Scammell is going no where I would suggest Bewick.

[robert1952]

Bewick:

robert1952:

Retired Old ■■■■:
I wonder if BRS would have me back?

Careful what you wish for, ROF!!! Robert

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That single drive Scammell is going no where I would suggest Bewick.

BTW, were the BRS ‘Showboats’ (green) single drive too? (Cue, Tidderson) Robert

[windrush]

Bewick:
Do you “sub” for Punchy Dan by any chance Pete ? Cheers Dennis.

He couldn’t afford me Dennis and I’m not up to Dan’s exacting standards! Anyway I don’t ‘do’ manual labour (wasn’t he once a Spanish politician? ) these days as my health isn’t too good now but I suppose if something would fit nicely in my trailer and was under a tonne in weight I might just be persuaded to accept a few shekels and cart it off somewhere? Always looking for a way to make a bob or two you know, the pension doesn’t go far nowadays and my dog’s medication isn’t cheap.

Pete.

[punchy_dan]

In the words of Dennis the further north the better the sheeting ! So where does that leave me ?

[bewick]

Punchy Dan:
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In the words of Dennis the further north the better the sheeting ! So where does that leave me ?

Up ■■■■ creek without a paddle I should think

[carryfast]

Bewick:

Punchy Dan:
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In the words of Dennis the further north the better the sheeting ! So where does that leave me ?

Up [zb] creek without a paddle I should think

It’s all that wind and rain they get and the fact that it takes them almost a week to do what we can do in a day which gives them an unfair advantage at practicing the art.

[bewick]

Carryfast:

Bewick:

Punchy Dan:
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In the words of Dennis the further north the better the sheeting ! So where does that leave me ?

Up [zb] creek without a paddle I should think

It’s all that wind and rain they get and the fact that it takes them almost a week to do what we can do in a day which gives them an unfair advantage at practicing the art.

No, no ,no “CF” you’ve got it all wrong, what would take you a week to accomplish ( with the use of a text book written by me ) would only take a Scotsman from the North of Scotland an hour to complete. And you would have still made a balls of the job into the bargain Cheers Bewick. PS I’d stop in doors in Leatherhead to-day if you value your safety as if the enactment of the crucifixion takes place in the Town you’ll be a candidate for being “nailed up”

[carryfast]

Bewick:
No, no ,no “CF” you’ve got it all wrong, what would take you a week to accomplish ( with the use of a text book written by me ) would only take a Scotsman from the North of Scotland an hour to complete. And you would have still made a balls of the job into the bargain Cheers Bewick. PS I’d stop in doors in Leatherhead to-day if you value your safety as if the enactment of the crucifixion takes place in the Town you’ll be a candidate for being “nailed up”

Blimey even with all that top class Norvern know how it’s still going to take an hour just to cover up and tie down the load and then to undo it all again.No wonder the continentals preferred tilts and we invented the curtainsider.

Which leaves the question who wrote the ‘book’ bearing in mind all the aggro you could cause with Sturgeon if they think you’re trying to take all the credit for their efforts when all you did was copy them by taking unfair advantage of your borders location.

[bewick]

Carryfast:

Bewick:
No, no ,no “CF” you’ve got it all wrong, what would take you a week to accomplish ( with the use of a text book written by me ) would only take a Scotsman from the North of Scotland an hour to complete. And you would have still made a balls of the job into the bargain Cheers Bewick. PS I’d stop in doors in Leatherhead to-day if you value your safety as if the enactment of the crucifixion takes place in the Town you’ll be a candidate for being “nailed up”

Blimey even with all that top class Norvern know how it’s still going to take an hour just to cover up and tie down the load and then to undo it all again.No wonder the continentals preferred tilts and we invented the curtainsider.

Which leaves the question who wrote the ‘book’ bearing in mind all the aggro you could cause with Sturgeon if they think you’re trying to take all the credit for their efforts when all you did was copy them by taking unfair advantage of your borders location.

Shows how much you know about sheeting and roping “CF” (■■■■ all!) I would back any of the lads from my part of the world, particularly W. ■■■■■■■ against all comers including Scotsmen and that is no insult to Scotsmen I would add ! Cheers Bewick.

[lawrence_dunbar]

Bewick:

Carryfast:

Bewick:
No, no ,no “CF” you’ve got it all wrong, what would take you a week to accomplish ( with the use of a text book written by me ) would only take a Scotsman from the North of Scotland an hour to complete. And you would have still made a balls of the job into the bargain Cheers Bewick. PS I’d stop in doors in Leatherhead to-day if you value your safety as if the enactment of the crucifixion takes place in the Town you’ll be a candidate for being “nailed up”

Blimey even with all that top class Norvern know how it’s still going to take an hour just to cover up and tie down the load and then to undo it all again.No wonder the continentals preferred tilts and we invented the curtainsider.

Which leaves the question who wrote the ‘book’ bearing in mind all the aggro you could cause with Sturgeon if they think you’re trying to take all the credit for their efforts when all you did was copy them by taking unfair advantage of your borders location.

Shows how much you know about sheeting and roping “CF” ([zb] all!) I would back any of the lads from my part of the world, particularly W. ■■■■■■■ against all comers including Scotsmen and that is no insult to Scotsmen I would add ! Cheers Bewick.

Well said Dennis, Regards Larry.

[leyland600]

Hi you old timers, what do you reckon to this modern curtain pullers set up ? Photographed today in Welshpool the driver was carrying bags into a shop and left the curtains open for me to have a look for the first time into a cutainsider. The driver says that the tops rail has a holding capacity of 1 ton, not much use with 10 one ton pallets or if they were not shrink wrapped not much good at all. He says that they will not stop forward movement in an emergency stop at all . I reckon there is more strength in the clothes rail in my wardrobe. Give me a good set of ropes, crooks and a sheet anytime for load security especially loose goods like bags etc. !!!
Cheers, Leyland 600

[robert1952]

Tilts are the answer! Robert (I’ll get my coat)

[harry_gill]

robert1952:
Tilts are the answer! Robert (I’ll get my coat)

Hiya,
Robert, wash your mouth out, bloody tilts, true they were safe but bleedin hard
work if needing a strip down which always seemed the case when I pulled them.
thanks harry, long retired.

[john_west]

I remember being offered a Barber-Green (spelling?) when I’d tipped in Dammam and rebuilt the tilt. This was a cash job in Riyals, beautiful exchangeable money, any currency you liked in the money Souk. Remember, this was when every penny we took abroad was lodged in our passports. It was when I was working for Douglas freight, that Hot, very Hot! Summer, 1976. If you thought it was hot in England that year, it was nothing compared to Saudi!

The delivery was about six hundred miles up the TAPline.

I can remember trying to decide whether it really was worth stripping the tilt, doing the load and then rebuilding the tilt under the unremitting Saudi sun!

Eventually the offer went to a point where I couldn’t refuse it. But, oh, they were bloody hard work.

A couple of years before, I got a load out of Southampton. A container of machine parts for Middlesbrough. It was in one of those containers with a ragtop and a customs wire through 1,000 eyelets along the top.

Oh, how naive we were!

When I got to Middlesbrough, they wanted to crane the parts out, so I had to strip it - completely. At least the crane lifted me to the top and I balanced on the container edge and removed every loop. ■■■■ up, I climbed down. After I was empty I dumped the tarp in the container. I hadn’t had to undo the very front loops.

I thought that was the end of it. The container was for return to Poplar at Lymm. Whoever was going to load it would need it open, surely?

When I got to Poplar, they said ‘Can’t accept it unless it’s completely rethreaded!’

‘But that’s lunacy, whoever loads it will have to strip it again!’

‘If you want a clear signature you’ll have to rebuild it, and if you don’t have a clear signature - they won’t pay you.’

It had been bad enough to strip, but to rebuild it was a nightmare, the sides of the container were now ‘relaxed’ and to get the tarp back on was 2 hours of agony 12 feet in the air with no safety net! It was actually worse than a tilt!

John

[peggydeckboy]

John i am with you,however not the strip out in that heat or rebuild , question if you stooped in the middle of nowhere desert for a brew ,etc where there flies around .

All though a confirmed fridge man, most company’s had the proper TIR tilts Photographs etc, and i done my share,like thousands of others ,delighted when i worked at PULLEYENS they had the best of gear , they had 3 tilts= with sliding roof,.proper chain ringlets in the floor,lifting floor boards in sections for carrying coils,along each side post holes for placing steel poles for carrying steel bars or timber, light side boards.2 big side lockers heavy metal. they were the dogs.

Remember lymm the original cafe that was the first place i came across the noisy flipper machine.when you wanted a bit of peace…

[john_west]

peggydeckboy:
John i am with you,however not the strip out in that heat or rebuild , question if you stooped in the middle of nowhere desert for a brew ,etc where there flies around .

All though a confirmed fridge man, most company’s had the proper TIR tilts Photographs etc, and i done my share,like thousands of others ,delighted when i worked at PULLEYENS they had the best of gear , they had 3 tilts= with sliding roof,.proper chain ringlets in the floor,lifting floor boards in sections for carrying coils,along each side post holes for placing steel poles for carrying steel bars or timber, light side boards.2 big side lockers heavy metal. they were the dogs.

Remember lymm the original cafe that was the first place i came across the noisy flipper machine.when you wanted a bit of peace…

PDB, wherever you stopped in Saudi, you were surrounded by flies within minutes if not seconds. We could never figure out where they came from or what they lived on in the middle of nowhere. Luckily, they parked up at night - but then the mozzies came out!

John

[carryfast]

robert1952:
Tilts are the answer! Robert (I’ll get my coat)

Unlike Harry I found working with them the best of all worlds situation of being used like a curtain sider most of the time for side and rear loaded jobs and nothing to lose in the case of the few jobs needing over head loading in which case it was just used as a flat and stripped and re built in the yard.But I can see the downside in the case of regular stripping and rebuilding doing lots of over head load jobs and/or distance work on jobs where you’re lumbered with all the tilt gear to sort out when a flat would be more ideal.

[lawrence_dunbar]

Well I was lucky with this one loaded with a timber framed building, The wind got up & it was very open country where I was tipping, But the lads on the site we great they give me a hand to pull the sheet back into position, Mind you Ive had some that were real difficult, Regards Larry.

[punchy_dan]

Ey Dennis are you in cahoots with my mrs ? She has proposed a sheet rack in one of the garages with sizes on and stencilled on the sheets too , now iam not too fussed but where has this thought come from ?