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 ?
No no Dan’l you don’t bother with stencilling what you do is put a different coloured panel in the middle of the sheet ( providing you have had them made new and they aren’t second hand or “nicked” ) but never the less a sound idea from "her that must be obeyed at all times without question! Cheers Dennis.
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
Hi Lawrence you were lucky to have men give you assitance. more than once i have had a tilt cover /tarp rolled in a fashion on top up the front, all bars out ,then load =rebuild ,
then unable to get the sheet pro-ply back over due to wind or even my strength ,.roof slats and side slats in. i then tied all the straps i had together fixed one end to the back flap eyelets,[rooled up] laid the straps along the roof and down on to the deck,
dropped the trailer, drove round the rear connected the straps on to the front tow-ing hook in the bumper ,and drove slowly backwards, and slowly pulled the sheet backwards covering the tilt.just getting the corners in were the key ,how you get the back leather strap or TIR CORD down each side of the tilt, grate difficulty, back up on the roof and do some eyelets from the top, then use the back of your unit to stand on to zip[ the rest up…only if you were doing customs did you have to do it pro-ply as many of you will know. sorry boring but many may not have know it…driving sometime was hard, not just up and down on the same old runs, day in ,week in.not for every one was it .
Retired Old ■■■■:
Don’t be taken in, Dennis. He had one of my pupils over to do the job specially for the camera!
Quite right “ROF” you could put your head through those loops on the hitches, my Mate on the Octopus would have left me in S. Wales if I had roped the N/s of the outfit with loops as big as them, well he might even have strung me up in one and my head isn’t that small PS well at least it will keep “young Mr P” on his toes that you and I are keeping a weather eye on his efforts, well it may even help to avoid him getting a “citation” off those ■■■■■■■ at VOSA eh! Cheers Dennis.
I was contemplating the chances of collecting a return load of cyclists using those huge ears, Bewick. In my day he wouldn’t have been able to afford all that buckshee rope. You could put another cross on with all the rope he’s wasted on that job. Maybe it wasn’t my pupil after all!
dave docwra:
They are Elephant snares, they will stop the beast’s wandering up the ramp…
Hiya,
Ha’ Dave that explains it, silly me thought that they were towing eyes and used
to help cyclists to get up steep hills like I recall when wrestling the old Octopus
and drag up Archway in the “Olden Days”.
thanks harry, long retired.
Well IMO, Its looks like the rope is brand new, & sometimes a smaller loop tends to slip out when being tightend, So until the rope has been used a few times & well stretched the smaller hitch can be used, That’s what I used to do, ,Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well IMO, Its looks like the rope is brand new, & sometimes a smaller loop tends to slip out when being tightend, So until the rope has been used a few times & well stretched the smaller hitch can be used, That’s what I used to do, ,Regards Larry.
To be fair that Nylon rope stuff is not easy to use…
IMO it was the best thing that happened when Polypropylene ropes and ties made their appearance in 70/71 they didn’t absorb rain like the old hemp gear, the Poly ropes only wanted a good stretch and they were fine, maybe a little bit harder on the hands when new but they soon softened a bit and were great from then on. We bought hundreds of coils of Poly ropes at Bewick Transport over the years we ran flats and they gave us excellent service. Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
IMO it was the best thing that happened when Polypropylene ropes and ties made their appearance in 70/71 they didn’t absorb rain like the old hemp gear, the Poly ropes only wanted a good stretch and they were fine, maybe a little bit harder on the hands when new but they soon softened a bit and were great from then on. We bought hundreds of coils of Poly ropes at Bewick Transport over the years we ran flats and they gave us excellent service. Cheers Bewick.
Hiya,
OK on the hands if gloves were worn Dennis, but that was at the cost of being called
a puff, one young fellah’ mi’ lad who used the terminology in my direction never ever
called me one again when he picked himself out of a obligatory water filled hauliers
yard pot-hole remarking can you not take a bit of fun mate my reply went something
like not on a Monday morning MATE when it’s ■■■■■■■ down and I felt like a lie-in.
thanks harry, long retired.
I would have done the same harry , a wet monday morning , partner / wife / girl friend all warm and snuggly beside you . The one thing uppermost in your mind is not work . in never put me in the best of moods . dave
) but never the less a sound idea from "her that must be obeyed at all times without question! Cheers Dennis.
Dennis.
