Punchy Dan:
Just wondering Denzil did you have to stand on a box to tie a hitch because you legs arnt that long
Yea I carried one of those little round stands you see them using in Super Markets but it’s a long way to fall if you make a wrong step ! All of 18" ! 
Cheers Bewick.
bungee and tipper net
Great yard picture dennis.
regards dave.
dafdave:
Great yard picture dennis.
regards dave.
Thanks for the kind comment Dave and not a ■■■■■■■ Tautliner in sight eh! Cheers Dennis.
Why isn’t there a fly sheet on the 3rd trailer along? - just wondering.
kmills:
Why isn’t there a fly sheet on the 3rd trailer along? - just wondering.
In answer to your question “kmills” that trailer with the set of what were brand new main sheets was a load of Swedish MG kraft reels which we would have brought down from Blyth dock to the Mill at Beetham for re pulping. It was a regular consignment of what was “dumped” stock which the Scans couldn’t sell into the UK market for manufacturing so they sold it off to respectable Mills at a lower price than new woodpulp but on the proviso that it didn’t re-enter the market as finished paper which some of the , then, Cowboy waste paper merchants would have attempted to do if they could have got their hands on it. So along with loads of woodpulp it didn’t require fly sheeting ! Cheers Dennis.
Cheers Dennis.
Hiya,
Dennis did you ever succumb to using those cotton ropes ?, I’ve used
them but not willingly, when rained on they became as tight as violin
strings but when they’d blown dry they were prone to becoming so
loose the dollies could drop off the hooks, I’ve known me have to re
-rope a trailer three times between Consett and London. The only
consolation was they were a bit more gentle on the “breadhooks”.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Dennis did you ever succumb to using those cotton ropes ?, I’ve used
them but not willingly, when rained on they became as tight as violin
strings but when they’d blown dry they were prone to becoming so
loose the dollies could drop off the hooks, I’ve known me have to re
-rope a trailer three times between Consett and London. The only
consolation was they were a bit more gentle on the “breadhooks”.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hiya “H”, how are you keeping ? well I trust ! Ropes ! I bought my first coil of hemp rope for the D1000 from Ellwoods the long gone Kendal rope maker and your dead right they really were a pain in rainy weather no matter how tight you hitched them. When they got wet then dried out they had to be tightend, so like you I’ve been there and “got the T shirt” ! I soon changed onto Polypropylene and stuck with it also used Poly on sheet ties. Cheers Dennis.
Hi Dennis, where did you load the reels for repuping at Blyth, was it from the old shipyatd site off Regent St and near the old High Ferry, The import Dock or South Harbour sheds or over at North Blyth on the old Hughes Bolkow shipbreaking yard site which I beleive a lot of stuff is loaded these days. I have known Blyth well since about 1948/9 and been dipped in the river a few times too with the consistancy of a coal flavoured soup.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Hi Dennis, where did you load the reels for repuping at Blyth, was it from the old shipyatd site off Regent St and near the old High Ferry, The import Dock or South Harbour sheds or over at North Blyth on the old Hughes Bolkow shipbreaking yard site which I beleive a lot of stuff is loaded these days. I have known Blyth well since about 1948/9 and been dipped in the river a few times too with the consistancy of a coal flavoured soup.
Cheers Leyland 600
TBH Gerald I never was personally involved with loading from Blyth but as far as I recall our motors loaded out of a big reel store and I can’t just recall the name of the Importer. But it was a regular job over the years and was a great deal for the Mill as the quality was just below that of virgin pulp. Cheers Dennis. PS I noted on the news this evening that John Armstrong has been released along with his Marras from Prison in India, and not before time eh! 
Hiya,
Dennis, I’m a bit under the weather at the moment, and thank you for
asking, some medication a type of antibiotic isn’t reacting very well
but I have to complete the course of the bloody things last one on
Thursday so 48 hrs later should start to feel better, then it’s hospital
on the 8th of December “shortage of breath” I think you call it coming
apart at the seams or too many Woodbines when I was still a young un’
Eh’ and you could buy your ■■■■ in Boots the Chemist
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
Hiya,
Dennis, I’m a bit under the weather at the moment, and thank you for
asking, some medication a type of antibiotic isn’t reacting very well
but I have to complete the course of the bloody things last one on
Thursday so 48 hrs later should start to feel better, then it’s hospital
on the 8th of December “shortage of breath” I think you call it coming
apart at the seams or too many Woodbines when I was still a young un’
Eh’ and you could buy your ■■■■ in Boots the Chemist
thanks harry, long retired.
Sorry to hear you’re not too good “H”. I hope you’re fit enough for our next “chinwag” over the Xmas hols. Regards Kev.
Sorry to hear your a bad fettle “H” ! so I hope that the treatment you are receiving will get you back feeling better in the not too distant future ! We can’t have one of our “Star” men out of action with “the lurgies” All the best Dennis.
Put H on light duties in the yard, Dennis. A couple of weeks washing down trailers will soon have him wanting to get back up the road!
Get yerself fit soon, H. There’ll be a drop or two of the “good stuff” needing to be drunk over Christmas.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Put H on light duties in the yard, Dennis. A couple of weeks washing down trailers will soon have him wanting to get back up the road!
Get yerself fit soon, H. There’ll be a drop or two of the “good stuff” needing to be drunk over Christmas.
Now you may just have hit upon the answer there ROF, if I was to get a new set of oil skins and a sou’wester plus wellies for “H” and tell him to “crack on” and start at one end of the m/t trailer rank and work his way along I’ll bet he will be clamouring to get behind the wheel of an 81 never mind a 111 ! " Now’t wrong with me Boss sound as a £, fit as a Butchers dog" Cheers Dennis.
