Bewick:
Ooh! Pete now I didn’t like to ask if they was Dan’ls heavily soiled “under garments” hanging off those sticky out legs on the back of the load ! By the looks of it there is some fair “skid marks” on them ! Whats he been eating ? Cheers Dennis.
Anything with a pulse really, stray dogs/cats, missionaries from Matlock, beggars from Buxton, nothing is safe up on that mountain he lives on!! 
Be warned…
Pete.
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
0 I saw this lorry sheeted ishtoday ,not sure who’d do such a thing
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Those rear outer markers look a bit “iffy” to me !
PS and I won’t comment on the sheeting
Truth be known when you pair of old pi$$ takers have done 
I was out side this factory this morning waiting for signs of life so I could get in and remove all the above kit and lift it on ,then someone wants the boiler sheeting 
it’s only going to Sudbury ( Pete yep the Derbys one but un be known to you there’s one in Suffolk ) so quick goes on a sheet because I love zb about on wet steel at 16,5 high with a zb sheet to go 1hr 30 down the rd ,any zb about like bewick did would cost me Friday’s work as I only just got reloaded again
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
0 I saw this lorry sheeted ish
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Those rear outer markers look a bit “iffy” to me !
PS and I won’t comment on the sheetingTruth be known when you pair of old pi$$ takers have done
Well said that man, 
, Keep up the good work Dan ,Regards Larry.
Well I never knew there was a Sudbury in Derbyshire Dan, I always got my road atlas’s cheaper 'cause I only needed roads north of Ashbourne on them. Actually we have just spent five days away at Needham Market so do know where Suffolk is, and those sodding A14 works near Cambridge are a right pain in the arse!
Pete.
windrush:
Well I never knew there was a Sudbury in Derbyshire Dan, I always got my road atlas’s cheaper 'cause I only needed roads north of Ashbourne on them.Pete.
Pete,
I do not believe you never knew there was a Sudury in Derbyshire? Especially when there is a prison there! Anon1
pete smith:
windrush:
Well I never knew there was a Sudbury in Derbyshire Dan, I always got my road atlas’s cheaper 'cause I only needed roads north of Ashbourne on them.Pete.
Pete,
I do not believe you never knew there was a Sudury in Derbyshire? Especially when there is a prison there! Anon1
Ah, but it is a prison in name only Pete. Not many prisons have more inmates outside of its fence than inside, it’s more like a government run holiday camp really which was what it was/is known as locally. I have been in there though (with the truck) also the one at Marchington and the womans prison (Foston Hall) just down the road and that was bloody scary I can tell you! I wouldn’t want any of those ‘ladies’ getting hold of me, we were not allowed out of the cab even to open the taildoor and had to keep both cab doors firmly locked with a guard walking alongside. One of our ex Tilcon drivers, later an OD, became a security guard there when he sold his truck.
Pete.
windrush:
pete smith:
windrush:
Well I never knew there was a Sudbury in Derbyshire Dan, I always got my road atlas’s cheaper 'cause I only needed roads north of Ashbourne on them.Pete.
Pete,
I do not believe you never knew there was a Sudury in Derbyshire? Especially when there is a prison there! Anon1Ah, but it is a prison in name only Pete. Not many prisons have more inmates outside of its fence than inside, it’s more like a government run holiday camp really which was what it was/is known as locally.
Pete.
Yes Pete a right palaver ! I did half a dozen loads of bricks to Walton prison what a game,lorry didn’t fit between inner n outer gates n with crane as well ( two hopes of getting over the wall with it) surrounded by a dozen guards n there was I thinking the prisoners were locked up.cheers coomsey
Hi Coomsey I had a similar experience at Preston Gaol in 1971 - 2 when I had to deliver 6 ton of cement with my ERF 24 foot flat 6 wheeler. I delivered 8 tons to a builders merchant jn Preston then 6 ton to the prison, like you the wagon was too long to be enclosed within the two entrance gates thus I was surrounded by warders and told to get my foot down for a few yards. Prisoners unloaded the bags the supervising warder told me to let them get on with it as I had started to put them on the chock rail. They burst more bags over each others heads than they unloaded when I asked one why they had done this the reply was that they could spend the evening in the showers. My supervising warder was the double of Mr Baraclough from Porridge.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Hi Coomsey I had a similar experience at Preston Gaol in 1971 - 2 when I had to deliver 6 ton of cement with my ERF 24 foot flat 6 wheeler. I delivered 8 tons to a builders merchant jn Preston then 6 ton to the prison, like you the wagon was too long to be enclosed within the two entrance gates thus I was surrounded by warders and told to get my foot down for a few yards. Prisoners unloaded the bags the supervising warder told me to let them get on with it as I had started to put them on the chock rail. They burst more bags over each others heads than they unloaded when I asked one why they had done this the reply was that they could spend the evening in the showers. My supervising warder was the double of Mr Baraclough from Porridge.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
We took high strength blocks to Walton when they were building the wing for IRA prisoners . All nets , ropes straps etc left at the gatehouse , stay out of crane’s reach of the wall , a warder in the cab and half a dozen walking beside the lorry . The building compound had 12’ gates . The haulage rate was enhanced to compensate for the time spent waiting and generally being messed about .
toshboy:
Hi Lads,
thought this one deserves a look0
…and before the advent of bottle sheets too “Toshboy”.
David
Bewick:
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They don’t come much easier than that load Dennis!..load or not!!!’
David
toshboy:
Hi Lads,
thought this one deserves a look0
Hiya,
Nice 20 ton load there or it would be on the “red and rust” 14 tons on the wag
and 6 tons on the pup, done many a mile with an identical outfit to this lovely
old girl, all I can say though is thank goodness that someone invented curtain-
sider’s it’s a long time since I was so far from the ground throwing the sheets
out in a force eight gale Oh’ and usually ■■■■■■■ down.
thanks harry, long retired.
I’ve got the arthritis and dodgy back to remind me, H!
harry_gill:
toshboy:
Hi Lads,
thought this one deserves a look
Hiya,
Nice 20 ton load there or it would be on the “red and rust” 14 tons on the wag
and 6 tons on the pup, done many a mile with an identical outfit to this lovely
old girl, all I can say though is thank goodness that someone invented curtain-
sider’s it’s a long time since I was so far from the ground throwing the sheets
out in a force eight gale Oh’ and usually ■■■■■■■ down.
thanks harry, long retired.[/quote.
Hi Harry , looks like a days work by todays standards, could not help posting this work of art, sorry about the stutter, not been on the physic though just don’t know to delete the double pic
This is the place where Dennis used to buy his sheets and flysheets .
This is W.J. Leech in Vauxhall Road in Liverpool. Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
Is this the place where Dennis used to buy his sheets and flysheets ?
This is W.J. Leech in Vauxhall Road in Liverpool. Ray Smyth.
Thanks for the shot Ray and yes Leeches were always my main supplier for our sheets and ropes over many years and I have been in that workshop a number of times. Alan Leech was the owner and Jimmy ■■? was the Manager who I mainly dealt with. After Leeches packed up Jimmy, I believe, started up on his own in St. Helens but by that time the Tautliners had taken hold and in the final years I dealt with Stuart Canvas for the diminishing sheet requirements of the flat trailers we still ran as we always had a pile of first class redundant sheets as more Tautliners joined the trailer fleet ! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Star down under.:
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Pass muster, Dennis?Now that is a right “tight” tarp job “S. d. u.” nowt wrong with that ! Only comment I would make is those tarps look like they have seen better days and don’t look too waterproof but I suppose with all the Sun you get in Aus. it isn’t a requirement to have 100% tarps unlike we had to have in the UK when Flat trailers were King ! All the best Mate, Regards Dennis.
Rest assured Dennis, those tarps would have to be waterproof, despite the grubby appearances. The trailer would be double tarped.
Babinda and Tully, both within seventy miles of Cairns, vie for the annual national rainfall record, each averaging about 40" a year. It rarely rains through winter, in the tropics. Tropical downpours can be so heavy that visibility may be less than twenty yards.
