Great story, but I reckon you should of just let Ken sit on the side and talk. Sounds as if he could talk the Hind Legs off a donkey!
Now I have just had to repeat the whole story to the next Mrs Nut because she caught me giggling at my iPhone [emoji23]
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Well worth the wait and the effort guys !!..had me in stitches…to be honest with a 50 spot waved under the nose who would have declined…then add the mix of Murphys law …there is nothing funnier than life itself…one for the annals of trucking folklore and long may it be fortold 
It’s better coming from the horse’s mouth (no pun intended) without the autocensor and a lubricated Kevin, it takes on a whole new dimension.
newmercman:
It’s better coming from the horse’s mouth (no pun intended) without the autocensor and a lubricated Kevin, it takes on a whole new dimension.
Hi Mark. When someone tells a good story, yarn or joke in person its always special. As you said this one came straight from the horses mouth. Sounds as if you had a good party going for the wife.
Not sure what the comedy shows are like up with you, but here in Florida they are crap. I’ve been to two comedy clubs lately and hardly laughed. They don’t tell jokes, they tell or recite story’s. They don’t seem to be able to work a crowd and get the craic going.
Roger Dangerfield and Joan Rivers were funny, and told jokes. Laughter is good for the soul.
You can’t beat British humour.
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Todays awkward shaped load, full of sharp edges & lots of electrical gadgetry & other things that needed keeping out of sight, picked the middle of the hottest day on record to be climbing up & down this lot trying to make it look like someone cared, once the supplier had loaded it they wanted me out of the way please driver, no air conditioned warehouse to make sure all the ropes were of equal length in, just the sweltering heat of an industrial estate road.
Stop bloody wingeing, it’s only half a load! 
Now just think yourself lucky Robert, you could have been on the back of a Reiver sheeting 17 tonnes of HRA and then desperately trying to find a puddle of water to cool your feet in afterwards. 
Are you attending Cromford this time, Mr Mellor will be missing you? 
Pete.
windrush:
Stop bloody wingeing, it’s only half a load!Are you attending Cromford this time, Mr Mellor will be missing you?
Pete.
Me & HRA are two phrases that will never go together again Pete, anyway my learned friend Gavin told me, so it MUST be true, all you have to do to cover a load of HRA or whatever they use in it’s place now is push a button & watch the sheet roll itself over, no hot feet & boots an inch taller than they should be now.
I may try & sneak over the fence at Cromford but wont be taking owt, the Commer will be making an appearance the weekend after though, I actually had it out of the garage this week for the first time in 5 years , my eldest daughter has decided that as she has grown up with it (I’ve had it 17 years) she would like it as wedding transport so a quick run round with a bit of T cut & off to Longford Church we go.
1970commer:
Me & HRA are two phrases that will never go together again Pete, anyway my learned friend Gavin told me, so it MUST be true, all you have to do to cover a load of HRA or whatever they use in it’s place now is push a button & watch the sheet roll itself over, no hot feet & boots an inch taller than they should be now.I may try & sneak over the fence at Cromford but wont be taking owt, the Commer will be making an appearance the weekend after though, I actually had it out of the garage this week for the first time in 5 years , my eldest daughter has decided that as she has grown up with it (I’ve had it 17 years) she would like it as wedding transport so a quick run round with a bit of T cut & off to Longford Church we go.
Aye, and then cleaning the cab floor and pedals for hours afterwards as it flakes off your boots! Happy days, Mr Bewick knows nowt about such things. I bet the lass really wanted a Rolls Royce for her big day but you talked her out of it! Anyway I hope she has a good day and it stays dry, she won’t thank you if rusty water trickles through the cab roof seams and ruins her dress.
Pete.
How to keep a load of pipes DRY■■?
coomsey:
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How to keep a load of pipes DRY■■?
More like trying to keep them on the lorry ?
rigsby:
coomsey:
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How to keep a load of pipes DRY■■?More like trying to keep them on the lorry ?
Hiya,
Yes they needed sheeting and I sheeted them right down to the flat.
Carried may a load of concrete pipes from 6inch to 48 inch never ever sheeted a load. Keep an eye in the mirror if they moved out bar them back in.Sometimes put straw rope between the rows but they would still sometimes wind out
Well I used to load pipes from Trocolls at Irvine, I never sheeted them, I used to have small corner boards made from old rubber belting & never had any problems, Plus the pipes wouldnt do the sheets any good IMO, Regards Larry.
Done more pipes, concrete and steel, from Stanton at Ilkeston than I’ve had hot dinners. Never occurred to me to put a sheet on them. So I never did. 
Spardo:
Done more pipes, concrete and steel, from Stanton at Ilkeston than I’ve had hot dinners. Never occurred to me to put a sheet on them. So I never did.
You’re a very naughty boy then Spardo!
Is it just the angle or does that R8 have 40x8s on the back and 36x8s on the front?
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A couple of shots of loads of drainage pipes we hauled out of Shap Granite Co regularly in the later 70’s early 80’s mainly to the Fens in the Cambridgeshire area IIRC. I don’t recall us having any problems with the loads. Cheers Bewick.
Hi Larry, I also loaded large diameter pipes out of Trocoll’s at Irvine for a Barrow in Furness sewage scheme circa 1968 on my Foden S21 8 wheeler. I certainly did not sheet them just well roped down and gthey never moved.
Cheers, Leyland 600