coomsey:
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How to keep a load of pipes DRY■■?
Much doings! I’ve never carried pipes but have lived near n worked for companies that have n never seen them sheeted. Dennis pic looks good squeeze em! But I were on bricks n I used to rope every pack n there would still be the odd brick pop out , not every load mind,n they were all strapped, the net got em though. It’s very strange the forces working on a load !
Leyland600:
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
I used to get these loads from a firm called Air Road & Water Ltd when I was tipping at Rutherglen, IIRC Thier office was on Dumbarton Road near Turners Asbestos Works, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Leyland600:
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 600I used to get these loads from a firm called Air Road & Water Ltd when I was tipping at Rutherglen, IIRC Thier office was on Dumbarton Road near Turners Asbestos Works, Regards Larry.
Hiya,
I defy anyone who has hauled small diameter salt glazed pipes 4" and 6" sizes
for any distance unsheeted and not roped every hook and say they got to the
tipping point without them sliding out all over usually the nearside would be
a very good but very slow driver indeed.
^^^^^^^^^^ Definitely
My earliest memories of riding in lorries as a very young boy, in the mid-1950s. Frequent loads were small terra-cotta field drain pipes and chimney flue liners from Johnson & Riley at Little Lever. I can categorically state that those loads had to be sheeted or you wouldn’t have got as far as the end of Tong Road from the pottery. One load of flue liners did mostly unload itself from the Leyland Lynx one day in Liverpool when the ropes and sheet ties were unfastened.
gingerfold:
^^^^^^^^^^ Definitely
My earliest memories of riding in lorries as a very young boy, in the mid-1950s. Frequent loads were small terra-cotta field drain pipes and chimney flue liners from Johnson & Riley at Little Lever. I can categorically state that those loads had to be sheeted or you wouldn’t have got as far as the end of Tong Road from the pottery. One load of flue liners did mostly unload itself from the Leyland Lynx one day in Liverpool when the ropes and sheet ties were unfastened.
I find it strange that many people maintain that sheets have no load restraint value, merely weatherproofing!
I recall having a ‘discussion’ on this topic on here some time ago.
DIG:
Quite tidy i thought
Couple of clicks will enlarge it some.
Dig
Welcome home Dig, good trip was it? 
Was that pic, quite tidy is an understatement I think, from this trip, and were you able to see how the load was restrained under the sheets? Or do you think they were purpose made for a regular load and secured accordingly?
harry_gill:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Leyland600:
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 600I used to get these loads from a firm called Air Road & Water Ltd when I was tipping at Rutherglen, IIRC Thier office was on Dumbarton Road near Turners Asbestos Works, Regards Larry.
Hiya,
I defy anyone who has hauled small diameter salt glazed pipes 4" and 6" sizes
for any distance unsheeted and not roped every hook and say they got to the
tipping point without them sliding out all over usually the nearside would be
a very good but very slow driver indeed.
Sounds like the pipes from Penistone that B.T… sorry, Post Office Telephones used to use. They ran underground telephone wires through them. Excellent canteen at the world too. Huge breakfast with pint pots of tea.
Lawrence Dunbar:
0I wonder what the load was, Regards Larry.
Hiya,
Too high for a load of bacon Eh Larry.
harry_gill:
Lawrence Dunbar:
0I wonder what the load wasHiya,
Too high for a load of bacon Eh Larry.
Well Larry should know as he would be probably driving it “H”, I won’t go as far as to say he had loaded it 
( Did Smilers employ Shunters ? ) No ! oh! dear looks like our Marra Larry has copped for it all then ! 
Anon 1.
matamoros:
I find it strange that many people maintain that sheets have no load restraint value, merely weatherproofing!
I recall having a ‘discussion’ on this topic on here some time ago.
It depends on the definition of ‘restraint’.I could probably tie the hoover to the bed by just using the bed clothes and they will hold the hoover fine if I then move it across the room.It all gets a bit more complicated if the bed and the hoover are both travelling across the room at 40 mph +.
Hic Hic.They were the days when drivers arms got longer & longer, Lifting stuff that high all hand ball, The youngs now adays couldnt do it, Of course they have to stand to attention & let the HAS Lot tell them how to do it , Regards Larry.
Carryfast:
matamoros:
I find it strange that many people maintain that sheets have no load restraint value, merely weatherproofing!
I recall having a ‘discussion’ on this topic on here some time ago.It depends on the definition of ‘restraint’.I could probably tie the hoover to the bed by just using the bed clothes and they will hold the hoover fine if I then move it across the room.It all gets a bit more complicated if the bed and the hoover are both travelling across the room at 40 mph +.
I should be safe, then: My bed will only just nudge 20 mph and the Hoover’s not a lot faster.
Carryfast:
matamoros:
I find it strange that many people maintain that sheets have no load restraint value, merely weatherproofing!
I recall having a ‘discussion’ on this topic on here some time ago.It depends on the definition of ‘restraint’.I could probably tie the hoover to the bed by just using the bed clothes and they will hold the hoover fine if I then move it across the room.It all gets a bit more complicated if the bed and the hoover are both travelling across the room at 40 mph +.
I noticed that there was a full moon last night. 
gingerfold:
Carryfast:
matamoros:
I find it strange that many people maintain that sheets have no load restraint value, merely weatherproofing!
I recall having a ‘discussion’ on this topic on here some time ago.It depends on the definition of ‘restraint’.I could probably tie the hoover to the bed by just using the bed clothes and they will hold the hoover fine if I then move it across the room.It all gets a bit more complicated if the bed and the hoover are both travelling across the room at 40 mph +.
I noticed that there was a full moon last night.
The howling woke me up too…
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.
I used to Load Pipes out of Stanton Staveley Long Eaton & you didnt have to sheet them at all
gingerfold:
Carryfast:
matamoros:
I find it strange that many people maintain that sheets have no load restraint value, merely weatherproofing!
I recall having a ‘discussion’ on this topic on here some time ago.It depends on the definition of ‘restraint’.I could probably tie the hoover to the bed by just using the bed clothes and they will hold the hoover fine if I then move it across the room.It all gets a bit more complicated if the bed and the hoover are both travelling across the room at 40 mph +.
I noticed that there was a full moon last night.
Was here too!!!
David
Carryfast:
matamoros:
I find it strange that many people maintain that sheets have no load restraint value, merely weatherproofing!
I recall having a ‘discussion’ on this topic on here some time ago.It depends on the definition of ‘restraint’.I could probably tie the hoover to the bed by just using the bed clothes and they will hold the hoover fine if I then move it across the room.It all gets a bit more complicated if the bed and the hoover are both travelling across the room at 40 mph +.
Pray tell how a load of pipes is safer with a properly tightened sheet than one with just ropes if the sheets have no load restraining capability.
