N.M.P shared from Facebook
I am Sure Dennis would enjoy viewing this well sheeted load by his favourite company.
dave docwra:
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I am Sure Dennis would enjoy viewing this well sheeted load by his favourite company.
It looks to me like the Shunter has made the best of a bad job with the rubbish sheets ! 
Anyone fancy taping and untarping three trailers at a time?
Just so you know you’re alive, temperature would be 30~40°C and humidity 80ish%. 
roadtrains.com.au/articles/ … wild-west/
Article and photos by Howard Shanks.
Nmp- pilfered from FB.
I don’t think this one needs any words…surely even Dennis will approve of this one…
Cheers all,
Keith
kmills:
0Nmp- pilfered from FB.
I don’t think this one needs any words…surely even Dennis will approve of this one…
Cheers all,
Keith
What a great photo Keith,new unit,new trailer and new sheets,only happened once to me,felt like a dog with two dicks driving through Falkirk.
Thanks for posting.
David
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0Anyone fancy taping and untarping three trailers at a time?
Just so you know you’re alive, temperature would be 30~40°C and humidity 80ish%.roadtrains.com.au/articles/ … wild-west/
Article and photos by Howard Shanks.
Makes me feel tired just looking at them SDU.
Dig
kmills:
0Nmp- pilfered from FB.
I don’t think this one needs any words…surely even Dennis will approve of this one…
Cheers all,
Keith
Why drag me into it Keith ? Anyone can see that it is a painting ! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
kmills:
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I don’t think this one needs any words…surely even Dennis will approve of this one…
Cheers all,
Keith
Why drag me into it Keith ? Anyone can see that it is a painting !
I used to load containers at Oliver’s yard, it was the cleanest haulage premises I’ve ever seen, you could eat your meals off the floor, and the garage was like an operating theatre! Even the wash for the cattle boxes was immaculate. Regards Kev.
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0Anyone fancy taping and untarping three trailers at a time?
Just so you know you’re alive, temperature would be 30~40°C and humidity 80ish%.roadtrains.com.au/articles/ … wild-west/
Article and photos by Howard Shanks.
Makes me feel tired just looking at them SDU.
Dig
I’m hearin’ ya, Dig!
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Anyone fancy taping and untarping three trailers at a time?
Just so you know you’re alive, temperature would be 30~40°C and humidity 80ish%.roadtrains.com.au/articles/ … wild-west/
Article and photos by Howard Shanks.
Makes me feel tired just looking at them SDU.
Dig
I’m hearin’ ya, Dig!
Heres one that really had me wondering what I was doing and yes I know the lead trailer is very ordinary but there was a reason which I won’t disclose and we were trying to make it a little more presentable at the time the pic was taken.
We were on the way to Darwin and it was a bit humid and warm when we unloaded on the wharf with plenty of spectators who apparently worked there but I never saw to much of that other than me and Bill [other driver]. 
Dig.
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1Anyone fancy taping and untarping three trailers at a time?
Just so you know you’re alive, temperature would be 30~40°C and humidity 80ish%.roadtrains.com.au/articles/ … wild-west/
Article and photos by Howard Shanks.
Makes me feel tired just looking at them SDU.
Dig
I’m hearin’ ya, Dig!
Heres one that really had me wondering what I was doing and yes I know the lead trailer is very ordinary but there was a reason which I won’t disclose and we were trying to make it a little more presentable at the time the pic was taken.
We were on the way to Darwin and it was a bit humid and warm when we unloaded on the wharf with plenty of spectators who apparently worked there but I never saw to much of that other than me and Bill [other driver].Dig.
Love the look of those flat roof Ws. Everything was in the right place, to this day nothing surpasses them, in the looks department. Pretty handy being able to wind the passenger window up or down, as you drive, too.
Same wobbly about 10years later with new paint job and a rebuild, the 28inch bunk traded for a 60inch with loads tarped for sun protection would you believe.
Cant recall winding the passenger window down much while driving though but as you say can be done.
Dig
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Same wobbly about 10years later with new paint job and a rebuild, the 28inch bunk traded for a 60inch with loads tarped for sun protection would you believe.
Cant recall winding the passenger window down much while driving though but as you say can be done.Dig
28"? That’s not a bunk, it’s a shelf. 
How did we do it? I had a 1418 with no bunk!
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Same wobbly about 10years later with new paint job and a rebuild, the 28inch bunk traded for a 60inch with loads tarped for sun protection would you believe.
Cant recall winding the passenger window down much while driving though but as you say can be done.Dig
28"? That’s not a bunk, it’s a shelf.
How did we do it? I had a 1418 with no bunk!
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At least you didn’t have to drape across the engine though. Reckon my B 61 could have been comfy too but never stopped long enough to find out. When I did sleep for a few hours it was during the afternoon and spent in the shaded bulldust underneath the trailer.
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DIG:
Same wobbly about 10years later with new paint job and a rebuild, the 28inch bunk traded for a 60inch with loads tarped for sun protection would you believe.
Cant recall winding the passenger window down much while driving though but as you say can be done.Dig
28"? That’s not a bunk, it’s a shelf.
How did we do it? I had a 1418 with no bunk!
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In layman terms the 28inch was comonlly referred to " One bum wide 2 bums high"
Regrettably I never had the opportunity to test that theory out.
Dig
the one bum wide and two high applied to any sleeper in my day. We didn’t have any of the flash, high rooved Taj Mahals, unfortunately.
B61, swinging two, you needed pairs of thongs. With only one pair, you’d still burn your feet on the floor. Those quads could generate some heat.
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:lol: the one bum wide and two high applied to any sleeper in my day. We didn’t have any of the flash, high rooved Taj Mahals, unfortunately.
B61, swinging two, you needed pairs of thongs. With only one pair, you’d still burn your feet on the floor. Those quads could generate some heat.
Yes they did get a bit hot, but halfway through the Victoria River I stopped in the middle and fell out of the cab, just to cool down.
Afterwards somebody told me there were crocs in there. 
Of course, it might have been Aussie humour.
Spardo:
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:lol: the one bum wide and two high applied to any sleeper in my day. We didn’t have any of the flash, high rooved Taj Mahals, unfortunately.
B61, swinging two, you needed pairs of thongs. With only one pair, you’d still burn your feet on the floor. Those quads could generate some heat.Yes they did get a bit hot, but halfway through the Victoria River I stopped in the middle and fell out of the cab, just to cool down.
Afterwards somebody told me there were crocs in there.
Of course, it might have been Aussie humour.
We would see the humour David, but there are salties in Victoria River. Maybe they were crocodylus persnicketyus.
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:lol: the one bum wide and two high applied to any sleeper in my day. We didn’t have any of the flash, high rooved Taj Mahals, unfortunately.
B61, swinging two, you needed pairs of thongs. With only one pair, you’d still burn your feet on the floor. Those quads could generate some heat.Yes they did get a bit hot, but halfway through the Victoria River I stopped in the middle and fell out of the cab, just to cool down.
Afterwards somebody told me there were crocs in there.
Of course, it might have been Aussie humour.We would see the humour David, but there are salties in Victoria River. Maybe they were crocodylus persnicketyus.
David croc shooting was in full swing in your era it stopped in the late 60s in WA my kids learnt to swim in the Fitzroy river we rarely saw one, they started to appear 3 or 4 years later I was stalked by one about a 12 footer on the low level crossing at Myrooda where i had been stoping each night to wash the lights and screen, the truck in front of me saw him in the water near where I had been stopping and waited until i arrived. no more night time paddles after that.
Dig