Star down under.:
You’re a hard task master, Dennis. If I’d been there, in that weather, I’d be inside, having a tantrum and refusing to go out!
Considering my sooky attitude, under the circumstances, as long as it keeps the freight dry, it’s okay with me.
To flaming right SDU ! I can tell you that I employed some of the most fastidious S & R “artistes” in the industry and I’ve literally watched out of the traffic office windows of one them, in the ■■■■■■■ rain, loosen off all the ropes and fly sheet of a perfectly well S & R load the Shunters had done and then he proceeded to re rope and reset the fly sheet ties ! I kid you not mate ! Cheers Dennis.
Reading what Bewick has just posted out of Dundee with Allisons and later D&D we used to have some pretty swingin high loads and often when roping nothing worse than doubling up on a cinch tightening like a fiddle string and getting round the other side finding the rope “off the square” so back round and straighten her up or the yard foreman was on to it …nothing worse either than someone trying to help but not giving a stuff … them wuz the days especially this time of year hard ropes giving the hands and fingers rope bursts (hacks ) … no chance of nice soft hands for the ladies !!!
backsplice:
Reading what Bewick has just posted out of Dundee with Allisons and later D&D we used to have some pretty swingin high loads and often when roping nothing worse than doubling up on a cinch tightening like a fiddle string and getting round the other side finding the rope “off the square” so back round and straighten her up or the yard foreman was on to it …nothing worse either than someone trying to help but not giving a stuff … them wuz the days especially this time of year hard ropes giving the hands and fingers rope bursts (hacks ) … no chance of nice soft hands for the ladies !!!
Not me, I always made sure the ladies had nice soft hands laid on them. But mainly because of all the cracks in the skin caused by roping in the rain without gloves which, when filled with road salt, were bleeding (literally) agony. I still have 3 pairs to this day, one in each car and one at the back door to take with me to the garden or to the forest and field with our latest dog who I make sure does not take off after an interesting scent by attaching him with a 33 metre line. The way that takes off whistling through my hands would slice my fingers right off, never mind crack them.
backsplice:
Reading what Bewick has just posted out of Dundee with Allisons and later D&D we used to have some pretty swingin high loads and often when roping nothing worse than doubling up on a cinch tightening like a fiddle string and getting round the other side finding the rope “off the square” so back round and straighten her up or the yard foreman was on to it …nothing worse either than someone trying to help but not giving a stuff … them wuz the days especially this time of year hard ropes giving the hands and fingers rope bursts (hacks ) … no chance of nice soft hands for the ladies !!!
"(hacks ) "
the doon Sooth chaps winna ken fit hacks are Robert pardon the pun
and the best cure by far for hacks was Snowfire it was in our house when I was a bairn and I still use it today.
Oily
backsplice:
Reading what Bewick has just posted out of Dundee with Allisons and later D&D we used to have some pretty swingin high loads and often when roping nothing worse than doubling up on a cinch tightening like a fiddle string and getting round the other side finding the rope “off the square” so back round and straighten her up or the yard foreman was on to it …nothing worse either than someone trying to help but not giving a stuff … them wuz the days especially this time of year hard ropes giving the hands and fingers rope bursts (hacks ) … no chance of nice soft hands for the ladies !!!
"(hacks ) "
the doon Sooth chaps winna ken fit hacks are Robert pardon the pun
and the best cure by far for hacks was Snowfire it was in our house when I was a bairn and I still use it today.
Oily
Sounds like good stuff but never heard of it. Is it on a list of banned substances not allowed to cross the border?
Some of our Shunters at Bewick Transport had “iron hands” and refused to wear gloves something I never used either in the day ! However I spent some time in my pal Mike Ponsonby’s yard a couple of weeks a go and couldn’t resist involving myself in some S & R and in a very short time a couple of blisters soon developed on the usual places on my right hand which is the hand that always got the “stick” when tightening the hitches ! One of the old remedies for hardening Shunters hands was to ■■■■ on them and rub it in ! honest I’m not kidding ! But as for wearing gloves no thanks ! Cheers Dennis.
Guard Bridge were fine paper makers in the day and I recall that when I started out from leaving school I worked at James Cropper’s mill on the actual paper making machines and the second one I was on, No2, was a twin wire MG machine and one of the orders that were run on this machine was high quality duplex wrapping paper for Guard Bridge. The glazed side was grey and the underside was blue apparently Guard Bridge didn’t run the same type of machine so couldn’t make the wrapping paper they required. I believe they ran Fourdrinier paper machines making high class writing paper which would then be wrapped in the bespoke paper made at Croppers. IIRC those two well loaded Beavers were semi automatics well that’s what I was told years ago ! Cheers Bewick.
Guard Bridge were fine paper makers in the day and I recall that when I started out from leaving school I worked at James Cropper’s mill on the actual paper making machines and the second one I was on, No2, was a twin wire MG machine and one of the orders that were run on this machine was high quality duplex wrapping paper for Guard Bridge. The glazed side was grey and the underside was blue apparently Guard Bridge didn’t run the same type of machine so couldn’t make the wrapping paper they required. I believe they ran Fourdrinier paper machines making high class writing paper which would then be wrapped in the bespoke paper made at Croppers. IIRC those two well loaded Beavers were semi automatics well that’s what I was told years ago ! Cheers Bewick.
Sheeted proper though Dennis, good job done there, Buzzer
Ex Richard Johnson and Nephew, Ambergate wireworks.
Pete.
My nightly companions on Bill Andrew’s Nottingham to Trafford Park night cornflakes trunk. 3 of us, Chalky White (who I later offered a job to at Toray, he declined, was happy in his run up to retirement to pick and choose with an agency ) and a bloke whose name escapes me, but he was also a mechanic and was instructed to bring up the rear in case any of us broke down.
Hi BEWICK
You are 100% right about ■■■■■■■ on your hands to harden them how do i know ,well years ago in the village i lived there was a old royal navy ,coal shoving stoker who was on the old warships ,and down in the stoke hold all the men each shift, would ■■■■ in a bucket for men to soak their hands in to harden them. unbelievers research it.
peggydeckboy:
Hi BEWICK
You are 100% right about ■■■■■■■ on your hands to harden them how do i know ,well years ago in the village i lived there was a old royal navy ,coal shoving stoker who was on the old warships ,and down in the stoke hold all the men each shift, would ■■■■ in a bucket for men to soak their hands in to harden them. unbelievers research it.
Apparently the urine causes your body to create additional collagen which hardens your skin!
I recall many moons ago whilst on a Sardinian holiday,I was stung by a large
Jellyfish,back on board the boat,the skipper had a bucket of ■■■■ that he soaked a rag in and applied to my back,taking the stinging effect right away after 10 minutes or so,well impressed was I !!!
If I’d been there, in that weather, I’d be inside, having a tantrum and refusing to go out!
But mainly because of all the cracks in the skin caused by roping in the rain without gloves which, when filled with road salt, were bleeding (literally) agony. I still have 3 pairs to this day, one in each car and one at the back door to take with me to the garden or to the forest and field with our latest dog who I make sure does not take off after an interesting scent by attaching him with a 33 metre line. The way that takes off whistling through my hands would slice my fingers right off, never mind crack them. 
) and a bloke whose name escapes me, but he was also a mechanic and was instructed to bring up the rear in case any of us broke down.