Hi Dennis Happy New year to you and yours we did not have time to use a bed 
just dropping trailer to go to the digs and it was some machined shaft for the steel works other wise it would not have been sheeted 
New years greeting to John West and Dennis knows my skin is as thick as my head so I’ll come to no harm 
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Hi Dennis Happy New year to you and yours we did not have time to use a bedNew years greeting to John West and Dennis knows my skin is as thick as my head so I’ll come to no harm
cheers Johnnie
And a Happy New Year to you and the Family Johnnie,hope you have had a great Christmas ! Your Greetings to Westy may be intercepted at the Furness border with ■■■■■■■ and be censored,similar to North Korea !! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
sammyopisite:
Hi Dennis Happy New year to you and yours we did not have time to use a bedNew years greeting to John West and Dennis knows my skin is as thick as my head so I’ll come to no harm
cheers Johnnie
And a Happy New Year to you and the Family Johnnie,hope you have had a great Christmas ! Your Greetings to Westy may be intercepted at the Furness border with ■■■■■■■ and be censored,similar to North Korea !!
So things have not improved in the badlands then Dennis I had the man flu but I attacked it with a regular and large quantities of "Black Grouse " which was recommended so I am not sure if the flu as gone or I am sobering up
cheers Johnnie 
Bewick:
sammyopisite:
Hi Dennis Happy New year to you and yours we did not have time to use a bedNew years greeting to John West and Dennis knows my skin is as thick as my head so I’ll come to no harm
cheers Johnnie
And a Happy New Year to you and the Family Johnnie,hope you have had a great Christmas ! Your Greetings to Westy may be intercepted at the Furness border with ■■■■■■■ and be censored,similar to North Korea !!
Happy New Year to you too Johnnie - greetings from what used to be Lancashire North of the sands. Your message got through despite the Milnthorpe Hacker!
John
Enough banter !! back to reality,or what used be !! 
this motor is loaded with a machine roll from the paper mill at Beetham and is probably on it’s way to Glenrothes for recovering,we had to have special insurance of £100,000 for these trips which was a combination of value and also in case the spare one at the mill got damaged and caused them to shut down a papermaking machine ! We never had a claim,fortunately,considering the number of rolls we hauled each year. phew! Cheers Dennis.
John West:
Bewick:
sammyopisite:
Hi Dennis Happy New year to you and yours we did not have time to use a bedNew years greeting to John West and Dennis knows my skin is as thick as my head so I’ll come to no harm
cheers Johnnie
And a Happy New Year to you and the Family Johnnie,hope you have had a great Christmas ! Your Greetings to Westy may be intercepted at the Furness border with ■■■■■■■ and be censored,similar to North Korea !!
Happy New Year to you too Johnnie - greetings from what used to be Lancashire North of the sands. Your message got through despite the Milnthorpe Hacker!
John
John I think the truth is that he was deported to the coast so that he can have his boat ready to seek refuge with Chris on the Ilse of Man when the ■■■■ hits the fan
cheers Johnnie
Just shows how things have changed Dennis ,even the skate boards have that much cover now .
You can afford to give him a couple of days start, chaps. It’ll take him that long to fire up the 240 Gardner that powers (?) that boat/barge/junk of his.
Retired Old ■■■■:
You can afford to give him a couple of days start, chaps. It’ll take him that long to fire up the 240 Gardner that powers (?) that boat/barge/junk of his.
Happy New year ROF,
John
And to you, John. And to all who inhabit this looney bin from time to time!
Bewick:
Enough banter !! back to reality,or what used be !!
What’s with the stowaway entry hole Dennis ?
I should have said we never had a claim from Beetham Mill but we did have one from Disley mill caused by an idiot driver (yes we did get the occaisional one from time to time!)who pulled away from the back of the mill after loading the roll to go around to the trailer park where the ■■■■■■ said he was going to strap it on ! This useless ■■■■ also loaded 22ton of pulp in Portbury dock from the headboard to just in fron’t of the first axle on a tandem then when I asked him how he managed to get all the way back to the depot without realising something must be badly wrong with how the 81 was performing he just looked at me and said it went OK and handled OK,what a ■■■■■■■■ drive axle must have weighed 13 or 14 ton,needless to say this ■■■■ had a very short “shelf life” at Bewick Transport.He was incidentally very well educated and all he ever wanted to be was a driver ! but he was absolutely ■■■■■■■ clueless ! Glad to say ■■■■■ like him were few and far between but they could cause mayhem at times and not even understand what they had done.Cheers Dennis.
Dan Punchard:
What’s with the stowaway entry hole Dennis ?
Drivers bunk !!
Bewick:
Bewick:
Enough banter !! back to reality,or what used be !!
Was this a cylinder about 12 feet long with cheese grater like holes all the way round? My X-ray vision isn’t what it was and the gap in the sheet isn’t quite big enough…
Guy Holliday at Bowater Scott called me one Friday afternoon in Summer & asked if I could do an emergency job to Glenrothes. I loaded at about 5pm and took it straight up there, was there before dark. The rate was so good I came straight back down empty. I asked him to bear us in mind for any future jobs like that, but I didn’t get any more.
GIT insurance was never mentioned!
John
Hiya John,we carried many different types of rolls and cylinders over the years,Couch rolls,press rolls,calendar rolls and drying cylinders.The ones we took to that firm in Glenrothes were rubber covered and others we took to Bury were granite covered,the calendar rolls went to Bolton or Bury for re-grinding IIRC.Our GIT was mainly by the ton for the finished goods @ £200 per ton variably over the years but a 2 or 3 ton expensive press roll was worth mega bucks so £600 of risk was no good so as and when we hauled this traffic we notified our broker and the trip was noted ! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Dan Punchard:
What’s with the stowaway entry hole Dennis ?Drivers bunk !!
Spoiling them yet again!
Bewick:
Hiya John,we carried many different types of rolls and cylinders over the years,Couch rolls,press rolls,calendar rolls and drying cylinders.The ones we took to that firm in Glenrothes were rubber covered and others we took to Bury were granite covered,the calendar rolls went to Bolton or Bury for re-grinding IIRC.Our GIT was mainly by the ton for the finished goods @ £200 per ton variably over the years but a 2 or 3 ton expensive press roll was worth mega bucks so £600 of risk was no good so as and when we hauled this traffic we notified our broker and the trip was noted ! Cheers Dennis.
Believe that it would be Sandusky at Glenrothes, they’re still in the paper machinery business. sanduskyintl.com/
Many years ago, I worked for a company that ran out to Austria and we loaded from Sandusky several times.
Leyland600:
Hi . This is a load of jute out of Dundee which was D&D Transports main work. I beleive there was quite an art in loading the said product, sacks, carpet backing etc, looks like some rolls on the top of the sheet for a quick tip just down the road.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Hello Gerald. I remember loading at D&D, Clepington Road, that load on the trader, I remember loads like that on my back for Lancaster Carpets. What a bloody nightmare to get into alongside the river! The product had to be roped halfway up the pyramid, then over the top, then sheeted, then roped again. Just before I sold up and retired for the first time I was loading a container on that site, what a desperate mess it is now! 
Regards Kev,
How not to rope and sheet. I’d be ashamed to go down the road like that. you could hear it flapping as you passed it.