roping and sheeting

windrush · 6 August 2015 17:42

Blooming glad that I only drove tippers!

Pete.

rigsby · 6 August 2015 21:13

windrush:
Blooming glad that I only drove tippers!

Pete.

lazy old bugger .

harry_gill · 6 August 2015 21:40

rigsby:

windrush:
Blooming glad that I only drove tippers!

Pete.

lazy old bugger .

Hiya,
“Riggers”, no roping and sheeting would be like being retired, you’d be bored out
of your mind within the week, I’ve had a go at both tipper and tanker work in my
time and didn’t care for either, I must be a glutton for punishment.
thanks harry, long retired.

windrush · 6 August 2015 21:44

rigsby:

windrush:
Blooming glad that I only drove tippers!

Pete.

lazy old bugger .

Haha! I was young back then Dave, only in my mid thirties. Don’t know about the ‘lazy’ part as I reckon that I sheeted up more times in a week than some ‘supertrucker’s’ did in a month, if I had to suffer a week carting dust to Hulland Products it would be 30+ times plus whatever I did on a saturday! Great fun dragging a wet sheet through dust and shovelling out, I lost three stone in two months when I went driving full time after being in the garage and it must have been all the jumping on and off the lorry that did it.

Pete.

rigsby · 6 August 2015 21:48

the firm i worked for for 16 years started with tippers but eventually had flats and tanker as time went on , oh , and also crane off load trailers . saved me getting bored swapping and changing . dave .

retired_old_fart · 7 August 2015 15:56

Bewick:

Retired Old ■■■■:
You didn’t have an unlocked BRS depot near you then, Dennis?

Well this only goes to demonstrate the difference between the high law-abiding standards us ■■■■■■■■ lads maintain to those which the inhabitants of the “Forrest” practice. Cheers Dennis.

Fifth amendment!

bewick · 7 August 2015 20:22

This a shot of one of my West ■■■■■■■■ marra’s fleet the late Harry Thompson,a great guy,one of the finest! One thing the “marras” excelled at was sheeting and roping.

bewick · 7 August 2015 20:33

This is a shot of one I did earlier

rigsby · 7 August 2015 20:40

anyone supplied with good sheets should either do a good job or go and get a job in a laundry . it could be hard work if the sheets were crap , but a doddle with decent tackle . we were given 24x16s for the lime and 24x24 for paper with a flysheet or bottle sheet . the snag was that all sheets had to be kept in a lockup ( thieving buggers round our way ). i just took 24x24s and a flysheet , less to lug around and what will cover a lot will cover a little if it was done properly . dave

bewick · 7 August 2015 20:51

rigsby:
anyone supplied with good sheets should either do a good job or go and get a job in a laundry . it could be hard work if the sheets were crap , but a doddle with decent tackle . we were given 24x16s for the lime and 24x24 for paper with a flysheet or bottle sheet . the snag was that all sheets had to be kept in a lockup ( thieving buggers round our way ). i just took 24x24s and a flysheet , less to lug around and what will cover a lot will cover a little if it was done properly . dave

Your on about thieving sheets Dave,well I recall that Jamesons (S.O M.) had a depot behind the Noake Café at Purfleet and all their empty trailers were parked on top of their sheets,bit extreme but it apparently worked according to the traffic manager,those Cockneys were a load of thieving ■■■■■■■■ so “needs must” I suppose. Cheers Dennis.

stanfield · 7 August 2015 21:15

How about these 3 then Chamberlains ERF.Highland Haulage 1967 AEC Marshal and J R Adams1964 AEC Marshal.

bewick · 8 August 2015 16:13

Stanfield:
How about these 3 then Chamberlains ERF.Highland Haulage 1967 AEC Marshal and J R Adams1964 AEC Marshal.
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The Chamerlain ERF could have been a lot tidier on the fron’t end otherwise a decent job,no comment on the other two as I don’t want a bollocking off Larry Cheers Dennis.

ramone · 8 August 2015 16:22

The square loads always look tidier than the odd shaped loads and like Rigsby said the better the sheets the better the job ( or it should be) anyone got any wool loads photos ■■?

system · 8 August 2015 18:23

Bewick:

This a shot of one of my West ■■■■■■■■ marra’s fleet the late Harry Thompson,a great guy,one of the finest! One thing the “marras” excelled at was sheeting and roping.

That’s a job to be proud of dennis.
regards dave.

lawrence_dunbar · 8 August 2015 19:28

Bewick:

Stanfield:
How about these 3 then Chamberlains ERF.Highland Haulage 1967 AEC Marshal and J R Adams1964 AEC Marshal.
210

The Chamerlain ERF could have been a lot tidier on the fron’t end otherwise a decent job,no comment on the other two as I don’t want a bollocking off Larry Cheers Dennis.

Dennis, Would I give you a bollicking over roping & sheeting, I think not , Anyway the 6 wheeler has a load of dead pigs on, (Danish Bacon) Ha Ha, Not the best of sheeting but perhaps the driver was in a hurry Eh, Regards Larry.

john_west · 8 August 2015 19:49

At the end of the day there were two criteria.
Will it get wet?
Will it fall off? (Ok, I’m including damage in that one)

My s&r wasn’t the prettiest thing in the world, but the loads got there!

If a sheet was flapping, I would tie it down. - somehow. At first I did have one or two where I’d pulled the sheet in the wrong directions so the wind pulled the sheets open, but you learned from making mistakes and from others helping. Everybody was willing to help you as long as you weren’t a ‘clever ■■■■■■■■■

John.

rigsby · 8 August 2015 20:21

learning from older drivers and shunters was the only way to go . i went in at the deep end on a commer ts2 , subbing for marshals at bulwell , export wooden cases any size and shape . the depot shunters were brilliant , how to stack them and sheet them so the sheets didn’t get torn and how to rope them securely . i was grateful for their help and it must have shown in my attitude because they were always willing to help me out . i had a full load of bike wheel rims in dozens wrapped in hessian , they taught me to interlock the stacks or i would have left a trail for miles . raleigh shipped bikes in component parts or everyone in liverpool would have ridden a bike had they been shipped complete . good days and a steep learning curve , dave

john_west · 8 August 2015 20:58

rigsby:
learning from older drivers and shunters was the only way to go . i went in at the deep end on a commer ts2 , subbing for marshals at bulwell , export wooden cases any size and shape . the depot shunters were brilliant , how to stack them and sheet them so the sheets didn’t get torn and how to rope them securely . i was grateful for their help and it must have shown in my attitude because they were always willing to help me out . i had a full load of bike wheel rims in dozens wrapped in hessian , they taught me to interlock the stacks or i would have left a trail for miles . raleigh shipped bikes in component parts or everyone in liverpool would have ridden a bike had they been shipped complete . good days and a steep learning curve , dave

My very first load out of Bowater Scott was an example. It looked great, then the BS Shunter said - what do you think’s going to happen when you set off? I didn’t understand the question.

It looked fine. However, I’d sheeted it so that the front sheet was pulled back under the side sheets.

He explained, ‘as soon as you set off, the wind will fill the side sheets. You won’t be able to see anything in your mirrors!’

Ah, obvious when someone points it out! Good to be helped by the the older guys.

John.

bewick · 9 August 2015 19:33

Lawrence Dunbar:

Bewick:

Stanfield:
How about these 3 then Chamberlains ERF.Highland Haulage 1967 AEC Marshal and J R Adams1964 AEC Marshal.
210

The Chamerlain ERF could have been a lot tidier on the fron’t end otherwise a decent job,no comment on the other two as I don’t want a bollocking off Larry Cheers Dennis.

Dennis, Would I give you a bollicking over roping & sheeting, I think not , Anyway the 6 wheeler has a load of dead pigs on, (Danish Bacon) Ha Ha, Not the best of sheeting but perhaps the driver was in a hurry Eh, Regards Larry.

I don’t think we’d get away with loading hessian wrapped pigs like that to-day Larry, before you could blink there’d be Trading Standards,‘Elf an’ Safety,VOSA and Old Bill surrounding the motor !! But was there any mass food poisoning in them days? no chance, more likely to happen to-day eh! with all the fancy rules and regs ! Cheers Dennis.

bewick · 9 August 2015 19:45

This is a shot of a motor belonging to another long gone Marra of mine frae’ Penrith, Wee Georgie Holiday,supped some stuff with George over the years I knew him hic! hic!,used to think that the A6 over Shap was a 6 lane highway coming south at some god awful hour The haulier Pal of both George and me was Brian Harris and he used multi coloured sheets as well,and he could Sup some stuff as well !! What chance did a young fella like me have I ask you Cheers Bewick.