Noo than windrush and ROF thats enough bullsxxt from you both, yes we have plenty of it up in ■■■■■■■ but could you manage to drive on roads coated with it like us lads have had to do for as long as I can remember ■■
Cheers Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Noo than windrush and ROF thats enough bullsxxt from you both, yes we have plenty of it up in ■■■■■■■ but could you manage to drive on roads coated with it like us lads have had to do for as long as I can remember ■■
Cheers Leyland 600.
Possibly not, being reasonably civilized down here we normally use tarmac for surfacing our roads.
Pete.
Leyland600:
Noo than windrush and ROF thats enough bullsxxt from you both, yes we have plenty of it up in ■■■■■■■ but could you manage to drive on roads coated with it like us lads have had to do for as long as I can remember ■■
Cheers Leyland 600.
Well for what it’s worth I believe that ■■■■■■■ in relation to it’s population (there’s more sheep than people!) could quite easily feed itself as of course it has done for years! Beef ,Lamb, Pork, Venison , Fish (river and sea) plus the finest Tatties in the UK as well as Turnips, carrots and greens. My old Marra L600 will ,I’m sure ,support me in this statement 
Greatest County in the UK bar none eh! Cheers Bewick.
old 67:
Not done roping and sheeting since the late 60s but there’s no better sight than a well loaded lorry. So how would you lads have tidied up the flapping bits of fly sheet on the higher section of this load ? I have tried to work out a way but I can’t
No doubt someone will have a simple answer.
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Regards. John.
There is no way I would ever criticize one of Mr Tom’s motors, but there is nothing wrong with this sheeting and roping IMO, if you attempted to try and secure the fly sheet so it looked like it was “Ironed on” you would lose it’s effectiveness because it is a fly/flapper sheet and as it is in the shot it is doing the job it was intended to do, plus those nylon PVC covered fly sheets did not “flap” anywhere near like the canvas ones, and not to put too finer point on it I had hundreds of them on the trailer fleet.Cheers Bewick.
Thanks Dennis, my wallpapering always looks like that when I go round the corner
Regards. John.
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
0saw this somewhere ,err some folks just don’t care !Is that lettering an optional extra at great additional cost ? Or is it D.I.Y.
stevie wonder is at it again,he should stick to singing lol
MIKE P:
great dennis what did you load back from covent garden ?Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
Well I don’t think it too bad for saying I’d been to a wake and still wearing a white shirt / suit and shoes .So where are you running to to-night Dan ? surely you are loaded ready for the off! I would be off to London at mid-night on a flyer about 46 years ago
tipped in Stamford St. at 8am and loaded on Covent Garden for Barrow by early Friday afternoon and back home knackered before lunch on Saturday
, you Young’uns don’t know what work is
Hiya Mike, my loads off the old Covent Garden were always a bit of everything from Egyptian and Jersey spuds, tomatoes, oranges, lemons, apples and pears boxes of flowers, it was always a mixed load of mainly stuff that was just coming into season or had been imported. It was quite a feat to build the load as once the all the gear had been bought by the agents the ■■■■■■■ 'barra boys/porters would start coming from all directions shouting “Dockers Barrow”! and they would try and sling the boxes on from both sides and you needed eyes in the back of your head to check the counts plus you had to construct the load with the boxes up the outside and all the soft stuff and flowers on the inside otherwise in winter the wind chill factor could ruin it. In Summer it wasn’t too bad the delicate blooms still needed careful loading and you had to make sure that the soft packs went on the top and didn’t get heavy stuff slung on top of them. The customer in Barrow-in-Furness, A.E. Docker & Sons Ltd, always badgered me do every thing they bought off Covent Garden but it didn’t always work out with just having one little motor then Watts of Carlisle would have to do the job which meant the load was flung into one of their 4 wheeler vans by one of their Cockney shunters, heavy gear on light stuff etc. “Go on my Son bung it in” ■■■■ the damage !!! But it was a gruelling job for me even if the rate was good as I’d end up working 72 hrs with just a few hours kip, no good mate even I was earning good money for that time! Cheers Dennis.
Hi Bewick, back in 1956/7 whilst working at BRS Tufnell Park, we had a trailer mate who always volunteered to accompany any other depots drivers that called in for assistance to unload in Covent Garden. When the arrived at CG he would give the driver half a crown and let him go for a bit of breakfast. Unfortunately the load was always 10 or 20 items short.
Sheeting roping, I wouldn’t know where to start anyway Ferguson among a few others up this way still do a bit, caught a couple, a third one was going by when I was heading for the car park.
Oily
I always thought that this make up of sheet was an effort to try and do away with having to use a fly sheet on top of canvas main sheets, a bit like trying to kill two birds with one stone! Never fancied this way of making or using sheets, with the outside panels in canvas and the middle ones in PVC nylon as the ropes IMHO eventually rubbed through the PVC covering and so the goods would get wet in bad weather. No not for me but then this modern times and the pallets under these sheet will probably be “shrunk wrapped” just so the customer will have ensured their goods will remain dry during the trip. Cheers Bewick.
I must agree with Dennis on the rope wear aspect Oily, yes it looks tidy but a proper unroped flysheet overall would look much more professional .
Cheers, Leyland 600
Bewick:
I always thought that this make up of sheet was an effort to try and do away with having to use a fly sheet on top of canvas main sheets, a bit like trying to kill two birds with one stone! Never fancied this way of making or using sheets, with the outside panels in canvas and the middle ones in PVC nylon as the ropes IMHO eventually rubbed through the PVC covering and so the goods would get wet in bad weather. No not for me but then this modern times and the pallets under these sheet will probably be “shrunk wrapped” just so the customer will have ensured their goods will remain dry during the trip. Cheers Bewick.
Got plenty of large plastic bags and rolls of parcel tape in stock !
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
I always thought that this make up of sheet was an effort to try and do away with having to use a fly sheet on top of canvas main sheets, a bit like trying to kill two birds with one stone! Never fancied this way of making or using sheets, with the outside panels in canvas and the middle ones in PVC nylon as the ropes IMHO eventually rubbed through the PVC covering and so the goods would get wet in bad weather. No not for me but then this modern times and the pallets under these sheet will probably be “shrunk wrapped” just so the customer will have ensured their goods will remain dry during the trip. Cheers Bewick.Got plenty of large plastic bags and rolls of parcel tape in stock !
It’s OK for you “skate board” Operators a bit of plastic sheet and plenty of parcel tape and away we go and with a bit of luck the plastic may not be too shredded at the other end You try covering this load of paper with the same tackle Dan ! 
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
I always thought that this make up of sheet was an effort to try and do away with having to use a fly sheet on top of canvas main sheets, a bit like trying to kill two birds with one stone! Never fancied this way of making or using sheets, with the outside panels in canvas and the middle ones in PVC nylon as the ropes IMHO eventually rubbed through the PVC covering and so the goods would get wet in bad weather. No not for me but then this modern times and the pallets under these sheet will probably be “shrunk wrapped” just so the customer will have ensured their goods will remain dry during the trip. Cheers Bewick.Got plenty of large plastic bags and rolls of parcel tape in stock !
It’s OK for you “skate board” Operators a bit of plastic sheet and plenty of parcel tape and away we go and with a bit of luck the plastic may not be too shredded at the other end
That told us “SKATEBOARD OPERATORS” then Dan, after all what do we know about haulage, or keeping goods dry & secure for that matter, oh yes ,that’s right, quite a bit.
Some of us even know more about spelling than Dennis says he knows about sheeting up, TACKLE doesn’t have an R in it Dennis,
Cant you just see that school report from Milnthorpe Primary
" Dennis must try harder with his spelling, he spends too much time messing about with his handkerchief and a piece of string he keeps in his pocket"
1970commer:
Bewick:
Punchy Dan:
Bewick:
I always thought that this make up of sheet was an effort to try and do away with having to use a fly sheet on top of canvas main sheets, a bit like trying to kill two birds with one stone! Never fancied this way of making or using sheets, with the outside panels in canvas and the middle ones in PVC nylon as the ropes IMHO eventually rubbed through the PVC covering and so the goods would get wet in bad weather. No not for me but then this modern times and the pallets under these sheet will probably be “shrunk wrapped” just so the customer will have ensured their goods will remain dry during the trip. Cheers Bewick.Got plenty of large plastic bags and rolls of parcel tape in stock !
It’s OK for you “skate board” Operators a bit of plastic sheet and plenty of parcel tape and away we go and with a bit of luck the plastic may not be too shredded at the other endThat told us “SKATEBOARD OPERATORS” then Dan, after all what do we know about haulage, or keeping goods dry & secure for that matter, oh yes ,that’s right, quite a bit.
Some of us even know more about spelling than Dennis says he knows about sheeting up, TACKLE doesn’t have an R in it Dennis,
Cant you just see that school report from Milnthorpe Primary
" Dennis must try harder with his spelling, he spends too much time messing about with his handkerchief and a piece of string he keeps in his pocket"
You might be right there 1970commer,one of Dennis’s pictures showed a unit with an incorrectly spelt Milnthorpe on the side of a door,perhaps he caught something from his sign writer ■■?
David
■■■■ off David ! Dennis.
Hi Dennis, There was a haulier from Cardewlees ( John Armstrong) he had an early Ford D series six wheeler bulk blower with his name and address correctly spelt on one door and Cardenlees on the other one. It ran a long time like that I don’t think it was ever corrected.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
My latest but to be fair it is only a fly sheet job, on pheasant feed.
Ste Burrow:
My latest but to be fair it is only a fly sheet job, on pheasant feed.
Now that is a nice looking load,
I cut my teeth roping and sheeting back in 1970 when I started work with Thompsons of Devon, I remember making a right hash of it to start with but with the help of the other drivers learnt the “ropes” excuse the pun!
After a few years of that I left and started Euopean Trucking with fridges but that knot you use has come in handy at times with other uses.
Cheers,
Roger.
Wow guy’s!, some of you still get wound up about sheeting & roping compared to you curtain side guy’s, but looking at Leyland, Bewick, and Ferguson’s pictures, it still takes a man to to sheet & rope a load like these, unlike pulling the curtains on which is a woman’s job.
It’s still nice to see a real sheeting job like these, nice neat and tidy, and will go under any bridge you may come across.