Retired Old ■■■■:
As the hordes of lorry drivers who have had the pleasure of taking my Overpriced Roping & Sheeting Course will tell you, a proper driver can rope and sheet a 40-footer loaded with one of those “Easy” loads in exactly 45 minutes. You don’t get paid for crossing hammers and drinking tea, you know! Any driver who wants to spend his day scoffing bacon butties and reading The Sun can go and work somewhere else!
Thank’s for that reply ROF, not a lot of time lost really then. I had visions of it taking a lot out of the driving part of the day, two hours to load/sheet would cut down the driving time and the number of loads per day but if the driver could do it easily while on break then no time would be lost at all really.
Pete.
NOTE- the 45 minute estimate for roping and sheeting assumed that the load was similar to Bewick’s “easy” loads!
Those of us with “proper” loads to secure would have needed twice as long to do a decent job.
I would be very surprised if he doesn’t bite!
Hiya,
I must have been pretty good at the sheeting and roping never once in my life
on the road 90% of it handball requiring “happing up and tying doon” I never
had one damage or wet signature, I’m proud of that and I never lost nowt.
thanks harry, long retired.
windrush:
Retired Old ■■■■:
As the hordes of lorry drivers who have had the pleasure of taking my Overpriced Roping & Sheeting Course will tell you, a proper driver can rope and sheet a 40-footer loaded with one of those “Easy” loads in exactly 45 minutes. You don’t get paid for crossing hammers and drinking tea, you know! Any driver who wants to spend his day scoffing bacon butties and reading The Sun can go and work somewhere else!Thank’s for that reply ROF, not a lot of time lost really then. I had visions of it taking a lot out of the driving part of the day, two hours to load/sheet would cut down the driving time and the number of loads per day but if the driver could do it easily while on break then no time would be lost at all really.
Pete.
Blimey if anyone believed all that bs everyone would still be using flats instead of curtainsiders. 
Retired Old ■■■■:
NOTE- the 45 minute estimate for roping and sheeting assumed that the load was similar to Bewick’s “easy” loads!
Those of us with “proper” loads to secure would have needed twice as long to do a decent job.
too much lounging about with you southerners , get stuck in and break sweat and get the job done . you should have watched dave batty at portbury sheet 24 tons of paper and away in 30 minutes . he reckoned that if you could carry it unsecured in a taut liner you could do the same on a flat with the sheets holding it down , he only had a rope front and back to stop the flysheet flapping .dave
rigsby:
too much lounging about with you southerners , get stuck in and break sweat and get the job done . you should have watched dave batty at portbury sheet 24 tons of paper and away in 30 minutes . he reckoned that if you could carry it unsecured in a taut liner you could do the same on a flat with the sheets holding it down , he only had a rope front and back to stop the flysheet flapping .dave
The curtains are only to save all the aggro of having to sheet it all.Both of which are only there to keep it dry not hold it on the wagon. 
Look “CF” you have strayed into territory that is way above your competence and pay grade with regard to sheeting and roping at a “pinch” you may just about creep onto the bottom of the list as a “curtain puller” and a pair of very small curtains at that I believe something akin to a body on a Transit. So please don’t try and argue the toss with the Lads that have done the job and still could make a proper job of sheeting and roping. Bewick.
harry_gill:
Hiya,
I must have been pretty good at the sheeting and roping never once in my life
on the road 90% of it handball requiring “happing up and tying doon” I never
had one damage or wet signature, I’m proud of that and I never lost nowt.
thanks harry, long retired.
A record to be proud of “H” pity the cab,windscreen and chassis wasn’t as clean as the tidy load 
Cheers Dennis
MIKE P:
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Hiya Mike, nice tidy selection of loads there they look like the sheets were “ironed on” but the points on this last one look a bit “iffy” to me, have you got a cap on them to stop the points coming through ? Well done though a credit to you Mate, I hope “CF” is taking it all in, but I doubt it, he’ll probably fire back with a load of his usual bollox and try telling you where you’ve gone wrong 
Cheers Dennis.
One thing that the Marras were good at was sheeting and roping, they took great pride in the craft and I can’t ever recall seeing a badly sheeted load out of West ■■■■■■■■ Robsons of Carlisle used to leave something to be desired at times but strictly speaking they were Gadgy’s and not Marras like ! Cheers Bewick.
Blimey, I expected Bewick to have something to say about my posts but I didn’t think they would stir “Leatherhead Linda” to rise from the crypt!
Bewick:
Look “CF” you have strayed into territory that is way above your competence and pay grade with regard to sheeting and roping at a “pinch” you may just about creep onto the bottom of the list as a “curtain puller” and a pair of very small curtains at that I believe something akin to a body on a Transit. So please don’t try and argue the toss with the Lads that have done the job and still could make a proper job of sheeting and roping.
To be fair I did admit to being one of the if the air don’t get under it and if it don’t flap about in the wind I’ve done well lot.But in most cases I am talking about using a zb awkward tilt cover for the job and at least the load will also be tied down properly.Wether it’s a using that nice convenient tilt as it’s meant to be used or curtains,or under that/those awkward to handle and sort out zb sheet/s,to keep it dry and if it’s the latter you can forget about just 45 minutes to do it all. 
Yan o Jazzers eh ! Dennis, Noo these lads knew how to rope and sheet whether it be cheese frae Spytri dairy or a mixed load (cartons and drums) frae Marchon. Hector Johnston another brother who worked on his own as an owner driver was very asthmatical and coughed and spluttered quite a lot, other drivers would often take pity on him and offer to help him sheet up especilly when loading late evening at Marchon but his reply was always the same amid coughing. " Git yersels away yam, A’ll seun throw a bit o sheet at it an A’hl see ye ont docks tomorrow morning." Sure enough “The Guvnor” as he was known would be first in the queue at Liverpool next morning despite his LV cabbed ERF unit with 5LW fitted and single axle trailer. If the dockers were becoming awkward a natural instinct they had “The Guvnor” would lay into them calling them all the names he could think of and funnily enough he always managed to get tipped. I alway enjoyed being in his company when away down the road a genuine fellow haulier mate.
Cheers, Leyland 600
I took this shot one Sunday morning at the depot when a number of motors were leaving to run south to be on the doorstep Monday morning sharp!