Well done, 600. You’ve filled in the gaps for me! I was probably a bit nervous of that climb but the traffic wasn’t bad in Carlisle at five or six in the morning. I usually back loaded through Barnett & Graham’s from (ay-up, the memory’s gone again!) was it West’s or Fray Bentos?
That stopped when I progressed to a D1000 artic with tipper trailer- easier than handballing the stuff at Maryport- and I normally ended up running empty back to the Midlands where I could load scrap metal for South Wales.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Well done, 600. You’ve filled in the gaps for me! I was probably a bit nervous of that climb but the traffic wasn’t bad in Carlisle at five or six in the morning. I usually back loaded through Barnett & Graham’s from (ay-up, the memory’s gone again!) was it West’s or Fray Bentos?
That stopped when I progressed to a D1000 artic with tipper trailer- easier than handballing the stuff at Maryport- and I normally ended up running empty back to the Midlands where I could load scrap metal for South Wales.
Were you delivering the stone for Hadrians Wall ROF?
I missed out on that one, pal. My rates had been undercut by some young upstart from Milnthorpe. 
Retired Old ■■■■:
I missed out on that one, pal. My rates had been undercut by some young upstart from Milnthorpe.
You will be in trouble now ROF
Bring it on! I could wrap him up in his own sheets. 
pete smith:
Retired Old ■■■■:
Well done, 600. You’ve filled in the gaps for me! I was probably a bit nervous of that climb but the traffic wasn’t bad in Carlisle at five or six in the morning. I usually back loaded through Barnett & Graham’s from (ay-up, the memory’s gone again!) was it West’s or Fray Bentos?
That stopped when I progressed to a D1000 artic with tipper trailer- easier than handballing the stuff at Maryport- and I normally ended up running empty back to the Midlands where I could load scrap metal for South Wales.Were you delivering the stone for Hadrians Wall ROF?
See I was right lol
OssieD:
There’s been a lot said about roping ie: tying a dolly or double dolly, splitting between hooks ect, but not a lot said about something I was taught how to do and that was how to splice a loop in a rope and how to splice two ropes together and back slice the loose end, don’t ask me to show you now I’ve long forgot but was all part of the learning for me back then, anybody else learn to do this?Ossie
When I make up ropes for the company I work for I always eye splice one end and back splice the other. I’ve also repaired a rope with a short splice (not sure how legal that is these days) which we normally don’t do because inevitably you’ll be drawing the splice through a dolly, but its a nice long rope for our 18 tonner (all the rest are 7.5) and it seems stupid to throw it away and on this one it doesn’t get in the way of the dollies. I don’t like tying knots in rope as it does weaken the rope, probably not enough to make any difference but I’m a bit of a perfectionist on that front anyway.
As for sheets we do this sort of ‘fake splice’ where we effectively tuck the whole rope back through itself a few tucks and it holds fine. Quicker than doing a splice and perfectly adequate for sheets.
MIKE P:
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Nice job, good to see the fine art still being done, hard to imagine now that, that was the norm.
I smell a rat here,Mike didn’t do it ,bewick did .
nice and easy square load dan thought you might like it
MIKE P:
nice and easy square load dan thought you might like it
Bewick:
MIKE P:
nice and easy square load dan thought you might like it
Hiya,
Dennis, the third trailer along from the left, I just hope the loads on pallets
otherwise I’d that little bit of trailer “happing up” please, what was that ■■
thanks harry, long retired.
The lad’s doing his best, H, he hasn’t had the benefit of my Overpriced Roping & Sheeting Course!
Retired Old ■■■■:
The lad’s doing his best, H, he hasn’t had the benefit of my Overpriced Roping & Sheeting Course!
Well ROF, at least all my trailers were loaded sheeted and roped ready for the off! But that Big J of yours was stood M/T in the depot at Micheldean, well no need to worry the "Good ol’ British tax payer was picking up the bill for the lazy ■■■■■■■■ at BRS during the time of the nationalisation, where were you at the time of the shot ? probably in the “boozer” next door with the rest of the “deadlegs” that worked for BRS ! 
Cheers Bewick.
Middle of the week, no time for “boozer”, fill the tank, hand in the PODs and grab my wages and extortionate expenses (thanks, for your contribution, Dennis!) before thundering off into the sunset.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Middle of the week, no time for “boozer”, fill the tank, hand in the PODs and grab my wages and extortionate expenses (thanks, for your contribution, Dennis!) before thundering off into the sunset.
I’ve been retired 20 years and I’m still paying more and more ■■■■■■■ tax every year to bail out the likes of BRS and the ■■■■■■■ RTITB, 
Dennis.
Bewick:
I’ve been retired 20 years and I’m still paying more and more [zb] tax every year to bail out the likes of BRS and the [zb] RTITB,
Very much appreciated by all of us Dennis! A lad I knew years ago set up with his own lorry after working for BRS, he said that when he was sent to Scotland or the North East with a load he was instructed to phone in from the Doncaster area on the way back south for a back load and often ended up going back up country again to collect it! He reckoned that if BRS could make it pay operating like that then he would have a crack at it himself!
Pete.
Child’s play! This is why many of the older transport men were so good at it. Robert
