gingerfold:
I need four or five experienced flat men, or lads willing to learn, right now. We have suddenly got very busy with the start of a new construction project for one of my customers, pre-cast concrete sections not steel work. Stobart’s might have done us a favour in the long run by taking our other work. Certainly the next few months looks like it will be busy, just hope that it’s not come too late for us and I can find the drivers (and units).
I will volunteer, no problem! Don’t let the fact that (A) I cannot drive anything that bends in the middle, apart from a van/caravan, and (B) I cannot rope, sheet, strap etc put you off. I COULD sign up quickly for ROF’s course, (if the Cat and Fiddle is open!) or alternatively, could the concrete sections be crushed and then I could deliver them in an eight legged tipper, with reassembly on site? Let me know ASAP please as I may get a better offer elsewhere.
gingerfold:
I need four or five experienced flat men, or lads willing to learn, right now. We have suddenly got very busy with the start of a new construction project for one of my customers, pre-cast concrete sections not steel work. Stobart’s might have done us a favour in the long run by taking our other work. Certainly the next few months looks like it will be busy, just hope that it’s not come too late for us and I can find the drivers (and units).
I will volunteer, no problem! Don’t let the fact that (A) I cannot drive anything that bends in the middle, apart from a van/caravan, and (B) I cannot rope, sheet, strap etc put you off. I COULD sign up quickly for ROF’s course, (if the Cat and Fiddle is open!) or alternatively, could the concrete sections be crushed and then I could deliver them in an eight legged tipper, with reassembly on site? Let me know ASAP please as I may get a better offer elsewhere.
Pete.
Hi Pete, one of our FORMER drivers did manage to crush one precast section before he got to the end of the road from our customer’s site. Your tipper would have been perfect for the remains of it. The only problem, apart from the obvious, was that these sections go together like a jigsaw puzzle so the broken one had to recast and that delayed construction. That episode cost us £30,000 on our insurance policy. Just writing about it now brings me out in a cold sweat at the memory.
gingerfold:
I need four or five experienced flat men, or lads willing to learn, right now. We have suddenly got very busy with the start of a new construction project for one of my customers, pre-cast concrete sections not steel work. Stobart’s might have done us a favour in the long run by taking our other work. Certainly the next few months looks like it will be busy, just hope that it’s not come too late for us and I can find the drivers (and units).
would love to help but no CE licence YET! (it will come) where are you based?
gingerfold:
I need four or five experienced flat men, or lads willing to learn, right now. We have suddenly got very busy with the start of a new construction project for one of my customers, pre-cast concrete sections not steel work. Stobart’s might have done us a favour in the long run by taking our other work. Certainly the next few months looks like it will be busy, just hope that it’s not come too late for us and I can find the drivers (and units).
would love to help but no CE licence YET! (it will come) where are you based?
Bolton
hiya,
As an ex-Darrener who did work for a time for Walshy’s who could load owt
and get it anywhere would have been available years ago but alas now
living in Durham and the class1 long since put through the shredder, will
have to rule myself out of the equation. It does look like a job that would
suit the more mature experienced driver though, crane on crane off and no
sheeting unless backloads are involved.
thanks harry, long retired.
Tell you what “H”,I reckon thee and me could still give these young’uns a quick lesson on how to S&R proper like "What hook are you on “H”,well miss one and then we’ll do the back cross and put a “scotchman” on,look out “H” coming over,swoosh !!"Cheers Dennis.
gingerfold:
I need four or five experienced flat men, or lads willing to learn, right now. We have suddenly got very busy with the start of a new construction project for one of my customers, pre-cast concrete sections not steel work. Stobart’s might have done us a favour in the long run by taking our other work. Certainly the next few months looks like it will be busy, just hope that it’s not come too late for us and I can find the drivers (and units).
would love to help but no CE licence YET! (it will come) where are you based?
Bolton
I can do Bolton, could lodge with our kid in Darwen! Still, if I can’t get the load inside of a tipper then I will have to pass on the deal, saved me some money on ROF’s course at any rate and The Cat and Fiddle WAS closed today anyway so I couldn’t have got to Macc! Now if you do get a tipper job please bear me in mind, can tip asphalt etc…
The Loading, Sheeting & Roping courses are now re-opened by popular demand. There is also a Chains & Straps module available at extra cost especially for those who may be interested in working from the Bolton area. All courses are, of course, designed to be subsidised by drawing on the Transport Training Levy administered by MOTEC’s treasurer in ■■■■■■■■
No need to worry about the Cat & Fiddle, Pete- courses will be held at the new Training Facility being built in Bolton out of damaged concrete sections kindly donated by gingerfold’s insurers.
Enrol now before the rush to avoid disappointment.
As a special offer, leather and PVC gloves, hard hats in various colours, steel toed boots, hi-viz and wet weather clothing will be available to buy from the course instructor. For Health & Safety reasons, these items will be compulsory.
Right, better get myself signed up then ROF. I take it that a suitable hoist and harness will be available because, as you will know, H&SE frown upon driver’s and loader’s getting on the back of a truck or trailer unassisted nowadays? Very generous of Berwick to supply the capital for said project though, would have thought that he would complain but obviously he has made a New Year Resolution to count to 100 before jumping to conclusion’s and finally realises that the transport industry nowadays will benefit from surplus cash supplied by haulier’s of yesteryear.
So if you can supply details of cost, available spaces and the venue I will pack an overnight bag and be on my way. Do you pay lodging out money by the way…no, didn’t think so.
Still trying to work out the exact price of the courses, Pete- my computer seems to have run out of noughts.
If you get really stuck for accommodation maybe I could arrange the hire of a certain pink caravan, with or without “facilities” although I would have thought that an experienced driver would have been keen to “fiddle” home from Bolton. I have a supply of log books & tacho cards available for a modest price to assist in this enterprise.
I have my own caravan ROF, that should lower the fee slightly? Never worked a ‘dodgy’ as I always made it home, the tacho chart was probably sitting on the engine cowling, but I made it back! I have no problem with nought’s as long as they start the price, got a bank account full of the little bugger’s.
Well, Pete, with your own caravan no doubt you will need to take advantage of the specially arranged camping site where, for a modest (!!!) sum, your course instructor will allow you to park the “shed” in a corner of the yard, just outside the 24-hour workshop, next to the four ‘fridge trailer parking spots. Water may be drawn from the fitters’ personal pump. Waste products- for a small fee (you can see some sort of pattern here) you may deposit your, umm, deposits by lifting the cast iron cover marked “Potable Water”.
As to your comments about the bank account, I remember, in the days when you could actually talk to your bank manager, I had occasion to talk to the gentleman about a loan, which he was reluctant to grant. “But you’ve got plenty of money in the bank”, I said. “Yes”, he replied, “But it’s in other people’s accounts”. I left without my overdraft and definitely without any prospect of a new AEC!
Age is no problem here. My oldest full time driver is 76 and want to carry on for a while longer, and we’re thinking of wheeling out several other mature former employees to get us through this busy period. The old Seddon Atki 6x4 (1986 vintage) in the shed might also be making a comeback, ■■■■■■■ 14 litre, Eaton Twin-Splitter, only 12,000 Km from new, not yet run in. Any volunteers■■?
gingerfold:
Age is no problem here. My oldest full time driver is 76 and want to carry on for a while longer, and we’re thinking of wheeling out several other mature former employees to get us through this busy period. The old Seddon Atki 6x4 (1986 vintage) in the shed might also be making a comeback, ■■■■■■■ 14 litre, Eaton Twin-Splitter, only 12,000 Km from new, not yet run in. Any volunteers■■?
Yep Gingerfold, I can handle a 6x4 as long as it doesn’t require a trailer! Never used a Twin-Splitter but driven plenty of Foden 12 speeds so not a problem, the gearbox would certainly be well run in by the time I had traveled a few miles… Stick my name down.
the job offer is very tempting ginger fold , but it will have to bo cash in hand ( don’t want to endanger my "bountiful " pension ) . would 8am be a suitable start time ? the domestic staff grumbles if i wake her before 7-30 , and a drivers mate is an essential ( to help me up into the cab )and to brew up frequently and take care of the menial tasks . i look forward to using the twin splitter again and as a bonus i also have a blue badge which could help with parking up . unfortunately the trailer mate would have to check the rear lights on the trailer as walking that far would breach the terms of my blue badge . i await your call with details of wages , expenses and fringe benefits . cheers , dave
gingerfold:
Age is no problem here. My oldest full time driver is 76 and want to carry on for a while longer, and we’re thinking of wheeling out several other mature former employees to get us through this busy period. The old Seddon Atki 6x4 (1986 vintage) in the shed might also be making a comeback, ■■■■■■■ 14 litre, Eaton Twin-Splitter, only 12,000 Km from new, not yet run in. Any volunteers■■?
Yep Gingerfold, I can handle a 6x4 as long as it doesn’t require a trailer! Never used a Twin-Splitter but driven plenty of Foden 12 speeds so not a problem, the gearbox would certainly be well run in by the time I had traveled a few miles… Stick my name down.
Pete.
If you can handle a Foden 12-speed box you can use the twin splitter with ease. No problem. It’s definitely a proper driver’s wagon. None of this mamby pamby automatic gearbox rubbish.
rigsby:
the job offer is very tempting ginger fold , but it will have to bo cash in hand ( don’t want to endanger my "bountiful " pension ) . would 8am be a suitable start time ? the domestic staff grumbles if i wake her before 7-30 , and a drivers mate is an essential ( to help me up into the cab )and to brew up frequently and take care of the menial tasks . i look forward to using the twin splitter again and as a bonus i also have a blue badge which could help with parking up . unfortunately the trailer mate would have to check the rear lights on the trailer as walking that far would breach the terms of my blue badge . i await your call with details of wages , expenses and fringe benefits . cheers , dave
Dave, I’m sure that the day shunts from Stockport to Manchester which will be running for the foreseeable future will suit you and the old Sed Atki to a T. Wages by negotiation but its not too onerous, my lady driver did one shunt yesterday all day. Now she can chain, strap, rope and sheet with the best of 'em, as one of my customers said last week, “she’s brilliant, send her again”.
hiya,
Ginge just got to ask the 86 Sed/Ak why only 12,000 Ks, a nice motor
and a nice piece of cake gearbox a drivers dream when I was tramping.
thanks harry, long retired.
The Sed Atki is ex-MoD, bought a few months ago from Withams at Colsterworth, one of many they had for sale released from Army reserve. The amount of vehicles and tackle of all sorts that the MoD purchases and never uses is mind blowing. Millions, nay probably billions of £s value sitting there doing nothing. For every vehicle there will also be a raft of spares. The one we have needs very little work doing to it to bring it back to top order. The massive winch on it has never been used and is probably worth what was paid for the entire vehicle.
Don’t let the fact that (A) I cannot drive anything that bends in the middle, apart from a van/caravan, and (B) I cannot rope, sheet, strap etc put you off. I COULD sign up quickly for ROF’s course, (if the Cat and Fiddle is open!) or alternatively, could the concrete sections be crushed and then I could deliver them in an eight legged tipper, with reassembly on site? Let me know ASAP please as I may get a better offer elsewhere.
"What hook are you on “H”,well miss one and then we’ll do the back cross and put a “scotchman” on,look out “H” coming over,swoosh !!"Cheers Dennis.
Never used a Twin-Splitter but driven plenty of Foden 12 speeds so not a problem, the gearbox would certainly be well run in by the time I had traveled a few miles… 
Stick my name down. 