Found some more examples of chopped roofs…
Fantastic pictures Patrick. How long have you been working with low loaders and how did you get started in this area. I don’t imagine there are too many training courses around…
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jsutherland:
Fantastic pictures Patrick. How long have you been working with low loaders and how did you get started in this area. I don’t imagine there are too many training courses around…Sent from my Hol-U19 using Tapatalk
Cheers mate!
Well, I actually grew up with low loaders and heavy haulage, and an interest in the technical side of things, so I might be a bit biased with the work, and surely there are certain times when I’m fed up with things (working in the pouring rain, snow or icy conditions) but apart from that, I can’t imagine doing other work, although I did start on multi-drop and tilt work. Been in this game for the past 12 odd years give or take… As far as the training courses are concerned, it’s all coming down to the old “try and error” approach and common sense 
pv83:
jsutherland:
Fantastic pictures Patrick. How long have you been working with low loaders and how did you get started in this area. I don’t imagine there are too many training courses around…Sent from my Hol-U19 using Tapatalk
Cheers mate!
Well, I actually grew up with low loaders and heavy haulage, and an interest in the technical side of things, so I might be a bit biased with the work, and surely there are certain times when I’m fed up with things (working in the pouring rain, snow or icy conditions) but apart from that, I can’t imagine doing other work, although I did start on multi-drop and tilt work. Been in this game for the past 12 odd years give or take… As far as the training courses are concerned, it’s all coming down to the old “try and error” approach and common sense [/
1-plus!
Thats how it is exacly for me to! Oh how i can see what you saying about the rain and the snow.
Must be a bit special to this kinda work or at least i helps 
Danne
You ‘special types’ men were a breed apart: I take my hat off to you! 
Robert
Well thank you Robert! And my hat goes of to you longhaul men,im still yellus of the m/e rund and maby any more of the guys that did the far east as russian and Kazakstan and thous countries!
Danne
colinwallace1:
pete smith:
.I like the look of the trailer in the middle picture Pete, especially the way the wheels hinge out of the way. looks a lot easier than jacking and physically dragging the wheel sets out. Does it also extend?. Very smart outfit. Cheers, Colin.
Hi Colin,
It does seem a better way than all that jacking and mauling with the wheel sets, used to help a friend of mine when he had a Taskers knock out to transport his steam roller, that was a ball ache, just one unload/load over a weekend, don’t think that would extend,not sure of the year as pictures was sent to me with no text as they are from a Nooteboom brochure, Cheer’s Pete
robert1952:
You ‘special types’ men were a breed apart: I take my hat off to you!
Cheers Robert
And I’ve to concur with Danne, you “long haul” men were a special breed to, I’ve got much respect for all that pioneering you lot did
Dirty Dan:
pv83:
jsutherland:
Fantastic pictures Patrick. How long have you been working with low loaders and how did you get started in this area. I don’t imagine there are too many training courses around…Sent from my Hol-U19 using Tapatalk
Cheers mate!
Well, I actually grew up with low loaders and heavy haulage, and an interest in the technical side of things, so I might be a bit biased with the work, and surely there are certain times when I’m fed up with things (working in the pouring rain, snow or icy conditions) but apart from that, I can’t imagine doing other work, although I did start on multi-drop and tilt work. Been in this game for the past 12 odd years give or take… As far as the training courses are concerned, it’s all coming down to the old “try and error” approach and common sense
1-plus!
Thats how it is exacly for me to! Oh how i can see what you saying about the rain and the snow.
Must be a bit special to this kinda work or at least i helpsDanne
Well, I can imagine you’ve encountered more snow then I have
But it surely helps if one is a bit “mad” or “daft” or “bonkers” doing this kind of labour…but then again, doesn’t that apply for everyone who is in this game…
pv83:
robert1952:
You ‘special types’ men were a breed apart: I take my hat off to you!Cheers Robert
And I’ve to concur with Danne, you “long haul” men were a special breed to, I’ve got much respect for all that pioneering you lot did
Thanks Patrick! I never even got to pull an empty low-loader. I was sent to pick one up with an old Scania once and as I tried to couple up, the jaw on the 5th-wheel broke so that was the end of that assignment! 
. So it was back to tilts and more tilts. Robert
robert1952:
pv83:
robert1952:
You ‘special types’ men were a breed apart: I take my hat off to you!Cheers Robert
And I’ve to concur with Danne, you “long haul” men were a special breed to, I’ve got much respect for all that pioneering you lot didThanks Patrick! I never even got to pull an empty low-loader. I was sent to pick one up with an old Scania once and as I tried to couple up, the jaw on the 5th-wheel broke so that was the end of that assignment!
Robert,
I hope the trailer was not on a 3.5" pin you was trying to pick up?
pete smith:
robert1952:
pv83:
robert1952:
You ‘special types’ men were a breed apart: I take my hat off to you!Cheers Robert
And I’ve to concur with Danne, you “long haul” men were a special breed to, I’ve got much respect for all that pioneering you lot didThanks Patrick! I never even got to pull an empty low-loader. I was sent to pick one up with an old Scania once and as I tried to couple up, the jaw on the 5th-wheel broke so that was the end of that assignment!
Robert,
I hope the trailer was not on a 3.5" pin you was trying to pick up?
No, Pete, that was the first thing I thought of! I was thinking of how I was going to explain it to the boss 
, but when I rang him up he confirmed that it was sheer bad luck 
. It was a shame because it was Friday afternoon and I was hoping to get the job of taking his 6-wheel Alvis military vehicle to an event where he was due to off-road it. I think he took himself in another unit in the end. Cheers, Robert
Robert,
If it was an Alvis Stalwart you had to load you had a lucky escape,unloaded one of these things which had run out of fuel it cost £30 in fuel to get the thing started only for it to run out before we could get it up the corner of the yard, think it was a 8 cyl Rolls Royce petrol,