Sitra and norberts had dedicated sugar tanks,
wasn’t you on pattersons ?
gazza1970:
Green just for your info the picture was only to show what the top of the tank looked like being washed out ,I didn’t say it was a sugar tank being washed out
I worked for norbert dentressangle at santes depot for 6 years doing liquid food tanks carrying sugar ,glucose ,chocolate,wine,oil ,juices, I also did 4years on sitra from Ieper Belgium doing the same sort of work and they had there fair share of role overs , as for the loading hole it was easier to explain to someone who has never seen a tanker ,
I could have started to explain that some tankers have spray balls that you may need to fit for washing out also it might have a heating system fitted , is there anything else you want to pick holes in my friend.
Worked out of Tate & Lyle Silvertown about 25 years ago on Stamps of Avonmouth, delivering liquid sugar to pop factories and jam factories and dry sugar to bakeries etc. Was a doddle of a job, dead easy, but reading this thread, I think the money is a lot less today than it was then! Was the only time I ever said it was a job I would never leave volountarily, they would have to make me redundant - they did! Factory shops were brilliant, tho!
Steve
Ste46:
Worked out of Tate & Lyle Silvertown about 25 years ago on Stamps of Avonmouth, delivering liquid sugar to pop factories and jam factories and dry sugar to bakeries etc. Was a doddle of a job, dead easy, but reading this thread, I think the money is a lot less today than it was then! Was the only time I ever said it was a job I would never leave volountarily, they would have to make me redundant - they did! Factory shops were brilliant, tho!Steve
Yes not a hard job was it Steve, but lets face it the morons at Tate’s never made life easy (they wore green overalls)
To the OP.
You will no doubt be trained (or should be) in all aspects of the job & given the choice go for liquid tank as opposed to dry (granulated)
Liquid sugar tanks are steam cleaned via a connector on the manlid & this steam/condesate is then pumped to recovery & this will happen as and when required, whilst this is going on you will be expected to wash/clean pump housing & delivery hoses, dry tank will wash whilst elevated again via manlid using system provided and will only wash when upgrading the product/or carrying.
Liquid discharge is quick & easy (no more than an hour all in)
Dry can easily be double that and noisy (plus things can go wrong)
i was a tramper at tate and lyle good job good money started 1997 and was made redundant in 2007 my mate still works there job got took over from hoyers to turners know the money is poor 80 pounds a day for a tramper
Dodgy Permit:
Ste46:
Worked out of Tate & Lyle Silvertown about 25 years ago on Stamps of Avonmouth, delivering liquid sugar to pop factories and jam factories and dry sugar to bakeries etc. Was a doddle of a job, dead easy, but reading this thread, I think the money is a lot less today than it was then! Was the only time I ever said it was a job I would never leave volountarily, they would have to make me redundant - they did! Factory shops were brilliant, tho!Steve
Yes not a hard job was it Steve, but lets face it the morons at Tate’s never made life easy (they wore green overalls)
To the OP.
You will no doubt be trained (or should be) in all aspects of the job & given the choice go for liquid tank as opposed to dry (granulated)
Liquid sugar tanks are steam cleaned via a connector on the manlid & this steam/condesate is then pumped to recovery & this will happen as and when required, whilst this is going on you will be expected to wash/clean pump housing & delivery hoses, dry tank will wash whilst elevated again via manlid using system provided and will only wash when upgrading the product/or carrying.Liquid discharge is quick & easy (no more than an hour all in)
Dry can easily be double that and noisy (plus things can go wrong)
The morons in green - I remember them well! - brings it all back now!
(plus things can go wrong) - eg. Lyons Cakes, Wakefield - minimum 5 hour blow at VERY low pressure - and always carry a spare can of diesel for the donkey engine - the number of blokes who’ve run out of fuel there before the load was off!
Ahh - happy days!!
Steve
PS - also remember blowing the lid off the silo at United Biscuits, Levenshulme - car park behind the bakery looked like it had been snowing!
Steve
Ste46:
PS - also remember blowing the lid off the silo at United Biscuits, Levenshulme - car park behind the bakery looked like it had been snowing!Steve
rubbish tip that job steve i blocked the pipe up at kellogs wrexham lol
Sorry, for reviving an old thread, but just sat reading various posts and this sugar tipping got me interested.
What pressure do you usually use for tipping sugar?
I used to work on cement tankers and the pressure we used to use was about 1.5 bar, or sometimes up to 1.8 bar.
Do you reduce the pressure in the tank before the end of discharging?
Have you ever head any incidents , like blowing the silo’s safety valve off?
I remember we were being warned about making sure to make sure you shut the product valve when the product stops flowing, but never seen what happens when you blow the safety valve off.
Had a pipe blocked once, but that was all.
Was asked to do a couple of weeks for Tate & Lyle at Silvertown a few years ago, July time about 1998 Hoyer was the company that did the transport side then, lasted one shift WASPS millions of WASPS big WASPS all round the inlet to the tank, I HATE WASPS, I think I spent the rest of the week shuddering with horror, how on earth I discharged the tanker I do not know, I watched from about a hundred yards away, I am shuddering thinking about it now.
anon84679660:
Thanks for replying , lads
does it get very sticky, since it’s sugar?
I mean your cloths, inside the cab, does it get quickly sticky, or can you keep that stickiness out of your clothes and the cab?
You shouldn’t be getting it anywhere. When I did bulk powder tankers the only reason I got limestone dust in the cab was because we were driving through the quarry it came from, not from the tanker.
i did a few months of trunking from bardney to bury st edmunds empty out fill up at bury take back to bardney and blow out very easy when you get the hang of it took about 1h30 as the hopper at bardney was only 500 kilos and soon backed up we were using the standard lift tankers not horizontals or scuds which were more complicated british sugar are h&s mad but do were a set of overalls the wet sugar sticks to everything
i did go for an oriantation about two years ago when the transport contract changed hands very much do it our way with a day in the classroom and a driving reveiw as well
So, what pressure do you use to tip sugar or flour from a tipper tank?
I’ve only tipped cement out of horizontal tanks and the pressure being used was usually 1.5 bar.
Has anyone of you ever managed to blow the safety valve off the top of a silo and if so what does it sound/look like?