I’ve just backed under a 40’ & scratched around the yard & found 2 sheets to throw on it, loading a lift shaft from Runcorn to Leicester if your about Wheel Nut you can give us a lift!!!
Fly sheet
Wheel Nut:
Renaultman. I am 52 next and believe that Carryfast & Newmercman are of similar age, certainly the three of us have similar recollections and memories of the good times. I am sure we forget the bad days when it is blowing a gale on Hartlepool docks and trying to sheet a load of dried aluminium powder or loading bagged talcum powder in Amsterdam for Mike Taylor.It was certainly easier to load the talc on a flat with good sheets then it was in a tilt as the bags just slid about and you couldn’t strap them without bursting them. I have stripped a fair few tilts and had a fair few mishaps, like the time my sheet blew off in Pireaus and the only way to put it back was to pay a Greek crane driver some Ouzo money. I took a large satellite dish to Morocco on a stripped down step frame tilt and had to rebuild it myself in Tangiers port to load Apples from the Camargue region. Arles I think. A tilt cover weighs a tonne, literally
Early tilts did have rope hooks and lashing rings, however if you were running with a GV60, straps became the norm as they would go under the side doors without bulging and defeating the object of TIR. After all you couldn’t jump in the back to check your straps at every stop
Rose tinted glasses this morning, but to see the end of ropes and sheets for suitable jobs is a step too far. Tilts had their place in History, Euroliners have replaced them, for me flat trailers still have a place and are very suitable for carrying the type of loads this thread began with.
I shall be sad to see it go, but I still prefer tankers
You owld bassas. I’m only 21 and
300 months 
Ropin n’ Sheeting the good old days…my ■■■■…calloused hands,high winds and you had to do it right or you soon looked a prat.Was delivering to Coca Cola at Bristol many years ago and as the last few pallets came off I went outside to use the phone.In the box a young lad sitting on the shelf talking to his girlfriend I believe…‘You gonna be long’ I asked…I was ere first he replied so I just went back in tied down the sheets and pulled the lorry out.Back to the phone box and same question and then same reply so I went over to the lorry took out a rope and lasooed the box,round and round like a steel band and I couldn’t stop laughing.As I tied it off two old biddy’s waiting across the road for the bus asked if it was for Candid Camera all the time this lad screaming down the phone to his girlfriend then I drove off.Great day’s.Wonder if he still remembers that day.
I have asked the Commercial Motor Journalists to look into this, but what we need (Via PM if needed ) is contacts for those who have recieved penalties for this… without this info we ae stuffed and cant take it any further
Rikki have just compiled a piece for Roger Brown which might go part of the way to exposing certain unacceptable standards of our enforcement agencies.Trust you might obtain more.
Armagedon:
Ropin n’ Sheeting the good old days…my ■■■■…calloused hands,high winds and you had to do it right or you soon looked a prat.Was delivering to Coca Cola at Bristol many years ago and as the last few pallets came off I went outside to use the phone.In the box a young lad sitting on the shelf talking to his girlfriend I believe…‘You gonna be long’ I asked…I was ere first he replied so I just went back in tied down the sheets and pulled the lorry out.Back to the phone box and same question and then same reply so I went over to the lorry took out a rope and lasooed the box,round and round like a steel band and I couldn’t stop laughing.As I tied it off two old biddy’s waiting across the road for the bus asked if it was for Candid Camera all the time this lad screaming down the phone to his girlfriend then I drove off.Great day’s.Wonder if he still remembers that day.
Never done this, but I’ve been a victim, tipped in Tollcross near Glasgow at the McVities place & pulled out to the nearest phone box, phoned into the yard & got my instructions & went to leave, the bloody door wouldn’t open, I was pushing & shoving & about to phone 999 when two little kids come up saying that they’d let me out for a pound, it was then that I noticed the rope around the phone box, cheeky little gits, I had to hand a pound note out through one of the missing panes in the door before they let go of the rope, I wonder how many people they managed to get with this little scam 
Oh & Malc, I’m 21 mate, just got a lot of experience of being 21 
Wheel Nut:
Renaultman. I am 52 next and believe that Carryfast & Newmercman are of similar age, certainly the three of us have similar recollections and memories of the good times. Rose tinted glasses this morning, but to see the end of ropes and sheets for suitable jobs is a step too far. Tilts had their place in History, Euroliners have replaced them, for me flat trailers still have a place and are very suitable for carrying the type of loads this thread began with.
OIh ****, i always thought I was young 
, well in my head I’m 25, body has to add another 21 years, and here i am nodding away like an old codger that things ain’t what they used to be. I’ve turned into the older generation 
Learned to rope and sheet with my old man in the potato fields of Lincs and when loading lime in bags out of Doveholes Quarry back in the 70s… Where’s the time gone!? TBH not sure i can remember how to dolly now, too many years spent driving a desk.
Agree completely that have their place and finding someone that can rope and sheet properly is like stumbling upon a rare work or art.
albion:
Wheel Nut:
Renaultman. I am 52 next and believe that Carryfast & Newmercman are of similar age, certainly the three of us have similar recollections and memories of the good times. Rose tinted glasses this morning, but to see the end of ropes and sheets for suitable jobs is a step too far. Tilts had their place in History, Euroliners have replaced them, for me flat trailers still have a place and are very suitable for carrying the type of loads this thread began with.TBH not sure i can remember how to dolly now, too many years spent driving a desk.
Agree completely that have their place and finding someone that can rope and sheet properly is like stumbling upon a rare work or art.
I have’nt needed to rope down a load since 1985 but I could still do it today if I needed to as good as I could then.But when it comes to sheeting it as well I’d still need a bit of leeway on the word ‘properly’ (quickly ) just as I would have done back then,especially if I still had to use a zb tilt cover to sheet it with.
albion:
Where’s the time gone!? TBH not sure i can remember how to dolly now, too many years spent driving a desk.
I don’t think you can forget how to tie a dolly once you’ve had your hands split in the winter with salt in the wounds 
Trev_H:
albion:
Where’s the time gone!? TBH not sure i can remember how to dolly now, too many years spent driving a desk.I don’t think you can forget how to tie a dolly once you’ve had your hands split in the winter with salt in the wounds
It helps if you use a good set of leather gloves like when handling sheet metal but even with those I can still remember often having raw skinned hands after a few local collections in a day let alone a week.But I reckon that I could still tie a double dolly blindfold with gloves on.
I only ever roped with leather gloves on but your hands still cracked in the winter.
Carryfast I bet you could peel an orange in your pocket with gloves on
Trev_H:
I only ever roped with leather gloves on but your hands still cracked in the winter.
Carryfast I bet you could peel an orange in your pocket with gloves on
You must of had an easy job if you did’nt lose some of the skin off your hands in the summer. But I’ve never tried the orange in the pocket test with gloves on although maybe even vosa would allow the use of ropes if all drivers had to pass it.
so you cant rope loads down and you have to have a torch 
do vosa just magic the rules up overnight when they realise drivers have cottoned on to the last load of rules they invented.
when a container ship pulls up in the dock do 18 blokes throw the biggest ratchet strap over the side or do they still use a big rope to secure it to the jetty.
give it ten years and you will need an honours degree to turn a wheel 
ps. i do have a torch 
dave:
when a container ship pulls up in the dock do 18 blokes throw the biggest ratchet strap over the side or do they still use a big rope to secure it to the jetty.
In that case vosa and the hse would probably get them when they see the bloke hanging over the side trying to use the ratchet strap instead of that zb great big powered winch pulling the good old fashioned rope.
well thsi morning i was heading north on the m6 when i saw a certain haulage company going south with concrete slabs on and on the back to stacks all he was using was one strap and rachet and rope over the back end of it about 6 or 7 times,not going to say who it was but they delver lots of this stuff all over the uk.