Makes me wonder dan , i have copd , odema and about 45% lung function . Carted plenty of slag from scunthorpe and it was like a fog in the loading shed . I don’t suppose quicklime does you much good when you breathe it all day , spreading with the wind behind you , or loading at tunstead .dave
btw , is windrush paying you to guard the house while he’s on his holidays ?
rigsby:
Makes me wonder dan , i have copd , odema and about 45% lung function . Carted plenty of slag from scunthorpe and it was like a fog in the loading shed . I don’t suppose quicklime does you much good when you breathe it all day , spreading with the wind behind you , or loading at tunstead .dave
btw , is windrush paying you to guard the house while he’s on his holidays ?
Guard our house? 
My 87 year old neighbour is doing that, bless her. Hardly owt worth pinching there anyway Dave, I didn’t have a door on my garage for 21 years and nothing ever got nicked, not Fairfield thee knows! 
I don’t think Dan knows where I live anyway, neither do I know where his palace is.
Pete.
Punchy Dan:
windrush:
I never did spreading, it had mostly finished at our place when I started driving apart from a few private contractors like Harry Evans and Longcliffe Quarries of course, so never had the pleasure but heard plenty about it from the old lads at our quarry who were tractor spreader drivers in the days before ramps were used and shovelling it off dropsiders into the spreader. Punchy Dan will know all about it though, his family lived and breathed it and a friend of mine still spreads with a Unimog!Pete.
Yes sadly some off them breathed in too much off it ,slag dust rather than lime that is .the slag came from places like Scunthorpe ,Shelton, and the avenue
That was the way of it years ago. Coal dust had my dad, n countless more in all industries. H n S ain,t all bad.
JIMBO47:
pete smith:
How about this from China then? There is a six ram version as well, click on pic to enlarge,
Coomsey I’m still looking for more detail about that tipping equipment on that old Daf…failing miserably at the minute!looks good BUT horses for courses did 6yrs on a btrain rear end dump and front side dump on aggregates ,problems occur when hauling gypsum rock,stone as when dumping it rolls under the trailer wheels and you are stuffed,and if like my motor the pto worked when in gear/switch on dash to isolate drive ,when the load starts moving flick switch off and move
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Sounds convoluted bit of kit, bet you soon got the hang of it after a spell of shoveling under trailer though. Was cocking trailer up an odd affair or straight forward job ?
windrush:
I never did spreading, it had mostly finished at our place when I started driving apart from a few private contractors like Harry Evans and Longcliffe Quarries of course, so never had the pleasure but heard plenty about it from the old lads at our quarry who were tractor spreader drivers in the days before ramps were used and shovelling it off dropsiders into the spreader. Punchy Dan will know all about it though, his family lived and breathed it and a friend of mine still spreads with a Unimog!Pete.
I never did a great deal as you can see, just as well I,d be a Valium addict by now. Sort of on the page with Moog maybes. Good job I didn,t go to Amazon to buy a unimog n put moog on form. Wonder what I would have ended up with ?
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Well Pete this is what I would have ended up with. No good for spreading but I could have knocked a tune out for the lads hand spreading.
Lime after lime
As lime goes by
If I only had lime
White christmas
rigsby:
No sweat coomsey , when you are in your early twenties you’re immortal , never see the danger in things . We were probably all the same at that age . dave
Teenager, daft as a brush. 20s, gung oh couldn,t give a st. 30s, starting to get the hang of it, give a st when it suits you. 40s, penny may well have dropped stop messing with st . 50s, st wheres it all gone. 60s, don,t give a st. Is life full of st or just me ? All answers on velvety toilet paper please
Retired Old ■■■■:
rigsby:
No sweat coomsey , when you are in your early twenties you’re immortal , never see the danger in things . We were probably all the same at that age . daveHow right you are, rigsby. Our old mucker, Dave the Renegade (RIP) would be able to help me tell you about the lime spreading boys who worked on a shoe-string- four old lorry wheels and six half-rotten sleepers made up the “ramp”. Talk about H&S! Basically, you had three options with this set up; 1) you slipped off the sleepers because they were covered in wet lime (always raining on the lime job!) 2) you broke a half shaft attempting to climb the 45 degree angle or 3) both of the above.
I always felt pangs of jealousy when I saw a pair of decent steel ramps being carried on the back of a spreader.
R O F my tale were steel ramps. You,re telling me it could have been worse ■■ !!
rastone:
When Ford on their DT 2417 ( Perkins) and 2418 ( ■■■■■■■■ came out there was a problem on some of them when the end of the chassis used to bend.I didn’t hear of any of them giving any injury etc.and it was soon put right.I can’t remember how and I can’t remember a recall but that could have been exciting.I must be in a good mood tonight to admit this
Tony
Perfect storm. Ford on lime ramps, very windy wet day,well worn twin rams,old drop side body and PTO switch on dash that messed about with gearbox ?
coomsey:
Retired Old ■■■■:
rigsby:
No sweat coomsey , when you are in your early twenties you’re immortal , never see the danger in things . We were probably all the same at that age . daveHow right you are, rigsby. Our old mucker, Dave the Renegade (RIP) would be able to help me tell you about the lime spreading boys who worked on a shoe-string- four old lorry wheels and six half-rotten sleepers made up the “ramp”. Talk about H&S! Basically, you had three options with this set up; 1) you slipped off the sleepers because they were covered in wet lime (always raining on the lime job!) 2) you broke a half shaft attempting to climb the 45 degree angle or 3) both of the above.
I always felt pangs of jealousy when I saw a pair of decent steel ramps being carried on the back of a spreader.R O F my tale were steel ramps. You,re telling me it could have been worse ■■ !!
It could have been a lot worse, matey. I remember one windy, rainy Saturday morning. Reversed up the ramps (wet sleepers) One side’s sleepers slipped out from under the wheels and the other side kicked out in protest, breaking the leg of the chap who was guiding me back. The farmer took him off to hospital in his car and we simply rebuilt the sleeper/old wheels ramp and tried again, successfully this time. Almost dying was a regular event in the haulage game, pre- H&S!
Lucky to have made it to retirement age.
coomsey:
JIMBO47:
pete smith:
How about this from China then? There is a six ram version as well, click on pic to enlarge,
Coomsey I’m still looking for more detail about that tipping equipment on that old Daf…failing miserably at the minute!looks good BUT horses for courses did 6yrs on a btrain rear end dump and front side dump on aggregates ,problems occur when hauling gypsum rock,stone as when dumping it rolls under the trailer wheels and you are stuffed,and if like my motor the pto worked when in gear/switch on dash to isolate drive ,when the load starts moving flick switch off and move
Sounds convoluted bit of kit, bet you soon got the hang of it after a spell of shoveling under trailer though. Was cocking trailer up an odd affair or straight forward job ?
lol…run you through tipping …reverse on to pile …flick end dump door switch ,turn switch to end dump,into 4 slot,flick isolate switch ,clutch in pto in,air switch on and up ,flick isolate switch off and move forwards…pto off ,lever down and circl e round by now the end dump is down …and repeat switch to side dump open gate ,etc try to move the minute load starts to move lol …such fun! picture of dash,bottom row switches control which gate opens ,chrome is end/side ,middle top row is isolate switch …pto /air lever at site of seat
gypsum rock was the worst as it was all in perfect size for brickbats/fitted perfectly between the tyres…and the joy off reversing onto the pile pto etc and flicking the sidegate by mistake ,99% off the time it went under ,so on radio to loaderman to pull out 
JIMBO47:
01coomsey:
JIMBO47:
pete smith:
How about this from China then? There is a six ram version as well, click on pic to enlarge,
Coomsey I’m still looking for more detail about that tipping equipment on that old Daf…failing miserably at the minute!looks good BUT horses for courses did 6yrs on a btrain rear end dump and front side dump on aggregates ,problems occur when hauling gypsum rock,stone as when dumping it rolls under the trailer wheels and you are stuffed,and if like my motor the pto worked when in gear/switch on dash to isolate drive ,when the load starts moving flick switch off and move
Sounds convoluted bit of kit, bet you soon got the hang of it after a spell of shoveling under trailer though. Was cocking trailer up an odd affair or straight forward job ?
lol…run you through tipping …reverse on to pile …flick end dump door switch ,turn switch to end dump,into 4 slot,flick isolate switch ,clutch in pto in,air switch on and up ,flick isolate switch off and move forwards…pto off ,lever down and circl e round by now the end dump is down …and repeat switch to side dump open gate ,etc try to move the minute load starts to move lol …such fun! picture of dash,bottom row switches control which gate opens ,chrome is end/side ,middle top row is isolate switch …pto /air lever at site of seat
HOLEY MOLEY Jimbo. Thats up with Foden 12sp, mobile phone,tv control,washing machine,car entertainment,self scan n £8 digital plug in timer I bought.Thats what you,d get if I designed it. Hope you,ve got bed in it cos I bet you need a lie down after cocking up. Smart looking motor though
aye you really paid attention unloading when everyone else went home as the “call” was never easy to make was A 99 reg ,rebuilt/tidied up for me in 10 was sold with me start off the year to new company ,been re engined and rebuilt again and now pulling btrain flatdeck on bales. original clutch went in winter11 ,same clutch in now ,a 425 engine instead o the original 460 and a front diff and a spring were all the big jobs done on her in her lifetime. 
meant to say usual 3 loads a day mon-frid 600ml a day same roundtrip for 6month season ,then winter hauling gypsum couple o months at -20c .they don’t make them like this any more!
JIMBO47:
aye you really paid attention unloading when everyone else went home as the “call” was never easy to make was A 99 reg ,rebuilt/tidied up for me in 10 was sold with me start off the year to new company ,been re engined and rebuilt again and now pulling btrain flatdeck on bales. original clutch went in winter11 ,same clutch in now ,a 425 engine instead o the original 460 and a front diff and a spring were all the big jobs done on her in her lifetime.
Some tool Jimbo, she definitely earned her corn. Be nice to have a run in her, wild horses would n,t drag me into cab to ■■■■ her up. Leave that to the professionals Fair play to you.
Having said that you n ROF are in bad books with me! I like to think I was making some headway getting John West on our side but you pair nearly put me off tippers. Can you imagine what John,s thinking. He needs upsides, there must be some
coomsey:
JIMBO47:
aye you really paid attention unloading when everyone else went home as the “call” was never easy to make was A 99 reg ,rebuilt/tidied up for me in 10 was sold with me start off the year to new company ,been re engined and rebuilt again and now pulling btrain flatdeck on bales. original clutch went in winter11 ,same clutch in now ,a 425 engine instead o the original 460 and a front diff and a spring were all the big jobs done on her in her lifetime.Some tool Jimbo, she definitely earned her corn. Be nice to have a run in her, wild horses would n,t drag me into cab to ■■■■ her up. Leave that to the professionals Fair play to you.
Having said that you n ROF are in bad books with me! I like to think I was making some headway getting John West on our side but you pair nearly put me off tippers. Can you imagine what John,s thinking. He needs upsides, there must be some
I’m shaking my head!
In the middle of nowhere in Saudi Arabia, almost noon when the thermometer was hitting 40 Celsius, somewhere around 90 Fahrenheit, (it was cool Autumn, not Summer!) and 3 of us have just spent an hour moving my truck about 50 feet over a sand dune…
I thought ‘ah well, things could be worse! I could be driving a tipper back in Blighty!’
John
lol on the gypsum run 2010-11 winter was only -20c. iirc was a 25 thousand ton move to a railhead ,4 loads a day starting at 4am last truck loaded at 4pm ,we were spread out at quarter an hr loading times ,myself and running mate were iirc 5am on site to load a real mix of trucks from different concrete companys (was a Lafarge contract given to redimix cos that buy their powder) top photo was 3 of the 4 trucks on aggregate sad day last roundup. myself wae my auld girls last fling
sad to say you get used to driving a certain motor its little idiocyresies /doing all the servicing ,tyres etc you know if you are stopped you are legal ach must be getting auld thinking this way. meant to say hauled 36tns at 56.5 gross
The biggest nightmare I ever had with a tipper was tipping a load of BSE bone meal inside a shed with beams, the procedure was to open all the twistlocks and then shoot it up one ram before releasing the air lock so that a good chunk came out and you would then move forward into the middle of the shed where the roof was high enough to shoot it right up.
Nothing too difficult, not until you start lifting it up, get out, shut the door and hear the unmistakable whirring of the central locking activating.
I had to slice the hose to stop it taking the roof off the shed and the force that the oil came out was enough that when it hit the back of the cab it splashed off everywhere coating everything and everybody in the shed, the body came down with an almighty bang too.
To get in the cab and turn it off before cooking the pump I had to open the sunroof and use a broom handle to open the door.
The MLC (Meat and Livestock Commission) bloke that oversee all the contaminated bone meal was not a happy man!
newmercman:
The biggest nightmare I ever had with a tipper was tipping a load of BSE bone meal inside a shed with beams, the procedure was to open all the twistlocks and then shoot it up one ram before releasing the air lock so that a good chunk came out and you would then move forward into the middle of the shed where the roof was high enough to shoot it right up.Nothing too difficult, not until you start lifting it up, get out, shut the door and hear the unmistakable whirring of the central locking activating.
I had to slice the hose to stop it taking the roof off the shed and the force that the oil came out was enough that when it hit the back of the cab it splashed off everywhere coating everything and everybody in the shed, the body came down with an almighty bang too.
To get in the cab and turn it off before cooking the pump I had to open the sunroof and use a broom handle to open the door.
The MLC (Meat and Livestock Commission) bloke that oversee all the contaminated bone meal was not a happy man!
N. That made me laugh out loud, missis looked at me liked I,d gone crackers, no change there then. I wish I could have seen it. Frank Spencer springs to mind.
JIMBO47:
012lol on the gypsum run 2010-11 winter was only -20c. iirc was a 25 thousand ton move to a railhead ,4 loads a day starting at 4am last truck loaded at 4pm ,we were spread out at quarter an hr loading times ,myself and running mate were iirc 5am on site to load a real mix of trucks from different concrete companys (was a Lafarge contract given to redimix cos that buy their powder) top photo was 3 of the 4 trucks on aggregate sad day last roundup. myself wae my auld girls last fling
Good pics J. Sounds like you earned your corn as well. If I had 300 mile day I were pulling my face. You,ve certainly put the willies up John W, we,ll never get him now. He,d much sooner spend his time with his mates in his sandpit.
John West:
coomsey:
JIMBO47:
aye you really paid attention unloading when everyone else went home as the “call” was never easy to make was A 99 reg ,rebuilt/tidied up for me in 10 was sold with me start off the year to new company ,been re engined and rebuilt again and now pulling btrain flatdeck on bales. original clutch went in winter11 ,same clutch in now ,a 425 engine instead o the original 460 and a front diff and a spring were all the big jobs done on her in her lifetime.Some tool Jimbo, she definitely earned her corn. Be nice to have a run in her, wild horses would n,t drag me into cab to ■■■■ her up. Leave that to the professionals Fair play to you.
Having said that you n ROF are in bad books with me! I like to think I was making some headway getting John West on our side but you pair nearly put me off tippers. Can you imagine what John,s thinking. He needs upsides, there must be someI’m shaking my head!
In the middle of nowhere in Saudi Arabia, almost noon when the thermometer was hitting 40 Celsius, somewhere around 90 Fahrenheit, (it was cool Autumn, not Summer!) and 3 of us have just spent an hour moving my truck about 50 feet over a sand dune…
I thought ‘ah well, things could be worse! I could be driving a tipper back in Blighty!’
John
Well John what can I say ? The boyos have took the legs from under me. Bit of advise just in case,keep your do dahs well vented in them temperatures.
On a completely different subject I could n,t interest you in a new phone by any chance ?