Retired Old ■■■■:
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 . dave
How 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.
Retirement, I,m surprised you made thirty. The New Boy marked my card for being within 15m ( 15 yard n a bit, imperial ) of my notional lorry when tipping. What on earth do you think he,s going to make of your tipping ramp. Half a dozen ( 6 metric ) old tyres n a couple ( 2 metric ) of sleepers ?
coomsey:
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.
Still having a titter N, thanks for that. Set me up nicely for a couple of Pedigrees tonight
coomsey:
coomsey:
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.
Still having a titter N, thanks for that. Set me up nicely for a couple of Pedigrees tonight
Brilliant stuff! Certainly puts chasing a trailer around when you should have blown the air up first - ah no there it goes - the legs are going to collapse …
Teeter, teeter… Phew! I won’t do that again! Until next time…
Into perspective!
Quick thinking N!
John.
I’ve got another one that involves that particular lorry, it also involves the driver’s door.
At a British Gypsum plant just off the A50 (can’t remember the name) I was loading to go to Blue Circle at Hope, where I would tip and reload clinker for Northfleet.
Procedure was to weigh in empty and then go around to the bin to load, you pulled up to a keypad and entered the amount you wanted and it dropped into the body from the bin.
Again, not a difficult process, except that this lorry was a left ■■■■■■, so I had to jump out and walk around to the keypad. I entered 25tons and turned around to walk back to the cab to the sound of 25tons of gypsum falling into the body in one big heap, instead of a nice even load, it was all sat over the back wheels of the unit!
Now anyone with half a brain could work out that I had a problem, I couldn’t shoot it up to spread it down the trailer as all that weight at the front would’ve ended up with the lorry falling over, so with red face I had to go to the weigh bridge and tell them of my stupidity and get them to use an excavator to drag some of the load back.
Excavators were in short supply and they suggested I start shoveling, so after the loading shovel had got what he cpuld over the side, I got in with a shovel and moved enough back so I could tip it up and start again.
Next time I keyed in 5ton, then pulled forward for the next two 10ton lumps. A lesson learned the hard way lol
I don’t know mate, I know it was close to the Salt Box cafe as that’s where we used to stop for lunch. It wasn’t a regular job, just a fill in thing we did when the BSE job went quiet.
John West:
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
You’d still have been on the shovel but you’d have been getting rusty, not suntanned.
newmercman:
I’ve got another one that involves that particular lorry, it also involves the driver’s door.
At a British Gypsum plant just off the A50 (can’t remember the name) I was loading to go to Blue Circle at Hope, where I would tip and reload clinker for Northfleet.
Procedure was to weigh in empty and then go around to the bin to load, you pulled up to a keypad and entered the amount you wanted and it dropped into the body from the bin.
Again, not a difficult process, except that this lorry was a left ■■■■■■, so I had to jump out and walk around to the keypad. I entered 25tons and turned around to walk back to the cab to the sound of 25tons of gypsum falling into the body in one big heap, instead of a nice even load, it was all sat over the back wheels of the unit!
Now anyone with half a brain could work out that I had a problem, I couldn’t shoot it up to spread it down the trailer as all that weight at the front would’ve ended up with the lorry falling over, so with red face I had to go to the weigh bridge and tell them of my stupidity and get them to use an excavator to drag some of the load back.
Excavators were in short supply and they suggested I start shoveling, so after the loading shovel had got what he cpuld over the side, I got in with a shovel and moved enough back so I could tip it up and start again.
Next time I keyed in 5ton, then pulled forward for the next two 10ton lumps. A lesson learned the hard way lol
N your killing me ! But then I,m Pedded up ,Just two.
First time Whitwick quarry bridge man says load under bunker for where ever. Lad cab Riever pops under pulled chain expecting to get me full whack Kept moving the old gal about n thought she,s filling up a fair bit here. Stopped the job. Went to bridge Waynes dad says you,re a bit over me lad . Don,t worry too much you can,t chuck hot stuff off when your,e over the top What do I know first quarry job. Looked at my ticket when your man signed it. 31 ton
Way off topic , but popped into my half drunk mind
8 o clock ish Sat morn.Pre M25.Nipped into Rickmansworth high st newsagent for summat or another, come out spotted flat on back end, buga. Us old uns know swapping tyre a bit of a do,an hours graft. No good where I were pulled up to a quieter bit of road n set about it. It were sleeting n as cold as you,d want. Just about done cracking studs up yearning for the warmth of the ERF cab ■■? A chap comes by taking his dog for a walk, he spies me n for what ever reason, normal camaraderie or just plain politeness he says " Got a flat driver ? " " No, I don,t like the colour of the f***ing tyre" my reply. He carried on with dog n I cracked studs up n away I went. 40 odd years ago now but how much I would like to apologise to him !
Couple of twin ram set up’s, Seddon in 2nd pic looks like it is leaning to nearside!
They’ve probably been running it on trade plates for a month and got a couple of tons of coated stuck in the top nearside corner! 
pete smith:
Couple of twin ram set up’s, Seddon in 2nd pic looks like it is leaning to nearside!
It makes you wonder if they come with lumps of wood as standard.
Cracking pic of Jones.We used to run all over the shop with them, scrap n coal. Good bunch of lads would never pass you by if they thought you in trouble, see earlier post
Had a root round for that daft DAF found something similar circa 1919 but not found manufacturer yet
My kind of tipper! Robert
robert1952:
My kind of tipper! Robert
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The tractor for sure R, it,s them twin rams that gives me the willies !
For those of us without any pics you guys that post em are a god send. Not a bad on this one yet but they ,re all missing the must have accessory for tipper drivers. The old car tyre between rams n body !
coomsey:
robert1952:
My kind of tipper! Robert
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The tractor for sure R, it,s them twin rams that gives me the willies !
I’m with you there: I’ve never done tippers - it was one of the few things I didn’t try! 
Robert
rigsby:
i wouldn’t fancy that for tipping tarmac , if it stuck in it would be whoops . the yanks have similar ones , 53’ side tip trailers for stone . Their tarmac to the pavers are in live bottomed trailers , essentially a conveyor belt floor , no need for tipping rams . Dave
Been trying to follow this one up for a while D but been rooting about in N America with J n recruitment drive in Saudi ( failed miserably) A good few years ago I were chatting with one of Fred Sherwoods drivers, he,d not long swapped tipping trailer for one with the conveyor in it. Said it were the dogs kb. Expect he,d be right cos most of they,re work refuse tips.
It were a bit of a game keeping ae end clean on lorries we drove but hot stuff n conveyor system sounds a bit of a no no to me. But then what do I know?
robert1952:
coomsey:
robert1952:
My kind of tipper! Robert
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The tractor for sure R, it,s them twin rams that gives me the willies !
I’m with you there: I’ve never done tippers - it was one of the few things I didn’t try! Robert
Expect you never will if you,ve read half the posts on this topic. It,s that bad that John W would sooner push lorries in sand at 40c. They say you should n,t make judgement until you,ve tried it. But working on that theory I ought to pop out to my garage stick me do dahs in the vice and give them a good crushing, cos I,ve never give that a go before.
coomsey:
For those of us without any pics you guys that post em are a god send. Not a bad on this one yet but they ,re all missing the must have accessory for tipper drivers. The old car tyre between rams n body !
used my tar tarp as gaffer thought tyres were an eyesore 
