stevieboy308:
If it’s a 2 pipe setup then you’d be fine to disconnect the pipes, 1 pipe then probably not!
It was 1 pipe.
Ended up using a Hiab to hold the tipper body and carefully loosen the pipe so it filled up bucket after bucket which was reintroduced to the reservoir.
Watch your mirrors.Earthline could be coming the other way . . saying that,there not half as bad as some of those hell drivers with Dickens characters(spolling) on the cab though.(imo)
If you’ve got a tracker fitted, don’t leave the site and park in a layby where they can see you dossing, hang around on site for a few minutes, and the tracker will show you on site waiting to tip.
If you’ve been on the same job allday, just note on your timesheet " not wanted back before (whatever) pm and find a nice layby for a kip.
If you pass your yard on the way back to base, call in for some spare bulbs, have a tyre checked, use the washdown etc etc. All perfectly plausable excuses.
I couldn’t possibly comment as to whether these methods work. 
Study the Highway Code.
And don’t wear a wife beater vest and rigger boots, they’re so last year.
stevieboy308:
dar1976:
dew:
dar1976:
stevieboy308:
don’t uncouple a loaded raised tipper trailerAnd to go with that… Make sure the pipe is connected firmly with collar firmly over otherwise you end up with it stuck in the air.
I take it, it comes down to earth with an almighty bang?
Not that quick. And if you stand too close you get showered with hydraulic oil.
I was on about snapping the front off the trailer!!
A casual holiday relief guy did that where i used to work. We had a '91 Fruehauf/Willcox stepframe which he’d loaded with linseed. Took the trailer up to the yard to drop it for someone else, but because the sheet was a bit leaky decided to tip it up a ram-and-a-half before dropping it. Let’s just say that dropping the unit’s suspension wasn’t enough to get back under it. In fact, if he’d unbolted the fifth wheel and tried to slide it under on it’s own it still wouldn’t have gone! Unfortunately I was ‘up the road’, so didn’t get a photo opportunity. Wrote the trailer off though, and don’t think he ever got that oil back in his hydraulic tank
Ignore the bloke who says “we’ve had lorries this big in here before” as they’re forgetting that the building wasn’t built then.
When delivering to a farmer who asks “can you spread it?” don’t waste your time making a good job of it as they wont give you a drink (they’re poor remember) and they’ve forgotten about their numerous diggers and tractors with buckets on them hidden around the back.
Muckaway:
Ignore the bloke who says “we’ve had lorries this big in here before” as they’re forgetting that the building wasn’t built then.
When delivering to a farmer who asks “can you spread it?” don’t waste your time making a good job of it as they wont give you a drink (they’re poor remember) and they’ve forgotten about their numerous diggers and tractors with buckets on them hidden around the back.
Do you finish work early on a Friday Nathan or are you still on holiday ? Cheers Dennis.
Hang yourself
When the customer asks you to “tip the load 2 inches off of the ground so that I can get my shovel under it driver” tell them that you only work in millimetres!
Oh and when tipping tarmac into a paver please remember to unfasten the taildoor because when it breaks off its hinges it makes a mess of the drive paddle’s in the machine ha ha! Wasn’t me though, but I was on site. 
Pete.
mike68:
Study the Highway Code.
And don’t wear a wife beater vest and rigger boots, they’re so last year.
Are there people that still wear rigger boots 
bet they got there jeans half way down there arse as well.
Stay at home and do us all a favour
It’s not foggy, your reversing camera’s dirty.
Don’t upset the bloke in the weighbridge.They can make life difficult.
Don’t upset the shovel driers.They can also make things difficult.
Watch out for power lines when tipping.
Keep clear of raised body.
Before backing up to a paver (Blaw Knox) type thing,raise up your mudflaps and release your back door.
a guy at a local feed mill loaded up then reversed up to a chain fence and took his break, he then drove off but on reversing he had caught the tailgate levers in te fence and on pulling away the tailgate had opened slightly, it was approx 5 miles when he got the call he was leaving a trail!