jsd:
Waiting to tip Tar at the Birdlip…long old slog up there!
Used to go that way a lot in my day. Is that near the Hungry Horse pub, just before Severn Springs ? The next pic, answered my question. 
Cheers Dave.
Yep that’s the one Dave
Cheers James
jsd:
Yep that’s the one Dave
Cheers James
Used to haul chippings to a dump, just past where the new round-a-bouts are.
Cheers Dave.
Just a thought, Dave- when you were heading from the Gore down Brecon way did you ever take the short cut through Gladestry and Painscastle, coming out at Glasbury? Bit of a bum-clencher in a loaded artic but it saved five minutes if you were brave enough! 
Retired Old ■■■■:
Just a thought, Dave- when you were heading from the Gore down Brecon way did you ever take the short cut through Gladestry and Painscastle, coming out at Glasbury? Bit of a bum-clencher in a loaded artic but it saved five minutes if you were brave enough!
No Casey, you wouldn’t gain any time at all in my day with low powered wagons. Also we could motor on the main road before speed limiters. I did deliver lots of loads over that way to the various villages and farms, but not an area I wanted to go. It was better to go through Kington and around. A better short cut was over Brilley, but it was still better to go around.
Cheers Dave.
Being relatively young and stupid, we tested the clock on a couple of occasions, with one of us going around and the other taking the Gladestry route. Then next day we would swop rotes. It was certainly a bit quicker to go the hilly route but, unless we wanted to nip past one of the other firms on the same job we didn’t like to give the brakes too much to do. Especially when I got the F88- used to nip the trailer brakes up twice a day when we were motoring on!
Retired Old ■■■■:
Being relatively young and stupid, we tested the clock on a couple of occasions, with one of us going around and the other taking the Gladestry route. Then next day we would swop rotes. It was certainly a bit quicker to go the hilly route but, unless we wanted to nip past one of the other firms on the same job we didn’t like to give the brakes too much to do. Especially when I got the F88- used to nip the trailer brakes up twice a day when we were motoring on!
The difference with you and me Casey, was that who-ever I was driving for, were in the area near the quarries, and if you did things like that, it usually got back to them. As I said I have travelled through Gladestry and Newchurch to Rhosgoch and over the top many times, also taken tarmac and stone to jobs along that route, but I never liked going that way much, even when I had a Commer or the KM that pulled well. Can’t remember taking anything on a six wheeler that way. I go that way now and again for a leisurely drive these days, but you still have to keep your elbows in, as half the locals are driving along and farming, looking over the hedge.
Cheers Dave.
A Scania timber carriage, seen on the A438 near Whitney on Wye, Herefordshire.
One of Mervyn Thomas Scania artic drivers, seen taking a break by the A438 near Llowes, Radnorshire.
Dave the Renegade:
I go that way now and again for a leisurely drive these days, but you still have to keep your elbows in, as half the locals are driving along and farming, looking over the hedge.
Cheers Dave.
I know the farmers, Dave- muddy old LandRover, 25mph, staring over the hedge at his neighbour’s crops!
Casey.
A Foden Alpha artic tipper, seen on the A44 at Stanner, Radnorshire.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Dave the Renegade:
I go that way now and again for a leisurely drive these days, but you still have to keep your elbows in, as half the locals are driving along and farming, looking over the hedge.
Cheers Dave.I know the farmers, Dave- muddy old LandRover, 25mph, staring over the hedge at his neighbour’s crops!
Casey.
Some of them this way have smart crew cab 4X4’s ( usually caked in crap ), that are going like hell, but still gawping over the hedge. The tractors are doing over 25mph Casey.
Cheers Dave.
How things have changed! Even in the Welsh borders!
Retired Old ■■■■:
How things have changed! Even in the Welsh borders!
A lot of arable ground this way Casey, as well as the mixed farms. If you travelled through Gladestry to Painscastle, that would be mixed farms with more sheep,and more subsidies,although its single payment now I think. You don’t see many of them thumbing a lift. Have a look on Google Earth at this area.
Cheers Dave.
Will do. All this “subsidy” lark goes over my head, to be honest. I can’t remember getting any subsidy when I was contributing to the British transport industry. Or any thanks, come to that!
Me? Cynical? Never!
A couple more returning to the quarries for another load, seen on the A44 at Dunfield near Kington.
Scania artic, seen on the A44 on Kington bypass.