That’s a bit extreme Bri 
Lawley bros they have the old mobile sawmill that goes to the shows / steam rally’s . .
I find that stuff fascinating could watch that sort of machine for hours !
I went to the Dorset sream fair a few years back and they were there 
Cheers MIke
Used to take pulp out to Rouen and load logs back for Chantler timber with Ford’s. That was back in my Punchards day’s, wasn’t it one of Ford’s that lost a layer of bales on the M6 last summer? I carried them once at Punchards and every time I went under a bridge I braced myself lol. The agent said I MUST load it 4 bales high and MUST BE SHEETED. Measured it at 16, 3, told the agent yeah yeah it’s sheeted hmmm. Farmer wasn’t bothered and it was the middle of summer so it wasn’t gonna get soaked.
Hi Andrew , yea I know all about the straw load lost between j1 and 2 on the m6 
and no it wasn’t me !
I was loading straw at a farm in Essex , the farmer started putting them on , " looks a bit high that I said let me check " so out with tape measure sure enough nearly 17 ’
Anyway load rearranged to get the height down , just then my boss rings , farmer telling him the previous load was too high and was now sitting in a pile on the m6 (or words to that effect ) 
The farmer did feel guilty but I said no way was it his fault , purely down to the driver . Poor Wayne had not long been with us and was his first load of straw , more fool him tho for not owning a tape measure 
Onto the timber for chandlers , one of my most worrying jobs was taking some oak from France which had been dropped in our yard , out to a chap. Near bunbury.
I set off having got some quite brief step by step directions to the destination . This turned out to be a tiny farm up a stupidly tight dead end road / track . To say I was stressed by the time I got there was an understatement 
Wasn’t helped by a lady who lived down that road saying I’m sure they haven’t had anything that big down here before
Anyway the customer turned out to be a nice fella , made me a coffee etc and was chatting . He said punchards used to deliver there but weren’t too keen because of the low trees battering the cabs etc , he did say the gaffer at punchards once delivered there whilst there was snow on the ground and got stuck for a while .
Maybe you delivered there Andrew , don’t remember his name but he had a workshop and made stuff from green oak , garages porches etc
Cheers Mike
kingswinford kit:
Dave the Renegade:
One of Freeman’s eight legger tippers, seen on the A465 on Belmont Road, Hereford.Hi Dave one of Mervyns from Ruardean , and i suspect a pic for our ROF to muse over !! regards Keith .
Hi, Dave & Keith,
Good to see Merv is still in business. Not too many of the firms I remember have lasted the course, including Midwest Transport (whoever they were ! )
Shropshire bri that’s a good pic of lawleys , mike did you say you were 0n loose moores as I see them all time on road , enjoyed your pis of ford cheers charlie
charliemjp:
Shropshire bri that’s a good pic of lawleys , mike did you say you were 0n loose moores as I see them all time on road , enjoyed your pis of ford cheers charlie
excuse spelling
Retired Old ■■■■:
kingswinford kit:
Dave the Renegade:
One of Freeman’s eight legger tippers, seen on the A465 on Belmont Road, Hereford.Hi Dave one of Mervyns from Ruardean , and i suspect a pic for our ROF to muse over !! regards Keith .
Hi, Dave & Keith,
Good to see Merv is still in business. Not too many of the firms I remember have lasted the course, including Midwest Transport (whoever they were !
Have a look on the M F Freeman website Casey. They are very much still in business 
Cheers Dave.
Hi Charlie , glad you enjoyed the pics of fords I put up 
Yes I work for loosemores now I’m assuming your local as we are a fairly small outfit , although I think Dave will see more of us from now on as we have now started a new contract running between here South wales , Luton and Cheshire so running up the A49 daily with a couple of loads . 
Cheers mike
thanks for that mike , Dave will be catching you on camera on 49, yes we are local based minsterley and we run shawbury every day and then up to Liverpool docks or Newark. I got 10 plate ex stobbys and mark has fm 59 plate ex sains cheers charlie
Retired Old ■■■■:
kingswinford kit:
Dave the Renegade:
One of Freeman’s eight legger tippers, seen on the A465 on Belmont Road, Hereford.Hi Dave one of Mervyns from Ruardean , and i suspect a pic for our ROF to muse over !! regards Keith .
Hi, Dave & Keith,
Good to see Merv is still in business. Not too many of the firms I remember have lasted the course, including Midwest Transport (whoever they were !
Hi Dave and ROF , would think they have about a dozen tippers up at Ruardean , regards Keith .
A Scania artic, seen on the A438 on Whitecross Road, Hereford.
A MAN artic, seen on the A438 on Whitecross Road, Hereford.
Two more, seen on the A4111 in Eardisley, Herefordshire.
