aye ROB it was a s-t of a day …was told to handball treadaire or take the terrier ,then a had a front flat,tipped reloaded Carlisle pd about in Dundee to unload/reload then back in yard was told to do a night trunk! lol no sense o humor some folk when you ask if they are going home and when he answered yes and I said funny that so am I!!.
ye I couldn’t get up seberham about 1978 wi an old erf,32 ton just kept running out o power half way up,a local tipper man turned up and he told me to go round some lanes leading from the bottom of the climb,it brought me out up top somewhere.later had a high powered Scania 80 select 1st gear.
jackslad:
ye I couldn’t get up seberham about 1978 wi an old erf,32 ton just kept running out o power half way up,a local tipper man turned up and he told me to go round some lanes leading from the bottom of the climb,it brought me out up top somewhere.later had a high powered Scania 80select 1st gear.
is that turn left at bottom of the hill before you hit the bridge ■■ I delivered to a farm (bell bridge iirc) with a 18t once . it wasn’t good in a rigid , cant have been much fun in a artic
‘Carl Usher’:
Thanks. It’s usually very late night or early hours when I’m inbound and 1am+ outbound.
You should be ok then, think the ban is something like 8am to 7pm.
Instead of turning right for Thursby go ’ ‘straight across’ staggered junction for Wigton, take left fork, to end.
Turn right, to the end of road at monument/fountain t.junction.
Turn left to end of road. Turn left and that is you on Wigton to Aspatria road.
Had to collect a Tyson Burridge trailer out of Kirkbride airfield the other week, got directed down the 5307. Roadworks at Moorhouse where there was an overhanging cottage on the corner. Fortunately was just in a unit as would have been a pain with a trailer on. Came back out via Wigton which was a much better route regardless.
Nice people up there mind, really helpful.
syramax:
jackslad:
ye I couldn’t get up seberham about 1978 wi an old erf,32 ton just kept running out o power half way up,a local tipper man turned up and he told me to go round some lanes leading from the bottom of the climb,it brought me out up top somewhere.later had a high powered Scania 80select 1st gear.
is that turn left at bottom of the hill before you hit the bridge ■■ I delivered to a farm (bell bridge iirc) with a 18t once . it wasn’t good in a rigid , cant have been much fun in a artic
Ye going towards wigton go over bridge first right it goes along river side then follow round it comes out top of hill at a crossroad I think ,30 year but still in my head it must a been traumatic at the time
Dipper_Dave:
One has to remember country folk can be more laid back than city slickers.I made the schoolboy error of driving in Norfolk the same way as in London yesterday.
Usual busy roundabout trick of starting her trickling having picked a decent gap after a few cars had gone past. Anyway just as I was expecting the cars to whiz passed so I could hit full thrust there was a screech of brakes and they both stopped to let me out.
I gestured apologetically but was responded to with a 6 fingered coffee bean shake and some form of expletive in carrotcrunch which unfortunately I’m not fluent in.Totally my fault but one has to drive to the conditions be it busy cities or amongst illegally related country folk.
No offence intended to illegally related country folk.
Or maybe they are just brighter than Londoners and slowed down to reverse the priorities to let you onto the roundabout as the French originally designed the things to be used but then you decided to stop.
I picked some flt’s up at that dairy a short while ago that yard is fun to turn around in,
Just go in via Carlisle, saves all the fannying about, good roads loads of laybys.
" Boy…you play a mean banjo "
Or as they say in Kendal, " Squeal piggy…SQUEAL ".
eagerbeaver:
" Boy…you play a mean banjo "Or as they say in Kendal, " Squeal piggy…SQUEAL ".
sounded more like the old Carlisle truck stop than Kendal might even been penrith truck stop…
Drift:
I picked some flt’s up at that dairy a short while ago that yard is fun to turn around in,
Just go in via Carlisle, saves all the fannying about, good roads loads of laybys.
Carlisle is fine if you’re coming from the north or north east but it’s huge waste of time and fuel if you’re coming from the south. As Robroy has said, J41 towards Wigton probably best/quickest route and looks like a perfectly decent road.
J41 and the 5301 is what all the Sealy artics use, to avoid Wigton you cab turn off the 595 towards Fletchertown and it leads into Aspatria