I haven’t posted for some time as been very busy with new job on the fish and without internet sorted in the lorry, here are some photos from the first couple of months that I hope are interesting, all were taken with phone so apologies for quality. It’s a very different business to tramping on general haulage but, so far, very enjoyable and have lost quite a bit of weight with lifting 25kg fish boxes (500+ in a 40’ trailer on some days)
At the start first call for me was Plymouth to collect fresh fish from the market and return to the factory for processing
Always very busy and waiting to get on the bay, the empty big bins on the left are for bulk fish.
Fish boxes, like shopping trolleys, end up a long way from home after passing boat to market to boat.
Next stop Brixham, in through the entrance on the right in the second picture and turn around on the Quay, it will be good when the new buildings are finished and has loading bays on the right of the first picture.
Meantime it’s often turn and park outside to load.
Contract boats will catch in bulk and land at the nearest available port .
Even the smaller ones like Mevagissey,
through the narrow bit
Round to the left
Turn right and at the harbour
The bins have to be carried through the street to the bus stop on the edge of the village which is the only place you can turn with trailer, there has been 7.5t on the quay and you can get just to right of first pic with 6 wheeler.
The scallop fishery in Wales opened in November …
Until the road ends
At Fishguard
The Milford Haven for the rest
And later bulk or frozen to deliver to France
There are no trains, (I think that’s what he said)
Parked up in the back street
Near this roundabout…
Nice post, good pics in spite of being taken with a phone. I don’t think the H&S stuffed shirts would be very impressed with your method of loading scallops though!
You see a big FH with a fridge trailer and assume that it’s all cold store to cold store running, this just goes to show you should never judge a book by its cover, a bit of an eye opener that
I havedn’t been to Mevagissy in a long time, we spread my Nan and Grandad’s ashes down there as it was their favourite holiday destination, so be careful where you walk
papermonkey:
Nice post, good pics in spite of being taken with a phone. I don’t think the H&S stuffed shirts would be very impressed with your method of loading scallops though!
It was , of course, computer generated on library footage and the scaffolding and nets airbrushed out, this should never be attempted at home (even if you own a harbour)
newmercman:
I havedn’t been to Mevagissy in a long time, we spread my Nan and Grandad’s ashes down there as it was their favourite holiday destination, so be careful where you walk
A couple of days later after that blurred photo we were landing and had the 6 wheeler parked just around the corner to the right in front of the Ship Inn and the spring ting tide was up to the wheel rims, the bins on the quay were all floating.
sadly it did a lot of damage to all the buildings in that lower part of town, I think Nan may have gone out with the tide or she’s in the Ship lounge bar
papermonkey:
Nice post, good pics in spite of being taken with a phone. I don’t think the H&S stuffed shirts would be very impressed with your method of loading scallops though!
It was , of course, computer generated on library footage and the scaffolding and nets airbrushed out, this should never be attempted at home (even if you own a harbour)
You have to be Cornish with that sense of humour! And that level of inventiveness loading the afore mentioned scallops.
(500+ in a 40’ trailer on some days)
