your worst tipping experience on muck away jobs
had a few bad ones chaines breaking wire ropes snaping
angry machine drivers bad pushing bending push bars
drivers being held up because they carnt pass u on tip
loads of shouting and cursing oh they were fun days
all rushing to make a few more pound
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Years ago as a newbie I was working for a tip and rip 8 wheel outfit,
I had only been there about a week and spent most of my time looking
like this 
.
The drivers had been complaining to the boss that the machine driver
was overloading them and no matter what you said to him he would still
pile it on.
Cue the boss Sweeny style onto the loading pad,
heated exchange of words with the machine driver
which ended with him being dragged from the cab
and getting the snot slapped out of him.
Well that certainly added to the ambience. 
had a good laugh at your reply it went on seen it many times
one day I seen machine man well over load 8 wheeler
row starts with driver pin on tailgate is pulled he stats to
drive of site tipping load as he goes up the main street
all done in front of site agent and visiting hob
nobs a site to remember to this day
Back in early 80,s i used to run to a tip at Packington . The m/c driver was new , he had been tranfered there by his boss to keep him sober and off the beer , it was middle of no where , no pub to visit at lunchtime. Second day on job his boss rolled up mid afternoon quite pleased with himself for stopping his driver from drinking. The m/c driver almost fell out of the cab , drunk as a lord , boss scratched his head wondering what had happened. Apparently the m/c driver had flagged down a Davenports beer at home delivery van and purchased a crate of beer that he put in his m/c 
I’ve tipped an overweight load off right in the site entrance. First load was over, stopped the machine driver who then drops another bucketful on as I climb back into the cab. Then another bucketful before I can drive away. Very liberating experience to just fire the load back off.
Could never understand why so many digger drivers wanted to pile material on? Nowadays I find they stop early and I get them to top the load up. Usually they clear off any loose debris with the bucket, saving me the job.
Same firm as before but this time Im at a landfill site and the guy
who shouts at you and signs your tickets,says to me…over there
drive next to the Leyland.
Well I had already spotted that the Leyland was stuck and the last
thing I wanted to do was make it a matching pair.
So Im just trying to explain this to shoutalot,
When there is a blast of horns and the bellow of a big cat
and this Foden steams past me and heads straight for the Leyland.
Needless to say after a display of his skills as a manic he is alongside
the Leyland with the body rocketing upwards and him running to
the tailgate.
So he gets the gate undone and good third shoots out,closely followed
by another big lump…and then it all starts to go wrong,there is a huge
lump of clay stuck in the top of the body but its too late…as it hits the
last section of the ram he has made it halfway to the cab.
It started to tip to the left with the ram bending like a cheap aerial and
it went down like a Fred Dibnah chimmley,right on top of the Leyands body
The chassis on the Foden twisted right round so the rear wheel set was
vertical.
I nearly sprained my shoulder patting meself on the back.
50yd roll on with rubbish hammered in to it. Tipped it on landfill site and not even a scrap of paper comer out in to reverse back a few foot and slammed the brakes on and the front starts lifting what felt like metres but was probaly inches. Come back down and started rocking but still not a scrap come out. Pulled forward hit brakes and lots of rocking thankfully it moves and the whole lot dropped out in 1 lump.
Not a pleasnt experince
Another one i was about four years old out with my dad. He backed down a side turning early in the morning fly tipped a load of muck as we drove out there was a police Rover sd1 waiting for us. Got to spend the morning in the canteen at greenwich police station doing colouring in.
Didn’t happen to me but I was involved. A long time ago, I was digging out for a new drain in my front garden. Left me with about 3 yards of wet clay to get rid of. I didn’t have a suitable vehicle and was going to get a skip, but I spotted an ad in my local rag “rubbish cleared”. Called the guy, he was half the price of a skip, so I gave him the job. He turned up on his own with a 35cwt wooden bodied dropside Bedford and a shovel. Moaned when he saw it was clay, he’d hoped it was topsoil, but I never said it was. He moaned a lot, so I helped him load it, he was hoping to get it all on, but no chance, the tyres were bulging with half of it. So he set off for the tip, said he’d be back in the morning for the rest. I got a 'phone call that night, he wasn’t happy, wasn’t coming back in the morning, he’d had a tyre blow out on the way to the tip, then when he got there, as it wasn’t a tipper he’d bunged the machine driver to push the load off, the clay had stuck, the body got pushed off as well!
I do a lot of Muckshift & tipped a load at a known tip pulled forward & as it was my last load for the day I checked body to see if it was clean & had about half a tonne stuck in back.
So I drove to side to ensure I wasn’t blocking anyone. Got out, full PPE etc dug it out & went onto weighbridge. Cue bollocking from man on bridge in his Scottish accent “you come on weighbridge, you tip, back on bridge & ■■■■ off.”
I told him, our company pays you to tip a full load & a full load we tip plus I needed body to be clean as I was getting loaded with screed the next day before I told him to go ■■■■ himself.
Got barred off tip. Told my manager, 10 mins later landfill tip boss rings me & says I’m allowed back in lol.
I had a brief stint on scrap metal skips with an 8 wheeler twin skip wagon. Trouble is the lifting gear is no different to a short wheelbase vehicle and can’t load the skips on the front.
I’d been told to load it on as normal on the back and disconnect the chains, then hammer down the yard and hit the brakes to slide it forwards. Seemed simple in the yard with empties and to get them off you did it in reverse. First time out I was at the tractor plant at Basildon and you had to weigh the bins in and out. Picked up a skip of metal swarf weighed it, loaded it back on and on the way to get the second skip did the slide it forward routine only with a 8t+ skip the trick (which I learnt very quickly) was to dab the brakes and release them before stopping. I stopped dead and the bin shot forward and hit the stops with a huge bang and tipped a load of metal swarf right over the top of the cab 
Hate tips where you can’t get in the back, what are you supposed to do if you can’t get in and shovel it? Some sites wont scrape out with a digger in case of damage.
We get sites that suddenly have a policy of not letting you climb on the bed to sweep it after you’ve just unloaded their machine.
“whoa you can’t get up there without handrails” etc
I’ve been known to nod and doff my hard hat and leave the site with the mud covering the bed as per their rules. Then immediately having left their site I’ll climb on with no PPE and sweep the lot into the road / path outside their gate.
A couple o weeks ago before we started to spray the bodies wi polar (stops the load from sticking in the minus temps) ,well i loaded with sand ,my air gauges were frozen so i left it to to loader driver …well i went to the scale and i was a more than a couple otonnes over on my centre axles (a b train unit+2axles +2axles) so went back to dump some of the front trailer (side tip) and the load wouldnt move ,so up a bit more ,a bit more and the whole kin load came out before i could move …no weight on drives so im stuck …mr grumpy on loader comes over and pushes me out . So back in line again to load ,he ignores my signals and puts the same buckets back on again …back to the scale still to far over to leave go back to pile and mr grumpy drives behind/along side to stop me dumping off !!
after a talk about how many yrs ive been coming into the quarry and know better and me asking about when his parents are getting married im back at the scale and the girl forgets to give me a ticket …
bossman just laughed and said its will be all forgoten by spring and .i finished the season off hauling stone
jimmy
I posted this a while ago. Many of you will have read it but for those who haven’t…
I’d got a job driving an artic tipper and one of our regular loads was dust which was loaded from a chute overhead, with the loadie calling you forward every few seconds as the trailer filled up. I pulled away from the quarry at 44t but the front felt really heavy. Anyway I got to the unloading site (another quarry) and sure enough there was so much weight on the front, the ram on this crappy old trailer couldn’t cope. It only went half way up.
A little bit trickled out the back but not much. I pulled forward and then reversed at speed, hit the brakes to try to shoot the load backwards but no, it was stuck. Phoned the boss and explained, he said ‘There’s a shovel on the trailer, start digging.’ Oh thanks’ I said.
I was contemplating this unhappy news when I noticed that the quarry was on 2 levels with a steepish ramp connecting them, and my brain started ticking… and i thought ‘I wonder…?’ All a question of angles really. If the lorry is facing uphill, starting off at a steepish angle, even if the body only reaches 45 degrees, add that together and it should be enough to move this bloody load! Clever eh?
Genius.
So, I closed the tailgate, trundled over to this ramp, handbrake, PTO and engage! Up she goes, slowly…getting higher…still no movement…higher…ram reaching it’s maximum now…little bit more… small sliding sound…and then WHUUUMP!!! The whole bloody lot crashes against the tailboard, the drive axle lifts off the ground and the lorry is starting to slew sideways. I slam the lever down, the body comes down, the drive axle returns to terra firma, and I need a change of underpants.
But I’ve got a smile on my face cos now I can tip. The machine driver who’d wandered over for a nose however, didn’t have a smile on his face. Don’t think he could actually speak mind cos he didn’t say anything. Just sort of stared. I gave him a friendly wave and smiled sheepishly, reversed back and tipped no problem. Wahey
Worst tip? Sutton Courtenay? Got three punctures in one trip there once. I was also training my mm ate then, somewhat embarrassing…
The tip at Bayford for me.
Went in in a hire lorry as mine was U/S.
Drove past one of our on the way out, thought I’d give him plenty if room, N/S wheels on the grass lorry up to it’s axles at a jaunty angle fully loaded.
Nice.
Used to hate Brogborough, because it was mostly clay, when it was dry everything was ok but there was a lot if dust, so they would wet it !
Now, road going tyres & wet clay don’t go together too well, especially on a slight incline.
I lost all my traction one day (daydreaming along the haul road) & couldn’t get going again, so along comes a D8-Cat with a chain to tow me up the hill/incline, I jumped out & hooked it up to my towing eye (that’s actually on the end of one of the Chassis Rails on an F10) & off we go, matey at full pelt (about 4mph) chatting away on his mobile & me just helping it along in 2 gear on tickover, as the road levelled I started catching him, but he was too busy on the phone & just carried in regardless, so I was tooting the air horn but he couldn’t hear me because he was flat out at about two & a half thousand revs, then the inevitable happened, I lost traction again & he carried on, pulling the front of my chassis clean off.
3 or 4 foot of slack chain between a 10/15 ton D8 & 44 tons of Artic & a 4 mph run up ! Something’s gonna loose, it turned out to be my Chassis ! LOL !
Got caught out on Welford Tip as well, you used to gun it as fast as you could off the weigh bridge, because you had the equivalent of Porlock Hill to climb & would only get about a third of the way up, then a Cat/Bulldozer would be waiting for you.
Same again you would jump out & hook the chain up, only problem was- on one occasion I didn’t notice that the driver before me had rearranged the hook on the back of the Cat, instead of the chain being on a D Shackle it was just hanging on a hook, so I connected it to the front of the wagon, jumped in & gave Mick (the machine driver) the thumbs up, he sets off & as soon as the slack has taken up I noticed the hook bending towards me ! Hand on horn, he couldn’t hear me (co’s he on full revs) I could see what was going to happen, so I ducked down & the chain came straight through the windscreen.
Thought that was it ! That day.
Wrote my Last Will & Testament soon after that !
I hate Landfills !!!