I used to work on a Farm and we regularly had loads of frozen veg waste (supermarket stock reject) in as cow feed. It would come in an artic, the tipping area was quite small, you had to have the trailer screwed round at an angle to the tractor at the point of tipping and it had a slope on it which meant that as the trailer ram went up the body started coming over towards the house before the veg duly departed.
Had the trailer ram go up and, about threequarters of the way up, as it twisted over SNAP! dropping the trailer full of frozen veg straight back down.
Another time, at the same place, the artic was in tip position, with the trailer all the way up and the frozen veg just sat there inside going nowhere. The trailer was leaning over horribly and I thought it was going over. All of a sudden the entire load shot out as one frozen lump shoving the tractor forwards and jack knifing the trailer to within an inch of the house. Had to get a Farm tractor to pull the jack knifed rig away from the house, the driver was white as a sheet and needed a change of pants.
Muckaway:
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.
Muckaway:
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.
Muckaway:
Is Brogborough still open? I think it used to be a clay quarry for London Brick.
No, Bloody place closed about 5 years ago, Thank God.
Not 100% sure, but I think that Stewartby, Broggy & Newton Longville were all Clay Pits/Quarry’s for London Brick during the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s,
then they were all filled up with ‘Mostly’ London’s S h i t !
Muckaway:
Is Brogborough still open? I think it used to be a clay quarry for London Brick.
No, Bloody place closed about 5 years ago, Thank God.
Not 100% sure, but I think that Stewartby, Broggy & Newton Longville were all Clay Pits/Quarry’s for London Brick during the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s,
then they were all filled up with ‘Mostly’ London’s S h i t !
Calvert’s the surviving one then; There’s an incinerator plant being built there now. I think it still takes London waste by train though. Right next door they’ve built a new housing estate…
Muckaway:
Is Brogborough still open? I think it used to be a clay quarry for London Brick.
No, Bloody place closed about 5 years ago, Thank God.
Not 100% sure, but I think that Stewartby, Broggy & Newton Longville were all Clay Pits/Quarry’s for London Brick during the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s,
then they were all filled up with ‘Mostly’ London’s S h i t !
Calvert’s the surviving one then; There’s an incinerator plant being built there now. I think it still takes London waste by train though. Right next door they’ve built a new housing estate…
You might be right, think they are still tipping there. The only time I went to Calvert was to collect a Roll On bin from the housing estate about 12 years ago & believe it or not, I tipped it in the Transfer station at Wolverton, Milton Keynes.
Always used to make me wonder ?
We used to take roll on bins from Milton Keynes, Tip them at Elstow, Bedford Transfer Station, (it was never sorted !) then watch the machine driver load the same stuff onto an artic (in the time that we were closing our doors)only for the artic to follow us all the way back the Milton Keynes, Newton Longville Landfill (always seemed a bit Daft )
Calvert’s still open - the ‘Bin Liner’ trains come from London and Avonmouth way to tip and reload. I only know this as i’m working on the section of railway around here…
TFI Friday:
Calvert’s still open - the ‘Bin Liner’ trains come from London and Avonmouth way to tip and reload. I only know this as i’m working on the section of railway around here…
Are you working on the line upgrade at Bicester? I’ve been taking stone into the embankment project off Gavray Drive.
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