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Richard A Thackeray
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Forget the song 'Six Days On The Road' try 70 years!!
Classic Trucks, Wagons
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DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
How on earth does he pass the medical? and still roping & sheeting at 90, I’d say in this day and age uneccessary and dangerous if he gets it wrong, use ratchet straps for gods sake
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Richard A Thackeray
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Sunday 23rd
New issue picked up yesterday
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‘Fall Ings’
Doncaster Road/A638
Wakefield
New issue picked up yesterday
BP
‘Fall Ings’
Doncaster Road/A638
Wakefield
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Richard A Thackeray
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Presently on 5 Action’ channel
’Trucking Heavy’
’Trucking Heavy’
Jameshow
Veteran
What are they carrying seems alot for crate of blocks!
Also talk me out of a green Goddess!!
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Richard A Thackeray
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6 -8MPG, if on original petrol engine
Is that enough??
No power-steering, no assistance to brakes, ‘crash’ gearbox
Etc…
Jameshow
Veteran
No try harder!
I want it to pootle the mile to our men's shed where they can work in it or from it!
The lockers would be idea for tools etc.
Then Id get a economic car for general driving!
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
At the Dorset Heavy Horse Centre
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Richard A Thackeray
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Go the whole hog, & get an AEC Militant, Thorneycroft Antar, or Scammell Explorer?
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
But that's the thing, who at 90 years old has the strength to tie a dolly, then tension the rope through it to secure the load sufficiently, and to also wrestle with a canvas tarpaulin, when a ratchet strap is far more safer and secure, it's a technique that's been consigned to history for a reason, it's not safe in this day & age
Jameshow
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Richard A Thackeray
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There’s 2 quite close to me, in (I believe) fully operational status, including pumps!!
They’re big/ wide beasties, with an 18litre ‘dieselised’ version of the R-R Meteor engine, that was used in tanks
They sound awesome!!
Although the ‘straight-8’ in the Stalwart is equally aurally good
Jameshow
Veteran
GG - Not up for sale?!
