Today I acquired...........

[4String.]

@4string is that your own design?

No, it's a "Mounty Pole" from Nationwide Trailer Parts at Sherburn near Leeds.

Cost something short of £40 and is well worth it and NTP were a joy to deal with, very helpful and quick delivery. There's another one on the market called "Pro Pole" available from Cargo stop that's similarly priced but has a bewildering array of screw-on heads. There's probably one shaped like a plate that you can stick out of the cab window at the butty van to save getting out of the cab .

All joking aside though, I wish I'd bought one a long time ago. I don't mind clambering around on the trailer if I have to, occasionally I have to do this:



...and there's really no other way to do it than the way we've been doing it for decades but for sticking the corner protectors on the pole is worth it's weight in teabags .

 

[4String.]

The problem is that the ones who are not competent to step off a kerb let along climb a trailer to strap a load use the same argument as the ones that are.

Agreed, and apologies to @bricol for any offence.

None was intended, I just have problems with having someone who in all probability has never been near a lorry telling me how to do a job that I've been doing quite safely and competently for many years. Sadly we have to legislate for the lowest common denominators in society these days, the kind who wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the industry when I started...

Edit: having reread that, I meant someone in H&S telling me what to do as opposed to bricol... (It's been a long hot day, almost 10 hours driving and close to 500 miles.)

 

[Munkul]

I ordered a 200mm digital caliper and they sent me a 300mm one. I'm OK with that.
I used to look down on the M&W value line calipers but honestly for the money you can't argue, it's tight, smooth and repeatable, and that's all you can ask of a very-near anyway... And I don't use them day in day out so can look after them easily.

150mm caliper next to it for scale

 

[Brad93]

Nice find on FB just down the rd.
0.01mm-5mm Mity Dial Indicator and a Mity combimike 0.001"/0.01mm Both as new

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They are bloody lovely shox

 

[Shox Dr]

They are bloody lovely shox

Dare I tell you they were 35quid

 

[Brad93]

Dare I tell you they were 35quid

Good price

 

[mechman]

"....very cheap...."

Define, please? Free delivery makes it even more attractive, but I'd want to see it working if possible.

About a ton, it's in as new condition. The thing that's making me dither is that I had a look at a new one in MC Mart ages ago and wasn't impressed at how much play was on the cross slide. Are they badged by Clark?

 

[Mick Annick]

No, it's a "Mounty Pole" from Nationwide Trailer Parts at Sherburn near Leeds.

Cost something short of £40 and is well worth it and NTP were a joy to deal with, very helpful and quick delivery. There's another one on the market called "Pro Pole" available from Cargo stop that's similarly priced but has a bewildering array of screw-on heads. There's probably one shaped like a plate that you can stick out of the cab window at the butty van to save getting out of the cab .

All joking aside though, I wish I'd bought one a long time ago. I don't mind clambering around on the trailer if I have to, occasionally I have to do this:

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...and there's really no other way to do it than the way we've been doing it for decades but for sticking the corner protectors on the pole is worth it's weight in teabags .

Haven’t seen a properly roped and sheeted load in years

 

[4String.]

Haven’t seen a properly roped and sheeted load in years

Not all the dinosaurs died out...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

About a ton

At that, just buy it. If you're not happy you'll make more than that by parting it out

 

[bricol]

Agreed, and apologies to @bricol for any offence.

None was intended, I just have problems with having someone who in all probability has never been near a lorry telling me how to do a job that I've been doing quite safely and competently for many years. Sadly we have to legislate for the lowest common denominators in society these days, the kind who wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the industry when I started...

Edit: having reread that, I meant someone in H&S telling me what to do as opposed to bricol... (It's been a long hot day, almost 10 hours driving and close to 500 miles.)

I don't take offence on the net

I too get a touch irritated by a H&S person with no actual experience of the job telling me stuff about the job I've done with no injury for the last 30 yrs due to my own developed common sense - the thing is though, that H&S person has probably seen all the reports, all the documentation of all the hundreds of others who haven't managed it from their H&S organisation memberships - and in not managing it, I guess some of them have also taken out some of the ones who were up to then . . .

So rather than lose workers, and of course cost money, they offer the procedure/tools/check lists that those with experience around the world have developed and publicised. And if you are sensible, you never stop listening - you might just learn something useful.

You can't argue with the figures - we used to have very high number of injuries, some fatal, in our plants around the world - affecting our employees, our customers, and our suppliers, and their families (literally sometimes - a truck driver delivering to a plant in Africa (I think) brought his wife and child with him - they didn't leave with him! - that lead to every single gate in our many plants around the world being inspected and modified if required).

Those figures have dropped considerably, heading very close to the target of zero. World wide!

It just doesn't take much to have a momentary loss of concentration - maybe after 10 hrs and 500 miles of driving - to slip slightly, catch a toe in a loose sheet/strap . . .

They really aren't trying to make your job harder, just trying to make sure you go home in the same number of component parts as you arrived in - and if our H&S lady could hear me say that, she'd probably trip over her own hand rail that she had installed to stop people leaping to their death off the pavement kerb outside our main building . . .

 

[MattF]

I don't take offence on the net

Stating that opens a door to temptation.

 

[pedrobedro]

Haven’t seen a properly roped and sheeted load in years

That's what I used to do at the factory, sheeting and shunting loads round ready for the drivers to hook up and take away. Tautliners took the hard work out of it.

 

[bricol]

Stating that opens a door to temptation.

I just ignore the poster or the entire thread . . .

Not like if the pillock next door annoys me, as I probably have to at least acknowledge his presence so not to drive into him

 

[4String.]

Tautliners took the hard work out of it.

As well as the skill and pride in a job well done...

As @Mick Annick said, you rarely see a well sheeted load these days, such is both the proliferation of tautliners and the dearth of drivers who can still practice the old art. The Scottish boys were always top hands at roping and sheeting but Charles Russell of Cheltenham take some beating for sheeted machine tools. Always well turned out wagons, the sheets are as tight and straight as you like and it's a treat to see one of them on the road.

 

[lotus_esprit_s1]

Picked up a dusty but completely unused Cebora 36M plasma, has never even had an air line fitting screwed in, has been sat in corner of a barn for fifteen years. Paid £200 which is probably a bit on the high side but I know it is 100% unused.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

TYA to Big boss of the site. "Can I have those two black plastic cases, almost heading to that metal skip, as plastic can not got into a metal only skip."
Boss of site to a innocent TYA; "Mr. TYA, if you can get them out of the gate, they are yours.

So I did.

Here are the cases.



Now I know you ;ot are nosey and want to know the contents.

Well.









Just to show bot are there.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Just to show bot are there.

You lucky man!!

A pal once said, describing my luck, "We could throw you in the Kyle (of Sutherland) wearing your best suit and you'd come out with a salmon in each pocket" - you're of the same ilk!

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

You lucky man!!

A pal once said, describing my luck, "We could throw you in the Kyle (of Sutherland) wearing your best suit and you'd come out with a salmon in each pocket" - you're of the same ilk!

Thank you.

One kit is staying with me. The other is heading north of the A303 to a new home in the near future.

 

[Arc Tourist]

Thank you.

One kit is staying with me. The other is heading north of the A303 to a new home in the near future.

That was a good find.