Things you had to do.
My first job( 1960)on wagons was driving a Commer 2 stroke for a local man loading sawdust from saw mills over the Border into Scotland,buying the load for £3 and selling it to farmers on the English side for £3 a ton,my wage was £3 for every load that I achieved each week, the buying and selling was all done by me,all the boss had to do was do the books. He purchased an old S type Bedford tipper which had a steel covering over the wooden floor which was making the vehicle over weight for applying for the old C licence so a day was spent removing this --still over weight--so off came the spare wheel and not contented with that he removed the carrier also,when he was granted the said licence on went the gear we had removed plus he added extra boards to the sides and back just to get the ideal pay load--this was filled with the sawdust to the top plus two layers of bagged sawdust on top of that and all on by a shovel--you certainly worked for your £3 a load. Only once did one saw mill helped and by that they built a wooden hopper for me and this only lasted a couple of months until some "numpty" left a ciggy and burnt it down---those were the days where jobs on wagons was all hand ball--nostalgia!!!!!;):D
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This was the old Commer 2 stroke loaded up with sawdust from outdoor timber mills, the cab always seemed to lean back for some reason, at night when climbing a hill she would blast sparks from the exhaust,once or twice I was pulled up by motorist thinking that the truck was on fire.
Notice the Guy Indian casting on the front,must be worth a penny or two into days market. |
It took me a few moments to realise that was quite lucrative. £3 for the whole load. Then, sell it for £3 per ton.
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I mustard mit it took me a couple of minutes for that to click too!
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Most tipper bodies were calculated according to what the expected load would be, but, of course, some contractors wanted universal loads.
If the body was sized to carry stone (or sand or gravel), then woodchippings and sawdust would bulk-out before the weight was exceeded, so greedy-boards were fully justified. You often see them on vehicles that carry scrap, as, although steel is heavy, scrap items might be things like bicycle frames with large voids, thus reducing the density of the load. |
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