Dave6170
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- Location
- Watten, caithness
Lamma 2020
- Thread starter Johnnyboxer
- Start date
- Location
- northumberland
Could’ve used another 3 halls if they wanted to
- Location
- northumberland
- Location
- northumberland
- Location
- South West
No point now as their number on fan has now bought a Valtra
- Location
- Black Isle
Were they empty or setting up for the motor show?
any mention of the dates for next year yet?
Thats very unreasonable. As a now ex haulier, we often didn't get the next days loads until 3-4pm the previous day. Occasionally, we'd get a customer with numerous loads in the same week, but that wasn't particularly commonplace. The mills are very hand to mouth.
Hope the haulier makes you wait when you want stuff moving in a clatter. We would go out of our way to help those that were helpful to us, the awkward buggers always got put down the list. Simple
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I seem to remember someone saying it was about £25 return from Welshpool last year, if you travel early enough to miss the rush hour traffic from Welshpool International Rail Hub of course. That seems like a bargain compared to sitting on the M6 for two hours.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
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Hope the haulier makes you wait when you want stuff moving in a clatter. We would go out of our way to help those that were helpful to us, the awkward buggers always got put down the list. Simple
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You’d like to think it would work like that, but I suspect we just get put on the ‘mug’ list.
I had a phone call at 9:30 this morning to see if I could load this afternoon btw.
Hope the haulier makes you wait when you want stuff moving in a clatter. We would go out of our way to help those that were helpful to us, the awkward buggers always got put down the list. Simple
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You’d like to think it would work like that, but I suspect we just get put on the ‘mug’ list.
I had a phone call at 9:30 this morning to see if I could load this afternoon btw.
You’d like to think it would work like that, but I suspect we just get put on the ‘mug’ list.
I had a phone call at 9:30 this morning to see if I could load this afternoon btw.
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I know it works like that, we were in bulk haulage for 25yrs!
No such thing as a mug list. Not unusual for a merchant to send a load for delivery before say 5pm at 11am the same day!! The issue is with the mills and the merchants, every bit as much as the hauliers!
We got a call one day from a merchant, asking if we could collect a load of barley from a customer that needed it out of the way urgently the next day. No problem. I ring said farmer. (its about lunchtime) "Oh no, cant load it tomorrow, we're going shooting" I asked what time he would be leaving. "about 9, but the lad has to feed up first" I ask how long feeding up would take. "about half an hour, he normally starts about 8" I explain that there's plenty time before then to load, we can go as early as he needs us to, to get the load away, how about, say, 7am?
"Oh no, thats far too early" But do you not need it moving urgently?" "Well yes, we need to get the sheep in for lambing" (but he obvs can't get the lad out of bed very early) I leave it that we would go for 7, and if its a problem, he will leave the passport in the forklift, bucket up to the appropriate heap, and we'll load ourselves. He's happy. (We'd been to said farm many times before) We rock up at 7, everywhere locked up, not a soul in sight. No answer on the phone. Junior comes rocking out the house at 20 to 8 chuntering on, but eventually, we get his barley shifted. Don't start me on comedians with 4" augers that 'forget to tell us' (yes, they still exist) And those that agree a time to load, but then just have to pop for the forklift 5 miles away.
We took some seed to a farm one September day. Now seed is a pain, multi drop carry on, and coordinating a dozen farms on the same load isn't easy. Anyway, job arranged. Truck arrived on site, farmer decided he didn't have time to tip 4 ton of seed anymore, told us to bugger off. "No problem" says Tony (driver)"I can come back" "Can you"? Asks farmer. "Yep, see you in Novemeber" and proceeded to close his curtains. Suddenly, said awkward bugger had time to tip us. In the time he'd moaned and created, he could of had it tipped. Twot.
Another time a fert job arrived. Same day, farmer rang me, saying he needed it very urgently, must have it. No problem says I, we'll get it to you tomorrow afternoon, be with you between 4&5pm. That was no good to our friend, if we couldn't be there before half 3, don't come til after 8am next day. I explained that we would be 100miles away having put the next days load on by then, so would reshedule. This place is quite near us, so would be second tip usually. Next day 4pm he's on the phone swearing at me "Where's my bloody fert" I told him I couldn't have it there by 4 (as I'd explained the previous day) so had gone elsewhere.
Every day for a fortnight that man rang me shouting and swearing (it was January iirc, so not peak nitrogen applying period) Every time I told him that the more he swore at me, the more awkward he was, the lower down my list he'd go. Eventually, he got the message, remembered his manners, and got his delivery.
Shall we say I don't miss it.
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- Location
- South Wales UK
Few different photo's from today.
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- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
It was sold out but they only sold the last stand in December so not rammed full. And they still didn’t use the big hall in the middle of the ‘C’ shape that was originally going to be included in LAMMA IIRC.
Wolds Beef
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@Lincs Lass Yes Bowsers are still at Scremby! Hugh was at college with me on the Management coarse at Riseholme!
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Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
I worked for them many moons ago for about 18months ,,it wasnt the job I wanted but having moved back to lincolnshire coming up from wiltshire was an improvement from down there
Johnnyboxer
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- Location
- Yorkshire
Wolds Beef
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@Lincs Lass I know your part of the world relatively well as I was at school at BGS many moons ago with the Wood's Day's and Bill Davey!!
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- Location
- South Yorkshire
Had a enjoyable and insightful day. However some worrying finds on a big manufactures trailers. Using silicon to fake a weld on the axle mountings. Very worrying and won't look at their machines in the same way again. Especially as this trailer was a 18ton job. Exactly why I go to shows like that to sort the wheat from the chaff.
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Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Days are just up the road ,,had a couple of spud seasons at the manor ,