Good memories

[sunndog]

Only ever hear "prime mover" when vosa or such like are involved Hear wagon now and then but nowadays it's usually "truck" for anything above a tranny pick up
I can still remember all the old Scammel Scarabs lined up when I was at Freight Liner, didn't use them but they'd not long been stood down. That would have been very late 60's / early 70's. All went to scrap as they weren't worth a light then, wish I'd kept a few.
We had Guy big J 4's then, very modern Then the Marathons came and some Leyland junk with the 500 fixed head engine . Finally we had Fodens, sheer luxury apart from the fact one of the foremen ordered them without clutch assistance as it was cheaper Reckoned he got mixed up, wanted them without clutch brake not without clutch assistance Even so, quite why you wouldn't want a clutch brake on a Cummins I'll never know ??

Oh aye, "truck". yeah folks use that for anything from 4x4 to tranny and up as you say.........to me a "truck" is a trailer with a wheel at each corner and a lock to steer. Some folk eh, they don't know a dolly from a bogey
And nobody ever calls a luton bodied lorry a Pantechnicon these days.....whats the world coming to eh

[rodp]

I still come across dollys and bogies due to my customer base Still used on a lot of the older big stuff. I think tilt cabs killed off the Pantechnicon, just too much hassle, and probably against H&S, to get up and tilt the over cab section

Don't see "greedy boards" now either since all the coke ovens closed (apart from pikey Trannys) And have you noticed over the last few years the "chock rail" has disappeared from flats ? At one time they all had them, now you don't see any anywhere ??

All sliders and curtain siders now.

[sunndog]

Oh i knew you'd know what dollys and bogies were mate

I put greedy boards on the trialer i built for farm atv but you're right pretty much disapeared now. Even farm trailers are too posh nowadays

hadn't noticed the chock rail tbh, but now you've said i can think of a few without
i remember surprising an old boy who delivered some sheep feed on a flat a couple of years ago by knowing how how to fold his tilt up before unloading him
he reckoned that was the first time he'd seen someone under 50 look like they've done it before since the new money came in

[rodp]

Roping and sheeting more or less a thing of the past now, we used to take real pride in it as well. If you could get the sheet as tight as a trampoline bed it looked great. Most the ones you see now just don't care, the sheet's just chucked on with a few straps over it.

When ratchet straps came out (early seventies) the Spanset rep came into our works and gave the gaffer the blurb about how good they were and how safe they made the load. Then the gaffer asked him how much, £25 each came the reply I thought my gaffer was going to have a heart attack He said to the rep "Lad, do you know how much ******** rope £25 buys, ****off and take your ******* new fangled ****** junk with you"

He didn't buy any

[silent shooter]

he reckoned that was the first time he'd seen someone under 50
Just

[sunndog]

They were £25 each in the early seventies amazing they ever sold one!

[rodp]

he reckoned that was the first time he'd seen someone under 50
Just

[rodp]

They were £25 each in the early seventies amazing they ever sold one!

Yup And a couple of years ago they were down to £4 each trade Crept back up a bit now but nowhere near the original price.

[sunndog]

Still cant get over the price of ratchet straps. So when they were £25 a pint of beer was about 12p and a liter of diesel 10p
25 quid must have been the best part of a weeks wages for some folks

[Frogman Ladue]

Mate: Brother from another mother. Someone you can rely on no matter what. The guy willing to be in your fox hole with you. male friend.

Steeplejack: Guy who climbs chimneys and church towers to inspect and repair.

Churlish: Hillary Clinton when asked a non scripted, not pre-approved question. Basically snarling superiority. Unwilling to communicate or show normal good manners.

Damn. A 'roo shows up, explains it all in english. Thanks. But, it kinda takes all the fun out of a bunch of beef eaters muddling over a series of explanations.

I think 'merkins also call an artic trialer a 'tractor trailer' which i always thought sounded like old school english term.....not often you people say 'tractor unit' these days

It's " 'murican" not merkin. 'Murican (from 'Murica) is the puffy chest southerner way of denoting an American. Use properly in a sentence with appropriate accent; "Y'all be prowd to be 'Murican. Them Chai-knees terk err jerbs!"

Now "merkin" on the other hand is pubic hair wig, that hookers wear to cover up a the lice and crab bites. Two words, totally opposite sides of the spectrum.

We still call them Tractors. Big-rig is acceptable too.

Frogman you can also have a "female mate" these days who has managed to achieved the higher title of either "mistress" or "friend with benefits" Thanks Phil

Yes. This is correct. A "mate" is someone of the female sex that a man gets on with. Two guys over here, calling each other "mates", are two guys that enjoy kissing one another and picking out carpet.