bet you this bloke had a red face.....and it's well and truly b#ggered up his roller shutter too. This selection of shots featuring a painful lesson on how not to do it right comes to Biglorryblog via the Krafty Kiwi Rod Simmonds who's been rather rude to fellow BLB stalwart Vic Hungerford as he asks: "Vic...are you on local work now?" Hmmm....I can see an equally rude post coming back on that one from Vic. Meanwhile, here's some more pictures.
It reminds me of the time Bill Brock was testing a Windfoil Leyland Terrier with a GRP and balsawood body and I was the fresh-faced young snapper on Commercial Motor. Bill drove the truck up a 1:6 hill at the MIRA test hill to test its park brake and the test load inside slid back and promptly punched the roller shutter out of it's track. Fortunately isn't wasn't quite as bad as this one----so he drive over the top of the test hill and down the 1:5 reverse slope whilst braking gently and it all slid back up against the front bulkhead again (remember kids don't try this at home...).allowing us to jemmy and lever the roller shutter back into the track. But it by then the back of the body was well-and-truly @#+*&%$ed! What larks!
I think I can see where he went wrong now.....
From the look of this, it looks as if it is a load that has come from Rod's chemical storage warehouse, and as I know that all of Rod's staff are excellent skilled workers I can only presume that this truck was loaded on a weekend when only Rod was there to drive the hoist and load the pallets (or palettes according to BW) on to the truck.
Or maybe this was one that Marius helped with??
Nice Vic...............Oxymoron Transport in action........
If you haven't already had it in BLB, you might get Trevor Longcroft to describe the collapsing trailer headboard accident while he was road testing a Scania artic for 'Commercial Motor' in (probably) the early 1970s. His emergence from same virtually unscathed was testament to the Swedish cab strength requirements back then. Rapid-succession pictures of the concrete blocks moving forward, taken by Dick Ross, must be in CM archives.