Gold mining in Africa...and Haulamatic dump trucks! What better way to get it out the ground says Jerry Burley on Biglorryblog...?

A hole has suddenly appeared on Biglorryblog...the Police are looking into it. It's an old joke but then I'm an old blogger so what did you expect err...duh. Anyroadup Biglorryblog's 'Good Man in Africa' Jerry Burley is chancing his arm a bit when he says: "Brian, as you no doubt know, from time to time (when he deigns to talk to me) my current partner - business that is, not extra-curricular - tells me about his jet setting around the world, boring the seething masses of great, two-wheeled-fancying unwashed about things cycling."

JB continues his strange rambling: "Shocking things bikes - no engine, but a horrific invention called pedals substituted in its normal place - and if you take my sound advice, left well alone to those sad folk who can't afford a car. With an engine," before adding...

"Anyway, now of advancing years and diminishing opportunities, Sherwen is desperate to get a foot through the truck blogging door, where he hopes he may pick up some media tips that have thus far evaded him. I promised I would put a quiet word in for him with you. Said word herewith duly inserted."

Come on JB--get to the point says BLB! "As ever I wax lyrical (that'd be more bo!!lock5 then?). When his feet are, on rare occasion, in contact with terra firma rather than lay-flat First Class KLM beds with complimentary, compliant air hostesses thrown in, and he is forced to mix with us mere mortals, our dearly beloved journo-pedalist scratches around in the dirt for an element of the periodic table identified as Au." [That's  GOLD to everyone else who didn't do O-Level chemistry like BLB] "

"And now," says Jerry, "in a major scoop and for the first time in the free press, I offer up his choice of steed for moving the raw material around, namely ex-military (I have to assume, as Jacksons provided the initial fleet some years back) Haulamatics. Does anyone else still use these things, anywhere?" Search me JB...I should try Wikipedia! 

"Please say no, so I can rib him," retorts JB, "And equally, maybe someone can help him out, as several of the, frankly quite dreadful, Perkins V8's have given up the good fight and he needs at least three replacement units (this statement will undoubtedly upset someone, if only Sherwen, which is of course good)."

Meanwhile JB explains: "I drove a cab-less combine harvester as a pimply youth with one of these potential anchors fitted and, thankfully, it spent as much time broken down as switched off as I dimly recall. Lord Sherwen takes the view (and I guess I concur, begrudgingly, bearing in mind the likely remaining life of these units) that it will be easier to replace power units like-for-like, rather than change just to be clever, and end up looking stupid." he may have a point JB but click through here for more...