Use them for CP attendants

Bobdown · Guru

Use them for CP attendants

Are We Lost · Guru

Some pretty fine skills there. I am trying to work out what is happening with the yellow stuff that starts getting loaded at 2:45. Why does it continue to slide up and into the truck when it is all off the ground? And when the truck moves forwards, now close to level why does all of it slide out? And what is it anyway? I can't see any evidence of a doctored video.

I found it much better on mute.

-- Edited by Are We Lost on Tuesday 24th of October 2023 04:47:44 PM

Bobdown · Guru

Looks like bales of cotton, AWL........not sure why he stood them on their ends.

Have seen similar bales around the plains near Hay.

Possum3 · Guru

It is Bulk cotton rolls, in yellow plastic wrap. Most common way of transporting now.

Possum3 · Guru

Bobdown wrote:
Looks like bales of cotton, AWL........not sure why he stood them on their ends.
Have seen similar bales around the plains near Hay.

Stood on end to enable loading with forklift onto a smaller flat bed.

Are We Lost · Guru

OK thanks. The wrap must be pretty slippery for it to continue sliding in uphill when reversing .... inertia I suppose. Then while reversing, maybe a little jerk forwards starts it sliding and the slight slope keeps it moving.

dogbox · Guru

Are We Lost wrote:

OK thanks. The wrap must be pretty slippery for it to continue sliding in uphill when reversing .... inertia I suppose. Then while reversing, maybe a little jerk forwards starts it sliding and the slight slope keeps it moving.

walking floor

yobarr · Guru

dogbox wrote:
Are We Lost wrote:

OK thanks. The wrap must be pretty slippery for it to continue sliding in uphill when reversing .... inertia I suppose. Then while reversing, maybe a little jerk forwards starts it sliding and the slight slope keeps it moving.

walking floor

Of course it is a walking-floor. Seemed so obvious that I didn't comment.

Over 50 years ago, when delivering lime for storage in sheds with low roofs we used to tow Dog trailers with walking floors because the roof was too low to raise the hoist.

Similarly, reversing up a steep ramp to tip fertiliser into ground-level bins meant that, even with the hoist right up, the tipping angle was not great enough to enable the lime to be tipped off.

Walking-floor to the rescue! Hi-tech 50 years ago. Cheers

P.S Tipping lime straight into 'Blitz' spreader truck.

-- Edited by yobarr on Wednesday 25th of October 2023 10:38:10 AM

yobarr · Guru

Bobdown wrote:
They told me that I had no skills and should become a truckdriver!!
Where is the resident Road Train driver?

Yes Bob, that was the thinking many years ago, but things have changed, I'm afraid.

It is not easy piloting a 53-60 metre long truck that weighs up to 210 ton when you're driving among average motorists with absolutely NO idea what they're doing.

Many drivers end up in trucks with automatic gearboxes because they can't master the 18 speed Roadranger, where the clutch isn't used when changing gears.

Many times I've come upon a Roadtrain that is stationary on a hill because the driver has 'missed' a gear and come to a complete halt.

You will no doubt understand that it is exceedingly hard on the drivetrain getting mobile again.

It takes a special person to drive heavy trucks, which is why there is such a huge shortage of suitable qualified drivers.

I'm actually considering going back onto trucks because everywhere I go I get asked by desperate owners "Can you drive a

Roadtrain Mate?. Cheers.

-- Edited by yobarr on Wednesday 25th of October 2023 09:14:34 PM