hiluxman
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I prefer mesh floors for moving plant.
Once wooden gets damaged it only gets worse until it goes completely.
Also the added bonus of no muck to sweep out.
Once wooden gets damaged it only gets worse until it goes completely.
Also the added bonus of no muck to sweep out.
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AusDave
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We use galvanised checkerplate steel to deal with those issues.
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Smiffy
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I for Williams type trailers aren't great but proper hgv plant trailers with proper timber floors last well.
With our wet climate even checker plate is slippy. Some lorries have checker plate ramps and have to carry conveyor belt matting to load steel track machines
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
fair Qs Dave ...... always used to find that a steel bottom in trailers had a tendency to 'boom' on tow ...
and a sheet of 3mm to go in there'd be five times the price ...
plus TBH it'd want to be 4mm to stand up to use.
My big 10' x 5' is all steel, folded monocoque from two 10 x 5 sheets and joined in the centre .. my own little 8' (1/2") x 4' (1/2") is designed so that an 8' x 4' sheet'll just drop in (and come out easily) ..
keep the floor for that indoors, when not in use ......
AND carrying 8' x 4's in it is a POP .. drop the tail and slide them out
As for the shed .. yeh colourcoat'd've been ideal ... but didn't have a lot of say in that
... 's what the boss wanted 'to look right' .... based on old railway lineside workmen's sheds - made out of sleepers on endcan't find any 'actual' pix ATM
right found some
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
came with an ex GPO triple 6 ft wooden extension ladder set, that you saw on every moggy thou's roof .. brand new several years ago - think they'd been in stasis for 30 odd years ... 's very handy little thing that is
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
hiluxman
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Yeah that be the stuff.
Bit heavier than wood
but deffo a better option in plant trailers.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Yeah that be the stuff.
Bit heavier than wood
could have 5 sheets of ply for the same money though
and no use for anything loose ...... know where you're coming from though 
Expanded Mild Steel Raised Mesh 2496 2440 x 1220mm - F H Brundle
Raised expanded metal sheet 2440 x 1220mm suitable for many industrial, commercial and domestic applications. Buy online or call to order.
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hiluxman
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That's why it's perfect for plant trailers. Loosest thing on there is buckets or breaker.View attachment 51486
could have 5 sheets of ply for the same money though
Expanded Mild Steel Raised Mesh 2496 2440 x 1220mm - F H Brundle
Raised expanded metal sheet 2440 x 1220mm suitable for many industrial, commercial and domestic applications. Buy online or call to order.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
got quite a few interesting 'tales' from 45 odd years ... some of which'll take some writingLooking for a site in Bargoed, early 80,s .. stopped to ask a milkman for directions - it's 05.45 and I'm in a TMS300 Grove .. like this, but with two chain boxes with about 2.5t of chains in and 10 half sleepers on the deck -- circa 33t...
View attachment 51692
. (even with the weight of the machine 1st crawler was an awesomely powerful gear - once pulled a fully laden artic out of a stream with 1st crawler, like it wasn't there), but that's another story
this 'road' came out onto a main-ish drag and there was no way I was gonna make a pull away ... anything coming was gonna see 5-6ft of jib and hook block appear, slowly, fore me an' the cab started to fill the road, followed by two axles wearing 13.00-20 wheels... and I was gonna want ALL the available road
crested that junction with about 400 revs to spare and most of the seat foam up my bum, to a thankfully empty road .. and damn me there was the site
and a lot of paper photo searching
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Jimoz
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When do you start the book!?got quite a few interesting 'tales' from 45 odd years ... some of which'll take some writing
Quattromike
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Once the big shed is up
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
if I keep catching sh1t at the rate I seem to these days ferk all is ever gonna get doneOnce the big shed is up
got up the Monday after i'd been out with Russ, with a stinker of a cold ...
only 'stranger' I'd been near was the guy with the machine and he seemed ok?
Shouldn't have shook his hand though, 'praps
anyway -- couple of really 'heavy cold' days and it was on its way out
...Friday did the drive with Pam and all the grass here, Saturday was out with Serge and his missus for some scran ...
Sunday morning - shoot me now .. back with a vengeance ..
head/sinuses full of snot, lungs full of crap, barking like a dog, cold sweats, the shakes, banging head, untouchable scalp and everything tasting like tish - again!!
Been wiped out all week.
Serge came and borrowed a trailer Friday evening and by the time I'd finished messing about with it, was absolutely ****ed ... ditto Saturday when it came back.
Pam's been in Plymouth since Friday morning and one of Josh's BILs who should have been there, bailed with the same symptoms ... he's been to the Quack and they reckon it's the latest variant, starting to get about
I used to be so bullet proof !
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Diggerdavey
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Get well soonif I keep catching sh1t at the rate I seem to these days ferk all is ever gonna get done
got up the Monday after i'd been out with Russ, with a stinker of a cold ...
only 'stranger' I'd been near was the guy with the machine and he seemed ok?
Shouldn't have shook his hand though, 'praps
anyway -- couple of really 'heavy cold' days and it was on its way out
Friday did the drive with Pam and all the grass here, Saturday was out with Serge and his missus for some scran ...
Sunday morning - shoot me now .. back with a vengeance ..
head/sinuses full of snot, lungs full of crap, barking like a dog, cold sweats, the shakes, banging head, untouchable scalp and everything tasting like tish - again!!
Been wiped out all week.
Serge came and borrowed a trailer Friday evening and by the time I'd finished messing about with it, was absolutely ****ed ... ditto Saturday when it came back.
Pam's been in Plymouth since Friday morning and one of Josh's BILs who should have been there, bailed with the same symptoms ... he's been to the Quack and they reckon it's the latest variant, starting to get about
I used to be so bullet proof !
Lancs Lad
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Our youngest been rough as this last week or so tonsillitis and now absolutely coughing her guts up.if I keep catching sh1t at the rate I seem to these days ferk all is ever gonna get done
got up the Monday after i'd been out with Russ, with a stinker of a cold ...
only 'stranger' I'd been near was the guy with the machine and he seemed ok?
Shouldn't have shook his hand though, 'praps
anyway -- couple of really 'heavy cold' days and it was on its way out
Friday did the drive with Pam and all the grass here, Saturday was out with Serge and his missus for some scran ...
Sunday morning - shoot me now .. back with a vengeance ..
head/sinuses full of snot, lungs full of crap, barking like a dog, cold sweats, the shakes, banging head, untouchable scalp and everything tasting like tish - again!!
Been wiped out all week.
Serge came and borrowed a trailer Friday evening and by the time I'd finished messing about with it, was absolutely ****ed ... ditto Saturday when it came back.
Pam's been in Plymouth since Friday morning and one of Josh's BILs who should have been there, bailed with the same symptoms ... he's been to the Quack and they reckon it's the latest variant, starting to get about
I used to be so bullet proof !
We both the same starting to feel properly crap...few other folk said same this week weird sore throat and feel shite.
Joys of a damp shitty September?
craig
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Small children = Germ spreading machines
Lancs Lad
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I often say nursery schools should be treated with same level of bio safety as a decent sized bio weapon lab.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
cheers Dave ...
those ****ing ying tong slanty eyed little bas**rds let the genie out and we're never gonna have the same level of health, ever again
as said... bullet proof all my life 'til I hit 50 odd and the Gaucher's kicked in in 2010 ... but even then, had ten years pretty fair health, in spite of that, .......... 'til the sh1t hit the fan in 2020
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bobthebuilder
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used to be bullet proof ,but with the grandkids next door ,walking germ bombs
Stock
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Two week out of the latest variant of Covid and I'm still not right, myself and the boss really suffered with it, the young lad all he had was a runny nose.............................................................................................................. only thing that helped was 1000mg lemsips with ibuprofen in between............................................
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