05-12-16, 10:12 PM
Love your story Joe :eek .
I went on the back of a mate Taffy, it was years ago now, anyway he had a Norton Dominator 99 600 Twin and he overtook a articulated low-loader (the sort that was used for tree trunk haulage) on a left hand bend, but he cut it so tight I thought we aren't going make this, he was absolutely blind to what was coming, I shut my eyes and though this is it, I pinched myself up and I felt something like being punched really hard in the left shoulder, anyway we made it even with the stream of about 7 or 8 cars bearing down on us. Taff stopped about a mile up the road it shook him up as much as it did me.
I had the old style Barber jacket on and the shoulder was ripped out of it and I had the most enormous purple, blue, black and yellow bruise i have ever seen, I was off work for about 4 weeks. The funny thing was that the lorry went passed us really slowly as we were stopped and the driver bellowed out at the top of his voice 'YOU C--T' :eek
This little story did not involve me in any way. but thinking about Taff and the tree lorry made me think of it.
I was working on a building site in Alton Hampshire a few years ago and there was the most Fug Ugly hod carrier you could ever imagine, he looked as mean as is possible to look, His name was Kendo, well that is what everyone called him after a wrestler of many years ago Kendo Nagasaki.
This poor sod was so badly mulched up and scared and had really dark brown/black scabs all over his boat race.
It turns out that he had a high speed off on a Tiger110 650cc twin Triumph and ended up in the fork of a large elm tree, apparently he was some 20 or so yards off the road. They think he may of been in the tree for an hour or more before being found. anyway he contracted a disease in his face that is linked to Dutch Elm Disease.
I know it sounds like BS but that's the story.
He was as strong as an Ox and the best Hoddy I have ever seen, carried almost twice as many bricks in a day as your usual Hod carrier, he ran up the ladder not holding the hod handle and slid back down just holding the side rails of the ladder, he was like a machine and hardly said a word all day long.
I had no reason to be but I was shit scared of him, he was an awsum sight about 17 stones and built like a brick shit house, probably 6' 3" tall, not the sort to argue with, but with saying that I never saw him lose it, most blokes do on the sites at some point or other, I know I did a few times but when your only 10.5 stones (Wish I still was) nobody gives a toss. :'( [/size]
I went on the back of a mate Taffy, it was years ago now, anyway he had a Norton Dominator 99 600 Twin and he overtook a articulated low-loader (the sort that was used for tree trunk haulage) on a left hand bend, but he cut it so tight I thought we aren't going make this, he was absolutely blind to what was coming, I shut my eyes and though this is it, I pinched myself up and I felt something like being punched really hard in the left shoulder, anyway we made it even with the stream of about 7 or 8 cars bearing down on us. Taff stopped about a mile up the road it shook him up as much as it did me.
I had the old style Barber jacket on and the shoulder was ripped out of it and I had the most enormous purple, blue, black and yellow bruise i have ever seen, I was off work for about 4 weeks. The funny thing was that the lorry went passed us really slowly as we were stopped and the driver bellowed out at the top of his voice 'YOU C--T' :eek
This little story did not involve me in any way. but thinking about Taff and the tree lorry made me think of it.
I was working on a building site in Alton Hampshire a few years ago and there was the most Fug Ugly hod carrier you could ever imagine, he looked as mean as is possible to look, His name was Kendo, well that is what everyone called him after a wrestler of many years ago Kendo Nagasaki.
This poor sod was so badly mulched up and scared and had really dark brown/black scabs all over his boat race.
It turns out that he had a high speed off on a Tiger110 650cc twin Triumph and ended up in the fork of a large elm tree, apparently he was some 20 or so yards off the road. They think he may of been in the tree for an hour or more before being found. anyway he contracted a disease in his face that is linked to Dutch Elm Disease.
I know it sounds like BS but that's the story.
He was as strong as an Ox and the best Hoddy I have ever seen, carried almost twice as many bricks in a day as your usual Hod carrier, he ran up the ladder not holding the hod handle and slid back down just holding the side rails of the ladder, he was like a machine and hardly said a word all day long.
I had no reason to be but I was shit scared of him, he was an awsum sight about 17 stones and built like a brick shit house, probably 6' 3" tall, not the sort to argue with, but with saying that I never saw him lose it, most blokes do on the sites at some point or other, I know I did a few times but when your only 10.5 stones (Wish I still was) nobody gives a toss. :'( [/size]