22/04/14

Back to work after a four day weekend for Easter.  The weekend passed quicker than I would have thought possible.;  The trouble with a four day weekend is that it doesn't seem long enough but a normal weekend always seems OK, very strange.  Today was easy enough, the outgoing load was only two drops, it should have been four but there seems to be a shortage of timber and two of the drops included rails and or posts of a size we didn't have in.  The first farm drop was at a small village near Newbald and was four foot square lamb creep feeder.  I have been to this farm before and though the entrance is a little tight for my truck it isn't too bad and when you get in the yard there is plenty of room to turn round.  The second drop was a four hundred and fifty gallon round cattle drinking trough, but this drop was at Wragby near Pontefract.  The drop was one I have done several times but it is on the Westerly limit of our area.  The trough, though large, isn't heavy and is easy to offload especially if you don't have anything else on.  Then it was back to Howden Dyke to collect five tonnes of ammonium nitrate in half tonne bags for delivery to a farm at High Catton.  Again this was an easy drop, the customer was in the yard and had his loader to hand.  Back at base I collected the tickets for a delivery of feed to Malton store.  When I got there I thought I was in for a problem, the forklift repair company were there working on the forklift.  Thankfully the engineer was just putting the finishing touches to the repairs as I walked in.  I was back in out yard by half past four and parked in pole position for loading in the morning.  I haven't seen my tickets for the morning yet but let's hope they aren't bad.  See you tomorrow.