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A SELECTED STORY FROM VOLUME TWO………..
“WE BOUGHT A LORRY TODAY!” (FEB 2001)
From It's Rum Life Book Four Volume two Northcote 1998 to 2008
We bought a lorry today!
Terena and John had been on at me for some time!
“When are we going to get something to pull that trailer?”
The trailer is not exactly a normal horse box. Its 20feet long and 8 feet wide. It is 9 feet
high inside and must weigh over a ton.
Previously it was used to carry the wedding carriage and one horse. It will also take about
120 bales of hay (3.5 tons). The trailer was basically all we had at the Northcote Heavy
Horse Centre to cart anything about. It was being used only very locally at present pulled
by the centre’s agricultural tractor.
The long wheelbase “safari” Land Rover that used to tow it had been previously specially
converted. It had a 3 litre Ford Essex v6 petrol engine that did 28mpg running without a
trailer and 9mpg with THE trailer and full load.
