Real Life Tonka Toys
A Caterpillar Quarry Haul Truck ©2015 http://www.spikephoto.com
“Real tough toys for real tough boys” went the slogan for the eponymous metal trucks, diggers and fire engines made by Tonka going back to the 60s and 70s. And I remembered the slogan without Googling it!
My latest assignment takes me into the realm of real-life ‘Tonka Toys’ as I am doing work for a quarry that is full of noisy, chunky and very, very big trucks, excavators and diggers.
And dynamite. Or whatever the modern explosive equivalent is for blowing up rock!
So it’s a ‘big boy’s’ and photographer’s paradise really.
Right up my street 🙂
Wheat fuels trucks
Farmer Julian Anyan with the Frontier Agriculture 'facetruck' being loaded with wheat at his Lincolnshire farm
Spike Photography was up for an early start to photograph a lorry being loaded with wheat in Lincolnshire to supply a new multi-million-pound biofuels plant.
Photography client Frontier Agriculture is in charge of supplying the £200m Vivergo plant, at Saltend, in Hull, has revealed that it has signed over 500 farmers to the ‘Humber Gold wheat club’ in tjust a few weeks.
The Hull-based plant is set to become the largest buyer of grain in the whole of the country and hopes to buy the one million tonnes of wheat it needs each year from local farmers.
The site is a joint venture between DuPont, BP and British Sugar and will turn the wheat into biofuel for use in lorries and forklift trucks.
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