bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 71
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Dec 19, 2006 12:05:40 GMT
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Apologise for lack of retro content Driving to work today a lorry and drag loaded with skips (big metal waste recepticales not crisp like snacks) pulled out in front of me. I hasten to add he had time didn't cause me to slow up and I thought good reading of the avaliable gap except............. 2 large skips didn't stay on board the trailer!!! Farpin hell....... Brake!!!! I have two things to say about skips when self launched from a moving vehicle - The seem to gather momentum (tray on ice springs to mind)- They seem to have a varied direction and you can't predict the direction (might be down to lack of pilot)Missed one by inches and stopped before the other one slid to a stop too...... I just shudder to think what would have happened had anyone been driving the other way or if I had been early to work for once in my life...... Anyway as it ended up with skips on both sides of a single carriageway road and a lorry and drag parked up on one side of the road as well - traffic stopped for a while......... Kinda reminded me of this....  |
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Dec 19, 2006 12:11:23 GMT
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Farpin' 'ell indeedy.
Glad you are OK.
So do you have retro brown interior now?
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Dec 19, 2006 12:18:09 GMT
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Sheesh, lucky escape BC!  glad it didnt get you or any other dudes  How did they slip off? During one of my more down to earth employments, our millionaire architect boss encouraged filling up the skips, well at £120 per load its expensive rubbish. I tried to pack well, but I often wondered what if bits fell out or the whole thing went off! used to cause a good truck wheelie when he failed to pick up our packings and added rain water!  |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,962
Club RR Member Number: 71
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Dec 19, 2006 12:31:25 GMT
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Sheesh, lucky escape BC! glad it didnt get you or any other dudes Missed me and everybody else - weird cos it's a really busy road but at that moment in time it was quite quiet!!! I think there may have been a driver error in not checking they were anchored to the drag unit!!! It was almost sureal to watch them leave the drag unit - they came off really quick yet the lorry wasn't exactly quick - kinda flicked em off - maybe something broke holding them down!! |
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Dec 19, 2006 13:07:52 GMT
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wow that was a close one, ive got a bit of an absession about following skip wagons that its gonna fall on me. not a nice experince i can imagine
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Dec 19, 2006 13:13:21 GMT
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:oyooooooooooooowser
glad no one was injured sure it could of been very nasty
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 once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears! |
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Dec 19, 2006 13:39:41 GMT
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Bl00dy hell...glad you're ok mate. Were the skips empty? My skips with the Skoda badges often slide about aimlessly across the road depending on how I drive them! ;D
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ImpManiac
Part of things
Imps... Imps... Imps...
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Dec 19, 2006 15:23:42 GMT
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Glad you're okay, BC. Sounds to me like something broke on the trailer. "I'm" |
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1966 Singer Chamois sprint/hillclimb car in white over blue two tone
1975 Triumph Stag long term project (over 20 years so far) in colour TBA
2003 Vauxhall Vectra GSi 3.2 in black sapphire
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Dec 19, 2006 15:51:59 GMT
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ooof! Glad you're in one piece BC |
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DutyFreeSaviour
Europe
Back For More heartbreak and disappointment.....
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Dec 19, 2006 16:14:41 GMT
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farrppin eck glad you n the beast are unscathed. thought this was heading for a 'lightning reflexes had me dodging like gone in 60 seconds.........'  |
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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Dec 19, 2006 18:15:58 GMT
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Glad you're OK, and fortunately no damage was done. The ramifications however don't bear thinking about. I spent a morning a couple of Fridays ago retrieving sheets of aluminium that had been strewn along the A38 after our skips had been collected and the driver had forgotten to net the tops of them up.
It makes me really angry because its a$$holes like these that give the rest of us truckers a bad name. If I cut corners in my job (and it's nowhere near as potentially dangerous as skip wagon driving) I could expect a P45 off my bosses!!!!
Brian
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Dec 19, 2006 18:37:05 GMT
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Fappin' Heck mate! Two black skids and a brown one I think! Glad you're Ok; I hate following these bloody things, especially when they're not sheeted down. We used to load big'uns on the railway with cast iron brake blocks, which was OK when the support wheels were on the concrete pad when they were lifted. If they weren't, the cab got to 10ft in the air one time before the driver realised! ;D
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored
Rover 75 - Barge
MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer...
MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored
Project Minion........
Can you see the theme?
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Dec 19, 2006 20:11:51 GMT
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Fuggin Lucky there mate. It looks like someone doesnt want you to drive a certain German make of car. You had better drag the Monza out of hibernation for the rest of the winter |
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Dec 19, 2006 20:23:02 GMT
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i had a mental image of bc flicking round unpredictable objects like the cops in gone in gone in 60seconds and the big gas canister.
top avoidance there bc ;D
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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feckin hell!! glad you're ok mate!
I make a rule not to follow anything that can throw things at me now! A few years back me and a mate were following a lorry carrying a load of tiles - all of a sudden they started launching themselves off the back, hitting the road, smashing, and jumping up at us. He hit the brakes, we both ducked under the windscreen, and somehow they all missed. Never doing that again tho!
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Dec 21, 2006 17:39:48 GMT
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I once followed a skip lorry over that big bridge on the motorway past the Trafford Centre - M60? As it went over the top of the bridge, a bed frame on the top of the skip decided it wanted freedom and in slo-motion lifted up, arched backwards away from the skip, right over the top of the Sprinter I was driving and slammed into the motorway behind me. Luckily for the truck behind it was a cheapy MDF frame which promptly disintegrated when he hit it, but I dare say I'd have lost my damage waiver on the hire van if I'd have met it!
At a previous job, we once filled a skip so well with granite offcuts and the sludge out of the bed saw (which sets into something resembling marble) that they couldn't pick it up. Snapped all four lugs off the side of it and it was sat there for week waiting for a mobile welder to put some mahoosive hooks on!
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Never trust a man
Who names himself Trevor.
Or one day you might find
He's not a real drug dealer.
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glad it didnt get you or any other dudes 
How did they slip off?
