Your Day Today!

[Slowlycatchymonkey]

1 hour ago, XTreme said:

No point......it was about 6 weeks ago that it happened last!

Could try how my Pops taught me to fix things, start with the cheapest most obvious thing change it and wait n see. 

Or do what other swines do - don’t mention it and get rid. 

You often mention how important it is for your bike to be reliable. I view a car that way too.

When one of my sons was a baby he became violently ill and we had an evil car that would immobilise itself at the most inconvenient times. Sure enough it did it when I was trying to get my sick son to A&E. No more, if a car show any signs of developing a mechanical fault that would effect it being driven I get it fixed even if sometimes that means somethings being done a bit early or I have to push them to fix it or it costs more. It is an essential item out in the sticks.  

[Sir Fallsalot]

56 minutes ago, Slowlycatchymonkey said:

Could try how my Pops taught me to fix things, start with the cheapest most obvious thing change it and wait n see. 

Or do what other swines do - don’t mention it and get rid. 

You often mention how important it is for your bike to be reliable. I view a car that way too.

When one of my sons was a baby he became violently ill and we had an evil car that would immobilise itself at the most inconvenient times. Sure enough it did it when I was trying to get my sick son to A&E. No more, if a car show any signs of developing a mechanical fault that would effect it being driven I get it fixed even if sometimes that means somethings being done a bit early or I have to push then to fix it or it costs more. It is an essential item out in the sticks.  

Same here even though a car is not high up on my list of things i like when it goes tits up its the most important thing in the world 

[boboneleg]

@Sir Fallsalot

 

where's your boy today as there are some youngsters next door in the hot-tub and playing heavy metal

[Six30]

2 hours ago, Pedro said:

Is it an option to lend the car for the mechanic to use for a few days doing his daily thing and hope it happens with him?

You got two keys ? 

[Sir Fallsalot]

32 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

@Sir Fallsalot

 

where's your boy today as there are some youngsters next door in the hot-tub and playing heavy metal

He's just about to accompany me to the dump so not him lol

[boboneleg]

1 minute ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

He's just about to accompany me to the dump so not him lol

It's not Karen is it ?

[Sir Fallsalot]

1 minute ago, boboneleg said:

It's not Karen is it ?

Well you said youngsters so definitely not her 

[boboneleg]

Just now, Sir Fallsalot said:

Well you said youngsters so definitely not her 

[XTreme]

37 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Well you said youngsters so definitely not her 

She looks years younger than you Fred!

[Skippy]

Had a cracking day out today but unfortunately we won fuck all………I was utterly brilliant but was let down by my wanker teammates

[Sir Fallsalot]

28 minutes ago, XTreme said:

She looks years younger than you Fred!

That's because she is 

[Pedro]

3 hours ago, XTreme said:

No point......it was about 6 weeks ago that it happened last!

Maybe it's worth considering changing the car instead of the perfectly functioning Honda, then.

[XTreme]

4 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Maybe it's worth considering changing the car instead of the perfectly functioning Honda, then.

Yes......that's what I was thinking Pedro!

[Pedro]

Went for a drive to air out and roll the old bmw while it was not too hot. Tomato picking season is now, hundred of trucks racing back and forth mostly on farm access roads.

It's smart stuff, the trailer gets dragged through the fields by farming tractors while picking machines fill it up, then taken to tomato sauce factories using the same trailer but now pulled by trucks. It's a longer than usual trailer, and I guess tomato is a pretty dense product with all that water, how much do you this this is illegal by? 

 

My neighbor drives these during tomato season, it's good money but hard work in dusty fields in 40º heat. If he's home tomorrow I'll how much they carry 

[boboneleg]

1 hour ago, Pedro said:

Went for a drive to air out and roll the old bmw while it was not too hot. Tomato picking season is now, hundred of trucks racing back and forth mostly on farm access roads.

It's smart stuff, the trailer gets dragged through the fields by farming tractors while picking machines fill it up, then taken to tomato sauce factories using the same trailer but now pulled by trucks. It's a longer than usual trailer, and I guess tomato is a pretty dense product with all that water, how much do you this this is illegal by? 

 

My neighbor drives these during tomato season, it's good money but hard work in dusty fields in 40º heat. If he's home tomorrow I'll how much they carry 

That's a hellava hangover rear of a tri-axle trailer . I'm guessing that would probably illegal in UK , what say you @busabeast ?

[Pedro]

49 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

That's a hellava hangover rear of a tri-axle trailer . I'm guessing that would probably illegal in UK , what say you @busabeast ?

Might be here too 

[Pedro]

Sitting outside having a very rarely enjoyed rosé, this is right now.

Next warning will be apocalypse!

[busabeast]

1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

That's a hellava hangover rear of a tri-axle trailer . I'm guessing that would probably illegal in UK , what say you @busabeast ?

I'd say you're possibly right the only way it might be legal is under stgo regs for oversized loads but that would require an escort

[busabeast]

3 hours ago, Pedro said:

Went for a drive to air out and roll the old bmw while it was not too hot. Tomato picking season is now, hundred of trucks racing back and forth mostly on farm access roads.

It's smart stuff, the trailer gets dragged through the fields by farming tractors while picking machines fill it up, then taken to tomato sauce factories using the same trailer but now pulled by trucks. It's a longer than usual trailer, and I guess tomato is a pretty dense product with all that water, how much do you this this is illegal by? 

 

My neighbor drives these during tomato season, it's good money but hard work in dusty fields in 40º heat. If he's home tomorrow I'll how much they carry 

When I'm on the green waste runs we quite often run very close to our 44t max and when I say close I mean within 20kg of 44t so a large breakfast would have us overweight, id bet if they loaded that to capacity you'd be running around 50t give or take.

Would that trailer have the gear on the back to make it in to a road train with an extra 5th wheel coupling or anything?

[busabeast]

1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

That's a hellava hangover rear of a tri-axle trailer . I'm guessing that would probably illegal in UK , what say you @busabeast ?

What would worry me more is axle overloading especially with the unit, he's only got a single axle id have expected a lift axle for that kind of weight and its only a little scania R430 by looks of it 

[Pedro]

30 minutes ago, busabeast said:

Would that trailer have the gear on the back to make it in to a road train with an extra 5th wheel coupling or anything

 No, it’s shared by road trucks and tractors to tow across the fields. 
 

Just spoke to my neighbour who is not available for making a fish bbq tomorrow as he’s working 7 days per week 12 hours a day on these. He drove his truck home which is a cool Volvo. They carry 35 tons of tomato load, minimum! Which tells me they actually carry 40 tons of tomato. Apparently the trucks are homologated to 58 tons full vehicle weight and they fit in a Portuguese grey area in which nobody bothers much with capacity as long as it’s within vehicle homologation. I guess it’s something to do with farming lobbying.

They can not go into Spain like that, though, and it seems to me it’s a little bit of don’t ask / don’t tell kind of thing.

[Pedro]

33 minutes ago, busabeast said:

and its only a little scania R430 by looks of it 

You might have a point, that dude was having serious trouble starting to move from the stoplight. I figured wasted clutch from all the work on soft dirt.

[boboneleg]

4 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Just spoke to my neighbour who is not available for making a fish bbq tomorrow as he’s working 7 days per week 12 hours a day on these.

I'm sure that would be illegal here as well, I suspect that they don't have tachographs fitted or ignore them  ?

I'm not au fait with current drivers hours in UK but I'm certain you couldn't do that here.

[Pedro]

35 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

I'm sure that would be illegal here as well, I suspect that they don't have tachographs fitted or ignore them  ?

I'm not au fait with current drivers hours in UK but I'm certain you couldn't do that here.

There might be some electronic wizardry going on … along with the hours spent on soft offroad terrain. His Volvo is looking a lot like my GS right now 

 

The main point is that there’s no neighbour to bbq a couple of seabass with 

[Pedro]

Appart from having no neighbours to have a fish bbq tomorrow, I have just agreed to go have coffee with a recently motoryclist friend at 9am tomorrow, on a heatwave, with no fish bbq to fall back on afterwards. I could take the old BMW car but that has as much air conditioning as my bike.

I’m sat outside going into the second bottle of wine too, this doesn’t help things for tomorrow! What can one do except emphasize even potential events?