Dr Damon:
Clowns clowns and more clowns. Glad you got out ok.
Hats off to the recovery driver. What a guy he was, like superman, he was laid underneath my trailer hitching up chains in the soaking wet and covered in mud and it didn’t deter him in the least. He just got on with the job, god knows what they earn but they earn every penny. That’s what I would call a skillful driving job.
On call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Out in the middle of the night, ■■■■■■■ down, for little more than minimum wage. The reason recovery bods earn “a lot of money” is because their hours make the average tramper look like a part-timer.
Oh, pedant hat on… Superman would have simply picked up your wagon, and put it carefully down on the main road…
This guy knew what he was doing, he had two lines going and a pulley with one wire on it around a tree pulling me from different angles. I was impressed and doubt he was on minimum wage to be honest. He was exceptionally skillful and just got stuck in to the job with no messing. Took a few hours but at the end of it he even kept with me until we reached the road.
UKtramp:
This guy knew what he was doing, he had two lines going and a pulley with one wire on it around a tree pulling me from different angles. I was impressed and doubt he was on minimum wage to be honest. He was exceptionally skillful and just got stuck in to the job with no messing. Took a few hours but at the end of it he even kept with me until we reached the road.
Sounds like he knew what he was doing, unlike the brain dead dunce who drove into a field in February.
UKtramp:
This guy knew what he was doing, he had two lines going and a pulley with one wire on it around a tree pulling me from different angles. I was impressed and doubt he was on minimum wage to be honest. He was exceptionally skillful and just got stuck in to the job with no messing. Took a few hours but at the end of it he even kept with me until we reached the road.
Sounds like he knew what he was doing, unlike the brain dead dunce who drove into a field in February.
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Get it right Adonis , or he will come to chastise you . He reversed into a ditch ! Still a brain dead dunce though
adonis.
i think you are wrongly accusing uktramp of something he is innocent of.
he didnt get stuck as he made it all up same as all of his/their posts…please be aware of this in the future and consider yourself chastised…thankyou…
dieseldog999:
adonis.
i think you are wrongly accusing uktramp of something he is innocent of.
he didnt get stuck as he made it all up same as all of his/their posts…please be aware of this in the future and consider yourself chastised…thankyou…
Aye, well that is true. I was only playing along for purposes of mocking the sad creep.
did 3 years on grain bulkers when I first started in 89, boy did I have some fun and games. The usual comment when you turned up at the farm was
" I didn’t expect a lorry as big as that ". I had a old F12 with the diff lock not working and as a owner driver usually my drive axle tyres was well worn or recut.
I forgot the amount of times I ended up stuck, but we always got it out with a tractor. I did have a driver who managed to ditched my second lorry twice. I had to get a recovery out those times. so if you doing farm work, take a chain with you, you are going to need it!
I last got stuck 5 or 6 years ago, a combination of ambition outweighing talent and absolutely zero clutch control edit to add; I’m surprised I didn’t simply fall out of the snow looking at this picture!
Yeah Maoster you remind me of a certain Mr Stoner…ha ha although he won’t be stuck.(ever) I am sure we have all been stuck at one point or other whether in snow, mud or a ditch.
It happens to the best of us but it’s usually an experience you should be able to avoid a second time depending upon your employer and your learning capability.
Dr Damon:
Yeah Maoster you remind me of a certain Mr Stoner…ha ha although he won’t be stuck.(ever) I am sure we have all been stuck at one point or other whether in snow, mud or a ditch.
It happens to the best of us but it’s usually an experience you should be able to avoid a second time depending upon your employer and your learning capability. [emoji38]
Dr Damon:
Yeah Maoster you remind me of a certain Mr Stoner…ha ha although he won’t be stuck.(ever) I am sure we have all been stuck at one point or other whether in snow, mud or a ditch.
It happens to the best of us but it’s usually an experience you should be able to avoid a second time depending upon your employer and your learning capability.
I wonder how an autonomous vehicle might have coped in that situation■■?
I got stuck once. Hadn’t been driving long and got a bit lost. Tried to turn the lorry round in the entrance to a side street, inexperience told me I’d make it! I didn’t. The cab got stuck in the soft verge. Much rocking back and forth, and one fence later, I got it out.
GasGas:
I wonder how an autonomous vehicle might have coped in that situation■■?
It ended up in a ditch.
Think about it - he got a big load of straw into the farm yard - remember straw usually is a few inches wider than the trailer …
BUT managed to stick the unit in the ditch when he could see much better when the load was off .
My jaw hit the floor when he said that, especially considering who he was addressing at the time.
When I raced with New Era he was an incredibly fast spotty child who used to kip in a transit van with his dad. Reckon he’s past that now
Right off topic but better than some of the drivel in this thread!
You mention transit van… I remember we were at Brno 99 I believe and parked opposite us in a very small camper was one VR and his Dad. His first year on the 250.
I remember it well as it was the year Jamie Whitham smashed his pelvis on the Modenas!
edit to add; I’m surprised I didn’t simply fall out of the snow looking at this picture!
