windrush:
A pity that it took a fatal accident locally to get those screens fitted on gritters. Not a job I ever fancied but somebody has to do it so it might just as well be Dennis!
Pete.
Councils were slow learners Pete , I was about 10 when flymows on wheels came in . Being a kid I was watching them mowing our green on the other side of the road when a stone shot off the blades and hit me on the eyebrow , an inch lower and I would have lost an eye . They didn’t fit guards then , they had an extra man with a rake going in front of the mower , no H&S in those days . Maybe the blow to the head explains why I finished up driving lorries .
windrush:
A pity that it took a fatal accident locally to get those screens fitted on gritters. Not a job I ever fancied but somebody has to do it so it might just as well be Dennis!
Pete.
Councils were slow learners Pete , I was about 10 when flymows on wheels came in . Being a kid I was watching them mowing our green on the other side of the road when a stone shot off the blades and hit me on the eyebrow , an inch lower and I would have lost an eye . They didn’t fit guards then , they had an extra man with a rake going in front of the mower , no H&S in those days . Maybe the blow to the head explains why I finished up driving lorries .
I believe that the gritter incident occoured at Darley Dale council yard Dave, you may remember it? The driver climbed in the back to clear a blockage and the auger took him in, I was told that everything below the waist had gone. I suppose the screens did two jobs, they filtered the grit and also prevented anyone accessing the body.
Flymow’s: when I lived in Reading the manager of the firm who did our radiator repairs had one and it took his big toe off. He got an infection which killed him, I have always been very wary of them ever since.
windrush:
A pity that it took a fatal accident locally to get those screens fitted on gritters. Not a job I ever fancied but somebody has to do it so it might just as well be Dennis!
Pete.
Councils were slow learners Pete , I was about 10 when flymows on wheels came in . Being a kid I was watching them mowing our green on the other side of the road when a stone shot off the blades and hit me on the eyebrow , an inch lower and I would have lost an eye . They didn’t fit guards then , they had an extra man with a rake going in front of the mower , no H&S in those days . Maybe the blow to the head explains why I finished up driving lorries .
I use a motorised rotary mower/brushcutter in my garden and there has been for many years a neat hole in the outer pane of the double glazed bathroom window. I have a gravel drive through which I allow grass to grow which looks nice while giving me more grip. Since then I have learned only to mow with the blades lowered in one direction. Still doesn’t stop me getting a crack on the ankles now and again though.
All credit to Les Chatfield for the photo and text.This extremely tuneful pipe organ adorns the back of a Scania breakdown track . Operated via the lorrys air system,electronically controlled valves open in sequence to perform the tune.
Oily
oiltreader:
All credit to Les Chatfield for the photo and text.This extremely tuneful pipe organ adorns the back of a Scania breakdown track . Operated via the lorrys air system,electronically controlled valves open in sequence to perform the tune.
Oily
oiltreader:
All credit to Les Chatfield for the photo and text.This extremely tuneful pipe organ adorns the back of a Scania breakdown track . Operated via the lorrys air system,electronically controlled valves open in sequence to perform the tune.
Oily
Hello oily ,and happy new year ,thank you Trevor
And a Happy New Year to you Trevor, mileage a bit restricted last year hopefully we can clock up a few this one.
Cheers
Oily
Suedehead:
Apologies if i have posted these before
Out of intrest “Suedehead” was the pic of the MAN with the door open taken in a service area in Italy after coming through
the Frejus tunnel as the stone wall looks familiar ?
Not a job I ever fancied but somebody has to do it so it might just as well be Dennis!
I suppose the screens did two jobs, they filtered the grit and also prevented anyone accessing the body.
