pyewacket947v:
Back to the dangers of wearing rings on fingers.
My late Father often spoke of the risk after having something heavy(ish) land on his finger while in the RAF during WW2,
He had a ring on that finger which was compressed into a oval shape which in turn provoked him into speaking in Anglo Saxon.
Luckily he suffered no lasting damage, but never wore a ring again.
My own experience concerned a signet ring, a 21st birthday gift, which unaccountably disappeared some years later. i suspect it
vanished while throwing lumps of limestone on or off a tipper at Ashwood Dale Quarry, Buxton. during a weight adjustment
exercise near the weighbridge.
On a few more years and climbing down from checking a fridge engine on a rigid fridge van, i slipped and my wedding ring
caught on the corner of a bracket on the side of the engine housing, for a few heart stopping seconds i hung there by my finger
till i managed to find my footing again.
Back then i weighed about 9stone 8 pounds wringing wet and managed to get away with a bruised digit.
I ended up having to have the ring cut off a few years ago as my expanding finger, or the shrinking ring, had become
incompatible with each other.
Dad also spoke of being wary of people with the ânutters walk,â but thats another story.!!
Friend of ours caught her wedding ring on a gate latch when leading a horse. It all happened quickly, ripping her finger off.
After all these horror stories I now know where the shouted phrase âpull yer finger outâ came from. Didnât realise they really meant it though.
pyewacket947v:
Back to the dangers of wearing rings on fingers.
My late Father often spoke of the risk after having something heavy(ish) land on his finger while in the RAF during WW2,
He had a ring on that finger which was compressed into a oval shape which in turn provoked him into speaking in Anglo Saxon.
Luckily he suffered no lasting damage, but never wore a ring again.
My own experience concerned a signet ring, a 21st birthday gift, which unaccountably disappeared some years later. i suspect it
vanished while throwing lumps of limestone on or off a tipper at Ashwood Dale Quarry, Buxton. during a weight adjustment
exercise near the weighbridge.
On a few more years and climbing down from checking a fridge engine on a rigid fridge van, i slipped and my wedding ring
caught on the corner of a bracket on the side of the engine housing, for a few heart stopping seconds i hung there by my finger
till i managed to find my footing again.
Back then i weighed about 9stone 8 pounds wringing wet and managed to get away with a bruised digit.
I ended up having to have the ring cut off a few years ago as my expanding finger, or the shrinking ring, had become
incompatible with each other.
Dad also spoke of being wary of people with the ânutters walk,â but thats another story.!!
And what about the dangers of wearing big ear-rings?
Thanks to servo88, Buzzer, Suedehead, Punchy Dan, Froggy55 and DEANB for the photos
Oily
A couple of Jacob Kuchel photos. Barossa Valley South Australia based Jacob and his team along with haulage do some serious restoration work. facebook.com/jacob.kuchel flickr.com/photos/kuchel/
Essexpete wrote ; I donât think I have seen a Dodge like the unit a few photos up. Was that a pre 300 LAD?
The 300 Series was introduced 1957 and the unit in the photo dates its registration from March 1960 to May 1960 Cheshire area. It wasnât a different model, it will be a 300 Series but has a coachbuilt cab looking very like a Boalloy type with those sweeping split screens. Northwich being near to Congleton where Boalloy was situated, it seems logical JW Barrow would chose a local builder. Maybe the original cab was damaged or they didnât like the LAD type. Its not a cab Iâve seen on a Dodge in any other photoâs so possibly a rare one, itâs a pity when these photoâs are put on sites originally they donât have some text to explain what exactly is in the photo! Franky.
True, I didnât notice the tractorâs plate though, and have deleted the full vid now so canât check. Complicated in todayâs world. I was once forced off the road in the mountains by a Romanian driver with a Slovakian unit pulling an Italian trailer. I did eventually get full costs reimbursed from the Italian firm though.
Geordielad:
Essexpete wrote ; I donât think I have seen a Dodge like the unit a few photos up. Was that a pre 300 LAD?
The 300 Series was introduced 1957 and the unit in the photo dates its registration from March 1960 to May 1960 Cheshire area. It wasnât a different model, it will be a 300 Series but has a coachbuilt cab looking very like a Boalloy type with those sweeping split screens. Northwich being near to Congleton where Boalloy was situated, it seems logical JW Barrow would chose a local builder. Maybe the original cab was damaged or they didnât like the LAD type. Its not a cab Iâve seen on a Dodge in any other photoâs so possibly a rare one, itâs a pity when these photoâs are put on sites originally they donât have some text to explain what exactly is in the photo! Franky.
Thanks Franky. Would a company like Boally use the same dimensions of things like doors and screens across different makes of lorry?
True, I didnât notice the tractorâs plate though, and have deleted the full vid now so canât check. Complicated in todayâs world. I was once forced off the road in the mountains by a Romanian driver with a Slovakian unit pulling an Italian trailer. I did eventually get full costs reimbursed from the Italian firm though.
Just after passing these two I saw this:
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No sign he has lost his mirror, is that a camera then, and is this common now?
Yes that is a camera David although all the ten new Scanias my boys have bought still have mirrors, after years of driving it is not natural for a driver to look at a screen to see whats around them. Bit like smart motorways we have now and they are not anything like there name implies, maybe they will be retrospectively be dismissed. On another point we do have surround vision cameras fitted on the new Scanias which is absolutely brilliant (movement activated) which can also be viewed on a computer in the office at any time. Recently on a ferry from Genoa to Scicilly one of our trucks was hit by a tug driver reversing a trailer and it was recorded even though the driver was not in attendance so good for the insurance claim as well, Buzzer,
Edit: Still got the full vid and checked, it was a Spanish unit as well, still might not be Spanish driver though.
Somewhere in âla France profondeâ in the 1930s, a grocerâs van.
