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Post by geoffh on Jan 24, 2021 9:49:35 GMT -5
I use a combination of printed map and sat nav to get around my delivery area and service quite a few farms and odd placed houses etc,we have had flooding and storm Christopher in the past week so I refused to attempt this delivery until Friday(much to my managers frustration) the picture does not do the situation justice a 7.5 truck bogged down to its axle (my bad)on a bridle path in the middle of a field half a mile from tarmac!!  the recovery guy got stuck the next guy got stuck
Then they decided to go get a tractor,I walked off to tarmac and got a lift back to the depot,stuck in the mud at 13.30 got home 19.00 the truck??it,s not mine  |
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Post by captincvmn on Jan 24, 2021 12:13:16 GMT -5
Mud will slow almost anything to a stop.
Except land rovers, the old ones without so many computers involved.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jan 24, 2021 12:20:00 GMT -5
Been there only inches from the road in a redi-mix truck. Damn contractor insisted that I drive into a rice paddy field with a ~75-80,000# truck. I made the contractor sign the ticket after he and his crew threatened me with physical violence. It took two trucks as anchors for a winch truck to get me out. He paid for the load, damage to my truck (bent driveshaft), clean-out, demurrage time for my truck and the other 3 trucks. It was a HUGE bill and he did not get any concrete to finish the basement floor that day. I never heard what happened and how they fixed the unfinished floor.
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Post by aeroxbud on Jan 24, 2021 15:08:48 GMT -5
Once the axle is bottomed out it's game over.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jan 24, 2021 16:51:35 GMT -5
Once the axle is bottomed out it's game over. Unless you have a sky hook... LOL |
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Post by geoffh on Jan 25, 2021 16:05:42 GMT -5
The truck was back this morning!!I have no clue how they got it out but my cab is covered in mud on the inside seat, floor,door cards and dash I think the recovery driver did a hippo in the field.we have a high "churn" of drivers so the mickey taking might die down in few years.
Geoff
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Post by pinkscoot on Jan 25, 2021 19:01:00 GMT -5
The truck was back this morning!!I have no clue how they got it out but my cab is covered in mud on the inside seat, floor,door cards and dash I think the recovery driver did a hippo in the field.we have a high "churn" of drivers so the mickey taking might die down in few years. Geoff Allow me to interpret for those of us that are from the Colonies: mickey-taking (also micky-taking) Pronunciation /ˈmikēˌtākiNG/ /ˈmɪkiˌteɪkɪŋ/ NOUN informal British The action of teasing or ridiculing someone. |
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Post by geoffh on Jan 26, 2021 15:46:05 GMT -5
Thanks pinkscoot it never occurred to me that translation was in order :)we have many more expressions that refer to the same process,none of them printable here.
Geoff
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Post by pinkscoot on Jan 26, 2021 16:35:40 GMT -5
When I first read it I thought I got the meaning. I then looked it up and I indeed was way off. I will have to remeber that one.
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Post by geoffh on Feb 14, 2021 15:20:36 GMT -5
Well here we go,just a choice thing half a mile of reversing the 7.5 or a leap of faith over this unmarked "bridge"  and yep that's a stream under it. Geoff |
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Post by captincvmn on Feb 14, 2021 16:10:39 GMT -5
Rev it and go
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Post by yambw’s on Feb 14, 2021 16:39:32 GMT -5
Power and gun it!!
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Post by aeroxbud on Feb 14, 2021 17:03:49 GMT -5
Looks good. 🙈
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Post by woodini on Feb 14, 2021 19:08:05 GMT -5
👍🏿
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Post by geoffh on Feb 23, 2021 15:33:44 GMT -5
I was looking for parts for scooters English depot,this is as close as I got  is that murky figure Dexameth?? Geoff |
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