What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[skattrd]

Did we ever find out who has the banner?

[Cavcraft]

My mate took this this morning, how great is this picture?

 

 

[michael1703]

-1 Celsius and my 88 year old customer turns up in his 1954 Riley RME, we chat outside in the wind which must have dropped it to minus 5, e chat for a bit and as he departs I ask how good the heating is and he informs me it wasn't working and was on his "to do" list

 

Hard as nails these old blokes

[cort16]

Red sky in the morning vectra dash warning.

[trigger]

This is the best video I've seen in ages, if old Vauxhalls make you wet then your in for a treat!.

 

https://grrc.goodwood.com/road/news/vauxhall-ellesmere-port-video

[320touring]

I have sufficient chod to keep me occupied for some time:)

[cort1977]

Could have been a grump but now a grin.

 

Call from Missus last night, new (to us) W210 Merc won't go in to gear plus "it's flashing some lights".   Luckily not far so went over and persuaded it of the error of its ways with a screwdriver on the release button thing and drove home.   ABS, ESP and BAS warnings flashing up so slightly worried that it might be some terminal electrical malady.

 

2 min google turns up that the brake switch is the likely culprit, $15 delivered.   Who said barges were expensive?

[spike60]

Mercs seem to eat brake switches, my Clk needed one too. 2 breeds of them usually depending on how many pins it has.

[TimothyClaypole]

Received an email from an aggrieved salesman saying he'd tried to call me but I wasn't in - I'd be at work maybe, I put the number as your site wouldn't let me just put an email address.  

 

Back in the day POA on adverts was the normal, get you to call up and then make up a price whatever you could get away with.  

 

I emailed asking for a price and had no reply, he's still not given me a price...

 

Wasn't too sold on my countries going to the dogs line I think - company moans sales are poor but won't let you see how much the thing you want to buy is.

[cobblers]

Tesco home delivery van's insurers rang me this morning to say, in a very important voice that "After a thorough investigation of the evidence and witness statements of your recent accident, we have decided that on balance of probabilities, we are going to accept liability on this occasion"

 

The accident was their van reversing into my parked car outside the house while I sat on the front room eating a full english. I'm thankful they have done me this great favour.

[cort16]

I'm surprised they didn't try to pay you in club card points.

[Cavcraft]

And then pay £30,000 less than they said, because they'd got their figures wrong.

[Alan_Green]

Passed this morning:  Contract Furniture UK:

[meshking]

[spike60]

Is the container pic for real? I work on the docks and there's been hell to pay if the driver hasn't released the twistlocks and the trailer gets a little lift, claims of chassis twist etc. I call fake!

[meshking]

Dunno, claims to be real, but I didn't take that photo so who knows! It was in Rotterdam apparently (not Liverpool, or Rome)

[MrDuke]

In theory, would that even be possible? I imagine the container locks have to resist a lot of horizontal forces, but would they actually hold the weight of an artic underneath them? Come to that, would the cab stay attached to the trailer for that length of time?

[Bren]

The cab would have come off fairly quickly.

[Pillock]

What's a tractor unit weigh, five tonnes? More? All that off the pin seems a lot.... All the wrong forces, it's meant to resist a horizontal pull not a vertical one.

[dave21478]

appears to be real.

 

[vulgalour]

Doesn't someone on here work at the docks?  Aren't they always saying how Maersk are arseholes?  Aren't Maersk's trucks blue?  I can see what's happening in these pictures with these tenuous half-remembered fakts!

[spike60]

It seems to have been posted on a site called WTF?! Reddit which specializes in oddball news, when it appears on the BBC or similar I'll take it a little more seriously. We have had them slightly lifted by arsey crane drivers pointing out the twist locks aren't released, I would think it would just slew round on the kingpin and jackknife long before you got it 6 containers high.

[dollywobbler]

Where's Trigger when you need him? 

[Pillock]

He's at work, throwing trucks around.

[dave21478]

He is 50 feet in the air going "AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH"

 

 

EDIT - Curses...beaten to the punchline by my connection timing out.

[trigger]

Here I am! It's Asia Container Terminal in Hong Kong Apparently, I imagine it's a fully automated RTG, The dopey driver hasn't undone his twist locks before getting out of the cab, the RTG is meant to cut out when it feels the trailer lifting (they never work) so it's just lifted it all the way up, I suspect it got as far as the back stack before the lorry driver found the emergency stop.

 

I've lifted loads of lorries, normally it's just one twist lock through, mind you I did lift one 3 containers high once and got his cab completely of the ground, the driver wasn't happy but the twat shouldn't have sat under me with on his phone with his twistlocks done up.

[trigger]

[jakebullet]

Discovered Life on Mars is on amazon prime. Engage tv marathon.

[TagoraSX]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151509949173

[Richard]

What was it?