The grumpy thread

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Anything that takes hours to recharge is just shoddily made rubbish if they're selling it today; there's no good reason battery packs can't charge to 80% in 30-40 minutes provided a suitable power source is available, a range of site batteries/charging supplies from fridge-sized upwards should come with this kind of equipment and be plugged into a 3 phase supply(or a generator if the PM is a knuckle dragging moron or just shit at their job) to charge overnight.

Fast charging is good, but depending on the battery type, it will cause a lot of wear on the cells.

[loserone]

1 hour ago, Rod/b said:

I really don’t understand this British fixation on a perceived invasion of privacy when it comes to ID cards. 

And yet no squeak when mass surveillance technologies are pushed.  

[GrumpiusMaximus]

3 hours ago, Amishtat said:

Have you always been a virtue-signalling cretin, or is it something at which you've had to put in some effort? 

(If it's the latter, then my congratulations. Hard work truly has paid off.) 

Love you too, pumpkin.

[Pieman]

2 hours ago, Rod/b said:

I really don’t understand this British fixation on a perceived invasion of privacy when it comes to ID cards. 

When the same complainers are the type to post pics of everything but their own shits on Facebook.

[Bren]

The vet called. Harley's ashes are ready for collection. Just when I feel like shite.

[Crackers]

Bugger. 

That's the brake diagonally opposite the one that was sticking the other day. This was after a 2 mile drive and the light surface rust from a few days' rain. So that brake is doing sweet FA. Ballcocks. 

[Wack]

3 hours ago, loserone said:

And yet no squeak when mass surveillance technologies are pushed.  

That'll be because they don't understand their mobile phone tracks their every move and is spying on them

The best one I saw was the mercedes car that convicted a murderer , not just GPS tracking , it saved all the door opening and closing , timed him burying the body , it was open 5 minutes so he could get the body and tools out, gone for an hour to bury her then open 30 seconds to put the tools back in , it's not just your phone that's watching you

[Fumbler]

22 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Bugger. 

That's the brake diagonally opposite the one that was sticking the other day. This was after a 2 mile drive and the light surface rust from a few days' rain. So that brake is doing sweet FA. Ballcocks. 

Both calipers fucked or a blocked front proportioning block thingie?

[Talbot]

47 minutes ago, Crackers said:

That's the brake diagonally opposite the one that was sticking the other day. This was after a 2 mile drive and the light surface rust from a few days' rain. So that brake is doing sweet FA. Ballcocks. 

Drive down the road at speed* and then heave the brakes on hard.  See if it does anything then.  Also see if it's sticking on thereafter.  If it starts to do something under heavy braking and then sticks on, it's a stiff caliper.  If it still does naff all, suspect it's a hydraulic issue.

Rear brakes don't do a great deal on a lot of cars, but a decent bout of braking-like-a-buffoon should see them do *something*

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, volvov70 said:

Most sites don't have the infrastructure to provide fast charging. In mining most big bits of kit that don't have to move far quickly are hooked up to the mains with a trailing cable. battery stuff is limited to relatively lightweight but high mileage kit.

at my current worksite we will have two 800 amp charging points under the gantry cranes and one 200 amp charging point in the workshop - we do have 25 MVA to play with mind

I was thinking more at the mini digger <3t end of things, a trailer mounted charger/powerbank could fast charge a mini digger 2-3 times and be towed offsite to recharge overnight; bigger diggers and plant will be problematic unless hydrogen/ammonia/other magic beans become practical.

[twosmoke300]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

That'll be because they don't understand their mobile phone tracks their every move and is spying on them

The best one I saw was the mercedes car that convicted a murderer , not just GPS tracking , it saved all the door opening and closing , timed him burying the body , it was open 5 minutes so he could get the body and tools out, gone for an hour to bury her then open 30 seconds to put the tools back in , it's not just your phone that's watching you

Wasn’t that a discovery ?

[iainrcz]

The Mrs lost her card. So  without asking she borrowed mine, to buy ladies products.

No massive problem, except for some reason she didn't use it contactlessly and instead decided to use her pin number.

So my debit card is now blocked.

And hers was in her handbag.

 

Dick head.

[Agila]

50 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Wasn’t that a discovery ?

I thought that. Brave, committing a murder in a land rover product and then possibly having to wait for an AA van to make your getaway.

[Agila]

19 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

The Mrs lost her card. So  without asking she borrowed mine, to buy ladies products.

No massive problem, except for some reason she didn't use it contactlessly and instead decided to use her pin number.

So my debit card is now blocked.

And hers was in her handbag.

 

Dick head.

I'll confess that made me laugh. I'm not even sorry. That "dick head" comment made it. 🤣

[sierraman]

46 minutes ago, Agila said:

I thought that. Brave, committing a murder in a land rover product and then possibly having to wait for an AA van to make your getaway.

Logged the moment it brought up the EGR.🤣

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, adw1977 said:

I've always thought that building site equipment ought to be relatively easy to make electric. 

Things like those mini digger / dumper things that get transported to and from the site on the back of a truck.  Couldn't they be charged overnight before being loaded onto the truck?  They're not going far and stand idle for more hours than they're in use.

I am not talking about small housing renovations, I am thinking more about excavating the roads, new pipes?cables or complete housing estates. Charging up vehicles or any plant on a building site will take a lot of power overnight. On road works they are almost impossible unless road side charging points are installed. At the moment talk about going green is all about cars, then comes public transport. Hardly anything said about lorries and nothing about the rest of the fuel power machinery that is need for us to live our lives.

I wonder how batteries will take to be shaken in a Bomag, a Waker or a vibrating  plate compactor?

[Remspoor]

10 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Lorries are the biggest problem probably as although they could carry a lot of batteries, it obviously detracts from the payload. Buses  often are fairly near to base and can carry more batteries easier.

Ditto tractors , close to base , already heavy. , more batteries relatively  easily to design in without loss of performance.

Chainsaws etc? Have you seen what you can get in power tools these days? I recently did a job with a friend cutting a hedge. I had a petrol power trimmer , he had a 56V battery powered one. It was like a Ford Fiesta v a Tesla.

Electric chainsaws can not last all day without using many, many batteries.  Have you seen the price of one and all the additional batteries you need?

Batteies slung low in a tractor? Never seen that.

Fully electric buses can not run all day without a charge. They cannot run long distance buses service either.

[Wack]

2 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

Wasn’t that a discovery ?

The one I saw was a mercedes but it wouldn't surprise me if they're all at it 

[Spurious]

As much as I like Electric it's not suitable for everything. 

Tractors often do high torque high load work all bloody day. Used to work on a Fiat Agri 130-90 Turbo, great tractor, doing work with a contractor. But pulling a 3m wide rotovator, plough etc, it's often working at max power pulling the rotovator through the soil and whatever the PTO is taking. 

Batteries wouldnt last pissing time in a big field doing hard work. 

[Remspoor]

On 8/25/2021 at 11:09 AM, Remspoor said:

Oh FFS.

The case was thrown out...😁

[beko1987]

5 hours ago, Crackers said:

Bugger. 

That's the brake diagonally opposite the one that was sticking the other day. This was after a 2 mile drive and the light surface rust from a few days' rain. So that brake is doing sweet FA. Ballcocks. 

Tried smacking the caliper with a long bar and big hammer? 

When I had the burning smoke from a seized caliper on an old car I pulled over, brayed it to fuck for a minute then heard a crunchy pop and all was well*! (I got to work and back with no more sticking then re-looked at it. That was when I took a car with perfectly working brakes and thought "ah, I've got a spare afternoon, let's clean and check all the calipers..." 2 of the ungrateful bastards stuck on after that. Never again. 

[motorpunk]

41.5 MPG. That pisses me off. It shouldn’t, really, but it has been 45.1MPG for the last 100k miles … until the bloody garage reset it…

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Dick given head.

Only way of making it up to you, M9.

[iainrcz]

7 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Only way of making it up to you, M9.

Absolutely.

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

I wonder how batteries will take to be shaken in a Bomag, a Waker or a vibrating  plate compactor?

I'd imagine they'd have a remote battery pack and a line in to the machine, much like the air-driven vibratey machines do now.

(Maybe not for the Bomag obvs.)

[Parky]

well that was the first shit day for a while...

1)- Woke up stupidly early so despite it being 7.25pm here in NZ, I cannot wait to go to bed.  Normally I would but its Mrs P's birthday so I cant bugger off today.

2)- Hospital appointment which should have been an hour took four.  I should have been told that, but wasnt.  Plus I left my laptop at the hospital and had to go back for it.  Couldnt park anywhere nearby so had a bit of a hike in 30degree heat.  Unpleasant.  Work not too chuffed about it either.

3)- Laptop inexplicably did a BIOS update just before 5 and now I cant access anythng as I need to enter a Bitlocker code.  I have no idea what that is.  I dont have a code and the admin team dont have one either.  Apparently it might be in my Microsoft account but I cant access that as my password isnt recognised.  I recall changing it last month but cant remember what I changed it to.  Called Admin back at 5.10pm to find our guy had gone on holiday for two weeks (itis our summer) and nobody else was able to help today.

4)- Went to get Thai.  Marched into the restaurant to collect only to find it wasnt ready.  And they had no details of any order from me.  After scurrying around for 20 minutes it became apparent it wasnt ready or indeed on their list so they apologised and promised to make it quick.  It was at this point I gave the order in a slightly miffed tone and discovered I had gone into the wrong restaurant.  It looked totally different to the last time I went, I assumed they'd done a makeover.  Looked a proper twat and swear I heard the kitchen staff laughing as I left.  

5) - Collected Thai, now cold as it had been sitting there 25 minutes waiting for me

And yet I am quite philosophical about it hoping I am doing my stupid unlucky shit in one go so 2022 goes a little more smoothly

 

 

[cobblers]

1 hour ago, Parky said:

4)- Went to get Thai.  Marched into the restaurant to collect only to find it wasnt ready.  And they had no details of any order from me.  After scurrying around for 20 minutes it became apparent it wasnt ready or indeed on their list so they apologised and promised to make it quick.  It was at this point I gave the order in a slightly miffed tone and discovered I had gone into the wrong restaurant.  It looked totally different to the last time I went, I assumed they'd done a makeover.  Looked a proper twat and swear I heard the kitchen staff laughing as I left.  

 

I'm sorry for laughing, but I did laugh. Sorry.

 

Years ago when I worked at Halfords, an angry man came in with a sat nav, kicking off about how it was "Playing up really bad" and "wasting his time sending him all over the country in wrong directions" but basically he just had no fucking idea how to use it and he was adding new destinations as extra stops on a route rather than clearing the old destination, so it was always trying to eventually send him back to Ingoldmells.

He was having a right old rant and nobody could get a word in edgeways. 

Finally he shoved the satnav across the counter at me, along with his receipt from Comet 😅and asked me "What the fuck are you going to do about it then?"

 

[montytom]

16 hours ago, Bren said:

The vet called. Harley's ashes are ready for collection. Just when I feel like shite.

Im so sorry to hear this, it brings back memories of collecting my dog Spuds ashes. It's never an easy thing to do but we felt as if we were bringing him home

[Dyslexic Viking]

Minus 15 and this modern cars are fun

 

[Agila]

15 hours ago, Wack said:

The one I saw was a mercedes but it wouldn't surprise me if they're all at it 

For info this is the discovery example.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51466273