Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 24)

[hidetheelephants]

DickyC said:

My embryo career as a forklift driver ended around that time.

Some things are just not meant to be.

Bacon sandwich o'clock approaches.

[DickyC]

Just launched a new thread in the lounge called "Tell us about your neurosis."

They're coming to take me away, ha ha, hee hee, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time.
Napoleon XIV

[iva cosworth]

GTIR said:

Life's a beach......Sorry not very good at selfies

EFA

[iva cosworth]

Re the load all forklift leafy kshowed.

Went to a site this week and there was no driver for the forks,asked if I could drive one ,said yes but not

one of those behemoths.

Driver turned up luckily.

Didn't fancy an incident........

[ApOrbital]

ChemicalChaos said:

Leafspring said:

I'm on the list to do the license course, but they are willing/want me to have a play practice first though...

I have also been informed (rightly or wrongly) that the ticket only lasts 5 years.

This is true. You also have to refresher days during that period.

2 of the guys on our aircraft heritage work with heavy forklift kit in their day jobs, and often say what a nightmare of red tape and paperwork it is. We were looking at getting an old 5 tonne fork at our site, but the amount of testing needed for both machine and drivers soon put the kibosh on that given that we are a charity with very limited resources!

You need the AITT/ITSSAR national reg one, pass that and it lasts for life the course most people do these days only last a year.

Morning all.

[iva cosworth]

I'm trying to make it through 4 hours work today without hardly speaking to colleagues.

I prefer not to mix with hoi poloy........

[iva cosworth]

35 minutes without speaking.

53 to go till Chuckout time.

Pizzas were bought for any staff at base yesterday.

Yeah,don't worry about the drivers who had WAYYYYYYYY too much work on.

I'm going to buy a HUGE one for lunch.

That'll learn em........

50 now.

[iva cosworth]

Shed of the week isn't getting much love,a Rover .metro.........

[iva cosworth]

Still not uttered a word,though I did grunt earlier.......

[pad58]

Yeah my mum had two metros for some reason, both where pieces of shot.

[SWTH]

Beer. I need beer.

I have no beer

[iva cosworth]

TT bar will be serving alcoholic beverages from 12 onwards.

Form an orderly queue please........

[iva cosworth]

pad58 said:

Yeah my mum had two metros for some reason, both where pieces of shot.

My car killing nephew had one.

He thrashed it mercilessly.

It died.

He didn't like us calling it a Metro.

It was a Rover 100.

[pad58]

iva cosworth said:

pad58 said:

Yeah my mum had two metros for some reason, both where pieces of shot.

My car killing nephew had one.

He thrashed it mercilessly.

It died.

He didn't like us calling it a Metro.

It was a Rover 100.

Mums were Metros you know the '80s ones.
Dad had a Fiesta 1.3 Finesse Mk1 , a little slower than my 1.4s mk2 at that time....then....ages ago.

[Fishtigua]

I had a Metro, bought for a £100, just to do a short commute over winter. The bloody thing wouldn't die, it just ran and ran. Too good to scrap, so gave it away to the gardener.

Dad bought a later 100 when the 14 year old Pug 205GT finally died, utter kack.

[Leafspring]

Morning all

Fishtigua said:

Have they let you loose with one of these yet? This is my old one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqUNa8to_nM

Nope, only berthing and the engineers (so they can move them when they need to fix them) are allowed to drive them. 65t and a 20t (with a crane)

I can drive the Ford tractor but have no reason to (it's used by the on site gardener mainly)

ION... I slept for 11 hours

[DickyC]

My Metros were fine; I really liked them. I had three, all MGs. A new one, a damaged repairable that I fixed and hotted-up and a newer even-more-damaged one from a breakers that I treated to all the good bits from the hotted-up one. The engine was tuned by Avonbar (RIP) and was taken out from 1275 to 1380. On a track day at Silverstone, I was getting round in the same time as my bro in his Cooper S which was much better through the bends and considerably lighter.

Do you know the one roundabout on the Marlow Bypass? That's where I blew it up.

[pad58]

I had a couple of real BMC minis back in the day, they where hard to kill, ran an 850cc without water for 100 miles ,no trouble.
The 1275 GT was the bestist eva eva car in the whole universe, eva.

[slopes]

ChemicalChaos said:

Leafspring said:

I'm on the list to do the license course, but they are willing/want me to have a play practice first though...

I have also been informed (rightly or wrongly) that the ticket only lasts 5 years.

This is true. You also have to refresher days during that period.

2 of the guys on our aircraft heritage work with heavy forklift kit in their day jobs, and often say what a nightmare of red tape and paperwork it is. We were looking at getting an old 5 tonne fork at our site, but the amount of testing needed for both machine and drivers soon put the kibosh on that given that we are a charity with very limited resources!

Your licence doesn't run out as such, what does is the competency certificate that accompanies it, for example if you get an RTITB licence, the certificate only lasts three years, then you have to do a refresher course. Where i work, they retest you every two years but your licence doesn't change, however it is reflected on the company's insurance documents that you have been retrained. I am not looking forward to the day i have to be retested on a reach truck, i hate the damn things.

[DickyC]

Restrained? Restrained?