Thread: Man dies after being run over while asleep at a camping ground in southern New South

Originally Posted by JDNSW

A few years ago, at a camp in Qld, one of our blokes, being a conscientious sort, washed his Inter R190 after work one afternoon. About 0100, it seems that water worked its way into the electrics, and the starter operated. Since on that engine the starter solenoid bypasses the coil resistor (and, incidentally, the ignition switch), the engine fired up - that particular truck always started real easily. Having conscientiously left it in first gear, with the handbrake on, it started off - with the transmission handbrake hardly making an impact on first gear - and proceeded across the camp, fortunately without hitting anything, until the front wheels dropped over the bank of Comet Ck, and the added resistance was enough to stop further progress.

Leaving it in gear is not necessarily the best option in all cases! (In this case the ground was level)

Yep, that's where the ex-FIL and I came to logger heads on the farm, but he took it to the extreme and wouldn't leave the tractors or trucks in the shed in case mice chewed and shorted something, so everything just deteriorated out in the weather.

Originally Posted by rick130

Another mate who's older than me had his Amarok roll out of his driveway and across the street and right through the neighbours garage.

Back in the mid-Sixties, a neighbour from across the road knocked on our door to tell us my '38 Vauxhall was in their driveway. No damage to it or the neighbour's property. That taught me that hand brakes aren't infallible.

I only select a gear when not on level ground...otherwise just handbrake

Just handbrake is a hangover from my previous employer....it what they wanted.

My old defer has roll across the work carpark and kiss another car.

Failsafe?

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

Failsafe?

Nice really good idea, but dosnt it defeat the purpose of the transmission brake? Or is the pin like a secondary brake also?
Cheers Jim

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

Failsafe?

Now you've got me interested , I also have Disc x Brake on my E- landy and i'm working on a different sort of failsafe, as Leaving it in gear does nothing with an electric motor.

Ive even made a notched disc to mount on my PTO , the idea being to have a locking pawl engage with it

Do you have any closer images on your locking pin mechanism ?

my effort so far, (below) but I like your idea better.

X brake are horrible, the locking pin is a great idea. Have had 2 separate x brake incidents where they haven't held, and both on mild gradients, and both in different vehicles.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Back in the mid-Sixties, a neighbour from across the road knocked on our door to tell us my '38 Vauxhall was in their driveway. No damage to it or the neighbour's property. That taught me that hand brakes aren't infallible.

I had to knock on my neighbours door to inform them that their toyota crapadore had rolled out of their carport in a large arc and into the back of my 85 RRC, missed my VFR750 by about 12". Rangie had a cracked tail light lens but lexcen had $3500 worth of damage thanks to my ARB rear bar .