Grumpy old buggers thread

[DiscoMick]

Compared to Doomadgee Mt Isa & Cairns are the Big Smoke.
Just ask Ian (V8) how I went in Brisbane a couple of years ago, Bloody Hell!!
Even Cloncurry annoys me, it's got roundabout things & signs with writting on them, they are usually red, & all sorts of confusing/distracting stuff on/near the road.
Must brush up sometime on what they all mean.
Jonesfam

I don't think you would have enjoyed driving in Bangkok or Yangon, where traffic rules are only guidelines.

[4bee]

On the driving topic,i pulled this out of the left rear tyre on my work Van today.

Tyre didn't go down,its part of a screwdriver,was in the tyre parallel to the tread,if you know what i mean.

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I'd be concerned that the driver handle was bouncing around inside the Tube.

[scarry]

Ya gotta be optimistic Paul. You're only up for a phillips, not a tyre and phillips.

Yes,bloody lucky,i recon i can just fit the handle back on the phillips,all good

One of my brothers sent a pic to me today,he got a Teck screw in a tyre last week,it was stuck in head first.

[Saitch]

Yes,bloody lucky,i recon i can just fit the handle back on the phillips,all good

One of my brothers sent a pic to me today,he got a Teck screw in a tyre last week,it was stuck in head first.

Years ago, I was getting new tyres on the D1, at a place on the Redcliffe Peninsula, and I couldn't believe the array of different items they had on display that had come out of damaged tyres.
One that caught my eye was an whole engine valve. It had me wondering what had happened with a vehicle ahead?

[JDNSW]

I remember many years ago my father being rather annoyed when he pulled a near new tyre off to find the puncture, and found a four inch nail between the tube and the tyre, and no damage to the tyre. And found that nail matched the ones in a jar on the cupboard next to where he had fitted the new tyre, while being watched by two small boys.

I deny all responsibility, must have been my brother.

(In those days the tyre supplier did not necessarily fit new tyres. I think they charged extra for it.)

[Bigbjorn]

My late mother got a puncture one night in South Brisbane. Nearly brand new Michelin ZX had a long slash in a sidewall and a carpenters chisel inside. I still have the chisel.

[ramblingboy42]

I think everyone could change a tyre.

I remember doing it on a few occasions , and in my early driving years carried tyre levers.

Don't have any now and actually haven't seen any being used anywhere , except out on the stations where it's still a part of life.

[Saitch]

Oops! Another tree down whilst using the the new flail, tractor attachment.
The good woman not to impressed when I phoned her and asked her to throw a star picket, sledgie and old stocking into the buggy and head over to the relevant area
In my defence, the little Poinc had a buttress type root protruding out of the ground about 18" out from the trunk. This root was hidden by 6" high grass.
The first tree to succumb to my ineptness was a Qld Tree Waratah, which Helen had been nurturing for 7-8 years. That one fared worse, as I completely 'Flailed' it. My, but it's an efficient piece of machinery.
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[4bee]

A bloke doing some slashing here took out a white 4" Sewer vent pipe standing 1 metre high over the soakage trench. He did it again the following year as well.


It's time Tractors came with good rear facing Cameras to make up for the arthritic shoulders & necks of some tractor drivers..

[scarry]

I had a Franner take out a fire hydrant in a correctional Center a few years ago.

All up the final bill was well over $5K

Didn’t cost us anything,only the hire of the crane,$880 from memory.

Luckily he knocked It on his way after the job was done,so didn’t cost us any time either