The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[OFSO]

1.5m3 I think. Bloody heavy pushing the trailer in to its parking spot.

[OFSO]

Incidently the guard dogs at the log merchants are Real Good Sorts. Always bought from one family. Despite their substantial dimensions they do not push or shove but wait like Christians for the titbits - in this case, dog sausages - I bring. One of the little pleasures in life, going to collect wood.

[OFSO]

Morning all to those here peaceful, those raging and those litigious. Is it just me with a depressed old-age view, or is the percentage of idiots occupying our once-fair planet actually rising exponentially?

[Hydromet]

Morning all to those here peaceful, those raging and those litigious. Is it just me with a depressed old-age view, or is the percentage of idiots occupying our once-fair planet actually rising exponentially?

I don't know about the planet, but certainly on the road today. There appears to be a mass failure of blinkers and commonsense, especially since it was pouring rain.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. A thoroughly miserable day but good rain overnight, you can't have everything. Solar chap came and took our battery away yet again yesterday. Told him we want our money back. The substitute battery failed at 07.00 this morning. He says that he has got a cracking new battery slightly cheaper than our current one but we have to get the manufacturers to pay the money back. The solar chap has now made a loss on it. He has been out here 5 times. That is 400 kms and 10 hrs of his time. Anyway yesterday managed to persuade him to have a beer and sent him away with bags of lemons and limes. His degree is in botany dunno how that relates to solar power.

[Rwy in Sight]

1.5m3 I think. Bloody heavy pushing the trailer in to its parking spot.

Some decades ago a family friend bought a trailer. He is a decent driver with a variety of experience. However when he had to back up the trailer into a spot he failed miserably despite knowing that the steering wheel needs to be turned the opposite way the trailer needs to go. Another family acquittance (a farmer) took over the manoeuvring and accomplished with seconds.

Have you thought about aligning the trailer and then hook the car and just use reverse to make the parking easier?


Nice sunny day here so the solar water heater will perform its job well

[OFSO]

Long car, narrow front yard. Can't get trailer in between gates before front of car against wall.

[OFSO]

Back from forest gleaning with a large IKEA bag full of small branches and fircones to launch the wood stove. Snow down to 600m forecast next week.

[Pontius Navigator]

Fir cones, God's firelighters.

When we had a log burner we would gather large cones from the Scots pines down the road. Eventually they all fell down, the trees that it.

Not as good were the cones in the church yard. Every Saturday the botherers became gatherers and I asked them not to bin the cones and I could be a collector and avoid the more onerous task of gatherer.

Incidentally a continuing use for single use plastic bags.

[Ex-Ascot]

Used to hate reversing our boat trailer down the jetty on Amorgos. Just had to go into the village to drop off rubbish. Sunday, everyone around. You would think that we were Royalty. All waving to us. Kids running around the car. Didn't flatten many.

[Boac]

Just put Arcuri's diaries on my Father Christmas list.

[Wodrick]

Good Morn,
15c guess 21c as ever.
Broken becoming scattered.
Nice and clear.
Short sharp shower earlier 0.3mm. nothing on the radar.
Yesterday 3mm and recorded the highest gust since I got the station. 71.6 km/h.

Concur pine cones, very few pines locally, I buy them 10€ for a sack that is hard to lift.
When I go for them a glass or two of wine is usually involved. The local sweet stuff like sherry.

Reversing.
Sorry aviation content.
If you think a trailer is hard try a Comet (DH 106) Limited steering. Boeings easier with a disconnected Torque Link.

[OFSO]

Many years, ago, gathering pine cones, nosey French git asked us why we wanted them. My father-in-law told the silly sod that we made soup from them. I love to think of generations of Frogs and their friends are still trying to make soup from pine cones, or better still, drinking it, and coming to, or suffering from, a sticky end.

[Malvernian]

1.5m3 I think. Bloody heavy pushing the trailer in to its parking spot.

Some decades ago a family friend bought a trailer. He is a decent driver with a variety of experience. However when he had to back up the trailer into a spot he failed miserably despite knowing that the steering wheel needs to be turned the opposite way the trailer needs to go. Another family acquittance (a farmer) took over the manoeuvring and accomplished with seconds.

Have you thought about aligning the trailer and then hook the car and just use reverse to make the parking easier?


Nice sunny day here so the solar water heater will perform its job well

Never had a problem reversing when we had an 20ft caravan, problems came when reversing the 6ft trailer, everything happens so quickly

[handsfree]

I must agree, the world seems to be full of angry nutters at present.
As for driving skills, they get worse as time goes by. Indicators and lane marking may as well not exist.

On the bright side, it is this morning. A chilly 4°C but mainly sunny.

Oops forgot to press the return key. Now 7°C

[ricardian]

7C/45F degrees just now, feels like 3C/37F. Bitterly cold in church this morning as the central heating clock decided that it was no longer interested and stopped. Hope it's fixed in time for the funeral on Tuesday.

[PHXPhlyer]

I must agree, the world seems to be full of angry nutters at present.
As for driving skills, they get worse as time goes by. Indicators and lane marking may as well not exist.

On the bright side, it is this morning. A chilly 4°C but mainly sunny.

Oops forgot to press the return key. Now 7°C

Simple solution to the driving problem.
Shut down cellular service.

PP

[llondel]

Used to hate reversing our boat trailer down the jetty on Amorgos. Just had to go into the village to drop off rubbish. Sunday, everyone around. You would think that we were Royalty. All waving to us. Kids running around the car. Didn't flatten many.

/my parents bought a trailer tent many years ago. They were looking for a driving instructor who could give them a session on how to manoeuvre it so I mentioned it to a couple of instructors at the amateur radio club I used to attend and one said he could do it. I gave them his details and they had a successful session in the local supermarket car park one morning (I think he even did the proper thing and asked the store manager for permission first).

I only ever did one round trip with a trailer, including having to reverse it, which I managed well enough.

[Pontius Navigator]

Once managed a 13 point turn, at least it seemed like it at the most westerly point on the UK mainland. Apart from the lack of space the caravan tow hitch had a manual reversing lock. Pull forward select reverse, wife set lock, reverse, pull forward, rinse and repeat.

[Rwy in Sight]

Malvernian, it seems you have a point about the size of the trailer. It was a small trailer for carrying stuff not a large for a boat.

PN 13 point turn - impressive. BTW what is a manual reversing lock?

A sunny day today so good performance from the solar water heater.