Today I acquired...........

[qwakers]

gotten narked off with cheap corded da sanders so i ******* a ton on this

https://www.screwfix.com/p/makita-d...m-orbital-sander-bare/5839j?_requestid=291831

should make my life a bit essier, plus i have a spare tek case and, randomly, a sander insert for it so win win

 

[jordhandson]

Today I acquired I got a bit of a hangover and I didn't get any grinding wheels for my birthday yesterday.

What I did get was a Makita impact driver set and the Die grinder I blagged off my sister.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Simple piece of kit, you turn the black knobs on the side to alter the numbers, similar to how buses used to change the routes in the window above their cabs by winding a handle, like so:

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@eLuSiVeMiTe beat me to it .

It's s a legal requirement in the UK that any vehicle whose travelling height exceeds 3 metres is fitted with a height warning indicator such as this, so for the sake of a few quid it's not worth not having one. Strangely, the figures are in imperial but have to be a minimum of 40mm high . And yes, in the past I've loaded to 16' 5" high on a wafer-deck low loader, which gives 1" clearance under the recommended maximum height of 16' 6" for motorway bridges .

Great minds think alike. Bus sign was the first analogue I came up with

 

[selectedgrub]

Thank you both for the explanation.
Is it for the driver as a reminder or does it display facing outwards of the cab?

 

[Hood]

Great minds think alike. Bus sign was the first analogue I came up with

So did I but in my case the saying is Fools seldom differ

 

[bricol]

Yes, and I flinched noticeably going under every bridge between the centre of Dewsbury and Barking.

Some years ago, one of our loaded machines was under the height restriction of the railway bridge down the road from work . . . except the council had resurfaced the road by adding 6" plus of material to the original road surface but no-one had changed the height clearance sign . . . cue big "clang" as extractor fan on machine smote the bridge

 

[4String.]

Thank you both for the explanation.
Is it for the driver as a reminder or does it display facing outwards of the cab?

Purely a reminder for the driver, although if you google "Bridge strikes", it soon becomes apparent that some of the halfwits that are let loose in heavy wagons need much, much more than that...

 

[4String.]

So did I but in my case the saying is Fools seldom differ

You sound just like my Dad .

 

[Hood]

You sound just like my Dad .

Wash yer mooth oot wi soapy water, I'm yer Ma
Well it is a woke world

 

[Tupers]

Purely a reminder for the driver, although if you google "Bridge strikes", it soon becomes apparent that some of the halfwits that are let loose in heavy wagons need much, much more than that...

I walk under a 7’ 8” rail tunnel on my way to work and I think I must see 6 Luton vans stuck under it every year and about the same in HGV’s having to reverse an 1/8 mile back to get out.
Last year someone went under in a big old Hymer motor home and tore the roof off like a sardine can.

 

[Matchless]

Some years ago, one of our loaded machines was under the height restriction of the railway bridge down the road from work . . . except the council had resurfaced the road by adding 6" plus of material to the original road surface but no-one had changed the height clearance sign . . . cue big "clang" as extractor fan on machine smote the bridge

 

[4String.]

Even in this technological age, there's a lot to be said for one of these:




Gives details of just about every low (under16') bridge in the country, weight limits, 1.5 mile to the inch scale, and never packs up or suffers from a flat battery. I buy a new one every year because I use it so much it gets tatty, change from £20 and worth every penny.

 

[steviec_lj]

Even in this technological age, there's a lot to be said for one of these:


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Gives details of just about every low (under16') bridge in the country, weight limits, 1.5 mile to the inch scale, and never packs up or suffers from a flat battery. I buy a new one every year because I use it so much it gets tatty, change from £20 and worth every penny.

That’s one book I’ve got stuffed behind the seat, lists most farms too which is nice being on fert or feed products most of the time now.

I don’t know how it’s possible to hit a bridge?!? It’s not like they’re inconspicuous, or unmarked

 

[brightspark]

last month I saw a wagon with 3 scrap[cars one on top of each other going the other way they were quite high. I turned round fast and bombed up the road after it to watch it go under the flyover bridge it just to say clipped it and got through the last one I saw didn't. he left his hiab stuck up and battered 3 of the I beams

 

[Farside]

Yes, and I flinched noticeably going under every bridge between the centre of Dewsbury and Barking.

In the early 80s a few inches of tarmac had been added to the surface of the M1 over the years, especially on the really heavily used southern stretches. The problem was only gradually becoming apparent but suddenly became an issue when a lot of trucks started clipping the bridges. Cue much red-facedness from various authorities who really should have checked something like that. It cost millions to reduce the surface height - effective undoing all the work that had been done and re-laying new.

 

[dobbslc]

Anyone with a working brain should have known that adding to the surface will reduce the clearance! How the hell do these people get a job in civils when they're that thick?

 

[Melvyn Best]

Anyone with a working brain should have known that adding to the surface will reduce the clearance! How the hell do these people get a job in civils when they're that thick?

A bit like the idiot that decided to build a lay-by on the A14 opposite Cambridge Crematorium, just few yards before the M11 junction 14. Any traffic leaving the lay-by for the M11 literally took their life in their hands, I don’t think the lay-by was open a week before it was closed

 

[bigegg]

A bit like the idiot that decided to build a lay-by on the A14 opposite Cambridge Crematorium, just few yards before the M11 junction 14. Any traffic leaving the lay-by for the M11 literally took their life in their hands, I don’t think the lay-by was open a week before it was closed

same people that invented "smart motorways"?

 

[jimbo84]

The box is a bit rusty but inside was a gem. Advertised on facebook and for once it was round the corner from me so I could get round there pretty sharpish before anybody else got it It's missing a few dies but all the sizes I use are in there.

 

[MBB]

@fizzy
The drill you nearly bought is now for sale on face book.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1413099095519862/