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

[Farside]

The last of this years’ tomatoes, (and a very empty looking greenhouse...), the inverter out of my wagon back from repair, (hurrah, fresh coffee and toast will return to the menu next week ), and a pair of white LED marker lights and a length of heat shrink to finish off the abnormal load marker light system.

How times have changed, years ago I’d have bought tomatoes from the shop and twisted the ends of cable together and wrapped them in insulation tape...


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I'm so glad you moved on from fastening tomatoes to your trailers.
Proper job's worth doing right.

 

[Hood]

.......

Two 2mt tools in the top pic look to be half centers. Used to allow the cutting tool to get very close to the center.

I think they may be some kind of tapered spade drills.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I think they may be some kind of tapered spade drills.

Looking at half centers it's only the last 20mm that's halved.

How would they cut.
Never seen em before

 

[Hood]

Looking at half centers it's only the last 20mm that's halved.

How would they cut.
Never seen em before

Spade drills originally were basically a round shaft sliced in half. You get engraving cutters exactly that style still and they may indeed be some form of engraving cutter although I would expect them to be sharply pointed for that.
A search for D Bit drill may shed some light on things.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Picked up three large Stanley storage boxes £6 each from Halfools

 

[4String.]

...finally, a fully modular system of marker lights for abnormal loads.




Permutations to suit any load I’m ever likely to carry, up to 5 metres wide or 30 metres long, with “just in case” extension cables for good measure. Now I need to find a secure place in the truck to store them, away from our company’s contingent of prying eyes and light fingers...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

...finally, a fully modular system of marker lights for abnormal loads.

Don't the Company provide all that sort of gear?

 

[roofman]

@8ob has a stolly. Where the hell were you to get them

Doing a roof job today and the old guy said "do you know anyone who does shed clearance"...Whaaaaaat by 3pm had tons of stuff in my yard including 55 gallon drum of Shell hydraulic oil.

 

[4String.]

Don't the Company provide all that sort of gear?

If I put the receipts in, they’d pay up without question, but the problem with that is that it would then become company property, and they could quite easily make use of it, should they feel the desire.

It probably sounds weird, but I’m happy to pay for this kind of gear myself. It’s my personal property, made to my own spec, and I know it will be looked after and used correctly.

 

[Parm]

If I put the receipts in, they’d pay up without question, but the problem with that is that it would then become company property, and they could quite easily make use of it, should they feel the desire.

It probably sounds weird, but I’m happy to pay for this kind of gear myself. It’s my personal property, made to my own spec, and I know it will be looked after and used correctly.

Do you drive the same waggon all the time?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

This nice little toy was acquired for me by a good friend.




Just have to get to Hampshire and collect it.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

...finally, a fully modular system of marker lights for abnormal loads.


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Permutations to suit any load I’m ever likely to carry, up to 5 metres wide or 30 metres long, with “just in case” extension cables for good measure. Now I need to find a secure place in the truck to store them, away from our company’s contingent of prying eyes and light fingers...

Assuming this is 24v

Wouldn't something along these lines have been better in the winter weather?
https://www.directtradesupplies.co....l7d5hdd9sUYTkCru4or_C7IINJEYr4_hoC6QgQAvD_BwE

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

View attachment 195395 Picked up three large Stanley storage boxes £6 each from Halfools

Bargain.
Paid a lot more for mine
These stack well and don't pop open when dropped thanks to the catches

 

[Parm]

This nice little toy was acquired for me by a good friend.

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Just have to get to Hampshire and collect it.

Big sign saying “Danger” and “Must”

That only means one thing, send it immediately to me for evaluation

 

[steviec_lj]

Assuming this is 24v

Wouldn't something along these lines have been better in the winter weather?
01865986203

An Oxfordshire phone number?

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

An Oxfordshire phone number?

Well spotted.
That would be the ambulance chasers who rang me to tell me that the people I had an accident with in April are complaining of neck and back pains.

They were a bit more reluctant to talk when I asked for the other parties details as they fled the scene

Turns out they were fishing as usual and had no information.
https://www.directtradesupplies.co....l7d5hdd9sUYTkCru4or_C7IINJEYr4_hoC6QgQAvD_BwE

 

[4String.]

Do you drive the same waggon all the time?

Same unit, (hence why I carry a lot of gear), different trailers every day, anything from a 34’ flat to a 45’ fully steered double extender, and for carrying high loads we hire in one of these bad boys. 3 axled fully steered low-loader with drop-out neck and hydraulically adjustable ride height down to 300mm:




The problem with this is that when I hook up to it, running at 44 ton gross, I can only carry about 8 ton.

 

[Parm]

Same unit, (hence why I carry a lot of gear), different trailers every day, anything from a 34’ flat to a 45’ fully steered double extender, and for carrying high loads we hire in one of these bad boys. 3 axled fully steered low-loader with drop-out neck and hydraulically adjustable ride height down to 300mm:


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The problem with this is that when I hook up to it, running at 44 ton gross, I can only carry about 8 ton.

Cool, they had something like this to move the heavy military kit around. Some of the toys were 70 tons a piece. The Colonel mentioned something about exemptions for road transport but I was too busy being distracted

Is that a weight over the 5th wheel?

 

[4String.]

Assuming this is 24v

Wouldn't something along these lines have been better in the winter weather?
https://www.directtradesupplies.co....l7d5hdd9sUYTkCru4or_C7IINJEYr4_hoC6QgQAvD_BwE

Probably, but rubber plugs and sockets are good enough.

Every one is blathered (there’s a splendid word that’s not used often enough ) with Vaseline before being screwed together, after use they’ll get a wipe down, and when not in use they’ll all live in the cab where it’s warm and dry.

 

[4String.]

Cool, they had something like this to move the heavy military kit around. Some of the toys were 70 tons a piece. The Colonel mentioned something about exemptions for road transport but I was too busy being distracted

Is that a weight over the 5th wheel?

No, it’s a cover over the neck to keep prying eyes out, weights are for the really heavy folk that run at anything upwards of 150 ton. Known as ballasted tractors, they have a ballast box that fits over the 5th wheel that holds whatever amount of weight they need to maintain traction on the drive wheels, and trailers are connected with a heavy duty drawbar.

The heavy boys I had a spell with earlier this year run Mercedes Titans that can be configured as either a normal artic or a ballasted tractor for anything up to 500 ton gross. I had to load test all the lifting eyes on the ballast boxes with the Hiab and a load cell, and 10 ton on the cell barely lifted the corner of the box off the floor. The loaded boxes weighed about 40 ton .