Cherry picker delivered to a block of flats and not the hospital I was working at.
So f*ck it I drove it down the main road to where I needed it.
I now know how farmers feel when driving a tractor on the road.
In message , ARW writes
I hope you pulled in at every convenient opportunity to let the tailback pass:-)
Mind, now they do 50 klicks, what tailback?
>Ah, yes one might expect that something so fundamental would be the first thing to check on. I still get amazed by the dial a ride service in London who persistently get certain drop off locations totally incorrect and try to dump a blind user in totally the wrong place. In this land of tech, we have forgotten the fundamentals of actually using people with local knowledge and using their brains and mouth to ask. Brian
My MIL with dementia got dropped off outside her home on discharge from hospital. Just left in the street in her dressing gown. My wife was on her way, so it wasn't the end of the world, but it was still shoddy.
A 70+ year old patient spent the night in his back garden recently. Discharged home in the evening, and nobody bothered to tell his wife, who was staying with her sister.
Any good with tractors?
I could have overtaken the tractor today with the cherry picker. I'll check for dash cam footage
None of mine do more than 18mph although the forktruck has fluid drive and could probably do 30 on an airfield. On a narrow road with banks, the doubtful steering makes it lethal!
Just checked my dashcam. I do have footage of it.
I'll have to crop the video before I can post it because the first 4 minutes shows me driving like a maniac on country roads, shouting abuse to a pedestrian that was not using the pavement, blasting the horn and waving to the local drug dealer and wheel spinning at a cross roads.
And at 10MPH I thought he was going to fall off when he hit the speed bump.
Has to be owner driver as H&S would be very stressed by the lack of a roll bar. Ferguson 35?
A tractor without a rollcage or safety cab. So that means the driver is of a similar age, or older ...
No idea. But it did have a black number plate with silver lettering on the back of the seat.
We need men like you in the Army, son.
One of my regrets in life is that I did not apply to join the TA when I had the chance.
TA? Toy soldiers. I see you more as a hairy-arsed paratrooper. You know, crushing the skull of johnny foreigner with your rifle butt. Or driving a Chieftain tank straight through some dole-sponger's maisonette.
What a lovely image for a Monday morning.
When I was younger I did not have a hairy arse..........
And I am too old now to enjoy a good punch up every weekend.
My father was in the TA. He paraded before one of the King Georges.
He went on to draw up maps of the Normandy Beaches and then liberated bits of Belgium and the Netherlands.
Not single-handedly, admittedly.
Owain
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