Close to meeting the big man in the sky....

[Stubby]

4 hours ago, kimtree said:

i had the pleasure of bouncing off the front of a mbtrac in in the mid 80's in West Dean doing a similar thing while driving a landrover

Who was driving the MBTRAC ? Kevin Holder ?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Gary Prentice said:

Difficult to assess that! 

 

My initial impression was that the lad was attempting to lock his door as Kevin approached and the abject look of horror on his face calmed him (Kevin) down. 

An eye for the detail as usual Gary!

 

@ 0:33 I spotted the lap belt which was all that stopped a quick wrist tug to fetch him out for a more 'in depth' discussion.... 

Edited October 13, 2017 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[arbogrunt]

I've  had similar, a young lad roaring about in a fastrac with big trailers on, forced me off the road once. I mentioned it at the yard and a few of the blokes had similar stories. i passed a message onto him via the farm saying if he did it to me again, I'd come around to their yard and beat the crap out of him. It worked. Silly boys need deterence sometimes.

 

[Mark Bolam]

It's a nightmare meeting one of these idiots when you've had a few and you're trying to send an important text to someone in the boozer saying you've left your glasses there.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

16 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

It's a nightmare meeting one of these idiots when you've had a few and you're trying to send an important text to someone in the boozer saying you've left your glasses there.

I hear you!  That's why I was going so slow....  I'd just spilled hot coffee from the flask all ower my nads, whilst crooking the phone between ear and shoulder and popping some brufen to stave off the blinding hangover which I was hoping the fry up would take the edge off....

 

Bloody tractor drivers not paying attention....  They'll be the death of us! 

[Ironbark]

I meet the same tw*t every morning on narrow roads going too fast and never using the passing place.

 

My plan was to drag him out one day and slap him about, but this tread has made me realise that this is not a good idea. He might have a DASHCAM

[nepia]

I've met a few of those just up the lane from me and thought that one day I won't be in the mood for it so my peaceful ploy will be to switch off, get out, lock up and walk off in the opposite direction.

[Mick Dempsey]

Thing about dash cams on the gadget show ATM. Some very cheap.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 minutes ago, nepia said:

I've met a few of those just up the lane from me and thought that one day I won't be in the mood for it so my peaceful ploy will be to switch off, get out, lock up and walk off in the opposite direction.

If the cars failed its MoT test and is due for the scrapper that might be a sound plan.....  If not, there could be an issue?

[IVECOKID]

Fair play to that young Lad ..... makes a change that he was not on his phone or Kev would not be writing this thread .

Quick thinking on your behalf Kev

I am a big fan of age  restrictions  with these big tractors .. ...madness I have to mess around with medicals and Cpc etc for my Class 1.

 

Ste

Edited October 13, 2017 by IVECOKID