Ashcollection

Its all pretty easy to work out, its just a threat matrix and probability curve, you just don't want to end up in the wrong end of it haha

neither do I, we need to keep our noses clean, and not be anti establishment or a bunch of loons honing around in old army vehicles, or we will end up being legitimate targets. Enjoy our freedoms. Don't forget that we are the exception, most in the world only get to play with a military vehicle when its a burnt our wreck on their high street.

but look up Marvin Heemeyer on the net, he made his own!

Yup spot on the money! it's not a grand "EU" conspiracy, and that's why they may want them filled with concrete.

and yes I guess the reason for the risk is all political. If somebody hates another group of people for colour, religion, accent, language, I guess that's political. we are returning to an age of popularist leaders, and the polarizing of the right and left. and I'm sure you can think of some good popularist leaders from the past! that's enough of that. I like my tanks and want to keep them too!

yes I hear you Iain, I was commenting on the fact that the EU is jumped straight on without thinking through the real reason for the risk to our hobby.

you all know why these laws are rearing their head, stop making it a political soap box moment and think about the real reasons.

yes Larry, mixed you up with another contributor to the thread! sorry about that. the MAD theory worked for years, almost failed a time or two though, all ideas are on a cycle, as they say the only thing we learn from history is that it repeats it's self. shame that.

hahaha you are really keen on us all being cannon fodder Larry, and yes of course a determined guerrilla force will win the day as they will fight for years and years and years until the other side give up and go home as the government can no longer afford it and the people loose the will to fight, no doubting that. depends on what we are talking about, conventional old fashioned warfare or the modern world.

same for the RAF, be gutted to but a couple more squadrons  of euro fighters and f22's then come up against a load of drones that can pull 20G

Si-Fi seem to predict the future in quite a scary way haha. and on the other point, tech is interesting and expensive, and I don't think these days we can convince the population to be cannon fodder, the army can't recruit enough now even with our massively reduced requirement. I run machines and I can run 4 with 1 man, be nice to be back employing more, but people don't want to do the work, its the tech that's kept us in the game. it will be the same for the military. sad but true. 

Yes add face recognition in to that and off we go!! it could be done now, there is a rumour that its not that reliable yet though. haha. I would not want to go up against a Reaper or a Autonomous Apache or some such. Some may say its a waste of money, but as they say, "he who has the most toys wins"

picture on QinetiQ's site reminded me that Blackboard could be driven remotely to drop off the other little remote vehicle. 

Been playing with Big remote stuff for years.

Anyone got a manual for one of these? anything much appreciated.

Richard

46 minutes ago, andym said:

It has, at least, got people talking!

Andy

Yes it sure has! and I think I can Now Confirm that we are all agreed that we like and dislike Guy Martin, Like and Dislike the replica Tank, think that machines and systems are safer in the old days before health and safety and are safer today, we need more and less people in engineering and are pro and anti Europe, want to get rid of people who use their money to push technology forward and also want to keep them. I'm Glad that's all now settled, better close this thread off before it gets out of hand!

On ‎04‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 8:55 PM, flandersflyer said:

I vote Branson to be the first to try out his invention...together with all his remoaning pals... 

 

He can take that cow Gina Miller with him... 

so fire someone who pushes the boundaries of engineering into the sun? don't we need that sort of person and their money? and if you voted out ,you voted for our legal system to therefore be stronger so what did you think would happen haha so Gina Miller etc can have their say as much as they like, it's called democracy and what lots of people have fought and died for.

Spot on Jolly Jeeper, Guy's style of appearing to learn as he goes along his enthusiasm and giving anything a go will hopefully inspire some of the younger generation. we are now so far off topic but, at the end of the day we need more engineers! I will refrain from going political now. we all did that in another post which started about the high prices of vehicles and a possible decline, then on to " the younger generation aren't interested and they lack the skills"  well boys and girls like it or not, its down to us and the likes of TV personality's to get kids interested and keep them interested. The powers that be stopped being interested some years ago and now they are interested again they can't afford it. 

Thats what R&D is all about. Pushing the boundrys. Early steam engines blew up, early aircraft crashed alot, our beloved tanks broke down and got lots of holes in them. After a load of money and some dead ends and deaths it all worked in the end. Same will happen for automomous vehicles, just look at unmanned aircraft for instance, only one step away from needing a human controller.

Slightly off topic, but relevant to comments in the thread. Excellent program hosted by Guy Martin last night on AI. proves Guy Martin is very different to Fred Dibner, I can't ever remember the episode where Fred drove a race car at 200mph, or wrote basic code. would have loved it if he had though haha

someone on the ferret face book page was after one.

this thread is getting funny. common sense does prevail 99% of the time, but when you have 100 litigation lawyers watching you like a hawk it tends to put off most officials. Seen it happen. get over it and move on. Again I'll point to a sketch in Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy where they put all the middle management and they like on a space ship and send them into the sun every few years, unfortunately we don't have the technology to do that yet, but the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk and a few others are working on that at the moment.  and a question to all those who know how mechanical things work and can do the calculations. Regarding tanks in confined places, If the tank is 30ft long in a 20ft wide street with people between the walls and the tank both sides 2 deep shoulder to shoulder, if the tank spun on the spot due to a gearbox or steering failure how many people would you squish? however unlikely I'm sure that would have been something that was considered. 

Spot on Adrian, I think people are getting confused with the real world and TV world, done both, both are good but very different. reminds me of a line from the Simson's years ago. Homer asked why a stage hand was painting patches on a horse, "so it looks like a cow on screen" "what happens when you need a horse? We tape a load of cats together" and on an earlier rant in this thread, Fred bless him is no longer with us, he was any Engineers hero, Guy Martin isn't Fred but if he sparks an interest in engineering to only 1 child growing up then he's matched Fred. and will be someone's hero as well. Health and safety is here to stay, we could go back to the old day of exploding boilers and trucks with no brakes mowing people down and asbestos everywhere. The world has changed, preserve the past and then move with it, work with it, round it, under it what ever it takes to get the job done. or get off haha. I thought it was an excellent program, showed 3d and VR very well and a snapshot of how it is used in engineering, a huge amount of ingenuity will have gone into making that tank look right using modern skills. and I think taking it to Cambrai and naming it Debora 2 was more fitting than a drive in Lincoln. that's my rant over.

21 hours ago, flandersflyer said:

How about an A7V next... 

Think there are a couple of A7V's replicas about already.

On ‎23‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 2:49 PM, Scurvey Knave said:

 

Wally,

Our Bray was 03 EU 75 - I am almost sure that it was cast on age rather than anything being fundamentally wrong with it so it might still be around somewhere. I may have driven your Bray at one time. I recall a Bray being delivered to Rhu by low loader for the Hebrides. I gave the driver a hand to get the chains and chocks off and to prepare the low loader for unloading. I told him that I regularly drove a Bray and offered to drive it off and park it up. Starting a Bray was fairly easy - climb onto the rear wheel, turn the battery master switch, reach into the engine and press the cold start fuel enrichment plunger on the fuel pump, into the cab, switch on the ignition and press the brass/rubber waterproof starter button. Climbed into the cab WTF! - didn't recognise a damned thing. On our Bray I was used to a straight array of switches, lamps and gauges on the right of the steering wheel. This one was laid out totally differently. Searched around frantically for the ignition switch with my face getting redder and redder. Eventually the low loader driver had to lean into the cab and switch it on for me - what an embarrassment! I could only figure that the manufacturer bought in panels ready-made from different suppliers depending on cost and availability.

 

Regards - David

saw a picture of one of these brays in a facebook page "hedgerow tractors" not for sale unfortunately .

where and when?