gritineye

last week a chap walked past my Explorer, looked at the newly applied F.V.R.D.E. markings on the wing and said " it'll be alright when you get the proper R.E.M.E. markings on it!:argh: I have a sneaky feeling he may well have visited this forum though! Today, the inevitable happened again when a chap came up and spoke the immortal words "I know the bloke who keeps one of these beside the road at Horsebridge":pfrt: Damned RIOs

There have been old official works pictures of traction engines with wheels assembled with wood blocks like that in Old Glory steam magazine, although using steel tyres, and some have been restored. So they may possibly have been manufactured like that, but why, with rubber tyres as well I can't imagine.

Graham at Cuckoo Fair last weekend

Do you mean the enemy ship was just sort of poked with an explosive stick?:eek: And this was considered to be a good idea? Please tell me there was more to it than that! It seems a bit Kamikaze almost as daft as a steam submarine! :rolleyes:

Far fetched I know, but it looks to me like it is a torpedo boat and the torpedo used the firework rocket on a stick principal of guidance, with the prop on the nose.

What I want to know is who had the tracks out from behind the cab? I was once told that was the place to look for some overall tracks to fit my Explorer as they were never used on those things and too hard to bother get out. Any truth in that chaps?

Andy, I can believe it, but I thought you were going to pull me up on Q5, oh bother I'll have to redo it now, although it's not all over DOG! Sunny Tinkers next, see ya!

A pioneer we towed home started first time after standing 20 odd years, diesels are better than petrol engines as the bores are protected to some degree by the fuel, petrol washes them clean. and electrics aren't involved.

Sorry joris, get yer hanky out

I built this just to sleep in at shows etc. and look military-ish, on an Arrows trailer, it is made of wood and ply, it's a little Tardis being bigger on the inside than it looks outside. It has a hob and grill, sink, toilet, food storage, a seat along one side that can be a single or double bed, with storage underneath, and a catalitic heater It is not insulated as I never bothered but that would be easy to do, At this size the window in the door is enough, but a small one in each side would help. It has more lockers around the outside now, and we can be comfortable for a week, 8 people parties can be held in squeezy comfort using a few fold up chairs inside on rainy days! I don't have pics of the inside but if it would help you to plan I could take a few in the next few days and post them.

A certain someone in the All Wheel Drive Club wrecked his new bogs dollocks racing engine twice for the same reason !

I received this email via my website a while ago, can any one help, is this vehicle still around? "hi i like the site, i thought you might like this pic of one of our workshop vehicles which was in use in the fifties when i was on operation grapple on Xmas's island i am the one on the left, we closed down and put some of our vehicles on pontoons to be hoisted aboard a boat to bring them back to uk. regards john powell ( EX R.E.M.E.) hello again i should have asked you if this vehicle i sent a pic of could still be around? regards john powell (ex no 2 spec.eng. w/shop r.e.m.e. Christmas island)"

I love that picture, it says so much about the time when it was taken. If steering wheels had been invented then, would the men be able to understand how to use it?

Are you sure :eek:

After many years of the same daft questions and arguments I put this in the window, it didn't help, they still know best!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

But do annealed springs still work?

'Preservation special' I'm afraid as he lives out doors and he can't stand moss in his lockers, a few chaps have commented that it's nice to see one with it's original tilt still fitted :whistle:

I found this while searching for Chore Horse chargers, there have been a couple of times when this tip would have got me going again! http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/23/a4565423.shtml

Staging for the Explorer drag race, also organized and marshaled by the Twickenham Off Roaders, thanks Guys and Gals you do a good job throughout the show, :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::thanx: same again this year?

This is Angus, he used to race sidecars, he had the skill, but Forceful didn't have the speed to do him justice! Note: short mudflaps!

You'd be very welcome, we have a good time and try to keep out of Gingers till the suns gone down :coffee:

That's between me and my shrink, he took years to tease it out of my addled brain, and even he thinks we're all bonkers :-D Meanwhile to make it worse, here's Lightning giving his Cummins L10 a workout

A shorter version of a similar thing just for reference http://www.milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=41120&cat=8

Just a bit of fun