Good Morning Good Night and General Chat.

[Tiggie]

Guess what I'm doing when I get home from work?

 

 

 

[Fozzie]

I feel like I can hear a sigh between your last two messages as you go from suggesting she throw it in the woods herself, to resigning to the idea you’re going to have to do it  

[Bender]

33 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

Guess what I'm doing when I get home from work?

 

 

 

Bird in a bush and all that  

[Tiggie]

Update....  It wasnt headless 

 

Looked like it had been stuck there a few days at least.  Thrown into the woods over the road. I'm patiently waiting now to hear someone shouting out " for f*cks sake fido, put it down!! "   

 

 

[Ian Frog]

You work in a chip shop in Bingley !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am surprised it`s not already at work with you working on a specials blackboard advert.

Cheers

Ian

[S-Westerly]

Good morning from a warm and damp Malaysia. We are in the throes of heavy duty tank cleaning as the powers that be have decreed that we are no longer to carry thick black shit but instead diesel as cargo. 

Now that the Russians can't sell diesel in Europe they are shipping a lot of crude to India where it is refined then huge amounts of diesel get shipped to Europe. With the Red Sea being a no go area it's getting sent the long way round so the economy of scale thing comes into play. As usual money talks and bullshit walks.

[dynax]

Good morning

[Simon Davey]

Good morning all

 

I've got up late after going to bed at 04:00.

We found one of our horses stuck in a shallow river (steep banks) at 18:30 last night 

Took lots, and I mean lots of people from Suffolk, and then Essex fire and rescue to get him out. 

After 3 hours he was lying on the grass looking like he was going to die from hypothermia and dehydration. 90 minutes after that we managed to get him up, but he needed to go to the equine hospital. 

It was a loooooong night. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

14 minutes ago, Simon Davey said:

Good morning all

 

I've got up late after going to bed at 04:00.

We found one of our horses stuck in a shallow river (steep banks) at 18:30 last night 

Took lots, and I mean lots of people from Suffolk, and then Essex fire and rescue to get him out. 

After 3 hours he was lying on the grass looking like he was going to die from hypothermia and dehydration. 90 minutes after that we managed to get him up, but he needed to go to the equine hospital. 

It was a loooooong night. 

Hope he's OK. That's a traumatic experience for him, and you. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

8 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

Good morning from a warm and damp Malaysia. We are in the throes of heavy duty tank cleaning as the powers that be have decreed that we are no longer to carry thick black shit but instead diesel as cargo. 

Now that the Russians can't sell diesel in Europe they are shipping a lot of crude to India where it is refined then huge amounts of diesel get shipped to Europe. With the Red Sea being a no go area it's getting sent the long way round so the economy of scale thing comes into play. As usual money talks and bullshit walks.

A will anyone driving their diesel car/truck/campervan/tractor give a moment's thought about how their fuel came from and who was involved in getting to them?

 

Answers on a very small postcard. 

[husoi]

Good morning everyone 

[Simon Davey]

37 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Hope he's OK. That's a traumatic experience for him, and you. 

 

Many thanks. 

I always curse people that need animals to be rescued from ditches and rivers. "Why don't they keep their fences in order"..... 

Our horse must have been spooked by something, he went straight through electric rope and posts, taking it all down. Then, diwn into the muddy river travelling at least 80 metres before getting stuck. 

I shan't curse in the future

[Nick the wanderer]

47 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

A will anyone driving their diesel car/truck/campervan/tractor give a moment's thought about how their fuel came from and who was involved in getting to them?

 

Answers on a very small postcard. 

America, Arabia, Canada, China, Russia. Oil has forever been transported from around the world to get here in Europe, it's a global market with many people working in it.

Nobody really cares about anything that doesn't directly affect them.

Edited August 13, 2024 by Nick the wanderer

[RideWithStyles]

That’s the curse of a horse .
having the area it’s gonna be in not capable of containing a large and powerful beast that thinks its still a small rodent (or what ever it was hundreds of thousands or more of years ago) WHEN their still scared of pretty much everything's or anything going, not just when it’s just grazing…

Ridden and looked after horses, broken bones because of them too.

Edited August 13, 2024 by RideWithStyles

[S-Westerly]

1 hour ago, Nick the wanderer said:

America, Arabia, Canada, China, Russia. Oil has forever been transported from around the world to get here in Europe, it's a global market with many people working in it.

Nobody really cares about anything that doesn't directly affect them.

Precious little from China - it's pretty well a one way traffic with them but a hell of a lot of it both products and crude. Funnily enough the Americans ship oil from Alaska to China despite them being very picky about sending Alaskan crude anywhere other than the US. The rest of the world it really doesn't make a lot of sense. I've taken fuel oil from the US to Rotterdam then back loaded a similar fuel oil to take to Singapore. The large scale 140,000 tonne parcels of ULSD from Asia to Europe is a relatively new thing. Pain in the arse for us as it takes about 2-3 weeks to clean the ship so it's fit to load white oils.

[rennie]

Good afternoon 

Hope the horse is ok!

[Grumpy Old Git]

Good evenenenenininingggggg.

 

Garage door motor gearbox kerfooed!

 

[Simon Davey]

3 hours ago, rennie said:

Good afternoon 

Hope the horse is ok!

Thanks Rennie

He's a bit rough, but the equine hospital have had him on fluids etc, he should make a good recovery, but there's a slight concern he may have pneumonia.

[Simon Davey]

11 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Git said:

Good evenenenenininingggggg.

 

Garage door motor gearbox kerfooed!

 

 

Can you replace the gearbox, or does it need a complete assembly?

[Simon Davey]

Good morning all

[dynax]

Good morning

[Grumpy Old Git]

14 hours ago, Simon Davey said:

 

Can you replace the gearbox, or does it need a complete assembly?

27 years old so no available parts.

Found a complete 2nd hand assembly for £300 (fitted).

New costs £600 (plus fitting).

 

 

[Grumpy Old Git]

Jó reggelt

 

[Simon Davey]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Old Git said:

27 years old so no available parts.

Found a complete 2nd hand assembly for £300 (fitted).

New costs £600 (plus fitting).

 

 

 

Not bad at all really, I imagine the fitting is the bulk of that cost, but still pretty good.

[rennie]

Good afternoon