Yes sir ree! just been over to Wrexham on the blade and out there seems to be a Farm fest .Loads of these turnip crunching herberts flying about in tractors coating the roads with shit .So be warned !
Do not....get me started on this particular form of pond life, dragging questionably legal piles of crap through roads for which they were never designed, dropping shit, diesel, farm debris and components in their stinking cow shit spattered wake. If they need to get these shitboxes from one end of their farm to the other they should do it though the bloody fields rather than inflict their whiny, grabbing person on the motorist. In my opinion.
Plus 1 . Sun shining, not too cold, can I ride my bike. Not a chance, too much farm/field shit all over the road. I would at worst be on my arse at best spend hours cleaning and all before I even get to a main road. Fcuking Numpties. I hate them all, every last interbred six fingered one of them.
You are not wrong there Freedom. Its not just a moan for the sake of it my run today was down the A49 Warrington /Whitchurch /Wrexham and if i say 80% of the way wascoated in a fine laye rof slimy mud with the usual generous coating at the access to the field i would not be wrong. What we all have to remember is the contact patch between front tyre and road (What is it)? 20mm? yup about that now lay some shit between this on a bend and bingo new fairings at best. In my game if you are muck moving off site you have a wheel wash or a gibbon with a hose ect but these clowns have nothing ,so take care. Ps what about F**King Horse boxes opp's there i go again!
We live opposite a stable. Every sunday morning beeb beeb beeb beeb beeb beeb as they try and reverse the horse box into the lane. Its like a bloody alarm call which we dont need on a morning after the night before. Makes my blood boil but sod all we can do about it. Still I am guessing we wake them up monday to friday when we leave for work early.
I've said before, the bypass for my village is entered off a roundabout straight onto the entrance to a dairy farm, right next to which is a petrol station, right next to which is a fuel oil depot. It can be seriously scary with a cocktail of mud, Cowshit, diesel and fuel oil. I once spun my 205 a neat 90 degrees there at about 20 mph in the dry on a trailing throttle and nowhere near the brake. I google earth street viewed it not so long ago and the muppet farmer is driving his tractor down the pavement for f**ks sake in the picture. Proof of the crap they seem to think they're immune to because of what they do for a living. It's not an isolated case either, you can see it over and over again down here. A disregard for other road users based on a conviction that in the countryside they have a god given right to abuse the roads with inappropriate vehicles. If they get pulled by the Leo's they start screaming discrimination and that they're being denied a living and start playing the 'rural regions will die if we're not allowed to slaughter, abuse and pollute in the way we see fit' card. Which more often than not is the way they've been doing it for the last 600 years. See, told you not to get me started.
Good evening Ken .The blood seems to be on the boil down Exeter way. When you said you were a Rally Driver in the 60s i thought it was real rally driving not just spining around in cow shit!
Yup i have seen a few old rally (Navigator) clips and it sort goe's Left 40 then over bridge right 20 smash bang wallop followed by the 100 yard stare in the upside down position.
That was me, yep. Generally, it would pan out as ' 40 degree bend to the left after 100 yards, over a blind brow. Approach with caution, surface slippy' And the driver would go 'POWERRRRRRRRRR!!!!' and shortly after comes the inverted 1000 yard stare, the 5 point crushing your knackers and the driver claiming 'that wasn't there in the recce'.
Its not just the shit they trail. What about the Spanish Inquisition stuff they tow about? Theres that one that is like a vertical steel frame with 10" spikes sticking out from it like some kind of one sided Iron Maiden. Then theres the same thing only with about 20 huge blades on it. If i went to the coppers and asked if i could tow something like that behind my car they would lock me up for even asking, whats more, i would be agreeing with them. You cant tow stuff like that on the roads, if i have something overhanging the end of a van like, say a length of 2X2 angle iron, i have to tie something on it so it is obvious, these fecking farmers have spikes and blades actually pointing towards the traffic with no provision for safety if someone runs into the back of them. I fecking hate farmers, is it true that the reason we have the daft "moving your clocks around" event every spring and autumn is so the farmers in Scotland arent milking in the dark? I dont know what time milking time is but i'll bet is more than 2 hours before sunrise in winter.
Hi Billy, all good points mate! We're about a month or two behind you up here! Our farmers are still breedin with their animals! It's the fcukin gritters up here they're still grittin at 12c the roads are greasy as hell and when it rains there's corrosive soup everywhere! My wee CB1 has takin the brunt of it! It is quickly turnin Ginger i've gone thru shit loads of AFC 50 tryin to stop it dissolving on me! So fark knows when i'll manage to get my Blade out frustratin as fook! Oh the reason the clocks change is to do with school kids up here, it's darker for longer in the mornin's and i've seen dark at just after 3pm so it's for their safety.
But the thing is, if you never swapped back from BST it would be lighter, earlier, so instead of going and coming back in the gloom of twighlight (schools round here dont finish till at least 3.30), they would , at least, be only coming home in the dark, which they are doing anyway if they finish after 3.30 like round here. I'm a bit drunk, so i could be way out with all this. Still not impressed with farmers. 11 plate range rover driving, holier than thou preaching, small minded, shit spreading, pulling out of nowhere and/or turning left when they feel like (that is their field after all), bastards. Or am i being too harsh?
Strange you say that about the grit Trev. About 4 years ago the gritting seemed to revert back from what you have now which maybe what we had then (Salt mixed with morlasses) and then we had the mix of salt and pva but now they dont seemed to have hammered the roads but the good thing is it sorts of blows away with traffic use as we have had very little rain. The only other thing i can think of is that they are buying super cheap salt from abroad (Although) the salt mines are only in Middlewich about 30 miles away. I was out two weeks ago and ended up passing a gritter but once home plenty of cold water and a good wash no harm done.
