RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 9, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Any volunteers out there to come and shovel 4 tons of soil into the raised beds..... Jamie I would, but instinct would make me shovel it into your pool to create.... Edited March 9, 2023 by Happy Hippo 3 2 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 43 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I would, but instinct would make me shovel it into your pool to create.... It's funny how your eyes and brain occasionally work as per my initial reading of the above......... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 Roundabouts? So old hat. With the recently completed refurbishment of Douglas Promanade, we now have the roads planners latest idea - Roundels. A set of concentric circles to look pretty and no other road markings - no give way, single or double dotted lines, nowt. Even the police didn't know what to make of them and gave out conflicting advice. we are now told to deal with them as 'unmarked junctions', therefore no right of way to anyone. The idea, apparently, is that well mannered road users go slowly and let each other just filter in. Yeah right. Total chaos, and all insurance claims have to be 50/50 as neither party is in the right or wrong. Add in 12 thousand visiting motorcycles TT week, and you may imagine what happens. Mrs NHN has to drive over these several times a day in her duties, and her department (Fleet services - ie all govt vehicles) have made allowances for how many of the vehicles ae going to be damaged there! https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/government-u-turn-on-prom-roundel/ Thankfully our breweries are not controlled by this road planning department. 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 6 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Any volunteers out there to come and shovel 4 tons of soil into the raised beds..... Jamie I could but I've got 200 bricks to move and I've got a bone in my leg. Andy 5 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 45 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said: Roundabouts? So old hat. With the recently completed refurbishment of Douglas Promanade, we now have the roads planners latest idea - Roundels. A set of concentric circles to look pretty and no other road markings - no give way, single or double dotted lines, nowt. Even the police didn't know what to make of them and gave out conflicting advice. we are now told to deal with them as 'unmarked junctions', therefore no right of way to anyone. The idea, apparently, is that well mannered road users go slowly and let each other just filter in. Yeah right. Total chaos, and all insurance claims have to be 50/50 as neither party is in the right or wrong. Add in 12 thousand visiting motorcycles TT week, and you may imagine what happens. Mrs NHN has to drive over these several times a day in her duties, and her department (Fleet services - ie all govt vehicles) have made allowances for how many of the vehicles ae going to be damaged there! https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/government-u-turn-on-prom-roundel/ Thankfully our breweries are not controlled by this road planning department. Does the highway code apply on fraggle rock? if so, what does that say about roundels - or is there no mention? 3 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 Roundels? Roundels? I don't think they're in the manual, so you should revert to not crossing the solid white line. Or are they way stop lines. Maybe priority to the left is the name of the game. Who knows? Confusion. Just what you need to improve road safety. Andy 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 58 minutes ago, polybear said: Does the highway code apply on fraggle rock? if so, what does that say about roundels - or is there no mention? We have our own version. Apparently a new version is being rushed out with roundels in! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 9, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 Bridge abutment work continues, as does the thickening of the snow on the lawn. I now need to create some relief on the stone block outlines. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: shovel it into your pool to create.... Ah. Muddiwallo. Son of Muddihollo. Excellent for the cooling of those creatures which I referred to in my childhood as "Hippamus-potamus". Because "Hippo" would have been just commonplace. 7 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 10 hours ago, zarniwhoop said: I've seen two Beemers with working and correctly used indicators. One ..... was signing correctly Ah. I have found the answer to your conundrum. A deaf Beemer. Signing, as you say, because it can't hear. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 9, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 2 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: Ah. I have found the answer to your conundrum. A deaf Beemer. Signing, as you say, because it can't hear. I am led to believe that to the true aficionados, the cars are referred to as Bimmers. Beemer is reserved for the donor cycle varieties from Bavaria 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 May I just interject at this moment. After all the amusing bet-maors about boomers - always thought they were russian typhoon class submarines out of of Murmansk, and beemers plus the IoM- Teach yourself to drive in two lessons, to just state that I'm a equal opportunities ranter. It wasn't just the above who didn't know what indicators are for. There I feel so much better now that I've said that. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 😱 Full set of operating indiblinkers. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 Well I have awoken to find ghat SM42 Towers is an almost completely snow free zone. Just a couple of small clumps remain here and there Very disappointing really. I was hoping for the snowmageddon that they have been promising over ghe last two days. Not even enough to build a snowman. Pah! Andy 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted March 9, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 This morning's work was to carve out the foam sheet to make the bridge abutments. Progress so far: And an oblique view of an end section: 12 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 10 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Any volunteers out there to come and shovel 4 tons of soil into the raised beds..... Jamie Under normal circumstances I would like a shot but, alas, I am the victim if some nonspecific lurgy on top of which I am trapped in the house by the three inches (76.2mm) of snow that fell last night. 1 2 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 Ooops! Here we go again. https://news.yahoo.com/3-injured-fiery-train-derailment-162900472.html 5 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2023 1 hour ago, AndyID said: Ooops! Here we go again. https://news.yahoo.com/3-injured-fiery-train-derailment-162900472.html I'm glad that the 3 crewmembers were rescued. Jamie 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 One of these days some genius will invent rock fall detectors to stop trains before they smash into them. Oh, wait a minute, they already did that on the West Highland line over a hundred years ago. Yes, that was a rant. 4 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 (edited) On 08/03/2023 at 15:53, AndyID said: I guess it was a cork-up associated with first/third angle projection. After many years of being very underpaid for a fairly responsible and stressful job Dad resigned and went to work on the night shift inspection team of a manufacturer of assorted aircraft engine components for a few years before retirement age. This was basically a job he had done 30 years before. Anyway one night he had a new machining of a prototype pump housing to inspect. He sent it back saying it wasn’t the device in the drawing. The machinist complained to the production manager that his work hadn’t been passed. The manager was quite insulting to Dad telling him basically he was a stupid old man and should stick to just measuring things not commenting on designs. Dad didn’t really want something to leave that was wrong but he had done his best. Well it came back as “not as specified”. Dad got an apology, and then got it as a public apology over the PA as the manager had shouted at him in front of other workers. Tony Edited March 9, 2023 by Tony_S 1 1 5 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 1 hour ago, Tony_S said: After many years of being very underpaid for a fairly responsible and stressful job Dad resigned and went to work on the night shift inspection team of a manufacturer of assorted aircraft engine components for a few years before retirement age. This was basically a job he had done 30 years before. Anyway one night he had a new machining of a prototype pump housing to inspect. He sent it back saying it wasn’t the device in the drawing. The machinist complained to the production manager that his work hadn’t been passed. The manager was quite insulting to Dad telling him basically he was a stupid old man and should stick to just measuring things not commenting on designs. Dad didn’t really want something to leave that was wrong but he had done his best. Well it came back as “not as specified”. Dad got an apology, and then got it as a public apology over the PA as the manager had shouted at him in front of other workers. Tony I thought some TNMrs might not understand what we were banging on about so I tried to find a simple explanation of the difference between first and third on the WEB. There are plenty of them but all the ones I could find were completely useless. 🙁 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sitham Yard Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 I recall reading, many years ago, about a bus garage that was being constructed. When the concrete roof beams were delivered they did not fit. Only then was it discovered that the drawing for the roof was 90 degrees out from all the other drawings. Andrew 1 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 9, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 9, 2023 2 hours ago, AndyID said: I thought some TNMrs might not understand what we were banging on about so I tried to find a simple explanation of the difference between first and third on the WEB. There are plenty of them but all the ones I could find were completely useless. 🙁 I have an O Level in Geometrical and Engineering Drawing but I would struggle nowadays to explain such things but Dad was rather good at anything to do with engineering drawings. I really was awful. In the example I gave he would have hated being humiliated publicly but I suspect he was rather pleased with the outcome. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 My uncle was an engineer who's main job was designing conveyor belt systems. One system he designed for a truck manufacturer was to carry large diesel engine blocks suspended beneath the conveyer belt. It was installed and was working perfectly until the first engine block struck and demolished a brick wall. Whoever laid out the specification didn't take the wall into consideration 1 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2023 The drawing thing illustrates (is that a pun?) an assumption that technology does away with skills. Nowadays almost all engineering drawings are electronic, and the old form of drawing is essentially dead for people below a certain age. I am 52, although I learned technical drawing I can't remember the last time I drew anything on paper. However, people still need to understand drawing convention and to be able to read a drawing. Whether or not people can use a pencil or the software packages used today doesn't alter the fact that if they're using drawings they need to understand them. I have seen some real howlers because people didn't understand projection, mistook valve symbols and such like. I don't want to be too judgemental as I am now rusty on it all, as they say about skills, use them or lose them. 6 3 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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