The Never Ending Story

[Captain]

4 hours ago, onetrack said:

Santoku knife sets, which need to be treated with more care than a live Taipan, the Kimono with obi (which must be tied using the tateya musubi knot), and of course, Zori, otherwise known as Japanese work boots. Zori can be worn anytime and anywhere, of course, and if anyone complains that open-toed footwear must not be worn on the premises, one can always tell them where to shove their...........

..... overly protective and woke PPE.

 

This, dear readers, is a very timely and apt reminder that .....

[Captain]

4 hours ago, onetrack said:

Dear NES Readers, Cappy has brought a reminiscent tear to OT's eyes, as he did once own 3 of the D-375 dozers, plus a large fleet of other Komatsu machines, with the Cats making up a tiny minority of the 55-strong fleet. But those days are long gone, and today, all OT has left is a photo album, and little else. As the old saying goes, "I started with nothing, and I still have it all".)

As readers sadly consider OT's "reminiscent tears" they should all also consider the numerous mine owners, public authorities and other miscellaneous clients that OT may have charged by mistaking the hours and other "optimistic" charging methodologies.

 

Having spent much time with OT, I know him to be a good bloke that I would trusted with my life, however suffice to say that good maintenance management has meant that all of his aircraft and machinery have been sold with low hours & always below 250. In fact the most worn items in OT's fleet were the drills that he used to rewind odometers and hour meters.

[turboplanner]

.....showing toes is not the daring thing to do, because more than half Japan's tradies don't have them any more and you know what that means.

 

As in the nutcase example of the Flying Car (in Nature do we see flying bulls, flying worms, or buzzing BlowCats?) there was a small goup in AUF who had been working for 40 years to develop a flying Komatsu. We won't say who they are to save embarrassment, but one of them doesn't live in the Eastern States.

 

There were regular posts about D-375s with wings - flying Dozers. As some people had pointed out, if you're going to knock scrub down you put it in drive, give it WOT and sit back until you've covered 15 km with the 4.777 metre wide blade, so there's the obvious problem of the huge wings being crumpled by the trees each side. Someone suggested making them out of steel and grinding the leading edges. Another pointed out the D-358 weighed 74 tonnes but that was just met with silence from the group.

 

And still the flying dozer [avref] thread comments came, until..............

 

 

 

[Captain]

28 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

And still the flying dozer [avref] thread comments came, until.......

..... Turbo, who is widely experienced in matters heavy duty (like many of his non-NES 20,000 posts [some might say "hard going" but I would not go that far, because Turdbro's knowledge has been described by many as the equivalent to AI ......... but with a bad attitude]), brought the discussion to a grinding halt (like his Freightliners do when their chassis' fail) when he both opined and proscribed, that the W & B of a D-375 would ......

Edited 8 hours ago by Captain

[turboplanner]

the sum of the hypotenuse which was quickly amswered by Tenderloin who sniggered and said "There aren't any hippos in Australia". It wasn't that this was an incorrect answer, but that he got 9 likes and 3 winners, and someone else said it dependong on whether you were wearing ...........