What's Your Pet hate?

[Clunk]

makers of dishwashers who don't make it simple to change the heater element....................... just about gotta strip the whole damn thing apart just to get the bottom cover off............... damn you dishwasher designers, damn you ........ hahahahahahahaha

[xtreme patrol]

When your in a really difficult spot ether under the dash or under the rig and you spend five minutes patting the floor around you looking for that spanner or screwdriver that you used just 10 seconds ago then having to get out and find it sitting right there ........ Then repeat everytime you put a tool down.

[Woof]

Running out of your internet byte downloady things and going back to dialup speed.............

[the ferret]

Our local hardware store is closed on Sunday's. The main day when everyone around realises they have run out of oil for the lawn mower, chain saw needs sharpening, need some bolts or paint to finish off the weekend jobs.

Sunday is the day that people do things!

Monday everyone is at work and It's a ghost town, close it down then and open up on Sunday's.

Tooright, yer right on the money there Andy!!

[the ferret]

What pi55es me off unreal, is that the Chinese or whoever can make snatch straps, flog em on ebay or where ever with no warnings on the said strap for novices and the ill informed as to their safe usage.
This also goes for anyone reading this that sells them, HOW can you sleep? get off yer arzes and demand that the manufacturer stamp or sew on a warning lable regarding TOW BALL recoveries.
How many more unsuspecting novices are going to DIE because of the lack of a simple warning.
I know that I could walk into any 4x4 shop and buy a snatch strap, the pimple face behind the counter wouldn't even know what a frigging tow ball was!!
There has been another young lass killed this weekend at Geraldton in WA, this is so sad as there was no need, just trying to do the right thing and help someone and end up DEAD.
This needs to be nipped in the bud and I will be writing to the department of consumer affairs tomorrow.
The towball WILLLLLLLL break and KILLLLLL someone, end of rant.

[the ferret]

AND another thing while I'm on the warpath, all you guys who install rear drawer systems, have you stopped to think of the damage that can be caused to your children or rear seat passengers in the event of a rear ender?
You have a very solid box with long pieces of timber and in some cases, STEEL tubing just waiting to be shoved into the backs of those passengers.
By installing these systems you have over ridden the "CRUMPLE" effect of your 4x4, the vehicle may still crumple, but the great big box you have built will not crumple and will be forced forward, taking out whoever is in it's way.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT?
A friend of mine lost his Dad, not from a drawer system, but during a rollover the loose hydraulic jack hit him in the head.
Moral of the story "Tie it down, or don't leave town"
Sorry to rant on, but I get very angry when people die just having fun when there is no need.

As they say "ya dead fer a long time"

[Clunk]

AND another thing while I'm on the warpath, all you guys who install rear drawer systems, have you stopped to think of the damage that can be caused to your children or rear seat passengers in the event of a rear ender?
You have a very solid box with long pieces of timber and in some cases, STEEL tubing just waiting to be shoved into the backs of those passengers.
By installing these systems you have over ridden the "CRUMPLE" effect of your 4x4, the vehicle may still crumple, but the great big box you have built will not crumple and will be forced forward, taking out whoever is in it's way.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT?
A friend of mine lost his Dad, not from a drawer system, but during a rollover the loose hydraulic jack hit him in the head.
Moral of the story "Tie it down, or don't leave town"
Sorry to rant on, but I get very angry when people die just having fun when there is no need.

As they say "ya dead fer a long time"

well that could certainly stir the pot a bit I reckon........................... I would like to say one thing though, anyone of us could get hit by a car or bus and not survive, I understand the need for safety and doing things safely but I feel sometimes things can be taken too far.............. JUst my opinion

[Silver]

AND another thing while I'm on the warpath, all you guys who install rear drawer systems, have you stopped to think of the damage that can be caused to your children or rear seat passengers in the event of a rear ender?
You have a very solid box with long pieces of timber and in some cases, STEEL tubing just waiting to be shoved into the backs of those passengers.
By installing these systems you have over ridden the "CRUMPLE" effect of your 4x4, the vehicle may still crumple, but the great big box you have built will not crumple and will be forced forward, taking out whoever is in it's way.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT?
A friend of mine lost his Dad, not from a drawer system, but during a rollover the loose hydraulic jack hit him in the head.
Moral of the story "Tie it down, or don't leave town"
Sorry to rant on, but I get very angry when people die just having fun when there is no need.

As they say "ya dead fer a long time"

We have a cargo barrier, but no drawers. I always put long things, be they folding chairs, or anything else similar, across the vehicle, not fore and aft. This because I worry about metal tubes finding their way between the grid and through the seat. Heavy things in the cargo area go on the side in front of which the billy lid does not sit.

I spoke to Milford about how close the cargo barrier could be mounted behind the front seat. Now, this was a few years ago, and you should check for yourself, but back then the advice was 'As close as you like'. I said surely the barrier and mounting system are meant to bend forward under impact load. His response was, Yes, it will, and so will the front seats and you, so the restrained load will not impact.

I would never snatch from a towball. That said they don't always fail. I have seen video of a V8 cruiser attached to a TD42 Patrol Ute, attached to a GU Wagon, in turn attached to a 6 metre Haines, going around Indian head. All of the towing vehicles were using the tow ball - admittedly the Haines was on a boat trailer. Now, none of them were really snatching, but a moment of inattention could make it so. I have told that crew more than once that they are taking a big risk, but they just shrug it off - we've always done it that way.......

[the ferret]

Sounds to me that yer switched on mate, good practise.
Yeah, not all towballs will snap off, but under a snatch situation, with a vehicle between 2 and 4 tons, sucked into mud, trying to slingshot that weight out with just a 19mm thread on the towball, well anyone in the engineering game could see the danger in using the towball.
Sadly, not all are engineers and do what they think is ok, sometimes it goes bad, real bad.
"Dead a long time"

[the ferret]

well that could certainly stir the pot a bit I reckon........................... I would like to say one thing though, anyone of us could get hit by a car or bus and not survive, I understand the need for safety and doing things safely but I feel sometimes things can be taken too far.............. JUst my opinion

Fair comment Clunk, not stirring, but I believe in not putting yer self in harms way, fer sure we could get hit by a bus, lightning, some drunken maggot or a burgler, but there are many things that contribute to fatalities, I just like to help folks become aware that circumstances alter cases and not knowing something or being ignorant of things can kill you.