Mud-club
Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: xmob on October 20, 2004, 16:36:09
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On Sunday I'm going for an audition for possibly a dream job.
Won't tell you where just yet, but lets just say it involves playing in mud, in SOMEBODY ELSES motor, and getting paid for it! :D
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c'mon, we need more info than that ;)
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Sounds good, any other jobs going there.? :wink:
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hes going to drive tractors on a farm estate
:p
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All will be revealed when I get home on Sunday. :wink:
I'm not sure if they want anybody else, I know they wanted more than one. I'll ask on Sunday. You'll need to live somewhere near(ish) to Scarborough. :D
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:lol: :lol:
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hes going to drive tractors on a farm estate
I know there's a vehicle there that would be classed as an agricultural vehicle, but it's not a tractor. Made by a German company. :wink:
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Langdale Quest and a Unimog perchance?
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Shhh! :D
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Heaven!
:wink:
Ed
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Langdale Quest and a Unimog perchance?
I'll be there on 21st Nov. :D
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nearish to scarborough i hear you say ?
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I quite fancy this job myself :D :D :D :D
DAVE......................
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but you'd look ridiculous in a thong, and that lawnmower would leave a rash
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I quite fancy this job myself :D :D :D :D
DAVE......................
Maybe this is the ultimate job for Bush Tucker Man :lol: :lol:
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When do I start???
And how much do I have to pay you??
:lol: :lol:
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Quality control in a breast enhancement clinic will do for me 8) :wink:
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you'd be surprised how much work is involved in that kind of quality assurance
surely you need a hand eh! :twisted:
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Well, today's the day. :D
I'm out of bed before 10am on a Sunday, and just about ready to go. I'll let you all know how I got on.
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brake a leg / good luck / hope a bird craps on ya head n all that :lol: :wink:
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Sorry for the delay in reporting back, I had to take a trip to Widnes yesterday, and went by train (you'll find out why later) so didn't get home 'til late.
The good news. I have a part time job! :D Not that I needed one, but this one sounded like fun. I am now a patrol/recovery driver at Langdale Quest (http://www.langdalequest.co.uk).
I arrived on site at 10am as planned. After a quick breifing about the perfect 10 year safety record at LQ I was sent out into the forest. I decided to use my own (my wifes actually) car in the end because I would be sticking to the gravel tracks and had all my important stuff in it (lunch). My duties for the day:
Help lost people.
Offer instruction/guidance/monitoring to drivers/vehicles on some of the more technical sections, particularly the descents.
Keep an eye out for Colin McRae wannabes.
It sounded like it should be fairly easy. It wasn't. Sunday was a quiet day, and keeping track of up to six vehicles at a time was not easy. Especially when you have two novices approaching different descents at the same time. You have to tell one to wait, get the other down safely, then get to the other descent as quickly as possible.
I had a great amount of fun. The feeling you get when you see the smiles on peoples faces after making a descent is great.
SWMBOs Discovery came home muddy, even though it spent most of it's time of gravel tracks. It also came home on the back of a recovery truck. At about 4pm I went to change down a gear. The clutch pedal was already on the floor and the gearstick was jammed solid. [!Expletive Deleted!]! Reported in sick, fortunately the site had got really quiet by now and they could manage without me (good job really considering I was only meant to be there training!). Forced the car into third and limped it back to the car park. Had a quick check of fluids, all present. Nothing obviously wrong. In the end I called National Breakdown.
The recovery driver arrived about 45 minutes later, with one of those trucks that hoist the front wheels up. When I pointed out that he couldn't tow me home with that, he seemed a bit miffed. He phoned his HQ, and they told him to take the rear prop shaft off. I can't repeat his response, but basically he said "No" because there was a more than average amount of mud under the car. Had to wait another hour for a flat bed to turn up. SWMBO went beserk when I got home. Everytime I take a car to LQ, it gets broke. She doesn't believe me when I tell her that this had nothing to do with being at LQ. Help me out here guys!
Initial prognosis suggests it's the slave that's gone k'put. I went out for a look this morning, and the bloody thing is working fine! I'm going to pop the slave off when I finish work tonight and check the seals etc.
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It seems that it was the slave cylinder (phew!). At £9.60 + VAT for a brand new replacement, I didn't bother with a repair kit.
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Well done on the new job :mrgreen:
I hope to be going up there in Feb,
I've been told that you can tow a Discovery as long as its in neutral. I guess yours was stuck in gear.
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I didn't know that. It wasn't stuck in gear, but still, it got home.