if i was the owner of that car i would get my solicitor to look into the hole
bum- bum
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Good moment for a quick oil change and underbody inspection, though.
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wear your trench coat if you do
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the article says " lazy workmen".
I think they used their iniative to get the job done. If they had been lazy they'd have dug up to the car and then stood about drinking tea till the owner turned up.
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Hear hear Sim-O. I bet they were Poles. Anyway they just had little barriers close to the trench, not those damn silly great white cages right across the road that the English ones round here cause obstructions with.
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Simple enough to get car out with a couple of planks!
Hats off to the workmen, probably showed more initutive than the "planners" who ok'd the job.
Billy
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How do you "push" a parked car, probably with handbrake on, and maybe in gear, in a straight line along a road?
I have seen plenty of cars being "shuffled" sideaways through rocking the car but not forward in a line?
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They've got dumpers and diggers lingering about. The term 'push' was probably mechanically propelled rather than physical.
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With a manual gearbox its easy to push a car as long as its not in gear.
There was a Fiesta in my car park yesterday and in my space. I own and manage the car park (in other words, if people say Oy - do you think you own the place, the answer is Yes!). I simply nudged up to the Fiesta and slowly pushed it away from my space. Its easy with 4WD, autobox and lots of grunt from a 3.0 flat six!
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Hope you pushed him onto double yellow lines ;-)
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How do you "push" a parked car probably with handbrake on and maybe in gear in a straight line along a road?
You don't push it, unless the handbrake is very feeble as they so often are.
You bounce it or lift it or some combination of the two.
On my now very distant first honeymoon, 1963 I suppose, I was compelled by weather conditions to stop for the night in a Devon village. My hired Vauxhall Victor fell into some hollows in the entrance to the icy pub car park and wouldn't move. Fortunately a platoon of marines drinking in the pub rushed out and manhandled it very easily into a more sensible parker. I imagine Polish road rippers are just as good, and probably more sober until quitting time.
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How do you "push" a parked car probably with handbrake on and maybe in gear in a straight line along a road?
Last year the council were resurfacing the road outside our old office. Lots of signs on lamp-posts, flyers on cars and still two cars left in the street on the day of work.
Never mind, the tarmacing gang had obviously been here before and had some small trollies with what looked like wheels off a supermarket trolley, put them under the car, jack it up and push out of the way, and then they put the car back once the job was done - facing the other way of course!
Edited by mare on 25/10/2007 at 09:43
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>> How do you "push" a parked car probably with handbrake on and maybe in gear >> in a straight line along a road?
Could have used trolleys but I'm sure even a small mini-digger would be able to drag a car along with the tyres skidding on the road.
I was once on site and 30 yards away a big 360' excavator, something like a 25 tonner, was loading an 8-wheel on-road tipper lorry. I happened to be watching and the tipper driver started to drive off when the back was not yet full.
The excavator driver swiftly put the bucket on the tailgate of the truck and pulled it back about 10 feet into place with a minimum of effort, lorry wheels still turning in the dust trying to go forwards. There was an exchange of air horns between drivers but the lorry driver didnt bother to get out of his cab..
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