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Stylo
5th September 2019, 20:12
Car, Truck ...Bulldozer , Taxi , Front End loader , Bus , lawnmower....?

What machines do you guys drive for your job ?

I drove a small Toyota forklift this morning . Not something I've have a lot of practice with ....

TheDemonLord
5th September 2019, 21:49
A Laptop...

Laava
5th September 2019, 22:22
Deutz farm tractor and hyundai 20t digger

pete376403
5th September 2019, 22:27
Holden Cruze wagon. Its ok. Actually better than ok, the best car in the world is the one someone else puts the gas in.

jim.cox
6th September 2019, 00:31
At the moment, a Nissan Navara ute

In the past an Aveling Barford PG grader and a Prinoth T5 snow groomer (amongst others)

But at least I do get to commute to and from by bike

Oakie
6th September 2019, 08:46
Honda Super-Cub postie bike.

Well I did until Wednesday. This coming Monday I'll be driving a desk again.

Katman
6th September 2019, 09:01
Other people's bikes.

sidecar bob
6th September 2019, 09:41
I remember work, do they still have that?:msn-wink:

Laava
6th September 2019, 14:43
I remember work, do they still have that?:msn-wink:
Sat morning when you start on the wifes list.

ellipsis
6th September 2019, 20:10
...just my wife crazy...

JATZ
6th September 2019, 20:25
Digger today, tractor tomorrow, monday it'll be a forklift, followed by a digger with maybe a touch more tractor if the weather holds.

ruaphu
7th September 2019, 12:33
Driving about 700MW of electrickery [emoji12]
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skippa1
8th September 2019, 19:13
Laptop and when I'm not driving that I'm driving my staff nuts

GazzaH
8th September 2019, 19:16
Mostly a mouse. Occasionally a Honda Foreman farm bike to shift hay bales, fencing poles and goat food. Or just for a hoon around soggy paddocks. Latest one has selectable 2 or 4WD for donuts or hill climbs.

jato
8th September 2019, 19:56
Driving about 700MW of electrickery [emoji12]
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So thats about 940,000 HP - You wouldn't want to crash that...
many years ago (operating a hydro station)i had 112MW short to earth (for some milliseconds) due to a fail in a CVT - buckled steel,shards of porcelain and trees on fire all around the switchyard... gives you a renewed respect for electrickery

Honest Andy
8th September 2019, 20:03
Driving about 700MW of electrickery [emoji12]
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Very cool!

I used to know a bloke who managed a lift at an ore mine in AU. He had to ring the local power station and warn them before he started it up: "OK just hang on until we start number three turbine..."

The power!!!!

jato
8th September 2019, 20:06
Yeah when you see what the exploding voltage transformer did to 16mm steel beams it puts your hard hat and hi-vis into perspective

slofox
9th September 2019, 08:52
Last job I had, I drove everybody crazy.

Drew
9th September 2019, 15:23
Hyundai iload. Its fucken brilliant!
Last van was a Hiace, they're fucken shit.

caspernz
9th September 2019, 19:28
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For me it's either a big bike or a little truck...

ruaphu
9th September 2019, 20:42
So thats about 940,000 HP - You wouldn't want to crash that...
many years ago (operating a hydro station)i had 112MW short to earth (for some milliseconds) due to a fail in a CVT - buckled steel,shards of porcelain and trees on fire all around the switchyard... gives you a renewed respect for electrickery

Fark that, bet that made for an entertaining few seconds, followed by a change of undies, [emoji23]


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ruaphu
9th September 2019, 20:44
Very cool!

I used to know a bloke who managed a lift at an ore mine in AU. He had to ring the local power station and warn them before he started it up: "OK just hang on until we start number three turbine..."

The power!!!!

Lol, hard case.


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Swoop
9th September 2019, 22:51
Occasionally the bosses Honda Fit.

A more bland and useless rollerscate impersonating a real car, would be impossible to find.
It has less "get up & go" than an old, arthritic, labrador laying in the sunshine.
I'm genuinely thinking of leaving it at a scrapyard next time I have to use it.

Laava
10th September 2019, 07:11
Occasionally the bosses Honda Fit.

A more bland and useless rollerscate impersonating a real car, would be impossible to find.
It has less "get up & go" than an old, arthritic, labrador laying in the sunshine.
I'm genuinely thinking of leaving it at a scrapyard next time I have to use it.
If you play Bryan Adams on the stereo it will seem ok?

Swoop
10th September 2019, 21:28
If you play Bryan Adams on the stereo it will seem ok?
The "stereo" does not work. Some spastic fitted an eco-veganist conector that even that cunt steve jobs would be confused over.
Meaning, it does not produce any sounds whatsoever.

Laava
10th September 2019, 22:30
The "stereo" does not work. Some spastic fitted an eco-veganist conector that even that cunt steve jobs would be confused over.
Meaning, it does not produce any sounds whatsoever.
Holy fuck man! That leaves you with only one last option and you're not going to like it! You will have to sing Coldplay songs and by that I mean sing the words you do know and then wail, like a heartbroken widow on the funeral pyre, the words you are not sure of.

Swoop
12th September 2019, 20:18
... the words you are not sure of.
You are 100% correct on that one.
Who is a "coldplay" and why would anyone want one?:devil2:

neels
12th September 2019, 20:31
A Ford Focus, or a Ford Kuga, or a Toyota Hilux, all of which are quite acceptable. Occasionally a CVT Toyota Corolla wagon, unaffectionately referred to as the turtle, which is truly horrid.

But mostly driving a laptop plugged into multiple screens, herding the cats to have my people at whatever location in the south island they need to be on any particular day.

JimO
15th September 2019, 16:36
o16 hilux, ......

Oakie
13th November 2019, 21:06
Driving about 700MW of electrickery [emoji12]

When I saw that photo I thought it looked like an Operations centre. (I used to work at ECNZ, Twizel).