On Mon, 23 May 2016 09:35:39 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 23/05/2016 00:50, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2016 00:22:33 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 22 May 2016 16:14:15 -0400, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

On 5/22/2016 9:34 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 22 May 2016 07:52:40 -0400, Stormin Mormon
You know, in all my fifty or so years, I can't
remember ever meeting (or first generation
reliable source hearing about) a child
injured by a lawn mower.
I have. My kid brother lost a finger. on a push mower.


Sorry to hear that. Do you encourage the
mandatory safeties on mowers? Do you ever
tell people how to bypass safeties?
I generally encourage the safeties be maintained. The blade brake on
current machines id a bit of a pain. Mine is old enough not to have
one.

I have dissabled the clutch switch on my truck - I want to be able to
run the truck off the road on the starter if necessary if the engine
fails - and if I loose the clutch I can start the truck in gear and
drive without the clutch to get me home.

I'm the only person who drives the truck (20 years old, 343,000km)

What on earth is a clutch switch? I've driven two cars with no clutch
cable, you start it in 1st then change gear carefully.

I've done that twice in the distant past when the clutch cables broke
and I managed to get the cars home safely from several miles away.

On one occasion I was going along the Kingsway (dual carriageway) in Dundee, which has many roundabouts. I had to stop at each one due to it being rush hour, and some drivers got rather annoyed at me starting it in 1st and jumping round the roundabout. The starter in that car seemed unnecessarily powerful for the size of engine and it took off rather quickly and unevenly.

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