Class 08 loco as width gauge

Started by Agrippa, September 22, 2014, 03:36:13 PM

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Agrippa

There have been recent posts regarding using a Class 08 shunter as a method of
ensuring clearance at the trackside. If you don't have one no need to buy one,
just cut a piece of card  22mm  x   60mm and fasten it to a flatbed truck with a
rubber band and that will suffice.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes -Benjamin Franklin

Malc

It certainly would work but isn't as much fun as an 08.
The years have been good to me, it was the weekends that did the damage.

scotsoft

Does not look much like one either  :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing: :smiley-laughing:

cheers John.

sparky

If you want to use a cmxn track cleaner then the clips are 25mm....

Newportnobby

Quote from: Agrippa on September 22, 2014, 03:36:13 PM
There have been recent posts regarding using a Class 08 shunter as a method of
ensuring clearance at the trackside. If you don't have one no need to buy one,
just cut a piece of card  22mm  x   60mm and fasten it to a flatbed truck with a
rubber band and that will suffice.

Presumably the flatbed truck is pulled around by an 08 :laugh:

Agrippa

#5
No .  pushed by  a Big Boy 0- 8888- 8888 - 2 or 4-8888- 8888 0  or who's counting .  :D

Nothing is certain but death and taxes -Benjamin Franklin

Newportnobby

Quote from: Agrippa on September 22, 2014, 08:41:41 PM
No .  pushed by  a Big Boy 0- 8888- 8888 - 2 or 4-8888- 8888 0  or who's counting .  :D

My Mum warned me off all those 888 numbers :angel:

Griffo

Quote from: newportnobby on September 22, 2014, 09:34:52 PM

My Mum warned me off all those 888 numbers :angel:

My mum was well into the 666-666 mallet. Nailed me to the garden fence more than once and said she was doing me a favour!

Newportnobby

Quote from: griffo49 on September 22, 2014, 10:17:17 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on September 22, 2014, 09:34:52 PM

My Mum warned me off all those 888 numbers :angel:

My mum was well into the 666-666 mallet. Nailed me to the garden fence more than once and said she was doing me a favour!

:laughabovepost:
Garden fence? You were lucky (respeck to Monty Python)

Agrippa

Old Chinese proverb, man who sit on garden fence end up with a couple of acres,,,,
Nothing is certain but death and taxes -Benjamin Franklin

Geoff

And all these comments have come from a class 08 the mind boggles  ???
Geoff

CarriageShed

The mind frequently finds cause for boggling in this forum, and then it gives up boggling and runs away screaming.

steve836

Mine ran away screaming long before I found this forum! :drool:
KISS = Keep it simple stupid

Jerry Howlett

Quote from: steve836 on September 24, 2014, 08:29:49 PM
Mine ran away screaming long before I found this forum! :drool:

I'm sure I passed it on the A11, I think it was on a Tuesday afternoon....
Some days its just not worth gnawing through the straps.

edwin_m

Quote from: Jerry Howlett on September 24, 2014, 08:52:20 PM
Quote from: steve836 on September 24, 2014, 08:29:49 PM
Mine ran away screaming long before I found this forum! :drool:

I'm sure I passed it on the A11, I think it was on a Tuesday afternoon....

Probably on its way to Braintree. 

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