Jogden

And who was the man that said last week that it's safe to drink Bangkoks tap water?

'seedy'

If you use a scraper, you will need a dozer to push the scrapers when they get stuck during the loading process. This will happen. That is what the large steel block is for on the rear - the dozer puts its blade against this and off they go.

The nice thing about scrapers is they are the only machine you will need - they load and unload themselves, with a skilled operator they will spread to a consistent depth.

Using an excavator - a tracked backhoe - you will need trucks. Start to dig, building a ramp as you go. Reach 6 metre depth, level out and go to 50 meters, Dig the other side, remove ramp as you complete.

I know this is off the topic to the OP, but Seedy, Scoops brought back some good memories.

I have looked after many types for many years. The best time was a bunch of 637's and some D10N's in WA, all kiwis and maories driving the stuff (chose ay cuzzy bro and the rest of it). Had only one big moaner, the seat is strange, tyres seem funny, etc. All that changed when i upped the front motor 100 RPM. No complaints from him at all as he was loading himself and not waiting for the dozer or hooking up the bail arm with the others. When that job finished the gear was moved to another site and the moaner didn't get the same machine. When i finally got to the site the mechanics didn't know what to do with this guy moaning. I found 'his' machine and did the same as i did before. Good memories and would love to see some running around here. Don't really know if the locals would take to them here. I later worked in West Africa (Mali) and it was hard to keep the locals in the chairs.

Back on the topic, 12,000B isn't to bad for what you want doing, but what about the cost of the tippers per day? The backhoe can't throw the stuff that far!

That reminds me of when I was at school I worked part time at a hotel and every month a business man would stay there for the regional meeting. He always booked the same room and once became very upset when someone else had booked his room.anyway to cut a long story short he had a blow up doll stashed in the ceiling and the management decided to leave it there for him as he was a good customer.<br /><br />Count yourself lucky you found a gold necklace and not a second hand blow up doll.

Brilliant!

Years ago i worked at a manganese mine called Woodie Woodie in WA, it was six weeks on and one off at the time.

Anyway, one of the machine operators bought up to site a blow up doll. Great for some, but the room cleaners started to get upset about it as they didn't know who's room it would end up in the morning. Most people don't know much about manganese, but it's black, dusty &lt;deleted&gt;. Think about how dolly looked after a couple of weeks! Twenty years on and still laughing about it.

He said the government would have to explain this, as well as the project details and how the funds would be spent.

And that translates to: How much can we get in our pockets?

David006, on 2010-01-14 06:34:30, said:

We often get "cut up" while driving and I always used to swear...now my "she who must be obeyed" has taken over..

"stupid baaastaard, boll....oks wanke_r you die soon" ..hilarious cure for road rage....

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just remembered one time an erratically driven truck loaded with coconuts and perched on top was the monkey...I started to grin and the wife looks at me and says "what dear? you think wrong person driving yes!!"........amazingly astute lady!!!

Just showed the wife this one and she had a good laugh, the monkey bit was the best. Thanks.

I used to carry on a bit when driving till i realized that a lots of the children on the roads carry weapons. Now i sit quietly in my passenger seat and listen to the handbrake going off, quai, &lt;deleted&gt;, then back into thai again. Cracks me up.

The floodwater is so high that it entered a provincial prison, forcing the authorities to move the prisoners to the second floor. The authority planned to evacuate the prisoners to prisons in other provinces including Bangkok.

They should send the prisoners to stay with Thaksin where ever he is........

Grow up, clown!

Oh dear another promise broken, who would have expected that to happen..... See by the photograph the minister is doing a sterling job educating people.....This is fork, say after me...fork fork...fork off you peasants we got your vote....

Brilliant!!

One would assume that before making a 470 million investment, some sort of feasibility study would have been carried out. Incidentally, an Australian friend of mine, in Engineering, now buys all of his steel products from Thailand, because better made and better price.

Quality control must not be required. Most of these products are actually manufactured in China and then passed off as made in LOS. BTW, he's not deaf, dumb and blind is he?

Errm, i beg to differ but Thailand makes it's own steel and they do manufacture good quality steel. Try and google Thai steel mills?

They actually put rhinos to sleep for cutting the horns off.

Very successful program in national parks.

Yes i agree that putting them to sleep is the best and only way to cut the horn off.

Rhinos really don't like to be disturbed and using a snare to trap them is the worst.

Years ago i was working in Zimbabwe and the government guys used to dart them, then cut off their horns to try and stop the poachers. Not long after they had finished cutting the horns, we came across a dead rhino in Chizirira. They, the poachers had cut the last one centimeter of the horn and left the rest of the carcase. Not pretty to see at all.

If you want a nearer beach to Bkk, you could have gone to Bang Saen, beach there and only 40 mins away, to some its more pleasant -(Thai anyway)

Yes i agree it is closer and more of a Thai place to visit. If you can put up with all the food scraps and rubbish tipped into the water at high tide by the food and deck chair people.

Well done! How many remember the April 1st story? That had people climbing the walls.

A barrel of what!!??

Can you put 2 and 2 together, What the heck do you think???? BEER--Treacle --Get the message (airport--middle east --fuel--) trying to help you --got it yet ??? Give a little imput yourself rather than trying to pull apart other posters.:jap:

Gentle mate, you did type ALL not oil.

Low life excuse of a human.

This story makes me feel a lot less bad about some of the foolish things I've done.

I agree with you there.

I translated the story to my wife (she was a journo with the Nation) and she cracked up laughing. But did say that some of those boys that dressed as girls preyed on the pissed up tourists.

Seems like this is only confirmed for Phucket

Nah, it's all over the place. Sister inlaws eating place in Saraburi has had a visit from the BIB and handed out a pamphlet saying that there will be problems if she sells alcohol. Even if somone takes their own grog with them, there will be problems.

55555555. Sounds like the boys in brown haven't got their grubby little fingers in any of that pie.

I worked in Kalimantan Indo for a few years and talking to most of the guys that were fron Java, it was normal for big fights to happen all the time between different schools and colleges. When i'd ask them why, it was always, well that school has alway been the enemy. But when they were almost all grown up and sometimes working together, these rivals from school had no problems with each other. Maybe they were out of school and money now meant more to them and their families than fighting each other?

So now it's a miss count? Or did the ghosts come in during the night and "borrow" them?

This way, those who did contribute should be reimbursed by the bank as a gesture of good will and then the bank can seek fraud on its part as well as whatever internet laws are applicable to this case. This would be, to me, a good ending for all and none would be personally ripped off in this deal. It would also be good public relations of the bank to act in this way.

Nice idea and it would be good publicity for the bank.........See what happens though.

Have these people EVER looked at what causes a lot of the pollution? Cars that sit for 20 minutes do to the stupidity of the people changing the lights are a great contributor....

5555555 Why should they do anything? It's not a money earner just pushing the buttons.

That would be interesting. Just for the lot of us to find out who else is NOT born in this country but claims the same. Many UN mentionables aren't born in this country. But..........

Off the topic a bit but it pretty much sums this lot up. I was in a shop looking to buy a bicycle for my son. Got talking to the guy and he told me that he was Malaysian, Ok i thought and said that i'd never met many Malaysians in Thailand and he said no that he was Chinese. And you were born in Malaysia? Yes. So you are Malaysian? No Chinese. Do you have a Thai passport? Yes. So you are Thai? No I'm Chinese. Have you ever been to China? No. Will you ever go there? No, more money to be made in Thailand.

How do you work out that mind set?

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CAPTIONS PLEASE !!! What is Quinton thinking here?

He's thinking. Hmmmmm, i'd give her one.

I have only been there twice and reckon its a 'sleeze pit' if i took my dog there, he would bite me !

in Pattaya my two german dogs would bite you for not knowing how to spell sleaze

555555555555555 Well done.

This is one of the many reasons why the locals distrust Farangs.

Oh come off it!

Look i no way support what that person did and wish him the best of bad luck.

But you you really need to look at the locals before condemning us lot of farangs, Just for example, catch a bus to Saraburi. Get out of the bus and walk around with your eyes open. This is all on display with the knowledge of the local authorities.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break">.

A bit of tit for tat going on now......