auf_wiedersehen_pet

Well-Known Member

• Nov 11, 2013

• #21

Grit Valve said:

No need for rollyeyes I drive use one daily safe speed ect ect like you say a non Terran fork lift is made for flat sufaces like warehouses ect.
My point was if you were going foward and hit a bump it wouldn't judder the steering unless you were flying around like a loony then you would not of had time to stop before the rear followed . In those circumstances IMO it was self inflicted . Unless he was reversing

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Don't read anything into the roll eyes - it's just a smiley - like the one you used. I doubt he was driving like a loony (that was reserved for the rest of us). Reversing? Maybe. All I know was the fork lift wasn't suited to the terrain but we were "obliged" to get on with it.

 

Grit Valve

2000 4.6 Vouge

• Nov 11, 2013

• #22

auf_wiedersehen_pet said:

Don't read anything into the roll eyes - it's just a smiley - like the one you used. I doubt he was driving like a loony (that was reserved for the rest of us). Reversing? Maybe. All I know was the fork lift wasn't suited to the terrain but we were "obliged" to get on with it.

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Ok, yes when were young huh do anything to keep my job , now I'd say you f...... Do it

 

auf_wiedersehen_pet

Well-Known Member

• Nov 11, 2013

• #23

Grit Valve said:

Ok, yes when were young huh do anything to keep my job , now I'd say you f...... Do it

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True. I left in 1990 to go to Uni having done three years. Been teaching since 1994 and H&S is paramount, possibly even more so than education.

 

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ava_banana

Member

• Nov 12, 2013

• #24

I've got one on the 300tdi at the 2 o'clock position, was going to put one on the td5, but after reading this thread am reconsidering it!

 

channi

Active Member

• Nov 12, 2013

• #25

about 2 oclock position feels right for me, its what feels right for you even when i drove wagons i used one never had a problem

 

Pumpy

Active Member

• Nov 13, 2013

• #26

I thought it was only rear steer vehicles needed them as you generally use a lot more lock (dunno though)
I have a 4x4 articulated dumper, the knob is permanently set at manufacture at the 2 o-clock position, if I were left handed I might choose the 10 o-clock position.

Can't see a use for one on my defender, I think the safety angle outweighs any possible usefulness, not unless I was reversing trailers all day, could be tempted then.

Or that guy on the IOW turning a Disco into an amphibian.... he might find one useful :lol:

 

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channi

Active Member

• Nov 14, 2013

• #27

at a recent rtv meeting 90%of the guys were useing them on defenders so they must be of use but every one to their own

 

SteNova

Well-Known Member

• Nov 15, 2013

• #28

well I fitted it at 2am position and its good, much easier to get to lock to lock quickly when parking lol

 

channi

Active Member

• Nov 15, 2013

• #29

got one on my disco, they make life easy on slow manouvers

 

flat

Well-Known Member

• Nov 16, 2013

• #30

hmmm might be advantageous on my non-PAS 2.5NA

 

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LifetimeLandy

Active Member

• Nov 17, 2013

• #31

The position of the spokes on the steering wheel will dictate where you can,t fit it. There's so many different designs of steering wheels you can fit now. I fitted one of these knobs to my series III for reversing with a caravan but I did not always use it, even with no power steering. I had the standard steering wheel fitted and the knob at 12-O-clock. It did slip at times and marked the rim of the steering wheel so I got rid of it. They used to have something similar on traction engines, but it's a bit late to ask Fred Dibnah's advice.