ZU-DVE (and ZS-WUO) (and ZEE) Flight Log

[gertcoetzee]

OK, I admit - the smile was somewhat enhanced for effect

[Cali]

Gert it's great to see how many flips you give to people. You are a great ambasedor for our sport. Keep up the good work :D

[gertcoetzee]

Foolishness, idiocy, lack of common sense, silliness, inanity, folly,brainlessness, denseness, density, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, fatuity, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, senselessness, simpleness, slowness, stupidness, vacuity, witlessness, absurdity, asininity, balminess, craziness, daftness, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, simplicity, wackiness, zaniness; fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness Call it what you want, but today takes the cake. I am currently filling in that application form for the Darwin Awards.

* No, nothing went through the prop
* It happened after landing, no dog in sight

[Cali]

Did you chuck something through the prop??

[Morph]

You're obviously physically OK, I hope

Sounds like you had a close call with a dog (the half chewed bone) and have broken a wheel in the process. Just a guess

[Cloud Warrior]

Looks like a damaged wheel to me too!

[John Young]

After landing, Gert commenced his trip to the kingdom of Stupidity

by pushing his M/L over a "harmless" bone that was nearly buried in sand only to find that the bone was in fact bolted to a sharp metal object which cut his tyre

[ACE]

Gert, your dictionary is definitely not the slimline pocket edition !!??

Jokes aside, glad that the only thing damaged is the wheel.

[Morph]

No no wait,

On landing at Wintervogel he taxied back to the hangars, not noticing the half-chewed ox leg-bone in his path which he proceeded to taxi over. It was only then that he noticed the bone's owner, the farmer's Rottweiler-cross-Rhino "Tiny" hiding in the bushes away from this strange contraption with the spinning hedge-cutter on the back that makes a moer of a noise. Tiny, enraged with anger, assuming that this device was going to take his morsel, overcame his fear and attacked, grabbing it on one of those nice chewy round things that he finds all over the farm on various square metal devices.

It took one or two shakes and the wirley device became silent and Tiny, happy that he taught it a lesson, retrieved his bone, along with the nice rubber chew toy and walked off to find a cool tree to lay under. As he closed his eyes to sleep, in the distance he could still hear the screams of the two humans who were sitting on the offending contraption when it tried to steal his bone disappearing into the distance.

Is this close, come on??

[Wart]

I think JY is close except that on landing the half chewed piece of bone punctured the tyre (BANG!) and the damage was then done to the rim ??????

PS: Morph do you always have to go from the sublime to the rediculous

[Tailspin]

Morph

I think your version is more believeable

Gert it is days like that, that can bring a grown man to tears

[gertcoetzee]

Let me help you guys. So, I taxied over a f***** sharp bone, and had a flat right tire. So, out comes the jack, up goes the trike, split the rim, out with the tire, in with new one, rim back. But hey wait, I have a slow puncture on the left one as well so can just as well replace that tire whilst the trike is all jacked up. Now take it from there....

[gertcoetzee]

[John Young]

EISH !! - that rim exploded when I unlocked the bolts before deflating the tyre!

Gert - sorry to hear about your woes. But "tell", how did that bolt get put into the bone

Please post a clearer picture - never seen a rim broken like that

I do enjoy following your thread.

Regards

[gertcoetzee]

Ah, I see it needs some explanation. The bone, as they say, was a red herring (not giving away a bottle of bubbly that easy). I drove over the bone and punctured my right wheel. So then I jacked the trike, and replaced the right (flat) inner tube. Then, bright boy that I am, I decided now is the time to replace the left (inflated) tube, since it has a slow leak and jacking the trike is such a hassle. Maybe if I myself had a leak at the time, I would have had the time to think about the next step. So there I start undoing the bolts of the left wheel, and bang I have nuts (not me or mine) and pieces of cast-iron flying past me when the one or so bar of air in the inflated tube realise some idiot is giving it a break. Get the picture?