Which gates to have?

[LadyArowana]

Oh, I see! You're too far away to be bought a drink, so the drinks money has be spent on other things, eh? :evil:

I would have been more lenient if you hadn't been eating elephants :lol:

 

[AMc]

Q: How do you eat an elephant?

A: A spoonful at a time.

You do get quite sick of elephant after a while though don't you? Personally I feel like I've eaten a herd and still have another one to go - it must be nice to be comfortable with the "bodge it and scarper" approach to building maintenance

Nice gates BTW - are they motorised ?

 

[Moo]

Nice gates BTW - are they motorised ?

Oh no - not motorised. That would be just another thing to go wrong. And Biff wouldn't approve of the resources needed to operate them.

But (light-bulb moment!) what about a manually-operated system like the ones they use(d?) on lock gates?

 

[philpjuk100]

Great gates Feltwell! my vote is for buttermilk! when living in cheshire as a lad in the 50s we had very similar gates on our "between the wars" house and my mum told us the pattern in the woodwork was the house number in roman numerals! ( it was not!) the gates were a bit rotten and I finished them off with my frogeye sprite!.I replaced them with a pair of "sun ray" gates I got from an area of great georgian/victorian housing that was demolished to build a shopping centre.phil.

 

[Feltwell]

Nice gates BTW - are they motorised ?

Ahh - I hadn't confessed to that bit. See the grid in the ground underneath the gates? That's where they slide vertically down into the drive.

I always liked James Bond films. The neighbours are very jealous. Confused the hell out of the postman though. :wink:

I replaced them with a pair of "sun ray" gates I got from an area of great georgian/victorian housing that was demolished to build a shopping centre.phil.

I've always liked those old "sun ray" gates - more a 1920's / '30's thing than Victorian I think, or were they later than that? I've always liked frogeye Sprites as well. I've got more chance of owning one than the Austin Healy 3000 I'd really like!

 

[worms]

the Austin Healy 3000 I'd really like!

Now we're talking! And I gather there is the dark art of tuning triple SU carbs!

 

[Flyfisher]

A fishing pal used to have an Austin Healy and would arrive at the river, top down, on a balmy afternoon for a few hours trout fishing and with a big wicker hamper on the back seat. We'd then just sit and chat and consume the contents of the hamper while waiting for the evening rise . . . which sometimes didn't happen, but it never seemed to matter - there's more to fishing than catching fish. :wink:

The only thing that spoiled it was the pale-ish blue colour instead of British racing green. Still, mustn't grumble.

 

[philpjuk100]

I also wanted a A-H 3000 but was only an apprentice and could not afford one so I cut the frogeye down the middle front to rear,added 4" and fitted jag straight six,a commer van rear axle and the shortest prop shaft you have ever seen! sprayed it ford aquatic jade using my mums hoover.It had a perspex windscreen but MOTs were easier then! my mates said it was an austin healey FRIGHT!

 

[Penners]

I hadn't confessed to that bit. See the grid in the ground underneath the gates? That's where they slide vertically down into the drive.

Presumably into a cavernous chamber, where you keep your fleet of world-domination missiles and your white cat?

 

[Feltwell]

Now Penners, you know full well that you're just being silly now. I'm a dog man, cats are nice enough but aren't really me.

 

[Penners]

But you can't dominate the world with a dog. Unlike cats, they have no megalomaniacal tendencies.

 

[Flyfisher]

See the grid in the ground underneath the gates? That's where they slide vertically down into the drive.

Just the gates? How disappointing.

 

[Feltwell]

On behalf of the technically illiterate, I'd like to ask - wossat mean then FF?

But you can't dominate the world with a dog. Unlike cats, they have no megalomaniacal tendencies.

Ahh yes, but at least you can try to delude yourself that, as the man of the house, you are higher in status than the dog (even if you know that really you're not). With a cat you are left in no doubt that you are bottom of the pecking order.

 

[Penners]

as the man of the house, you are higher in status than the dog

Not here. The dog's female, too. :roll:

 

[LadyArowana]

But you can't dominate the world with a dog. Unlike cats, they have no megalomaniacal tendencies.

The pennershound is better trained than some though...

 

[Flyfisher]

On behalf of the technically illiterate, I'd like to ask - wossat mean then FF?

I guess they didn't like me linking to the chosen picture and replaced it.
So I found another almost identical one, which should make more sense.
Wish I hadn't bothered now. :roll:

I'll be on the naughty step for the rest of the afternoon if anyone needs me.

 

[worms]

On behalf of the technically illiterate, I'd like to ask - wossat mean then FF?

I guess they didn't like me linking to the chosen picture and replaced it.
So I found another almost identical one, which should make more sense.
Wish I hadn't bothered now. :roll:

I'll be on the naughty step for the rest of the afternoon if anyone needs me.

Well, I understood the concept!

 

[Feltwell]

FF, it makes perfect sense now - it was the previous "You've been nicking bandwidth you naughty boy by live linking" statement that made little sense, but now of course I know that wasn't you at all.

Truly an invention to cater for those with far more money than either taste or sense. In the video below, think how much more amusing it would be if the Range Rover was parked a few inches too far forward and had it's bumper taken off as the device sank into the ground, or was hooked up by said bumper and crushed beneath the slowly descending "roof"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlFZAgTfte8

Cruel thoughts, but hey, life would a lot less fun without a little schadenfreude on occasions!

 

[AMc]

Truly an invention to cater for those with far more money than either taste or sense. In the video below, think how much more amusing it would be if the Range Rover was parked a few inches too far forward and had it's bumper taken off as the device sank into the ground, or was hooked up by said bumper and crushed beneath the slowly descending "roof"....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlFZAgTfte8

Cruel thoughts, but hey, life would a lot less fun without a little schadenfreude on occasions!

I can see the logic if you have two many cars and not enough space - esp. if you have a classic that you want to keep dry and out of sight from criminals. I see they've included a sump pump and back up generator on that video link - I expect some sort of obstruction cut off is in there too. My other half has an electric soft top and that refuses to drop the roof if you're looking at it the wrong way.

I wonder how freaky it is if you're still in it when it drops or on top when it rises?

Besides if rich people didn't spend money on frivolity how would the poor subterranean garage installation crews feed their kids?

More useless and far less practical ways for the rich to waste their money...
http://www.goldgenie.com/gold-ipads-c-20020_20087.html

 

[Penners]

But what do you do if you keep other things in your garage?