Will this ever happen?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by supremeguy, Apr 3, 2011.

  1. ronin

    ronin Road Train Member

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    Right, wooden tent stakes, and a BFH serve many purposes... especially when it comes to rogue tank shooters and vampires.
     
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  3. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    i heard of a little kid who stuck his finger in a dyke

    not sure if she was leaking or not--but i dont imagine she liked it
     
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  4. Bumpy

    Bumpy Road Train Member

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    That was witty..?:biggrin_2554: :biggrin_25511:
     
  5. GasHauler

    GasHauler Master FMCSA Interpreter

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    Anything that will stop or slow the leak down. Or you can just scratch you head and say "ain't my job to git dirty" and just let the fuel run down into a creek. Now you company will have to hire very expensive people to clean up the mess, either way it'd going to get cleaned up.
     
  6. Tankergirl80

    Tankergirl80 GangstaGirl

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    OMG I love you all! :biggrin_25514: Every freaking one of you! :biggrin_25514:

    I'm dying to know what else you're worried about Supremeguy (literally... I'm beggin you... please, please, please tell me):biggrin_2559:
     
  7. WitchingHour

    WitchingHour Road Train Member

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    Flying squirrels, perhaps?
     
  8. fairshake

    fairshake Road Train Member

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    I once was assigned a truck that I did not know had some large wiring straight to the battery that was tucked under my cabs carpet for a linear/cb power connect I guess. The other end had gotten loose and fell to the bottom of the cab exposed under the drivers seat at the bottom of the truck and was touching the driver side fuel tank. Now I only found this out cause one day I was stopped at a fuel stop in Gary, IN when I opened the drivers side tank the little metal chain that holds the fuel cap in place while its open was glowing red and dipped into the diesel fuel. I about crapped myself, but moved my truck away from people and found the large wire hidden from site. Still freaked how that wire touching the aluminum tanks did this if that was gas, boom I would think.

    Oh yea remove your custom battery wires when you part a truck, it was hidden so well under the middle of the cab you just could not see it from outside the truck.
     
  9. Rollover the Original

    Rollover the Original Road Train Member

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    I always carried round wooden stakes for just such occasions as vampires as they are easier to slam or throw into their chests to pierce their hearts.

    Because they are round and bullet holes are round you can stab it in the hole and hit the end of the stick with your tire billy or hammer then snap it off and it always plugged the bullet holes.

    I would just whittle the point back on and be ready for the next vampire or idiot to shoot my tanks again if I couldn't throw my pointed stick at him and pierce him in the heart if I saw him aiming at my tanks because having to drain those things and weld them up just costs too much and they are hard to polish back into that mirror like finish.
     
  10. canuck in da truck

    canuck in da truck Road Train Member

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    i have heard that the new thing to look out for is fuel vampires---they come and suck your tanks dry when you sleep---since fuel is worth more than blood--this is something to be very concerned about
     
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  11. Powell-Peralta

    Powell-Peralta Road Train Member

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    Ok, so i don't know jack s about guns/firepower etc., but i have seen bullets on various tv shows with fire connected to them or some sort of ignition source connected to them---is this called incendiary?

    If one of these bullets were to be fired into a tank would this change the equation? Namely causing catastrophic explosion or fire?

    i understand that heat, not spark, causes diesel to ignite in engines, but in this case you not only have heat, but let's say the bullet goes thru the tank and ends up on the ground. Now we have diesel dripping on a very hot bullet......

    Discuss.
     
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