Hi and welcome.
You might not get past 83, your nuts
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Still saying that there are a lot on here that are nuts as well..:teeth:..
You might not get past 83, your nuts
.Still saying that there are a lot on here that are nuts as well..:teeth:..
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Welcome to YD.
I seem to have nothing to do on May 3rd except housework.
I'll dive it for you, but i cn't help with anything else, i'm afraid.
(yup - i'm bonkers
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I think you are thinking of Capernwray Quarry or Eccleston Delph. They have both done similar things in the past for TV. I suggest that you contact them direct.
I think Digger might have a suitable car...
I have a camera and would take photos if you get it arranged.
You're cutting it a bit fine.
Hi, This sounds like a laugh....
I'd put money on your mates from preston talking about Dorothea... Flooded quarry in north wales. It's not an official dive site, so could be done on the sly, but if the press are involved it'd be best not to do it there.
if stoney would let you drive the car off the slip ramp, it might work... and you'd only be in 3 - 6m of water.
anyway, count me in.
platform is a bit... erm... pikey looking, but there's still plenty of it left to park a landy on
If you were being extra extra safe, I'd want to see the car in front going down the ramp, with a tow rope attached to a proper 4 x 4 or a tractor following down behind.
Don't think dotty is a SSSI, don't think anyone has 'officially registered' the newts... there was a lot of talk about it back 2001 when the owner was applying for planning permission for the landfill, but I gather he went bust, so no-one bothered.
That said... I wouldn't really be happy about all that oil and fuel leaking into dotty... the local kids have put more than enough in there already.
perhaps you could flush out the engine, drain the fuel system, and run the engine just for the take-off using a small detachable can of fuel attached direct into the injectors somehow... that way you could safely recover the small can of fuel, and only a few ml of fuel would remain in the engine...
either that or you strip it all down and attach some rockets
You don't need an engine at all to roll down the ramp, but I can see this going badly wrong - what if the vehicle pitches or rolls entering the water and ends up trapping or injuring the driver. Anyone for a risk assessment?
Risk assessments are banned... let's just use common sense...You don't need an engine at all to roll down the ramp, but I can see this going badly wrong - what if the vehicle pitches or rolls entering the water and ends up trapping or injuring the driver. Anyone for a risk assessment?
in all seriousness, that IS the one major worry with this I reckon.... the impact into the water would be the other, but can be guarded against....
I imagine that pitch/roll errors on decent could be sorted out with small amounts of buoyancy spread over the top of the car.... if you got it wrong though, you could end up flipping it end on.
Perhaps the car would need to pass fundies first
Err - Oil and Petrol polluting the whole quarry? A lot of logistics to solve with this one - but I'm in
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