The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fronhaul on September 20, 2011, 04:58:23 pm
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Or how not to murder a husband who fills the Landrover up with petrol (and yes it is a diesel one) while towing a trailer loaded with 20 sheep and with 3 dogs in the back of the Landrover.
I was so excited to collect the new Shetland babies and it was with a silly smile I peered in at them when we stopped for fuel. Little did I realise what was to follow. I wandered into the shop to grab a sandwich for us only to be faced minutes later by a white faced husband who confessed he had just filled up with petrol instead of diesel. We were soon to realise just how special some of our friends were as rescue came in the form of a friend and his partner with a smaller trailer as their vehicle cannot pull ours. In what seemed like next to no time the 20 ewe lambs had been squashed into the smaller trailer via the side doors of both trailers, and dogs had been extricated from the Landrover which by this time was high on the back of a rescue vehicle and transferred to the van.
Some three hours later while the new shetlands were inspecting their field and munching happily a very sad husband returned clutching a rather large bill for sorting out the mess. :sheep: :dog:
I realise that I would probably have to pay someone to take him away and I have to confess that he has his uses - and in fact sad to say he can now reverse a trailer far better than me. So I guess I have forgiven him.
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Now that story really strikes home!
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Eek! That's an expensive story!
rather than pay for someone to take him - how about using him as a human bollard for practising your reversing technique? ;D
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Nice one!
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Logged on to find this thread title followed by one headed "Castration" :o
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Bless him!!! And I bet when he's with his mates they spend the whole time tutting about us women ;)
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Bless him!!! And I bet when he's with his mates they spend the whole time tutting about us women ;)
I bet he doesn't tell his mates HE put the wrong fuel in!!
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Oooooops ::) He was probably soooo excited about those new sheep too ;D ;) and just .....ermmm....forgot? :-\
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Poor guy ;D
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Did he start the engine before he realised?
Ian
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What a shame, we all make mistakes, just some are better at it than others! :D
Glad you got there in the end, pity about the bill though. :(
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Oh no, what a nightmare :o Good mates are priceless ;D
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I used to work for a big breakdown recovery company, and you would not believe how many calls we had to rescue people who had put the wrong fuel in their vehicle!! Funny enough, most of them realised before they started the car up. And wait for it .....most of the culprits were men :)
What would upset me is paying for the fuel I had put in, watching it be drained out, and then have to pay to fill up again .....not to mention the bill for the recovery!!!
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easily done, esp when you have 2 motors on different fuel, and yes, my OH as done it too, (I think it was petrol into a deisel) called me to go down with plastic drums and we syphoned it out, cleared whatever needed clearing and refilled, (He CAN be very clever at times ;D) only trouble was, he left the fuel where he was working that day and it was just before some sort of fuel shortage, we never saw the cans fo fuel again!
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My sister has done it not once but twice. The second time she had to lie down in front of the car to stop the service station staff moving it as it was blocking the fuel pumps. Having done it once before she knew how much damage it would do to start the engine. ::)
Congratulations Fronhaul on your new Shetlands - and on having one over on your hubby for - the - rest - of - his - life! ;D ;D
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I have to say the Forge Garage on the A40 just west of Carmarthen deserves 5 stars, Michelin Rosettes and just about every other award going. Lovely people told us not to even attempt to move despite the fact we were effectively blocking two pumps, lent as a phone, fed me free coffee and worried about the sheep with me. And while we were there someone tried to pay for fuel and discovered he had left his wallet at home and that was sorted out with a smile as well.
And the sun is shining this morning.
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And while we were there someone tried to pay for fuel and discovered he had left his wallet at home and that was sorted out with a smile as well.
Nooooooo? Not that same homo sapiens...? HooooYeah. You is de BOSS! 8)
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I confess i have done this too put petrol in OH's beloved BMW, my excuse was i was getting petrol for the lawnmower at the same time and just sort of forgot to change pumps!! ::)
The AA came and sorted it out and my flexible friend had to take the hit!!!
OH was not amused.
Mandy :pig:
ps i now have a pick-up and OH sold his BMW, bless!
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I filled our Transit with petrol and drove away :( Bless the A.A. man, he didn't even smirk ;D The cheque book stub says "expensive mistake!"
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well i have done this as well only once though and it it was only quarter of a tank of petrol filled the rest up with diesel no problemsand that was 20000 miles ago it did run better after this mistake
also if you put two stroke oil in the diesel it goes better :farmer:
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Almost did this myself once, now I double check all the time :)
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We recently had to replace OH's commuting car and I vetoed the cheaper option of a petrol car - I am certain one of us would make that mistake as well - it's so easily done!.... no petrol cars in our household!!!!
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So how much did it cost to fix then, if you don't mind me asking? :-\
The last time I called the AA out, the chap started asking me in great detail how you would go about separating petrol and diesel at home (this is kindof my line of work), as he had basically an infinite supply of mixed fuel (from his line of work!).
Unfortunately I couldn't really think of a method I could recommend doing at home safely (or at least not one I felt I could recommend to a complete stranger!) :o
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I have just looked up last year's cheque book stubs and the bill was £79-49p. Towing,of course was done by the A.A. And, I've just remembered, the chap at the garage told me he'd done the same thing not long before :o
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My OH has done this twice putting petrol in my Mitsubishi diesel,the first time it was towed to the garage and they couldnt work out what was wrong 3 days later and lots of expensive tests they worked out he had put petrol in it,bill was £500 and he tryed to protest it must of been me until i found the petrol station bill which proved it was him!,the second time he did it luckly he only put £15 in it and it conked out about 3 miles from where he had filled it up but friends towed it to the petrol station and we filled it up with diesel takes £110 for a full tank and it thankfully started straight away,to this day he is NOT allow to fill any of my cars up.
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;D This one made me laff, I've just got a new wav (wheelchair accessible vehicle) for basically becoming my daughters taxi and the delivery guy stuck stickers all around the fuel cap saying DIESEL, when I go to fill up my daughter shouts every time 'not the petrol mum, it's diesel'!!!
Everyone calls me a malteser brown hair but pure blonde on the inside, and so are just waiting for me to make this easy mistake :D but I have found a solution, I drive it till it's nearly empty then send my hubby out for milk in it so he has to fill it up, and best of all he then pays for the fuel ;) not such a malteser after all!!!
Blueeyes xx
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Everyone calls me a malteser brown hair but pure blonde on the inside, and so are just waiting for me to make this easy mistake :D but I have found a solution, I drive it till it's nearly empty then send my hubby out for milk in it so he has to fill it up, and best of all he then pays for the fuel ;) not such a malteser after all!!!
That ain't no soft centre, lady! ;) :D
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No proved myself a pure malteser today by trying to sign up for armchair aerobics (thought it wudnt be too hard plus cud do it in heels ;) ) till my hubby showed me the photo - it's was over 75's (I'm 35!)! my daughter then pointed out they had bought me a rowing machine and I've never used it, when I mentioned I didn't like trainers my hubby then told the lady they'd bought me them too :-\
I'm so unfit but just can't be bothered, I'd rather be out with the animals or reading a good book but the thought is there ;)!
Blueeyes xx
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I put the wrong fuel in not long ago (new vehicle - and early morning start). It's not fun.
I did learn something useful though in case I do it again - a diesel car can cope with up to 50% petrol - it's the other way round that's more problematic.
mab
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A petrol vehicle you can try to run on deisel but it just wont go - a deisel with petrol in - your knackered.
I dont understand why the deisel filler is the biggest because of that point.
You can't put deisel in an unleaded car (modern) as the filler is smaller - but you can the other way round - yet the biggest damage is trying to run a diesel engine - partly lubricated by the fuel on petrol.
Spose its to expensive to backwards engineer this - I presume the different sizes were intoduced because of unleaded and leaded petrol - but thats a fight over with now - they shouls start making diesel filler caps smaller and make unleaded petrol cars bigger.
Baz
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I've never miss-fueled a vehicle yet - other than using paraffin in the petrol during the crisis and using walnut oil (or any old vege oil from the kitchen) in the 2 stroke strimmer to get me by. ;)
Baz
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bazzais your postings should be on the jokes
paraffin in petrol what was the ratio of the mix
any old vege oil in 2 stroke engines again what was the mix and how long did you use this mix for
i could be wrong but i don't think you understand the fuel systems of diesel or petrol engines either old or new :farmer:
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I was telling OH about this thread - and that I'd mentioned him - he didn't look happy till I said I'd written how easy it would be.
he said you can get away with a couple gallon of petrol in a diesel (4x4-Big tank?, if you fill it up with diesel straight away, but the other way round it's b*****ed!
paraffin in petrol what was the ratio of the mix
didn't they used to start the old Fergie tractors (T20 or something?) on a parafin mix?
if you mixing oil + petrol for a 2 stroke mix whats wrong with vegoil in an emergency?
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petrol/paraffin tractors always started on petrol you had to switch over to petrol before stopping if it was not going to be used for a a while if it had paraffin in it when stopped it would not start on parafin if cold the carburettors was a vaporizers
2 stroke oil is specially formulated to the specific purpose(lubricate the internals of the engine veg oil is not
long before diesel had anticoagulants added you mixed petrol with diesel to stop it freezing -25 deg
put a match to diesel and it does not burn put diesel in a paint sprayer pull the trigger and introduce a match you have a fierce flame why because the diesel has been atomized
modern engines with common rail injection systems work at greater pressures than old dieselsand have finner tolerances modern petrol engines work on the same principal but need petrol to work :farmer: