You said ‘‘only a tradesman not an engineer’’.
Maybe you have cognitive issues don’t blame me.
I got a certification for the fastest person in the world to complete a Rubick’s cube when blind folded.
That sounds like a “load of glider engines” story.
But truth is stranger than fiction sometimes. 
Self launch gliders
Braille Rubik’s cube
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I had a good job in the 1970’s as a checker of hen’s teeth at Faccenda plucker factory, in Brackley.
What about the 20 tons of steel girders hidden underneath 24 tons of hanging meat, that rumour was spread from Lisbon to Lille in every truck stop?
Your old comprehension problem again. I may have stated that an engineer is a is a university degree qualification. There is no other way to become an engineer in your country or mine.
How you think you can call yourself an engineer when you couldn’t even finish an apprenticeship, beggars belief. Heck! You can’t even fix a brakeline on the rustbucket under your house.
Not in the real world, unless they go to university and earn the proper degree. Anyone who believes a bloke can be servicing Ford Focuses one day and designing a bridge the next, is even further from the real world than you.
No I cannot get my head around it, any more than I can get my head around a perpetual motion machine. It simply does not happen.
Me wanting to or not is irrelevant. Your accusations are a desperate retaliation against my logical truth. The only thing twisted here is your idea of a pathway to become an engineer.
Come on Carryfast, why would anyone waste five years at university when they can learn everything they need to know, to become an engineer, in the first 12~18 months of a trade apprenticeship?
Re-read that last paragraph Carryfast, let the stupidity of your claim soak in.
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I got the popcorn out, this could last a week, luckily I booked the time off.
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Of course.
Some other very dense cargoes were also good for “inventive” groupage loads.
24T of car batteries (traditional lead-acid) took only about 18 euro pallets, if memory serves.
The delivery point did get upset if they were double stacked though…
A badge I’ll wear with pride, if that’s what calling stupidity out, makes me. I’ve been called worse.
And standing by it, that has been the way since the skirmish of 39~45, before either of us were born.
I bet they know more about it than you. Fa rk, you can’t even fix a simple brake line.
Now I’m beginning to doubt you even started an apprenticeship, you are mixing up your trades. Remember, I finished my apprenticeship.
Come on Carryfast, Dunning-Kruger right there. To make such an inane statement demonstrates how much you don’t know.
Oh here we go again, poor Carryfast, the whole world has it in for him. Everything is someone else’s fault. Just own you shortcomings.
How about a bit more, just to put it into context.
Err, I’ll bow down to someone with greater knowledge than I but surely that is a recent thing, certainly wasn’t about last century as far as I’m aware l
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I was thinking the same thing.
One might assume that blacksmithing, wainwrighting, and candle making might have been more apt when CF left school? He talks like someone far older than he apparently is.
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Carryfast on a double run night out in the last century.
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I served my time as a fitter/technician as they’re called now. I sure wouldn’t class myself as an engineer.
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Trust me there is a world of difference between a fitter and a time served mechanic
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What is the difference?
Edit. Genuine question.
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Terminology may differ there. My Pommie FiL always called mechanics, fitters.
Here mechanics are actually Motor Mechanics, although their training does not restrict them to motors. They are trained to perform all repairs and servicing on light vehicles.
Fitters are many and varied, diesel fitters specifically work on heavy diesel engines, heavy vehicle fitters work on the rest of the truck, of course there is a lot of crossing over, particularly in independent workshops. It is unlikely that a Cummins trained and employed fitter will ever get to work on anything other than the motor. A fellow trained by a vertically integrated company will have less specialised training.
Then you have various fitters who have no vehicle training or interaction. Fitters who manufacture and assemble machines, these fellows often gain turning qualifications during their training. Or like myself, maintenance fitter, who service and repair machinary in a factory or manufacturing facility.
Then to keep you confused, you get electrical fitters and electrical mechanics.
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Our venerable friend has gone quiet, maybe we’ve got him cornered, but I won’t start counting chickens, he’s a slippery little sucker.
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