bird strikes...

jimberlake

jimberlake

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Well super Tim's been at it again...had a number of things done, Toyota shocks, tow hook, bunk poles, alloy tank, servo, SU conversion...few issues where it wouldn't run at all and then was heavily over fuelling, went through a few needles pulled out more than a few hairs before Tim went back to the original needle and was running okish but got better and better after a few miles until was running great. Can only think the carb needed a good blast, maybe some gunk in it...anyway just got back 115 miles at 55 mph topped the tank and re topped it and got just OVER 30 mpg...wow! Tim you are the man.

Anyway back to the title...in my life I've done probably around 400,000 miles of travel in cars and never hit a bird. I've now done about 1500 in a commer and hit two...a pigeon last year and a crow today, both smashing into the windscreen surround, causing a little damage. So I was wondering whether this bad luck or does the un aerodynamic shape lend itself to hitting birds??? In cars you do get close shaves but they seems to rise over the windscreen at the last second.



Hasta la supervista baby
 
I deny everything, and i have an alibi ;):D

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"You,re only supposed to blow the bloody SLIDING doors off"
Founder of the 6 speed club
 
In theory an un-aerodynamic shape should help prevent bird strikes as the air being pushed by the vehicle acts like a pressure wave and should assist in pushing away the flying object. Perhaps a pigeon or crow is too big or heavy to be affected, but it should assist with insects.

Perhaps they saw it was a Commer and assumed that it would be travelling slower that it was, not realising that Tim had had his hands on it!

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'I intend to live forever - so far, so good'
 
Pigeons are fat and slow, and crows are far too intelligent to believe a Commer can go that fast ;)

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"You,re only supposed to blow the bloody SLIDING doors off"
Founder of the 6 speed club
 
If you read your newspapers you would know the answer and yes aerodynamics do come into it, in a way. The government were getting a bit concerned about vehicles swerving to miss the birds so they got a University to do a study of why so many birds were getting killed. The results of the study showed that, on motorways, there was lots of animals, namely rabbits, hedgehogs and even squirrels being run over and squashed, the birds were landing to eat the dead animals and were being killed, mostly by flat fronted vehicles such as lorries, buses and even camper vans. One professor was not entirely convinced that the study gave a complete picture of why the birds were being hit by these flat fronted vehicles so went out himself and sat by a motorway for nearly a full day and what he learned was quite amazing. When the crows were going for a feast, they always left one crow in a high tree to warn of oncoming vehicles, unfortunately the lookout crow could only warn of CA, CA, CA and had not learnt to shout BUS,BUS, or LORRY, LORRY not even COMMER, COMMER, and so this is why they get killed by the flat fronted vehicles.:D:D:D


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Everything that I have stated is true, Next time you go for a walk just listen to the crows and you will see exactly what I mean!!![:0]

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Originally posted by jimberlake

You had me there till the last few lines! Maybe I need more sleep :)

Hasta la supervista baby



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