Welland 2019 Dyno test of Boadicea

[muskymoto]

It is only a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt

Recently living vans ending up on their side!

Saw benches being overreved and throwing teeth

And belts being pushed twice their limit.

Dogs falling off engines and being run over by the living van. Heck even children

A C@@T on a steam engine being beheaded should really draw the crowds in.
Doesn’t matter how quick you shut the regulator when you have a belt wrapped round your neck you are going to struggle to do so.

I am all for pushing stuff to their limits but having witnessed a trailer running away at Dorset thank god it was stopped. The hole game needs some more common sense involved.

Or it won’t be long and we will all be confined to a museum saying “I remember seeing these at steam rallies!!’

[David Powell]

You could be sitting in an armchair in your basement and a large aeroplane could crash into your house and kill you !! But that is very unlikely.

Over revving a 100 year old engine while standing next to the 100 yr old flywheel is rather riskier

What matters to most of us is that the risk takers take their risks in circumstances and places where others will NOT be hurt and neither will the hobby itself suddenly find restrictions imposed by government.

In Canada and the States the spectator sport of watching monster truck racing came under tighter scrutiny and regulation after one ran amok , out of the arena, and killed a few spectators.

Play safe, have fun, and if you want to push the envelope do it so you will not harm anyone else.

Regards David Powell