Where is your username from?

[Regy53]

So, i was interested in this

Mine is from a car reg from years ago RV53EGY, we nicknamed the car REGY which was top of its game in 2005/6/7 when I used to take it on track days etc. The 53 was the rest of the reg, that name just stuck and i used it on all forums.

People do call me Regy a lot though

 

[V8Druid]

Druid is from my college days when everyone called me 'The Druid' ...... it got added to, by various friends, subsequently, as I've run V8s since 1980 when I bought my first SD1-V8 --- RPO 718S ...... an' I've had 'a few' of them since then, including a few Vitesses plus RRs, LRs, and one disco (one is enough) !!
Stopped running the Vitesses with the advent of bloody cameras ... as my old man used to say ... "get nicked by a jam sandwich and you deserve it ... cameras just aren't cricket" .... and for those that don't know already ..... he was a 30 yr. traffic cop - a bear in uniform at 6'4'' and 17.5st .... proper old time copper ..... who taught me to drive by 'the method' .... A to B as fast as possible, safely!!

 

[LDK]

LDK (long distance kiddy),a muckshifting term from the70’s, 80’s and probably later. I was always a traveling man, but after going international for thirty odd years and doing more travelling than I had ever imagined, I figured I’d earned the handle..

 

[Mogman]

Mogman................ well why not
I used to run unimogs had 3 in total, the last one being a u1700 but had it opened up on the pump and fitted an intercooler so boosted it to 210 hp was a great truck, would out pull any tractor at the time on the road and field as long as I could get grip had diff locks front and Back and cross locks so true 4 wheel drive

 

[V8Druid]

Mogman................ well why not
I used to run unimogs had 3 in total, the last one being a u1700 but had it opened up on the pump and fitted an intercooler so boosted it to 210 hp was a great truck, would out pull any tractor at the time on the road and field as long as I could get grip had diff locks front and Back and cross locks so true 4 wheel drive
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what's the old Coles in the third pic Mog ? 12/14 Hydra or 15/18 ?

 

[Mogman]

what's the old Coles in the third pic Mog ? 12/14 Hydra ?

Not sure that picture was taken 15 years ago

 

[V8Druid]

Not sure that picture was taken 15 years ago

ah right .... thought it might have been summat you an' Leaky ran

 

[Mogman]

ah right .... thought it might have been summat you an' Leaky ran

That picture was taken in a pals yard who made them hook lift trailers actually having a meeting with the new owner of the yard (not been used for over 10 years) about removing all the buildings

 

[V8Druid]

That picture was taken in a pals yard who made them hook lift trailers actually having a meeting with the new owner of the yard (not been used for over 10 years) about removing all the buildings

It's a small world, eh

 

[Nick...]

It’s my name.use it everywhere
Nick...

 

[V8Druid]

It’s my name.use it everywhere
Nick...

PMSL Classic

 

[TiltyShaun]

Just made it up for this forum!!

 

[pettsy]

Nickname derived from surname

 

[tinydigger]

always been called tiny as i am 6ft10ish and the wrong side of 20 stone. Worked at my dream job for a while at a local horse sanctuary one day was working with my boss as he drove a 8 ton jcb went at stood by the cab to speak to him and one of the girls who looked after the horses shouted "fecking hell tiny even that digger is small next to you" and since then it has kinda stuck

 

[Quattromike]

Car related for me too. Derived from a car and my name. Not my first car. Not my current car but possibly the one of most memories. Plus it's a handle I use on other forums and online socsh.

 

[Powerfab]

Mine is based on my avatar. It was a Powerfab 125WT, bought from PV Dobson in Cumbria and shipped across to N. Ireland.

It's the first "digger" I bought for myself, stripped, rebuilt and repainted. Did a fair bit of landscaping with it as well as several extension foundations, with no access but for a doorway . The wheels would come off and walk through a 2' 6" doorway. Option would have been a spade and barrows.

I recovered the purchase cost on those foundation jobs and then sold it on for more than I bought it for. Probably the only time I've made money on machinery!

I just figured it was a good user name as unlikely that too many would be using it.

 

[Shovelhands]

Mine was a nickname given by a few mates years ago, it just sort if stuck with a few of them. When I joined CEF, I couldn’t think of anything original, and the shovel part of the nickname seemed to suit a construction forum, so I went for that. Another nickname I had was Pugger, as I was right into Peugeot 205 Gti’s back then, I still have a few, and Pugger became a much used nickname, some people didn’t actually know my real name, one of my best mates mother still calls me Pugger ! But Pugger didn’t seem appropriate for a Construction forum.

I’ve since used Shovelhands on a few forums now.

Ironically very few people use that nickname for me in real life anymore, but I still get call Pugger......

 

[Left hooker]

Mine ( left hooker ) was same user name I had from a couple car forum's as I ran a left hand drive sapphire cosworth

then used it on cef as you sit on the left in 360's so felt right using the name

 

[modelman093]

LDK (long distance kiddy),a muckshifting term from the70’s, 80’s and probably later. I was always a traveling man, but after going international for thirty odd years and doing more travelling than I had ever imagined, I figured I’d earned the handle..

Roddy Drew's opening preamble to McAlpine's Fusiliers refers to "you pincher laddys and you long distance men " So what's the meaning of Pincher Laddy

 

[V8Druid]

always been called tiny as i am 6ft10ish and the wrong side of 20 stone. Worked at my dream job for a while at a local horse sanctuary one day was working with my boss as he drove a 8 ton jcb went at stood by the cab to speak to him and one of the girls who looked after the horses shouted "fecking hell tiny even that digger is small next to you" and since then it has kinda stuck

Sorry Andy ..... you gotta have this in here .... it is such a great picture .... you 'wearing' a micro .... makes me smile every time I see it