Druid's 'Drema's Druidfab Attachments !!

**#976** » 10:20:49, 10-07-2018

...you better mind what you say around children, they tend to have quite some delay on there "echo" :lmao:

**#977** » 02:38:47, 11-07-2018

jörgen.ottosson skrev:...you better mind what you say around children, they tend to have quite some delay on there "echo"

Oh Yeh

...... I am very careful ....
"shit" has become "sugar" :vissla:

and I manage to curb most other expletives :thumme:

....

TBH Pam is a lot worse than me at 'biting her tongue' and refraining from using 'choice phrases' :skratta3:

Clara tripped over a couple of weeks ago and as I got to her to pick her up, I'll swear she was quietly muttering 'Shit', as I bent down to her :lmao:

....... but I couldn't be 100% :vissla:

**#978** » 10:12:03, 11-07-2018

We can teach her a little ... if you want. :lmao:

or not.

**#979** » 11:12:12, 11-07-2018

LOL Igel

she'll have to improve her reading skills first :vissla:

**#980** » 22:36:35, 15-07-2018

getting back to the brake pads for a minute ..... :vissla:

I was doubly pissed off, as I've dealt with these guys since they opened in Aber 30 odd years ago and have always tried to patronise them, where possible. .... Keep it local ! :thumme:

Shouldn't have dealt with a minion on the phone .... so was waiting for the 'boss' to call me back when he was in .... we are friends and even socialise together. :smile:

10% for the convenience, 'praps, but 100% is taking the piss. Was gonna be surprised if 'the situation' wasn't rectified

after a conversation ..... me Mintexs were now £45 instead of the ultra silly 65 quid ..... was still a tenner more than available elsewhere but not worth the argument, or falling out over ..... but duly stored in the memory banks for again :huh:

bad news for Ferodo lovers when I got to changing the pads .... :uupps:

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must've not had any Mintex the day I bought these !!!!

as said ..... pads at about 70% wear-wise ...... life-wise .... totally fooked

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having had the fronts off and checked as well ..... they were fine ??? :???:

I have had a pad separate once before ... long time ago and was standing on 'em at the time, from some seeeeerious speed, when some Richard Cranium decided to stop, for no known reason, in the middle of a dual carriage way!!! *rick !! ..... :aaargh:

new underwear job that was, when the brake pedal disappeared to the floor ..... a few pumps later and retardation was restored, all be it with some very loud metal to metal screaching from the OSF caliper !!!! :sad:

got bloody rained on thursday night :sad:

.... dawn chorus woke me up, as usual at five to four :sad:

.... with the windows wide open ATM, they're hard to miss and the rain started just after. Had stopped by eight, but left anything brown and dusty decidedly sticky under foot - or wheel !! So that knackered the morning!! :huh:

so P38 went in the air, as above and sorted the pad issues, as I wanted/was in need of some 'cherry'.
Got her sorted ..... and took some pix :grin:

... then went off for some fuel. :thumme:

by the time I'd gotten back, filled the 'Drema and Thwaites up, off loaded the drum onto the floor and topped up the old girl with Plantohyd, things were looking a lot dryer, but the day was knackered. :sad:

while i had her running, I thought I'd give the Meba a lift onto the bench . :vissla:

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needed to sort a wiring issue ..... looks to have had, (I'm guessing), a key switch robbed off it! :aaargh:

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and it was going to be a bloody sight easier to do up there, than grovelling on the floor :smile:

...... it was too ..... job sorted that evening after tea. :thumme:

Just had to get a chassis plug attached and wired into it and could give her a try.
could also do with a few more hours spent on the cleaning front .... God knows what's all over it !! :eek:

Me muck shift/dig is progressing well :thummar:

as said above .... leccy spaghetti all back as it should be :thumme:

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and chassis plug fitted. :hurra:

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these were originally fitted with a simple push button on/off .. when the saw finished a cut and dropped to its rest a set-able button 'push' pressed the stop button.....

someone's obviously had issues with the original set up and has replaced the original switch gear with a proximity sensor, for the 'stop at rest'/cut finished, auto shut off ..... very fancy and highly complex in the 'box of tricks' dept. :eek:

... took a bit of sussing :vissla:

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My mate Serge, the genny man, came around for a few hours yesterday morning with some distilled water for me, :thumme:

to change out the coolant in the genny. Having sorted that, we ran her up to temp. to check for leaks, etc.!! :vissla:

Whilst she was running seemed like a good opportunity to give the saw a try .... runs sweet as a nut ... and in the right direction :smile:

- first time :hurra:

... which is unusual for 3 ph ..... sod's law usually dictates the need for a wire swap. :vissla:

Also ran up the belt grinder which runs as you'd expect ..... other than backwards, initially :sad:

...... quick swap in the extension cable for now, but will return that to std and alter the phases in the grinder's control box, when I've time ... keep it all on a std pattern. :thummar:

**#981** » 23:07:24, 15-07-2018

as I've already said ... me digging's been progressing ... :thummar:

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and been finding plenty more rocks .... in all shapes and sizes.... :eek:

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including one large boulder, which has obviously come out of the boulder field at some point in the past ...... then buried up in that bank !!!! a good 12 ft above the boulder field level ..... :huh:

t'were a bit of a lump ..... :eek:

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..... on the forks !!

but makes a good fork rest .....

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have been ripping out some of the rock bed, Thursday afternoon and Friday morning .... :vissla:

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the bigger lumps have been taking free fall lessons ..... and coming apart nicely

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as you can see from the first pic .... we've had a few 'showers' the last few days :sad:

..... 'kin monsoon type showers :aaargh:

... short and sharp !! :huh:

Just before one of said 'showers', Friday lunchtime, I was ripping into it when I suddenly thought :vissla:

.... "I can smell plantohyd!" :eek:

.... usually means one thing .... if haven't already seen it :???:

.... oil is escaping somewhere to atmosphere !!! :aaargh:

jumped out .... looked under her ... sod all :???:

.... walked around her to see a small fountain down in the turntable region ... back in and off PDQ !! :huh:

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I could smell it and sure as hell see it, but was f***ed if I could see exactly where it was originating from :???:

..... looked for ages .... but no obvious signs, so had to run her up again and try to spot it ..... :sad:

OK .. nailed to approx. region it was spraying from, but COULD NOT see exactly WTF it was spurting from ..... had to be a pipe from the two engine mounted pumps for the servos and the brakes/steering as it was continuous.

delved through 3 layers of pipes, looking, but again now't obvious :huh:

...... finally having tied up two layers to get a look at the third 'layer' I still had to run her up another twice to isolate the culprit :sad:

...... What a b****rd place to go ..!!!! :aaargh:

Brake / steering pump pressure line to the pedal and orbital ..... under the sump, through the off side, side frame, across the turntable with 5 others, into a rat's nest of servo pipes, etc., exiting through the nearside, side frame, under the cab, then full length to the front of the cab floor and to the brake pedal .... f**k!!!! :sad:

remember my 'note to self' ... not so long back :vissla:

.... well she'd chosen to play silly buggers, cross chassis!!!! :sad:

good job I'm relatively slim and slender, 'cos I've had to squeeze into some pretty tight gaps/spaces, to get at the lil' sod. :sad:

reckon this must be one of those 'first fit' pipes when they build 'em :vissla:

.... unreal location for the union .... "HTF am I going to get a spanner in there" :???:

after finally tracing the route of the exact pipe ????? :huh:

lying there, staring at this in disbelief and noticed the head light next to it .. aha!!!!! :idee3:

light out and there it was .... still pretty tight but suddenly a whole lot more accessible and visible ..... :thummar:

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eventually got this 12 foot (4mtr) pipe off about 6.15 Friday night .... ready for a trip to Raglan Saturday morning!!! :vissla:

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spent the rest of the evening after tea .... cleaning the turntable out of all the accumulated crap .. :vissla:

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hoovers are wonderful weapons for nigh on inaccessible shite :thumme:

and no that's not Pam's best hoover :eek:

.... tha's my 'dirty' one usually reserved for boiler servicing :grin:

..... it did well Friday night coping with God knows what, altogether!!! :huh:

In Raglan ready for opening at 9.00 yesterday morning :thumme:

.... hose made, two drums of hyd. for Alex, while I was there, in't car and back by ten, in time for Serge's arrival at 10.30. :thummar:

as said, Genny partially serviced,... oil & filter's not long been done :cool:

... Pam and Serge's other half, Jane, went off for a walk, whilst we sorted that and set the world to rights :grin:

.... followed by a leisurely lunch in the sun, when the girls got back and joined, just in the nick of time, for a share, by Alex, who'd called by to collect his oil ! :eat:

Serge and Jane had to shoot off after lunch ... 'bout three and I set to, getting the pipe back into spot on't 'Drema, :vissla:

assisted by Mr Playle (Alex), feeding it in, as I threaded it into some very silly/tight/bloody stupid locations :aaargh:

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my right arm has paid the price!!!!! Some bloody sharp bits under there !!! :eek:

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got bruises everywhere and some very sore ribs, :sad:

from hanging off the bonnet, delving into the turntable, getting the buggered hose out and new one back in. :sad:

Arms could've done with being 6" longer!! :vissla:

would've been a hell of a lot slower going back in, without Alex's assistance yesterday!! :cool:

Total bitch of a job :aaargh:

**#982** » 23:21:40, 15-07-2018

A rarely spotted Alex :skratta3:

...... persuading one end through the side frame, whilst I routed it across the turntable, under several layers of plumbing .... no way was he getting as far under as I'd had to :grin:

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anyway ......it was back on, oil tight and running by five, :thummar:

all reassembled and ready to rock ... or attack rock at least!! :grin:

so after Alex'd departed, it had to have an hour .... :vissla:

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it's coming ....... would've been coming again today too :smile:

..... if it wasn't 'bloody Sunday' :aaargh:

Clara and Co. were back into Heathrow last night/this morning about 5.00 a.m. :eek:

..... those two weeks in Vietnam went quick!! :sad:

..... so had been expecting a visitation anytime this morning :vissla:

......... they came straight here from Heathrow, as Clara'd been yelling to come here since they got in the car :skratta3:

... got here about half eleven, had a bit of a chill and some brekky, then left Clara with us, whilst they went and unpacked and got sorted!! :vissla:

So a fair chunk of the day's be taken up grand-dad-ing ..... my apprentice/cleaner is back :grin:

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she's also spent a bit o' time chasing granny .................. with a hose pipe :lmao:

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who's gotten a tad wet a few times this afternoon :lmao:

......... as have I ..... :sad:

..... and playing with her favorite toy .... of late :vissla:

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been a glorious day :cool:

managed to fill pallet no 4 in the week :thumme:

.... a 1200mm x 1200mm one this time :eek:

.. run out of 1200mm x 1000mms ..... :vissla:

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and bloody heavy it was too !! :eek:

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started on no. 5 pallet yesterday .... and probably gonna need a few more yet :vissla:

**#983** » 19:23:38, 16-07-2018

amazing stones,
Hard to believe mother nature offers such nice geometrical ready to build stones. quite a gold mine for the stone interested people :thumme:

Are they in a specific layer of the soil ?
Always nice checking on your adventures !
Regards, David

**#984** » 20:58:16, 16-07-2018

A rope at the end of a long winding hose when removing makes it much easier when remount.

**#985** » 02:39:21, 17-07-2018

CountyBruff skrev:A rope at the end of a long winding hose when removing makes it much easier when remount.

I did consider it CB, :vissla:

but there was barely enough room to get the fitting through the one side frame :sad:

...... with a rope attached it would not have come through :huh:

If I'd had a fitting/adaptor, I could have made up an eye to screw into the pipe end fitting to attach a line to ..... but I didn't :sad:

All metric fittings on the Hydrema and varying 'gauges' (light/medium/heavy) .... BSP I have no problems with identifying, just looking at it... metric is a different story :sad:

**#986** » 11:17:49, 17-07-2018

In Sweden we got a fantastic invention called "farmers welding".
It´s an steel/iron wire 1-2mm dia. used to fix about everything till "next time".
My father was a wizzard using it and it held together - until I had to use it,
( and then he knew i mend it properly). :djaevul:

**#987** » 01:22:45, 18-07-2018

CountyBruff skrev:In Sweden we got a fantastic invention called "farmers welding".
It´s an steel/iron wire 1-2mm dia. used to fix about everything till "next time".
My father was a wizzard using it and it held together - until I had to use it,
( and then he knew i mend it properly).

Farmers here aren't quite as advanced as to use a metalurgical solutions :vissla:

..... they use baler twine :grin:

..... for everything :eek:

..... you ain't a farmer if you don't have a few pieces in your pocket ........ in case :skratta3:

same repair principles though .... fix it 'til it goes again :vissla:

Belt

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Button

Gate Latch

3 of a 1001 uses :vissla:

**#988** » 01:40:06, 18-07-2018

Davids Trädvård skrev:amazing stones,
Hard to believe mother nature offers such nice geometrical ready to build stones. quite a gold mine for the stone interested people
Are they in a specific layer of the soil ?
Always nice checking on your adventures !
Regards, David

Apologies for the delay in responding David ..... got you a few pix

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there are others further back in this thread :vissla:

on the top is about 6-800 mm of 'mud stone' a softish conglomerate of all sorts ... still takes a lot of digging up though :sad:

.. then this layer of pretty hard sandstone, 200-300 mm thick, with a very thin layer of a grey/green something ... which is also hard .... not as hard as the sand stone or the mudstone, between them.

under the sandstone layer is another softer mudstone and sand stones mixed in layer, a larger conglomerate which separates easily ... the sand stone in this layer is also pretty bloody hard and I'm guessing it's the layer my barn is built out of. Looks very similar.

Under this is 'the boulder field' .... a layer of green/grey 'grit like' conglomerate boulders ... again plenty of pix further back here. Bloody hard as hell and totally alien to this region. :eek:

As this is a glacial valley, I'd say it's the 'underbelly' of the glacier, left behind as it receded and deposited in a bed of boulders.
closest thing to them that i know of is millstone grit.
under these is clay ... lots of it :grin:

I've no idea what's beneath that as I had no need to go any deeper

Pallet no 5 filled and banded this morning .......

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...... in the foreground, closest pallet. :thumme:

very bloody heavy 1200mm x 1200mm pallet .... maybe 3.5+t ..... no 6 is in the process of getting filled :grin:

As you say ..... an amazing 'pavement' of rectilinear stones :thummar:

**#989** » 09:53:11, 18-07-2018

You load them on pallets, is there a market for these stones - still?

**#990** » 01:49:46, 19-07-2018

yes, very much so CB :thumme:

.... nice rectilinear blocks are hard to come by :vissla:

.... one of the guys on CEF valued the smaller pallets at around 300 quid a pallet (bout 2.4 tonnes..... more for the 1200 squares - like 3.5t.!! :cool:

all I've done today is rip more mudstone out and crush it down :smile:

..... got a bit of a tump mounting up ..... :grin:

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oh ... and a bit more of this ..... :cool:

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these have been testing gravity today :eek:

.... it's fully functional at Druid central :thummar:

.... they don't stay together too well when they land .... :skratta3:

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My co-pilot's had a hard day ...... :sad:

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there's a whole bed of those blocks to come out yet .... :huh:

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but it's coming along .... quietly :thumme:

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the start of no 6 ..... need some more pallets .... a lot more at this rate !!! :vissla:

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these 1200 squares are ideal .... get plenty on the buggers !!! :cool:

It may be a Clara day tomorrow ?? Not sure, but she's gonna have her work cut out brushing up after grand dad, if it is :grin:

,,, hell he's made a mess today !! :vissla:

We also have 4 days of Shem and co. .... up for Josh's best mate's wedding ... Going to be loooong days and short nights .. he's still not sleeping!!!!!