Druid's 'Drema's Druidfab Attachments !!

**#961** » 23:48:59, 02-07-2018

so ..... the GRINDER .....

A little bubble wrap would've saved the paint scuffs!! :sad:

... on what was otherwise a new machine !! :vissla:

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as good as new otherwise and has had virtually no use ... on just aluminium :thumme:

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bit of a handful to get back in one piece ... on yer own, but got it stood up ... :vissla:

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I'd be willing to bet my left nut this is the sum total of material removed with this lil' peach .... :grin:

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the paint's still in the bottom of the collector bucket ..... :cool:

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even the work table still had most of the paint still attached.. :smile:

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belt off to inspect the graphite impregnated platten covering and rollers :thumme:

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rule no 1 ...... keep the rollers clean and free of build up .... :vissla:

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this is the secret to the belts survival ... the serated, soft front wheel ... :thummar:

allows flex of the belt's surface and stops it tearing ! :vissla:

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keeping the wheels clean stops the lil' bugger vibrating

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All in all ..... one very happy druid :hurra:

..... would've run it up, but got collared by SWMBO for a few 'tasks' .... so that put paid to the rest of the day !! :sad:

**#962** » 00:12:07, 03-07-2018

the next few days were a looong couple of days ....Shem and Co. arrived Thursday evening, which was nice. :cool:

Shem not sleeping all Thursday night wasn't so good :sad:

..... especially as he kept most of the rest of us awake with him ..... well me anyway and his mum ... Pam slept like the dead and his dad managed most of the night too. :huh:

Josh was off on his mate's 'stag' weekend on the Friday (he's best man), so after a shopping expedition for provisions to feed seventeen of 'em for the weekend, he departed.
Beautiful day so the rest of us, including Clara and her mum went out to a very clever piece of 'farm diversification' 'bout 10 miles away. :cool:

Fair play to them they have it sussed ..... bloody sight easier than mucking out and milking. :grin:

lots of kiddies play areas, pedal go karts and track, zip wires, swings, trampolines, bouncy castles, loads of 'playground type' equipment, cafe, climbing frames, ball pits, squidgy soft equipment, you name it they had it sussed ... :thummar:

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kept the kids (and Pam) amused for hours .... that and a picnic, plus all the animals to feed ...... :vissla:

I have to say I was impressed ... well organised, sensibly priced and an all in one, everything in job!! :thummar:

I was less impressed when, by about eight in the evening, my 'hayfever' type allergy (we have no idea of specific triggers for it) had gone sub orbital. :sad:

Worst I've had in maybe two years!! :aaargh:

Had to be something there, which set it off, but was getting through the toilet rolls at a rate of knots and sod all of me various med.s was touching it. :aaargh:

yet another virtually sleepless night for me - sneezing, sniffing, snorting, snozz blowing all night, barely able to breathe !! :sad:

I was wrecked in the morning, but it had abated to a degree ... a small degree. :vissla:

My mate's funeral was at three and I was bearing ... "see how I am by the time we get there Pam" really not wanting to cry off, on the duty. :sad:

I swear to you guys .... I walked into that church yard and was like I'd never had an issue :uupps:

...... clear as a bell, head totally sorted!!!! Not a sniffle, all the time we were there.!!!!!!! :vissla:

Mart arrived in style, bang on three ...... to about five hundred or so friends and family waiting to 'see him off'. :sad:

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was either gonna be this, or the bonnet of a County; he'd been a timber man most of his working life, in one form or another, and was the bollox on a County, :thumme:

hauling timber out of some pretty inaccessible/ridiculous spots round here, with his own machine. :vissla:

We settled on this ... damned near new, relatively clean and Mart had been admiring it only a few days before his accident. :vissla:

His last 'flight' / off load :sad:

(Courtesy of a Kesla and a brand new Cranab) :cool:

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before we carried him in ........ and back out an hour or so later, to a 4 metre hole :sad:

It'd been a ****ing long couple of days !!!! :sad:

........and the nose ........ was a right PITFA the rest of the afternoon and evening ...... :aaargh:

Make of that, what you will ..... me, well I really don't know, :???:

but I got to carry my oldest friend, as he'd have wanted, shoulder high, with five other of our mutual friends :sad:

I felt very uncomfortable, taking those couple of pix, but did it mainly for his wife and brother. I really hope that someone got some better ones for them. :vissla:

No question, he had a great send off and one he'd have been proud of ! :smile:

head hit the pillow that night and I was gone ..... unconscious for nine hours ... I never get that much sleep and felt a lot less 'zombie like' for it.

Pam's had a 'family party' day organised, kicking off early afternoon, on the Sunday,(next day) to celebrate her 'elderly farmer' cousins 80th :thumme:

.... if the ol' bugger showed up...he knew now't about it and his bro was going to be bringing him on the pretext of a quick cuppa at Pam's :grin:

it was going to be lunch at a local 'eatery' he likes, but the 10 days notice wasn't enough for his busy diary and no-one could make it the following w/end, so they were all descending on us, 'bout half two.

was gonna be a.n.other loooooooong-ish day :huh:

And it were !!

the lil' kids had a whale of a time in the sunshine :grin:

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the bigger kids had an equally good time, playing with the little 'uns and 'the wrinklies' jus' kicked back ..... LOL :skratta3:

over-spill car park worked fine ... :grin:

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couldn't see the cars from the drive with 'em up there and Ken had no idea when he arrived ..... :cool:

we all sat about and talked the usual shit .. ate lots of nice things and them that imbibed got slightly pissed ..... :grin:

birthday boy got one of Pam's cakes ..... :thummar:

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and Clara blagged a new balloon :grin:

we were well and truly knackered, by the time they'd all gone and we'd cleared up ..... were then treated to one of Werngounsel's finest sunsets ... :cool:

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and another brahma the next night too ..... hell it had been a hot day!! :vissla:

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been ripping the tish out of some rock that afternoon and gotten 'shot' of another seven loads, before treatment stopped play!! :sad:

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did manage to rip out a load ready for the morning .... :thumme:

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and for once .... and hoped I was not tempting fate .... left her sat ready for the morning .....

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was a bloody warm day again ..... oil temp up to 60, nudging 70 later and the sticks have been bloody hot to hang on to !!! :eek:

was thinking we might have the Akerman out to play 'tomorrow', with them big Bofors teef :grin:

.... got a stubborn bit that did not wanna play ball !! :aaargh:

the gateway I gave some attention to a few weeks ago, looked reasonable, when I went up with some more fill ..... and there's now several piles sat around it ready to tidy it up a bit more, 'fore getting about 30 ton of rock judiciously spread about to top off with . :thummar:

Talking to one of the local farmers .... word is, the weather is set to hold like this for July, August and maybe even September ... talk of another '76 summer (for those that can remember it) ... for them that can't ... 'twere a mega summer !! :thummar:

**#963** » 01:01:49, 03-07-2018

right ..... so we're up to the 27th June .....

'the ramp' took a pasting again .....
blade was down not for stability, but to see WTF I was doing..... right in the sight line !! :sad:

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and came down off what was left of it, for the last time, that afternoon .... :thumme:

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to turn my attentions to it from t'other direction ... :smile:

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needed to sort out the 'larger' lumps 'tomorrow', before 'ossing' it off up the field, to that gateway ..... :grin:

spoke to the guy that afternoon about stockpiling all the rock there for future usage :vissla:

.... shame to just bury it all, elsewhere, which he agreed with. Free stone is not to be sniffed at ..... by a farmer !! :grin:

only got six of these out ......

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we had a Clara day that day, so lucky to be doing anything !! :eek:

.... rip a load, stick it in the dumper, then give Pam a half hour 'breather' with the little 'un :grin:

... she has been turbo charged ... must be solar powered? :???:

!! then go empty it and ....... repeat!! :skratta3:

six of them's a fair pile though ...... :thummar:

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and more to get on top of that again the following day. Hell it'd been a warm one yet again !! Hotter 'tomorrow', apparently :vissla:

Loads more pix in the bucket, if anyone's interested !!
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managed another seven loads last thursday ..... takes time to rip it out and break it up to usable sizes ..... :huh:

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then got started on the bottom level :thumme:

... the layer I'm sat on is some quite decent hard stone and is in a layer about 8-10" thick, in blocks, so'll be coming up carefully :thummar:

.... might well be able to use a lot of it :smile:

... more mud stone under that and then a layer of boulders :eek:

..... hopefully will not be getting down that far / having to disturb any of those lil' sods. :sad:

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'chanced my arm' again and left her sat thursday night ...... really could not see it raining on us :vissla:

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pity the bed is at such a queer angle, but at least it dips in the right direction :thumme:

friday was a crud shifting day, so's I can have a clear run through on the soil front, to get down to yet more rock layers ..... :vissla:

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unreal how long these things take to get done :sad:

.... had to have a bit of a re-juggle on the floor first though
can see the rock layers quite well there .. :vissla:

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not a lot left to re-home ..... dirt day saturday, to start the day off, at least :thumme:

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A certain fast moving, highly intelligent, night vision equipped, furry quadruped was a total PITA saturday

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he settled there eventually, for close on an hour, oblivious to / totally ignoring me working away above his head !!

was a late-ish start, after Pam collared me for some jam making assistance ... :vissla:

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picked and processed, within 24 hrs ..... :thumme:

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the remnants .... :grin:

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due to the fact that she 'under estimated' the weight and amount of sugar required (bought) to go with 'em all in the pan :???:

.... more sugar required ..... her garden's been doing well so far, this year ..... but we're having to compete with 'cat flap' squirrel and his butties, on the strawberry front :aaargh:

..... and nice they were too, Saturday evening!! :eat:

I've dug up a new pet rock ....... :lmao:

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Lil' bar steward caused me some grief , trying to dig, then work, around it ..... could not persuade it into/onto the bucket, so pushed it out the way a bit and got it with the forks, last thing in the evening. :huh:

not often I'm up on two wheels, cross chassis, at such a short reach !! She'll do a stuffed dumpy bag full of 3/4" to dust, full stretch over the side on the forks and stay on 4 wheels .... this was HEAVY!! :eek:

I wanna meet the tw*t who buried it !!!! :aaargh:

as said Saturday was a rip into the remaining dirt / bank day ....

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and found a respectable number of extraneous rocks in the process .. together with all sorts o' crap ..... :sad:

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including the one above :eek:

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which was a right PITA ...

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and did not wanna go in or on the bucket !!
A surprisingly low tally of only eight very stuffed dumper loads, but didn't get cracking til noon. :vissla:

taxed the car .... sorted some bills, shifted some funds about to deal with them and the Visa bill, few other essentials and the morning had vanished ... oh and also had to deal with ....... :vissla:

Pallet2ship/Pallex .....

bought this last Wednesday .....

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Double pallet booked for Saturdayday morning to collect it and fetch it home from Suffolk

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have had several of these over the years and a damned good saw they are too. :cool:

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sold my last one, when I cleared the w/shop out, for a grand. 'Bout what they usually make. :vissla:

This for 400 quid was a steal, even with the 120 bucks to get the lil' sod home. :huh:

17" x 13" cut cap. on the square ... a respectable size and they're a good mitre saw too. :thumme:

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Anyway .... phone call this morning at ten to eight .... the seller .... he'd had the shipping label I sent him and he'd just noticed he'd supplied the wrong collection address ...... FFS ! :aaargh:

... that was his old yard and the saw was at his new yard. :aaargh:

so after a few emails, messages on their (Pallet2ship's) system and a couple of phone calls, I eventually managed to re-direct them to the right address. :thummar:

TBF the guy I spoke to was very good and got it sorted .. reckoned it'd still get collected today. :hurra:

so that consumed a couple of hours first thing, before moving on to all the other 'end of the month' stuff !!!

also managed to find yet another Lump!!

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must've chased the lil b'stard around the floor for ten minutes trying to get it in the bucket ... eventually up-ended it, sat the bucket over it and scooped it up ... lil' sod!!

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oh and there was this one too .... :grin:

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My day didn't go quite as planned that morning though .............

jumped in her to refuel her, picked the boom, went to swing her around ....... and wasn't having any of it :sad:

... slew brake solidly on !! :aaargh:

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very lucky I'd left her parked, so's I could get under the cab, just about [mental note to self - NEVER, EVER leave her cross carriage]
Back belly plate off, in search of the five way servo distribution solenoid valve block :sad:

.... knew which one I was after, having been here before [sooome time ago]. :vissla:

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voltage at the plug .... open circuit on the solenoid coil ..... bugger !! :aaargh:

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too late to catch Hydrema by now, so a quick measure up and rang Leigh at Raglan on the off chance they might have a coil or a valve I could rob one off 'til I / he could get a new one. ....... nope :sad:

..... but he could have me one for tomorrow :thummar:

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Hmmmm ..... so what could I do for a pro tem measure .. sun's out and I wanted to get on ...... think !!! :huh:

Dived underneath her in search of the leg solenoid valves .... could live without them for a few days :grin:

... rarely use em, 'cept to level up sometimes .... :huh:

Bugger -- totally different coils :aaargh:

Front belly plate off in search of the lo/hi speed change over valve .... different coils again :aaargh:

There's five of these on this valve block .. WTF could I rob that I didn't need/could do without for a few days? ...... :???:

Axle locks :???:

.... could use the blade ... nope, having thought about it, the solenoid keeps the axle unlocked .... Bugger again!! :aaargh:

so half an hour studying the leccy diagrams and hydraulic schematics .. eureka ... sort of. :thummar:

The crawler range is selected by one of these valves :vissla:

..... could either live without it - or with it permanently engaged :vissla:

... whichever it was, without the coil activating it :???:

.... transpires I now have no crawler, 'til me new coil arrives. :grin:

took some getting at and off !! :aaargh:

been replaced at some point and a little vaseline, at that time, would've made life a lot easier to get the sod off. :sad:

Eventually got it all back together - minus a crawler coil - and we now had slew and travel, but no crawler ranges :vissla:

.... I was mobile and workable. :hurra:

time to stick some cherry in her with that lovely new pump I bought :grin:

....that worked fine!! :thummar:

**#964** » 01:32:37, 03-07-2018

Clara'd arrived by now and had to do some grand dad-ing for a while, :vissla:

but did get an hour 'tween five and six to give yon bank a bit of attention and rough it out some. :thumme:

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trouble was the shite piled up rather quickly and spent quite a bit of time persuading those rocks above, out of the batter and then refilling the not inconsiderable hole they left, when I eventually persuaded the buggers out!! :aaargh:

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this had been on the agenda for the morning's adventures and said shite would've gone straight in't dumper and away, so getting a view of the batter was just a tad impeded, once it had mounded up ... hence just roughing it out for now. :vissla:

Tea and Clara put paid to any further progress at six, so parked her up for the night and spent some more time with the little un :grin:

.... she is off to Vietnam Sunday night for two weeks to see her 'other' grand-dad, who's working out there currently.... :vissla:

what is it about kids and dirt? ..... :grin:

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...... she likes nothing better than playing in it!! :thummar:

her little set of steps .... up, down, up, down -- etc.!! :grin:

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now she's swept that rock bed off a bit, you can see the joints quite nicely :smile:

... hoping for some very respectable stone out of that bed and what's under it, at the high point, can get ripped out and used to fill the lower spot further in !! :thumme:

Pam's seen the new 'pet rocks' and is already dreaming up summat to create me some more work, with them !!!! :huh:

I see another rockery coming on !! :vissla:

we are however better equipped to handle the job, than when the first one got did :smile:

.... Jake and chain .... he didn't do too badly though :grin:

Out of curiosity......I got the broom out after tea yesterday evening .....

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going to be some nice lumps to be had in that lot :grin:

Ground must've had some serious movement over the millenia, since these beds got laid down, to have canted them at the angles they're sat at. :eek:

Very short night saturday night :sad:

.... Clara to stay :grin:

... 02.30 and I can hear GRAND DAD ... GRANDDAD :myzsko:

.. I'd only been asleep an hour. :sad:

Got her another 'bedtime' bottle of milk, settled her down and Pam jumped in with her :vissla:

..... 05.30, she's in with me, wide awake and wanting to go outside to play in her car :huh:

..... Could not do this seven nights a week ... don't know HTF Vicki copes with the sleep deprivation !!!!! :vissla:

went off with her mum early Sunday afternoon ... won't see her again for two weeks :sad:

.. seems odd, as we see so much of her. :vissla:

So mowing time, as, being a Sunday, wasn't allowed to 'play' with me dirt move :aaargh:

.... the Dane is probably on a par with the 'Drema in the noise stakes, :grin:

however

... tough; :skratta3:

grass beside the drive needed cutting, followed by the Countax for the lawn. :huh:

then had to weld the little Mountfields handle back together, fore I could set to all the smaller bits. :vissla:

Came away in her hand apparently !!! :huh:

TBF .. it's been welded once before, but the parent material had parted company with the weld repair - bloody thin ol' tat. :sad:

All grass got suitably massacred and with the rate it isn't growing currently, won't need doing for another week hopefully. :thummar:

So .... Monday morning was going to be ........ shot to sh1t :sad:

... Pam went off to Plymouth for the week to spend time with Josh and Shem; :smile:

his mum's first week back in school after maternity leave, :vissla:

so was an early treatment this morning, 'fore she departed ....
then it was lookout dirt bank :grin:

... got a whole week to myself to make a real dent in the task ...... :cool:

it had better not ****ing rain this week :aaargh:

and so we are up to date, save for today's escapades .....

as said .... was two o'clock 'fore i got to it ....

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if it isn't the cat ..... it's Ber rrrrt the pheasant getting in the way

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think he liked the cool soil I was turning over :vissla:

been another swelterer today :huh:

five of these down the field ......

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I would really love to get the 'Drema down there, to sort this lot out, but the cross cambers are 'exciting' :eek:

bad enough in the JakieB :sad:

getting the batter into some semblance of order ready for a final trim, once I have that final rock layer out and the floor reasonably squared up :thumme:

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yet more rocks ..... :sad:

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the collection is growing ........... again :eek:

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it's shaping up nicely though ......

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FB message this evening, from Leigh at Raglan, to say me coil is ordered and should be here tomorrow :hurra:

.... 35 quid :thumme:

plus an exorbitant :sad:

15 quid carriage :eek:

...... so that's going to make a hole in the day at some point, while I go fetch that and nip into town for a few essentials ..... like cat food :grin:

.... they're both eating for Wales ATM :huh:

Having crawler back will make life a lot easier for batter trimming

and there you have it ..... up to date at Druid central ...... hoping to get a hell of a lot done this week :thummar:

**#965** » 09:46:28, 03-07-2018

Rock on

**#966** » 17:29:44, 03-07-2018

That´s quite a "catch up" ..... :buga:

Nice "send off" you got arranged for your late friend. My condolences, all dough I newer knew him.

**#967** » 03:12:38, 04-07-2018

jörgen.ottosson skrev:That´s quite a "catch up" .....

Nice "send off" you got arranged for your late friend. My condolences, all dough I newer knew him.

thank you Jörgen :bira:

..... I think we did him proud :thummar:

..... just a bit too soon though :sad:

My small circle of close friends gets ever smaller :sad:

**#968** » 03:24:09, 04-07-2018

rang this morning as instructed to see what time it'd be in :thumme:

... Marty on the phone according to 'Richard' .... he'll call me back. :vissla:

Hour later I ring again :sad:

.. got Paul (who's a lot more reliable/switched on) :thumme:

"Mart's on the phone to 'em ATM ... no one told us they'd need a card payment, before they'll ship, yesterday FFS "

"So it won't be arriving today then?? :???:

... in that case order me a second one to come with it ... a spare'd be handy ... would've ordered a second anyway if I'd been called with a price, as promised" :huh:

Nadgered the morning a bit :aaargh:

A nice young lady in Pallet2ship, :smile:

tells me this evening that Pallex will be bringing me my bandsaw tomorrow :hurra:

(their tracking says it's still in Suffolk - - ****ing useless tracking system they have) :aaargh:

. Good job I emailed her and asked this morning ... so no trip out for me tomorrow, 'til that turns up :vissla:

Modified the rock bed strata this morning :grin:

....... looked more like this afterwards !!!!! :grin:

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specifically to get me blade up on it, to load against...... :thumme:

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Took bloody ages to rip that dumper full out. :sad:

Worth the effort though ... loading out the soil was a POP afterwards ... :thummar:

Better not rain tonight .... left her up there !! :eek:

Alex came around tea time and we've spent a few hours creating some bits to mod his Blek :vissla:

...... few holes and a bit of welding to be done and it should be usable. :thumme:

Been trying his Screwfix TCT steel saw this evening

..... impressed, aside from all the hot bits of swarf, coming at you at a rate of knots ... cuts well though :cool:

He managed to capture the elusive 'greater bearded Druid' on the sticks, when he arrived ..... sneaky !! :grin:

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LOL .... not often I'm in front of a camera

**#969** » 03:04:30, 08-07-2018

well the saw arrived ... eventually .. on Thursday afternoon, despite their tracking say it was still in Suffolk !! :uupps:

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God knows what's all over it or what it's been used for, aside from steel ..... looks like it's lived in a cement works !!!!! :huh:

all there though and it'll clean up. :thumme:

acute shortage of lube and seriously dirty .... doubt it's been cleaned in years. :sad:

Standing order in my old place .... nothing to do for ten .... clean a machine down ..... our band-saws were always kept well clean and cared for.

it'll do what it's made for and'll probably outlast me !! :vissla:

spent the Thursday playing with Alex's Blek mod.s ..... he's now desperate to use it ...... :huh:

had to create the mother of jockey wheels for it ..... :smile:

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Sorry no finished item pix :sad:

..... Alex legged it, with it in one of my trailers, about half nine that night, before I remembered to get some snaps.
Mig didn't want to 'perform' ........ 'til I remembered :idee3:

I'd been welding 1,6 and 2mm with it last :huh:

...... worked a lot better for some more juice :grin:

another day shot to sh1t yesterday :aaargh:

.... had to go to town, so thought I'd do it in the morning and crack on afterwards.

Out of all sorts, as we're beyond our usual two weekly-ish shopping expedition :sad:

..... resulted in multiple locations required, which all takes time :vissla:

.... add in the multiple folk I am likely to encounter at each one and it takes a LOT of time. :sad:

combine that with several phone calls from Josh, who was tackling his very first rear wheel cylinder, on his 'run around' ... on his own!! :uupps:

and then finally, just as i'm about to head home, a call from Pam. :vissla:

Vicki's BIL (brother in law - a fitter at the MOT garage) who is/was supposed to be sorting her motor out, this week, while they're away .... it needed a couple of tyres and front brake pads - MOT declined - he's done f**k all about it .... and it was now Friday - a week after it failed !!!! :aaargh:

I'm furious :aaargh:

..... could've sorted this on Monday :huh:

... so stopped off at Vicki's house on the way home ... picked up the fail sheet .. rang a mate to sort it out some tyres in the a.m. and another to order some pads for this morning too.

Tyres - "fine - no prob.s - see you tomorrow"
Pads - "er, no stock, try and get 'em for the morning!"
was gonna do the pads while it was on the two poster having its booties fitted. Grrr! :sad:

rang Pam back -" sorted ... when is the ticket out on it" ???
30th June -- FFS .... daren't drive it to tyre place .... ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) camera and I'd be bollo-ed, so when Pam got back last night we had to shoot down and grab it, so's I could whip the wheels off it in the a.m. today and go get 'em shod. :vissla:

Pick up the pads, hopefully on the way back and do 'em on the floor, :sad:

so I can hopefully get summat done for me too later in the day.!!!!!!!

Oh and a trip to Raglan to get me solenoid coils too, if I can catch 'em between the rest of the running around. :huh:

By the time i'd got me best working rags on yesterday afternoon, put all the shopping away, had summat to scoff and got out there, the day was buggered!! :sad:

So greased the old girl head to toe and thought I'd give the rock layer a bit of a separating and get some of it on some pallets, out the way. :thumme:

bar-ing 'em apart was the easy bit .... getting some of the lumps onto a pallet was a different story!! :uupps:

Didn't look to see exactly how hot it was, but it was bloody hot! :huh:

one pallet full was enough for me yesterday !! :thumme:

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1200 x 1000 x 850 -- I make that about a cube of rock ... might put a couple of bands around that, 'fore I try and pick it up

the rock/rubble pile, well two piles, actually, :vissla:

is growing once again :sad:

- these are going to have to see some destructive forces exerted on 'em, to reduce some of these to more rubble sized bits !! :vissla:

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I'm getting within sight of 'the finish line' :hurra:

...... everything else seems to be conspiring against me reaching it ATM !!!!!! :sad:

then of course it's bloody Sunday .... on Sunday!!!!! :aaargh:

Argh!!!!!!!! :sad:

pic off the top of a box ...... :smile:

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rock 'pavement' layer separates real easy

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it's coming :vissla:

... that mud-stone layer is going to take some ripping out :sad:

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them forks .... they're me spare 4 ton set !! :grin:

According to Google ..... there's circa 2.4t on there ...... :eek:

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can well believe it .... 'tis bloody heavy !!! :vissla:

stashed it out the way for now .... regretting giving away me roll of pallet wrap !! :sad:

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then peeled up a bit more for palletising ..... :thummar:

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..... the easy way !! :grin:

suddenly looking a lot bigger with that 'pavement' ripped up a bit :cool:

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not a lot did today though, after a morning's running around sorting bits for Vicki's car and some/a lot of the afternoon attaching 'em. :sad:

Easiest set of pads I've ever fitted ... really neat set up !! :cool:

did manage to get to Raglan, as a last call, just before they shut at lunchtime, to pick up me coils .... looked good ... get one on tomorrow.

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Also managed to have a stop of at Barnesy's 'digger emporium', to eye ball a machine for a mate, on the way back and actually caught up with the man himself, for a change ... and managed to tie him down to a time to go take a look see what he's got in the way of 4 in 1s .... several to choose from apparently !! :grin:

Will go see him one evening next week :thummar:

**#970** » 10:28:17, 08-07-2018

Newer the less You got some of Your "to to list" shortend... :thumme:

( sure take its tole to be a popular "mate" when i comes to shorten other peoples lists .... :myzsko:

)

Back at it! :coffee:

**#971** » 13:43:17, 08-07-2018

that's a fact Jörgen :sad:

..... always far too much to do :uupps:

.... mostly for other people :vissla:

**#972** » 01:17:56, 09-07-2018

According to my experience, I have more to do now as being retired, than when I ran a company with 8 employees, and a lot of travel abroad, as we exported around 80% of what we manufactured.......... :svettas:

**#973** » 02:20:03, 09-07-2018

lagun49 skrev:According to my experience, I have more to do now as being retired, than when I ran a company with 8 employees, and a lot of travel abroad, as we exported around 80% of what we manufactured..........

Absolutely Boyo ....... don't honestly know how I found time to go to work for 10 or 11 hours a day, six days a week :eek:

never been so busy or in such demand :grin:

**#974** » 01:58:35, 10-07-2018

bit of a rant :myzsko:

Been having squealy/sticky rear brake issues on the P38 last few times it's been out, so had the wheels off it sunday for a shufty, expecting to find stuck sliders or enough crap/rust build up around the calipers to be causing a sticking issue. :vissla:

All free ... plenty of crap but not stuck and pistons returning fine :confused:

Pulled the calipers off and .......... the Mintex pads have de-laminated :mad:

friction and backing are no longer working in perfect harmony :huh:

fitted Aug. 2014 and done little mileage ... pads at circa 70% and I am not hard on the pedal. I don't do a great deal of miles these days.

If the backs are in this state the fronts are getting changed too!!!!! :aaargh:

anyway, aside from the issue of their demise, what really pissed me off today was the cost of their replacements.

In '14 both axles were 21 quid to sort, so WTF, if our inflation rate has been 3-5% annually, over the last 4 years, did it cost me 62 quid for two sets of Mintex pads today, FFS???? :eek:

And while I'm on a roll ...... WTF has butter gone from 80p to £1-80 in the same space of time??????
not quite the trebling of the pads, but FFS ..... well over doubled. :aaargh:

3-5% A.I.R. ..... pull the other one!!

what've your prices been like over the last 4 years guys ?

**#975** » 02:01:26, 10-07-2018

One to make you smile :grin:

..... message from Vicki in Vietnam this morning ...... :vissla:

" Last night we were walking through the town after dinner and Clara started shouting 'look, a rubber duck'.
We had no idea what she was on about - until I spotted a digger just like yours in grey not yellow. On wheels not tracks.
Amazing what she knows and remembers!! " :uupps:

The Jake is no longer 'other one digger', but JCB now :grin:

I'm amazed by it, as I doubt if I have referred to the 'Drema as a rubber duck more than a handful of times, if that :vissla:

quite remarkable what she remembers, love her :grin: