Druid's 'Drema's Druidfab Attachments !!

**#841** » 12:45:51, 23-03-2018

magirus skrev:

what's the Toro like at moving the snow boyo ..... that's the sort of thing i have in mind as an 'investment' / 'insurance' for next year :grin:

do the wheels cope OK? or are tracks better ?? :???:

would imagine it is more maneuverable on wheels :vissla:

has to be better than shoveling :thummar:

I don't have many 'tight' spaces that it would be needed in .... pretty open really .... driveway, etc.

**#842** » 21:57:59, 23-03-2018

i like the mtd

**#843** » 22:04:48, 23-03-2018

gute84 skrev:i like the mtd

yes I quite like the look of that too ... any particular features stand out for you Gute ? anything I should be looking for / avoiding (other than heavy snow fall ) :vissla:

**#844** » 02:31:36, 25-03-2018

well the third lot of snow eventually buggered off and the SSE boys must've been having issues ..... been flying the lines around here for two hours earlier in the week .....

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thought they were coming in for a landing .......

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hell of a job, eh !!

mixed bag of weather this week and been rock sorting, shifting / re-bagging stone and getting it onto pallets so's I could lift it down from the high level, as the rain and Clara days allowed.

Having got it into new bags, no way was I lifting it down, reliant on their straps .... and worse still lifting it about again, when me stonemason turns up to stick it all up.

Local merchants wanted 7 quid, plus VAT, a bag for dumpies .... ten for 30 quid off good ol' fleabay ... tested / certed Oct. '17 ... tha'll do me.

not a lot in the way of pix ....

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two down yesterday, after filling the damned things .....

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and another two today, between interruptions, from the boss.

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Hell didn't it rain last night

my arms are hanging off after bagging that lot ..... and like a swamp underfoot up there !!
.... Followed by a large conflagration to dispose of the bollo-ed bags and various crap.

'Drema's Auto idle been misbehaving this week .... as in not doing as it should. Got to flip the dead man to bring her back to idle ... :aaargh:

I shall have to investigate, that or it's hand throttle cable installation time.
TBH I'd prefer a hand throttle to get a better choice of engine revs ... the two options I use most are 1400 or 1800 rpm ..... reckon 15-1600'd be just right, but not do-able on my dash.

Need to blag another 8 pallets from somewhere, as I've run out of decent pallets to sit the bags on !!

first lamb of the year, in our neighbour's fields, Wednesday ...

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got approaching a dozen now :grin:

Got a few more Houdinis this year too :sad:

..... have rounded up nine of the damned things this week ..... how the hell they jump the fence line, pregnant, is beyond me :eek:

... vertical take off sheep .... they walk up to it, quick glance and they're over it .... they are 'Welsh mountains' though, so explains a lot !! :vissla:

**#845** » 19:07:19, 26-03-2018

V8Druid skrev:
gute84 skrev:i like the mtd

yes I quite like the look of that too ... any particular features stand out for you Gute ? anything I should be looking for / avoiding (other than heavy snow fall )

The normal stuff today with machines like rust

**#846** » 10:50:55, 27-03-2018

gute84 skrev:
V8Druid skrev:
gute84 skrev:i like the mtd

yes I quite like the look of that too ... any particular features stand out for you Gute ? anything I should be looking for / avoiding (other than heavy snow fall )

The normal stuff today with machines like rust

Aye well .... no one paints stuff like they used to :vissla:

.... can't see that water based paints can be much good and the lack of primers/undercoats does not help either :aaargh:

some good gear spoilt for the lack of decent paint :sad:

**#847** » 11:03:26, 27-03-2018

Yard is starting to 'square up' but, gonna need another re-juggle in places :vissla:

.... got more crap that needs tucking at the back, rather than dumping in front of other things ... :sad:

or I'll be forever moving stuff. :huh:

the bags of stone are for a 9" face on the retaining wall, down the side of the driveway, which I'm hoping is going to get started on soon, hence my enthusiasm to have it all accessible :thumme:

Boss had me busy half the day, yesterday . ... filling a bit of a gully between our old driveway and the neighbour's wall ... where we rebuilt/re-erected that fence a while ago. :vissla:

It's a bitch to keep tidy and mow/keep the grass/weeds at bay, so the level needed to come up to a 'mowable' flat surface. :thumme:

Dumpy bag, full of gash stone and another of 20 mm to dust and it's looking better (and flatter). Knackered a lot of my day though, but kept her happy. :huh:

He (the neighbour) has been busy replacing the stock proof fence between our lawn and his field....

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.. not my problem, :grin:

I'm happy to say, least it wasn't, 'til I got earache teatime!! :sad:

We'd already had 'words' about his proposed replacement .... all post and rails, instead of like for like ... std. pig/stock wire and top rail .... :thumme:

he's done a bit of post and multi rail in his garden :sad:

.... looks bloody hideous and SWMBO was not having that !! :aaargh:

Anyway, he'd already taken the piss a bit, by raising the height of it, but it looked OK-ish .... then I came in tea time to see he'd gone and double railed a section, instead of banging in a strand of wire to compensate for his increase in height .... :aaargh:

'Fraid there are going to be more 'words' in the a.m. !!!!!! :huh:

If I get earache, he's gonna share it :sad:

..... and lose his extra rail !!! :thummar:

Can't understand the guy, after all I do for him, he's got to take the piss. :aaargh:

Short memory .... I was out with him, in all that first lot of snow, just after crimbo, lashing together a temporary water supply, for him and t'other neighbour, (who's as good as gold and always grateful, whenever I get him/them out the shit) .... spent hours, loads of MDPE fittings and a new roll of 32mm pipe, cut up to suit the problem in hand ..... i.e. frozen, exposed/uninsulated joints in his system .... we'd had the same temp.s too and no issues!!!!!!!! :vissla:

Anyway .... we shall sort it in this morning. ...

we've had THREE dry days !!
Me ramp was the driest it's been in months and I wanted to get on it to reach the remaining bags of stone, etc., that I couldn't reach from me planings level. :vissla:

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With that bundle of stakes off the top of everything, I could get at the remaining dumpies and very carefully extract 'em from their resting places :uupps:

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managed to lift a few in one piece (that I rebagged a while back) onto pallets and got the rest down onto the lower level, without them spewing their guts, 'fore they got there .... :vissla:

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I might manage to get one or two onto pallets, if I am REALLY carefully, but one let go for sure just as it touched down !!
More pallets required first though ..... :vissla:

Got as much 'other crud' down as I could, before a late tea, at nigh on seven in the evening .. 'Boss' could see I was busy and making progress, so didn't hinder it with a food break .. timed it just right. :thumme:

I'd got 99% done, I was going to achieve ; it had just started to rain, as I came off the ramp........and I was starving !! :eat:

Situation normal again here last night - - pissing down !!!!!! :sad:

Clara day and treatment evening, today; forecast was wet!! ....... it bloody well is too :sad:

Much the same on the weather front Wednesday too, if they're to be believed !!!! :vissla:

**#848** » 12:01:42, 27-03-2018

When it rains, it pours! :huh:

Keep up!!

Watching this space!! :mon:

**#849** » 19:11:23, 27-03-2018

Love Thy Neighbor :grin:

**#850** » 02:04:40, 28-03-2018

gute84 skrev:Love Thy Neighbor

After some of the comments from the cheeky, two faced twat, this morning ..... all good will and assistance is withdrawn, forthwith, long term :aaargh:

....
he really pissed me off today :aaargh:

He's already fallen out with his direct neighbour, right next door to him :aaargh:

and fell out with the land owners who own all the fields around us, long ago :vissla:

... the one guy hates the sight of him and avoids contact, for fear of belting him one :grin:

He really shit in his nest this morning .... and I take a bit of annoying :vissla:

..... life will suddenly become a lot harder for this prick, with a very short memory :huh:

A little consideration goes a long way with me ....... :vissla:

he's upset the wrong bloke :myzsko:

**#851** » 02:08:17, 28-03-2018

magirus skrev:When it rains, it pours!
Keep up!!
Watching this space!!

Oh aye it fairly pissed down last night :sad:

..... sod all compared to the 'storm' this morning though :vissla:

..... or the one that is likely to continue 'ad infinitum', for one particular tosser :aaargh:

**#852** » 18:29:25, 30-03-2018

Lovely to get yet another PM yesterday evening, from one of my favorite ex-employees.... :smile:

a great lad with so much skill and tremendous patience for his meagre years - then!! :vissla:

Another school boy, I'd had on work experience, from school and told him to come back as and when he finished school ..... :thumme:

IIRC he stayed 10 + years, maybe 12 ?? :thummar:

Broke my heart to lose him TBH :sad:

Was 'like one of the family' :vissla:

" Hi matey. Thought you would like to know i passed my Degree in Construction Management today.
Thank you for putting a firm root in my career path "

**#853** » 02:22:42, 04-04-2018

Duncan was a great lad who grew into a lovely guy with terrific skills. He took tremendous pride in anything he did
'Twas a sad day to lose him :sad:

.... but great to hear he has done so well. :thummar:

Not seen him in a couple of years now ... but we do keep in touch. :vissla:

was always the joker and had a bit of a penchant for crisp bag oxy bombs ... small but bloody loud :eek:

****ing weather ...... :aaargh:

we had yet another inch of bloody white shite here again sunday night !!!!!!! :sad:

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is this poxy weather ever going to end ??????? :huh:

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followed by torrential downpours all night and half the day monday !!! :vissla:

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least it washed it away ... mostly.... but..... :huh:

there's a 2' deep x 3' wide channel under here full of clean 40mm stone ..... :uupps:

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which was obviously also full ..... never had water standing there before .... drains were all running full bollo and our lawn was floating like a magic carpet ride !!!

going to take months for the ground to dry to a workable consistency :aaargh:

have to be careful walking across the lawn in case you punch through it with your heel :eek: