Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

Left hooker

Left hooker

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Thanks - - I was pretty certain that I'd had the piss taken Stu :mad:... bloke I normally deal with wasn't there and some spotty teenager served me, who had little idea of what he was about ... their staff turnover is HIGH !!:rolleyes:
I actually said to him "you got to be ****ing kidding " :oops::eek:
words will be had on Monday:mad:
List price is 93 quid but most stuff is knocked down every time you look it's a good site for bulk buy
 
Mintsauce

Mintsauce

Active member
You got JDP in Hereford. Their branch in Avonmouth always friendly and helpful and I never left their yard feeling like I got bent over. Also deliver in sensible size vehicles if you need.
got an account with them. One of my better decisions that.:LOL:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I don't normally feel like i've been stiffed leaving there but it just did not sound right :mad: .... last roll IIRC was just over 55 quid, 'bout 18 montha ago ... as said.. words will be had ... the spotty oik didn't seem to know WTF he was doing TBH ..... and I wanted to get on ..... if I'd wanted to be screwed over I'd have gone into Robber Prices in Aber ... but doubt even they'd have been that dear :eek:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well Sunday didn't go as planned ..... but did get a few odds and sods done between visitors :rolleyes:
Yesterday however, saw the rest of it down as far as I can get for now ..... (y)

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and a significant reduction in yon heap .....

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reckon I've used about 12t so far .. once I'd squared it back into a tidy pile again :rolleyes:

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Squeak thought it was a great idea to roll in the stone dust .....

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he wasn't quite as pleased with himself after he'd had one of my hand brushes over him, for a few minutes trying to get him 'back to black' :oops: ... she'd have had a fit if he'd gone indoors like it :LOL::eek:

More black stuff required now to crown the patch off and raise the levels a bit, right at the back end.

All mowing sorted by lunchtime today and been sorting out collapsed pallets this afters, bagging a couple of buggered pallets of stone into a new bag, generally having a square up in the back corner and heading for the bottom of the pile for some slabs - proper hard pavement type slabs, to set out and bed for the boxes' new home (y)
man has it been bloody warm today :oops:
 
Mogman

Mogman

What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
Have I missed something? What have you done with all them big boulders you kept rooting out:unsure:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Have I missed something? What have you done with all them big boulders you kept rooting out:unsure:
you mean these Mog ??

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they got shipped out early Dec. 2017

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two long, cold, wet days .... well the first was wet ... the second was ....trying to be white ..:oops:

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the following day it was .... properly :eek:

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snowed for 28 hours


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new high top Range Rover :LOL:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
had to run into town this morning, so risked getting bent over, by the local Hyd.s emporium, for a few bits ..... couldn't be arsed to run out to Raglan and needed ,em to sort out the new Jabsco pump for the 'Drema

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in the bag, amongst other things, is a long swept 45 metric hose tail I needed, to get the fill pipe past the valve chest and into the tank .... list apparently, from Parker, was 57 quid and change :eek::eek: ..... I said "you'd better put it back mate "..... he says .... "that's before your discount" .... under 8 quid sounded a lot better :giggle: dear enough still, for a fitting but a hell of a lot better than list :rolleyes:

been pallet sorting again, trying to access a pallet full of very hard slabs, for bearing pads for the box move....... burning several dead pallets and trans-shipping their contents onto new, much more solid pallets ;)

hard graft, some of it, but mission accomplished ... for now;)

cut a few slabs in half ... 3' x 2's .... ready to use and selected a few that were already 'halved' from being stood on decaying pallets, for pad stones, humped the rest onto a new pallet and stuck 'em out the way for now.
then thought i'd rough out where they'm gonna go for an hour, before tea time.

got one possibility set out, just as 'the bell tolled' and was summoned for food ..... wasn't quite where I'd envisaged it'd end up :unsure::( ... so set out an 'alternate' after tea .... and may well have a few more goes yet

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jury's still out ..... see what it looks like with the 'Drema out the way in the morning :rolleyes::unsure: .... first option only gave me 12-ish feet between them and the location of the corner of me shed eventually ..... second option created another 3 plus feet on that, which was a lot better (y)
then see how we're looking on levels:confused:

God knows where I am going to park some of this stuff, out the way, to get a crane in to do the move ... Russel's new machine is a bit bigger than his PPM A.T. was ... this 'un's a 6 legged Liebherr :) .... time he came and had a shufty.... make sure he can do what's required and I make enough space for him to do it (y)
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
day -- or best part of it shot to sh*t :( .... 2 hr meeting with Ken's insurers this morning, for Pam, trying to sort his various policies for the farm, vehicles, tractors, implements, stock, public liability (has three foot paths across his place) plus buildings and house. Fair play the rep was very good and it could've been a lot bigger headache :rolleyes:
followed by several more hours up there sorting details of traccies, kit, etc. .... Anyone any good at valuing traccies ?? :unsure:

anyway... was late afternoon 'fore I got my day back ..... I've gone with the red option on the setting out for boxes .. even 'the boss' agreed it looked the best option .... so .... roughed out the centres of where the pads are going to go .....

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so's I could get them pins back out the deck, 'fore they get run over :eek: ... and the lines wound in ....these string wound 1 micron water filters make bloody great string lines ..... tough as and plenty on a roll :LOL:

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then it was time to establish some levels .....

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screwfix cheapy --

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gives a good dot in the daylight, but a crap line .... probably be fine in the dark :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: .... dot was enough for what I wanted, to set a datum and packers required .... getting the dot dead on centre line on me own was a bit hit and miss :rolleyes: but didn't take too long to sort , once I got into aiming the lil' bugger and quicker than getting Stanley out. (y)

levels sussed ... not three bad across the width and about where I expected it to be down the length .... dropping about 100 mil :) ..... shouldn't take too much sorting (y)

quick little job before tea .... persuade Zebedee, I picked up yesterday up a piece of tube for anti collapse on me Jabsco suction hose ...

he wasn't going with out a fight, so slotted an end of a piece of 10mm stainless I had , fed him onto it and wound him up to reduce his O.D. a bit, drop of lube and puuuuuuush ...... :giggle:

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last coil got a bit out of shape on the final foot ..... when I wound him the wrong way :unsure::mad: .... but as a method ... worked bloody great

bit of a trim .....

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and insert one Geka :)

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followed by a hose tail and socket for the filter on t'other ....

bugger .... out of pix again !!!!! :(:mad:
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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should stop the bugger sucking flat ......

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just enough time, 'fore 'the bell' , to get a thread file to the tank fitting ....

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bloody old nut picked up on it coming off :mad: ......
can't have enough of 'em ;):cool: ..... saved a lot of grief, more than once(y)

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new nut and swept fitting went on a treat, after some judicious filing :giggle:

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and the new hose should clear the valve block sweet as ..... just have to 'adjust' the new elbow to accommodate and inch hose .... they didn't have a stepped fitting .... God knows what list would've been, if they had :eek: ....... i have the mod in hand .... just need to get the gas out to braze a sleeve onto the tail ;)

wrestled this lil sod out the tank after tea .... wanted to check functionality .....

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and sort it's leccy bits .... it's working fine ... auto level shut off for the pump at full point :cool:

does however mean I'm either going to have to create a relay op circuit for it ...... or re-use the old control box ...

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snag with that is ... the manual stop button on it has vanished into the mists of time:(

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I assume that it's a press to make ... like the 'go' button is, which is one techy little button

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the cross rod/pin is 'the make' contact ...... have searched for a 'new one' ... to no avail and sadly the unit is one of those ...... you ain't coming in here to alter anything jobs .... :mad:

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however ....... :giggle:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
broke out the surgical instruments :)... scalpel and locking forceps (y) .... to reveal ....

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one relay, as suspected and a lot of bloody tough rubber sealer ..... I've sussed the circuit with a meter and all seems in order .... will give it a try tomorrow on 24Volts ..... only snag, as said, is the missing manual over ride stop button (which it looks like I'll have to create),or failing that the pump unit does have its own toggle too as a fail safe ...... see what the test run shows up... as long as the float level system is working with the auto shut off, it's not going to be any 'biggy' :rolleyes:

would be nice to use the original unit if poss .... it's neat

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a few mods to the bracketry, as the new pump is a bigger unit and work out just WTF I am going to put it :unsure:..... doubt it's going back in where t'other one came out of :(:oops: .. it was tight in the engine bay and re-fueling is going to be a doddle/pleasure, rather than the faff it has been ....... Oh and route the new length of shiny, black, fuel proof hose (y)

so that's been my day :rolleyes:

passed this on the way back from Ken's .....

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Nice eh? :unsure::giggle:

anyone care to put a value-ish on these ??

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'87/88 on an E plate - turbo-ed ... by these people .... from new I'd guess .. very tidy 'pro' job ..... have the missing door and front muddy

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and on board air compressor .... forgot to look at the hours :(

and .....

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Renualt 70-34 .... '89 on the F plate ....air con ... hours as pic below

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Alo loader, new front bucket ...

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muck forks and twin big bale spike

both on the button and running well ... driven both of them (y)

Am very tempted by the Zetor .....
park it out on me drive to p*ss off the happy-snaps neighbour ....
his shiny, new ( to him ) JD broke down last week, just as he was starting his hay ..... :LOL: had to use his old International :ROFLMAO: .... couldn't happen to a nicer chap :ROFLMAO:(y) .....
it's been unceremoniously dumped in his 'orchard' .. for want a better description .... been there 10 days now, looking sorry for itself. .... before he pissed me off, he'd have been up asking if i could sort it :rolleyes::giggle: ..... Billy no mates grafted hard this year :giggle: .. on his own ... he's pissed off everyone that he used to call upon for free help :rolleyes::D:D
 
Left hooker

Left hooker

Well-known member
Those control boxes are in most machines have a ring around some dealers see what sort of prices they come back with
Also don't always rely on cut off sensor as some times the diesel froths up and sensor don't pick it up end up with mess out of tank filled neck as needed off to let air out
 
diggerjones

diggerjones

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Tractors probably worth north of 5k. I might have a mate interested. What else is going as i may be interested
 
M

mart1602

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zetor is around 5.5k and the renault with attachments for loader inc 7-7.5k was there a little dexta in the background as well
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
zetor is around 5.5k and the renault with attachments for loader inc 7-7.5k was there a little dexta in the background as well
thanks Guys ... I thought about those figures, from my own basic research .... both quite tidy and had light use only, for years ... Pam's brother (my BIL-sort of) has already offered a grand a piece for them :eek::mad: .... to which he was unceremoniously told to **** right off and take the piss elsewhere :mad: ... annoyed me - he'd swindle his granny :mad: ... let alone his two sisters :mad::mad: ...... dunno WTF he's on these days ... used to be a decent bloke
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
zetor is around 5.5k and the renault with attachments for loader inc 7-7.5k was there a little dexta in the background as well
'fraid the blue one is someone else's just parked in the barn Mart ..... the BIL's BIL has already done Ken over , shortly 'fore he died, for his Major :mad::mad: ... both tar-ed with the same brush :mad:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Oh yeah and push once to make
cheers Stu ..... assume push the red one to stop it too ;) .....
so a filler extension'd be a good idea, :unsure: to screw into the bayonet, maybe a foot tall :cautious: .. will have to see if I can find an old filler cap that'd fit, to get creative with :giggle:
thanks for the heads up on the froth factor (y)
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Tractors probably worth north of 5k. I might have a mate interested. What else is going as i may be interested
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Abbey topper Dylan ... top is scabby in places,

this mower ......

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Old grey fergie link box - rough-ish .. will get some pix when we can get it out a bit

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there's a IIRC Howard rotary muck spreader sat down the field .... looks to be a 12 footer ... need to drag that out too to get some pix
this sort of one ..
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repaired/re-bottomed a few of them in me time

tidy lil' sheep trailer .... no idea of a breed - no plate of any description on it, but looks like an Ifor

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5 bar alloy tread plate bed
oh and a scabby old truckman top ..... would clean up with a good scrub, I'd guess ... hard to see ATM

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and I've run out of pix AGAIN !!! :rolleyes::(
 
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