so .... last day clearing, up at the farm, we got a puncy in't traccy front, which curtailed the day's scrap clearing activities a bit earlier than planned
.... BIL said he'd get it sorted .... two bloody weeks ago
... guess who had to go see to it today ....
not been able to organise me scrappy to come and have a pick up session, 'cos said beast is in the way.
followed this down, from chez Druid this morning ...
must've been 11ft wide and FILLED the road -- this is a wide bit
took this after i'd stopped in a hurry .... Rangey is abs and just dealt with it .... me 8 x 4 trailer behind, with tools, toe jacks and a 49 kilo 'air bottle', running light, simply locked up and HOWLED to a halt
..... traccy driver turned to see WTF was about to run up his arse
.....
big green parcel machine had to haul his mirror in - or lose it ....
... anyone else'd have had an escort for that ... an' a bloody movement order
anyway... got to the farm and soon had the offending item in the air and said wheel off
after twenty minutes with a sledge and levers, t'was obvious the lil' b'stard was not gonna have it and it got slung in't trailer for a trip home to meet the 'Drema and me forks
reckon I had a good 4-5t of pressure on't bead before it surrendered ..... and discovered a surprise tube hiding in there
.... looked for all the world like a tubeless valve screwed into the very ropey rim
good job I'd had the valve between the forks
Doug swore it was tubeless
inner bead wasn't quite such a bugger and soon had it in bits
good job I did .. rim was in a hell of a state and whoever had put the new tyre on hadn't bothered cleaning it, obviously ....
this was a better bit ...
after i'd hacked off about 4mm of scaley shite
hour well spent with the grinder and it was looking a bit more like it and a damned sight smoother, for a re-fit of the round black rubbery bits
patched the pin hole in the
'surprise tube' ... be damned if I could find the cause - not a mark inside the tyre and only a few minuscule particles in it
... applied more lube, than yer average hooker'd use in a year - EVERYWHERE -
and it went on, sweet as a nut
.... have had more blood, sweat and tears with a 5.20 x 10
helped a lot that the bloody thing was so heavy; it wasn't trying to escape off the bench at every effort to re-mount it
..... had visions of having to drill a hole in the middle of the bench to bolt the bloody thing down..... but nope .... one of the easiest I've ever done
...
going back on at least
put 10 lbs in it to seat the beads (all that lube did the trick, sweet) and dropped the forks onto it for the rest of 35 psi it needed ....
'twas going no-where with the 'Drema
leaning on it
Lifted it back into the trailer ... sod grunting it about with mechanical handling to hand
and we went back to re-instate it in its rightful place
Think Doug enjoyed his afternoon out, getting chauffeured about
..... not having to deal with the damned thing
.. and a free lunch
Scrappy organised for the morning
... meet him in the village at ten ..... he's been to Ken's before, but can't remember HTF to get there
... be glad to see the back of an enormous pile of tish, that took a LOT of collecting together
..... so that'll be a.n.other day shot to sh*t
Better
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