Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[Monkeybusiness]

It’ll be a jag engine, not the old Land Rover one I’d imagine.
£200k for a parts-bin special they want you to immediately take off road and ‘make your mark’ on!
The mad thing is they will definitely sell...

 

[Lancs Lad]

It’ll be a jag engine, not the old Land Rover one I’d imagine.
£200k for a parts-bin special they want you to immediately take off road and ‘make your mark’ on!
The mad thing is they will definitely sell...

I bet they all sold already!

 

[Cyberprog]

I bet they all sold already!

If I had the cash, I'd buy one.

 

[V8Druid]

If I had the cash, I'd buy one.

if I had that amount of spare cash there's a hell of a lot of better things I can think of to spend it on .... and have change it's only a Solihull sledge FFS

 

[Cyberprog]

if I had that amount of spare cash there's a hell of a lot of better things I can think of to spend it on .... and have change it's only a Solihull sledge FFS

Well, maybe a wildcat.

 

[V8Druid]

Well, maybe a wildcat.

Simmbugghini ??

 

[Cyberprog]

Nah, a Bowler. Or a Nemesis. I'm not fussy.

 

[V8Druid]

Nah, a Bowler. Or a Nemesis. I'm not fussy.

friends of mine AWDC UK champs

 

[V8Druid]

forgot to say ........ Keith has a specially made rack in the service barge ....... where he leaves his fear trigger and self preservation instinct, when he's competing

 

[Cyberprog]

forgot to say ........ Keith has a specially made rack in the service barge ....... where he leaves his fear trigger and self preservation instinct, when he's competing

He must have a specially reinforced seat for those stainless steel balls.

 

[diggerjones]

Yes been dam cold this week. Glad i put the cab back on the kobota
(Replying to your pond comments on tother thread)

 

[V8Druid]

Yes been dam cold this week. Glad i put the cab back on the kobota
(Replying to your pond comments on tother thread)

too bloody right it has been

just scooped 1/2" of snow out of it, 'fore it goes solid


was black and dry 10 minutes earlier

now up to a good 12mm and has just started to have a n other go
bloody crisp and slick under foot

25mm of rain , 8C and a nice southerly forecast for tomorrow ...... should see off all the solid bits .... much as i dislike the rain ... it's better than the frozen version

 

[V8Druid]

if the above wasn't slick enough .... we had freezing rain for half an hour 'bout 5 o'clock ..... like a bloody skating rink out there now .... really got to watch yer footing ......... but ...... sposed to get above freezing by ten and 8-10 C by the morning .... the compromise is 25mil o' rain ... with a LOT more to follow later in the week but 12+C

 

[craig]

The frosts going to come out of the ground rapid with the jump in temperatures. that and the rain its going to turn to

 

[V8Druid]

The frosts going to come out of the ground rapid with the jump in temperatures. that and the rain its going to turn to

sure is .... lorrafrost to come out too

 

[Lancs Lad]

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just scooped 1/2" of snow out of it, 'fore it goes solid


was black and dry 10 minutes earlier
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now up to a good 12mm and has just started to have a n other go
bloody crisp and slick under foot

25mm of rain , 8C and a nice southerly forecast for tomorrow ...... should see off all the solid bits .... much as i dislike the rain ... it's better than the frozen version

Global warming

 

[V8Druid]

Forum network scores again today ... found these on FB marketplace yesterday in Bristol ... too good (and too cheap not to buy)

deal struck .... some Comm.s with Alex - cyberprog and a collection/payment sorted.
pic from Alex this evening ... in the boot of his motor

thought these were 1t units, from the sellers pix .. but nothing to scale from ...... looking at them there I'm guessing they'm 30cwt jobs
Bramber built the best units money could buy and i've never had to replace one .... used to do lot of sub. work for them building trailers when they were busy and have trailers all over the world, that I built for them

 

[Cyberprog]

Hehe. Turned out that I had bought a Jerry can off that Chap a few months ago. His front garden is... Interesting!

 

[V8Druid]

stunning couple of days over the weekend .....
Saturday morning was a bit murky ....... down in the valley bottom

and ended with a great sunset

was nice to have the sun on my back for a couple of days ...... didn't last long though
been as murky here the last few days as it was down below us Saturday morning

had a few hours out yesterday .... call 'bout ten from Russ, me crane mate ... "you busy Gra?"
he'd already booked me for Wed./Fri. - subject to the trucks arriving ..... damn me they'd turned up early ... from Holland.
he was the other side of Leominster, fortunately doing a 'quicky', so we arranged to meet about ten miles away and I'd follow him into the the job ..... and bring me passport

Local SAS camp .. got checked in and told to "follow me" ... very interesting run in there ... never been in there before .... 30 odd years since Russ had.
so in we go .... past the two Boeing 747 fuselages and assorted smaller 'big white birds, underground carriages, etc., etc. , 'til we got where we needed to be.
two 20 ft twistlocks heading our way, loaded .. 5 and 11 t respectively ..... but could we just hop the one there already out the way first ..
just repositioning after that ready for the two's arrival and here they came
light one first for the reach .... got a hold of it and was closer to 7.5t than it was 5 .... hmm
good job we were a lot closer for the 14.7 tonner .... don't yer just love estimates ... and these'd been on a ferry !!
any way ... job sorted, our 'minder' who'd organised it all was well impressed with an ultra smooth operation and having them within a half inch of where he said he'd like 'em .... 'nother lil' job eyeballed once we'd wrapped up ..... and Russ booked for a few more little numbers in the camp.
will keep us both out of mischief for a while to come hopefully
sadly no pix ... didn't fancy getting either bollocked or shot at. There was a lot of that going on all around us .... a low profile was the order of the day ..... and the lower the better with Rus's jib .... had 7 various choppers buzzing around us all morning, while we were there ..... one of which's faces looked very bloody surprised when he swooped around a corner to find this gert yella fing, where he was headed, at pretty well zero ft.

was an interesting morning .... looking forward to the next one.

 

[Vinpetrol]

stunning couple of days over the weekend .....
Saturday morning was a bit murky ....... down in the valley bottom
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and ended with a great sunset
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was nice to have the sun on my back for a couple of days ...... didn't last long though
been as murky here the last few days as it was down below us Saturday morning

had a few hours out yesterday .... call 'bout ten from Russ, me crane mate ... "you busy Gra?"
he'd already booked me for Wed./Fri. - subject to the trucks arriving ..... damn me they'd turned up early ... from Holland.
he was the other side of Leominster, fortunately doing a 'quicky', so we arranged to meet about ten miles away and I'd follow him into the the job ..... and bring me passport

Local SAS camp .. got checked in and told to "follow me" ... very interesting run in there ... never been in there before .... 30 odd years since Russ had.
so in we go .... past the two Boeing 747 fuselages and assorted smaller 'big white birds, underground carriages, etc., etc. , 'til we got where we needed to be.
two 20 ft twistlocks heading our way, loaded .. 5 and 11 t respectively ..... but could we just hop the one there already out the way first ..
just repositioning after that ready for the two's arrival and here they came
light one first for the reach .... got a hold of it and was closer to 7.5t than it was 5 .... hmm
good job we were a lot closer for the 14.7 tonner .... don't yer just love estimates ... and these'd been on a ferry !!
any way ... job sorted, our 'minder' who'd organised it all was well impressed with an ultra smooth operation and having them within a half inch of where he said he'd like 'em .... 'nother lil' job eyeballed once we'd wrapped up ..... and Russ booked for a few more little numbers in the camp.
will keep us both out of mischief for a while to come hopefully
sadly no pix ... didn't fancy getting either bollocked or shot at. There was a lot of that going on all around us .... a low profile was the order of the day ..... and the lower the better with Rus's jib .... had 7 various choppers buzzing around us all morning, while we were there ..... one of which's faces looked very bloody surprised when he swooped around a corner to find this gert yella fing, where he was headed, at pretty well zero ft.

was an interesting morning .... looking forward to the next one.

Did you enquire about the garden ornaments ?