V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
yeh the leaf blower is a handy tool for getting it roaring ..... trouble with the fine ash from paper is it tends to get airborne with a bit of a breeze from the blower
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Squirrels - Nil ... Gert buzzard - one .......... bloody great buzzard came swooping into the big oak behind the black shed yesterday and exited with a squirrel for elevenses ... tha's one less strawberry snaffler .....
Pam brought a couple of almost ripe ones in yesterday, 'fore the lil' sods got to 'em and left 'em on the window cill to ripen. ....
got up this morning to find that the mouse squeak brought in a couple of nights ago had had the one, completely scoffed and knocked t'other one off the cill !!
I'm sure it was the same mouse, as I'd seen it and pursued it, earlier, after hearing it in the kitchen, about midnight.
Pam not happy ... save 'em from the squirrels only to have one of squeaks playmates scoff the damned thing
... tha's one less strawberry snaffler .....Pam brought a couple of almost ripe ones in yesterday, 'fore the lil' sods got to 'em and left 'em on the window cill to ripen. ....
got up this morning to find that the mouse squeak brought in a couple of nights ago had had the one, completely scoffed and knocked t'other one off the cill !!
I'm sure it was the same mouse, as I'd seen it and pursued it, earlier, after hearing it in the kitchen, about midnight.
Pam not happy
... save 'em from the squirrels only to have one of squeaks playmates scoff the damned thing
J
Jimoz
Well-known member
Why doesn't the cat kill the mouse. It's what always happens in the cartoons
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Squeak doesn't watch a lot of cartoons Jim
......they both liked to bring 'em in alive to release, for an evening's sport, trying to catch the poor lil' sods again .....
cats are one of the few creatures that hunt for sport, as they're usually well fed and don't need to kill to eat .....
but their instincts to hunt over-ride the fact they don't need to ...... unless you'm a feral or farm type cat.
Squeak tends to kill them inadvertently by carrying 'em with their heads in his mouth and suffocates them ... looks most disappointed when he drops 'em at my feet and they don't get up and leg it
brought a huge one in last night - suffocated - not a mark on 'em usually, otherwise.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
certain lil' lady's been a Bridesmaid again today .... a second granny wedding in less than a year ... no not us ..... Clara's dad's mum, for the second time ...
she does love the 'tussled' look
fast asleep upstairs ATM, after an early collection from the event. First 'sleep-over' in probably 18 mths
... no not us ..... Clara's dad's mum, for the second time ... she does love the 'tussled' look
fast asleep upstairs ATM, after an early collection from the event. First 'sleep-over' in probably 18 mths
Mark
Well-known member
Came across this guy in Australia posting videos of his machine shop repairing mining equipment. Thought it might interest you Druid guy seems to be very knowledgeable right you your ally.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC2wdo5vU7bPBNzyC2nnwmNQ
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC2wdo5vU7bPBNzyC2nnwmNQ
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
I watch a lot of his stuff
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
ditto ..... love his live centre chucksI watch a lot of his stuff
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
yeh he does some real interesting stuff
pettsy
Well-known member
Also watched a few of his videos. 
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
so ..... Pam's tommys ..... were coming alongbusy day, for 'the boss', yesterday ......
Pam's tommy grow bags, I'd picked up on me way home from Russel's job
got despatched up the woods Friday afternoon to 'source' some poles to create some sort of support structure as they were beginning to droop a bit ... hour later i have an armful of the straightest hazel shoots i can liberate and am heading back .... the horsey girls are stood around one of their barrows looking at one of those wheels with the flat spot at the bottom ....they'd whipped it off and had a go at patching it .... with zero success, so said I'd give a looking at ......
six patches later ... HTF do you puncture a tube six times on the inside / where it sits on the plastic rim ?????
anyway ... job sorted 'fore tea .... after mod.ing the rim to get it back together ..... side exit tube hole with a centre exit tube ..... couldn't get enough of the valve stem showing to blow it up as it was ..... lot easier after the carbide burr had had a go at it
tea scoffed and spent a couple of hours trying to create summat out of a lorra hazel canes ... plus a few hours of a very damp afternoon today ....... 'tain't the prettiest, but I think it'll stick the pace ...... 3" of compost at the base does not provide much in the way of anchorage for canes, so I've had to call upon my experience in a previous incarnation/life as a spider
bear in mind I am no gardener and had no idea what was required as the brief was pretty sketchy ..... I'm amazed it ended up as stable and stiff as it did
apparently it'll do
sorted a hose into there for 'the boss' .. save carting watering can-fulls of H2O .... these things take a lot of it apparently
.... I'm looking forward to some tasty toms from all this ..... I love 'em .... bloody good job too .. gonna be some pricey eating - money and time wise.'s my bit done hopefully .... SWMBO'd better be good at growing the damned things ..... TBF they've certainly come on well from the seeds she planted a few weeks ago
Lancs Lad
Well-known member
You do scaffolding in Hong Kong for work experience?so ..... Pam's tommys ..... were coming alongView attachment 25813
got despatched up the woods Friday afternoon to 'source' some poles to create some sort of support structure as they were beginning to droop a bit ... hour later i have an armful of the straightest hazel shoots i can liberate and am heading back .... the horsey girls are stood around one of their barrows looking at one of those wheels with the flat spot at the bottom ....they'd whipped it off and had a go at patching it .... with zero success, so said I'd give a looking at ......
six patches later ... HTF do you puncture a tube six times on the inside / where it sits on the plastic rim ?????
anyway ... job sorted 'fore tea .... after mod.ing the rim to get it back together ..... side exit tube hole with a centre exit tube ..... couldn't get enough of the valve stem showing to blow it up as it was ..... lot easier after the carbide burr had had a go at it
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tea scoffed and spent a couple of hours trying to create summat out of a lorra hazel canes ... plus a few hours of a very damp afternoon today ....... 'tain't the prettiest, but I think it'll stick the pace ...... 3" of compost at the base does not provide much in the way of anchorage for canes, so I've had to call upon my experience in a previous incarnation/life as a spider
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bear in mind I am no gardener and had no idea what was required as the brief was pretty sketchy ..... I'm amazed it ended up as stable and stiff as it did
apparently it'll do
sorted a hose into there for 'the boss' .. save carting watering can-fulls of H2O .... these things take a lot of it apparently
's my bit done hopefully .... SWMBO'd better be good at growing the damned things ..... TBF they've certainly come on well from the seeds she planted a few weeks ago
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
went to jump in't 'Drema this morning after me hamster juice ... and couldn't open the door button obviously not making contact with the lock .... eventually managed to slide the window enough to get me fingers in and raise the slider latch to fully open the window and open the door from inside
investigation and dis-assembly found the barrel'd committed Hari Kiri ...
... so a solution needed sorting
drilled the barrel and the button body to keep the guts in the right alignment .... self tapper's nice and hard ... screwed in 'til it'd not go any further and trimmed off ... outer was pretty damned tight coming out and equally tight going back in --- it only has to hold itself in place - doing nowt
all reassembled and worked a treat ... door accessible from the floor again ...... then I could get on with what I tried to start to do ...... lift down a.n.other solid pallet from a heap, tranship what was on it to a std pallet and chuck that back, then 'loan' yet another of 'my best pallets' to the tomato growing cause, for another 3 grow bags to sit on ..........
followed by ... completion of the sandbag filling exercise .....
there's now just over a dumpy's worth of sand bags round yon polytunnel, which'll hopefully keep it put in all but a hurricane ...
it'd be nice to think that these'll not rot out anywhere near as quick as the nice environmentally friendly hessian did
finished the afternoon off with a spot of burning bin emptying now it's cooled off enough .... tried it two days ago and melted the placcy bags, I was decanting it into, even though it didn't feel that warm to the Druid hand ... so having re-cycled multiple reams of paperwork into the best talcum ash known to man ..... I can donate it to the bin men Thursday ...... I'm sure they'll be grateful to me keeping them in a job -- maybe once a month
button obviously not making contact with the lock .... eventually managed to slide the window enough to get me fingers in and raise the slider latch to fully open the window and open the door from inside investigation and dis-assembly found the barrel'd committed Hari Kiri ...
... so a solution needed sorting
drilled the barrel and the button body to keep the guts in the right alignment .... self tapper's nice and hard ... screwed in 'til it'd not go any further and trimmed off ... outer was pretty damned tight coming out and equally tight going back in --- it only has to hold itself in place - doing nowt
all reassembled and worked a treat ... door accessible from the floor again ...... then I could get on with what I tried to start to do ...... lift down a.n.other solid pallet from a heap, tranship what was on it to a std pallet and chuck that back, then 'loan' yet another of 'my best pallets' to the tomato growing cause, for another 3 grow bags to sit on
..........followed by ... completion of the sandbag filling exercise .....
there's now just over a dumpy's worth of sand bags round yon polytunnel, which'll hopefully keep it put in all but a hurricane ...
it'd be nice to think that these'll not rot out anywhere near as quick as the nice environmentally friendly hessian did
finished the afternoon off with a spot of burning bin emptying now it's cooled off enough .... tried it two days ago and melted the placcy bags, I was decanting it into, even though it didn't feel that warm to the Druid hand ... so having re-cycled multiple reams of paperwork into the best talcum ash known to man ..... I can donate it to the bin men Thursday
...... I'm sure they'll be grateful to me keeping them in a job -- maybe once a month 
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
Oh they will.it'd be nice to think that these'll not rot out anywhere near as quick as the nice environmentally friendly hessian did
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
thanks for those words of encouragement Rory
..... least they'll burn easier than the bloody hessian did ..... poly tunnel looks like it may become a permanent feature about here ..... time to make it a base to attach it to that ain't gonna blow away in a typhoon ....... and be able to pick it up wholesale for relocation as needed ..... 's in the way there
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
A conversation was had with me tree surgeon mate Wednesday ... as in " start dropping me some 'stick' in mate - time to start refilling the baskets/boxes/bags "
Clive arrived this morning, 'bout ten with some humongous discs and various other bits 'n bobs ...
and again 'bout eleven ..
by which time i'd gotten the VA-r and the Cranab on for chucking the bigger bits about
and again 'bout 12 ..... he knows I can handle it and now I've got the wood killer I'm getting all sorts slung at me
first mission was a trailer load for Vicki, together with three of the wall capping slab crates to sling it in and keep it in some semblance of order down at her place .... took it down and it looked sod all unloaded ... so came back and split a second load ....
which went down after tea ..... me big trailer is still full of all me tower scaffold towers and this un's only a tonne job, determined by the tyre squidge
tread's like new on 'em, but starting to look a little 'old' ... gonna have to re-shoe it shortly, 'fore one lets go ... bloody annoying - nowt lasts like it used to, but then I 'spose they're going 15 yr old .. hence the spare goes everywhere with it
this morning's forecast was a wet night, but see it's now moved to 7am onwards
brought the usual load of tish back from Vicki's to feed to me burning bin, along with a pile of Pam's gardening prunings, from this morning and a bin full of bark/shards/generally massacred bits 'o wood off the splitter table ..... was still going well twenty minutes ago when I put the lid on it for the night.
Gnarly old rings these were .. not a cat in hells chance of splitting these with anything but hydraulic assistance ............. and doesn't it ever split 'em
so that's my weekend sorted ...... split what'll go on the table first, 'fore getting 'charlie the chainsaw' out to deal with the longer stuff .... more arriving Monday apparently .....
was 'sposed to be out with Russel Mon, Tues, Thurs, Friday, putting a Huff house together, but that's been put back to Tuesday / Thursday onwards as the scaffolders, steel erectors and some one else didn't show today ... s'posed to be there Monday now, so has set it back 2 days .... Russ has a day elsewhere Wed.s so can well see this 4 dayer starting Thursday ....... should be an interesting few days ...... let's hope Kevin McCloud don't turn up
Clive arrived this morning, 'bout ten with some humongous discs and various other bits 'n bobs ...
first mission was a trailer load for Vicki, together with three of the wall capping slab crates to sling it in and keep it in some semblance of order down at her place .... took it down and it looked sod all unloaded ... so came back and split a second load ....
which went down after tea ..... me big trailer is still full of all me tower scaffold towers and this un's only a tonne job, determined by the tyre squidge
tread's like new on 'em, but starting to look a little 'old' ... gonna have to re-shoe it shortly, 'fore one lets go ... bloody annoying - nowt lasts like it used to
, but then I 'spose they're going 15 yr old .. hence the spare goes everywhere with it this morning's forecast was a wet night, but see it's now moved to 7am onwards
brought the usual load of tish back from Vicki's to feed to me burning bin, along with a pile of Pam's gardening prunings, from this morning and a bin full of bark/shards/generally massacred bits 'o wood off the splitter table ..... was still going well twenty minutes ago when I put the lid on it for the night.
Gnarly old rings these were .. not a cat in hells chance of splitting these with anything but hydraulic assistance ............. and doesn't it ever split 'em
so that's my weekend sorted ...... split what'll go on the table first, 'fore getting 'charlie the chainsaw' out to deal with the longer stuff .... more arriving Monday apparently .....
was 'sposed to be out with Russel Mon, Tues, Thurs, Friday, putting a Huff house together, but that's been put back to Tuesday / Thursday onwards as the scaffolders, steel erectors and some one else didn't show today ... s'posed to be there Monday now, so has set it back 2 days .... Russ has a day elsewhere Wed.s so can well see this 4 dayer starting Thursday ....... should be an interesting few days
...... let's hope Kevin McCloud don't turn up
modelman093
Active member
Just remember to sweep up every night, like wot I do when making shavings at the wood lathe - not!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
swept up with a coke shovel tonight Angus .... must fix the handle, but used so rarely, I never get around to it
..... great for chainsaw dust / chips ..... two black binfuls and a 45 gallon drum full, which is smouldering away for the nightCharlie (an' me) worked had on that lot this afternoon ... while everyone else was watching the tennis
.... some bloody hard oak in that lot ... the ash and pine are a joy to cut afterwards
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
as said above ..... me an' Charlie been busy this afters ..... after splitting all that was easily accessible to split this morning
and for what doesn't want to split -- which is a lot in this gnarly old stuff ...... it just gets 'the treatment' .. and it surrenders
phase one of the wood shed re-fill
get it lobbed in there tomorrow, ready for a trailer refill -- got enough ready to split to probably fill the shed, 'fore starting on the baskets, etc.
some of these lumps are gonna take some sizing down to suit the Morso .... me tree fella may have to bring one of his big(ger) saws round and sort a couple ..... a good 3ft+, a few are
and for what doesn't want to split -- which is a lot in this gnarly old stuff ...... it just gets 'the treatment' .. and it surrenders
phase one of the wood shed re-fill
get it lobbed in there tomorrow, ready for a trailer refill -- got enough ready to split to probably fill the shed, 'fore starting on the baskets, etc.
some of these lumps are gonna take some sizing down to suit the Morso .... me tree fella may have to bring one of his big(ger) saws round and sort a couple ..... a good 3ft+, a few are
modelman093
Active member
“swept up with a coke shovel tonight Angus”
Was thinking more of the Huff House guys with their dustpan and brush and that truck racked out with nuts and bolts etc. Are yo doing just the heavy lifting or the assembly as well?
Was thinking more of the Huff House guys with their dustpan and brush and that truck racked out with nuts and bolts etc. Are yo doing just the heavy lifting or the assembly as well?
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