Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[GazCro]

I have a geith on my 4 tonner and i know how you feel but can't justify changing it as long as it's doing its job. Since being bought by doosan and production moved to either India or China quality has dropped right off. Shame tbh as it's a really simple reliable twin lock hitch system that's being wasted.

 

[Left hooker]

All this talk of 70mm 65mm and 50mm pins
Hitachi for 15 tons up for years have been 80mm all the way
Are old since gone fh150 had 80mm
Our ex165 had same 80mm pins and centers
My current zx180 is 80mm different pin centers but has a zx210 multi throw hitch to pick up buckets from the ex165 up to zx210

 

[V8Druid]

yeh well Friday was a tad damp to start ... on and off and seriously wild .... did dry up later in the day and managed to get some not so shiny tish on this...

then stuck it out the way for now ...

trailer gives it a bit of scale
some grass got massacred for the rest of the day ... up the drive ... looking a tad 'wild' down the 'shared' part of the drive (the bulk of it) which we usually do, as no one else seems inclined to be arsed
the Dane gets deployed on the turning area and passing places, plus anything else flat / accessible enough to get it onto .. which is a reasonable amount ... rest gets strimmed and the Husqy leaf blower I invested in last year clears it all up nicely ...
That saw off a fair bit of the rest of the day and I finished it off with the 4.5" Makita on me main forks, prepping 'em for bossing up, which I've been meaning to do since I made 'em ... several years ago now

Saturday saw said bosses getting applied (made a load several months ago, ready for fitting

Saturday's weather, although forecast good, after 12 ... wasn't ... and got pee-ed on several times

which is a bit of a change from the balmy weather of late .... but got 'em on in the end ...

one of me lights in the box went off in the day and after investigating, decided 'twere burgered ... had a couple of spares, I'd bought at the same time, so hauled one out, to rob the guts out of it ...

only to discover it'd been 'invaded' by a small and furry little creature, who'd obviously not neen as adept at finding its way back out, as it had been at finding a way in ... and had consequently 'expired' after eating anything it could chew first (and crapping everywhere - a lot for such a little thing) ...

hell of a pair of legs for such a tiny little mouse - 'bout 40mm long (the mouse)
anyway ... after clearing up after the 'visitor' I swapped the guts over and we had light returned to over the benches

only this in there to go wrong and as luck would have it, found a n other on ebay that some leccy had stripped out of some new units, converting to LED, so had to have it .. or i'd have a perfectly good unit with no guts

slapped a first coat on the bare metal bits after tea, ready for a full cover job today

which got done this morning

good as new ...

next on the agenda ... as the sun was nicely out today, was me blade / VA-r forks, which again, hadn't had any attention since they were put together, some time ago ... so dropped them on't bench, ready to split the adapter off them

two M16s out and they split easy enough

nicely balanced on the chains too
and dropped it on the bench

now those who've not seen these apart before can see the wood for the trees ... I'll chuck 'em on the blade, 'fore they go back together and take a few pix
I'd always intended the adapter to be this colour ... but'd run out of Druid Gold, at the time ..

so that got a coat, before tea ..... and another after ... dries real quick this stuff .... had a tidy up then half an hour changing the water filters on our system, as our pressure'd been down a bit the last couple of days ... and they needed doing, when i got 'em out ... much better after
been a lovely day .. after the wind eventually subsided and it warmed up again .... gave us a stunning sky tonight ..
........ and I'm out of pix again

 

[V8Druid]

"red sky at night .......... " forecast looking good for at least the next 10 days

 

[Shovelhands]

Fucksake Gra, at least paint the teeth on that Miller, get some a Druid gold on them, will really look the part then.

 

[V8Druid]

Fucksake Gra, at least paint the teeth on that Miller, get some a Druid gold on them, will really look the part then.

now I'm not sure whether you'm being facetious James .... or just like gold teeth

 

[Mogman]

Why have you got two sets of forks I’m I missing something

 

[JD450A]

Why have you got two sets of forks I’m I missing something

One is his sunday best pair.

 

[V8Druid]

Why have you got two sets of forks I’m I missing something

the big uns are the 4.5t set i had off you Paul and were built to fit the Miller, on 70s ..... t'other set are 2.9's ... originally built for the blade and then made an adapter to use 'em under the VA-r ... on 50's, after I'd built that ..
I also have several -- spanners of the same sizes / wheel barrows / hammers / shovels / etc. / etc.

 

[GazCro]

And there was me thinking you worked from the outside in depending which course you're having

 

[V8Druid]

" those who've not seen these apart before can see the wood for the trees ... I'll chuck 'em on the blade, 'fore they go back together and take a few pix "

and here they are ....

can pick off the floor with them ..

drop the blade lower and can drop them off or pick them up

getting the adapter back on is easy enough, but much easier with the VA-r on

Main forks got the rotary wire brush treatment on the 5" Makita ...

and some teflon spray applied

this stuff is bloody brilliant at making 'em slide about ...

and parked 'em up for now ..........

......... to whip this off the Akerman 3 ft rock bucket, for some attention from the wire brush ... made several years ago for the two B20 buckets I have ... works a treat, but should've painted it back then .. had intended to make some additional mod.s .. hence no paint, but never got around to it ... could be time ... first though, secure the bosses, which were only ever tacked in place ... then see if I can recall what i'd planned to do in the way of additional work to it

has taken some time to get it back to this ... I look like a cross between a black and white minstrel and a porcupine .. that 5" brush loves shedding its stainless steel bristles and had some sort of rust off this today !!!!! A shower was most enjoyable

 

[GazCro]

Them bristles take no prisoners lol. Mate of mone learnt the hard way not to mess about with a cup brush. Tried to get a bit more life out of one by cutting the cup down. Couple of months later ends up in hospital getting a few bits of wire taken out of wrist

 

[V8Druid]

Them bristles take no prisoners lol. Mate of mone learnt the hard way not to mess about with a cup brush. Tried to get a bit more life out of one by cutting the cup down. Couple of months later ends up in hospital getting a few bits of wire taken out of wrist

lesson learnt ... this was one of the 'soft' bristle type ... like bloody needles ... and been in shorts and a tee shirt all day ... with glasses on though ... have used these a lot over the years and as said .... the sods take no prisoners

 

[V8Druid]

this'll make you laugh ... just had a bollocking ...... for leaving bits of bristle in the shower tray ... must've been more stuck in me than I realised ... thought I'd got 'em all .... and I'd 'sluiced' the tray out when I got out too

 

[Left hooker]

The twisted wire cup brushes don't get yah half as bad as the lose crimped ones

 

[V8Druid]

The twisted wire cup brushes don't get yah half as bad as the lose crimped ones

tha's a fact .... right lil' bar stewards ... have to stop every ten minutes to pluck yerself ... not a fan of the twisted ones ... too 'fine' ... the crimped ones cover some ground

 

[V8Druid]

just had a Chinook over here, half an hour ago .... so bloody low he blew the sun loungers about on the patio ..... thought the bugger was coming in for a landing!!! ... heard him coming and thought jeeeeezus he's low .... and he was !! .... we used to get the Herc.s using us as a landmark, regularly ... would come over so low the slates'd rattle on the roof .... they'm a BIG lump at 50 ft and'd just clear the oak trees above us

 

[Left hooker]

just had a Chinook over here, half an hour ago .... so bloody low he blew the sun loungers about on the patio ..... thought the bugger was coming in for a landing!!! ... heard him coming and thought jeeeeezus he's low .... and he was !! .... we used to get the Herc.s using us as a landmark, regularly ... would come over so low the slates'd rattle on the roof .... they'm a BIG lump at 50 ft and'd just clear the oak trees above us

Nothing in your area now must have landed

 

[V8Druid]

Nothing in your area now must have landed View attachment 15443

wouldn't be on there Stu .... be from the S.A.S. camp at Madley, five miles away ...... they do WTF they like
......... and he was sooooooo loooooooooow, you'd need a search light, not radar

 

[Left hooker]

wouldn't be on there Stu .... be from the S.A.S. camp at Madley, five miles away ...... they do WTF they like
......... and he was sooooooo loooooooooow, you'd need a search light, not radar

Normally are on there just don't tell you what they are doing