@TiltyShaun ,
@fred .... you boys having one hell of an electrical storm your way tonight .... been watching it for hours ... must be pretty spectacular to be under



had one back in '84 .... sat in the garden in a sun lounger 'til 4 a.m. watching it ..... never seen anything like it before .. or since !! lightning of all varieties all night including some thunderbolts, which did a fair bit of damage where they were touching down ..... will never forget it
so ...... as planned, the Zetor got a hell of a wash yesterday ......
this usually has 100m of hose on it ......
and just about reached to where i needed it ..... has been a really handy hose reel ... a n other fleabay buy probably 10 years ago ... with a bit of 160 perf pipe on the centre to aid coiling .... just didn't work tidily with the 4 bars it came with and the perf was a perfect fit ... first time I've seen that in a very long time

so ....from this ....
to this
I have the tinwork for the tunnel and the rubber over cover ..... thought I'd get it clean, before refitting it though
taken off apparently .. some time ago .. when the pin came out of the selector lever, for the hydraulics ... have persuaded that back in but reckon it would benefit from a newer one .... awkward lil' mother to get at though.
Q for all you guys more knowledgeable than I on traccies ..... are all those blank ports for additional hydraulic services and presumably the ones on their own would be a return??
and all over, everywhere ... looks a different beast
then turned my attention to the Thwaites this morning .....
looks better than the yellow/green it'd become .... very satisfying seeing it return to a more 'original' colour


and as it was out, seemed rude not to give the 'Drema some attention too
and yes I know that panel want some shiny tish .... has done for a while .....
ran out of time to get the boom sections done .... and the pressure washer's enthusiasm had waned a bit .... think it has a blocked nozzle - but didn't want to go on .....
nice to see her looking a LOT cleaner ..... finished the day off, after tea, with a grease session, to clear all the pins of water


would be nice to get humperdumper and jakieB done too, but cannot be arsed to lug them about onto the rocks ..... job for another day and neither of them are in such a greasy state ... more green problems than grease.
... so tomorrow it's gonna be planings in and leveled ..... put the laser round the clean 40mm tonight and it's all there or there abouts, so'll be a nice edge to level to .. plus a bit for rolling ......... theeeeeeeeeen I can return everything from whence it came .. sort of


