Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

Mogman

Mogman

What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
I take it the template needs to be magnetic, otherwise MDF is yer friend (y)
No🤔 it has a little wheel that traces around the template that has a electro magnet that sticks to the template 👍
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
No🤔 it has a little wheel that traces around the template that has a electro magnet that sticks to the template 👍
's what i meant Mog .... ali/plastic/MDF no good as it's non-magnetic ... guide wheel needs to stick to the template
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well it got wrapped while the little un was snoring this morning ....
good old bale wrap - tough old stuff - better than the usual pallet wrap IMHDO and sticks like tish on a woolly blanket :giggle:
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Palletways booked to collect next Wednesday ....
only day I am guaranteed to myself :rolleyes: ....
labels arrived in the email this afters (y) ..
boiler stoked in the XP 'puter (me laser printer's hooked up to that one) and printed off.:cool:
just bagged 'em and taped 'em on ready for the trip norf :giggle: ...
might give 'em a bit of duct tape too tomorrow, when I have a box open ;)
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's finally going to work :LOL: .....
assuming Vin sees his duck anytime soon -- you must've forgotten what it looks like @Vinpetrol :ROFLMAO:

A very generous gift voucher arrived in my email earlier for 'The Walnut Tree' - world renowned eatery we have locally, with a very nice message from Vin - really wasn't necessary boyo, but thank you -- we'll think of you as we tuck in at some future juncture :giggle: ....
Pam is salivating already :) ...
might go there for our 'welding' anniversary, in July ......
oh and the Co-op's gotten the booking fee sorted (y):cool:

all that remains now is to fork it into the back of whatever turns up next week, with the 'Drema and wave it au revoir :giggle:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well I timed that just right .... it is absolutely lashing it down out there - biblical - bouncing 15" off the deck :oops::oops:o_O
 
Vinpetrol

Vinpetrol

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well it got wrapped while the little un was snoring this morning ....
good old bale wrap - tough old stuff - better than the usual pallet wrap IMHDO and sticks like tish on a woolly blanket :giggle:
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Palletways booked to collect next Wednesday ....
only day I am guaranteed to myself :rolleyes: ....
labels arrived in the email this afters (y) ..
boiler stoked in the XP 'puter (me laser printer's hooked up to that one) and printed off.:cool:
just bagged 'em and taped 'em on ready for the trip norf :giggle: ...
might give 'em a bit of duct tape too tomorrow, when I have a box open ;)
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's finally going to work :LOL: .....
assuming Vin sees his duck anytime soon -- you must've forgotten what it looks like @Vinpetrol :ROFLMAO:

A very generous gift voucher arrived in my email earlier for 'The Walnut Tree' - world renowned eatery we have locally, with a very nice message from Vin - really wasn't necessary boyo, but thank you -- we'll think of you as we tuck in at some future juncture :giggle: ....
Pam is salivating already :) ...
might go there for our 'welding' anniversary, in July ......
oh and the Co-op's gotten the booking fee sorted (y):cool:

all that remains now is to fork it into the back of whatever turns up next week, with the 'Drema and wave it au revoir :giggle:
Cheers Buddy , least I could do. As soon as we get the duck back to Angus’s yard I will post up some pics of it in action . I’ve got a job lined up for it later in the year !
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
got this little thing back together this morning ...
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not a bad little drill ... thought I had a push button starter box for it somewhere, but couldn't find the damned thing this morning, so it got metalclad switch for now:rolleyes:

collect Clara from school at 3.15 ...
then deliver her to Mum in her school at 4.00, to go to her swimming class ...
can't believe it's a week since we took her swimming, last Friday :oops::oops:

then gave the green shite a hair cut after tea - everywhere ('cept the bank - still too wet for the Danes herring bones -- lashed down here last night):(
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's about time the weather bucked up .. it's 6-8" long where I haven't been ... forecast for the week's not great again .. 's gonna be a battle when I eventually get to it and a lot of clearing up :(:mad:
 
M

Monkeybusiness

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got this little thing back together this morning ...
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not a bad little drill ... thought I had a push button starter box for it somewhere, but couldn't find the damned thing this morning, so it got metalclad switch for now:rolleyes:

collect Clara from school at 3.15 ...
then deliver her to Mum in her school at 4.00, to go to her swimming class ...
can't believe it's a week since we took her swimming, last Friday :oops::oops:

then gave the green shite a hair cut after tea - everywhere ('cept the bank - still too wet for the Danes herring bones -- lashed down here last night):(
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's about time the weather bucked up .. it's 6-8" long where I haven't been ... forecast for the week's not great again .. 's gonna be a battle when I eventually get to it and a lot of clearing up :(:mad:
I think it looks good left longer down the bank - what length could the Dane handle if left to grow out? You could have a nice wildflower area which would do well only being cut a couple of times a year.
 
Quattromike

Quattromike

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I think it looks good left longer down the bank - what length could the Dane handle if left to grow out? You could have a nice wildflower area which would do well only being cut a couple of times a year.
I hear if you get a couple goats and chain them up around the garden they will take care of trimming the overgrowth. Plus they are great companion animals 😜
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I hear if you get a couple goats and chain them up around the garden they will take care of trimming the overgrowth. Plus they are great companion animals 😜
but ....
(a) you gotta house and feed them 9 months of the year:(
and
(b) like sheep, they sh1t and p*ss everywhere and smell worse.:cry:
plus
(c) I'd never hear the last of it if they got into Pam's garden :oops:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
I think it looks good left longer down the bank - what length could the Dane handle if left to grow out? You could have a nice wildflower area which would do well only being cut a couple of times a year.
we tried that last year with the bank above the lawn ... jeez it took some getting back under control.:(
we have considered what you suggest, but it's the return to 'tamed' is the problem .....
the Dane'll cope with 12" or more ... (y)
but you then have to tidy it all up once chopped ...
'kin hard work:mad:

If I can keep on top of it it doesn't need collecting as the Dane's set up to mulch, not that it does a great job of that, but cut weekly it copes ..;)
my current issue is the ground is so soft, it's herring bone tyres'll tear the ground up and without them/on grass tyres, I'll end up in the ditch .. as said - been there, got the tee shirt - a few times:oops:
I'll get away with a few more weeks growth, other than the clean up :rolleyes:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
busy afternoon ... 'fore it rained ...
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this was the original driveway to ours, before we bought it ...
there's planings under there, believe it or not ......
always takes some taming, first cut ...
usually Dane it, but wasn't getting it out just for this.
would love to dig it out and put a BIG garage with a basement in there :giggle:

then went all down the lower side of the jungle beside the drive ...
can't get at it, close to the fence, in some parts, so's always a strimmer job, 'fore it gets 'Dane-ed'
's a foot long FFS :oops:
 
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6feetdown

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Stick them in the freezer and buy some more next year…
Plenty of curried go
busy afternoon ... 'fore it rained ...
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this was the original driveway to ours, before we bought it ...
there's planings under there, believe it or not ......
always takes some taming, first cut ...
usually Dane it, but wasn't getting it out just for this.
would love to dig it out and put a BIG garage with a basement in there :giggle:

then went all down the lower side of the jungle beside the drive ...
can't get at it, close to the fence, in some parts, so's always a strimmer job, 'fore it gets 'Dane-ed'
's a foot long FFS :oops:
That big solar roof on yours?
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
bit of a 'bitsa' day today ... few little things to catch up with .. coupled with a few 'can you justs' :rolleyes: :giggle:
bit of grass movement, first off... was a lot of grass in those piles from yesterday - took a while
then....
One of our patio umbrellas succumbed to a big gust end of last season and snapped in it's (druid) base ... been meaning to get a spigot turned up for it for ages and as the boss wanted it back in service .. I had to get on with it ...
had the remnants of a shaft out of a machine I'd worked on for Simon, which was pretty close to what I needed, so gave that a few mod.s with the Harrison ..
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hopefully that'll keep it in one piece a while longer :giggle: -- it used to drop into the base's tube - now the spigot does an even better job and replaces the bit that snapped off too

gave the little compound vice I had with that little 50 quid Fobco bench drill some attention in the form of a complete strip, clean, scrape off on the bed ways, lube and reassembly ... not a bad little thing now it all moves freely
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the colour appears to be original ... dare say one of these'd cost you what I gave for it and the drill :giggle:
followed by tea...
and as it was a lot more pleasant this evening after the Northerly'd subsided came back out and had a 'fiddle' with a couple of hyd fittings, I've been meaning to create for a while ... 'Drema has a lot of these flat CAT type fittings, which're eye wateringly expensive new (bought a few on hoses a while ago and they ain't cheap), so with what came off the dead ones I've meant create some adaptors back to conventional BSP ...
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'Drema also has a LOT of large metric, which again ain't the cheapest and Fast fluids don't always have them on the shelf (bit odd ball apparently), so did the same with some gash pipe ends for those too ...
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used to do a hell of a lot of similar things for the hyd. guys across the road from me in work, when they had weird stuff to match up/repair in a hurry and didn't have 'the right' fittings on the shelf.:giggle:

Like I say a bitsa day :giggle::giggle:
 
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