Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[TiltyShaun]

So the lever behind the ram on the splitter, is that an open and down for the ram?
Do you wedge the foot pedal for flow?

 

[V8Druid]

So the lever behind the ram on the splitter, is that an open and down for the ram?
Do you wedge the foot pedal for flow?

open flow spool Shaun .... down for down - up for up - centre is neutral/free flow return to tank ..
pedal is so stiff still, in the required direction it just stays --- gonna have to have the floor off again and force some lube down the cable - it's fine the other/wrong way (which is why I assumed I was pressing it in the right direction )
all sent to try us/wind us up

 

[V8Druid]

well I got a coat on some of it last night

lousy morning here -- real dank, damp day altogether, but the N Easterly was drying stuff rapid again and the bench etc., was dry by the time I got going
finished off last night's effort with a first coat ...
and set about tidying up the boss shrinkage ... remarkable really just how tight they get with a full weld round 'em ... die grinder and some flaps soon loosened 'em back up

next up was make/finish off the end plates for the pins -- set 'em out last week on a bar and needed to nip 'em off, so wound up the genny and nipped them off with the Meba, then separated ready for a few holes, whilst the genny was running

retreated inside for the Ajax's attention, just as it started getting wet (bloody weather!!)

two 50s followed by a couple of 20s

then whilst I had the 3ph put a hole in the centre of the cat head plates, I cut a while ago

and ran a reamer through 'em after for a nice fit on the 1" spindle that's gonna end up running through them

next up was half an hour on the Harrison facing off the pin ends and adding a chamfer, 'fore winding the genny down.

Kids tomorrow, so not a lot gonna get done despite a few nice days forecast ... Friday'll have to do to finish shaping up the pin end plate/captures and maybe start assembling the cat head, after I've juggled a few forks into place ....
six foot take some getting onto a carriage on yer own!!
gonna pull the 4 foots off my original carriage, I had off Mog and bang the six foots on that - 's a heavier build - and stick me 4 foots on this one I think (I think? ) ... need to give the six,s a good clean up too

I realise some folk'll think it extravagant having two sets, but swapping six foots is not an easy task - much easier to just be able to pick up an alternate carriage, with 'em already on - I've got a couple of pairs of extensions, but're 8ft and 10ft and a touch too big to go into a std pallet -- and bloody heavy

 

[V8Druid]

Kids tomorrow, so not a lot gonna get done despite a few nice days forecast ... Friday'll have to do to finish shaping up the pin end plate/captures and maybe start assembling the cat head, after I've juggled a few forks into place ....

well today's plans went to hell in a bucket at 07.15 ... Clara unwell, so had both of 'em all day, but a slightly earlier collection than usual ... had planned to take her to school and then take the little un shopping with us, for a change of scenery - she likes the supermarket and her own mini trolley.
Tomorrow's plans just went to hell too -- message from Russ - Usual agent's on holiday and his sub. won't let Russ use me without ALL the bollocks tickets in place ...
doesn't bother me - has p*ssed Russ off, at such short notice .. only sub he can find has a crane ticket, but no slinger's, so Russ is gonna have to sling, while his mate operates ..
has done it once before in desperation and didn't enjoy it apparently...

any way ...
I did get an hour after the kids went
sorted my keep plates ...

and got 'em attached to the pins

greased 'em up and located in their new homes

was going to give it a trial fit, but got beaten by the bell for tea, so'll have to wait 'til tomorrow afternoon ...
Now I'm cancelled for tomorrow's 'expedition', I get some extra zeds, but will need to be in town in the morning for the kids - Vicki has a funeral to attend at 10.45, (doesn't work on a Friday these days ), doubt Clara will be fit for school and Harper will need looking after for a couple of hours, so Pam can deal with them, for an hour or so and I'll go hit Aldi and Morrisons -- home for lunchtime-ish, hopefully

forgot to put this one up the other day -- woodshed looking much 'healthier' ... 'nother couple of Ifor loads and it'll be crammed

 

[Stroppymonkey]

well today's plans went to hell in a bucket at 07.15 ... Clara unwell, so had both of 'em all day, but a slightly earlier collection than usual ... had planned to take her to school and then take the little un shopping with us, for a change of scenery - she likes the supermarket and her own mini trolley.
Tomorrow's plans just went to hell too -- message from Russ - Usual agent's on holiday and his sub. won't let Russ use me without ALL the bollocks tickets in place ...
doesn't bother me - has p*ssed Russ off, at such short notice .. only sub he can find has a crane ticket, but no slinger's, so Russ is gonna have to sling, while his mate operates ..
has done it once before in desperation and didn't enjoy it apparently...

any way ...
I did get an hour after the kids went
sorted my keep plates ...
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and got 'em attached to the pins
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greased 'em up and located in their new homes
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was going to give it a trial fit, but got beaten by the bell for tea, so'll have to wait 'til tomorrow afternoon ...
Now I'm cancelled for tomorrow's 'expedition', I get some extra zeds, but will need to be in town in the morning for the kids - Vicki has a funeral to attend at 10.45, (doesn't work on a Friday these days ), doubt Clara will be fit for school and Harper will need looking after for a couple of hours, so Pam can deal with them, for an hour or so and I'll go hit Aldi and Morrisons -- home for lunchtime-ish, hopefully

forgot to put this one up the other day -- woodshed looking much 'healthier' ... 'nother couple of Ifor loads and it'll be crammed
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Nice shed of wood. Surprised you’re not putting some pallets down first to encourage air flow ? Do you find them a bit mouldy at the bottom when taking back out? Dry wood is good wood

 

[V8Druid]

Nice shed of wood. Surprised you’re not putting some pallets down first to encourage air flow ? Do you find them a bit mouldy at the bottom when taking back out? Dry wood is good wood

used to have some spacers under it but'd seen better days this year when uncovered, so didn't bother putting anything under it all ... remains to see if that was a mistake -- pallets'd take up a fair bit of height and'd almost certainly take some juggling in

 

[V8Druid]

well the hoped for finish/being home by lunchtime went south fast this morning .... never seen so much traffic (and chaos) in Aber of a morning
Dropped Pam at Vicki's at 10.50 .... took me an hour to get some petrol and pick up some prescriptions, supposedly 'en route' to Aldi a mile away ... un****in'real
13.10 'fore I was back at Vicki's, pick up pam and still had to hit Morrisons ...
was nigh on four by the time we got back and unloaded
Bloody farmer down the road's been sh1t spreading all day and a mile or so of the road up to ours is 2" deep in crap - no exaggeration - out of one field where his tish is stockpiled and into another a mile up the road -- drags sh1t out of both fields exiting. If anyone else did it, plod'd be on your case in an hour ... huge traccies and propelled spreaders with wheels bigger than the traccy's and well over 10ft wide ....
any more than 5mph would result in the cars being totally plastered
been down and up it twice today .. once to town and then again to a friends' place where we're dog sitting ... cars are in a bloody mess

so eventually got me working rags on 'bout half four and got the 'Drema wound up ...
and this on the hitch

well pleased with the fit

these took some wrestling on, on me own

then spent some time with a 5" Mak and a cup brush giving them a good clean off

'fore dropping them on the deck for the night, in anticipation of an imminent tea bell

gonna need a second pair of hands to swap them onto my other carriage and drop the 4ft,s onto this one ... this carriage has a centre cut out to drop 'em onto .. t'other carriage doesn't and have to go on from the edges, which requires help with
dropped this back on the bench, in anticipation of a dry weekend having finally holed the cat head carrier plates the other day - can get on and assemble that ..

then locked up for the night and some grub (a VERY late lunch)

 

[Gecko]

Great woork, but those fiddly bits are screaming for a basic CAD package and a laser cutter.
There are a few laser cutters not far from you - could be worth the learning curve.

 

[Bucket on wheels]

For your steep lawn Carnage

https://fb.watch/v0qMXyVYxe/

 

[V8Druid]

Great woork, but those fiddly bits are screaming for a basic CAD package and a laser cutter.
There are a few laser cutters not far from you - could be worth the learning curve.

's a long time since I opened my A-cad software - used to use it regularly - would take some getting my head around now -- dare say it has moved on in leaps and bounds since then ..
had my own magic eye profiler for smaller bits and pieces .. long gone ... just make do with what I have these days ....
but it would be very nice

 

[V8Druid]

didn't get as far as I'd've liked today -- half twelve 'fore I got all the can you justs sorted and got to me bench

hour's head scratching and fiddling about later and started to come together ... had a fair bit to consider, 'fore going for it ..

got the cntre plate properly attached and nicely square/upright
spacing's critical, as is pin alignment .....

outer plate tacked .. time for another ....

spaced and paralleled up for tacking up then welding up

then had to set up the carrier plates ... got 'em tacked and braced .....

then had to go dog sitting, so everything went indoors so I could lock up to go feed a friend's hound ...
by the time I got back 'twas time to do what I'd planned for the end of the day .....
bloody grass .....
had dried enough to get on and massacre - and did it ever need it
dunno what these were .. but they ain't anymore loads of toadstools and fungii scattered about the lawn

then Daned beside the drive - little sod did not wanna start - does it now and again ...
floods badly, then it's a mop it out job and go again, waiting for the bang, as it fires in the exhaust .. was some bang today and then it was away - no problem -- 's a weird fault/issue .. but its a weird carb on it anyway
tea was late, 'cos I was finishing - no matter what -forecast this morning for tomorrow is grim, followed by an equally grim four days ... grass is not going to get any drier for some time and'll be growing like crazy again after 4 days rain - so had to be done

Brambles - Nil ---- bin - 1 ... after tea burn job ... gonna have to give @Stock a job

weather update - just looked and the day has changed to a bit of an improvement - see what the morning brings - might get summat done after all

 

[V8Druid]

everything ok ?

sort of Bob

long-ish story @bobthebuilder ... on my way to the 'new' Grange hospital in Cwmbran (as they've closed the excellent A&E in Nevill Hall in Aber) - should've gone to Hereford, in retrospect -- I'll stick the details in my usual thread

In a country where we have the NHS
..it's something I don't want to have to use. Even more so confirmed on my last encounter.

But regardless of that, do hope it's nothing serious and you do get sorted correctly.

have to say though Alex ... they saved me and have kept me alive since, so can't knock most of 'em ...
but'd never needed it before that point, 'cept for the odd stich or FB in an eye

I do hope it’s nothing serious.
“Usual thread” am I missing something?

I'm busy on the bench late Monday afternoon, 'bout half five and Pam appears saying she's feeling decidedly unwell - will I ring the doctors and see if we can get an appointment - when Pam WANTS to go to the quack's there is something very WRONG!! she hates 'em - real white coat syndrome sufferer.
packed up 'rapido' and had her there for a 6.20 appointment (was shocked to even get one, let alone instantly)

ended up with the 'worst one' in the practise ... nobody chooses to see him ... but " beggars, etc. " ........

examined her, very tender abdomen, did a urine sample and tested it .. blood, protein and a raging infection in it ... gave her some monster antibiotics, take one now, another at bedtime, some paracetamol and said come back in the morning if it hadn't improved ..

she's been banging the paracetamol down her for days and complaining of a bad head, nausea, but hadn't let on she was in pain ...
went to bed, but couldn't sleep, so neither did I and 'bout half three she says " take me to hospital " ... never thought I'd hear her say that one, so she must've been feeling VERY rough

Local hospital in Aber. that saved my life in 2010 and eventually diagnosed my problems, has had their excellent A&E closed
So it was either 15 miles to Hereford's or 20 miles to the new Grange A&E in Cwmbran ... neither of us had ever been to the Hereford one, or had any idea WTF it was there, so chose t'other.
Was absolutely lashing it down all the way there, but still made record time.

Check in is a touch screen, with must've been 40+ layers/Q.s -- thought we'd never get through it all ..... and then you sit ---- and wait ... with pushing 40 odd other ppl .. .. for triage

Pam is grey and looking like she's gonna keel over any minute, but eventually get called after half an hour
told 'em about the evening's earlier events, showed 'em the med.s, etc., as they're doing the std obs./stat.s and canulated her to extract a full set of bloods - said they'd call us back in, as and when - 'til Pam stood up and went down like the proverbial ' sack o' tish ' -- at which point they started to take some proper notice

I'd already told them that if Pam had ASKED to be brought in she had a seeerious issue - and why !!
She came to, trying to vomit, but now't to bring up as she'd not eaten more than a piece of toast in two days.
Nurse stuck a syringe full of metoclopramide anti-sickness into her and we sat and waited in triage.

one of the nurses/doc.s/whoever they were, went off to get her some better pain med.s ......
and then it was shift change, handover, before she returned and we got kicked back into the waiting area, by one of the new shift ... despite my saying we were waiting for additional pain med.s and the fact that one of 'em had been checking on her every two minutes

after another half hour and me badgering every nurse that appeared through any of the multiple doors, one 'took pity' and I wheeled Pam back into triage, where I eventually persuaded her to give Pam some Oramorph which helped her immensely in the ten minutes it took to kick in ...

A doctor finally came and examined her and we got despatched, post haste, to radiology for a CT, to see if there were any other issues not apparent, other than those we'd already told 'em about/that we knew of .....

then we sat and we sat in the waiting area .... 'til around nine o'clock when a consultant came out and asked us into the 'red area' ..... five colour wrist bands in the triage process - red being the most serious cases.
Gulp!!!
Fair play, real nice guy, went through all the blood results and said the CT'd not shown up any other issues, they could see ... make sure she took all the antibiotics, things would improve and he'd be reporting all their findings to her GP .. and please naff off

Wouldn't let me wheel her back out to the car in the parking area - made her walk

Got home about 10 a.m. and we both went to bed - knackered.
by the time we'd surfaced the Oramorph'd worn off and Pam was suffering again, so cracked open my own fresh bottle and gave her 5ml.s of mine (I have it 'in stock' for the odd occasions the Tramadol doesn't get on top of my issues and hadn't needed to open this one, fortunately - long shelf life, unopened )

things seemed to improve yesterday, but has still been very nauseous, terribly bad head, light headed, digestive issues (can't go), abdominal cramping, can't sleep, etc., etc. and having done some research today, all these match the side effects of Statin usage.
Doc.s'd put her on 'em a month or two ago after some routine bloods showed a slightly elevated cholesterol level ...
and she's not been right since -- the bladder infection seems to have been the last straw.

The 'quack' we saw Monday evening, should've picked up on some/all of these - he had her notes in front of him
Still not well today and deffo not herself ....
We shall be waiting for the GPs to open in the morning and demanding some answers as to why no one has followed up on her being prescribed these bloody things and checking that she's not been suffering any of the multiple possible side effects.
I am furious.
particularly as she was not warned to look out for any of these issues.

she seems to have got the lot

My research also showed me today that of all ppl eligible/candidates for them, only 20% actually submit to taking them.
and this was even more interesting
" controversy in the United Kingdom started in 2013 when the British Medical Journal (BMJ) claimed statins were being overprescribed to people with low risk of heart disease, and that the drugs' side effects were worse than previously thought. "

Pam has zero history of heart disease in her family at all, ever !!!

 

[Gecko]

My dad had a catheta up his watzit for a year. As I was looking after him, I got pretty good at spotting the onset of a UTI.
Two things to add to the list - Cranberry Juice and Hiprex - both provide a strong suppression in the bladder to reduce the symptoms.
They are NOT an alternitive to antibiotics, but can make you feel a lot better.

Non-antibiotic options for recurrent urinary tract infections in women

#### What you need to know Recurrent urinary tract infection in women is a common problem. There is no universally accepted definition, but most clinicians would classify recurrent UTI as being two episodes of infection in six months, or three episodes in one year.1 The annual incidence of a...

www.bmj.com

 

[6feetdown]

My dad had a catheta up his watzit for a year. As I was looking after him, I got pretty good at spotting the onset of a UTI.
Two things to add to the list - Cranberry Juice and Hiprex - both provide a strong suppression in the bladder to reduce the symptoms.
They are NOT an alternitive to antibiotics, but can make you feel a lot better.

Non-antibiotic options for recurrent urinary tract infections in women

#### What you need to know Recurrent urinary tract infection in women is a common problem. There is no universally accepted definition, but most clinicians would classify recurrent UTI as being two episodes of infection in six months, or three episodes in one year.1 The annual incidence of a...

www.bmj.com

Has to be pure cranberry not the stuff in most supermarkets as they contain too much sugar

 

[Gecko]

Has to be pure cranberry not the stuff in most supermarkets as they contain too much sugar

Stronger is better (many of the supermarket drinks are only 5%) - nbg.
Sugar won't help, but the effect is in the bladder and if sugar is getting to the bladder, you have other problems.

 

[V8Druid]

pure cranberry juice is also good for gall stones and can even reduce/dissolve them in sufficient quantities/usage

 

[modelman093]

pure cranberry juice is also good for gall stones and can even reduce/dissolve them in sufficient quantities/usage

Try to find the Ocean Spray brand with no added sugar etc

 

[V8Druid]

Try to find the Ocean Spray brand with no added sugar etc

that's the stuff .... I have two large gall stones (side effect of the Gaucher's) and have tried this but it takes some handling in quantity and talk about sharp !! 's one of the reasons why I am very careful with my diet - or suffer, big time

 

[weirdfish]

Nowt medical, ( I’d be here all day ),
Trailer wise, I’ve decided it needs a couple of lights on stalks at the front so as I can see it when I’m driving, anyone fitted these, if so, which ones and where exactly did you fit them so they don’t get in the way.
Also, security, the trailer is on the drive at the moment whilst I sort out any jobs that need doing on it, but it will be stored in our field, gate is locked but thought a bit more security might not go amiss.

 

[Smiffy]

Nowt medical, ( I’d be here all day ),
Trailer wise, I’ve decided it needs a couple of lights on stalks at the front so as I can see it when I’m driving, anyone fitted these, if so, which ones and where exactly did you fit them so they don’t get in the way.
Also, security, the trailer is on the drive at the moment whilst I sort out any jobs that need doing on it, but it will be stored in our field, gate is locked but thought a bit more security might not go amiss.

The storks get the ones from any hgv place online, they work with 12v but usually better quality.

Security wise I don't think you can beat casting a lump of chain in concrete in the ground. Or even better a wheel lock cast into the concrete. If the chain is hidden hopefully they will just end up confused.