V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
so .... today shot to sh1t ... again 
stood outside at quarter to eight this morning, awaiting Clara's arrival and down the drive comes Darren's bright red Veedub van FFS --- the alarm/autogate man .... ..... with yet another gate hinge/bracket problem
he gets earlier each time ..... head in hands, with a nightmare job on his hands ..... gates again, on a pub conversion, back to a house, not far from my parents old house in Aber ....
lots of pix and measurements and explanations, little of which made any sense, as to what he was trying to achieve .... looked like mission impossible
so made a fuss of the little un and shot off into town with him to view it ...... whoever made and fitted the gates should hang their head in shame ... I wouldn't put my name to it ... 140 square timber 'posts' bolted to the walls so badly that they just wobbled about in all directions and some tw*t had hung a pair of 12 ft gates on these things ... with butt hinges .... they filled the opening, but with returning walls either side of them, was no room for above ground automation behind the gates, so had to be an underground jobby ... anyway.... long story short, some trick top pivots were required to suit the below ground pivot points ....
he'd got what he thought'd do the job 'til I pointed out the pitfalls of his proposals and we headed back to the bench to 'alter' them to suit/make it work
extend the pins for starters
after a bit of a 'brainstorm' ......
......then set about the hangers .. having altered/hacked/created one out of 'screwfix's best' making the second of the pair was a bit more fraught
but I got there in the end ..... late this after noon
after a two plus hour interruption at 11 for grandadding duties at Clara's sports day
my primary school teachers never looked like these
mostly 50 + year old spinsters
sooooooo as said ... today burggered from the off
the day is mine tomorrow ... Clara's gone off to Plymouth with her mum -- having nicked our golf for the run and i'm not answering the phone
stood outside at quarter to eight this morning, awaiting Clara's arrival and down the drive comes Darren's bright red Veedub van FFS
--- the alarm/autogate man .... ..... with yet another gate hinge/bracket problem he gets earlier each time
..... head in hands, with a nightmare job on his hands ..... gates again, on a pub conversion, back to a house, not far from my parents old house in Aber .... lots of pix and measurements and explanations, little of which made any sense, as to what he was trying to achieve .... looked like mission impossible
so made a fuss of the little un and shot off into town with him to view it
...... whoever made and fitted the gates should hang their head in shame ... I wouldn't put my name to it ... 140 square timber 'posts' bolted to the walls so badly that they just wobbled about in all directions and some tw*t had hung a pair of 12 ft gates on these things ... with butt hinges .... they filled the opening, but with returning walls either side of them, was no room for above ground automation behind the gates, so had to be an underground jobby ... anyway.... long story short, some trick top pivots were required to suit the below ground pivot points ....he'd got what he thought'd do the job 'til I pointed out the pitfalls of his proposals and we headed back to the bench to 'alter' them to suit/make it work
extend the pins for starters
after a bit of a 'brainstorm' ......
......then set about the hangers .. having altered/hacked/created one out of 'screwfix's best' making the second of the pair was a bit more fraught
but I got there in the end ..... late this after noon
after a two plus hour interruption at 11 for grandadding duties at Clara's sports day
my primary school teachers never looked like these
mostly 50 + year old spinsters
sooooooo as said ... today burggered from the off
the day is mine tomorrow ... Clara's gone off to Plymouth with her mum -- having nicked our golf for the run and i'm not answering the phone
diggerjones
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I wasn't far off considering i know little about prices. I'm thinking the zetor is a bit of a collectors item now could probably worth a lot more. The Irish like them i think
diggerjones
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Might be interested in pz mower.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
found a couple of Ad.s for similar Renaults last night .... one for £11+k and t'other for £16+k
.... and a zetor at £8+k ..... think you're right about the Zetor Dylan ... they do have quite a following and in fairness, this one's pretty well together
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
it's going to get used for awhile, to flatten several acres of knee high grass, but'll get back to you once we're in a position to dispose of the gear, when we've achieved grant of probate
M
mart1602
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lot of zetors gone for export there basic reliable no electrics tractors ,if they were mine gra id clean them up ,give the wheels a paint makes them look much tidier and auction them you might be supprised what they make the used market is going up all the time as the price of new is rediculous
Bucket on wheels
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https://translate.google.no/transla...agriculturetractor/ad.html?finnkode=151823122
more Zetor here
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When it comes to Renault tractor is ther zero to find at finn.no
more Zetor here
https://translate.google.no/translate?hl=no&sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.finn.no/b2b/agriculturetractor/search.html?q=zetor+
When it comes to Renault tractor is ther zero to find at finn.no
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Routy56
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On our plot in NE Essex we have 22 houses in the hamlet. Our land borders on 6 of themAm very tempted by the Zetor .....
park it out on me drive to p*ss off the happy-snaps neighbour ....
his shiny, new ( to him ) JD broke down last week, just as he was starting his hay .....
it's been unceremoniously dumped in his 'orchard' .. for want a better description .... been there 10 days now, looking sorry for itself. .... before he pissed me off, he'd have been up asking if i could sort it
One of the neighbours, who is a really nice guy, knows f@@k all about machines.
Many many times over the 30 odd years we have been neighbours, he calls me when he breaks anything
I of course go round with my nice tools and fix it. His tools are s**t that's he's bought off garage forecourts
It's usually on a Sunday, when I hear him abusing his machines, belts slipping and hitting buried rocks etc
In recent months, I hide up when he out there doing his best to wreck his new machines
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
This bloke and his missus , pissed us off royally last yearOn our plot in NE Essex we have 22 houses in the hamlet. Our land borders on 6 of them
One of the neighbours, who is a really nice guy, knows f@@k all about machines.
Many many times over the 30 odd years we have been neighbours, he calls me when he breaks anything
I of course go round with my nice tools and fix it. His tools are s**t that's he's bought off garage forecourts
It's usually on a Sunday, when I hear him abusing his machines, belts slipping and hitting buried rocks etc
In recent months, I hide up when he out there doing his best to wreck his new machines
- for the final time ... have bent over backwards to help them, in any way I can, since they've been here, but they're just weird and intent on alienating everyone around them --- which they have succeeded in doing comprehensively
.... anyone on here from the BCEF'll know the efforts I've put into being a decent neighbour ... 's the way we are ...
but I wouldn't p*iss in his ear if his brain was on fire and I'd not be surprised to see 'the men in white coats' turn up for her at some point
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
that is one amazingly clean Zetorhttps://translate.google.no/translate?hl=no&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.finn.no/b2b/agriculturetractor/ad.html?finnkode=151823122
more Zetor here
https://translate.google.no/translate?hl=no&sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.finn.no/b2b/agriculturetractor/search.html?q=zetor+
When it comes to Renault tractor is ther zero to find at finn.no
looks to be the same machine but non turbo
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
have had a bit of a challenge on the go today .... Rory (@JD450A ) has had an issue with his towed roller and was in need of some bushes to get it mobile again .... and couldn't find any ... POP with a lathe, but, with a little lateral thinking, these will be in the post Monday
got all set up earlier .....
went to the genny ..... pressed the go button and ... several clicks from the control box and ...sod all .... running fine last week .... oil pressure off the scale and hadn't even turned over .... so lots of head scratching ..... very similar fault to the last occasion it pissed me off
appeared to be going through the motions of trying ... just not doing it ?? had a good shufty around everything then checked the earths to the starter ... dropped a connection off .. cleaned it all and ........ away it went with perfectly normal oil gauge ... I'm hoping that I may well have found the culprit
so.....I was away ....
as said a bit of lateral thinking was needed for this .....
Ajax lathe ......... started with this ..
the jig saw came out for the other three
then it needed a hole ... a 70mm one
as a solid disc, gripping it was easy .... as a tube it was a different matter and had to get it 'just right'
mission accomplished .... "where there's a will " - etc..... but jeez what a bloody mess .... took me an hour to clean up all the acetal swarf !!
can report that the Ajax is a peach..... the DRO is the bollaux, for summat like this, where repeatable centre set up was paramount ... accurate to 0.1 thou. .... gonna enjoy owning this ....... and the genny ....... started / stopped fine all afternoon
Great to be 'driving' a machine tool again ..... and I love machining plastics .... so nice to work with ... .... no sharp, or hot bits
.... Rory (@JD450A ) has had an issue with his towed roller and was in need of some bushes to get it mobile again .... and couldn't find any ... POP with a lathe, but, with a little lateral thinking, these will be in the post Monday got all set up earlier .....
went to the genny ..... pressed the go button and ... several clicks from the control box and ...sod all
.... running fine last week .... oil pressure off the scale and hadn't even turned over .... so lots of head scratching ..... very similar fault to the last occasion it pissed me off appeared to be going through the motions of trying ... just not doing it ?? had a good shufty around everything then checked the earths to the starter ... dropped a connection off .. cleaned it all and ........ away it went with perfectly normal oil gauge
... I'm hoping that I may well have found the culprit so.....I was away ....
as said a bit of lateral thinking was needed for this .....
Ajax lathe
......... started with this ..the jig saw came out for the other three
then it needed a hole ... a 70mm one
as a solid disc, gripping it was easy .... as a tube it was a different matter and had to get it 'just right'
mission accomplished .... "where there's a will " - etc..... but jeez what a bloody mess .... took me an hour to clean up all the acetal swarf !!
can report that the Ajax is a peach
..... the DRO is the bollaux, for summat like this, where repeatable centre set up was paramount ... accurate to 0.1 thou. .... gonna enjoy owning this ....... and the genny ....... started / stopped fine all afternoon Great to be 'driving' a machine tool again
..... and I love machining plastics .... so nice to work with ... .... no sharp, or hot bits 
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
I will see you on the border with the roller soon Thanks for it Grah, can put it together as soon as it comes
Thanks for it Grah, can put it together as soon as it comes
Routy56
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have had a bit of a challenge on the go today
Another excuse to fire up a great selection of your big boys toys
Another great write up on solving a problem
Now if I could get 3 phase down my barn, it would open a few doors for me.......
........SWMBO doesn't realise that I am conspiring with a friend to obtain an ex MOD generator trailer
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
all packed and ready for the PO Monday morning, after I drop Clara at nursery mate .....I will see you on the border with the roller soon
and in case the posty can't read ........
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Another excuse to fire up a great selection of your big boys toys
Another great write up on solving a problem
Now if I could get 3 phase down my barn, it would open a few doors for me.......
........SWMBO doesn't realise that I am conspiring with a friend to obtain an ex MOD generator trailer
cheers @Routy56 ... never know might get someone else out the s.h.1 t. one day ..... there's almost always a 'work around'
as for the genny .... get on with it
.... opens up a whole new world of toys available to you
... some very cheap (some not so ) ..10Kva min., so's you can run either a decent sized motor/MIG/lathe/planer/saw or a couple at a time .... 20 ideally ..... mine's 32Kva simply 'cos that's what came up and was mega tidy with 168 hrs ... would've been happy with a twenty, but TBH, wasn't any dearer than a twenty would've been, with similar spec. and has loads of scope / potential (pun intended
) ..... a silent pack is a luxury one should consider if you can stretch to one ... and keeps the neighbours placated ..... and can always run yer single phase kit off it too , if you've no power at the barn
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well .... these two blokes on the telly've been beating the shizer out of them yellow balls since I went out to mow all the bloody grass ... an' they're still at it .... don't think Pam has moved
The Dane's decimated either side of our drive, the three passing places on the main drive and the turning area ... then me and Sparts have mowed our old drive and the lawn ....
he was asleep on our bed when I got the Countax out the shed ... and was waiting for me at the end of the patch drive, by the time I got there
was either here, on my lap or down on the foot boards all the way round .... and stayed there 'til I'd finished and put the Countax away again
Gonna have to make him some sort of 'perch' / seat / bed to attach to the bonnet..... he's alright on my lap, or the foot boards, but perched there I have to take it real slow/steady, with him up there .... and on my lap, come to think of it ... his back claws are bloody sharp .... keep his fronts clipped as he has a tendency to climb your leg, if you don't pick him up quick enough
....... and they're still slogging them balls about ..... tea's gonna be late tonight
.... don't think Pam has moved The Dane's decimated either side of our drive, the three passing places on the main drive and the turning area ... then me and Sparts have mowed our old drive and the lawn ....
he was asleep on our bed when I got the Countax out the shed ... and was waiting for me at the end of the patch drive, by the time I got there
was either here, on my lap or down on the foot boards all the way round .... and stayed there 'til I'd finished and put the Countax away again
Gonna have to make him some sort of 'perch' / seat / bed to attach to the bonnet
..... he's alright on my lap, or the foot boards, but perched there I have to take it real slow/steady, with him up there .... and on my lap, come to think of it ... his back claws are bloody sharp .... keep his fronts clipped as he has a tendency to climb your leg, if you don't pick him up quick enough ....... and they're still slogging them balls about
..... tea's gonna be late tonight
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
been a busy-ish day ...... once Pam had departed, for Plymouth and Shem minding duties for the rest of the week, 'bout two o'clock .... Home alone ... no interruptions 'til Sunday evening
Been getting me new Jabsco installed in the back end of the 'Drema.... bit tight in places - everywhere in fact ... bits of skin missing all over .... especially when I had to make an ultra quick exit, from the engine bay, when I was joined in there by the Group Leader of 633 Squadron ...... bloody hornet must've been 60mm long .... sounded more like a Dornier diesel, than a Wellington or Lanc. ..... bloody thing has been doing fly bys all evening
started with a sort out of the tail for the tank ....
brass hose tail was a perfect fit over the swept hyd. hose tail and being brass was an ideal candidate for a soldering job ..... once I'd got the hose tail clean enough to get the tinman's to take to it and sweated on
installed that and then routed me new shiny bit of 1" fuel hose down into the engine bay, to where it needed to end up to meet the pump's outlet tail
next on the agenda was persuade the Jabsco into position to suss a fit .... took some wriggling in .....
although it doesn't look it in there ... 's a big lump in a small space ..... marked the best location
and dropped the belly plate ...... was hoping to find that red button ..... but no such luck
gave me a good chance to clean out the back end of the engine bay too while i had this belly plate off ... done the other two a long time ago ... on Zeus,s ... this 'un bolts on ...... don't think it'd ever been off
anyway, got yon plate back in position .... 4 hands would've been handy .... and realised it was time for some grub .... this went down real well with a nice soft bread roll to accompany it .....
have had it before and REALLY rate it for a quicky .... bloody gorgeous looks as good as the pic and tastes even better .....
so ... refueled, I set about persuading it all back in there again ..... after i'd checked out the control unit on 24 volts on the bench......
the red button was as I suspected .... push to break .... and's wired in parallel with the float switch .... yon relay in the box full of rubber must be a latching unit .... so needs to have a circuit 'made' in the normal position, which was a bit of a PITA ... but it got druidised and'll do for now 'til I can find a replacement guts for it ...... the floaty bit was working fine
it all went back in and got bolted down, followed by an introduction of said rubber bit .....
jeez it is tight to get yer mitts into, but got there .... routed and cable tied everything into place .......
In the middle of refitting the float switch and me phone rings ... Simon ... "are you still up? " ..... silly Q. .... " yeh sat on the top of the 'Drema's fuel tank , re-fitting the float switch in it - it's only half nine FFS " ..... he wanted to drop by on his way home, with my laser target, he borrowed ... several years ago that I'd asked him if I could 'borrow back' for a while
so by the time he'd arrived I'd gotten tidied up for tonight ..... and was on watering duties ... daren't let Pam's plants expire on my watch .... been 28C here today ...... wiring to sort tomorrow and can give it a try
..... a good hour plus watering ... good job I tidied up when I did ... struggling to see the bloody plants, by the time I'd gotten around 'em all
beautiful semi-lunar eclipse tonight when the moon came up, 'bout ten o'clock .... took about two plus hours to transition to the full moon we've got tonight
.... Home alone ... no interruptions 'til Sunday evening Been getting me new Jabsco installed in the back end of the 'Drema
.... bit tight in places - everywhere in fact ... bits of skin missing all over .... especially when I had to make an ultra quick exit, from the engine bay, when I was joined in there by the Group Leader of 633 Squadron ...... bloody hornet must've been 60mm long .... sounded more like a Dornier diesel, than a Wellington or Lanc. ..... bloody thing has been doing fly bys all evening started with a sort out of the tail for the tank ....
brass hose tail was a perfect fit over the swept hyd. hose tail and being brass was an ideal candidate for a soldering job ..... once I'd got the hose tail clean enough to get the tinman's to take to it and sweated on
installed that and then routed me new shiny bit of 1" fuel hose down into the engine bay, to where it needed to end up to meet the pump's outlet tail
next on the agenda was persuade the Jabsco into position to suss a fit .... took some wriggling in .....
although it doesn't look it in there ... 's a big lump in a small space ..... marked the best location
and dropped the belly plate ...... was hoping to find that red button ..... but no such luck
gave me a good chance to clean out the back end of the engine bay too while i had this belly plate off ... done the other two a long time ago ... on Zeus,s ... this 'un bolts on
...... don't think it'd ever been off anyway, got yon plate back in position .... 4 hands would've been handy
.... and realised it was time for some grub .... this went down real well with a nice soft bread roll to accompany it .....have had it before and REALLY rate it for a quicky .... bloody gorgeous
looks as good as the pic and tastes even better .....so ... refueled, I set about persuading it all back in there again ..... after i'd checked out the control unit on 24 volts on the bench
......the red button was as I suspected .... push to break .... and's wired in parallel with the float switch .... yon relay in the box full of rubber must be a latching unit
.... so needs to have a circuit 'made' in the normal position, which was a bit of a PITA ... but it got druidised and'll do for now 'til I can find a replacement guts for it ...... the floaty bit was working fine it all went back in and got bolted down, followed by an introduction of said rubber bit .....
jeez it is tight to get yer mitts into, but got there .... routed and cable tied everything into place .......
In the middle of refitting the float switch and me phone rings ... Simon ... "are you still up? " .....
silly Q. .... " yeh sat on the top of the 'Drema's fuel tank , re-fitting the float switch in it - it's only half nine FFS " ..... he wanted to drop by on his way home, with my laser target, he borrowed ... several years ago that I'd asked him if I could 'borrow back' for a while so by the time he'd arrived I'd gotten tidied up for tonight ..... and was on watering duties
... daren't let Pam's plants expire on my watch .... been 28C here today ...... wiring to sort tomorrow and can give it a try ..... a good hour plus watering
... good job I tidied up when I did ... struggling to see the bloody plants, by the time I'd gotten around 'em all beautiful semi-lunar eclipse tonight when the moon came up, 'bout ten o'clock
.... took about two plus hours to transition to the full moon we've got tonight
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Left hooker
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Most refueling pumps are in tool box on front corner can see why it's a tight fit
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Tight is not the word Stu
..... the original pump is 2/3rds the size and was mounted on a bracket, attached to the front face of the tail weight ... where that pipe tee-block has been put for the breaker valve's servo and LS line interfaces with the pumps .... bloody stupid place to put that ... the old pump had been left sitting on the belly plate, stuffed back out of the way .... could've made life easier, if I'd re-jigged some of the plumbing and re-located that tee-block .... but!!!!! I managed Footer block 1