Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[V8Druid]

some bit wet here last night ... if the buckets, etc. are to be believed, must've been 50+mm of the wet stuff ...... with more forecast, 'til late tomorrow
what's it been like around your locales ?

 

[Furniss]

some bit wet here last night ... if the buckets, etc. are to be believed, must've been 50+mm of the wet stuff ...... with more forecast, 'til late tomorrow
what's it been like around your locales ?

Had a proper piss down this afternoon for 1hr or so but bright n sunny again - didnt get wet though as Ive been in shed at yard changing cab mounts on little wagon - be nice for that fecking thing not to crunch n bang when you go round right handers been putting it off for 6 months cos I thought it would be a tw#t to do but it turned out to be a doddle

 

[V8Druid]

Had a proper piss down this afternoon for 1hr or so but bright n sunny again - didnt get wet though as Ive been in shed at yard changing cab mounts on little wagon - be nice for that fecking thing not to crunch n bang when you go round right handers been putting it off for 6 months cos I thought it would be a tw#t to do but it turned out to be a doddle

six month MOT day today in The Heath in Cardiff .... proper lashing down here when I left .... Blue skies in Cardiff.

Got called in, hour and a half early, 'cos they had a cancellation .... shot down there........and was still waiting to be seen at my original appointment time of quarter to three
New specialist nurse in my consultant's clinic..remembered me from my visits to The Royal Free, in Hampstead, London, in 2011 .... said "you're the chap who Professor Mehta examined, with 30 students gathered round, with the three plus kilo spleen .. you were a rarity "

Amazingly small world

Took a mauling that day .... from some very pretty student doctors ....... an' that was just the blokes

they got a new treatment if I want to try it ..... tablets ... apparently seems OK so far, with them that's given it a go ... will have a ponder ... be a damned sight more convenient than getting stabbed by Pam once a week ..... and doesn't need to be kept refrigerated, so very mobile ....... as usual there're side effects, so need to have a good read, as I do pretty well on what I'm on ATM ... but could always go back to it if I can't handle it -- or it doesn't like me Hmmmmm?

 

[TiltyShaun]

Pulled up on site walked across to the digger and ended up 6inches taller. Turned around went home!!

 

[V8Druid]

Pulled up on site walked across to the digger and ended up 6inches taller. Turned around went home!!

can well believe it .... ground must be well waterlogged after the last 15 hrs rain

 

[V8Druid]

Had a proper piss down this afternoon for 1hr or so but bright n sunny again - didnt get wet though as Ive been in shed at yard changing cab mounts on little wagon - be nice for that fecking thing not to crunch n bang when you go round right handers been putting it off for 6 months cos I thought it would be a tw#t to do but it turned out to be a doddle View attachment 8169View attachment 8170View attachment 8171

now with the photies can see why you'd been reluctant .... looks a bitch

 

[Jimoz]

Booked machine and op in for Thursday so ground better do some drying out next week. Been heavy rain and bright sun midlands

 

[V8Druid]

Booked machine and op in for Thursday so ground better do some drying out next week. Been heavy rain and bright sun midlands

not looking good TBH .... torrential here, but blue skies 45 miles away

 

[Cyberprog]

Druid,

This looks very similar to mine. eBay 143128908541 It’s a D type fixing and mine is a 3 bolt but looks the same otherwise. Weight is quoted as 46kg in the description.

In the knowledge that it’s going to a good home I’d take £100. That would save it from a long period of suffering getting more rusty in my barn until I do something with it.

My dad lives near J15 of the M5 and I might be visiting in a few weeks if you want to go ahead with this and a quick meet up around that area would work for you.

Rob

And if Druid can't make it, I'm just off J14 and happy to pop it in the garage for Druid to retrieve!

 

[V8Druid]

And if Druid can't make it, I'm just off J14 and happy to pop it in the garage for Druid to retrieve!

you're a star Alex
much appreciated

 

[Cyberprog]

No worries. There's someone here most of the time anyway, and stuff can always be tucked away behind the landie if I'm out all under CCTV anyway.

 

[Bucket on wheels]

The Druid's new 2 in 1 lawnmower, grass and sheep taken care of at the same time, do not know whether it is the sheep or grass that should be the most scared

 

[V8Druid]

The Druid's new 2 in 1 lawnmower, grass and sheep taken care of at the same time, do not know whether it is the sheep or grass that should be the most scared

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definitely the sheep Frank ..... that'd out run a woolly back, no sweat ..... if you missed with the arsenal, you could still 'mow' it down

 

[V8Druid]

Booked machine and op in for Thursday so ground better do some drying out next week. Been heavy rain and bright sun midlands

you could be in luck @Jimoz .... ground's dried enough to massacre the grass here and wasn't there some bit of growth .... however ... forecast for Wednesday is NOT looking good - 20mm again which, based on recent forecast of 38 mm, should equate to a good 60mm .... all me buckets're half full !! ... a good 6 inches

 

[Jimoz]

Wed no good thur ok. Its ok got tracked coming this time ground didn't like those wheels much other week. Apart from a few extreme days it just be a pretty wet summer on rainfall?

 

[Bucket on wheels]

https://www.finn.no/bap/forsale/ad.html?finnkode=154886951

 

[V8Druid]

https://www.finn.no/bap/forsale/ad.html?finnkode=154886951

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nice tank Frank .... but could probably buy one here for what it'd cost to ship it, sadly ..... I'd guess it'd take some cleaning too, if it's been used as a drain collection point .... would need a hell of a hole too at 12,000 litres

 

[V8Druid]

got the little Mountfield back together one evening this week ...

just in time to get rained on ... been a so so week here for weather

day up at Ken's Thursday, sorting scrap/rubbish/etc. and 'dealing' with this, after it'd been emptied ....

me on the rivet heads out side with a sharp cold chisel/hammer and the two BILs giving it some inside ... rolled up a treat .... there wasn't a barn above it when it went in there and beyond moving (in one piece) anyway ... even if we could've gotten at it.

not seen so much of Clara these last couple of weeks ... school holidays, so mummy is about, but she's not lost her fascination with rock ...

or diggers

when she does appear for the odd few hours

anyone recognise WTF this is .....

lovely piece of work ... but I have no idea/don't recognise what it is at all ..... i have one idea .. but see if anyone comes up with the same ?

it's 'apple' time again ...

pity the wasps had beaten us to it on a lot of 'em .... never seen 'em eat whole apples from the inside out ..... just leaving the skins hanging on the trees
What was left'll do Pam a few litres of her fave fresh apple juice though

having got well pee-ed off with grating 'em all last year she thought she'd try chopping 'em up .... I squashed em as hard as i dared, for fear of breaking her press, ........ and got sod all, not even a trickle ... so they came back out for a grating LOL .... and hey presto ... a good litre and a half out the first batch, so far. Give it a turn every time I go near it, but reckon it's about done .... next load for grating time

been waiting for some new fuel line and a tap/filter for the Mountfield ... it has a habit of dropping it's fuel tankful, when parked ... float needle obviously can't cope with the head of fuel in the tank .... it turned up Friday so had a sesh sorting that and then, as per usual, when it ain't been used for any length of time, it was flywheel off time .... bloody spiders like occupying the points dept. and it rarely goes without a sort out.

anyway ... got in there and the casing's full of what can only be condensation ... no way for rain to get in there .

Got most of it out, but had to lift the points out to get it all ..... and discovered ...

an acute shortage of connections from the coils to the points, which was not going to be helpful to the cause .. God knows where the missing inch plus had gone ??

so out came my trusty Weller ..... this is 50 years old .... had it for my 12th birthday ... (was into 'electronics', as it was known then)

........ and I've run out of pix again

 

[mart1602]

would that be a piece of rail from a roller coaster or something similar

 

[Cyberprog]

would that be a piece of rail from a roller coaster or something similar

Looks more like some sort of engineering tool TBH. The slots in it suggest it gets clamped to something and then something to it?