V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
'til lunch time .... 20mm forecast this afters
and hasn't it ever rained overnight herekids this morning so now't'll get done today
glad my water issue was yesterday and not today
and hasn't it ever rained overnight herekids this morning so now't'll get done today
glad my water issue was yesterday and not today
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
another wet, wild night here ... but forecast to stop at 5 - did it hell
no bench time today ... been to Worcester with Russ to Lee and Perrins sauce factory .. looks like summat from a Dickens novel or a " Dark, satanic mill " nice (not) early start - on site for ten so was at Russ's for 8.45 .... with a trailer .. had a load of 'deceased' trees he didn't love any more and wanted rid of ---- the Morso's not fussy what I feed it and free is free
Anyway ... we wuz there at 9.55 - still drizzling so put me coat on, hard hat and me harness -- sheet packs to go up on a 4th floor roof ..... roofer's ganger wanders up and says " Have five guys - the 'suits' are having a discussion " ... so we did and another 55 too ... Tight - as in reeeeeal tight site and there was a lot of discussion as to where we could (were gonna be allowed) to set up ..... so
an hour later, I'm de-togged and we're back in the cab ....... leaving .... site HS manager refused every suggestion (right bloody jobsworth) ... scaffolders and roofers were sick of the sight of him ... so basically we weren't allowed to stand anywhere .. Russ said he'd proforma-ed the job anyway and'd been paid so **** it ... we were leaving as it was bloody obvious this bloke wasn't gonna let us set up anywhere ....
back at his place by twelve - quick cuppa and were loading what used to be a large conifer/misc trees hedge into my trailer ... was home here having lunch by half one
spent the afternoon dealing with this lot
sod wrestling these .. Lil' Jake time - with the Haner for grip and my trusty leccy mak -- on/off/on - simples - ripped through it all - including a few big lumps
this pair arrived 'bout half three and slowed progress a tad ...
and Clara inevitably wanted a go .. in fairness she wasn't too bad ... give her an hour or two in the middle of a clear patch (with nothing to hit/avoid) and a few bits / targets to practice on and she'd be quite handy with it - picked it up real quick (as they do )
Mummy rescued me after half an hour and got on with the job
see if I can't get the splitter out tomorrow and turn some of 'em into Morso sized bits and in the wood shed ... all pretty damned dry ... been on the floor a good 12 months
gave a pair of these a quick try, 'fore sticking a couple of gallons of 'lotion' in Lil' Jake and putting him away
you can see what I meant about the weather not being kind to that piece of 8mm plate, pitting it in places
all four are the same shape so should fit fine t'other side too .... finish cleaning them up a bit more - coat of tish and they'll be just the job
and then it pi**ed down for half an hour, whilst I was clearing up all the mess ... 'least it'd been dry for the 'main event' of the afternoon
went and had some tea, then came back and dealt with the crud ...
All the ivy and extraneous crap burnt well @Stock .... will have a substantial load of chainsaw dust, when I clear the trailer of blocks - tried hard to keep as much in there as poss, but still ended up with a few shovelfuls on the floor
so all in all a pretty good day ..... got paid to collect a load of free firewood and spent the time dealing with it .. I'd call that a result ....... and booked for a.n.other POP job next Friday too
no bench time today ... been to Worcester with Russ to Lee and Perrins sauce factory .. looks like summat from a Dickens novel
or a " Dark, satanic mill " nice (not) early start - on site for ten so was at Russ's for 8.45 .... with a trailer .. had a load of 'deceased' trees he didn't love any more and wanted rid of ---- the Morso's not fussy what I feed it and free is free Anyway ... we wuz there at 9.55 - still drizzling so put me coat on, hard hat and me harness -- sheet packs to go up on a 4th floor roof ..... roofer's ganger wanders up and says " Have five guys - the 'suits' are having a discussion " ... so we did and another 55 too ... Tight - as in reeeeeal tight site and there was a lot of discussion as to where we could (were gonna be allowed) to set up ..... so
an hour later, I'm de-togged and we're back in the cab ....... leaving .... site HS manager refused every suggestion (right bloody jobsworth) ... scaffolders and roofers were sick of the sight of him ... so basically we weren't allowed to stand anywhere .. Russ said he'd proforma-ed the job anyway and'd been paid so **** it ... we were leaving
as it was bloody obvious this bloke wasn't gonna let us set up anywhere ....back at his place by twelve - quick cuppa and were loading what used to be a large conifer/misc trees hedge into my trailer ... was home here having lunch by half one
spent the afternoon dealing with this lot
sod wrestling these .. Lil' Jake time - with the Haner for grip and my trusty leccy mak -- on/off/on - simples - ripped through it all - including a few big lumps
this pair arrived 'bout half three and slowed progress a tad ...
and Clara inevitably wanted a go .. in fairness she wasn't too bad ... give her an hour or two in the middle of a clear patch (with nothing to hit/avoid) and a few bits / targets to practice on and she'd be quite handy with it - picked it up real quick (as they do
)Mummy rescued me after half an hour and got on with the job
see if I can't get the splitter out tomorrow and turn some of 'em into Morso sized bits and in the wood shed ... all pretty damned dry ... been on the floor a good 12 months
gave a pair of these a quick try, 'fore sticking a couple of gallons of 'lotion' in Lil' Jake and putting him away
you can see what I meant about the weather not being kind to that piece of 8mm plate, pitting it in places
all four are the same shape so should fit fine t'other side too .... finish cleaning them up a bit more - coat of tish and they'll be just the job
and then it pi**ed down for half an hour, whilst I was clearing up all the mess ... 'least it'd been dry for the 'main event' of the afternoon
went and had some tea, then came back and dealt with the crud ...
All the ivy and extraneous crap burnt well @Stock
.... will have a substantial load of chainsaw dust, when I clear the trailer of blocks - tried hard to keep as much in there as poss, but still ended up with a few shovelfuls on the floor so all in all a pretty good day ..... got paid to collect a load of free firewood and spent the time dealing with it .. I'd call that a result
....... and booked for a.n.other POP job next Friday too
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Stroppymonkey
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I recall driving past that place in 2000. Looked antique then !another wet, wild night here ... but forecast to stop at 5 - did it hell
no bench time today ... been to Worcester with Russ to Lee and Perrins sauce factory .. looks like summat from a Dickens novel
Anyway ... we wuz there at 9.55 - still drizzling so put me coat on, hard hat and me harness -- sheet packs to go up on a 4th floor roof ..... roofer's ganger wanders up and says " Have five guys - the 'suits' are having a discussion " ... so we did and another 55 too ... Tight - as in reeeeeal tight site and there was a lot of discussion as to where we could (were gonna be allowed) to set up ..... so
an hour later, I'm de-togged and we're back in the cab ....... leaving .... site HS manager refused every suggestion (right bloody jobsworth) ... scaffolders and roofers were sick of the sight of him ... so basically we weren't allowed to stand anywhere .. Russ said he'd proforma-ed the job anyway and'd been paid so **** it ... we were leaving
back at his place by twelve - quick cuppa and were loading what used to be a large conifer/misc trees hedge into my trailer ... was home here having lunch by half one
spent the afternoon dealing with this lot
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sod wrestling these .. Lil' Jake time - with the Haner for grip and my trusty leccy mak -- on/off/on - simples - ripped through it all - including a few big lumps
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this pair arrived 'bout half three and slowed progress a tad ...
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and Clara inevitably wanted a go .. in fairness she wasn't too bad ... give her an hour or two in the middle of a clear patch (with nothing to hit/avoid) and a few bits / targets to practice on and she'd be quite handy with it - picked it up real quick (as they do
Mummy rescued me after half an hour and got on with the job
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see if I can't get the splitter out tomorrow and turn some of 'em into Morso sized bits and in the wood shed all pretty damned dry ... been on the floor a good 12 months
gave a pair of these a quick try, 'fore sticking a couple of gallons of 'lotion' in Lil' Jake and putting him away
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you can see what i meant about the weather not being kind to that piece of 8mm plate, pitting it in places
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all four are the same shape so should fit fine t'other side too .... finish cleaning them up a bit more - coat of tish and they'll be just the job
and then it pi**ed down for half an hour, whilst I was clearing up all the mess ... 'least it'd been dry for the 'main event' of the afternoon
went and had some tea, then came back and dealt with the crud ...
All the ivy and extraneous crap burnt well @Stock
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so all in all a pretty good day ..... got paid to collect a load of free firewood and spent the time dealing with it .. I'd call that a result
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
we were trying to work here ....
it has LEE AND PERRINS in white glazed face bricks in the face below that arrow built into the brickwork, so must be the original building and God knows what age it is
Can't swing a cat down where we were trying to work out where to stand and on a significant slope
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
wanted to get all of yesterdays blocks split and under cover ...
spent ages faffing about with the Zetor .... would NOT start - crawled over ad then nada ... cleaned everything and eventually resorted to jumpers straight to the starter poles -- and found the problem ... previous custodians'd been heavy handed on the spanners, spun the connecting link to the fields and they'd been clinging on by their teeth -- and let go this morning
new one required ... will have it off tomorrow and see if I have anything suitable? other wise it'll be 170 quid (which ain't bad ) ... bloody useless without it
so the maul came out and hand split the easy stuff
and the gnarly stuff'll have to wait for the Zetor's resurrection and the splitter's return
got it all in the wood shed though ...
by tea time ...... bloody vehicles
glad there wasn't any more of it though .... I'd had enough of swingin' that bloody maul today ...
been a few years since I last split by hand and will not be doing it again in a hurry
couple more trailer loads like that from Russ and it'll keep us through the colder months
spent ages faffing about with the Zetor .... would NOT start - crawled over ad then nada ... cleaned everything and eventually resorted to jumpers straight to the starter poles -- and found the problem ... previous custodians'd been heavy handed on the spanners, spun the connecting link to the fields and they'd been clinging on by their teeth -- and let go this morning
new one required
... will have it off tomorrow and see if I have anything suitable? other wise it'll be 170 quid (which ain't bad ) ... bloody useless without itso the maul came out and hand split the easy stuff
and the gnarly stuff'll have to wait for the Zetor's resurrection and the splitter's return
got it all in the wood shed though ...
by tea time ...... bloody vehicles
glad there wasn't any more of it though .... I'd had enough of swingin' that bloody maul today ...
been a few years since I last split by hand and will not be doing it again in a hurry
couple more trailer loads like that from Russ and it'll keep us through the colder months
Stock
Well-known member
Beautiful......................................................................................................another wet, wild night here ... but forecast to stop at 5 - did it hell
no bench time today ... been to Worcester with Russ to Lee and Perrins sauce factory .. looks like summat from a Dickens novel
Anyway ... we wuz there at 9.55 - still drizzling so put me coat on, hard hat and me harness -- sheet packs to go up on a 4th floor roof ..... roofer's ganger wanders up and says " Have five guys - the 'suits' are having a discussion " ... so we did and another 55 too ... Tight - as in reeeeeal tight site and there was a lot of discussion as to where we could (were gonna be allowed) to set up ..... so
an hour later, I'm de-togged and we're back in the cab ....... leaving .... site HS manager refused every suggestion (right bloody jobsworth) ... scaffolders and roofers were sick of the sight of him ... so basically we weren't allowed to stand anywhere .. Russ said he'd proforma-ed the job anyway and'd been paid so **** it ... we were leaving
back at his place by twelve - quick cuppa and were loading what used to be a large conifer/misc trees hedge into my trailer ... was home here having lunch by half one
spent the afternoon dealing with this lot
View attachment 64958 View attachment 64959
sod wrestling these .. Lil' Jake time - with the Haner for grip and my trusty leccy mak -- on/off/on - simples - ripped through it all - including a few big lumps
View attachment 64968
View attachment 64967
this pair arrived 'bout half three and slowed progress a tad ...
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and Clara inevitably wanted a go .. in fairness she wasn't too bad ... give her an hour or two in the middle of a clear patch (with nothing to hit/avoid) and a few bits / targets to practice on and she'd be quite handy with it - picked it up real quick (as they do
Mummy rescued me after half an hour and got on with the job
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see if I can't get the splitter out tomorrow and turn some of 'em into Morso sized bits and in the wood shed ... all pretty damned dry ... been on the floor a good 12 months
gave a pair of these a quick try, 'fore sticking a couple of gallons of 'lotion' in Lil' Jake and putting him away
View attachment 64964
you can see what I meant about the weather not being kind to that piece of 8mm plate, pitting it in places
View attachment 64963
all four are the same shape so should fit fine t'other side too .... finish cleaning them up a bit more - coat of tish and they'll be just the job
and then it pi**ed down for half an hour, whilst I was clearing up all the mess ... 'least it'd been dry for the 'main event' of the afternoon
went and had some tea, then came back and dealt with the crud ...
All the ivy and extraneous crap burnt well @Stock
View attachment 64960
so all in all a pretty good day ..... got paid to collect a load of free firewood and spent the time dealing with it .. I'd call that a result
R
Rob65
Well-known member
Could you not have hooked the splitter hoses to baby Jake’s hammer lines?wanted to get all of yesterdays blocks split and under cover ...
spent ages faffing about with the Zetor .... would NOT start - crawled over ad then nada ... cleaned everything and eventually resorted to jumpers straight to the starter poles -- and found the problem ... previous custodians'd been heavy handed on the spanners, spun the connecting link to the fields and they'd been clinging on by their teeth -- and let go this morning
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new one required
so the maul came out and hand split the easy stuff
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and the gnarly stuff'll have to wait for the Zetor's resurrection and the splitter's return
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got it all in the wood shed though ...
by tea time ...... bloody vehicles
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glad there wasn't any more of it though .... I'd had enough of swingin' that bloody maul today ...
been a few years since I last split by hand and will not be doing it again in a hurry
couple more trailer loads like that from Russ and it'll keep us through the colder months
diggerjones
Well-known member
Too easy
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Not that I didn't consider that Rob .... would've had to change QCs on one or the other and find some longer lines ... FFs on Lil' Jake and ISO-As on the splitter/Zetor's back end -- I'd already wasted too much time faffing with the Zetor and wasn't sure I had enough of one or t'other to achieve it.. couple of adaptors'd be the easiest solution, from FF to ISO_A, or tee some into the hammer lines .. fitting shopping required, probably, (without a good search of 'stock' first)
cheeky sod Dylan
.... it'd have been a lot more preferable
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
the forecast nice day had vanished this morning and looked like it was gonna get real wet any minute, so plans changed first thing to anything I could abandon - quickly ..
finished sorting / relocating misc. bits from off/under the collapsing bench - found a few more things I'd forgotten about
couple of things from under it - anyone into old fuel cans? free to a good home, or I'll bung it on ebay ... needs some TLC - ex GPO phone engineers van - std issue, late 50s/early 60s
now who can tell me what this is off have had this sat in various places since the early 80s and loathe to chuck it -- a right cuminfa .. might find a use for it one day
then Pam presented me with two crammed barrowloads of brambles and weeds .. bin'd been full to the top of chainsaw chips last night when I set it going, but still enough left to get them going with a pint of hydraulic to help 'em along and a good S Westerly blowing........
searched out some hoses and fittings to create some adaptors to see if I couldn't get Lil' Jake to run the splitter ..
be nice to get the gnarly crud split and in the dry, 'fore it lashed it down -- mission accomplished ...
found some new lines, new 1/2" ISO-A-s and a set of 1/2" FFS and persuaded 'em all together onto the breaker circuit
then I had to get the splitter out from where I'd parked it last ... so woke up the 'Drema ... hoiked the collapsing bench out first ....
the advantages of a tiny bum on her are so handy .....
didn't even have to move
and dumped it out where I could get at it to pull it to bits .
then pulled the 'Drema round to where I could reach the splitter ....
and put it down by Lil' Jake ..... at which point is started to drizzle
got the new lines coupled up, wound up Jake and pressed the breaker pedal gently with my hand and stalled him ????
odd - should've been a continuous free flow, through the splitter's spool valve and back to tank ... gave him some more rev.s and he continued to run but obviously loaded ??
checked all me plumbing -- yep - right - P to IN on the spool and OUT to tank return on Jake ...
sod all happening at the spool - slitter ram not moving .....
not what I was expecting .. thought about it for a while - what was I missing???
So rang the guru - Mr Mog - two heads're better than one - equally mystified - his best suggestion was the possibility of a faulty QC, which although they're all new, I had to agree with him - does happen - FFs are Holmbury, ISO-As are Flowfit ????
AND then it absolutely lashed it down and I took shelter in a box, after, pulling the hoses from Jake, covering up the splitter and calling it a day ...
it has pi*s*d it down ever since and is 'sposed to quit about 5 a.m. tomorrow, so hopefully, I'll get to try the guru's suggestions tomorrow and whip the ISO-As out of the lines and straight connect 'em with some adaptors to the extension lines with just the Holmbury FFs to couple to Jake
If anyone else has any ideas .. please share
first thing I'm gonna try tomorrow is couple the P & T lines together on Jake, direct, to confirm free flow, 'fore pulling everything else to bits, in case it's a faulty QC on the dipper .........
but I did try each one with an open QC fitting, earlier today, without Jake running and got oil out of both open fittings ?????? ...
had me flummoxed this afters ... hence the call to the guru
anyway .. we'll see tomorrow
..finished sorting / relocating misc. bits from off/under the collapsing bench - found a few more things I'd forgotten about
couple of things from under it - anyone into old fuel cans? free to a good home, or I'll bung it on ebay ... needs some TLC
- ex GPO phone engineers van - std issue, late 50s/early 60snow who can tell me what this is off
have had this sat in various places since the early 80s and loathe to chuck it -- a right cuminfa .. might find a use for it one day then Pam presented me with two crammed barrowloads of brambles and weeds .. bin'd been full to the top of chainsaw chips last night when I set it going, but still enough left to get them going with a pint of hydraulic to help 'em along and a good S Westerly blowing........
searched out some hoses and fittings to create some adaptors to see if I couldn't get Lil' Jake to run the splitter ..
be nice to get the gnarly crud split and in the dry, 'fore it lashed it down -- mission accomplished ...
found some new lines, new 1/2" ISO-A-s and a set of 1/2" FFS and persuaded 'em all together onto the breaker circuit
then I had to get the splitter out from where I'd parked it last ... so woke up the 'Drema ... hoiked the collapsing bench out first ....
the advantages of a tiny bum on her are so handy .....
didn't even have to move
and dumped it out where I could get at it to pull it to bits .
then pulled the 'Drema round to where I could reach the splitter ....
and put it down by Lil' Jake ..... at which point is started to drizzle
got the new lines coupled up, wound up Jake and pressed the breaker pedal gently with my hand and stalled him ????
odd - should've been a continuous free flow, through the splitter's spool valve and back to tank ... gave him some more rev.s and he continued to run but obviously loaded ??
checked all me plumbing -- yep - right - P to IN on the spool and OUT to tank return on Jake ...
sod all happening at the spool - slitter ram not moving .....
not what I was expecting .. thought about it for a while - what was I missing???
So rang the guru
- Mr Mog - two heads're better than one - equally mystified - his best suggestion was the possibility of a faulty QC, which although they're all new, I had to agree with him - does happen - FFs are Holmbury, ISO-As are Flowfit ????AND then it absolutely lashed it down and I took shelter in a box,
after, pulling the hoses from Jake, covering up the splitter and calling it a day ...it has pi*s*d it down ever since
and is 'sposed to quit about 5 a.m. tomorrow, so hopefully, I'll get to try the guru's suggestions tomorrow and whip the ISO-As out of the lines and straight connect 'em with some adaptors to the extension lines with just the Holmbury FFs to couple to JakeIf anyone else has any ideas .. please share
first thing I'm gonna try tomorrow is couple the P & T lines together on Jake, direct, to confirm free flow, 'fore pulling everything else to bits, in case it's a faulty QC on the dipper .........
but I did try each one with an open QC fitting, earlier today, without Jake running and got oil out of both open fittings ??????
...had me flummoxed this afters
... hence the call to the guru anyway .. we'll see tomorrow
M
Monkeybusiness
Well-known member
You’ve definitely got flow and return the right way around on the digger?the forecast nice day had vanished this morning and looked like it was gonna get real wet any minute, so plans changed first thing to anything I could abandon - quickly
finished sorting / relocating misc. bits from off/under the collapsing bench - found a few more things I'd forgotten about
couple of things from under it - anyone into old fuel cans? free to a good home, or I'll bung it on ebay ... needs some TLC
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now who can tell me what this is off
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then Pam presented me with two crammed barrowloads of brambles and weeds .. bin'd been full to the top of chainsaw chips last night when I set it going, but still enough left to get them going with a pint of hydraulic to help 'em along and a good S Westerly blowing........
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searched out some hoses and fittings to create some adaptors to see if I couldn't get Lil' Jake to run the splitter ..
be nice to get the gnarly crud split and in the dry, 'fore it lashed it down -- mission accomplished ...
found some new lines, new 1/2" ISO-A-s and a set of 1/2" FFS and persuaded 'em all together onto the breaker circuit
View attachment 65045
then I had to get the splitter out from where I'd parked it last ... so woke up the 'Drema ... hoiked the collapsing bench out first ....
the advantages of a tiny bum on her are so handy .....
didn't even have to move
View attachment 65047
and dumped it out where I could get at it to pull it to bits .
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then pulled the 'Drema round to where I could reach the splitter ....
View attachment 65046
and put it down by Lil' Jake ..... at which point is started to drizzle
got the new lines coupled up, wound up Jake and pressed the breaker pedal gently with my hand and stalled him ????
odd - should've been a continuous free flow, through the splitter's spool valve and back to tank ... gave him some more rev.s and he continued to run but obviously loaded ??
checked all me plumbing -- yep - right - P to IN on the spool and OUT to tank return on Jake ...
sod all happening at the spool - slitter ram not moving .....
not what I was expecting .. thought about it for a while - what was I missing???
So rang the guru
AND then it absolutely lashed it down and I took shelter in a box,
it has pi*s*d it down ever since
If anyone else has any ideas .. please share
first thing I'm gonna try tomorrow is couple the P & T lines together on Jake, direct, to confirm free flow, 'fore pulling everything else to bits, in case it's a faulty QC on the dipper .........
but I did try each one with an open QC fitting, earlier today, without Jake running and got oil out of both open fittings ??????
had me flummoxed this afters
anyway .. we'll see tomorrow
Left hooker
Well-known member
Isn't tractor axel oil different to digger hydraulic oil need to flush the ram out or you might get issues
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
large line should be return ... smaller line should be flow Dan
I had considered that Stu - EP80/90 in the Zetor ... will pressure the return side of the ram out tomorrow with some air to the closed end of the piston/ram, but TBH I really can't see half a litre of EP creating much issue/ not mixing .. but'll do it all the same .. have had plenty of practice at purging for adding att.s to the 'Drema on bio, not wanting to get mineral into it's system
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
not many pix of the first half of the day ... too covered in oil to go getting the phone out me pocket --stripped the splitter of anything that contained EP and blew it all out -- hence being covered in oil -- even after a shower I still smell like a bad day in a transmission re-builders -- accumulated just short of two litres of EP so well worth the effort
then tried linking P and T on Lil' Jake - still loading -- QCs off and linked with adaptors - same ....
now very frustrated and scratching head .....
Pam arrived with a coffee and a 'can you just', slightly amused to see me 'at a loss' as to WTF is going on/I'm missing ...
Explained the 'nuances' and she said " well come and do what I want and then come back to it " - very helpful
came indoors after and consulted 'the book of words' that @Richard Hunton very kindly sent me some time ago - op. manual, which bar one nugget was pretty unhelpful ... scant info. on the breaker circuit and the fact that it could be had with either a one way or two way service -- I established a long time ago this is only single acting, with the floor up sussing it.
anyway and this should be in the 'dropped a bollock' thread I'm reading the one snippet of info regarding adjusting the breaker pedal's cable set up and how it is centred, for the two way set up and it occurred to me that the pic looked the same for both single acting and double acting, plus with some plumbing fiddling the one way can become a two way (this was discussed a while back) .....
Therefore said pedal should be able to rock in both directions ...
mine was a POP the one way, (which I had assumed was 'the right way') - t'other way was seriously stiff and a very small amount of movement - it was however 'the right way' - it transpired ...
so numpty here had been dead ending the bloody thing, pressing the pedal the wrong way and didn't even consider it'd rock t'other way - just didn't feel like it'd move that way -- so lots of lube and it's now a little more co-operative AND I had oil at the splitter
damn I've wasted some time on such a simple issue
live and learn
so .....
the gnarly sh1t turned into Morso fodder in double quick time after that ... and who needs a saw, for the bits of bench, when you've got a 15t splitter .. cross grain - no problem - chop chop
trailer refilled with bits, I trundled it down to the wood shed and stuffed it all in there
good load from not a of of bits
then refilled the trailer with some big piles of long grass that Pam'd decimated with the strimmer yesterday, 'fore trundling it down the drive to the grass tip/dump area.
then back to park it up and deal with the two barrows of brambles and crud she'd managed to fill again today ...
hopefully it's still burning
so let the piss taking commence
Oh I also rolled this yesterday, whilst I had the 'Drema wound up, in anticipation of actually doing something to it today ...
fat chance ..
tomorrow 'praps, after I've collected Harper and Clara, from Vicki's, taken Harper to nursery, Clara to school and come home and had some brekky
'Sposed to be a nice day tomorrow, but could do without the strong N Westerly ... would've liked to have whopped some MIG down on this !!
--stripped the splitter of anything that contained EP and blew it all out -- hence being covered in oil -- even after a shower I still smell like a bad day in a transmission re-builders -- accumulated just short of two litres of EP so well worth the effort then tried linking P and T on Lil' Jake - still loading -- QCs off and linked with adaptors - same ....
now very frustrated and scratching head .....
Pam arrived with a coffee and a 'can you just', slightly amused to see me 'at a loss' as to WTF is going on/I'm missing ...
Explained the 'nuances' and she said " well come and do what I want and then come back to it " - very helpful
came indoors after and consulted 'the book of words' that @Richard Hunton very kindly sent me some time ago - op. manual, which bar one nugget was pretty unhelpful ... scant info. on the breaker circuit and the fact that it could be had with either a one way or two way service -- I established a long time ago this is only single acting, with the floor up sussing it.
anyway and this should be in the 'dropped a bollock' thread I'm reading the one snippet of info regarding adjusting the breaker pedal's cable set up and how it is centred, for the two way set up and it occurred to me that the pic looked the same for both single acting and double acting, plus with some plumbing fiddling the one way can become a two way (this was discussed a while back) .....
Therefore said pedal should be able to rock in both directions ...
mine was a POP the one way, (which I had assumed was 'the right way') - t'other way was seriously stiff and a very small amount of movement - it was however 'the right way' - it transpired ...
so numpty here had been dead ending the bloody thing, pressing the pedal the wrong way and didn't even consider it'd rock t'other way - just didn't feel like it'd move that way -- so lots of lube and it's now a little more co-operative AND I had oil at the splitter
damn I've wasted some time on such a simple issue
live and learn
so .....
the gnarly sh1t turned into Morso fodder in double quick time after that ... and who needs a saw, for the bits of bench, when you've got a 15t splitter
.. cross grain - no problem - chop chop trailer refilled with bits, I trundled it down to the wood shed and stuffed it all in there
good load from not a of of bits
then refilled the trailer with some big piles of long grass that Pam'd decimated with the strimmer yesterday, 'fore trundling it down the drive to the grass tip/dump area.
then back to park it up and deal with the two barrows of brambles and crud she'd managed to fill again today ...
hopefully it's still burning
so let the piss taking commence
Oh I also rolled this yesterday, whilst I had the 'Drema wound up, in anticipation of actually doing something to it today
...fat chance ..
tomorrow 'praps, after I've collected Harper and Clara, from Vicki's, taken Harper to nursery, Clara to school and come home and had some brekky
'Sposed to be a nice day tomorrow, but could do without the strong N Westerly
... would've liked to have whopped some MIG down on this !!
B
bobthebuilder
Well-known member
we all have done dumb stuff ,i thought the spliter would work backward if you pressed the pedal wrong waynot many pix of the first half of the day ... too covered in oil to go getting the phone out me pocket
then tried linking P and T on Lil' Jake - still loading -- QCs off and linked with adaptors - same ....
now very frustrated and scratching head .....
Pam arrived with a coffee and a 'can you just', slightly amused to see me 'at a loss' as to WTF is going on/I'm missing ...
Explained the 'nuances' and she said " well come and do what I want and then come back to it " - very helpful
came indoors after and consulted 'the book of words' that @Richard Hunton very kindly sent me some time ago - op. manual, which bar one nugget was pretty unhelpful ... scant info. on the breaker circuit and the fact that it could be had with either a one way or two way service -- I established a long time ago this is only single acting, with the floor up sussing it.
anyway and this should be in the 'dropped a bollock' thread I'm reading the one snippet of info regarding adjusting the breaker pedal's cable set up and how it is centred, for the two way set up and it occurred to me that the pic looked the same for both single acting and double acting, plus with some plumbing fiddling the one way can become a two way (this was discussed a while back) .....
Therefore said pedal should be able to rock in both directions ...
mine was a POP the one way, (which I had assumed was 'the right way') - t'other way was seriously stiff and a very small amount of movement - it was however 'the right way' - it transpired ...
so numpty here had been dead ending the bloody thing, pressing the pedal the wrong way and didn't even consider it'd rock t'other way - just didn't feel like it'd move that way -- so lots of lube and it's now a little more co-operative AND I had oil at the splitter
damn I've wasted some time on such a simple issue
live and learn
so .....
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the gnarly sh1t turned into Morso fodder in double quick time after that ... and who needs a saw, for the bits of bench, when you've got a 15t splitter
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trailer refilled with bits, I trundled it down to the wood shed and stuffed it all in there
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good load from not a of of bits
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then refilled the trailer with some big piles of long grass that Pam'd decimated with the strimmer yesterday, 'fore trundling it down the drive to the grass tip/dump area.
then back to park it up and deal with the two barrows of brambles and crud she'd managed to fill again today ...
hopefully it's still burning
so let the piss taking commence
Oh I also rolled this yesterday, whilst I had the 'Drema wound up, in anticipation of actually doing something to it today
fat chance ..
View attachment 65086
tomorrow 'praps, after I've collected Harper and Clara, from Vicki's, taken Harper to nursery, Clara to school and come home and had some brekky
'Sposed to be a nice day tomorrow, but could do without the strong N Westerly
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
that would've been an improvement on not working at all
sadly my breaker is only single acting (but with the two way pedal) so was dead ending the bloody thing ... at some point I will convert it to double acting - the port is there in the valve block - capped off - @Rob65 gave me a heads up on how, but'll have to collect some bits together and either cut into a steel pipe or replace it with a couple of flexis and a 3x1 diverter IIRC
M
Monkeybusiness
Well-known member
So it does have 2 way hydraulics then (or at least the valve for it) or am I missing something?
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
it doesn't (but it could have)
originally supplied with one way - the valve block has the port for the two way/second service, but not the diverter circuitry to give you an open to tank line for a breaker ...AND a pedal that theoretically acts both ways (once sufficiently lubed)
B
bobthebuilder
Well-known member
i now understandit doesn't (but it could have)
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well the day started at ten to seven .. up ready to head to town -- it was lashing it down ...
quarter past seven - text from Vicki " are you up yet? " er ... yeh, of course ... Hubby Chris feeling rough - not going in - will take kids to school
so went back to bed
had been a short night anyway, for some reason - hadn't had a lot of zeds, so was grateful
Couple of hours later and it was STILL peeing down .. stopped about half eleven-ish and dried up remarkably rapidly... probably due to the howling N Easterly .....
so -- bench time - Zetor starter can wait
wanted to get on with this today
got some beefier welds on half of it
then wound up me 'lifting facilities' and flipped it on its other side ..
for some matching welds and flipped it back to do the other 50%
then back again for the final 'beef up' .... followed by some boss fitting
then flipped again for the other side after I'd consolidated the first set
lot of faffing, but had to be done systematically to keep it in shape
and hooked up again after a good clean up
ready for a coat of shiny tish weatherproofing ....
got a bit on after tea, but beaten by the light - as usual - so finish it off in the a.m.
Pam's been generating yet more bin fodder today and that met its nemesis after the light beat me on the bench .. here's your regular fix @Stock
quarter past seven - text from Vicki " are you up yet? " er ... yeh, of course ... Hubby Chris feeling rough - not going in - will take kids to school
so went back to bed
had been a short night anyway, for some reason - hadn't had a lot of zeds, so was grateful
Couple of hours later and it was STILL peeing down .. stopped about half eleven-ish and dried up remarkably rapidly... probably due to the howling N Easterly .....
so -- bench time - Zetor starter can wait
wanted to get on with this today
got some beefier welds on half of it
then wound up me 'lifting facilities' and flipped it on its other side ..
for some matching welds and flipped it back to do the other 50%
then back again for the final 'beef up' .... followed by some boss fitting
then flipped again for the other side after I'd consolidated the first set
lot of faffing, but had to be done systematically to keep it in shape
ready for a coat of shiny tish weatherproofing ....
got a bit on after tea, but beaten by the light - as usual - so finish it off in the a.m.
Pam's been generating yet more bin fodder today and that met its nemesis after the light beat me on the bench .. here's your regular fix @Stock
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