V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
real overcast morning .. dropped Pam down the village to meet her mate for their Wednesday excursion to where ever?
had some brekky and thought - nice cool(ish) morning to attack the drive ... loaded the strimmer, blower, fuel, gauntlets, loppers, water bottle, 5m spare cord roll, nippers, etc. into the Countax tug's lil' trailer and set off up the drive ...
parked by the barn, grabbed the strimmer and gave it a tug ... and the bloody cord stayed out
back to me patch and the bench to pull it apart
stupid anti snatch/kick back spring that gave me grief last year and had to repair, 'cos L&S couldn't source it
end had straightened out a little (not the end I'd reformed -t'other) and was causing the recoil to bind
suitably tweaked/man handled back into shape, re-assembled and started, to be sure, off I went again
drive is a tad out of hand
did a tankful, laid down a green carpet and blew that off the road
went and filled the Husqy, gave it a tug and it did it to me again ...
this time I had all the necessary tools in the trailer
pulled the starter off ... had some severe words with the spring ... put it all back together and it performed fine for several more hours
Pam and her mate turned up about half two and suggested a stop for lunch might be an idea ... needed another bottle of water anyway so came back down - scoffed and re-hydrated - grabbed another bottle of water and went back to it -- I've consumed 4 litres of water up there today
just re-fuelled it for the home run (for today) at quarter to five ... I'd had enough ... and it did it to me again
no shade where I was and it'd come out 'kin hot about 12 so it was a sod it job and headed for the bench ... had another 30 yards to do
got back and couldn't touch the bench - was anticipating some shade ... pulled it to bits AGAIN!!
the offending item
doesn't need much of a bend out of 90 to cause the problem .. also decided the carrier that contains it had worn about half a mil on its post, so took the same off the post and re-assembled it ... spring now contained nice and tight /sandwiched so'll hopefully not give any more issues for a while now it's back in shape and and can't escape into the free play it'd gained .....
now half five and I'm bollo-ed ... put it all away and continue the fight another day ... time for tea
Been wrapped up in a boiler suit all day ... thought I was gonna have to cut it off absolutely stuck to me!!
and now ....... it's time for a Magnum Eutopia
had some brekky and thought - nice cool(ish) morning to attack the drive ... loaded the strimmer, blower, fuel, gauntlets, loppers, water bottle, 5m spare cord roll, nippers, etc. into the Countax tug's lil' trailer and set off up the drive ...
parked by the barn, grabbed the strimmer and gave it a tug ... and the bloody cord stayed out
back to me patch and the bench to pull it apart
stupid anti snatch/kick back spring that gave me grief last year and had to repair, 'cos L&S couldn't source it
end had straightened out a little (not the end I'd reformed -t'other
) and was causing the recoil to bindsuitably tweaked/man handled back into shape, re-assembled and started, to be sure, off I went again
drive is a tad out of hand
did a tankful, laid down a green carpet and blew that off the road
went and filled the Husqy, gave it a tug and it did it to me again ...
this time I had all the necessary tools in the trailer
pulled the starter off ... had some severe words with the spring ... put it all back together and it performed fine for several more hours
Pam and her mate turned up about half two and suggested a stop for lunch might be an idea ... needed another bottle of water anyway so came back down - scoffed and re-hydrated - grabbed another bottle of water and went back to it -- I've consumed 4 litres of water up there today
just re-fuelled it for the home run (for today) at quarter to five ... I'd had enough ... and it did it to me again
no shade where I was and it'd come out 'kin hot about 12 so it was a sod it job and headed for the bench ... had another 30 yards to do
got back and couldn't touch the bench - was anticipating some shade
... pulled it to bits AGAIN!! the offending item
doesn't need much of a bend out of 90 to cause the problem .. also decided the carrier that contains it had worn about half a mil on its post, so took the same off the post and re-assembled it ... spring now contained nice and tight /sandwiched so'll hopefully not give any more issues for a while
now it's back in shape and and can't escape into the free play it'd gained .....now half five and I'm bollo-ed ... put it all away and continue the fight another day ... time for tea
Been wrapped up in a boiler suit all day ... thought I was gonna have to cut it off
absolutely stuck to me!!and now ....... it's time for a Magnum Eutopia
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