Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
Don't know why your bothering altering the pivots for the amount of use your going to get out of the tipper. Bloody Snowflake. ❄
 
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Komatsu

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Don't know why your bothering altering the pivots for the amount of use your going to get out of the tipper. Bloody Snowflake. ❄
like to have it right Rory ... and I couldn't get the bloody body off without doing it :mad:
Poor trailer is going to end up like “Triggers broom” 😂😂
nah ...... just maintained and repaired as necessary :p:ROFLMAO:
As much as I have loved seeing all these adjustments and repairs. It makes you wonder what cowboy sold it too him in such a state!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
(y):LOL::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Mark

Mark

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Not just burn a hole through the centre of the pin with burning gear Druid? Do that all the time to remove broken track pins works a treat once you let them cool down know out with a 2lb hammer.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Not just burn a hole through the centre of the pin with burning gear Druid? Do that all the time to remove broken track pins works a treat once you let them cool down know out with a 2lb hammer.
ordinarily yeh .... but very low on gas and sort of 'saving it' .... but this might just be what I'm 'saving it' for :giggle:(y)
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
It’s surprising what you can get for just a lick of paint and a few stickers put on willy-nilly😂😂.......should of gone to spec-savers😱😂
well you know what they say about photos ........ :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
 
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Komatsu

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well you know what they say about photos ........ :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
Haha....joking aside, if I thought for one minute it was a pup, I wouldn’t of sold it to you Gra, new wheels and tyres on it, and a new ram, I’m sure your going to get plenty of years of use out of it😊, I’m just pleased it’s gone to a good home, and to be fare, if I didn’t know were it was going it probably would of stayed in the yard.
 
JD450A

JD450A

Feral as Fk 🐾
Haha....joking aside, if I thought for one minute it was a pup, I wouldn’t of sold it to you Gra, new wheels and tyres on it, and a new ram, I’m sure your going to get plenty of years of use out of it😊, I’m just pleased it’s gone to a good home, and to be fare, if I didn’t know were it was going it probably would of stayed in the yard.
f****ng complaining to me about talking twaddle.... 🙄😂
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Haha....joking aside, if I thought for one minute it was a pup, I wouldn’t of sold it to you Gra, new wheels and tyres on it, and a new ram, I’m sure your going to get plenty of years of use out of it😊, I’m just pleased it’s gone to a good home, and to be fare, if I didn’t know were it was going it probably would of stayed in the yard.
do you hear me complaining Boyo ;):rolleyes: ..... Just giving it some TLC .... and you some leg pulling :ROFLMAO: ...... 's kept me occupied :giggle: ..... oh - an' the trailer's keeping me busy too 😂
 
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Cyberprog

Cyberprog

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So if I understand this correctly, you're worried about mixing oils when used on different plant?

I'd suggest over engineering it so you can use dual hookups but have some changeover valves or even dual rams. If it's worth doing, it's worth druiding.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
so ..... was only a quicky last night ...... here's what else occurred yesterday ....

before I got started, this and the side of the drive got massacred .... could NOT believe how much it'd grown

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with that out the way, I adjourned to 'me patch' ........

and after adopting plan B ...... bit of judicious slinging and 'twere air borne ..

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got it up to there and thought just check make sure now't is hooked up/snagging ... good job I did ...... forgot the top ram pin :oops::unsure: ... so sat it back down carefully, slid under and dropped that out :giggle: and it was away ..

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Nice level lift, even if I do say so myself ... different leg lengths and heavier front end ... couldn't fault it (y):cool:

so sat it on the deck, re-slung it and .......

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carefully avoiding 'killing' the lighting board and beacon, which were still attached ...

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bungee-ed the board to the underside ....
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and laid it over - re-slung it again and picked it to where I wanted it, to work on ...
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not in bad nick underneath Ollie ..... but that grey paint came off in sheets with a scraper !! spent an hour or two cleaning it off with said scraper and wire brush, 'fore starting on some Ali primer, but ran out of light last night

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Ol' fabricators friend gets it on there :giggle::giggle:

looked ok in the daylight today and got it finished off ...
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after Id taken this :rolleyes::D ........ and now I'm out of pix ... again !!
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
OK ... fresh set of pix quota ...
having checked the pivot holes with the vernier, they were all pretty much on the 32mm mark .... 'cept for the middle bits of the pins themselves, which appeared to have taken all the wear ... miraculously - so found some 32 mm bar ... of which I had very little ... this was a ring rolling mandrel I used to use in me lathe for rolling a length of rings from a length of bar ... but was me only piece so it had to have it ...
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drive tag came off and it became a 'length of 32 mm again :giggle: ..... for some new pins ... after I'd gotten the remnants of the one lil' sod out of course
flushed the one end off with a 9" thin disc ....
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but still wouldn't have it with me one hand-er and drift .....

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.......might've with someone holding the drift, but wasn't happening so ...... split the lugs with the 9"

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and out they came, with a bit of slogging ...

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the offending item's constituent parts :giggle:
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note the worn centre portion :oops:

ran a weld across the top of the slits ... only need to stop 'em opening up ... lopped up some new pins and made a couple of retainers ... stop 'em going round in't holes ... summat a little more substantial'd 've been good, but sod all to hand :( they'll do for now
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couple of grease nipples in the moving parts ......
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and hopefully they'll be good for a few more years :giggle:
also sorted the wiring out this morning and got that all secured and re-routed ... and have been pratting about with some mod.s to that for an hour or so before tea and had a bit of a go at the brake linkages and compensator ... which wasn't co-operating at all, so soaking in WD for the night ... day just seemed to evaporate ... but've made decent progress and the body's about ready to get stuck back on .... the ali primer makes a decent top coat too ... lasts for years on everything I've ever used it on - like me trailers ... only ever had two coats ..... and now it is time for me bed ;)
 
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