Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[Engcon UK]

forgot to say ....... I owe Robert @Engcon UK a BIG Druid thank you ...... Alex had called in there today, on his way back to mine and came back with a special delivery of Engcon 'goodies' .... Me old Engcon cap's looking a bit tired .... especially beside this new one and gonna be the envy of anyone in the know, at Centerparcs' pool, (if I get dragged off there again), with this smart new black and yellow beach towel

If I'd known he was likely to have been going there today, he might have had a stowaway in his truck.

I keep expecting you to drop in unannounced, Graham

Problem is, I'm not sure we would have many spares that would fit your tilty.....

 

[Op_Alx24/7]

Hey all

These are the guys who did the ally fab work for me and as Druid has already said i will agree the work is outstanding, Give Nick a call tell him I sent you his way

NJ Aluminium Linings Ltd

Alex

 

[V8Druid]

Hey all

These are the guys who did the ally fab work for me and as Druid has already said i will agree the work is outstanding, Give Nick a call tell him I sent you his way

NJ Aluminium Linings Ltd

Alex

https://www.njaluminiumlinings.com/

 

[V8Druid]

I keep expecting you to drop in unannounced, Graham

Problem is, I'm not sure we would have many spares that would fit your tilty.....

LOL .... I dare say I could make a few of yer bits fit my purposes Robert .... "where there's a will, there's a way " .... an' a Druid to try it

see you guys made the dizzy heights of TCI this week with your SK02 ..... looks a nice lil' grab

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/engcon-introduces-grab-for-mini-excavators

 

[V8Druid]

they say, "the sun shines on the righteous" .. they'm bad buggers down in the village ... no sun for them 'till lunchtime today .... where as we had a glorious morning ...

even Berrrrt turned up for brekky

..... not seen him in a week .... too many other pheasants about for his liking I think .... a good 50 on the lawns first thing ..

anyone know WTF these things are ? .....

they'm everywhere ......

managed to get 'in the seat' by 12-ish and hauled the beam out, after I'd deposited a bit of stuff around the edges with the bucket to start with .....

Alex has used this a lot and says he finds it better on backwards, with out the roller, so thought i'd give it a try ....

he's right .... float it so the trailing edge is smoothing it out and the 'front is just cutting .... great results ....

and still makes a great 'shovel' - face shovel style .... drop a beam-full and pull it through ... can place lines of material really accurately ....

worked me way down, 'til I ran out of black stuff ..... more required

Odd few lines to lightly pull out with the back of the rake ..... then it's roller time ...... again ..... well happy with the results

 

[V8Druid]

Rough night, last night , for no apparent reason so was lunchtime 'fore I'd 'sobered up' from the Tramadols .... and in no fit state to go chasing yon roller about the patch.
Alex has been in need of this for a while and now I'd had the base plate for it, thought 'twas an ideal time to finish it off .... now't too strenuous and a lil' job in the sun for an hour or so, whilst I reclaimed my head .

set out the plate and holed it, before chucking the gallows on the bench .....

set up the end plate ....

stitched it on and tacked on the braces ...

before welding it all up ..

gave 'the man' a call, as I knew he wanted to get it off to the powder coaters .... soon as .....
on his roof rack an hour later ..... and in the powder coaters' before tea tonight

sorted.

Altered one of the hinges on Pam's gates ... as the damned posts have moved with all the bloody rain last weekend ... hopefully they won't be doing it again, having had a good soaking

Picked up me materials for the infill Friday and was going to get some of it chopped up, but as it'd been dry and sunny all day, with a good breeze, yon grass all needed the chop and it was dry enough to get it done ..... 'least most of it was, so said gates had to wait ..... AGAIN!!
good job I did .... started to rain just as I was putting the ride on away .... they did forecast an hours light rain at 5 tonight and it was bang on schedule
dry for the rest of the week though

Body dependent, it'll either be, gates in the a.m. or a few hours on the roller .... or might even treat meself to a 4t ride on for the day, if the boys in the village's 1200 is sat in their yard .... or gates tomorrow and the 4 tonner on Tuesday even ...... get it whacked down

 

[TiltyShaun]

Got to ask...who is Alex hanging??

 

[V8Druid]

Got to ask...who is Alex hanging??

a large sign ....... that pissed him off

 

[Furniss]

https://www.njaluminiumlinings.com/

Cheers Till I get the truck into the workshop I wont know what Im up against - might be a simple enough job done with off the shelf boxes or need some custom made shapes and sizes, if so I will get in touch with them.

 

[V8Druid]

Roller not available ... so had to be old faithful this morning ...... got round it all, three times .... didn't look too bad but needs to be wet to get it down anymore IMHDO ........

....... and maybe that 1200 roller .... legs unimpressed

tonight's sky !!!!!

all in 15 minutes

 

[Stock]

Sweet there Druid................................

 

[V8Druid]

Sweet there Druid................................

we're lucky here .... we've had some amazing sunsets this year Stock and are ideally situated to get some great views of them off the patio

there are a lot more here ..... http://s1275.photobucket.com/user/v8druid/library/scans?sort=3&page=1

 

[Stock]

Well here are a few of mine........

 

[V8Druid]

lovely Stock ..... we don't see it come up that well ..... big bank in the way and too high in the sky by the time we can ..... get a better moon-rise

 

[Stock]

lovely Stock ..... we don't see it come up that well ..... big bank in the way and too high in the sky by the time we can ..... get a better moon-rise

The first two are actually sunsets taken over an old abbey near where I was digging trial holes. The second I use as my desktop picture on my tablet, the third was during the volcanic episode and was one morning going to work...............................

 

[V8Druid]

The first two are actually sunsets taken over an old abbey near where I was digging trial holes. The second I use as my desktop picture on my tablet, the third was during the volcanic episode and was one morning going to work...............................

strange times they were ... a silent sky .... was weird - we get a LOT of aircraft over here ... well up, but a lot. Nothing to see or hear for days .... and the kids were stuck abroad somewhere, at the time. .... three days late getting home

 

[V8Druid]

great sky again tonight .....

missed most of the orangey/pinky stage, packing up me tools
........ been gate building all day ......

not content to just let me get on with it ..... Pam had to see what it looked like so far .....

so's she could have a play with the next bit, she's lined up for me ..... never be out of work with Pam about ... it just ain't the paying kind

so.... back on the bench and carry on with it 'signed off on' ....... next bits ......

consolidated .... one side anyway

flipped and ready for some sequential nailing together ......

very firmly clamped down and 'nailed' ....... left to cool for the night, as was running out of light .... I will be very pleased .... and surprised, if it's still flat in the a.m. and doesn't need ..... 'the treatment' !!

and then it's start all over again on #2 ............................ and then ........ dig out a sheet of 3mm stainless for producing some swallow profiles for SWMBO's delight !! ......... and then ..........

 

[Stock]

If you put in some revits at the joints you have a Druid prison ............................even guilded with shiny silver swallows.................

 

[V8Druid]

If you put in some revits at the joints you have a Druid prison ............................even guilded with shiny silver swallows.................

aye ....... she's already mooted the idea of square headed rivets Stock ..... you can guess my response ...... job for anon ..... a long time anon

 

[Shovelhands]

aye ....... she's already mooted the idea of square headed rivets Stock ..... you can guess my response ...... job for anon ..... a long time anon

Would she want them on both sides? You could just drill a hole and tack a coach screw in it? Or cut them first, then plug weld them from the other side?