Cyberprog
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Ah, ok. I feel like I should have known that - my great grandfather was a wheelwright!
Charlie
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Ok, what is a tyre roller used for lol
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
metal tyres on old style wagon wheels Charlie ......... and here's the trying/proving plate in action too
Charlie
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Ahhhhhhh, awesome, cheers mate.
V8Druid
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we have had some bit of rain the last few days ....
these arrived yesterday ....
sodding great 18 tonner with the Fuchs ... couldn't turn round ... 'least he reckoned he couldn't ... every other truck manages OK !! ... so mid way reversing him back out and the van with the paint arrived
so had to juggle 'em about to get 'em past each other ... then watch the truck all the way back up to the turning area up the drive ... nice guy, just didn't seem to have much idea!!
wrestled the drum into a box this afters ... nigh on a quarter of a tonne of drum takes some persuading .....
but it's now in the dry and the 'Drema has some 'fresh blood'
dunno as me co-pilot's gonna be with us much longer .... getting very wobbly and 'fragile' .... came and laid down in the sun couple of days ago when it made a rare appearance lately ... so got him a softer 'bed' and he settled down .... wasn't sure he was going to get back up...
and moved him around into the sun again as it moved round .....
eating like a horse, but very shaky ..... still plods around though, but his days of co-piloting and clambering about the 'Drema are behind him I fear
these arrived yesterday ....
sodding great 18 tonner with the Fuchs ... couldn't turn round ... 'least he reckoned he couldn't ... every other truck manages OK !! ... so mid way reversing him back out and the van with the paint arrived
so had to juggle 'em about to get 'em past each other ... then watch the truck all the way back up to the turning area up the drive ... nice guy, just didn't seem to have much idea!!wrestled the drum into a box this afters ... nigh on a quarter of a tonne of drum takes some persuading .....
but it's now in the dry and the 'Drema has some 'fresh blood'
dunno as me co-pilot's gonna be with us much longer .... getting very wobbly and 'fragile' .... came and laid down in the sun couple of days ago when it made a rare appearance lately ... so got him a softer 'bed' and he settled down .... wasn't sure he was going to get back up
...and moved him around into the sun again as it moved round .....
eating like a horse, but very shaky
..... still plods around though, but his days of co-piloting and clambering about the 'Drema are behind him I fear
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well look what else just appeared on FB market place .....
been and checked ..... mine's still there and the tripod's different
cheap enough at 100 quid, if you can set it up ....... Trowbridge
been and checked ..... mine's still there
and the tripod's different cheap enough at 100 quid, if you can set it up
....... Trowbridge
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Jimoz
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Glad to see the barra still holds water, I can only dream. Hope the cats ok sure he will surprise you.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
aye Jim he has 'better days', but've been there so many times before ... he's over 18 ..... 'least he's still scoffing for Wales
Cyberprog
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Our old girl is still going too. 15+ very few teeth left but still nimble enough to jump up onto the garage roof via my Landrover!aye Jim he has 'better days', but've been there so many times before ... he's over 18 ..... 'least he's still scoffing for Wales
V8Druid
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's only the last few weeks or so he's really started to look his age .... they live their lives at 7 times that of ours so when they do hit real old age it happens fast .. to us anyway!! he's 130 in his timeline ... that is some age ... his hearing is shot, eye sight's not what it was and he's losing the plot rapidly .. he's had a great life, aside from a full rear undercarriage rebuild, when he was 3 ... but you'd never know it ... orthopedic vet was a genius
the bottom half of this leg was hanging off when he dragged himself through the cat flap .... both hips dislocated too
they're both screwed and wired into their sockets and the lower leg was wired, pinned and screwed back together .... was one spoiled cat for some time
had several 3 a.m. trips to the vets, 25 miles away when he'd get his splint off , despite fitting him with a bell and having him sleeping between us for months ... little bugger !!
Do not ask what he cost
Furniss
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What did he cost ?'s only the last few weeks or so he's really started to look his age .... they live their lives at 7 times that of ours so when they do hit real old age it happens fast .. to us anyway!! he's 130 in his timeline ... that is some age ... his hearing is shot, eye sight's not what it was and he's losing the plot rapidly .. he's had a great life, aside from a full rear undercarriage rebuild, when he was 3 ... but you'd never know it ... orthopedic vet was a genius
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the bottom half of this leg was hanging off when he dragged himself through the cat flap .... both hips dislocated too
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they're both screwed and wired into their sockets and the lower leg was wired, pinned and screwed back together .... was one spoiled cat for some time
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had several 3 a.m. trips to the vets, 25 miles away when he'd get his splint off , despite fitting him with a bell and having him sleeping between us for months ... little bugger !!
Do not ask what he cost
Cyberprog
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I'm guessing he sort of showed up, identified you as a sucker, and moved in. That's how it often goes.
Good on you Druid for taking care of him!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
remarkably Alex, he's the only cat I've ever owned that I actively sought out.
we 'acquired' a little feral ginger tom from the local vet's when I called in for some meds, for one of my works cats ... eyes still closed and had to bottle feed him for weeks ...
Pam's kids had been on about a cat for ages - they loved all my works moggies - so we ended up with Max, the ginger fur ball .... when his eyes did open ... he only had one .. the other hadn't formed properly ... he was WILD and didn't know how to play gently ... teeth, claws and more teeth .. told Pam the only way we'd calm him down was to find him a playmate ..... that bit back
.. enter Sparty -- Maximus and Sparticus - - did the trick and they were inseparable lived in the village then .. the inevitable happened .. and Max got hit by a car .. the morning Pam & I were off to Cornwall for a few days off ...
if we hadn't have had accommodation booked we'd not have bothered .... poor ol' Sparts pined for months ..... then he got hurt ... we think he fell off the conservatory roof and caught his legs in a 'staggered board' fence on the way down ... we'd been out the night before and could't understand why he wasn't bounding up the stairs, instead of just howling from the bottom ... soon realised when i went to see. Put him on a towel on a tray and took him straight to the local vets, who referred him to the Ortho. vet 25 miles away - one of the best in the country ... and he rebuilt him brilliant fella, fair play .........
Cyberprog
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Poor chap. We have been lucky with ours!
TiltyShaun
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Regarding the cats legs.....I know your pain. My partner had both back legs rebuilt on one of her cats in 2000. At the time we was told the mobility would be restricted. On coming home with fluorescent bandages she howled to be let out of the recuperation cage. Someone got soft and let her out. She promptly darted out the cat flap down the garden, kicked like mad to get the bandages off, ran around the house and back in the other cat flap to go and sit in her favourite spot!!
Stock
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What is it with the feline feckers ? I think I will need to start a campaign to burn the lot of them.............................................
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
sounds about right ...months of to-ing and fro-ing ... at all hours .... usually 'bout 3 a. m. he'd get his splint off .. me P38 knew its own way to their surgery in Risca and they'd turn out, any hour, fair play to them .... The surgeon, Russel Chandler was brilliant .... and dedicated ...
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
you're rapidly approaching being struck off the Christmas card list Stock
Cyberprog
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I'm surprised they didn't just train you how to stick it back on the bugger!sounds about right ...months of to-ing and fro-ing ... at all hours .... usually 'bout 3 a. m. he'd get his splint off .. me P38 knew its own way to their surgery in Risca and they'd turn out, any hour, fair play to them .... The surgeon, Russel Chandler was brilliant .... and dedicated ...
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
was a fresh one each time ... like trying to splint a 'dunces cap' .... without anything taping it on ..... had to be sedated to do it ........... was worth all the late night/early hours trips ... he has been 99% right as rain since ... and even now doesn't seem to suffer any arthritic effects, which I'm really surprised at ..... poor lil' bugger is just getting seriously oooold
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