well ...... as I was saying a week ago ..... hell we've had some wet stuff ...... again ...
that's the weekend's rainfall here !!
and we're told we've had 20mm
the Zetor has a door missing ... not lost as I have it, but now't keeping it in place, so knocked up a new lower hinge pivot
and set about persuading it to stay where it's needed ...
little bit of a fettle required to 'pretty it up' a bit
but it ain't gonna fall off in a hurry ... and no the step bracket is sod all to do with me ... a couple of new ones required, I think, or sorting back to somewhere near OE/as supplied ... did sort the steps out a tad though, before they fell apart ....
after straightening 'em out to somewhere like they were supposed to be ...... they no longer flail about when you park yer weight on 'em ...
was going to tackle the ones attached to the battery compartment next, on t'other side, 'til I discovered the state of the leads and clamps and hauled said battery out for sorting the issues
fair-ish lump and took some persuading out the compartment, due to the so so nature of the steps attached to the lid .. but got it out, remade the lead ends with some nice new clamps and got it back in position just as tea got called by the tolling of the bell, as usual.
intended to carry on later/next day, but got asked for a 'favour' in the meantime ..... Vicki's little chicky's grit bath was more like a mud bath after the weekends precipitations and could I do her a.n.other to put some where drier/under cover and I got sent a pic of what she'd like - did i have any old tyres ??
Well I had just the thing ..... just that it was still attached to a rim .... this was a brand spanker ..... which'd developed one hell of a bulge, just standing about and i'd had replaced by the suppliers (was on a brand new trailer, years ago) and I'd kept it for the rim as a spare --- just not gotten around to removing the knackered rubbery bit .....
so bolted to the bench and me trusty old tyre bar ....... soon had it off
and converted for purpose
(still got the label remnants on it) ..... I'd sliced it before de-mounting it ... easier to hang on to the damned thing and soon discovered the cause of the bulge
a very badly fitted new tyre with a torn bead ... cowboy fitter !!
whilst I'd got me bar and the necessary out, I thought i'd also deal with a puncy, that's been 'inconveniently' disabling me bottle trolley sack trucky jobbie ... makes moving 'em a doddle on rough ground .....
the right tool for the job makes life so much easier ...
for sorting leaky round things ... comes off sweet as with the bar .... and back on without tube issues too .... simples!!
job sorted and trolley back to a serviceable state
having shifted all the pipes off the box roofs, I've been waiting for 'em to dry off (from the weekend's deluges) so's I can get some dark brunswick on the bits that'd been hidden by the pipes, etc.. ... no sooner had they gotten to a point that I'd gotten the paint out, grabbed a roller, gotten up there and commenced slapping it on, than it decided to pee down again
so now waiting on 'em drying again ....
Acorn season is well and truly under way again ....
and is it ever some sort of crop ..... bloody things ... they are EVERYWHERE
Thought we'd better go and have a stock up on the grub front this morning and needed to go into town for a few other issues too so that disposed of a few hours ... walking back down the street, towards my old site and noticed this ....
ferk only knows WTF they're up to .... but those crimbo tree brackets were never designed to be used for scaffolding .. I made 'em ,many years ago ... there's a couple of hundred of the things about the town ... they'm solid and solidly fixed ... but scaff brackets, they ain't
... there's all sorts of metalwork, Druid related, lurking about the town
the building they're attached to is one of the oldest structures in the street ... all that facade was once one big 'manor house', which has gotten divided up over the centuries (circa 14 or 15 summat) ... the rear of it is a lot more 'original'
..... don't know whether they're planning on restoring the frontage, and certainly looks like the chimney's in for some attention ... there's a big notice board in the one window (see top pic) and I should've gone and had a better look, but was in a hurry
Must've been '
some pile of bricks' in its hey day/prime
never seen the town so quiet .... not even on a grim winter Sunday ... like a ghost town almost ....... and have never walked into the main post office ... and been the only one in there
..... very strange times
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