V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
yeh dropping the clutch a bit sharp'd load the ol' motor up pretty well .... almost as much as a start from stationary if not worse .... a lot of metal to spin up
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
so ........ yesterday was a pretty grey, soggy start ......
visibility'd been worse earlier .... but the chances of that clearing were nil ..... combined with a forecast of total sh1t for the day, I was waiting for it to kick off again
this was the previous day and a bit's worth
and stuck an empty one there to see what yesterday'd bring ........ 3/4+ of a tin is what it eventually brought ..... it absolutely hammered it down ALL day 'til ten last night ... serious quantities of water in 12 hrs.
was certainly a day to stay indoors ..... Pam had a steady, busy day, with me on her case slowing her movements down as much as I could ... trying to give the rib a chance ...... no chance of stopping her, but a more measured approach was 'adopted' ... or else!
Apple pie .... smoked bacon, crustless quiche, .... 3 kilos of boiling gammon ..... and Pam's cappuccino sponge
the gammon made for an awesomely nice lunch today, with sundry nice bits .... Vicki's fave meal and her choice for today's lunch menu ......
morning started with wall to wall blue sky, with sugary powder snow blowing in the bitter NW wind ...... and quickly deteriorated to a grey day ....
post lunch troll to the top of the drive ... walk off the gammon before tackling a pud ....... least it hasn't rained today ....... yet !!
Clara, mum and dad for lunch and an early 'crimbo day for her ...... her great granny, next farm over to u,s has been battling MS for years and TBH I'm amazed she's made it to another Christmas, tough old bird, fair play, so they're spending the day with her tomorrow - on demand - she adores Clara and time with her .... so she had a few early bits an' bobs this afters ....
the simple things seem to always be the most enthusiastically received .......
took some persuading that she was not going to be able to get her coat on, when it was time to go, without taking them off ..... can see these being pretty high on the favourites list for a while ...... just behind what I delivered about 8.30 this evening ........
Clara'd been 'weekend-ing' Johan a few weeks ago for one of her friends ..... and has talked about nothing else since ... top of her most wanted list .... so we'd had a house guest for most of this week, in the form of Sven ... a little cream hamster .... his cage got wrapped in a thick towel - 's cold enough to take yer ears off here this evening....... and he went to his new home ... would love to see her face in the morning
Also went armed with some tools and me meter ...... Vicki'd called when they got back to say the boiler'd refused to come on when they got home .... sounded 'lectrical, from her description and had a few candidates for the cause, so with Sven safely ensconced in his new abode i set about said boiler ...... not a lot to go wrong with it .... and having listened to its efforts to play the game ..... was either the Satronic ignition sequence ECU or the main control relay ... and being a well prepped grandad ..... I had spares of both ..... the Satronic's an easy swap ....
nope .......
delve into the guts and extract the relay ...
good old RS 11 pin-er
..... new one fitted ... and it was away ..
heat restored, it'd be a toss up between who had the biggest grin ... Vicki tonight, or Clara in the morning
and just to dampen my satisfaction on my return ...... our water pump's pressure switch has decided to play silly buggers this evening.......'spect the diaphragm's gone hard ..... cutting in when it feels like it and not when demanded ..... so ... job for the morning .... find me new spare and fit that !!!!!!
have to keep spares of essential items .... it's always a Sunday (or Christmas day) when the damned things go south
would like to find a source for diaphragms for these switches ... got a reasonable collection of 'em ..... either go hard or split, but TBH ... for the cost of a switch, I'd bet a diaphragm'll not be far behind them.
151015 Water Pump Automatic Pressure Control Switch 5192043049254 | eBay
and that about concludes tonight's witterings ...... other than to say .......
Merry Christmas all ......
have a great day ..... and don't eat toooooooo much
visibility'd been worse earlier .... but the chances of that clearing were nil ..... combined with a forecast of total sh1t for the day, I was waiting for it to kick off again
this was the previous day and a bit's worth
and stuck an empty one there to see what yesterday'd bring ........ 3/4+ of a tin is what it eventually brought ..... it absolutely hammered it down ALL day 'til ten last night ... serious quantities of water in 12 hrs.
was certainly a day to stay indoors ..... Pam had a steady, busy day, with me on her case slowing her movements down as much as I could ... trying to give the rib a chance ...... no chance of stopping her, but a more measured approach was 'adopted' ... or else!
Apple pie .... smoked bacon, crustless quiche, .... 3 kilos of boiling gammon ..... and Pam's cappuccino sponge
the gammon made for an awesomely nice lunch today, with sundry nice bits .... Vicki's fave meal and her choice for today's lunch menu ......
morning started with wall to wall blue sky, with sugary powder snow blowing in the bitter NW wind ...... and quickly deteriorated to a grey day ....
post lunch troll to the top of the drive ... walk off the gammon
before tackling a pud ....... least it hasn't rained today ....... yet !!Clara, mum and dad for lunch and an early 'crimbo day for her ...... her great granny, next farm over to u,s has been battling MS for years and TBH I'm amazed she's made it to another Christmas, tough old bird, fair play, so they're spending the day with her tomorrow - on demand - she adores Clara and time with her .... so she had a few early bits an' bobs this afters ....
the simple things seem to always be the most enthusiastically received .......
took some persuading that she was not going to be able to get her coat on, when it was time to go, without taking them off
..... can see these being pretty high on the favourites list for a while ...... just behind what I delivered about 8.30 this evening ........Clara'd been 'weekend-ing' Johan a few weeks ago for one of her friends ..... and has talked about nothing else since ... top of her most wanted list .... so we'd had a house guest for most of this week, in the form of Sven ... a little cream hamster .... his cage got wrapped in a thick towel - 's cold enough to take yer ears off here this evening....... and he went to his new home ... would love to see her face in the morning
Also went armed with some tools and me meter ...... Vicki'd called when they got back to say the boiler'd refused to come on when they got home
.... sounded 'lectrical, from her description and had a few candidates for the cause, so with Sven safely ensconced in his new abode i set about said boiler ...... not a lot to go wrong with it .... and having listened to its efforts to play the game ..... was either the Satronic ignition sequence ECU or the main control relay ... and being a well prepped grandad ..... I had spares of both ..... the Satronic's an easy swap ....nope .......
delve into the guts and extract the relay ...
good old RS 11 pin-er
..... new one fitted ... and it was away ..
heat restored, it'd be a toss up between who had the biggest grin ... Vicki tonight, or Clara in the morning
and just to dampen my satisfaction on my return ...... our water pump's pressure switch has decided to play silly buggers this evening.......'spect the diaphragm's gone hard ..... cutting in when it feels like it and not when demanded ..... so ... job for the morning .... find me new spare and fit that !!!!!!
have to keep spares of essential items .... it's always a Sunday (or Christmas day) when the damned things go south
would like to find a source for diaphragms for these switches ... got a reasonable collection of 'em ..... either go hard or split, but TBH ... for the cost of a switch, I'd bet a diaphragm'll not be far behind them.
151015 Water Pump Automatic Pressure Control Switch 5192043049254 | eBay
and that about concludes tonight's witterings ...... other than to say .......
Merry Christmas all ......
have a great day ..... and don't eat toooooooo much
Cyberprog
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Merry Crimbo Druid! My turkey crown is prepped and ready to go in the oven in the morning
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
ours is busy getting its 'sun tan'Merry Crimbo Druid! My turkey crown is prepped and ready to go in the oven in the morning
...... love turkey ... could eat it every day of the week
🍽
Cyberprog
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Ours went in a few hours ago. Veg is prepped. Now standing by for a zoom call with the family in London!
Cyberprog
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So here was our Xmas spread. This was half our turkey! We smashed a good chunk of it, and have lots of lovely leftovers - may make myself a turkey sandwich in a bit in fact.
Helen then fell asleep once mum departed (after a brief argument about how she wanted to watch her soaps, and how she always watches her soaps, despite the post-food nap usually getting in the way) on the sofa
and I then was able to slap on the stuff I wanted and made this!
My mum also got me the new Volvo A60H Articulated transport truck;
Helen got me the top gear car, though I wound up paying for it myself! Down from £120 to £75 when I bought it, dropped further to £62.50 on Amazon a few weeks ago, and I saw it down to £50 in Argos the other day annoyingly! Nevermind!
Helen then fell asleep once mum departed (after a brief argument about how she wanted to watch her soaps, and how she always watches her soaps, despite the post-food nap usually getting in the way) on the sofa
and I then was able to slap on the stuff I wanted and made this!
My mum also got me the new Volvo A60H Articulated transport truck;
Helen got me the top gear car, though I wound up paying for it myself! Down from £120 to £75 when I bought it, dropped further to £62.50 on Amazon a few weeks ago, and I saw it down to £50 in Argos the other day annoyingly! Nevermind!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
our crown after 2 hours in the 'sun bed'
more than enough for the two of us ...
quiet day Christmas day ... nice lunch and a walk up the drive later to settle it ....
to a stunning sun down .....
despite the 'walk it off' technique Crimbo eve and yesterday and being very careful NOT to over indulge .... had a lousy night ... much to my annoyance..... have no idea WTF has upset my system, but it's still not happy this evening and'll get blitzed again shortly, if it doesn't improve ... trying hard to avoid morphine-ing it .. too many side effects ........ but "needs must ....... "
been a wild day, here 50mph winds and been out to check the poly tunnel a few times ...... still there, but it's supposed to get worse by midnight, so'll be keeping an eye on it .... half a tonne of sand bags round it'll hopefully keep it planted .......... at least the forecast for snow tomorrow and Monday has disappeared
more than enough for the two of us ...
quiet day Christmas day ... nice lunch and a walk up the drive later to settle it ....
to a stunning sun down .....
despite the 'walk it off' technique Crimbo eve and yesterday and being very careful NOT to over indulge .... had a lousy night ... much to my annoyance..... have no idea WTF has upset my system, but it's still not happy this evening and'll get blitzed again shortly, if it doesn't improve ... trying hard to avoid morphine-ing it .. too many side effects
........ but "needs must ....... " been a wild day, here 50mph winds and been out to check the poly tunnel a few times ...... still there, but it's supposed to get worse by midnight, so'll be keeping an eye on it .... half a tonne of sand bags round it'll hopefully keep it planted
.......... at least the forecast for snow tomorrow and Monday has disappeared
Cyberprog
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Well, the snow didn't happen, unlike some of the rest of the country got .... plenty on the hills though .
did wake up to this one morning .....
was dry on the 30th ...... enough to enthuse me to give this a try ...
destroyed this knotty old oak block that the maul had failed miserably to even mark ....
but not before it'd had me scratching me head for a while ......
had hooked it up to the Zetor and couldn't get the damned thing to operate as expected ... lever down for split ... lever up for retract ... pee-ed about with the connections and tried all sorts or permutations ...... NADA ..... eventually decided the plumbing from the valve block to the ram was arse about face ... P had to be P and T had to be T .. end of .... swapped said pipes and is now as it should be
Pam said "nah .. must be to make you think about it " to which I replied "the only thing it's likely to do back'ards is cost you a finger " .. it got swapped
spent all of 30 seconds developing a new control override ........
double handed op. is fine if you don't have a cock eyed gnarly old lump you'm trying to sit still under the blade ..... don't want to take the interlock off, for obvious reasons, but this ought to make life a lot easier for the 'more experienced operator'
Proof of Mr K's continued well being arrived with the posty that morning
yesterday started with some pretty white scenes .....
frost down the village was more like snow ..... and worse than we had
had Clara for the day .... mummy had work to get prep.ed for 'school' whenever that happens again?
At least it was a dry day and could get out and about for a while ....
think she stamped on every piece of ice she could find .....
this lot beat her though
and yes it was as cold as it looks
arty farty one from Pam ...
roll on summer
and before anyone comments on it ...... Clara was told, under no circumstances to go anywhere near frozen water, without an adult holding her hand .. EVER!!
did wake up to this one morning .....
was dry on the 30th ...... enough to enthuse me to give this a try ...
destroyed this knotty old oak block that the maul had failed miserably to even mark ....
but not before it'd had me scratching me head for a while ......
had hooked it up to the Zetor and couldn't get the damned thing to operate as expected ... lever down for split ... lever up for retract ... pee-ed about with the connections and tried all sorts or permutations ...... NADA ..... eventually decided the plumbing from the valve block to the ram was arse about face ... P had to be P and T had to be T .. end of .... swapped said pipes and is now as it should be
Pam said "nah .. must be to make you think about it " to which I replied "the only thing it's likely to do back'ards is cost you a finger " .. it got swapped
spent all of 30 seconds developing a new control override ........
double handed op. is fine if you don't have a cock eyed gnarly old lump you'm trying to sit still under the blade ..... don't want to take the interlock off, for obvious reasons, but this ought to make life a lot easier for the 'more experienced operator'
Proof of Mr K's continued well being arrived with the posty that morning
yesterday started with some pretty white scenes .....
frost down the village was more like snow ..... and worse than we had
had Clara for the day .... mummy had work to get prep.ed for 'school' whenever that happens again?
At least it was a dry day and could get out and about for a while ....
think she stamped on every piece of ice she could find .....
this lot beat her though
and yes it was as cold as it looks
arty farty one from Pam ...
roll on summer
and before anyone comments on it ...... Clara was told, under no circumstances to go anywhere near frozen water, without an adult holding her hand .. EVER!!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
just looked at a vid Shane sent me .... look at the lever orientation....... .. end of .... swapped said pipes and is now as it should be
Pam said "nah .. must be to make you think about it " to which I replied "the only thing it's likely to do back'ards is cost you a finger " .. it got swapped
...... not exactly intuitive IMHDO ... up for up - down for down https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media?thread_id=3590538977702248&attachment_id=1526961417694238&message_id=mid.$gAAzBk4BRcWh8kn7eo12YSO1s60cL
'fraid that's the best I can do for a link
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well we had some more white shite yesterday afternoon ....... as a warning
kicked off again in the evening ....
didn't take long to start to accumulate
and was coming down pretty bloody hard most of the evening
was well pleased to see it stop about one a.m.
or we'd have had a right dumping on .....
very pretty .... but glad to see it well on its way this morning ......
got bloody drowned earlier ..... went in the polytunnel to shake it all off the top ... a good 2"+ sat and the condensation it'd caused inside was like a massive cloud burst ... absolutely soaked -- won't be doing that again in a hurry .... 'kin cold with it too
drive's just about cleared, but way too much hanging about on the green bits ..... sky looks full of it ...... gonna go fill the wood baskets and get the snow shovel out of hibernation
kicked off again in the evening ....
didn't take long to start to accumulate
and was coming down pretty bloody hard most of the evening
was well pleased to see it stop about one a.m.
or we'd have had a right dumping on .....
very pretty .... but glad to see it well on its way this morning ......
got bloody drowned earlier ..... went in the polytunnel to shake it all off the top ... a good 2"+ sat and the condensation it'd caused inside was like a massive cloud burst ... absolutely soaked -- won't be doing that again in a hurry .... 'kin cold with it too
drive's just about cleared, but way too much hanging about on the green bits ..... sky looks full of it ...... gonna go fill the wood baskets and get the snow shovel out of hibernation
J
Jimoz
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We had some snow the other day. Inch or 2 down by 9am and all gone at 5pm. Perfect kind of snow if you ask me.
Lancs Lad
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This last felt like the "old weather" I remember as a kid. Snowed on and off all week . -4 every night for at least a week now.
Loving this global warming
craig
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We`ve had pretty much the same here this week.This last felt like the "old weather" I remember as a kid. Snowed on and off all week . -4 every night for at least a week now.
Loving this global warming
I done a delivery to Nelson last Sunday, it was sticking well, with a few accidents on the A56, and M65.
Cyberprog
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Been quite mild here, save for a few cold dips overnight. Bracing from tuesday onwards.
I'm in the process of setting up a local area recovery group
I'm in the process of setting up a local area recovery group
Lancs Lad
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Like 4x4 response or ?Been quite mild here, save for a few cold dips overnight. Bracing from tuesday onwards.
I'm in the process of setting up a local area recovery group
Cyberprog
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Yeah, I called it Wotton Area Rescue. This was largely for the obvious Acronym
Lancs Lad
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Interesting ...Yeah, I called it Wotton Area Rescue. This was largely for the obvious Acronym
J
Jimoz
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Wootton. And. Nearby. Key. Emergency. Rescue
JD450A
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If anyone wants to send Druid a present his address can be found on google quite easily. just change the first bit to the barn, I think Michael is his enemy for some reason 
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