yesterday started with a bit of unexpected exercise
....... capturing a lamb that'd squeezed through a 5 bar gate and was roaming round the garden, eating anything he could get a hold of !! ...... eventually cornered the lil bugger and nigh on went A over T sticking him over the fence when the top rail parted company with the uprights
had to whizz down the village, 'fore brekky, as we'd run out of milk and I was a few cups of caffeine short of a start to the day .......
After knocking out a few more bits and stitching this together ......
for a trial fit ......
which it did very well .... I moved on to full assembly ....
followed by a spot of 'normalising'/tweeking back into shape after it'd had some heat applied
... to get it back to the spot on fit it was
That was between Pam's various
can you justs, through the day
this morning started off decent enough .... long enough to get the Countax in bits, for a damned good clean, ready to attack the lawn .... just as it started to bloody rain
which thankfully it didn't do for long ... but long enough to be annoying
the way this thing collects grass under here is annoying... and a regular job ...
to sort ..... gonna have to have a full strip shortly ... and some repairs ... see we have a hole coming
new belt fitted .. like to keep a record of the number/size, to get a replacement spare (for days when it 's really needed)
and ready to go back together
before getting slung back under the Countax for a lawn assault, as the sun'd come out to play
grass suitably massacred .... amazed to have had a collector full off it
this has to be the best Varta ever .....
the date on the top of that is ..... 21-11-05 ...... was on an FLT for 8 years and made a great sub for the Countax's when it died (and the FLT went in the bin in '14) .... has done 6 seasons since and I have every hope of it doing another, once I've charged it up again
.... wouldn't quite flick her over without a boost ... so on the bench for the night, after i'd finished with it .
then it was back to this .....
sat having a coffee in the kitchen, 'bout 3 and squeak dives through the cat flap .... Pam shrieks
" he's got a wabbit" and before I can get to him .... he'd dropped it
... and it promptly legged it around the utility ... straight beside/behind the boiler
..... let's just say he took some extracting
not a mark on him and none the worse for wear, he got returned to approximately where i reckoned Squeak had had him from ..... Pam'd seen a few earlier, about his size ... amazingly he didn't do the usual thing and try to bite me .... he was remarkably well behaved TBH. ......... and off he scampered .. at about Mach 0.4
anyway ... back to the bench ...... stitched the upper lugs on and gave it a trial fit ....
looks like it'll move 'properly' and not try to shove the splitter through the back window of the Zetor so consolidated it and cleaned it all up ready for .....
......... and anyone who's been here long enough 'll know what's coming next.......
what else .... but a coat of Druid Gold
.... will compliment the red of the splitter nicely
.......
and for those that've not already guessed ..
the two holes at the bottom are 11/16" x 3.5" centres ........... for a ball or jaw
