Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

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Six cylinder Zetor Crystals were the same 12v operating 24v start and I'm nearly sure bosch make a solenoid for Mercedes and Deutz.
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[V8Druid]

Six cylinder Zetor Crystals were the same 12v operating 24v start and I'm nearly sure bosch make a solenoid for Mercedes and Deutz.
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currently lashing down and forecast for 48 hrs apart from a maybe dry couple of hours in the a.m. .... will get the covers off the starter (enclosed in air ducting) and hopefully suss the voltage there (assuming it has a label) .. could well be a 12v set up full stop ?? ......... 's a hell of a cable feeding it for 24v .... so may well be twelve

 

[Bucket on wheels]

Hear you have the right Source of Music
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[V8Druid]

Hear you have the right Source of Music
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sweet ... NA too ... most are turbo-ed ..... shame about the damage

 

[V8Druid]

starting to make some sense/progress quietly ... ... only a couple o' dozen more ....
least they'm coloured and not white with tiny numbers printed every 6", which're barely legible to the naked Druid eyeball

..... there is gonna be a major rewire once i've made sense of what's there already ..... and a new panel

 

[V8Druid]

Never guess what I tripped over earlier, looking for some paperwork ......

jeeez I look so young there ....... but then 'spose I was

never noticed before that they'd not put my crawler crane entitlement on there

 

[Quattromike]

I'm surprised it's not in black and white

 

[JD450A]

Brucy

Also Hookam hiab hire has a ring to it.

 

[Bri963]

My first one was one of the little books, like the old HGV license.

 

[Canal Navvy]

Just turned up my old card that expired in 94 when looking for something else.
I looked all young and optimistic then....unlike the grumpy old badger I've become

Lost interest in the whole scheme after being told on the first refresher that agricultural tractors would never have a place on construction sites and rather later on that quick hitches were not a safety issue

 

[V8Druid]

My first one was one of the little books, like the old HGV license.

still got mine somewhere

 

[V8Druid]

had a little visitor earlier .... damned near trod on him/her outside the back door .... third one I've seen here in 11 years ...

some scale for yer's all

have had lots of baby toads lurking about on the drive outside the house lately ... but this was the first newt I've seen in a loooong time .......
Time for bed ...... off out with Russ in the morning

 

[V8Druid]

aside from the weather, not a bad day out ..... apart from a much earlier start than i'd expected ... Russ at a n other job at 7.30 and expected to need me to meet him en route to this one about 11.00 .... just eating me toast at 8.30 an' he's on the blower, finished and ready to rendezvous ... 40 minutes away .... so was a bit of a hurried exit from Chez Druid. trip not helped by waaaay too many traccy/trailers on the 465 to Hereford and the usual horrrrrendous traffic in Her'fo'd

new customer to Russ so needed to impress ..... mission accomplished ...
tight spot to get into to and/or work in with much juggling required ....... just to get short rigged ... not many machines'd've gotten in and been able to work it .... Russ certainly can pick 'em

radio day for sure .... a LOT of gear the other side of that wall all pretty well packed in ... getting the head right for the first bite was pretty critical, to avoid clouting anything, pulling the old unit out .... let alone threading the new BIGGER unit into spot

new one arrived bang on time .......

and was duly 'offed' onto the deck ...... 'fore extricating the old one out from the 'machinery nest', t'other side of the brickwork and plumbing - all live

rigged and ready to whip it out ....

and that's the end of the pix I'm afraid ...... was too busy from here on in ......
customer's general plant manager and safety officer, both well impressed with a very smooth operation and handling of a lump almost too big to thread in ..... that Lieb is such a smooth piece of kit in Russ's hands and can give me exactly whatever I ask for ... and needed to - was 'Kin tight ..... we will be back there for sure

had had to stop off 'en route' to the job to collect some twist lock hooks that Russ had parked in a container in a mate's yard .... passed this on the way in there. ... all shiny and new being assembled in a yard barely big enough to lay it out in
Beast !!

 

[pettsy]

Looking at the pics, it must be so handy for Russ to be able to call on you for assistance with some of the arkward lift jobs.

 

[V8Druid]

Looking at the pics, it must be so handy for Russ to be able to call on you for assistance with some of the arkward lift jobs.

it's a change of scenery for me Matt ... nice to 'get out' occasionally and we've known each other a long time, so trust each other implicitly .... I could be out a hell of a lot more, with him, if I renewed the card, but TBH - I can't be arsed to jump the hoops for that bollox .... he's always on to me to sort it, but then he'd want me too often ..... can't beat an ex-op. to bank you - they think 'crane' ..... the odd job, the challenge sometimes and a few quid occasionally is nice enough ... the time is more valuable

 

[V8Druid]

been a busy day here today .... kids home from Plymouth last night ... for the day - en route elsewhere - like a bloody motel
two yr olds B/day this week and the four year old's two weeks ago, so granny has been party planning for tonight's tea time ....

built this Wednesday afternoon ... the youngest is dinosaur mad

and the scene was set for today's 'bash' .. once the nosh'd been added later

Josh et al collected Clara from school. One of their friends and their two year old were supposed to be attending too, 'til they called, laid low with some gut bug going around - deffo keep that to yourselves please - - so one (3) short

anyway they all had a rare old time and consumed much birthday tea treats ...

the liberal 'scattering' of insect life was for the 4 yr old who is 'bug mad' and goes around with a tub collecting any he can find - constantly

Tea was topped off with Granny's 'pièce de résistance' ... which got a terrific reception

wasn't a lot of it left, by the time they all left tonight

Earlier in the day they'd all been out to a local castle at Grosmont, for a walk / play time .. I opted to remain here and re-assemble what was our house, 'til yesterday evening ... after their arrival

and when they got back J's wife couldn't find her phone (nothing new there ) and never has the ringtones turned on (very bloody helpful)
searched the place, high and low and concluded she'd left it on the roof of the car, when they departed for the castle jaunt .....having walked the entire length of our drive searching, concluded it was between there and the castle ...... after a very slow drive back there they found it - on the road/lane - right in the 'running track' ....................without a mark on it
told 'em not to bother with the lottery for the rest of this year, at least - bloody miracle it was in one piece, let alone unmarked ......
Josh had obviously had a very steady drive for damned near 4 miles, before a sharp right turn saw it exit stage left, into the scenery

 

[Cyberprog]

been a busy day here today .... kids home from Plymouth last night ... for the day - en route elsewhere - like a bloody motel
two yr olds B/day this week and the four year old's two weeks ago, so granny has been party planning for tonight's tea time ....

built this Wednesday afternoon ... the youngest is dinosaur mad
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and the scene was set for today's 'bash' .. once the nosh'd been added later
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Josh et al collected Clara from school. One of their friends and their two year old were supposed to be attending too, 'til they called, laid low with some gut bug going around - deffo keep that to yourselves please - - so one (3) short

anyway they all had a rare old time and consumed much birthday tea treats ...
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the liberal 'scattering' of insect life was for the 4 yr old who is 'bug mad' and goes around with a tub collecting any he can find - constantly

Tea was topped off with Granny's 'pièce de résistance' ... which got a terrific reception
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wasn't a lot of it left, by the time they all left tonight

Earlier in the day they'd all been out to a local castle at Grosmont, for a walk / play time .. I opted to remain here and re-assemble what was our house, 'til yesterday evening ... after their arrival
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and when they got back J's wife couldn't find her phone (nothing new there ) and never has the ringtones turned on (very bloody helpful)
searched the place, high and low and concluded she'd left it on the roof of the car, when they departed for the castle jaunt .....having walked the entire length of our drive searching, concluded it was between there and the castle ...... after a very slow drive back there they found it - on the road/lane - right in the 'running track' ....................without a mark on it
told 'em not to bother with the lottery for the rest of this year, at least - bloody miracle it was in one piece, let alone unmarked ......
Josh had obviously had a very steady drive for damned near 4 miles, before a sharp right turn saw it exit stage left, into the scenery

Next time use the find my iPhone, or the Google equivalent. If its in signal it will report back it's current GPS location. Could have saved time.

Plus you can then override the ringer turned off and make it scream till you find it. No calling it constantly.

 

[V8Druid]

Next time use the find my iPhone, or the Google equivalent. If its in signal it will report back it's current GPS location. Could have saved time.

Plus you can then override the ringer turned off and make it scream till you find it. No calling it constantly.

sadly not an iphone .... Josh'd sussed all he could for locating it ... but net turned off - had been using our wifi and as said - on silent -- he'd established how to make it make a noise remotely .. but no bloody good with ringtones off - apparently ..... all useless unless within a few yards of it ... he'd sussed it was in signal and had 88% battery ..... but was nigh on 4 miles away .. the locator 'dot' on his screen kept telling us it was on the drive way

 

[Cyberprog]

sadly not an iphone .... Josh'd sussed all he could for locating it ... but net turned off - had been using our wifi and as said - on silent -- he'd established how to make it make a noise remotely .. but no bloody good with ringtones off - apparently ..... all useless unless within a few yards of it ... he'd sussed it was in signal and had 88% battery ..... but was nigh on 4 miles away .. the locator 'dot' on his screen kept telling us it was on the drive way

Ack, it may not have had signal!

 

[V8Druid]

Ack, it may not have had signal!

that's quite possible round where it was
lessons learnt anyway .... don't leave it on bloody silent or turn the net off and freeload on the in law's wifi