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[Storrsy]

Tourist routes ...pah .

I go corney fell...as a bit quieter in high season.
But all lovely roads on a quiet morning or evening
Coming back over the tops in summer after a day in wasdale as the sun sets is magical.

Best is some fool faffing about in a car and you toot them out the way and blast past with loaded ifor in tow.

Try the proper stuff tho .. Breast high in winter sets the men from the boys

Id like to come back up to the lakes in winter, cracking bit of countryside. Couldn't believe it though go to what I thought what really nice spots and barely a soul- I realised why as we left via Windermere- they're all there instead

 

[Lancs Lad]

Id like to come back up to the lakes in winter, cracking bit of countryside. Couldn't believe it though go to what I thought what really nice spots and barely a soul- I realised why as we left via Windermere- they're all there instead

Yes it's truly beautiful...lucky to be close but sadly it's gone mental since covid. Really spoilt the popular bits
But doesn't take much effort to get a quiet bit if you know...social media has a lot to answer for

 

[Lancs Lad]

Ulpha and wasdale one cracking morning in August.

 

[Canal Navvy]

I think that the Duddon Valley was "dead" before Covid, thirty years ago there were two school minibuses, my last visit just pre-covid it was a taxi.
Back then the pub in Seathwaite was heaving with students until the wee small hours and the local farm camp site was very popular. Unfortunately it only took a very small proportion of those students to become financially successful and want to buy back into their youthful memories to kill what they thought they loved

 

[Storrsy]

Ulpha and wasdale one cracking morning in August.
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Haha I have a photo taken from almost exact same spot in the road in think back in May when I was there. Was a bit gloomy and eerie looking over wastwater. Got talking to the farmer who farms the NT farm as the very end of the road- nice chap ex stone waller - be a great spot for it to be fair.

 

[Canal Navvy]

There is a wall between Hall Dunnerdale and Broughton Mills that reminds me of @Storrsy work, wondering how on earth huge lumps of stone can be tidily worked into a wall

 

[Lancs Lad]

I think that the Duddon Valley was "dead" before Covid, thirty years ago there were two school minibuses, my last visit just pre-covid it was a taxi.
Back then the pub in Seathwaite was heaving with students until the wee small hours and the local farm camp site was very popular. Unfortunately it only took a very small proportion of those students to become financially successful and want to buy back into their youthful memories to kill what they thought they loved

Was chatting to a bloke in crook this week I was delivering at...
He was moaning about second homes and all the rich folks moving in...as he was stood in his driveway of a lovely house he must have spent 250k on and moved there from Halifax 5 years ago....I didn't point out the irony

 

[DaveDCB]

Here’s one for @V8Druid zoom in on the D links! May not be mega heavy but it’s still a shin breaker!!
Why ‘professional’ outfits post stuff like this on Facebook is beyond me!

 

[V8Druid]

Here’s one for @V8Druid zoom in on the D links! May not be mega heavy but it’s still a shin breaker!!
Why ‘professional’ outfits post stuff like this on Facebook is beyond me!
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Assume you mean this -- pin only in one side ... love the knotted slings too ... utter cowboy lift ... and WTF is holding it to the pipe on the fork ????
be an ideal moment for H&S to walk in ... THAT really is what they should be on top of ------ that unit looks HEAVY and aside from the prospect of injury, the damage that would incur/sustain landing on the concrete'd be 'spensive

hell of a machine

 

[DaveDCB]

Yeah pin half in shackle Just farmers giving themselves a bad name again! a job that they’ll have to do often!!

 

[doobin]

I can’t tell anything from that photo its so blurry!

 

[V8Druid]

I can’t tell anything from that photo its so blurry!

I had to play about with it to get a decent look on a 24" screen
's a double hook on a swivel yoke and the pin is only in one side of the yoke/shackle -- and looks to have been std practise/like it for some time
the slings/strops are scrap, even without the knots in them

 

[DaveDCB]

 

[Lancs Lad]

I can’t tell anything from that photo its so blurry!

Agreed ..it looks like an OEM lifting rig and I can't quite figure out the lifting tackle but he looks like he knows what's he's doing that's prob half million quids worth machine with 16l 800 hp engine

 

[Canal Navvy]

It's a corn cracker, used when chopping forage maize so that the kernels can be digested.
It is a pretty routine operation fitting/removing them so no excuse at all for not being properly set up

 

[DaveDCB]

Agreed ..it looks like an OEM lifting rig and I can't quite figure out the lifting tackle but he looks like he knows what's he's doing that's prob half million quids worth machine with 16l 800 hp engine

No excuse is it though!
All stems back to Old ratchet lifting wizard who portrays himself as a know it all!
Do silly things, put it on social medial and other silly folk copy them and loose a leg/arm/head!

 

[V8Druid]

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I'll bet they've lost the original pin out of that and instead of putting a decent length pin all the way through, have just chucked any old bolt, about the right size in it and said '' that'll do ''

 

[doobin]

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f**k now I see it. Unbelievable.

 

[Canal Navvy]

I'm hoping that the knot in the sling is a "beer knot" , even if it is there is no excuse for using tubular webbing with any visible damage due to it being cover dependent rather than core dependent

 

[V8Druid]

I'm hoping that the knot in the sling is a "beer knot" , even if it is there is no excuse for using tubular webbing with any visible damage due to it being cover dependent rather than core dependent

Think it's a flat webbing job, looking at it and the knot ... no sling of any description should be used with any visible damage - end of .. it's not only knotted it's frayed/cut everywhere