V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
'Kin right we have been ......"we'm alright jack " .... up on a hill, but all around us are inundated ....
some friends have 3 ft of water in their farmhouse / yard / barns / everywhere ... not been flooded there since '78 ... poor sods are in a mess and'll take a LOT of sorting .. trying to get stock to slightly higher ground ATM ... but they'm on the Usk valley floor, which is a fair size flood plain ....
most of the roads in/out of Abergavenny are impassible ..... will try and find you some pix/vid.s .............. but it's a bloody mess .... red warning in op 'til lunchtime ........ an' it's still coming down ... have had 142 mm of rain overnight ... apparently
doobin
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I've just bought a nearly new 1.8t rubber tracked dumper to replace my ageing Kubota on steel tracks- thinking I made the right choice. Can always hire a wheeled machine for peanuts for long hauls on good ground- never seem to get that sort of work!
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
Have you still got the Kubota doob? Might have a job for it.
doobin
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Being fitted with a crane (was originally on it) and sold I'm afraid bud. Bit of a chance occurance- previous owner asked if I still had it, would I sell it, he had a friend interested. I'd been thinking about getting a newer one and Cautrac had a low houred example for sale. So when he asked if I'd sell it, I phoned Cautrac up.
New one has ROPS, rubber tracks (so I can use it on all surfaces),3 cylinder Kubota lump rather than two and 400kg lighter. So should motor up the hills a bit better. Plus it's a hydrostatic drive. And three way tip! Looking forward to it. Will be sorry to see the old girl go, she was the epitome of reliability.
Turns out Yamaguchi used to build for Kubota- so this is just an updated model. The skip is still exactly the same dimensions thirty years on!
New one has ROPS, rubber tracks (so I can use it on all surfaces),3 cylinder Kubota lump rather than two and 400kg lighter. So should motor up the hills a bit better. Plus it's a hydrostatic drive. And three way tip! Looking forward to it. Will be sorry to see the old girl go, she was the epitome of reliability.
Turns out Yamaguchi used to build for Kubota- so this is just an updated model. The skip is still exactly the same dimensions thirty years on!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Usk valley where me mate's farm is, just out of town
knob head at one end of town water
other end of 'town water'
another road out of town .. or not - today
this one's just up the road from us .. won't be heading for Grosmont today
knob head at one end of town water
other end of 'town water'
another road out of town .. or not - today
this one's just up the road from us .. won't be heading for Grosmont today
diggerjones
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That looks pretty bad Graham..its fairly grim around here. In Shrewsbury today
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Komatsu
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Pricks like that should be made to pay for the recuse of them and the wasted time that the emergency services have to put into them, a bit like the one who went surfing the other week down south in the last storm and it took the Life boat crews 3 hrs to recuse him......7 miles from where he started!!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Shrewsbury usually cops it when it rains though Dylan ... any idea what Upton is like??? bet they've had a caning too . 1978 is the last time it came this high in Aber ... and was a lot worse ... town was cut off, all bar one uphill back road, for a couple of days .... main A465 'tween us and town has been impassible for the last 24 hrs .... it's just stopped persisting down, but don't know how long for
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
absolutely Ollie ... hope their insurers gets a copy of that video .... total stupidity ...... and risking others into the bargainPricks like that should be made to pay for the recuse of them and the wasted time that the emergency services have to put into them, a bit like the one who went surfing the other week down south in the last storm and it took the Life boat crews 3 hrs to recuse him......7 miles from where he started!!
that water there was some bit fast flowing ... people have been lost at that point, in the past
this is the usual view there
a LOT of water coming through there
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Rob 210
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Why in hells teeth would someone find it necessary to drive through flood water like that?Just goes to shoe the lack of intelligence there is in this country now
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
this is what that knob head was trying to drive through
far side of the bridge in this vid .......... amazed they got as far as they did
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Rob 210
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Furk!!!
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Monkeybusiness
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Pics now please!
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Monkeybusiness
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s**t the bed Graham, that looks terrible. Bad news for a lot of people there, what a nightmare.
Left hooker
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Storm Dennis: Major incidents declared in south Wales and Herefordshire
People are rescued from flooded homes in Wales, and there are a record number of flood warnings and alerts in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
this afternoon from one of the hills overlooking the town
View from Sugarloaf captures immense scale of flooding
THIS view from Sugarloaf Mountain captures the scale of flooding brought by Storm Dennis.
this is the next town down the river from Abergavenny
Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
I was complaining about the wet round here, but that is proper wet. Glad I live well above river level.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
you an' me both Gra ... was one of the criteria when new home hunting --- high ground
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
in '78 Stu, that bridge in Crickhowell had been closed several months, having been declared structurally unsafe by Powys CC surveyors' dept. ... December floods, between crimbo and new year swept away the bailey bridge, which had been erected beside it and turned it into total scrap ... the old bridge just stood and shrugged it all off ... was reopened a few days later and has been ever sinceStorm Dennis: Major incidents declared in south Wales and Herefordshire
People are rescued from flooded homes in Wales, and there are a record number of flood warnings and alerts in England.
looking a bit ropey, this afters
's a couple of hundred years old
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