Routy56 - can you just....

[Bri963]

yeh it's always nose high on the jockey, but the water/dampness still stand against the tail ramp and travels up the sheet ...

On mine, the gap between the ramp and deck is so big that if you filled it with grease it’d run out. If my deck goes it’ll get kerouin boarding.

 

[V8Druid]

On mine, the gap between the ramp and deck is so big that if you filled it with grease it’d run out. If my deck goes it’ll get kerouin boarding.

yeh mine'll get a bigger gap next time .... as for Keruing.... hardly worth the cost for the use it gets TBH Bri

 

[Routy56]

this has lasted three years in my Ifor ... heavily painted/coated 18mm faced ply .... considering replacing it with some 250 x 38 CLS boards, front to back orientation and capturing it each end with some 3mm angle caps --- can't rot any quicker than the bloody ply
I'll groove the outer two to fit over the board retainer lips and it's gonna be good old creosote this time - maybe bitu underneath and the edges
standing about wet kills it
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That's not good at all Gra - 3 years is no time. Must be the wet Welsh weather
Looking back at my records it was nearly 10 years ago that I replaced my LM146 boards...

Replaced with 8x4 sheets from ATE. They didn't colour match them

They lasted very well and were never really abused.
Always stored the trailer with a tilt allowing water to run off etc.
Front board was covered with an old one for chucking the digger buckets on etc.
And it's still in great condition and did not require replacement after 10 years

 

[Routy56]

yeh it's always nose high on the jockey, but the water/dampness still stand against the tail ramp and travels up the sheet ... worst at the back end -- hoping to use the front half (or as much as I can for some shuttering in 'the hole' )
my 8 x 4 is in a similar state ... used to keep the bed indoors when not being used but apathy crept in and it got left in the weather
got a sheet here for that and think it'll get several coats of creosote too with Bitu on the underside and edges -- when I get round to it

Drainage and protection is your friend my friend

 

[Routy56]

On mine, the gap between the ramp and deck is so big that if you filled it with grease it’d run out. If my deck goes it’ll get kerouin boarding.

Me too with the useful gap.
Keroiun will be expensive and heavy.
Had considered it for my classic lorry a few years ago

 

[Routy56]

Busy day with Jack yesterday. "Granddad, we worked for 13 hours"

Site of the old greenhouse - "Rake out all the organic material please"
Digger + springy rake did the job...

300 with teeth sorted out the shallow footings and 2 courses of brick which Jack handball away into his favourite machine

Then I got the Arrowhead S20 out and broke up the concrete path and front apron.
Jack only handball a load or so before I slipped on the 450 to load the rest away

Job jobbed for now before lunch. Build up with 5 loads of basic soils. To be sorted later with good topsoil and grass seed. When we have rain forecast. Look at how dry my lawn is

 

[Bri963]

Busy day with Jack yesterday. "Granddad, I worked for 13 hours"

Put that right for you.

 

[Routy56]

......then in the late afternoon, my neighbour James said, "Dave before you go on holiday can you just dig out a bit for concrete for my new garage"

"Don't worry, it dead, I've disconnected it from the consumer unit"
So pulled in a skinny trench for services...

Then worked up towards the other new build shed...
He initially told me he wanted a 600mm by 30m deep trench
So I asked him about the secret bunker that he was building

Jack took the spill away to our heaps. So what he doing is adding 600mm slab to the existing old garage slab for the new build. He will over engineer it with reed bar etc.

Can you see that the light was fading with the eclipse. We looked at it with my welding mask
James was really happy with our help to get the prep done. Job jobbed

As a footnote, James is a heating engineer who specialises in renewables.
We have been helping him out because he will be helping me out with an install of air to air heat pump stuff.
First he will be installing his own split units and I will be helping.
Then I will install my own split units. Will probably go for 2 big outside units with 3 indoor units on each

 

[Bri963]

Me too with the useful gap.
Keroiun will be expensive and heavy.
Had considered it for my classic lorry a few years ago

Expensive, yes, unless you hit lucky. Heavy, but not enough to make much difference to me.
What wagon have you got?

 

[Routy56]

Expensive, yes, unless you hit lucky. Heavy, but not enough to make much difference to me.
What wagon have you got?

Well back in the day, I had a 1959 Austin FE Series 3. With a straight 6, 4 litre petrol engine - very quiet and smooth
Flatbed at 3 ton payload. Previous had done it in softwood which was staring to rot. I patched it up.
I now have an old lorry body for dismantling. It has a Kerouin floor....