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Jun 14, 2024 18:07:47 GMT
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Well , time for a bit of fillin and paintin .. filled and flatted and masked .. primered.. i then featherd that edge back with 2000 grit , and applied my specially ordered , brooklands green , which should be a perfect match .. oh pox . less brooklands green more depressing grey with a touch of gloomy black ! oh well , at least its sealed and weather proof , i cut it back and polished anyway .. In case the primer was too dark ,i painted a bit of white card to see if it would make it match better , here it is next to the boot lid .. Well, that's a perfect match isn't it .........NOPE . to cheer myself up i started her up ,first time in 1 1/2 years , backed out of the barn and washed the saucy monkey .. of course , halfway through this , it started biblically tipping it down , and a frantic rush back into the barn ensued , slighly hindered by that poxy alarm system where you have to put a little wand in a hole to make the red led go out ,that needs taking off and no mistake ! once back in the barn , i then rolled the v wet lawn mower in too , and wiped them both down a bit .. looks much better for a wash . In other news ,during the time i was waiting for the filler to set and paint to dry , i went out and decanted 25 litres of hydraulic oil into the digger ,so now it was raining slighlty less i set out and had a look at the joints to see if it was leaking ...... .......it was . this one .. was dripping v slowly ,i had a feeling it was not done up as far as it should be , but it had tightened down ,so now i was a bit stuck , if i undid it all the oil would pour out ,so all i could think of was to try to tighten it a bit . so , underneath with the big spanners , and it tightened a little , but then suddenly came loose ! Oh , that'd strippped then, i thought , i may as well carry on turning it , and lo and behold , after about 4 turns it tightened up and the drip stopped ! i can only guess the inside cone had caught on an edge , and then slipped into place . By now i was so adrenalised by disasters i put that to good use , and started moving engines...as you do . dragged the aj16 jag , and the 2 litre 8 valve over to here and make a little sheltered pace for them.. this allowed me to sweep and clear the portal of parts.. and now the tvr and mower can sit in there , and maybe my mini , so to clear space for the hole for the dyno to be dug . since i have been awake since 3.35 am , i think i may sleep well tonight ! regards robert
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Last Edit: Jun 14, 2024 18:15:00 GMT by ivanhoew
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Jun 13, 2024 19:16:45 GMT
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Well things went well with the hanging of the door . I spoodged a load of p40 in the top plate to body interface to take up any missmatch with the plate to body contouring , and screwed it in , then the bottom one , where i filled the gap with silicone to prevent water ingress around the bush . the bottom bolt screwed in finger tight , the top one was slightly tighter, but not bad , and it all went together well , i then packed the door into position with cardboard wedges , and tightened down the adjusters . Then onto the window frame . I fitted my new fluffy gutter strip , and faffed about getting the frame as good as i could ,changed three self tappers for nicer s/s bolts and nuts on the mounting plate .. put the bottom spar bolt in .. interestingly with the new hinges the ally window frame now sits much better against the rubber door strip . Now onto wiring up the power window and speakers . the car had 4 seperate joints in the power window feed .. so i cut all that out and put in some heavier guage wires , and now there's two joints in total ,i also put some conduit on it so i could zip it to the brace safely .. Now i could connect the battery, and wizz the window up and down, to see what compination of spacers and alignment of the frame would help the window work best , in the end i finished with this spacer in the top of the rearward frame part .. this helped a lot in stopping the glass going diagonal and digging into the sliders , which i sprayed wurth hss 2000 into . then everyones favourite job, the cable for the inner door pull .. i found the best way to do this was lay the door card flat under the door on my knees , and hook it into palce , then put a zip tie in the hole it hooks into and use that to retain it . now i could put the cleaned door card on , fun getting all th plastic rawlpluggy things in the right holes and not doubled over ! nice to see it complete .. Next.... body repair . taped up the door , mixed some p40 and filled the hole up with some supports to keep it there while it went hard .. tomorrow i can sand it , a slight skim of filler, then sand , prime , sand ,and finally gloss paint . regards robert
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Jun 12, 2024 11:05:28 GMT
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Thanks john , yes i have a fair bit of expereince with stainless to stainless galling and locking up especially on turbo exhaust flanges .
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Jun 12, 2024 10:22:45 GMT
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Could TVR have made them any cruder??? I know ! they would have been fine if they had used a plate like i have done , and a brass bush instead of plastic in the door , then it would maybe not have siezed up , oh , and the rain water channeling into the top bush doesnt help. in my experience doors is where the small production car builders seem to come adrift , oh , that, and wiring .
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Jun 11, 2024 18:50:34 GMT
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Orlroighty ! More tvr fun and games, oh yes . I did , in fact , wedge said door in place ,after bolting the plates back in , with cardboard wedges to put it in the right place , which incidentally is about 4mm further forward than it used to be , then i could get in from the other side and mark from inside the door, up , and down (copywright venga boys), onto the plates with a black pointy felt tip .. like so .. Now , since the holes are round in the door , and the black marker holes are far from round , i needed to work out why , and i realised , the pen had marked the hole round where it got through to the plate , then followed the hole in the sill and top wing , where it overlapped the door hole . pox. so , i make a carboard replica of the two holes like so , and re assembled the rest of the marked holes so i could get my centre point for drilling .. drilling and a small tack weld occurred ... the tack weld allows me to put the plates back on , and then bend the welded nut to get the bolts to line up . plates back in ,and then bolts in,and i used string to line it all up .. Then i could take off the plates , and weld them . Something i noticed during this hilarious fun , was , the top nut seemed far forwards of where the old bobbin broke out .. so, of course, i convinced myself i must have made a hash of it all ,and to check , next day i put the door back in yet again , and ,to see if the nuts were anywhere near central to the door holes , i took pictures inside the door up, and down (copywright venga boys) , so i could see how far out i had got it , and whether i had to cut my nuts off and try again.. here are the two piccys .. bottom nut .. well thats looks ok .. top nut , the one i lost sleep over .. stuff my boots and call me gwenlidvine the norse goddess of war with her pneumatic body armour and golden braids !!! its spot on ! Relief. now finish welded , and put back in , i ended my day by finding some nicer stainless bolts for the mounting plates , and cutting them to length , and then washers and spring washers in S/S to suit . regards robert.
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Last Edit: Jun 11, 2024 18:52:41 GMT by ivanhoew
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Good work Robert - but I am puzzled as to what you did with the frogspawn shown in the third Pic of the first post!!! I left them there phillip , it turns out , and i was surprised because i didnt know this , that that is actually a clump of frogspawn that have been embedded in a cryostasis field , and will remain in suspended animation for all time , unless there is a global catastrophe, like ,for expample , farage being taken seriously , if this happens , and a total annihalation of all living creatures should occur , the stasis bubble with dissolve , and the spawn will become the new builing blocks of a re population of the planet .bio engineered to cope with all new possible outcomes . cool huh . TVR ....thinking ahead . regards robert
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Welded my nuts .. tapped out a thread to clear it , but no stuck bolts so that's good ....you have to be very carefull welding m6 not to damage the thread . re installed .. now onto the fun top plate of love . I cut it to shape , and started to bend it to follow the inner face profile .. i used a 5mm plate , so i could put the threads in it and it would be stronger for the top hinge . it ended up this shape .. i marked it out on the body .. drilled the holes .. marked out on the plate and drilled and tapped it .. then mounted in place .. Now ready to put the door in , wedge it in the correct place , and mark the pivot points . progress ! regards robert
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Last Edit: Jun 7, 2024 19:14:25 GMT by ivanhoew
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more fun with the tvr S2 ... It appears someone had spoodged loads of p40 fibreglass paste down beside the lower nut , and ,so my plate underneath would sit flat , i had to try to remove this . i did what i could with the die grinder , but in the end had to use the drill with a long carbide cutter and tripple jointed arms ,from inside the foot well.. heres how it looked when i started .. halfway done .. and done .. now i could finalise my metal plate shape .. i trimmed it a few times to get it to fit underneath , then drilled the body, then melted through a few drills drilling that poxy stainlss steel , countersunk the holes and found some nice stainless m5 screws .. its so innaccessable i am going to mig the nuts to the plate like so .. then i can put it bolted in place , then do the same proceedure for the top plate , put the door hinges back in the door , wedge the door in the hole in the right place , and from inside mark out on th plates where the m10 nuts need to be welded on ,for the hinge pins to screw into . time will tell if this actually works ! regards robert:)
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Last Edit: Jun 7, 2024 7:51:22 GMT by ivanhoew
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Those exploratory holes look bloody awful! yup , it's where the brass bobbins ,that tvr bonded into the fibreglass , tear free and rotate with the door , then open up the hole .nasty design . if yuor really unlucky it does it top and bottom .
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Woop ! Old w7 lap top working again ! I loaded a new version of java , and found i could use explorer to load firefox , deleted google , and now it all works again .weird . so , as my good freind gina lollobrigida keeps asking , "hey ! roberto !! , whata you been a doinah !?? well, this n that , bit of this .. wiring,and removing the polystyrene sheets , i may have to do a little bit of pointing , you might not notice but, if you look closely, there a tiny crack in there . After this ,i decided to finally get the landy off the drive, so i can scrape drive with the digger . i whopped a battery on the landy , and she cranked fine , but no running occurred , i did not know if there was any fuel still in it after the last landy saga ,with the hose exploding and the 2 day recovery from oxon , so i thought i'd get the choke working ,that someone had pulled right out of the steering column . Then ensued a choke cable SAGA , and two hours later i had a removed, replaced ,retrimmed ,re inserted thruogh two bulkheads , cable , which upon my triumphantly pulling it out , and pushing in decided to have it's outer sleeve detach from the holder . pox . Ithought "oh gosh " and turned the key just to help me feel slightly in control , and batter my chiplings in black cherry conserve and call me muriel the steel thighed polo trainer from abhu dahbi , but the blimmen thing started right up ! woof . Plonked into gear , and drove , DROVE ,the lovely machine up the bridle path and into the drive from heaven . this was good . Next day , was car show day . washed the car to bring out the purest essence of red .. and went to the show , it was a nice old dillapidated country house setting .. and ,weirdly , i didn't get charged to go in , the advantages of driving a road hazzard ? had nice chats with friendly people , even met a chap with a mini and a tvr ! ( ididn't ask if he had a Medusa ) on to Yesterday ,which ,while gabby climbed trees , i decided to bite the bullet , and get at v's tvr door hinges , i won't bore you all with the details ,but , after a fair bit of grinding heads of bolts and tvr door dissasembly fun , i got to here .. two gaping holes where the brass bobbins should be . making plates with welded on nuts may be this weeks fun times . lastly my 7th inches long waspy thing has arrived .. such fun being in the country regards robert
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Last Edit: Jun 4, 2024 7:55:34 GMT by ivanhoew
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May 31, 2024 10:57:38 GMT
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Very colourful skyline indeed! Your mysterious plant. Cuckoo Pint. Poisonous but pretty. thank you mr duck , it really is a strange looking plant .
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May 31, 2024 10:56:29 GMT
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You get some fantastic sunsets there Robert, just right to sit n contemplate life for a while with a beverage of your choice me thinks Do you ever catch the sun rise ? Nope, being on the side of a steep valley , facing west , i get the good sunsets , my east facing side is also lined with 50ft trees , so the sun is a bit up before i see it . regards robert
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i got updates . no1 .my pc died..I'm now typing on keybord with no working A or S key ..unless I use the onscreen keyboard ,which is a right pain in the bum . no2 .strimming ...again ... did the middle bit by the tree .. . nd round the house.. this was all feet deep, looks much better. then bit of chain sawing .. fced off the stumps ,mde firewood .. Campion looking lovely ,didnt hve thoze last year.. no3.. 12v power zupply prob identified... new supply working well . No4 i wnted to get trctor oil out of w4ter thiz worked well , i could gr4du4lly wind up the blue pl4te , 4nd 4ll the oil r4n out underne4th the w4ter no5, deztumped thiz bit .. boy thoze ztumpz 4re h4rd work . no.7 got the 32 4mp zocket on the w4ll 4nd wired in . no8, h4d 4 fun problem with the tvr , the tyre went down cloze to the w4ll , getting 4 j4ck in there ,not e4zy .. off.. l4eking round the rim .. up to long b4rn .. broke be4d , ziliconed ,4ll done .. bit of 4 cle4n needed.. l4ztly , zome nice colourzzzzz hopefully fix l4ptop tod4y . reg4rdz Robert .
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May 20, 2024 17:22:07 GMT
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Ohhhh So I'm Young Philip now...that's a compliment! Anyway I think I missed the bit about a "smashed TVR rear screen" or is this something not yet told? Oh it's all fine Phillip , it was just my fear that a lump of wood or my rd chisel onna string would get out of control and go through the window . its quite in the line of fire for where i was throwing the rope . thats it under the green blanket , and since we were dropping limbs all over the drive, it got to be a concern , of course , i was way too impatient to a actually move it .
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Last Edit: May 21, 2024 7:12:28 GMT by ivanhoew
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May 20, 2024 10:09:53 GMT
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TIMBER! was the cry...seriously though that was a quality job on felling those Ash trees. Fish and chips well deserved. Thank you young Phillip , it was a nice surprise/relief to have no more injuries or smashed tvr rear screen to deal with .
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May 20, 2024 10:08:37 GMT
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Build a bonfire around the stumps once you have cut them down as low as you can. As someone else who has endured an endoscopy, I understand/sympathise. My experience was pretty much identical, except that it was a beautiful Indian doctor. Ah that's interesting glen , maybe they save all the hot doctors for that job .... makes it almost worth while ! #innap.
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May 19, 2024 11:27:35 GMT
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Day of the Triffids haunts you too then ! It was the rattling noise.... James Oh don't..get..me..started..! So , where was i ? OH yes , the trees , oh but first the digger .. On Wednesday , hottest day of the year , i got underneath and finished undoing the big 35mm nut , and managed to extract a metre of twisty rubbery snakey metal rubber pipe barstard from hell,here it is all undone from itself .. I had to use the Big vice , if you look closely you might see the tiny pinhole .. I whizzed off down to the local tractor place and ,while i waited ,they made a new one with new ends for 35 quid ,no idea if that's a good price but i think it was worth it . Came back and put the pipe back together , then tried to insert it into the digger .. Now , i cannot remember if i have shared the camera down the throat experience i had a few years ago ,but it was a bit like that ,without the sexy french dr , and three very nervous philippino nurses of course . i did not realise when i went for this test , that the camera , which i thought would be the size of a petit pois , was actually the size of a small taxi . i went in with my, must be zen, calm as possible ,mind set , and appreciated my french lady dr a lot , but may have turned 4.271% paler when she brought out the alien stealth probe from hell , on its multi jointed black aluminium meter long arm ! i thought gawd if they put that in me they'll see my long toenails and no mistake ! At this point i was surrounded by Philippino nurses , not, as i at first suspected , trying to do my nails , and ask me if i had girlfrenn, but to rub my back and hold my hand , and cradle my head as they inserted a frankly revolting surgical pink gum shield, with a worryingly big hole in it , presumable to stop me clamping down and biting off the end of the probe . now , being an avid student of psychology, and body language , i could not help but notice , that all these nurses where waving strong worry flags , and giving off a fundamental sheer terror mind frequency . i realised , here i was a 6ft 190 lb male , about to be invaded with a alien stealth probe , and they must have had occurrences when the victim had hurtled off out of the room , the hospital , and down the road , while till equipped with the borg interspace antenna ! ! i found this thought so amusing i nearly smiled , however , that the last time i was about to smile for a loooonngg time .. my nice lady doctor turned to me with a charming french smile, slightly coquettish and tempting , hopelessly attempting to distract me from the grim reality she was carrying in her french polished hands ,yes , it was the probe , about 15mm across and a meter long . i, as i said, paled , there may have been 4 white showing around my eyes , however i was now surrounded by the girlfrenn beauty chorus , so i did my zen breathing and tried not to look as it came closer and closer to my gumshield orifice .... everything went into slow motion , as she started feeding it through , it had a spotlight on the end , which was nice , i wondered if it could change colours , and give me a disco tummy effect down the clubs , but then went back to my breathing , and in fact got my pulse down to 77 from the 78 i started with , and all the time the ladeeez are rubbing my back and telling me how well i am doing . So , the antenna for Robqutus of Borg is now about 17 ft in , and she says , can you just swallow , so it goes down the right hole . this had obviously been a breaking point for men in the past , as one of the nurse involuntarily sank her 2" nails ,in a fetching metallic swirl pattern with a smiley face on each nail, into my wrist , not sure which one because i have my eyes tightly close at this point , and i manage to swallow and feel the invading stalk of death click past my lung tube into my tummy tube succesfully . did i mention i had no anaestetic ? Anyway , madamoisselle sexy keeps on feeding the darkness down me , until at long last its all in , i wiggle my toes to see if its in my shoes but no its ok , ,at least its ok until she sexily announces in her french accent , "hnow whee joost ave to takk thee sampless yeeess?" "yuo arrr doing sooo weeelll monseur" at this point i am able to point out that , no matter how sexy a female french doctor may be , having a metre of borg technology stuck right down you, effectively precludes any sort of masculine responses ..AT ALL . i feel a weird gripping sensation as she grabs pincerfuls of upper gut and secrets them in the special roberts upper gut samples case , , and then i am relieved to feel her start to extract the devils finger of blackness. i start mentally counting down to defcon 1, and it's now a race between her getting her finger out ,so to speak , and me doing a runner , bedraped with hanging on phillipinno nurses gabbling about do i want my nails polished too.. or not . luckily the probe wins, finally coming to the surface , and shining its bright white led eye into my red ,dim with horror, eyes. so Yeah , getting this tube on digger in was like that . then connecting it up , with a 4 bolt flange to the pump , which is an ally body, so easy to cross thread , all without taking the front cowl off , or oil cooler out , was a finger twisting laugh a minute . but it's all on , and once i have filtered the water and leaves out of the oil, i can see if it leaks . then back to the trees . Along with the two ash trees left to take down was a hawthorne barstard tree from hell , about 20ft tall and 6 seperate trunks all tangled and very straveller . I set too with the leccy saw , and my rope and weight ,and apart from repetitively getting the weight tangled up and having to climb up to extract it , it went well .. and cleared the decks for the next days fun of taking down the 50 ft ash trees . we started by roping the limbs over the bt cable , and mr C went up with the leccy saw and bow saw and one by one we removed them me hauling on the rope .. starting point .. slimmed down .. then it was time , mr c very kindly did the cutting while i hauled on the rope to try to get it to fall in the narrow alleyway we were aiming for , so as not to hurt the fruit trees .. here i am hauling on the rope ,doing the easy job , while mr c cut a v shaped notch and then a back cut .. and stuff my boots , it fell in just the right place !! we did the same with the next tree , and that was it ,success . here they are ,gone . We measured the taller one and it was 53.5 feet long ,to celebrate we scoffed some goodness from the local chippy .. huge thanks to Mr C for his help . regards robert
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Last Edit: May 19, 2024 19:29:27 GMT by ivanhoew
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Robert, your new weird plant is Cuckoo Pint. thank you crockpot , looks like a terminator triffid to me, i swear its moved closer to the house overnight
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Ouch. Glad it wasn’t any worse. On the positive side, ash burns beautifully and that lot should keep you warm for a while. Thanks glen , yes i was very lucky to get it out of the way before much more damage occurred . there definitely will be a lot of firewood , although of course i am sending mr C away with as much as he can get on his trailer. His house is blimmen freezing , usually about 2 c colder than outside ..i think it may be built on top of a space time anomaly . i keep telling him he should rename it "Kelvin Cottage" rgards robert
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You can switch 240v through the float switch (if it's rated for it) but I'd recommend 12v (or 24v) much safer, especially outside and near water Thank you Jimi , i think i'll take your advice and do that, new power supply on the way . I reckon that's a full time job trying to keep on top of all that, but amazing place to live an as for 4 acres....luv it Great work Robert an thanks for taking the time to share it with us buddy My pleasure otolux , and thank you ,yes, if i ever move again , (which won't happen) it'll be a desert i'll buy lol. it's a constant mental battle of what to work on next, while the blimmen green stuff won't stop growing . it's worth it though, to look out of the window and see how pretty it is . Speaking of which ! there are 3 tall ash trees in the garden , that have to go . here's a winter piccy showing them , once they are in full flower , thy block the light for all the fruit trees , i estimate them at 40-50ft high . so on monday mr C came over , and we set too with chain saws, bow saws , and ladders to cut them down . here i am up the ladder trying to cut the big limb off the biggest tree ... This didn't go quite to plan , and for those of a squeamish disposition , particularly the japanese ladies netball team who i know follow me avidly , i would advise skipping the following paragraph .i'll colour the script green when it's safe to return . What happened was this... The top of the ladder was ratchet strapped to the limb of the tree ,twice . i did an undercut with the leccy chain saw , and then proceeded to cut the top of the limb , which was about 10" thick . as i cut , suddenly the limb started to fall , so i held on to the chain saw with my left hand and wrapped my right hand round the top rung of the ladder ,so i didn't fall 20 ft to the ground . the falling limb , did not snap off at my undercut , but peeled a 4" slice right back to the trunk 6ft away . to do this it was hindered by the straps holding the ladder to the limb . subsequently , i was alerted to this fact by the experience of having my hand crushed between the ladder top rung , and the limb , and the entire weight of the 15ft limb bore down on the straps as it tried to peel away to the trunk . this it achieved by snapping the ratchet strap , and in doing so malformed the top rungs of the ladder like so .. Now , bearing in mind my fingers where under those rungs , and trapped between them and the tree limb , i didn't find this a comfortable experience . luckily i have ,having been a long distance despatch rider for 7 years ,quite quick reactions , so i tore my ,luckily ,gloved ,hand out from between the hostile faces trying to flatten it . nevertheless , it didn't feel very good , and i imagined taking off the glove as i wobbled down the ladder with a degree of trepidation ,to put it mildly . once i got down , i was asked ,you ok ? and , upon me dragging off my glove ,the comment , "hmm , that doesn't look good " this summed it up nicely , in a understated British manner . Ring finger, a fetching pattern of blood blisters , like it had been shot with a micro 12 bore , middle finger , looked like it was composed of tea bag material , oozing blood out of every pore . but , luckily just the first joint ,no further . it may have throbbed a touch . so a quick cold water finger bathe , and back on with the glove and back to work .the first inch of the glove ,which was a skate glove, three layers ,and thick leather , was soaked through with blood for the first inch , but that was fine . every now and then pressure would build up , but then a feeling like a bee sting , and it would pop a bit more blood out . so , back to work .mr C took up the up the ladder work , and we then cut off the the next limb on the other side .. crushing the fence a bit , but that was ok . i then realised that,if we cut down the bigger trees now , they would get tangled up with the other tree to the left , so we attacked that one first . with each tree component , i was slinging my rope and weight over ,and then pulling to make it fall where we wanted , so we did this with this tree and it worked well , it was two trunks , so we did the left hand one first , and it fell just right .. then the next trunk .. no damage to the fruit trees . we cut up the fallen stuff , made heaps of logs , and a new bonfire heap , and that was the end of that fun day . next morning , was, for me , a bit like that feeling you get after a bike or car crash , with a twanging and aching right arm , and neck , i am guessing the fallout from me violently pulling my hand out of the ladder tree interface . but good news is the finger now just feels like it has been hit with a big hammer , and i'm sure will heal fine . did my shop yesterday , then not much else , felt a bit tired . in other news . the digger with the blown hydraulic pipe , that i could not get undone , well, i got the pump end done , but the fitting underneath was too tight , however my new friend from down the lane responded to a call for a 35mm spanner on the local pb page , and popped up with a 36mm one that ,with him holding one nut with a big adjustable , and me using my foot and leg to push on the 36mm spanner , fnally came up done , hurrah ! It WAS tight ! ..TIGHT !! bit of natural interest now ,...Got a nice piccy on my camera .. and after the thunderstorms on sunday ,some lovely mistyness ,looks like a scene from a lord of the rings chapter .. Regards robert
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Last Edit: May 15, 2024 10:32:07 GMT by ivanhoew
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