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Same here .

I think with luck like that, it's time to get the lotto ticket.

Same experience here. I grew up in poynton, cheshire. We lived practically at the end of the runway from Woodford aerodrome, which was one of the production factories for A.V.Roe who produced both Lancs and vulcans. They used to have an enormous airshow each year which brought in so many fantastic planes of the 60's, 70's and 80's, alongside true veterans. The battle of Britain flight were always the real stars. They weren't treated with kid gloves then, pushed really hard in steep climbs, high speed banking and rolling turns. The sounds of those engines working hard and being pushed to the max never leaves the memory. Whilst at primary school at end of 1969 to early 70's the vulcans and beautiful victors were brought in, some for dismantling and others for conversion to tankers. Each day the air itself would shake and vibrate with the sound of engine testing, where the planes were backed up to 4 giant pipes of about 40' horizontal length with a final 15' vertical end to send noise and fumes into the sky. I was always breaking into the base at evenings and weekends, avoiding and hiding from guards, to sit in the chopped off cockpit sections of the dismantled planes, playing with knobs ,switches and firing a fantastic imagination.

Christ, you're village fete has got some clout to arrange a 3 pass flyover. You absolute lucky bastard!!. The sound of those piston engines in harmony actually drew real tears. - Thank you , and your village. Shaun

Absolutely. I have a 15hp loncin on a flail mower. A fair amount of vibration especially when I've knocked one of the blades off. Anyway it had always weeped oil a little but didn't worry about it, til suddenly the oil was pouring out of the engine. I thought I'd cracked the crankcase or something. All the timing case bolts were practically on their last threads and I could waggle the case around. Lesson learnt on the routine checking of all bolts.

That's surely a sweet looking piece of art. Nice one. [emoji3]

Yep, they're all on my list of favourites- never thought of their profile before.

After this we've eaten most of our produce appart from cucumber up to 5 years later with still good crunchiness

We do a fair amount of pickles, cucumber, gherkins, cabbage, onions, piccalilli, and occasionally eggs. The absolute important job to get a good long lasting crunch is salting ( or brining) to draw out excess water. Then a good quality pickling vinegar which is more acidic than general pupose kitchen vinegars, sugar or honey to make it palatable again, and purchased pickling spice for flavour.

Soured my fans........? Gorgeous image of a victorian gentleman holding up a pair of well skidded keks and announcing to the scullery maid what he'd done. [emoji12]

Let the wife do it, as her penance ?

Looks damned good, and I know how effective they are. I bought ( at fantastic expense !) The Logosol equivalent. Thought at the time it was just a gimmicky thing, but it soon became my go to piece of kit for rolling awkward crotchy logs towards the milling bunks in my lucas mill, lifting heavies onto the bunks and repositioning them to get the best optimal cuts. It had a hand winch with the seat belt type webbing and a self locking brake system. Fast to operate and would hold well over its rated load safely. It was advertised as a tree pusher, to give the extra height advantage to start a difficult fell going. Never used it as such but could imagine it being equally effective. Yours with extra attachments is spot on.[emoji106]

Living out hereSW Ireland, We've got 2 of these old wrecks on our land. Soil infill and rubble between the stones, only the render (plaster) on the outer and inner walls holds them together. No or poor jointing of corners. As we found out when we hacked off the mortar on the gable end , the wall "sprang" out leaving a 70 mm gap where the ceiling should have been touching the wall inside. No foundations to be of any trustworthy purpose, so start digging against the walls and the rest of the cottage will be joining you in the hole !

How ya going to get a bigger house inside the walls of an existing one?

Surely using the purge bulb is simply moving liquid (and air) around a closed loop . If its pressuring then extra air must be being drawn in , as was mentioned earlier by a split pipe or a seal failure in the carb

I've got one in my shed. Bought it 30 years ago at a machinery auction. Regretted it instantly as I tried to lift it into the back of my forward control landrover. Its been out one other time, probably 25 years ago, to haul over a back leaning oak ,down a deep valley, which cracked off sideways as I couldn't swing the handle fast enough to keep uphill momentum. I'm 25 years older, wiser and less able to pick the damned thing up again so I foresee, with my all seeing magic eye, that its going to remain in my shed for at least the same amount of time !

Yeuch, that's disturbingly real !

I'm beginning to wish I hadn't

Should there not be a comma after the phrase 'fit in' ? Or is there more to Stubby than expected ? [emoji12]

Good effort by both Fred and yourself to get it in place, enjoy the cutting.

A bit more wind needed in that front right tyre would be my recommendation [emoji3] Might make the steering a little lighter, and save a costly replacement

Another vote for baltic abrasives. They happily created some custom discs for me and the lucas mill, to my own spec, at reasonable cost and quick turnround and delivery.

"Well Mylud, he was a really annoying groundy, but I really can't explain what happened. One minute he was there, next, chomp chomp chomp , gone. All that was left was his earmuffs and a boot. - took a damned long time to unblock that pipe.....messy job it was Your Honour "

With all the renewed travel restrictions I believe I'm going to be unavailable for any sort of probing or inspection works for the foreseeable future, and I'm sure that's going to be a very long time indeed.... sorry not to be of service. [emoji12]

Are you sure you've got a sticky ring? Brave words indeed to shout out on arbtalk [emoji16][emoji16]