Billhook

Little Grey Fergie from 1950 my father bought in 1960.  Discovered an important owner in the logbook who bought it secondhand in 1958 but only owned it for a year.  Maybe she drove it to take some hay down to the stables??

It appears that because she actually personally owns the Sandringham Estate that her name appears in the logbook.  The Royal cars in London May come under another ownership such as the Duchy of wherever

The agent who signed the logbook is Major Billy Fellowes who is father of Robert Fellowes who married Princess Diana’ s sister

Anyway we decorated her and she was featured at the beacon lighting on Thursday 

Just a reminder to the World in the current climate

18 hours ago, David Cropper said:

Where does Billhook state it's in the UK?

Y’all should know ba now that I come from the county of pilgrims, with the towns of Boston, Lincoln, New York.

But thank you Slack ma Girdle and Surveyor and for answering that.  Never seen one before in spite of hanging around ponds and ditches most of my life!

Not quite sure where to post this but this incredibly thin worm was in a completely still stone basin of Spring water.  Anyone identify it?

I made this one from scrap in the yard

Load it with the Teleporter and the logs take very little effort to move sideways in the boat rollers.  Will cope with bent logs quite well

On 15/05/2022 at 22:31, Gav73 said:

 

It was unbelievably loud when it roared over me, it was very low though. Got to agree it was very impressive

 

They were very quiet and graceful on cruise power, but like most engines that all changed when you opened her up!

7 hours ago, roboted said:

 

A young neighbour asked what it was and when told, then asked why it was so important.

They're why you're speaking English ( well his interpretation of  it ) not German mate.

 

Aber  vee knew vee had von ze Vor  wann Mutti vas put in charge of ze EU!

https://www.quora.com/Was-escape-nearly-impossible-for-those-three-crew-members-of-an-Avro-Vulcan-bomber-who-did-not-have-ejection-seats

Just remembered that shortly after the crash my cousin came over with his new girlfriend and we went down to the pub where I was full of this new story and started going on about it when my cousin started kicking me under the table and shaking his head.  Told me later that his girlfriend's father had been killed failing to eject from a stricken Vulcan.  Apparently the three aircrew in the back always had great difficulty in putting on their chutes and exiting via a small door in time and several lives were lost in this way.

We used to see the Vulcans regularly on their way from Waddington or Scampton to the range at Wainfleet. I remember the four smoke trails from the RR Avon engines as they hugged the topography of the Lincolnshire Wolds

In 1977 the men on the farm saw this Vulcan with flames streaming out above the farm before it crashed three miles away near Spilsby.

Apparently the pilot parachuted and landed in Halton Holegate and was walking up the road carrying his chute when he met someone who recognised him and in a great example of British understatement said  " I expect you could do with a nice cup of tea"

Bit more here on the lifeboat

Airborne lifeboat - Wikipedia

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9 hours ago, David Cropper said:

My first wife's father was a rear gunner on Lancs, Wellingtons and then was waiste gunner on Catilina flying boats with Coastal Command for a spell. Nice little chap, about 5 foot 3 inches, typical of the Tail end Charlie, needed to be small to get into the turret.  He told me he remembered being freezing cold and frightened as you didn't see a lot on night raids, next thing you knew was the exhaust flashes from the German night fighters were alongside. He said you pointed the 4 Browning machine guns in the general direction and prayed and sprayed. Very brave blokes indeed. One of his good friends who went to the same social club to play cards was a German crew member of a Panzer captured and sent to a camp in U.K.  where he married and settled down. I never heard any adverse comments when ever I went for a drink with them although there was lots of ex forces from the war.

My father too was in Coastal Command, stationed at Davidstow in Cornwall.  He was initially sent to Canada then Pensacola to learn how to fly Catalinas.  Then ended up in 280 Squadron flying Wellingtons then Warwicks.  I visited the museum at Davidstow some time ago and they had a record of all his missions.  He flew Warwicks that had the bomb bay converted to house a large lifeboat that had its own engine and medical and food supplies.  I think it had two or three parachutes.

Like many he never talked much about the war.  However on his death bed he suddenly told the story which had obviously been haunting him since the war.  They were called out to a Flying Fortress downed in the Channel.  Father dropped the lifeboat closer to the crew swimming there than he was trained to do, maybe fifty yards away and they circled around helplessly as they watch all the crew succumb slowly either to the cold or their wounds and not one of them made it.

Going back to the wonderful Lancaster, we live only a few miles from Coningsby and from East Kirkby, where the non flying, hope to be flying soon  Just Jane just taxis.  Have not seen the flying one recently as it has been undergoing surgery so good to see it in the video

Here is a video I took at East Kirkby when the Canadian one visited and the sound of twelve Merlins filled the air.  As you can see at the end of the video I nearly fell over backwards!  Alas these amateur cameramen!

22 hours ago, Billhook said:

She has suspiciously clean hands throughout!

I apologise for the remark above!

She has suspiciously clean hands throughout!

I have a few old and tired bits that I think she could restore!

Obviously health and safety has not reached her area as far as chainsaws go.  No chain brake and no CHAPS

Human waste needs a good dose of Batemans XXX to produce the amount of gas you need!

Any idea of prices now being charged for firewood 

5 hours ago, daveatdave said:

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There is so much stuff on the web that it is hard to find the truth.  Just look at the Ukraine at the moment

The dangers of closed cell foam were well known when we looked into icynene, we did our research and have been really thankful for the way it has changed out house and it has not shown any signs of a problem since it was applied in 2009.

We have put it in between the floor joists in the attic and in between the felt and plasterboard in the dormer roof. So there has been no direct contact with the pantiles.  I could see  that there could be a problem if a firm had tried to use it to fix loose tiles on an unfelted roof

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24 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Might need to upgrade my log delivery system. I was thinking a treadmill directly into the stove itself. 😁

It would be very cruel to make your wife work a treadmill like that

19 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Well I’ve just bought a used 26k Boiler Stove and a 300 litre Thermal Store system. He’s getting a Heat Pump system with RHI payments instead.

I better get cracking with the Firewood as I’ll have 47kw worth of Stoves in the house by the end of the Summer.

Good man Andy, may the Force be with you!

5 hours ago, renewablejohn said:

Every right to be uneasy about it. Farmers have been using this foam for insulating chicken sheds for years. Its only now that the true cost of using the foam is becoming apparent. The structurally sound looking roof trusses had turned to dust with no structural strength whatsoever. I would personally not touch this with a barge pole.

Was it icynene open cell or chemical closed cell foam?

We used closed cell on our refrigerated store years ago before icynene was on the market and can quite understand how it might cause problems by  making the wood sweat.  Our store seems to be ok but we do not keep chickens in it.  It was done in the 1970s.

All I can go on is our experience from 2009 with icynene  and I feel fairly  sure that if there was a problem with icynene then we would have seen it by now after twelve years of severe weather up here on an exposed hill top.