Baldbloke

[emoji1303] plus if you tied the NZ trick of lengthening the post span and using hanging post droppers to make it trickier for sheep to step through you’d save on materials, Rylock and time.

About 30 years ago we did some deer fencing a part of which was over almost a mile of highland bedrock. We used two stroke road drills and molten sulphur to bed in each metal post into the rock. That, after molten lead erupted over my boss’s deerstalker from a hole containing some moisture, and sulphur was deemed the safer option. The local chemists were suspicious of our motives for wanting to buy their annual stock of sulphur powder as they suspected us of bomb making. Now that job would’ve been a costly one.

Thanks guys. Knew I could count on you! Nurse well impressed with your knowledge [emoji1]

Nurse I’m driving today was wondering what this tree is. Blowing a gale today making the leaves hard to distinguish driving past. Tree shape and trunk colour made me think of Willow but leaf shape is wrong (to my limited knowledge). Underside of leaves is a vibrant silver like a Whitebeam in first flush.

Sounds pretty over the top to me. Didn’t realise fencers got that kind of pay. Is it long straight runs? How many ditches, turn posts and gateways are involved? Are you talking hi tensile Rylock with a bottom wire + upper wire + top of barb? If it’s just for sheep there’s no real need for a barb and you could use droppers like a NZ style fence.

A local bike dealer also had the council contract for Reliant Robins and modified them for disabled folk. A mate bought a shagged one and put in a V6 Essex engine, wheely bars and split rear tractor style brakes on it. It was the most unstable ludicrous thing I’d ever driven on motor traders insurance.

That would’ve been some trip, especially with having to backtrack to find the bits that had fallen off.

Would Helicoils have negligated the need for welding, or was the shaft damaged where the bearing previously sat?

He’s just this year published a book on his motorcycle trip from Northern Ireland down the east side of Africa via the Middle East in 1980. Some time prior to Boorman and McGregor’s assisted and backed travels a decade or so later. He also did it on the most unsuitable large road bike one could choose. This was a chap who’d never previously left his birth place and was a slightly immature 21 year old, and left his home with £1000. After succeeding in arriving in Cape Town he did North and South America. We both nearly got killed several times as twenty year old idiots in the Middle East, but it was great to meet him once again, especially as his book suggested we’d lost touch. His aim of reaching Australia but hitting Southern Africa is maybe understandable considering he’s Irish. I’m less than a third of the way through the book but can so far wholeheartedly recommend it for a laugh and inspiration for anyone interested in travel or motorbikes.

A chipped V6 E Class estate or the wife’s old Boxster S. Both old, beyond depreciation, and quick enough for a giggle. Or one of the Hinckley Triumphs[emoji1303]

Thanks. That’s one I hadn’t seen. Looks like I may have found exactly what I’m needing off that Gumtree link. Not from that seller but another listed in the opposite direction. Arbtalk rarely fails to provide the goods[emoji1303]

I do remember welding and painting most of them. As a time served panel beater in a former life, most of them with Scottish winter salt were uneconomic wrecks after 7 years. As has been mentioned, emotions tend to trump actual worth,- although having something that doesn’t require paying road tax or mot-ing is nice.

We had the exact same issue in a walled garden. After a few days with brush cutter blades and bonfires realised we actually had a small orchard hiding within the brambles. We didn’t have a clue until we had cleared it.

I realise that this is a long shot but just in case there’s someone within 50 miles of me (near Keith Moray) whose got a spare small lintel for sale I’d much appreciate a shout. I’m ideally looking for an over window piece near to these dimensions: Length: 1180mm Deep: 120mm High/front face: 150mm Realise I’ll need to get the stone saw out to get it near enough so anything slightly bigger would be fine. Doing a bit of concrete harl removal and repointing and discovered concrete lintels had been substituted above one window, and would like to remove the front most visible one and match it to the rest of the windows. Thanks!

Definitely do not try that home remedy regarding the G Hogweed juice. I was a fishing ghillie for a couple of decades and Luckily had both sides of the river as well as finishing that job at the uppermost source of the weed problem so was able to almost eradicate the upper stretches of GHW. I had eight miles of paths and banks to strim, so an early spring job was to carefully spot spray the emerging plant (in April) so I didn’t inadvertently strim them later on. Some local kids got in a hell of a state one year and I believe one had to get some skin graft repairs to his face over handling that stuff.

Actually now sold her as she wouldn’t fit through a gateway into a grassed walled garden. A pretty well sorted machine. Bought by a landscaping firm for the bosses personal garden’s use[emoji1303]

Thank you. The biggest issue I have now is my eyesight and having to wear glasses inside a mask. In an earlier life I wouldn’t have been happy with such a weld, but nowadays if it’s strong I’m chuffed.

I know two people that have those little huts, and are similarly laid out inside too. Amazing the space there, - a bit like a Tardis.

Marcus, what about a VW Tiguan? My dealer friends all recommend the VW/Skoda/ Seat DSG as indestructible; as long as its fluids are regularly renewed.

Yes, but unfortunately there’s only one bough out of six with some leaves for one tree, and it’s neighbour’s looking awful thin on the foliage front.

[emoji1303] Please excuse the late reply. Between building works and grass cutting I’ve not been on here recently. Good points on the cold winter weather. I thought I’d even lost some exposed rhododendrons until I noticed fresh new leaf growth coming from where flowers had failed. Hopefully that is the issue and they’ll come good, although I’ve got some very mature boundary beeches that are definitely dead and dying.

And 9/16” is 14 mm if I remember right. I don’t mind imperial sizes on the Yank stuff I buy as it’s usually built like a tank to survive halfwit abuse.

🤣They all have big tanks

Eventually had time to get the parts fitted only to find a bracket that the rear axle is mounted on was broken too. Welded it up which in turn tensioned the new drive belt properly, and driven power was restored. Then had to adjust the air gap on the Warner electro magnetic clutch and directly wire it to a separate switch. But it all works, and cut a couple of acres of grass to give my other mowers some time out.