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  1. Baldbloke
    [emoji28] I know. Makes me feel a right plonker. I see he’s dribbling oil into the air intake and suggesting it’s to up the compression. His wreck was at least smoking enough to suggest it’s more promising than mine.
  2. Baldbloke
    Good point. He did offer to come around at the weekend,- although there’s been a deathly silence since I messaged him earlier to take him up on his offer, so I’m covering the odds by asking you chaps with your vast knowledge on this type of kit.
  3. Baldbloke
    Yes it does. However, after studying the manual Khriss discovered, it looks like the plate it bears on is missing. I did wonder about the reason of that weird loose pivoting section on the bar that goes through the pump. I’ll either have to remake/replace the missing part or Jerry rig something.
  4. Baldbloke
    Probably far too much but I’m really needing one for moving 100 + tons of gravel in restricted space and taking topsoil away prior to hardcore going in for a roadway. I’ll need it for weeks so a hire didn’t appeal. It’s an ideal size for getting around the side of the house and a good match for my little digger. But it was £800 for something I’m struggling to start🥱 It’ll be being bump started and left running all day at the rate this is going🤣
  5. Baldbloke
    That’s a novel way of using it[emoji848] You’re right though about it being a single cylinder[emoji1303]
  6. Baldbloke
    Chap said it never needed easy start so I’m loathe to begin using it. Seem to remember the guy using the decompression lever to shut it down once it was on my trailer. I see that’s not the preferred way either. Believe I’m not getting adequate fuel as there’s not any smoke let alone an offer of a fire up, although as soon as the lever is dropped the compressions are immediately slowing my efforts. Think I may have to put it on a strap and start towing it for a bump start[emoji849] Kriss found a link with the manual so that’s a good start for me[emoji1303]
  7. Baldbloke
    Good point. It’s there, but unfortunately the plate it’s supposed to bear against is missing
  8. Baldbloke
    Good find. Thank you!
  9. Baldbloke
    Saw that on YouTube. Unfortunately the framework is in the way or that would’ve been my go to option [emoji1303]
  10. Baldbloke
    Yup🤣 issue is it isn’t now running
  11. Baldbloke
    Bought this 1973 era dumper yesterday, which of course was running on arrival[emoji849] Sweet running and idling thing with bags of compression. I’m not some weakling but I’m buggered if I can start it from cold. There’s zero smoke exiting the exhaust after breaking out in a sweat so I’m assuming there’s zero fuel getting into the pot. On gravity there’s fuel to the pump, and fuel dribbling out of a loosened injector nut on hand cranking with the decompressor engaged. I suspect there’s a way of setting up the throttle and enrichening her to encourage a start but am unable to figure it out. Im sure there’s a few older people on here familiar with this type of machine and wonder if you could give me some tips to be able to start her?
  12. Baldbloke
    Jersey based Irish flying instructor used to have one of those[emoji1303]
  13. Baldbloke
    Sorry, I didn’t write that very clearly. I just add the sawdust for the initial heavy duty bodges to seal the wider cracks and big holes. You’d lose some of the grain otherwise. Tend to give it a once over with the floor sander to get rid of the worst and then save some of the second sandings as the first lot will have too much paint and other undesirable crap in it. The additional second lot of cleaner sawdust helps give the mix some body to help disguise the larger cracks, and fills in the holes and imperfections. There’s nothing to stop you buying a small amount of the two pack for such a use and then cover it with air drying varnish, as the cured two pack won’t react by being underneath a top coat of air drying varnish.[emoji1303]
  14. Baldbloke
    Police arrest man, 24, after 50 trees were chopped down along banks of Thames in Surrey | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Police arrested a 24-year-old man, from Weybridge, Surrey, on suspicion of criminal damage after he was found with several chainsaws and wood chippings in his car last night.
  15. Baldbloke
    Just about to start on a 38 square m room with a rough part painted Georgian pine boarded floor that’ll need some replacement boards, a lot of sanding and finishing. What we do is punch in any exposed nails and retain the second sanding dust to add to a two pack varnish. (Hardener + the varnish). Start at one end and work to the other squeegeeing it into all the crevasses without overworking it. Given a few minutes and you get a beautiful finish. Preparation is the key[emoji1303] Any holes and gaps originally there get filled in perfectly.
  16. Baldbloke
    That’s really unusual seeing them in a group. Usually pretty solitary unless looking for a shag. Only time I’ve seen such a grouping was a mother with young.
  17. Baldbloke
    Agree on the badger front. Been up here in Moray for 12 years and only seen one hedgehog when we first arrived. Badgers everywhere and no hedgehogs at all around here. Also they’re a nightmare on the roads.
  18. Baldbloke
    I wonder how many self installations got that wrong?
  19. Baldbloke
    That wasn’t me! 🤣 it was Stere on post 61. My post and his post seems to have been mixed up with me quoting his. I’d never been to Wales until late last year for a weeks holiday and never knew about the importation of black squirrels from CZ. A wild cat or even a big feral cat would come off second best with the Pine Martins around here. I’d never assume a Martin being potential prey for a cat. The incisors on a squashed one on the road below me were about 2/3” long. No cat is going to take on a machine like that! The ones we generally see around here are around 2 foot long and 8-10” at the shoulder. However, as I mentioned earlier, my wife and I saw one crossing the road in front of us in daylight that was considerably bigger and we suspect had been fed by the people whose garden it had just vacated. It was the size of a mongoose.
  20. Baldbloke
    The posts offered lying on the ground were always green and best cut in the winter to ensure a good strip. We just assumed they liked the roughage from the bark which was missing from the grass and additional supplements (cheap potatoes/carrots/turnips) that we gave them. They always stripped them quicker if there was some snow on the ground. That year’s youngsters were always under cover for the winter, but the adults overwintered outside. The posts were turned maybe 4 times to become completely bark free.Just remembering how dangerous the spiker yearlings were when you shedded them out. Lots of homemade plyboard shields needed🤣 The guy I worked for always did everything on the cheap, so we had to make do, mend and manufacture, but as a deer farmer whose been at it a while you probably know of him (through new blood stock buying/swapping requirements) as he was of a certain religious persuasion.......[emoji849]
  21. Baldbloke
    I used to work on an estate that had around 300 farmed red deer within fencing. We fed in wild deer from the hill and had to construct a massive funnelling system to trap them. We cut our own strainers and posts from larch and left them out for the deer to strip. A kick to rotate them every few days until they were pristine, then lay up to dry them. After that we sunk them deep into an enormous tank of creosote for a week and then hung them up to drain. I remember doing miles of deer fencing with a home made post chapper on the back of a three point linkage, or on the high rocky ground boring holes in rock with a 1960s road drill and setting steel posts in with molten lead. That was until we discovered sulphur powder was less likely to explode out of a wet hole in the rock you’d just bored unlike molten lead that was prone to jump out and get you[emoji23]
  22. Baldbloke
    Thanks for everyone’s help! Eventually diagnosed the fault more by luck than judgement as the ignition switch which has always been a bit iffy with the key on a cable tie to stop it falling out. At least all my wiring connections are now polished and coated to a high standard[emoji1303]
  23. Baldbloke
    Yes it does. Never understood why but suspect that the faulty switch isn’t original equipment and is wired incorrectly. I’ve ordered a new switch as the present one turned out to be the problem. By shorting the switch wires across the machine now fires up and I’ve got brownie points from the wife who doesn’t have to look at it stalled in front of the kitchen window🤣
  24. Baldbloke
    I bought an ex hire B12 Yanmar with over 6000 hours ten years ago and it was faultless until last week when the ignition switch gave up the ghost. Incredible the amount of work I’ve given it and during a weeks work it maybe uses 1/2 pint of hydraulic fluid due to some seals being old. Not bad for a 3.5k outlay 10 years ago[emoji1303]
  25. Baldbloke
    Reds sometimes are black in north wales [emoji1] Seen some in north wales nearly this black apprently they imported a batch from czech repulbic to repopulate and the the czech ones were dark brown /black Wildcats supposedly eat polecats. EDIT: Meant to write Wildcats supposedly eat pine martens[emoji57] When I was a child and got my first air rifle I used to shoot greys in the woods near Soutborough in Kent. There were 4 or 5 pure white albino squirrels amongst the local population, which I reduced in number by one. Best success was from resting on my bedroom window until my Dad bolloxed me for chewing up the window sill with misdirected shots at the ground hoppers.

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