Baldbloke

For the garage with impact tools and small grinders i prefer Dewalt, but also have Makita grinders too. Just completed a big job of removing 300 square metres of harl along with a repoint. Bought 2 110 V makita hammer drills and 1 Chinese monster. One of the Makitas went back twice within two months for repairs. No quibble and well impressed with the abuse I gave them

Nice walk around the gardens. Didn’t require 4 hours but appreciate that earlier in the season it would have had more of a wow factor and needed for us to have taken more time. Bit overpriced, both for the experience in the autumn, as well as being well overpriced for a filled bun + tin of juice from the shop.

Nice job! Did a poorer job at 16 that’s also still standing as part of my first job after being chucked out of school. Farmer was going to show me how to do a drystone dyke but got waylaid, but was later impressed enough to see what I’d achieved that he let me do the remaining 100 odd yards unsupervised. What I detested was the planting of trees within the area I had to do afterwards….. I managed to write in ‘**************** off’ in 20 yard blocks in the wetter areas with deciduous Willow and Alder in amongst a Spruce planting which was appreciated by an aerial photographer a few decades later.

We visited The Eden Project a few years ago and enjoyed what was on offer but looking forward to an autumn stroll around the gardens tomorrow. Anything to especially look out for tree wise?

Yes, got the Tornado type of kit and run it off a drill. I feel it’s good for a gentle loosening of loose soot from a narrower flue, but slightly ineffective on the 9” jobs. But there again, had a professional in to check on the liners this year and he uses a very similar piece of kit so am now more assured of its capabilities.

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I reckon 10 % is well within reason. It’s not just the actual construction of housing with the future requirement to use taxed fuel. Think about the industries supplying materials that presently use red such as quarries and cement works that shortly will be prohibited from using it.

As if house price inflation wasn’t bad enough. Now you’ll be seeing an additional 10/20% whacked on top of existing prices[emoji849]

If the Council suggest they’re too busy, why not offer to quote per 100m? If they give you the go ahead to do the work on a voluntary basis (insurance issues?) don’t disregard Screwfix for a cheap tool option. This because if you manage to wank out their kit they’re more likely to replace it with new kit than many other retailers[emoji1303]

In the ‘70s, prior to joining the EEC, and latterly the more politically driven EU, Britain had a reputation as a manufacturing base. Maybe we should reflect that good things like open travel and free mobile roaming happen through shared markets; but that politics and bent unelected foreign officials without oversight have other repercussions that disallow former protections to our manufacturing bases.

Probably wrong, but as a landowner isn’t there an allowance for taking down a small proportion of a larger stock of trees if no TPO is present?

SNP historic and total fiscal incompetence is the reason Scotland is going down the pan. Too many halfwits here are under the illusion that independence and Nicola Sturgeon are the panacea and a safe pair of hands to run a country.

My previous employment was at a large sporting estate as their fishing ghillie. Very aristocratic owners but very nice people too. I think I was one of the few people who ever voluntarily left their employ, because of my wife getting an out of area job opportunity and my liver needing a break. Prior to my interview for the job of replacing their previous incumbent (who passed away at 50) I’d been working on a fishing beat downstream for another character who before he got religion was a serious pisshead who once got the local pub chef to frisbee dinner plates over the pub roof so he could blatter them with his shotgun. My interview for the new job comprised of four separate interviews as although I was reckoned on being up to the job I’d got a bit of a reputation for the drink and speaking my mind. When my turn came to be finally interviewed by the owner he reiterated the need to be mindful of my language and then came to the conclusion that we’d previously met somewhere….. A couple of years earlier after a clay shoot I’d celebrated a win and drunk the prize with a deer stalker who’d accompanied me. Pissed, we decided it would be safest to do the homeward run across country which happened to be through some of the tracks of the estate where I was to now seeking employment. Around a blind corner we came across an ex Guards horse on which was my future employer. The horse reared, its front hoofs rattled off the roof of my Fiat Uno and we continued. The dents remained in the roof until I scrapped it and luckily my future employer remained seated. He’d obviously clocked me and yet still gave me the job, and I still get a Christmas card[emoji28]

Probably because of all the wealthy Asians retiring there. Son has residency but like many young locals is struggling to afford a house deposit.

It seems crazy that someone with a restored Fizzy is asking for the same amount of cash as another with a more usable 750 / 1000 cc bike from the era.

70/80 horse power is not a lot when modern bikes are making more than double that

Not too expensive unless you go for the sought after ones

Hopefully picking up a third machine tomorrow.

Nice rims. What are they off? Something older and British? Are you up to truing them up yourself?

To stop the engine I push the enrichening plunger that passes through the pump body towards the front of the machine. That leans off the mixture, and I was told is kinder than using the decompression lever. I held it over in that position while cranking the engine over which resulted in zero fuel coming out of the pumps outlet. I took the pump out and removed the plate hiding the internals and found the plunger to be well lubricated and smooth in its operation from both the cam off the engine and from priming lever ‘A’. Both were working. The lift from the restricted priming levers’ mere 90 degrees of movement actually equates to the full travel of the plunger, so there’s probably little benefit in making alterations there. There was actually adjustment within the chest underneath the plate to give the plunger a little more travel to depress the Bryce pump’s internal plunger a bit more. I’ve given it a turn to take up some of the slack produced by 48 years of wear.

Go the whole Germanic hog and get some leather chaps to really freak her out[emoji12]

Thanks for your patience! It’s a little tricky to see exactly what’s going on as the now open plate containing the tappet/plunger/primer is opposite the same chassis rail that interferes with the primer lever’s operation. With the decompression lever engaged and cranking the engine over, timed spurts of diesel come out of the top of the Bryce pump with the outlet pipe disconnected. It’s hard to quantify how much is being pushed out without being able to post a video. The diesel jumps maybe 3” from the top of the pump opening. Operating the priming lever (A) over its available limited travel (because of the chassis getting in the way) gives a similar output. There’s no rust in there and the weak timed spurts of diesel would suggest the plunger you mentioned is free. What is so frustrating is that a very brief tow gets the engine running immediately with no hint that it wants to die. There’s also little smoke on startup. That to me would suggest that the engine is in good order and because it idles immediately at almost zero revs makes me think the injector must be atomising the fuel correctly. Are you suggesting that I could try an aftermarket inline primer pump to enrich the initial fuel load for startup?

Just had a bit of time to revisit the dumper and removed the throttle linkages, tappet chest and diesel outlet from pump. There’s obviously output of diesel from the pump which would suggest the plunger is free, but it’s knowing what’s adequate. I’ve taken a short video of the output but can’t figure out how to post it. Any pointers?