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Thought you had given up driving?Just fitted the bracket for the ropes which has made the back of the cab a tiny bit tidier:
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Parked in the badlands of Bedfordshire tonight and it's a bit quiet tomorrow so I've been told to have a steady drive north in the morning, whereupon my next task is to somehow fit a spare "H" frame to the suzie rack so I can store my sheets and sweeping brush and numerous other tranclements up out of the way.
Give it time . . .
No a job I could do though - I get irritated on a 15 mile drive back from my mums at 1am Monday morning with slow, irritating, tail-gating, non-indicating, corner cutting, wrong way clowns . . . not everyone is as perfect as I think I ought to be
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Shellac, a very light thin coat of proper shellac.
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Word of the day that. Better than "tackle" and requires proper composition into the sentence. Going to use it at least a dozen times today.
Not so much missing driving, more a case of being bored senseless driving to the same place every day, staring at the same 4 walls every day, doing the same job every day, and having to spend break times with the same guys who wittered on incessantly about the same banal drivel every day.He fessed up a while ago he just couldn't live without the driving , or she said " GET OUT FROM UNDER MY FEET ! "
Driving a wagon might not be the most perfect job out there but it's a damn sight better for me than working in a warehouse will ever be, and being back with North Yorkshire's finest heavy haulage company gives me plenty of variety.
Never heard the word used anywhere other than home so I presume it's a Sheffield-ism.
A bit like the word "rammel", another of my favourites, described by Sheffield's finest more eloquently than I ever could:
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Well, built my Tranclement for the Tig welding set today, amongst other jobs:
First up, picture frames:
Then made a cube:
Or two:
Will get it finished off tomorrow (I hope) as I want to build some "features" into it.
First up, picture frames:
Then made a cube:
Or two:
Will get it finished off tomorrow (I hope) as I want to build some "features" into it.
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Then, before we locked up for the night I helped my pal put a delivery away, thirteen ton and no overhead crane. The little dolly, pinch bar and blocks and slings, started at five, finished two and a half hours later:
Some of you will know what this is, we were doing this the hard way:
Pushing it in:
One end balanced on the little trolley the other end hanging off a fork each bundle is a couple ton, end of the day and needed to be really alert and conscious of where my feet and fingers were at all times, it certainly focuses the mind:
First lot in and wondering how I am going to work tomorrow:
It's a bit of an obstacle course but my pal has to work with it all now and where he is going to stack the finished parts is a bit of a mystery.
Some of you will know what this is, we were doing this the hard way:
Pushing it in:
One end balanced on the little trolley the other end hanging off a fork each bundle is a couple ton, end of the day and needed to be really alert and conscious of where my feet and fingers were at all times, it certainly focuses the mind:
First lot in and wondering how I am going to work tomorrow:
It's a bit of an obstacle course but my pal has to work with it all now and where he is going to stack the finished parts is a bit of a mystery.
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Neat little trolley
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Bit of plumbing, only took two years to get around to it, and all afternoon to actually do it. 
Tomorrow's job is to stop it leaking, only the joint closest to the plastic roof I spent ages trying and failing not to melt needs doing again.
I've got an Antex Pipemaster somewhere, pretty sure they're crap but maybe this is just the job for it.
Tomorrow's job is to stop it leaking, only the joint closest to the plastic roof I spent ages trying and failing not to melt needs doing again.
I've got an Antex Pipemaster somewhere, pretty sure they're crap but maybe this is just the job for it.
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Finished the Tig welder set trolley today. Hands up all those of you who have never dropped a clanger.... Ahh, thought so. I find in these situations the best way forward is just stick your hands up, admit you dropped a clanger (if to no-one else do it to yourself) and crack on and fix it I had made the opening too small, Lesson re-learnt do not change a design half way through by introducing a tray into the top it made the gap too small. I was invested in it now so nothing else for it, add metal:
Firs, cut the legs:
All of them, as square as possible:
Then add 50mm, it was as easy to add this as it was to add the 30mm I was short, good recovery I thought:
Then with some dangly bits hanging off the side and a lid on the top:
There are gusset plates on the base already drilled and tapped so the castors should screw straight on (I hope ). Off for powder coat now, plenty on and you won't see the join!
Firs, cut the legs:
All of them, as square as possible:
Then add 50mm, it was as easy to add this as it was to add the 30mm I was short, good recovery I thought:
Then with some dangly bits hanging off the side and a lid on the top:
There are gusset plates on the base already drilled and tapped so the castors should screw straight on (
I hope ). Off for powder coat now, plenty on and you won't see the join!
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