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Reading this looks like we is the only peeps not to have had any snow.Morning, cold and crunchy outside. Have a great day!
Reading this looks like we is the only peeps not to have had any snow.Morning, cold and crunchy outside. Have a great day!
I suppose it snows too rarely for you to feel you can justify buying chains?You're lucky, we're still stuck in with our little hill road far too icy to negotiate. I'm looking forward to a thaw so that I can get out and others can get in.
I once tried to use the argument about how much money I spent in the store, with B&Q, after I had bought an entire kitchen and utiility plus loads of other stuff for our place in France from them.So I bought the local B&Qs last 2 packs of spruce cladding and now it’s clearly out of stock. Nearest store with stock 25 miles away. Had a live chat to be told it’s 1-2 week lead time, to which I said I’d been tracking the stock and it was declining not increasing. Can you transfer stock, no. Parently it’s seasonal and will pick up in spring...talk about integrated logistics, twunts. I have spent thousands in that store this year
Still it’s a first world issue
.....and you are of course telling them the truth.Getting lots of PMs from colleagues who I haven't spoken to for a year wanting to know why I am leaving lol
Is there any graffiti on it yet?Apparently they have put out a notice of my impending departure, not like I kept it a secret
Oh dear.Drilled the oles int me garage floor. Lined it all up and they is int the right place. Only problem is the metal hoops that hold the drop bolt int place, allow the drop bolt to move back un forth away from the door. Circled below. Straight line is the movement direction. The result is me doors move back un forth with the drop bolt. The drop bolt is held int place by two hoops. One top one bottom. Both hoops doing the same fing. Any idea's on what to do to stop this?
I was finking of wrapping some thin metal wire round the hoop at the bit where the hoop is furthest from the door, to limit where the drop bolt can move.
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Or put some thin "plates" of wood or metal in between the bolts and the door to pad them in the right direction.Drilled the oles int me garage floor. Lined it all up and they is int the right place. Only problem is the metal hoops that hold the drop bolt int place, allow the drop bolt to move back un forth away from the door. Circled below. Straight line is the movement direction. The result is me doors move back un forth with the drop bolt. The drop bolt is held int place by two hoops. One top one bottom. Both hoops doing the same fing. Any idea's on what to do to stop this?
I was finking of wrapping some thin metal wire round the hoop at the bit where the hoop is furthest from the door, to limit where the drop bolt can move.
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Then he'll have to drill the holes bigger.Bit of thin wall tube (plastic, copper?) over the bolt.
I suppose it snows too rarely for you to feel you can justify buying chains?
Have you ever tried it in the snow? You may be surprised what it can do.
Both our Di and our D2 handled it on our trips to the Dales, and, after all, it is meant to be able to do it.
I do unnerstand you don't want to risk scratching it.
Hasn't there been a lot on the telly about teachers today?!
Soooooo glad I'm retired!
Ok to all the non-believersPage 25 as shownView attachment 229064
You get your ciggies on the NHS!Im back got me tabs.
Nearly had a disaster first thing with me disco an trailer full of joists & fence posts....
going down to the customers hoose down a gravel track then a mega steep drive
mono blocked about 20 meters (flat not raised up a few mm every row like it should be)
anyhoo pure ice.....I was in low range anyway front wheels just onto to the monoblock
& it started to slide the trailer weight shoving me doon the hill oh yeee lol
Full locked it to the left so the trailer was sliding to the offside into the bank & my
osr wheel into the bank so stopped it sliding any further. Roped the trailer onto a tree
& the disco onto to another. Used a ratchet stap to pull the trailer back up out the way.
Strop round rear wheel which was spinning an back up cause there was no way I was
going down the hill.... big steel gate post & a telegraph pole in the line of fire lol
When it's slippy i allus twists my foot when it is ont floor to make it more secure like.Do you remember before the great regression when people knew how to do things like walking...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...le-walk-like-penguins-prevent-falls-snow.html
What is "beer"?Just back from a nice 3 mile walk... now, where's me beer
Seen her afore, Norfolkbird claims some relation.@Def90man I like yer noo avatar. Nice headlamps -----
I've got snow socks for 'im. There are a couple problems here though that cause the difficulties meaning no-one can get down or up the hills! It would help if the council would just grit the troublesome 500 yards - but they won't. It is a narrow and steep unclassified road which is bordered by deep weed-covered ditches and then the farm hedges up higher on the banks. It's hard to describe but the trouble is because at this one point the road descends straight, coming off a blind bend at the top and finishing with a bend into an even narrower stone bridge over a deep ravine. Under normal conditions, drivers wait and give way to others already coming down the hill. After that the road widens and just curves gently as it descends and that is no problem. If any traffic comes up the other way then there is nowhere to go. Just to compllcate the whole thing, the bridge marks a total change of weather conditions - even the light changes at that point. Anyone coming up the hill is taken completely unaware of the change of conditions and then they find their vehicle just cannot do it - they can't turn round, they can't go forward, so they are stuck and block the road - traffic coming down is not aware of this until they get to the bridge so we get SLIDE and BANG!
The other part of the problem is that at the top of the hill, just where it straightens for the descent, there is a natural spring which flows constantly down the hill, then it freezes and then it snows and so we get a total snow-covered 'ice rink'. So you might be able to see that it is not the capability of the car, it is the conditions in snow and ice on that stretch of the road that cause the problems. Even the tractors take it very gingerly!
I hope you were able to follow that!!
As for the teachers, I haven't really seen much TV so can't comment, except , like you, I'm glad I'm out of it!
No I don't.Seen her afore, Norfolkbird claims some relation.
No I don't.
My mistake!No I don't.
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