Stanleysteamer · Dec 29, 2020

Wimblowdriver said:
112 lbs or 8 stones. . We didn't go foreign until after I left skool. And now we is out of the eu all you youngsters will have to learn imperial.

used to have to pick up a cwt sack of sugar and balance it on a container about 1'6" by 1'6" at the top by about 4 feet high, then cut it open and tip it all in.
It was a bit of an art!

kevstar · Dec 29, 2020

jamesmartin said:
some of us,its 2 bags of spuds

Coal to us

jamesmartin · Dec 29, 2020

Stanleysteamer said:
used to have to pick up a cwt sack of sugar and balance it on a container about 1'6" by 1'6" at the top by about 4 feet high, then cut it open and tip it all in.
It was a bit of an art!

it was the standard weight for a lot of sacked/bagged stuff

Stanleysteamer · Dec 29, 2020

Forgot to say the blessed container was on castors to be wheeled around a university kitchen. So would fall over for a pastime if you didn't get it right!
We also used to get a certain type of rice in in cwt bags which we sold direct to a bunch of Chinese guys who were studying there. They must have been on some official thing. and they looked well funny in their blue Chariman Mao suits! Nice guys though, (We never understood a word they said!)

Shimsteriom · Dec 29, 2020

Nite All.

Hicap phill · Dec 30, 2020

Morning.
Dark..... nothing else to report

DevonGuy · Dec 30, 2020

Mornin orl.
Be dark, damp an chilly. Av ztoked us ztove, be Godwin naicely now. Coffee bruin.

derwendolly · Dec 30, 2020

A DRY, magnificent moonlit morning. I have no idea of the temperature but it doesn't seem cold. But where is the promised snow?

My Old Landy · Dec 30, 2020

Morning all, the BIL will be over shortly to start on the garden with us. Tis a tad chilly but needs must!
Have a great day and stay in the warm

Turktowner · Dec 30, 2020

Hippo said:
Dun't av that problem wiv ma ippo. Must be ard this time of yeer wiv all the rain and hi winds, freezin yer balls oft.

Gots a blanket anna hotty int I

Turktowner · Dec 30, 2020

@Stanleysteamer .

I thort a Stere was one a them big Merkin cows?

Need a 110 for one a them.

Turktowner · Dec 30, 2020

And good mornin to you all.
Beautiful clear blue skies (an damned cold) out.
Trying to think of what to do with meself today before SWMBO decides for me

Keeps peeps safe an well

doriz · Dec 30, 2020

Hippo said:
Why not take yer tratter? Just chuck em int back.

It’s waiting for a new cam belt and hasnt moved for 2 months. Don’t wanna break it at this point.

doriz · Dec 30, 2020

Cold and white outside, the dog is sat waiting for a walk

Shimsteriom · Dec 30, 2020

Good morning

There be lots of snow on the hills so the high roads have been closed to stop eejits from crashing.

It's nearly next year

DanClarke · Dec 30, 2020

Mid-morning All

Another late rising here

This has to stop, just because I am now an official pensioner is no real excuse for tardiness.
No snow here.
My new lathe is kaputski and in pieces on the work bench. The drive system is in need of some re-design as it chews belts and spits them out again. The toothed pulleys aren't properly aligned, the belt just destroys itself trying to break free and climb the side wall of the drive pulley and they have made it so tight that it strips the teeth away and puts undue stress on the main spindle bearings. Not good at all in this respect.
I will see what I can do to resolve it with some proper alignment, a new (longer) belt and some form of tensioner.
Have a great day everyone.

Colthebrummie · Dec 30, 2020

DanClarke said:
Mid-morning All
Another late rising here
This has to stop, just because I am now an official pensioner is no real excuse for tardiness.
No snow here.
My new lathe is kaputski and in pieces on the work bench. The drive system is in need of some re-design as it chews belts and spits them out again. The toothed pulleys aren't properly aligned, the belt just destroys itself trying to break free and climb the side wall of the drive pulley and they have made it so tight that it strips the teeth away and puts undue stress on the main spindle bearings. Not good at all in this respect.
I will see what I can do to resolve it with some proper alignment, a new (longer) belt and some form of tensioner.
Have a great day everyone.

Is it one of those Chinese mini lathes?

Col

Shimsteriom · Dec 30, 2020

DanClarke said:
My new lathe is kaputski and in pieces on the work bench. The drive system is in need of some re-design as it chews belts and spits them out again. The toothed pulleys aren't properly aligned, the belt just destroys itself trying to break free and climb the side wall of the drive pulley and they have made it so tight that it strips the teeth away and puts undue stress on the main spindle bearings. Not good at all in this respect.
I will see what I can do to resolve it with some proper alignment, a new (longer) belt and some form of tensioner.

That's disappointing.

doriz · Dec 30, 2020

doriz · Dec 30, 2020

I have lighted the log burner this morning and as a Yorkshireman it really hurts to waste those logs. Anyhoo, as Mrs Doriz is well chuffed I’m might be able to translate that gratitude into a bacon roll

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