According to the local chatter, 70% of purchasers around here are London folk. You can't have an open day due to walrus restrictions.
Yes the percentage is fixed and is negotiable. I have a price that makes it work for me so going below that is not something I am prepared to do. I can stay here for the rest of my life, my Mrs doesn't want to be here after I am gone!
Morning all, quite pleasant here today. Have a great day!
Mornin all
Beautiful start here, shame one has to work innit?
Beautiful start here, shame one has to work innit?
Shimsteriom
Master Procrastinator
Good Mornings
Mostly overcast with a side order of drizzle today. I wonder if summer is over and autumn is arriving early.
Have a good day.
Mostly overcast with a side order of drizzle today. I wonder if summer is over and autumn is arriving early.
Have a good day.
Hicap phill
Well-Known Member
Morning
Suns out. Morning 10mins stroll around completed.now waiting for others to start.
looks like another nice day
Suns out. Morning 10mins stroll around completed.now waiting for others to start.
looks like another nice day
Do truck drivers still hit their tyres with a steel rod to check they are good?
It's a bit too early for the sun but the mist is quite heavy at the moment. I expect it will turn out much as yesterday - and that was a lovely sunny and warm day.
It's D-day for the 'van so fingers crossed!
It's binman day today, too, and, thanks to one of my many' reminders', the recycling is down at the gate ready for an 8am collection. I had an email from the County yesterday telling me that they are introducing the 'sorted system' over the next two years and asking for feedback. Although it is a good idea I just wonder how they plan to get the new larger trucks along the country roads where overtaking for other traffic is just not possible. There is no way that I will be able to carry all the required filled boxes down to the gate - it looks as if a permanent shelter for the containers will be needed outside the gate so that I can just take it all down bit-by-bit and put it in the appropriate box.
Enjoy your day folks, but don't work too hard 'cos there's four full days to go before the weekend.
It's D-day for the 'van so fingers crossed!
It's binman day today, too, and, thanks to one of my many' reminders', the recycling is down at the gate ready for an 8am collection. I had an email from the County yesterday telling me that they are introducing the 'sorted system' over the next two years and asking for feedback. Although it is a good idea I just wonder how they plan to get the new larger trucks along the country roads where overtaking for other traffic is just not possible. There is no way that I will be able to carry all the required filled boxes down to the gate - it looks as if a permanent shelter for the containers will be needed outside the gate so that I can just take it all down bit-by-bit and put it in the appropriate box.
Enjoy your day folks, but don't work too hard 'cos there's four full days to go before the weekend.
Thats for 'checking' the noisy neighbour! My brother drove hgv in the late 70's and he would use a piece of steel tube to hit the tyres and listen for defectsYou mean the one with a spike on the end?
I hoped @Hicap phill had some stories to tell Hicap phill
Well-Known Member
I have the smallest hammer & tap my nuts daily
I still kick mine(toe capped boots)
Ah I see tis green tho bro init blood..
Morning all tis a damp start to the day no sun here
Managed to get 25kg of copper clout nails 300 quid & winch/hoist out of machine mart to
rig up as a lift speedy hire wanted 180 quid a week to hire one so bought one for 150 squids
I'll see how that goes today.
Got 20 tonne of 100mm crush for infill for my new garage site so a wee shift wi the digger later.
Have a nice day ya'll Njoy the sun.
Managed to get 25kg of copper clout nails 300 quid
& winch/hoist out of machine mart torig up as a lift speedy hire wanted 180 quid a week to hire one so bought one for 150 squids
I'll see how that goes today.
Got 20 tonne of 100mm crush for infill for my new garage site so a wee shift wi the digger later.
Have a nice day ya'll
Njoy the sun. 
Can you say "Stitch-up" and Cartel pricing?
... That I properly fitted a little carriage lock to the lathe yesterday. It involved buying a 5mm TC engineers bit to drill through the hardened casting of the carriage and putting an M5 dome/flange-headed bolt through it and a compression spring and the lock casting underneath. I am pleased to say it works a treat and facing cuts are perfect now. @My Old Landy
@My Old Landy
That looks just the ticket! I am still waiting for the belt splice from lathes.co.uk that I ordered on the 28th of last month... That I properly fitted a little carriage lock to the lathe yesterday. It involved buying a 5mm TC engineers bit to drill through the hardened casting of the carriage and putting an M5 dome/flange-headed bolt through it and a compression spring and the lock casting underneath. I am pleased to say it works a treat and facing cuts are perfect now.
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I have tried ringing but he has not answered yet. It says 'pending' on the web portal......
That's a poor show that is.That looks just the ticket! I am still waiting for the belt splice from lathes.co.uk that I ordered on the 28th of last month
Is there no other "more responsive" supplier out there?
Not really, it is size 7 and that is in short supply, apparently!! I have just got off the phone and he assures me he will post it tomorrowThat's a poor show that is.
Is there no other "more responsive" supplier out there?
Best of luck with D Day.It's a bit too early for the sun but the mist is quite heavy at the moment. I expect it will turn out much as yesterday - and that was a lovely sunny and warm day.
It's D-day for the 'van so fingers crossed!
It's binman day today, too, and, thanks to one of my many' reminders', the recycling is down at the gate ready for an 8am collection. I had an email from the County yesterday telling me that they are introducing the 'sorted system' over the next two years and asking for feedback. Although it is a good idea I just wonder how they plan to get the new larger trucks along the country roads where overtaking for other traffic is just not possible. There is no way that I will be able to carry all the required filled boxes down to the gate - it looks as if a permanent shelter for the containers will be needed outside the gate so that I can just take it all down bit-by-bit and put it in the appropriate box.
Enjoy your day folks, but don't work too hard 'cos there's four full days to go before the weekend.
re the sorted waste, which is what we have to do, although not like you, we put the green bin with the glass bottles in it IN the wheely bin with the green lid which takes paper, cardboard, aluminium, and wheel it down while carrying the brown bin that has food waste in it. But maybe you could use a sack truck or one of those trolley type things with 4 wheels the front two of which have a bar attached to the axle, a bit like a "bogey" we used to have as kids? Wifey has a few of these she uses for gardening.
Like these
https://www.google.com/search?q=4+w...j0i22i30l3.5558j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Sunnyish here but Wifey is upset/angry cos the squirrel is digging up her new plants looking for bulbs.
I'll have to get my airgun out.
