marjon said:
I take it this is not the Landy loving neighbor?

I wouldn't confront them just plant more and send a solicitors letter with the bill. but its not a nice situation to come back too. I hope you can calm down and get on with your holibob without the stress, to enjoy:)

1 of the reasons we bought here we don't have any :banana: only the old original school which is now the village hall used for voting and some celebrations so no issues really.

J
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No, sadly this IS the Landy lovin neighbour. We only have one whose property has a border with ours, on all other sides and indeed opposite there are no others.

I am calm, but W isn't. However I have calmed her down to the point of accepting a plan of action.

A very considered email will be sent. :(
 
DanClarke said:
... that I have been a "nice" person to a complete stranger (Go Me! eh?).
I was working on my new trike (only just started) when I saw a lad on a bike stop and turn his bike upside down, fiddle with it and then right it and try and ride off. Nope! Off again, rinse-repeat, still Nope!
I wandered over and asked if he needed any help? "Yes Please Mister".
Chain was off the chainrings and jammed between the rings and the bottom-bracket shell/axle.
We carried the bike to my house so I could work on it. He was worried he would miss his Barber's appointment so I told him to leg it and I would fix it while he was there.
I took the chainwheel/crank off and freed the chain. Put the chainwheel back on and then I spotted a problem (well lots of them actually). First one was that he had legged it without his wallet which was in the crossbar saddle-bag thingy.
So I went to all 3 barbers in town to try to save him embarrassment. But we must have crossed paths somewhere.
I caught up with him back at my place and handed him his wallet. He went off on the bike to go pay the barber.

He came back about 15 minutes later to say the bike was "broken". I checked, yes it was. He called his Mum and I offered to look after his bike till they could come and collect it later.

Off he went for a 20 minute walk home.

I looked at his bike (which his Mum had said had just been "Serviced" at Halfrauds).

Here is what I found/corrected:
The chain had jumped off the smallest chainring and was physically jammed between the chainwheel set and the bottom-bracket shell. Bike unrideable.

Triple chainwheel removed and chain freed. Chainwheel put back on.

Things found to be wrong/incorrect.
  • Master link in chain incorrectly installed (upside-down), it is a curved master-link and is meant to follow the chainwheel's and sprocket's orientation.
  • Bottom Bracket bearing was very loose, with 1.5 mm end-float.
  • Ferrules of multiple brake/gear cable sheaths broken/split/rusty, cables not seated properly in the cable guides.
  • Front forks were pointing backwards – 180° out of phase with handlebars.
  • Both gear shifters were found to be hard to operate and some gears are un-reachable.
  • The smallest sprocket on the rear cassette “rotates” without producing drive to rear wheel (this is broken/unfixable).
  • Suspension spring not engaged and rear suspension frame was clanking up and down until the spring began to engage.
Things fixed by Me/recommendations:

  • Master link in chain installed correctly.
  • Bottom bracket bearing adjusted to run freely without excessive end float.
  • All broken cable ferrules cut off and replaced with nylon ferrules.
  • Front forks turned through 180° to face forwards.
  • Gear selection optimised (shifters are not really any good).
  • New cassette free-wheel needed, available for c. £15 on e-bay.
  • Suspension adjusted to be always engaged without “free-play” in the link.
Bike is now rideable at least, but I would recommend it is looked at by a professional bike mechanic to address all the issues found. The parts are relatively inexpensive, but labour costs are high.

So, I didn't do any work on my stuff at all, butI hope I have helped a young lad & his folks. :D
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Good on you mate!!👍👍👍
 
Stone56 said:
Do you really want to go down that road Stan. It would **** me off also but their is other ways to deal with it do double planting further in on your land with fast growing species then it would be trespass have thay killed the trees or has it been done correctly and the right time off year 😠😠
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To do what they did to the trees it was trespass as the trees were planted 1 metre inside the boundary. The verbal agreement was that they could cut the branches back to the land boundary, but they have cut many back to the trunk and topped them, by a long way.
We have one other tree that I think they might be going to moan about, a Weeping Willow which is planted so far inside they cannot do anything about it, but one big branch does overhang their property. At height.
W thinks they probably have killed the trees they "pruned" I wouldn't know, time will tell. They were cut after we left, so end of September at the very earliest.
We have already planted a row of laurel bushes about 2 metres inside the boundary which is where they cannot do anything but obvs they will have to grow.
It just supremely flips us off that they, or their employed peeps, think it alright to march onto a neighbour's land during their absence and do all this.

I will initially simply ask for an explanation.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
To do what they did to the trees it was trespass as the trees were planted 1 metre inside the boundary. The verbal agreement was that they could cut the branches back to the land boundary, but they have cut many back to the trunk and topped them, by a long way.
We have one other tree that I think they might be going to moan about, a Weeping Willow which is planted so far inside they cannot do anything about it, but one big branch does overhang their property. At height.
W thinks they probably have killed the trees they "pruned" I wouldn't know, time will tell. They were cut after we left, so end of September at the very earliest.
We have already planted a row of laurel bushes about 2 metres inside the boundary which is where they cannot do anything but obvs they will have to grow.
It just supremely flips us off that they, or their employed peeps, think it alright to march onto a neighbour's land during their absence and do all this.

I will initially simply ask for an explanation.
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Loosen his sump plug
 
WhiskyLassie said:
My toy is here :)
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Nice one!
Yessdi W tried out her new handheld chainsaw, she was impressed and, tbh, so was I! It did take a few times of me showing her then getting her to do it safely over and over again before she got the hang of it.
Only worry to me is that there doesn't seem to be a sensible way of oiling it as it don't come with a built in chainoiler.
I think I'll have to come up with a way for her to do it simply and not too messily.

At least it came with two batts and a spare chain!
Good Xmas pressy!
 
kevstar said:
I seen the owners this morning & no injury's :) :)
They are very experienced sailors. No fault of theres as they sailed off using the smaller sail & got round to
the Clyde estuary then you get the full brunt of the wind heading inshore, they put the main sail up & heard creaking but its not
unusual to hear this as the boat as say all winter so it settles down. The wind ripped out one of the chain plates out the deck &
then the mast snapped. :oops: I did say to them I was glad they were ok. :):)

Chain plates hold the rigging from the mast if anyone doesnt know. :)
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Glad they are OK, shame about the mast and the chain plate. Stays still OK? Much damage to the deck? And whatever else it is secured to?
Just a shame they didn't put the (reefed) main up a bit before the turn but then, there you go, it is easy to be wise after the event.

I was once on the Solent with two mates in their small 32 foot cruiser, they were putting a reef in (roller reefing) and the handle slipped out of chummy's hand and flew towards the stern, I was in the cockpit and by a total miracle I caught it before it went overboard. I'm not generally noted for my cricketing skills! Got more than my normal share of beer that night! :)
(It did have a wrist lanyard but that always seemed to get in the way so he didn't have it on.) :rolleyes:
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Glad they are OK, shame about the mast and the chain plate. Stays still OK? Much damage to the deck? And whatever else it is secured to?
Just a shame they didn't put the (reefed) main up a bit before the turn but then, there you go, it is easy to be wise after the event.

I was once on the Solent with two mates in their small 32 foot cruiser, they were putting a reef in (roller reefing) and the handle slipped out of chummy's hand and flew towards the stern, I was in the cockpit and by a total miracle I caught it before it went overboard. I'm not generally noted for my cricketing skills! Got more than my normal share of beer that night! :)
(It did have a wrist lanyard but that always seemed to get in the way so he didn't have it on.) :rolleyes:
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Will be picking it up tomorrow so I will get a better look at whats gone wrong & see if I can get a few sly pics. ;)
 
OK, so what do you give to a bloke with a dead dishwasher in his hallway?

Answer, another one! :mad:

Despite all the efforts to get it out the shed and into the kitchen, and I even cleaned it first, (It was surprisingly not very dirty at all).

It was a bit of a "thing" to reconnect as the other one had been put in before the units were fitted, (the holes I made to get to stuff were just big enough but I could have done with at least one arm being a foot or two longer.)

So opened the valve and switched it on, it sprung to life but a lickle light came on, "check water". I'd just plumbed it in and heard the water flowing into it. Nothing else happened until I noticed what looked like coke seeping out from under the front of it.

Lots of coke.
What a blasted mess.

I think it must have some kind of container that has been afflicted with rust and has thus been holed.
I know ZIP about the inner working of DWs, well in any detail.

So we now have one with electrical faults and another with a plumbing problem. (It has sat in the shed for a few years and I daresay it might have been down to the salt water in the watersoftener thing. You can never really empty a DW unless you really know what you are doing, and I don't!). I was a bit surprised as I thought the tanks and stuff on them were plastic. But there may be more to it than that. W would kill me if I spent wasted time and investigated any further.

At least I'll be able to get both into the Disco when I take them to the tip!! (Unless I can find a not very expensive person to fix the original one.)

At least quite a bit of weedwhacking got done! ;););)
 
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