... Overcome by ennui it seems. :(
If my knee is borked then what's the point of building bikes/trikes you can't ride?
I enjoy the construction/build process of course but if you can't ride it why bother?
Maybe I need to go to a physio as well as an osteopath.
Maybe I need to see a shrink while I'm at it! 🤣

Build yersell a leccy one, or one with a Hayabusa engine. 🤣🤣
 
Todays happenings were de clutter my shed, its a rather large shed with pool table, multi gym, running machine, tools,
landy parts, wheels, bikes, car seats, camper seats, loads of good useable scrap even got a kitchen sink....🤣🤣

Oh & I found as set of traffic lights off a ship I broke up, wired 12v lamps into it. Looks cool. :D

Removed the rear seats out the D1 as im fitting a wooden floor & boxing in the fuel tank as its inside atm cause someone
chopped its ass off.
Wooden batons are in an the marine ply is cut to size & marked up for cut outs, will do this tomorrow, I will carpet it once
its all done. I should take some pics.
 
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I don't know if this makes much sense to you, but if you look at the image and the key:
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You'll see that our nearest town is in the middle of a region which is "granites, eruptive rocks and orthogneiss vein rocks. Dacite from Puech del Fau"
So we can find andesite, basalt, dacite, obsidian, pumice, rhyolite, scoria, and tuff. As well as granite. But by far the most common is granite.
And if you look under the words MAZAMET N0 1012 you can faintly make out "Labrespy" which is our hamlet. So we really are smack in it.
The reason for the towns amazing prosperity back 200 years or so, and since. up until the late 60s was the quantity and quality of the water which made it ideal for separating wool from (dead!) sheepskins, a process known as "délainage". Basically it is very acid and has other minerals in it. Sheepskins came from all over the world hence Rue Bradford, Rue Australie, etc. Factories were built up and down all the neigbouring valleys whereever there was a stream or a river.

Since then the world discovered chemistry and found out how to do it themselves!

So maybe this has a bit to do with our springs and stuff.
Just catching up with this too - very interesting and I starting reading up on it at the time, disappearing down an internet wormhole in the process, as you do...

The industrial history of the area (different industry) reminds me of the area around Cromford and Wirksworth and up the Via Gellia, remains of old mills everywhere along every river.

The quantity and quality of the water you mention would probably go some way to explaining all the abundant springs you have in the present day.
 
The Karcher appeared as if it was going to work, the long hose with the drain pipe end on it went eventually through the blockage and back but the water still didn't flow.
So faffed about with it a bit more getting no further. The main trouble seems to be that even if it is doing what it should, as the blockage is at the bottom of a vertical pipe there is nothing for the muck and rubble to do other than go right back on top of it once/if it gets free.

Then a couple of blokes touting for buildery type business appeared at my gate. I told then I was not interested at the moment as I have a bit of a thing on, they offered to come and have a look then told me they had this GeeWhizz petrol powered jetwash which would be much more powerful than my thing.
So being by now a bit fed up I let them have a go. They faffed about doing much the same things as I had done, they also pour ed a lot of their roof cleaning fluid down to see if it helped (?). Their machine made no difference. and they didn't have the long drain probe, nor a very long lance.
By the end of it my special Karcher tool would no longer go through the jam, but fluid does seem to.
So that is end of play. I did try a lot more but too boring to relate.
Needless to say as fluid was passing through they felt that they had cleared it so had to be paid. (Ouch) :eek: Flipping Frog "Artisans".
W is back and not at all happy at the inconvenience. As usual she doesn't get how much hard work goes into digging big wet holes. The only way forward is to do yet more of it just to be able to reconnect the pipes back up. I think the lower bit has sunk further into the ground so I am expecting to have to make up some sort of a joint And I don't have much spare drain pipe as all I ever had was offcuts from when I was plumbing in the bathrooms and loo. Lord knows what size length I'd have to buy, might have to go sniffing round the neebs for any spare. Next door who are falling over themselvs to get back into our good books, did a lot of drainwork and put in their septic tank and outfall, so I bet he'll have a length. Worth a try à la Kev!

The bits of stuff that I could get to come out were quite large looking grains of sand and believe it or not bits of polystyrene. Flip knows what the builders etc have been up to.

To the extent that I wondered if drainage peeps insulate these pipes and bed them in sand and somehow this has got into the whole issue.

Next step may be to modify the jet on the end of the pipe as I have seen on a YouTube by drilling a lickle hole that points forward as well as the 4 that point back. Doubt it would make matters worse.
Its time to gerra camera down the pipe to see whats going on. Peeps int uk do it. Frogs must have compaines that do it anorl.
 

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