Our new project House (and rock cave houses)
Discussion
dudleybloke said:
This just popped up on the Birmingham mail website.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-new...
I love the ‘journalists’ of today, search internet for something, copy & paste.https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-new...
Evoluzione said:
Mark Benson said:
Evoluzione said:
Be wary of using chain, I once saw one snap doing the above and it whipped the Landy from bumper to bumper.
Be wary also of using nylon straps with metal attachments - wife once put a metal hook through the back window of our Legacy trying to drag her mate out of a ditch on our drive.EDIT: Her mate's car, not the woman herself
She used one of my tie down straps, my guess based on the little she'd say is that she used the hook you would usually attach to the bed of the trailer to attach to the strap which was wrapped around something on matey's car. When the 'something' (she never said what) gave way, the strap, hook and all came straight at the tow vehicle.
Now it's lost in the mists of time, I might ask her again about it tonight.
Mark Benson said:
Well of course it wasn't her fault, it was a faulty strap
She used one of my tie down straps, my guess based on the little she'd say is that she used the hook you would usually attach to the bed of the trailer to attach to the strap which was wrapped around something on matey's car. When the 'something' (she never said what) gave way, the strap, hook and all came straight at the tow vehicle.
Now it's lost in the mists of time, I might ask her again about it tonight.
Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to wonder at the bravery of MB who questioned his wife about something that happened in the past....She used one of my tie down straps, my guess based on the little she'd say is that she used the hook you would usually attach to the bed of the trailer to attach to the strap which was wrapped around something on matey's car. When the 'something' (she never said what) gave way, the strap, hook and all came straight at the tow vehicle.
Now it's lost in the mists of time, I might ask her again about it tonight.
Eye has still halted play. It’s much better but still heavily photosensitive.
Managed to get the late FiL machete back from the garden machinery shop today… after I think 4? weeks…
It has lain in his garage since he passed and we wanted to recommission it for clearing undergrowth/chopping at things/Halloween/Crocodile Dundee impersonations…
Anyone know much about these?
Origin mark on blade >
Cheers all,
Managed to get the late FiL machete back from the garden machinery shop today… after I think 4? weeks…
It has lain in his garage since he passed and we wanted to recommission it for clearing undergrowth/chopping at things/Halloween/Crocodile Dundee impersonations…
Anyone know much about these?
Origin mark on blade >
Cheers all,
Afternoon all,
Decided today was the day to start emptying the garden cave. Not entirely sure what prompted it but it felt like a gentle way back into working at the house, a week after the eye incident
The plan was as follows.
Generally my plan worked well (ish). Pics below.
Very large wheelbarrow;
Emptying begins;
Accidental carnage caused by me trying to work out all the levers and doing the slope into the garden in high range, 2wd. (I was in 4wd but forgot to lock the freewheeling front hubs)
“Let’s off road! Gripped, Sorted!”
Hmmm
Landy in natural habitat
Line of sight/squinty eye measurements seem to have worked ok..
Found 4Low and decided to go for a spin over to the bonfire area to drop off some wood..
Decided to celebrate “doing a thing” by having the first ever cup of tea/coffee in our new house…..
Realised it was getting late and knocked it on the head for the day ;
Plan is to go back over the weekend and continue to clear the rockhouses. Today was mainly a cathartic return to the site and to mess about in the garden
Cheers all
Decided today was the day to start emptying the garden cave. Not entirely sure what prompted it but it felt like a gentle way back into working at the house, a week after the eye incident
The plan was as follows.
- Have skip delivered to front of house.
- Use newly acquired landrover to access garden through the side gate and back it up to the cave.
- Fill truck bed with assorted detritus from cave.
- Drive landrover back out the garden and back it up to skip, my squinty eye measurements suggested tailgate of landy should match the rim of the skip.
- Boot stuff out of landy into skip.
- Repeat.
Generally my plan worked well (ish). Pics below.
Very large wheelbarrow;
Emptying begins;
Accidental carnage caused by me trying to work out all the levers and doing the slope into the garden in high range, 2wd. (I was in 4wd but forgot to lock the freewheeling front hubs)
“Let’s off road! Gripped, Sorted!”
Hmmm
Landy in natural habitat
Line of sight/squinty eye measurements seem to have worked ok..
Found 4Low and decided to go for a spin over to the bonfire area to drop off some wood..
Decided to celebrate “doing a thing” by having the first ever cup of tea/coffee in our new house…..
Realised it was getting late and knocked it on the head for the day ;
Plan is to go back over the weekend and continue to clear the rockhouses. Today was mainly a cathartic return to the site and to mess about in the garden
Cheers all
21st Century Man said:
I once tried to pull a smallish bush out with a strap fixed to a Renault Megane. Only after a few good but unsuccessful tugs did I think better of it before it all went wrong.
I mis-read that as "a smallish bull", I was wondering why you would need to use a Megane to tug it?Gassing Station | Homes, Gardens and DIY | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff