Are you trying to imply something, Sir? :D :D :D
Thanks for all the replies, chaps, should easily be able to sort the job out. The colour choice is simply because none of my work chums would be seen dead with pink tackle. (That sounds wrong on every level :doh: ). And as I'm thought of as being...
Howdo chaps.
I'm changing lorries next week and my new one needs a few tweaks. It's an artic with a 50 ton crane behind the cab, the result of which is that there's no dedicated storage for such as my ladders. I thought about making a rack out of angle or box, that's part of a full length...
Howdo chaps.
Can you buy small-ish tins of hard-wearing paint? Reason for asking is that as of next week, I'm changing back to driving an artic, and quite often we swap loaded trailers mid-journey. When this happens, all the load restraint chains and ratchets generally stay on the load, and...
......a full road closure, there's a crowd watching expectantly, all the wires are disconnected, all bar two foundation bolts removed, the slings are tight, and the 50 feet tall mobile phone aerial mast is ready to lift off of its' foundation.
The rigger says "take some weight", and I give...
I've never understood why they aren't more popular. I think they're one of the best ideas I've ever seen. In nigh-on 10 years of working as a warden/manager at touring parks, I can only remember seeing a handful of them. No messing about hitching-up, no snaking when a wagon overtakes you, and...
Complete with bottles of Babycham, Cherry B, and that God-awful yellow Dutch sh#te that my dear old Mum and my big sis only ever drank at Christmas :drunk:.
Thanks for that Kent.
As a motorhomer, I had thought about a motor home-style tank. CAK of Kenilworth do a goodly range. Regards Legionnaires, any water for drinking will be boiled first, and the supply will be refreshed quite often. The reason for the outside mounting is quite simply my cab is...
Sounds perfect, have called them and they're emailing me the price list. Fingers crossed for a reasonable (aka cheap!) price.
Much thanks Alec. :clapping:
My abiding memory from childhood was watching the news and seeing yet another IRA bomb exploded in London.
My history teacher at "big" school was Mr Mbele. He'd been kicked out of Uganda by Idi Amin. He was the first black man I ever saw (no racism intended, he was a great teacher), and he...
Howdo chaps.
After fruitless hours wandering around the webnet, I once again defer to your collective wisdom.
My latest project for the lorry is an externally mounted water tank, for washing (me, not the lorry :whistle:) and filling the flask, after boiling. I've fabricated an angle-iron...
My Dad had the kind of mates you want. One worked at a dairy near us, and in those days, leftovers didn't go in the skip. Friday nights saw our house full of cream cakes and fresh trifles, along with sacks of powdered milk and barrels of liquid sugar. Another of his mates worked at the local...
My Mum and Dad's first phone was on a party line. Try explaining to the mobile device toting "yoof" of today that if you heard people talking when you picked the receiver up, you had to put it back down and try again later!
And to make it worse, we "shared" the line with two lesbians who lived...
Collecting empty pop bottles to take back to the offy for the 2/- deposit?
Sitting in the car (mk 1 Cortina) aged 13 (me, not the car!) with my big sis, aged 15, with a bottle of shandy and a bag of crisps, while Mum, Dad, and big bro, just turned 18, where all in the pub.
Listening to 8 track...
Latest in a long list of projects is wide-load mirrors for the wagon.
Quite simply, I want to clamp a 200mm length of 30 x 30 box section to the underside of the mirror arm, which is 30 mm diameter tube. Into that will slide a length of 25 mm box with a mirror head clamped on the end, all...
In the past few weeks, I've made a fair number of deliveries of cable to solar farms which seem to be springing up all over the country. As far apart as Kent, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Nottinghamshire, the thing that ties them all together is they're all being installed by foreign...
Hmmm, not sure now.
The wood in question was from the ridge of a now-deceased greenhouse, the plate ran full length of the ridge as a protector, in the same stylee that you would nail some thin sheet on the top of a fence post to keep the rain off. It feels too heavy for aluminium and too hard...