roofman
Purveyor of fine English buckets and mops
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Ouch...knocks like this can be so disheartening when a squirrel is just trying to get a nutMany years ago I bought a universal grinder while slightly tipsy. 2am, eBay and a cheeky punt for £50. It had been used during the war to manufacture shells and ended up in the chaps shed at the bottom of his garden, the wrong side of his lawn at the top of a steep bank. Since then a housing estate sprung up around it. It took me several days to get it apart and ferry the individual parts 20 miles back to my new shed. The council at that precise moment decided to enforce a planning decision and insist either I take off the apex roof or lose the workshop.
Working around a couple of tons of spare bits of grinding machine I took the roof off just in time for the worst thunderstorms the uk has seen before or since. It was the last straw...
Still stuck in the back of the van was the crowning jewel of this incredibly versatile machine, full of adjusting levers, beautiful hand wheels and precision ways, three ways iirc. It was one of those snapshots that becomes permanently etched into your mind when I tipped it out of the back of the van onto the hard floor of the scrapyard.
