Today I acquired...........

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Today I aquired this for a tenner bargain
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And even better some rollers salvaged from the skipView attachment 214101 only unsure what to use them for yet but I'm sure they will come in for somthing any ideas people...

In/out feed rollers for saws

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A black hole would be handy. I could fill that to.

I got one of them, how else can I fit the junk I had in my play pens.

 

[8ob]

Today I acquired a spunkle trumpet but what's it for ?

Bob

 

[roofman]

Is a staircase included or was that an optional extra?

That,s its old home Parm.. its come down to earth

 

[God mode restorations]

Today I acquired.
This unusual denham lathe.

 

[Parm]

Today I acquired.
This unusual denham lathe. View attachment 214305 View attachment 214306 View attachment 214307

Is it unusual cause it has hardly any rust?

 

[mechman]

How about MEng and BEng? Not too harsh preferably, with a bit of luck I'll have the former in a couple of years.

Can't seem to get my head round all these abrieviations hydraulics

 

[God mode restorations]

Is it unusual cause it has hardly any rust?

It's just a very unusual headstock design

 

[dobbslc]

I think the Colchester black hole is getting bigger as the rate of lathe attraction seems to be increasing!
We're all doomed!
One interesting side affect is that I said "mmm that's a nice Holbrook" before I saw the name plate!

 

[4String.]

Today I acquired a large bag of workwear emblazoned with the company logo and 2 new stainless locks for the gear locker on my trailer.

No photos because a, it's dark, and b, it's been a damned long day which started with me leaving home at 5.30 to drive 15 mile to the yard. 3 hours later, after being unable to get out of West Auckland due to 6" of snow which closed more of the area down, I finally got back home having driven 30 miles and not being more than 4 from home .

Normal service might resume tomorrow, which will hopefully involve being parked near Newcastle and a couple of pints of ale after tea.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

6" of snow

Paradoxically we have none here except on the tops. Made sleet the whole day though, and damned cold.

 

[Wedg1e]

I finally got back home having driven 30 miles and not being more than 4 from home .

I was talking to a lorry driver at Washington who'd been on the road 5.5 hours to get up from Preston, the A66 was closed so he'd had to use the A59 via Blubberhouses... nose to tail at <30mph with fozy duckers panic-braking every time a single snowflake fell, he said - oh, and rear fog lights galore

 

[Mick Annick]

Today I acquired bit of a suntan, we’ve had the windows open all day and I’ve been in the garden in my shirtsleeves

 

[jimbo84]

All the compasses in the UK are now deviating away from north towards @spencer 427

 

[4String.]

I was talking to a lorry driver at Washington who'd been on the road 5.5 hours to get up from Preston, the A66 was closed so he'd had to use the A59 via Blubberhouses... nose to tail at <30mph with fozy duckers panic-braking every time a single snowflake fell, he said - oh, and rear fog lights galore

2 of our chaps came over from Cockermouth to Scotch Corner and couldn't get over the A66.

They ended up going over the A69 and down the A1, had a nightmare run and got there half an hour after me. I battled to get back home and waited until 10.00 when lots of gritting wagons had done their work, but the trip down the A68 and the road through Piercebridge to Scotch Corner was still "interesting" . Some of my old muckers at GCS Johnson heavy haulage at Barton Park had been at it for 4 hours trying to get 2 big modular 300 ton rigs out of their yard, not helped by lorry "drivers" abandoning lorries at the services and clogging the road up...

 

[dobbslc]

No wonder magnetic north is shifting!

 

[4String.]

Today I acquired bit of a suntan, we’ve had the windows open all day and I’ve been in the garden in my shirtsleeves

You might well hide behind your settee

 

[winchman]

A box of these but never seen them before?

 

[God mode restorations]

No wonder magnetic north is shifting!

I dont understand...my compass is working fine. It points towards cast iron to collect or needs collection

 

[Matchless]

they have just discovered that sea levels are not rising, the east coast is sinking, 1/4" a month!