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Weren't our forefathers great fellas, no power tools and that is about 5ins through.View attachment 92805
We’ve a cast iron 750mm water main through our farm and it was laid in the 1880s,as we’re the lowest point in the line the pipes are thicker here,2.5” thick and each pipe is 15’ long,they weigh in excess of 4t each which in itself moving them was some feat 🏆never mind when they drop off the edge of our hill they drilled the collars and bolted them in situ,feck you’d struggle nowadays never mind 140 years ago.
 
Electric down on one phase yesterday afternoon,rang electric company only to spend 25minutes clarifying my name umpteen times “no we haven’t any problems on the line” funny because while on the phone the men in yellow jackets were climbing over the gate to the transformer.

Had to get the 70 year old genny going,hand start keeps you fit.🏃🏻B3DDED34-C365-4F17-AA49-22855730D707.jpegDD20055D-AF24-489A-89BF-0E330F89A698.jpegCD939022-DF67-45D8-974A-48F2A2DCAD6A.jpeg
 
Electric down on one phase yesterday afternoon,rang electric company only to spend 25minutes clarifying my name umpteen times “no we haven’t any problems on the line” funny because while on the phone the men in yellow jackets were climbing over the gate to the transformer.

Had to get the 70 year old genny going,hand start keeps you fit.🏃🏻
That's a wrist breaker if I ever saw one!
 
Only half a Mars bar Nash it is aDunlop 32 x 6 reinforced truck type.
 

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This arrived. I may get out my Admirals Hat .View attachment 92905View attachment 92906

Our neighbor owned the boat and he was going on holidays and the new Arthur Daly swapped him a functioning smaller boat and trailer for the not sea ready bigger boat. He will probably have this traded by the weekend. I believe he has a new engine coming from Japan . The Grain pusher is now a dry dock .171EE64C-AC20-44F6-A928-F6AA9B8C5057.jpeg
 
Fine old girl genny there. Would it be possible to fit a pto ànd freewheel clutch to where the starting handle is? Might make things easier to use a tractor to start it than yourself. But it mustnt of been too hard to start since your still wearing your cap!!!!
Only way I can start it is if someone flicks the decompression once I get it spinning,the last owner broke the starting handle trip mechanism,on the sixth revolution it was supposed to trip the decompression lever.
It could also be started with an air starter motor but this last couple of years it’s given up the ghost,it needed 400psi by rights but if I connected up the road compressor and used the decompression it would start,it even had a cartridge start system but I’ve never found a cartridge to fit it.
I’m in the process of rigging up a hydraulic motor onto the starting handle,mainly because a pto turns the wrong way and a hydraulic motor would be a bit safer.
 
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