Grumpy old buggers thread

[Tins]

"Put a Tiger in Your Terminals" (apologies to ESSO)

Someone nicked my tail from my tank cap.

[Saitch]

My petrol powered water, pressure cleaner needed a new pneumatic tyre. Out with my trusty callipers and check axle Ø. I even checked inside Ø of wheel.

Off to you-know-where and found a replacement. It was the whole wheel/tyre thing. Now, I didn't bother to take the callipers with me, but going by the dims. on the product, I was quietly confident.

On trying to place the wheel on the axle, I had a fail. Out with the callipers and, yep, 0.5mm too small. I contemplated sanding the axle, but decided on removing the new tube and tyre and putting them on the original hub. Now, these are a 3.5-4 tyre with an overall Ø of 260mm.

The removal of the new tyre and tube from their rim was a piece of ****. Putting them on to the old rim was a nightmare. You can't stand on them, or use a hammer and need a tyre lever the size of a drinking straw. (Luckily, I had an old treadly lever) I had to get my dear wife up to assist and to have someone to yell at.

I reckon it's easier to change a tractor tyre!

[austastar]

Hi,
It's a bit rough when a 5Ah battery running the hedge clippers and doing the real work outlasts the bloke just waving it around.
Cheers

[JDNSW]

About a year ago, I lent my "drag" (three pieces of railway line about 3m long, welded into a triangle, with three heavy iron wagon tyres added for more weight, with a couple of feet of 20mm chain and a big hook on one point). I use it behind the tractor for smoothing my roads and clearing firebreaks.

In November, the neighbor sold his place. And the new neighbor used the drag extensively during the fire in the first half of December. I finally got him to return it this week.

Most of the welds are broken, and it is going to take a couple of days work to repair it, complicated by the fact that it is too dry to even think about welding outside. To weld it I will have to either wait until it rains or winch it onto the concrete carport on my shed. I shall investigate if I can bolt and clamp it together.

[Saitch]

About a year ago, I lent my "drag" (three pieces of railway line about 3m long, welded into a triangle, with three heavy iron wagon tyres added for more weight, with a couple of feet of 20mm chain and a big hook on one point). I use it behind the tractor for smoothing my roads and clearing firebreaks.

In November, the neighbor sold his place. And the new neighbor used the drag extensively during the fire in the first half of December. I finally got him to return it this week.

Most of the welds are broken, and it is going to take a couple of days work to repair it, complicated by the fact that it is too dry to even think about welding outside. To weld it I will have to either wait until it rains or winch it onto the concrete carport on my shed. I shall investigate if I can bolt and clamp it together.

Bolts may be better, in the long run, with similar, future maintenance? A few, possibly moving areas, though.

[JDNSW]

Yes, although they need to be fairly hefty bolts, and railway line is not very easy to drill large holes in with handheld tools.

[NavyDiver]

DVA is giving me $7 now per fortnight - I am contributing to inflation clearly It was $6 plus a bit before. Just noticed today

On Another front Years of just shorts and sandals on the deck of warships pre slip slop slap times has seen a lot of Skin cancers in my mates. I get skin checks every year I pay for and just got a hit.

What is funny is it was a bit pricey for the last ten plus years. Department of Vet affairs only pays if it is positive. This year they pay- Oddly should I be happy they pay now or grumpy I got a slab taken out of me

"RIGHT ARM: SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA IN SITU, CLEAR OF MARGINS."

Constant Vigilance was a war cry in the Defense forces. It's now a rule to live by.

[austastar]

Hi,
In the 60s, Mirage and Sabre flight line PPE in Malaysia, was steel-toed petroleum resistant shoes, blue short shorts, go fast cap and earmuffs coloured to the trade.
Not even sunscreen!
Cheers

[Saitch]

DVA is giving me $7 now per fortnight - I am contributing to inflation clearly It was $6 plus a bit before. Just noticed today

On Another front Years of just shorts and sandals on the deck of warships pre slip slop slap times has seen a lot of Skin cancers in my mates. I get skin checks every year I pay for and just got a hit.

What is funny is it was a bit pricey for the last ten plus years. Department of Vet affairs only pays if it is positive. This year they pay- Oddly should I be happy they pay now or grumpy I got a slab taken out of me

"RIGHT ARM: SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA IN SITU, CLEAR OF MARGINS."

Constant Vigilance was a war cry in the Defense forces. It's now a rule to live by.

ND, A minimum of twice a year, better quarterly, which I'm down to. A skin check is good, but I know a bloke who had a melanoma behind his eye. Was luckily picked up by a Specsaver's optometrist.

[ChookD2]

DVA is giving me $7 now per fortnight - I am contributing to inflation clearly It was $6 plus a bit before. Just noticed today

On Another front Years of just shorts and sandals on the deck of warships pre slip slop slap times has seen a lot of Skin cancers in my mates. I get skin checks every year I pay for and just got a hit.

What is funny is it was a bit pricey for the last ten plus years. Department of Vet affairs only pays if it is positive. This year they pay- Oddly should I be happy they pay now or grumpy I got a slab taken out of me

"RIGHT ARM: SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA IN SITU, CLEAR OF MARGINS."

Constant Vigilance was a war cry in the Defense forces. It's now a rule to live by.

I get the whole $7 per fortnight also, big hearted of our government for our years of service. Nothing like a parliamentary pension.

Anyway, I get skin checks every 6 months on my white card never paid for a visit, they haven't paid pathology a couple of times but that just got shifted to Medicare. Now you have a confirmed carcinoma get the form from DVA and have your skin specialist fill it out and return it to get full coverage for ALL malignancies. Since receiving the letter have not had any issues with visits or pathology.