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Post by Tel on Nov 19, 2009 18:07:37 GMT
S'orrite for you to talk, you who was trained from birth to lie motionless in the heather for days on end, waiting for the wily haggis to come down to the loch to drink.
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steam4ian
Elder Statesman
One good turn deserves another
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Post by steam4ian on Nov 19, 2009 21:32:18 GMT
The said helmet is named not from the product of which it is made but its function; that of taking the pith.
Regarding "borigines". Their only "invention" is the boomerang.
Careful DrJ that boiler may come flying back to you.
Disregards
Ian
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Post by drjohn on Nov 20, 2009 5:08:48 GMT
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Post by drjohn on Nov 22, 2009 4:56:29 GMT
In case Tel thinks I'm slacking lying in the heather waiting for haggi (we neither have heather or haggi here - and anyway, you wouldn't want to lie down in the vegetation here, the biting bugs are so large that (as Jeremy Clarkson says) you would think they've got personalities! ;D) --   Philippine quality control - the dimensions of the rail stock vary considerably from bar to bar!! The wooden sleepers still have to be added once I'm happy with the alignment with the steel sleepers which are bolted down. DJ |
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Post by Tel on Nov 22, 2009 7:33:01 GMT
I must admit the thought 'ad crossed my mind - you laid up there with a bottle of Glenpeatbog insect repellent for company.
Track looks promising.
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Post by drumkilbo on Nov 22, 2009 10:21:01 GMT
Looking good DJ, couldn't you have incorporated a concrete replica of Glenfinnan viaduct somewhere along the line ? ;D
Ian
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Post by drjohn on Nov 22, 2009 10:26:27 GMT
Looking good DJ, couldn't you have incorporated a concrete replica of Glenfinnan viaduct somewhere along the line ? ;D Ian I've still got another 5 acres up the road ... ;D ;D ;D When are you coming over with some haggis eggs to introduce the species to these parts? DJ |
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Post by Tel on Nov 22, 2009 10:37:23 GMT
I could let you have some Pseudonaja textillis eggs - kinda like haggi, but you need a longer bun.
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Post by drjohn on Nov 22, 2009 10:49:09 GMT
I eat most things Tel, but I'm not into snakes - brown or green!! Gimme a year or two when the food resource runs low and the crabs and lobsters are scarce... ;D ;D ;D
DJ
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Post by drumkilbo on Nov 22, 2009 10:49:17 GMT
A touch of deja vu, I was involved nearly 20 years ago in accompanying a few dozen fully grown haggis, albeit already deid, to Bangkok twice and Vietnam once in order that the local Scots expats could carry out their St. Andrew's festivities.[ they did St. Andrews andBurns nicht all in the same night.]
Not sure that your climate and lack of peat and heather would suit newly hatched haggis DJ
Ian.
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Post by drjohn on Nov 22, 2009 10:54:58 GMT
...they did St. Andrews andBurns nicht all in the same night.. Ian. Heathens ... the dates are about 8 months apart!! DJ |
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Post by drjohn on Nov 24, 2009 3:44:20 GMT
Huh! Not a day for lying motionless in the heather - got a mini typhoon just now with a biggy coming in from the east in a few days. So it's a question of trying to get as much machining done in preparation before the power goes off for a few days!  I appreciate you guys in the UK have been having a wee taste of the sort of weather we get, but that's just a WEE taste of "proper" weather. ;D DJ |
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Post by modeng2000 on Nov 24, 2009 7:30:52 GMT
A good test for the track foundations DJ
John
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nigelh
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North Cyprus
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Post by nigelh on Nov 24, 2009 8:19:05 GMT
looks a bit scary, John - take care !
Nigel
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Post by drjohn on Nov 24, 2009 9:46:28 GMT
Hi Nigel
Thanks to your satellite pictures we get a bit of notice - the one to the east certainly seems to be winding up a bit on the latest picture.
DJ.
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lancelot
Part of the e-furniture
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Post by lancelot on Nov 24, 2009 12:41:05 GMT
Wouldn't be hanging your washing out any time soon, hold on tight you guys...and best of luck.
John.
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Post by drjohn on Nov 25, 2009 6:57:58 GMT
Before the hoolie arrives, been getting on - a couple of problems - one, the rail bender was a failure, the rail climbed out of the top because the vice wasn't man enough, and two, the curves on the concrete are not nice circular ones, but despite all that I now have 50 metres laid (beyond where the two guys are standing).  DJ |
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Post by drjohn on Nov 25, 2009 7:54:13 GMT
Gonna try uploading via the attachment thingy - the incoming hoolie has now developed an "eye' looks like a nasty one.  DJ That seems to work in this thread!  Huh! The local electric supplier has just driven past in a speaker van to tell us we won't be getting any supply on Saturday - could have told them that as all their posts (we have this quaint American idea of delivering electricity on wooden posts) will be blown down!!  |
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Post by Tel on Nov 25, 2009 9:10:30 GMT
That is shapin' up nasty, tho it doesn't look to have moved much from yesterday.
You could try making the rollers with flanges top and bottom to retain the rail?
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Post by drjohn on Nov 25, 2009 9:41:56 GMT
I tried turning the one roller up the othr way, but the vice just isn't man enough for the thickness of the steel. So we're just bending it by hand.
DJ
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