Druidic exploits of a various nature!!

[v8druid]

Got these up Friday








clinging to a ladder ....wet and wild .... but wanted to get 'em up and the wiring finished in't shed ....


damn me ..... had to dive back into the ducting this morning after 'the boss' decided it'd be good to be able to isolate the far end one, rather than having them both on the one switch .... job done and SWMBO placated ..... she's gonna need to grow a bit though, to reach the pull cord for the far end light, above the doors .... they'm 7 ft tall

[v8druid]

Nahh Druid don't do trolling plenty of slagging and an odd point stick if a row is going on but I'm not a troll..............................least I don't think I am.....................

'xactly what I thought Boyo .... and thanks again for the kind words .... as I've said, .... often ... " each to their own "

[v8druid]

limited progress today, due to a 07.20 kick off/Clara arrival .... her mummy had an interview this morning, so we had an early start to our day too


atrocious weather this morning - horizontal rain and wind to blow you off your feet, if you didn't watch it ... cats won't even venture out and I don't blame them


had an hour putting the flood lights and mounts/enclosures together, for the shed pine ends, when it eased off a tad, plus a major tidy up in me tool box .. like a bomb'd dropped in there .... then the little un returned , so some grand dadding required


when the posty arrived after lunch, with some glands i'd been waiting for, I escaped for half an hour to finish off me lights. Failed to get any of these glands locally ..... can get bigger ones, but these PG9s (4-8 mm) are unobtainable





so these are ready to go up in the morning, whilst Clara's in nursery ....





bit frustrating that Gewiss don't do a black version of the boxes .. they'm gonna have to have a coat of the black stuff


get these connected and a couple of wires in the junction box, on the wall, beside the drive and I can give it some power with me RS Safe Bloc, at the house end of the 'python', for a test of everything


then i can turn me attention to getting it into the house ..... by the most favoured method/route, which will obviously have to meet approval from SWMBO .... she's already changed her mind about route/method twice now

Whilst it weren't chucking it down, thought i'd get a couple of pix of why I am in fear of an imminent bang occurring, in the round and black dept., on the 'Drema ... and why i considered it time/prudent to actively seek and acquire some new bouncy bits














as said, although there's plenty of tread/rubber on 'em .... it's only a question of time .... and these pix are an average example. Annoying really, as damned fine other-wise


Can guarantee summat'll let go at the most inopportune moment .............. and I have enough grey hairs already, from my fair share of exploding black things

[Stock]

Nahh Druid don't do trolling plenty of slagging and an odd point stick if a row is going on but I'm not a troll..............................least I don't think I am.....................

[v8druid]

Take it as a complement lad some of the work you done metal wise has been fantastic, I be rather handy in the fabrication welding dept but what you do is a level or two above what I would attempt.................................

Thank you Stock, read in conjunction with that comment, the previous one now reads with a whole lot of difference ....
I'd guessed you were being complimentary ..... just could not get the slant without the second comment ..... I'm having a senior moment 'praps

After a lifetime trying to do it right ..... I'd want my arse kicked if I couldn't pull it off ............... now and again

[Stock]

Take it as a complement lad some of the work you done metal wise has been fantastic, I be rather handy in the fabrication welding dept but what you do is a level or two above what I would attempt.................................

[v8druid]

Rocket science is not hard if you know what your doing............................................. .

Neither is being a Druid.................

Don't quite know how to take that one Boyo

[Stock]

any competent person can

it's not rocket science after all, as long as you know what you're doing

Rocket science is not hard if you know what your doing............................................. .

Neither is being a Druid.................

[v8druid]

So you can DIY domestic wiring over there , here you would be prosecuted ,locked up ,or a the very least uninsured if anything went wrong .
Only a licensed electrican can legally do that sort of work here ,even running cat cables requires a cablers license . protected trades ,that includes plumbing .

any competent person can install - to std - just supposed to have it tested and signed off.

done all my own for decades and do a tidier job than most leccies ... used to do all my own 3 ph in work ..... very often replacing so say professional crap when it failed/went west

it's not rocket science after all, as long as you know what you're doing

[Wazza]

So you can DIY domestic wiring over there , here you would be prosecuted ,locked up ,or a the very least uninsured if anything went wrong .
Only a licensed electrican can legally do that sort of work here ,even running cat cables requires a cablers license . protected trades ,that includes plumbing .

[v8druid]

been a loooong day in't shed ....... got all the 'ground level' stuff finished





and buttoned up








before turning my attentions to the 'aerial' bits in the ridge of the shed and the light units


Pleased to say that by half six, I'd got 'em all strung out, wired in and all ready for some leccy ..... my arms are hanging off tonight ....
all overhead work and me iffy left shoulder has had some serious exercise the last few days ..... after several weeks of nursing it, for it to repair itself, I needed to use it and it had to have it


Couple of short bits of trunking left to fit, for the outside flood lights, then get them up and wired in, as well and the shed end is finished .... the house end is also gonna be fun, up in a small attic space, python wrestling, to pick up a supply and installing a 2 way switch for the exterior floods.
gonna be good having lights and power out there to say now't of the exteriors to hand from inside the house .... 'tis 'kin dark out there, in the nights.

[v8druid]

Thats a lot of rubba

I'd estimate a bout a ton and a half Muz .... plus a serious amount of rain water that's accumulated in the damned things
Richy's truck certainly knew they were on the back of it

[Muz]

Thats a lot of rubba

[v8druid]

got all me wiring in, up to the ridge and ready to string out between the light units and the exterior floods, each end today ....
now the fun'll start ... psyching meself up for this next bit


had a delivery this morning ..... at 08.00 .... on his way to Hereford so thought he'd drop 'em off for me ... saved me collecting 'em





nice little pile of Kumhos with delivery mileage (and the tits) on 'em ... never seen dirt ... or anything else for that matter





Good though the 'drema's boots are in the tread dept., they'm on borrowed time and starting to / cracking badly with age ... they are 21 years old


been on the look out for summat for a while, 'fore anything goes bang with some weight on it.
Known this fella a good 30 odd years and when he came across these, he msgd me asking if of interest .... taken off RR conversions new out the box .. couple of firms do 'em around here ... did I want any at a very good price.


Also acquired a set and spares for a CE forum member too


Twenty new 10.00-20s, with tubes and gaiters fitted, sat there

[v8druid]

got the third one up .... after a bit of a struggle ..
I'm stood on a ladder on one foot, t'other on a plank. The one clip had engaged POP .... t'other would not ****ing have it .......
couldn't let go of it and had it balanced on me head ...... needed a screw driver to tweak the clip ....
had to ring Pam and for once she actually had her phone in her pocket ......... what a bloody performance











wiring the bar stewards is gonna be even more fun .....
unlike every other unit I've ever hung ..... there are no retainer cords to support the guts, whilst they would normally hang free to get the wiring into 'em
and no way for attaching any to the enclosures
can see this being exciting, combined with the fact that i am gonna have to be able string the cables out, 12 ft in the air with not the greatest of access ......
may have to empty the shed of mowers to get some tower scaff in there


on a positive note
I did get all the sockets wired and connected up .....
'sposed to be torrential here tomorrow, so at least I'll be in the dry attempting to get these strung ..... or at least the do-able bits sorted