Well, it was ‘SAS related’ I left you this morning fed the pigs near my neighbours house https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/8188794?source_impression_id=p3_1572112545_tHRKffaB%2FnYtNby8 and went to ‘weigh up’ the situation. They’d phoned last night when I was in my pyjamas saying one of their guests was stuck!!!! Well, they were right about that, but to be fair, I did the same myself when I first bought the house thirty years ago
One thing for sure, it wouldn’t be coming out under its ‘own steam’ or with the help of my Disco.
It was time to go back to Sonas and get ‘Calum the Kubota’ I did try lifting it out out backwards first, simply cos we could find no sign of a front towing eye, the driver had no handbook and Mr Google wasnae working there
Well, it certainly wasn’t for coming out backwards but we did manage to move it far enough to at least see the front wishbones. They were of course lying in deep mud but in the absence of anything better to pull it with they would have to suffice. So, very gingerly I tracked ahead of it, extended the boom and dipper, put the blade down and we managed to ease her out with the driver helping.
He was very happy and to be fair, so was I, we’d managed to extricate it from a very difficult spot with minimal damage to Disco and none to Calum
The neighbours drain will need a little ‘remedial work’ right enough but it could have been much worse Of course I now know where the towing eye is located https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/discovery-4-front-towing-eye.145672/ which would have saved me getting rather muddy and not made my shower tray look like I’d taken ‘a dump’ in it
After shower, muesli and break I set off to Torran to re route the Lister generator exhaust and clear out the fridge.
Adam the Polish builder had had to remove the exhaust to build the shed and in his haste to leave had left behind all kind of Polish treats with unpronounceable names. The cherry tomatoes, butter, smoked mackerel and Greek yoghurt I’d already had away, well, ‘waste not want not’ However, there was other stuff that looked edible and I was at a bit of a ‘loose end’ on the cooking front.
First job though was to knock a hole in the wall to let the exhaust pipe through,
very quickly establishing the fact that my 24v Hitachi was not ‘man enough’ for the job. Sure it’s quite adequate for drilling a couple of holes but the NiMH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93metal_hydride_battery batteries just don’t ‘cut the mustard like lithium ion ones. Reluctantly I went back home to get my 110V 38mm Hitachi breaker and transformer.
The next challenge was rotating the rusted fittings and removing the old exhaust pipe, which without the blowlamp would probably have ‘ended in tears’ with a broken cast iron manifold.
I had to do another trip home to cut and thread the tail pipe to clear the eaves and there’s still a little ‘tidying up’ to be done but before I ‘called it a day’ Mr Lister was chugging away nicely
Time to head home for a Polish treat.
Roast sweet potato, broccoli, beans and asparagus with some tinned pork Well I just had to eat it hey
Can’t remember the last time I had tinned pork, ham or Spam, it’s better than I remember
Gonna try and fry what’s left in the morning once the muesli ‘runs out of steam’.