I would just like to say

[Stanleysteamer]

112 lbs or 8 stones. . We didn't go foreign until after I left skool. And now we is out of the eu all you youngsters will have to learn imperial.

used to have to pick up a cwt sack of sugar and balance it on a container about 1'6" by 1'6" at the top by about 4 feet high, then cut it open and tip it all in.
It was a bit of an art!

 

[kevstar]

some of us,its 2 bags of spuds

Coal to us

 

[jamesmartin]

used to have to pick up a cwt sack of sugar and balance it on a container about 1'6" by 1'6" at the top by about 4 feet high, then cut it open and tip it all in.
It was a bit of an art!

it was the standard weight for a lot of sacked/bagged stuff

 

[Stanleysteamer]

Forgot to say the blessed container was on castors to be wheeled around a university kitchen. So would fall over for a pastime if you didn't get it right!
We also used to get a certain type of rice in in cwt bags which we sold direct to a bunch of Chinese guys who were studying there. They must have been on some official thing. and they looked well funny in their blue Chariman Mao suits! Nice guys though, (We never understood a word they said!)

 

[Shimsteriom]

Nite All.

 

[Hicap phill]

Morning.
Dark..... nothing else to report

 

[DevonGuy]

Mornin orl.
Be dark, damp an chilly. Av ztoked us ztove, be Godwin naicely now. Coffee bruin.

 

[derwendolly]

A DRY, magnificent moonlit morning. I have no idea of the temperature but it doesn't seem cold. But where is the promised snow?

 

[My Old Landy]

Morning all, the BIL will be over shortly to start on the garden with us. Tis a tad chilly but needs must!
Have a great day and stay in the warm

 

[Turktowner]

Dun't av that problem wiv ma ippo. Must be ard this time of yeer wiv all the rain and hi winds, freezin yer balls oft.

Gots a blanket anna hotty int I

 

[Turktowner]

@Stanleysteamer .

I thort a Stere was one a them big Merkin cows?
Need a 110 for one a them.

 

[Turktowner]

And good mornin to you all.
Beautiful clear blue skies (an damned cold) out.
Trying to think of what to do with meself today before SWMBO decides for me

Keeps peeps safe an well

 

[doriz]

Why not take yer tratter? Just chuck em int back.

It’s waiting for a new cam belt and hasnt moved for 2 months. Don’t wanna break it at this point.

 

[doriz]

Cold and white outside, the dog is sat waiting for a walk

 

[Shimsteriom]

Good morning

There be lots of snow on the hills so the high roads have been closed to stop eejits from crashing.

It's nearly next year

 

[DanClarke]

Mid-morning All
Another late rising here
This has to stop, just because I am now an official pensioner is no real excuse for tardiness.
No snow here.
My new lathe is kaputski and in pieces on the work bench. The drive system is in need of some re-design as it chews belts and spits them out again. The toothed pulleys aren't properly aligned, the belt just destroys itself trying to break free and climb the side wall of the drive pulley and they have made it so tight that it strips the teeth away and puts undue stress on the main spindle bearings. Not good at all in this respect.
I will see what I can do to resolve it with some proper alignment, a new (longer) belt and some form of tensioner.
Have a great day everyone.

 

[Colthebrummie]

Mid-morning All
Another late rising here
This has to stop, just because I am now an official pensioner is no real excuse for tardiness.
No snow here.
My new lathe is kaputski and in pieces on the work bench. The drive system is in need of some re-design as it chews belts and spits them out again. The toothed pulleys aren't properly aligned, the belt just destroys itself trying to break free and climb the side wall of the drive pulley and they have made it so tight that it strips the teeth away and puts undue stress on the main spindle bearings. Not good at all in this respect.
I will see what I can do to resolve it with some proper alignment, a new (longer) belt and some form of tensioner.
Have a great day everyone.

Is it one of those Chinese mini lathes?

Col

 

[Shimsteriom]

My new lathe is kaputski and in pieces on the work bench. The drive system is in need of some re-design as it chews belts and spits them out again. The toothed pulleys aren't properly aligned, the belt just destroys itself trying to break free and climb the side wall of the drive pulley and they have made it so tight that it strips the teeth away and puts undue stress on the main spindle bearings. Not good at all in this respect.
I will see what I can do to resolve it with some proper alignment, a new (longer) belt and some form of tensioner.

That's disappointing.

 

[doriz]

 

[doriz]

I have lighted the log burner this morning and as a Yorkshireman it really hurts to waste those logs. Anyhoo, as Mrs Doriz is well chuffed I’m might be able to translate that gratitude into a bacon roll