the showman

Nipped into Lidl's today for donuts and they had 2016 diarys so I bought one and your my first entry

Happy birthday Norm, hope you have a good day with lots of cards and toys. Must be a big cake to get all them candles on 😀😀😀

Count me in Kev, hav'nt got next years diary yet i'll have to try and remember

They look nice, wander what the wheels are off

Sounds good Norm, all that work and typing and no photo

I know the gound between the barns on the main entrance was under water on Thursday and once you pull the plug on a show there's no going back

That's great work James, next year when i come up to Newby hall I'd like to go back with you for a week and learn some fabricating and about hydraulics

Good photos, looks like you had a good day, see a few people in the photos that are normally at Kingsfold

Top job, looks really nice

No wander your knackered by the end of the day mate, looks a big job your doing, going to look much better when you've done

Good progress Nigel, you'll have it painted soon

It belongs to Steve who lives along the road, he has some nice engines to drive it, I took you round to see him when you was down Norm

Great progress James

Core, rear wheel weights too

That looks a good haul Mark. I think you need a bigger trailer

A friend of mine bought a Lister water pump from Johns place a few weeks ago and since then its had new bearings , springs and gaskets. He came round today and wanted a water tank and some pipes made up. Over the last few weeks I've been playing with a chicken plucking machine and i had a spare tank which is from a drinks vending machine made of stainless steel ( also from Johns). Out came the box of pipe fittings and pipe threading tool, with the help of the power hacksaw ( also from Johns ) we fabricated it all together. Here's a couple of photos, hope you like

We all go to a lot of trouble and expense to do these shows, i run the Horticultural section at this show and spend 4 days there as well as taking extra tea and coffee. We're all disappointed after all the preparation to get ready but we can't odds the weather, i think we've been lucky this year I've done about 20 shows this year and this is the first one that's been cancelled completely. We've had rain at 2 or 3 but only had to be towed out once which i think is good going considering our climate

Due to the rain this week and the poor ground conditions it's been decided to cancel the show this weekend. A really good rally and a great shame but we can't change the weather

Happy birthday mate, have a good one

Made me laugh as well

That's a nice find Andrew, gonna look good when's she's up and running

I'm ok with this now, spent a couple of days fiddling with the mag, cleaning and changing the points. Refitted and kept moving the spocket round and finally it started, had it running for an hour and it seems ok

The mag is chain driven and the sprocket is on a tapered shaft, I'll just have to keep moving it round and see what happens.Now i know why they call them hit and miss engines