Out last night.
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Smellydog
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It's a prototype jig to hold a loading shovels arms for drilling and machining on a large milling machine.
JCB's Smelly?
Smellydog
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Yeah. Gaffa is big with them etc.JCB's Smelly?
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wabbit warren
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Being a jigs and fixtures toolmaker for the best part of 40 years, id say "proper job"
I don't care what its for, to weld something like that and keep it square without having to machine it after is good going
i noticed you didnt fully fillet weld it was that to stop the distortion?
I don't care what its for, to weld something like that and keep it square without having to machine it after is good going
i noticed you didnt fully fillet weld it was that to stop the distortion?
I remember something that size being welded up, but it was more of a rolling hazard to the guy working on it, WEC engineering Darwen, ended up a helicopter job to hospital.
Smellydog
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Aye, you gotta think it through a bit....
Smellydog
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Thank you. I have no claim in the design.
I'm just the labour.
We didn't manage to keep it square. The uprights lean in a few mm but I've hot spotted underneath and they have come back.
Mostly stitched by request of the gaffer. I'd of fully welded it.
It's a machining jig and the part to be machined sits up against eight pads on the two vertical pieces. There is no more than 1mm difference across all eight!
Nickb
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Bit of a nightmare this afternoon. Went out in search of the hen killer . Got myself set up on an old IBC watching the side of the wood . After about 45 minutes out popped a fox to my surprise ...in my mind I had it bagged.
Big mistake, it was trotting away up the field so I stopped it with an OI only to proceed in missing it ...WTF
I obviously snatched it thinking it was a formality.
I then got a call from the farmer who was waiting for it with his shotgun only to be called away to pick up his granddaughter from school .
Whilst he was gone for only about 15 minutes the fox had taken another hen.
So the fox got very lucky today but it's days are numbered.
Big mistake, it was trotting away up the field so I stopped it with an OI only to proceed in missing it ...WTF
I obviously snatched it thinking it was a formality.
I then got a call from the farmer who was waiting for it with his shotgun only to be called away to pick up his granddaughter from school .
Whilst he was gone for only about 15 minutes the fox had taken another hen.
So the fox got very lucky today but it's days are numbered.
Fantastic to be almost unnoticeable again while out foxing, 
a huge difference in sound disturbance, moving from .25-06 / 75g Vmax to .222 Rem 50grain soft points, now ready for the first Lambs to drop
a huge difference in sound disturbance, moving from .25-06 / 75g Vmax to .222 Rem 50grain soft points, now ready for the first Lambs to drop
Bo Diddley
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Good work SD, I chuckled when I spotted the yellow Axle stand with "Do not use" and it looks like some 2"x2" with a cold chisel underneath on the right-hand side... that's my sort of 'elf & safety...
Smellydog
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It's a wedge and the axle stands are fine. They were rejected for a job elsewhere and we're to be thrown! Nothing wrong with them though!
I do miss a hoist though!
Glad you like your new rifle.
Out last night in Essex..
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Out earlier in Essex
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Out earlier in Essex
Nickb
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Proper shift
Those 75gr VMax are just so emphatic when they touch down though
Smellydog
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FB, I took Jess for a walk to an old crow roost and it was cold!3 hrs wandering about and after seeing nothing and freezing also wondering about - like why I didn’t stay at home…
When I got back home I decided that's enough and kicked the stove vent open!
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