Author Topic: 'found this on a ride today'! (Read 182602 times)

De Sisti · « **Reply #775 on:** 03 October, 2021, 09:13:06 am »

Lost one of these on a ride yesterday.

[it was in a small pouch, which I didn't properly secure in my back pocket]

hatler · « **Reply #776 on:** 03 October, 2021, 09:44:19 am »

Oooof. That's v annoying. Better get Blodwyn Pig on the trail.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #777 on:** 03 October, 2021, 03:00:23 pm »

Quote from: Blodwyn Pig on 03 October, 2021, 07:43:24 am

Quote from: Pingu on 02 October, 2021, 07:39:49 pm
Did you find the jumbo that needed sponging?

Haha, yes Me.

Now you have a jumbo, it can help you wash your car.

Kim · « **Reply #778 on:** 03 October, 2021, 03:44:57 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 03 October, 2021, 03:00:23 pm

Quote from: Blodwyn Pig on 03 October, 2021, 07:43:24 am
Quote from: Pingu on 02 October, 2021, 07:39:49 pm
Did you find the jumbo that needed sponging?

Haha, yes Me.
Now you have a jumbo, it can help you wash your car.

If you have a car.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #779 on:** 03 October, 2021, 03:55:12 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 03 October, 2021, 03:44:57 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 03 October, 2021, 03:00:23 pm
Quote from: Blodwyn Pig on 03 October, 2021, 07:43:24 am
Quote from: Pingu on 02 October, 2021, 07:39:49 pm
Did you find the jumbo that needed sponging?

Haha, yes Me.
Now you have a jumbo, it can help you wash your car.

If you have a car.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #780 on:** 29 October, 2021, 09:17:05 pm »

IMG_2120 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_2121 by mark tilley, on Flickr

and another one!

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #781 on:** 04 November, 2021, 11:11:42 am »

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

Hmmm, 2.5 schtrenf reading schpecsh. Schould have gone to schp..........actually someone did, and they are rather better than the £1 shop offerings.

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

Was out on Olive, and just round t'corner from me 'ouse, there was this skip in someones gardin. In t'skip was some old pine doors what had bin stripped, and did look nice. Now I needs a door I does, for No1 daugthers flat in That Leyton, so I knocks on the door of this big 'ouse, and I asks the chap if I may 'elp meeself to contents of skip. 'Aye, thats fine lad, help theeself'' says a chap whats 'alf me age. So whizzes 'ome, and armed wiv the sizes of thee doors I needs, comes back with the Volvo.........get the picture..

. Alas the great God Trebus was not wiv me that day, as thee doors was too schmall, BUT one was schpot on! So I drags it out and turns it over I does, and bugga, top 'alf of door near thee 'inge is all split aways,and missing ,where some oik 'ad levered it oft with a crowbar. Never minds, and not wishing to gone 'ome with empty 'ands, I 'recovered a dozen unused 'Eternit' types artificial roof slates, and thee Gothic mirror what you do see above., ‘tis cast iron, it is. ''He who hesitates is lost , Rodney''

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #782 on:** 06 November, 2021, 08:22:10 am »

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

Stopped to tweek my indexing, and .......well, most welcome.

Pingu · « **Reply #783 on:** 13 November, 2021, 03:58:12 pm »

IMG_9174_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

IMG_9175_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Too big for me & Mrs P thobut.

Kim · « **Reply #784 on:** 13 November, 2021, 05:58:32 pm »

I found a roadkill step ladder on yesterday's ride, but it was pissing down with rain so I didn't feel like stopping for a photo.

ETA: Still there today.

Fortunately I already have an identical (but cleaner) step ladder at home.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #785 on:** 21 November, 2021, 05:59:42 pm »

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

Hmmm! worth a rummage.

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

A pair of rather nice old candle holders, and a small cream jug. chink chink!

Deano · « **Reply #786 on:** 21 November, 2021, 06:47:12 pm »

Perfectly good vaper, just needed a couple of small screws to repair it.

(I have replaced the mouthpiece, that would be skanky)

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #787 on:** 21 November, 2021, 07:38:41 pm »

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

Untitled by mark tilley, on Flickr

At home in their rightful place, well chuffed.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #788 on:** 04 December, 2021, 07:49:52 pm »

IMG_2180 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Was out on Olive 2 days after my Pfizer stick, and I saw these. As I stopped to take a pic , my stomach rumbled aggressively...

, and my phone battery died , and I was uncertain I had taken a snap. I had planned for vehicular (Volvo) retrieval later that day. It had been out all night, and the plan was to paint a more subtle colour, and then flog it on ETSY. But my tumleyboo was telling me I needed to be elsewhere, and I JUST made it home

. Gosh that was VERY close. Anyway , rest of the day was taken up with frequent visits, a reaction to the wonder drug no doubt. Rode out next day feeling fine, and t'was gone.

IMG_2187 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_2188 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Spied this little lot, none of which worked, but chargers were present. But most were full of water, so I left them

NOW THEN

IMG_2191 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_2192 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_2193 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Whooppeedoo, £10 well chuffed......better have a look on the other side of the road........you never know.........

IMG_2196 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_2194 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_2198 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Soooo £25, not bad for a morning ride, glad they are now made of plastic.

SQUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

meddyg · « **Reply #789 on:** 30 December, 2021, 09:20:27 am »

- not exactly 'found this on a ride today and thought I'd take it home' - but "what is it?"
It's about a mile from the sea on the Newport Levels , so, clue there ?
I think it's been on a harbour wall ...

andytheflyer · « **Reply #790 on:** 30 December, 2021, 09:41:54 am »

A winch, or at least a sheave for running a rope around. Nautical kit so there must have been boats close by at some time.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #791 on:** 30 December, 2021, 12:00:28 pm »

Blodwyn Pig would've been back with the trailer for that.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #792 on:** 30 December, 2021, 01:55:28 pm »

It's that round thing which hav 0 use at all?

yorkie · « **Reply #793 on:** 30 December, 2021, 05:04:18 pm »

Is it anywhere near a railway (or former railway)? It was not unusual for winches and capstans to be used for shunting in the absence of a locomotive (or horse!)

Paul · « **Reply #794 on:** 31 December, 2021, 10:05:12 am »

Just what this thread needed; a giant bobbin.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #795 on:** 31 December, 2021, 10:09:13 am »

Does that mean we can wind it up?

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #796 on:** 31 December, 2021, 07:06:07 pm »

IMG_1585 by mark tilley, on Flickr

''I have a dream!'' or rather I had a dream. Ever since I dreamt of the death of a very close friend of my lovely, (and she actually died the night I saw her in my dream....its a long story....I see things ...ok), I tell my lovely of my dreams, in case they are important. Anyway t'other day I dreamt, and subsequently reported, that whilst out walking in my red hiking jacket, that I found a £50 note.
Went out for a ride today , only 33km , but time was short ( I overslept), and found nowt...not a sausage....
Then after a spot of lunch we went for a walk. I was wearing my red jacket, but took it off and put in my rucksack as it was.very warm. BUT there in the bushes.... Not £50 but close.

Kim · « **Reply #797 on:** 31 December, 2021, 08:31:40 pm »

Meanwhile, I got this marvellous free wood screw:

Tyre was a write-off (it took a chunk out of the sidewall, too). Fortunately the rim is sufficiently corroded that I was going to replace it in the spring anyway.

meddyg · « **Reply #798 on:** 31 December, 2021, 09:08:43 pm »

Quote from: yorkie on 30 December, 2021, 05:04:18 pm

Is it anywhere near a railway (or former railway)? It was not unusual for winches and capstans to be used for shunting in the absence of a locomotive (or horse!)

about a mile south fteh Newport Cardiff mainline and 1/2 mile from the sea wall = Bristol Channel

yorkie · « **Reply #799 on:** 31 December, 2021, 09:31:50 pm »

Quote from: meddyg on 31 December, 2021, 09:08:43 pm

Quote from: yorkie on 30 December, 2021, 05:04:18 pm
Is it anywhere near a railway (or former railway)? It was not unusual for winches and capstans to be used for shunting in the absence of a locomotive (or horse!)

about a mile south fteh Newport Cardiff mainline and 1/2 mile from the sea wall = Bristol Channel

Unlikely to be railway related then, but it was worth asking. I agree that it is more likely to be maritime related than railway.