Zenrat's Flying Circus

[scooter]

Alright! 

Green with envy mode on, nice one.

Same here.  Its been a dog's age, or at least before heading off to Iraq, that I've slipped the surly bonds of earth.

[zenrat]

Flight was a 50th birthday (last December) present from my folks.
Weather was almost perfect.  Warm enough up there to not need a jacket although it was a bit bumpy.
I was a shame to land because back down on terra firma it was 38℃.

[NARSES2]

Not been up in a Moth but did go in an ex USN Stearman. Same feeling I presume ? Flight as it should be 

[zenrat]

I decaled the FW190 today.
SAP FW190D WIP 31-01-18 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

Very smart mate 

[TheChronicOne]

Glorious!  I love to see it looking like that instead of some normal war-monger stuff. 

[su27rules]

 

[zenrat]

No modelling today (will, a little - I managed to sneak off and squirt some silver car paint on some FW190 fiddley bits and the #5 prop from the Kawanishi).
Instead The Boy and I dug a hole.  If the hole had been on the South side of the garden it would have been easy as that side is sandy soil with roots in.  However it wasn't - it was on the North side which is a thin layer of rubbish sandy soil followed by building rubble, rocks and finally clay*.  We have gone down 800mm.  This is 50mm into the clay.  However, the hole needs to be 1m deep.  Having had the head fall off the mattock, bent a 1600mm star picket and broken my #1 post hole shovel (and a fingernail) we have stopped for the day to nurse our blisters (me), admire our pile of rocks and play Ninja Turtles on the play station (The Boy).  Tomorrow I will buy a crowbar which will make  that last 8" a lot easier.

*I have it on good authority that our back yard used to be a swamp.  I think when the house was built the developers dealt with that by filling it with rocks and building rubble and then putting crappy topsoil over the top.  You certainly don't have to dig very far to find bits of brick.  Still, it's better than my parents backyard which used to be tennis courts and in places has bitumen a foot under the lawn.

[Rick Lowe]

No modelling today (will, a little - I managed to sneak off and squirt some silver car paint on some FW190 fiddley bits and the #5 prop from the Kawanishi).
Instead The Boy and I dug a hole.  If the hole had been on the South side of the garden it would have been easy as that side is sandy soil with roots in.  However it wasn't - it was on the North side which is a thin layer of rubbish sandy soil followed by building rubble, rocks and finally clay*.  We have gone down 800mm.  This is 50mm into the clay.  However, the hole needs to be 1m deep.  Having had the head fall off the mattock, bent a 1600mm star picket and broken my #1 post hole shovel (and a fingernail) we have stopped for the day to nurse our blisters (me), admire our pile of rocks and play Ninja Turtles on the play station (The Boy).  Tomorrow I will buy a crowbar which will make  that last 8" a lot easier.

*I have it on good authority that our back yard used to be a swamp.  I think when the house was built the developers dealt with that by filling it with rocks and building rubble and then putting crappy topsoil over the top.  You certainly don't have to dig very far to find bits of brick.  Still, it's better than my parents backyard which used to be tennis courts and in places has bitumen a foot under the lawn.

Have you considered gelignite?

Cut the bars down a wee bit (ok, a LOT!) and you shouldn't annoy the neighbours/alert the authorities... 

[zenrat]

No modelling today (will, a little - I managed to sneak off and squirt some silver car paint on some FW190 fiddley bits and the #5 prop from the Kawanishi).
Instead The Boy and I dug a hole.  If the hole had been on the South side of the garden it would have been easy as that side is sandy soil with roots in.  However it wasn't - it was on the North side which is a thin layer of rubbish sandy soil followed by building rubble, rocks and finally clay*.  We have gone down 800mm.  This is 50mm into the clay.  However, the hole needs to be 1m deep.  Having had the head fall off the mattock, bent a 1600mm star picket and broken my #1 post hole shovel (and a fingernail) we have stopped for the day to nurse our blisters (me), admire our pile of rocks and play Ninja Turtles on the play station (The Boy).  Tomorrow I will buy a crowbar which will make  that last 8" a lot easier.

*I have it on good authority that our back yard used to be a swamp.  I think when the house was built the developers dealt with that by filling it with rocks and building rubble and then putting crappy topsoil over the top.  You certainly don't have to dig very far to find bits of brick.  Still, it's better than my parents backyard which used to be tennis courts and in places has bitumen a foot under the lawn.

Have you considered gelignite?

Cut the bars down a wee bit (ok, a LOT!) and you shouldn't annoy the neighbours/alert the authorities... 

Yes.  But I don't know any bikies and where else do you get it from?

I did try hydraulic excavation with the garden hose but it got awfully messy.

[Rick Lowe]

"Messy" you say?

But The Boy (well, both of them) would have LOVED that, surely?! 

There again, The Missus, not so much... "You're NOT coming in here like THAT!!" 

As for sourcing some, i can't help there... but thinking on it, maybe a large amount of fireworks strapped together?

[NARSES2]

Instead The Boy and I dug a hole. 

OK, I'll bite. Why ? Or don't I want to know ? 

[Rick Lowe]

Instead The Boy and I dug a hole. 

OK, I'll bite. Why ? Or don't I want to know ? 

A Friend will help you move.

A Good Friend will help you move a Body. (or bury one, as the case may be...) 

[Rheged]

Much sympathy, fellow excavator!!

  Parts of my garden were once a temporary carpark, with a six inch layer of topsoil over a 10 inch layer of  compacted chippings.  It's all good Herefordshire clay soil underneath that.   Planting roses with a 24 inch wrecking bar, a 4lb hammer and my great uncle's World War One bayonet is a substantial exercise.........but the roses thrive superbly in the clay if you can get through the carpark layer.

[PR19_Kit]

It occurs to me that if you two diggers keep going we could have a fast transit tunnel between this part of he UK and Oz............