The tower was open for people to go to the top on Saturday. We booked our visit and went up, the weather held and we had pretty spectacular views, though an extra 22 m on top of 240 mASL isn’t a huge amount, but it does get you above the hedges and shrubs. We also had a bit of a walk about.. And inside… On google maps:
We took a walk along what was once the line from Maiden Newton to Bridport. They’ve resurfaced and opened the stretch from Toller to Powerstock Common as a foot path. I was impressed how the wire fence has lasted. The joint was nice and even with the rust it’s not going anywhere. The galvanising on the posts must be pretty good as they’re still solid in the ground. The workmans hut has to be fairly old judging by the brick work construction.
I was asked to carry out a repair to this gate hook. It had worn down fairly substantially in the past decades. Having taken advice from a professional I chose to weld a new bit of steel to the existing pin there by restoring it to closer to what it used to be. I picked up some three quarter inch diameter round bar stock (mild steel). Having and cut a length of it equivalent to the length of the existing pin and I then away from this bit of bar so that they two fitted together to form a round pin. Then it was just a case of welding it into one lump. As it was, This picture was in this blog entry: https://bhhh.co.uk/circles/ Here you can see the very clean (wire brushed using the angle grinder) existing hinge pin and the slightly rust coloured bit of mild steel sitting […]
I had some fun today at lunch time, delivered some books to a fella outside of the village, normally I’d take my bike, but it looked like rain, so I took the Land Rover and did my trick of videoing it. Also found a spot to try to test the prop travel.
We were driving back along the B3157 on Sunday, the view a lovely from Abbotsbury hill, we’ve not yet taken the time to go and explore over there yet. So these photos were only taken from in the car.
We had some snow during Wednesday 18th, this is what it looked like: By the time the minor snow fall was over it was looking like this: I went to collect my daughter in the Land Rover and wound up driving other people to more inaccessible places also, which was great fun. This morning the snow has not melted.
We had 24 mm of rain during the day on Sunday. This lead to some flooding on the road to Chilfrome, here: I saw that the levels were meant be fairly high, so at about 9.30 pm I saw it was 1.69 m, I thought I’d have to have a look: So after tinkering with the Land Rover off I went: The speed of the water coming through the gate way to the right was impressive and as I drove on through meant I had to correct for the sideways movement. The bridge ahead was probably very close to or slightly beyond 100% capacity running under it in terms of height/depth of water. I got home and still had steam pouring out of the engine bay. Clearly it had gotten pretty wet in there. Luckily I had been liberally applying WD40 only the other day, so that probably helped that […]
We got just the most pathetic dusting of snow last night. Which was interesting as for the first time I was clearly able to make out where the soft of the Land Rover brushes the door lintel on the way into the garage.
I decided to do a long ride on Friday lunch thing. This was it.. It wwas cold, frost was still on the northern slopes of the hills or in the shadow of the hedges.
Abigail and I went to West Bay on Saturday in the Land Rover and climbed the top of the cliff on the eastern side for this view: We took the Land Rover as Hannah had her car and has gone to Northampton this weekend, did you spot the Land Rover in the car park? Na, thought not, as it’s only about 5px across..
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