Ha! I didn’t imagine it then?pushbikemike wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:13 pm
Sounds like a Turtledog design. Forgive the spelling.
Hammock forum will have plans.
I made one a good few years back out of easily available lumber and hardware. Cost about £20 and folded away when not in use.
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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
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Re: Hammock in the garden
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
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Re: Hammock in the garden
I’ve seen somewhere, a pair of tripods - sort of similar to an easel - that support a long rail in the V’s at the top. The hammock is stretched out but tied to the rail near each end. This means that the tension of the hammock creates a compressing force on the rail, so doesn’t pull the trestles/eas...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
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Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
Hi Shaf - I've downloaded your proposed track and indeed, it does go past my house. Sadly I won't be there - I'll be in Scotland canoeing the Great Glen canoe trail - a tick off my bucket list. :grin: Pooh! I'd have liked to have seen you or maybe ridden a little way with you. I see you've avoided t...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
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Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
Hi Shaf , It’s hard to see from your screen-shot, but it looks like you’ll be going past my house (south of Wrexham). I’ve pm’ed you my location. You can send me the gpx and I can, maybe, offer some suggestions - especially avoiding the A5. Have you a specific date yet? It’d be nice to wave to you a...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
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- Views: 635
Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
BaM for March '24 - Done :-bd Continuing my flower-themed BaMs. I've bivvied in violets, in primroses, in wild garlic (phew!),in bluebells and now in Daffodils. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczO2B0MXB7V4EfRuBIVhlEJ_kNrSWmPI0YZCyR6zPxOPptx0G5Qq33OKVFRXgIFIy8Gvwi3ZyIS3AYy-qt5NxakWjTnUIvY4Pm...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Only not off topic because it’s Cheery Friday, but… I like words. I learnt a new one yesterday - Christofaschist. A lovely word. A lot of ‘em in USA apparently… Also, a disappointing truth. I’ll explain… Who’s heard of the song “Alouette, (gentille Alouette)”? I’d always thought it was about a boy s...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
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Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
It’s a prime example of “the innate hostility of inanimate objects”. In your case, it’s just sitting there, saying “Nah, I don’t wanna. Now what are you go in’ to do?”.
Aaagh! I feel your pain
Aaagh! I feel your pain
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22195
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
You’re a man after my own heart. A bit of good food is worth carrying the extra weight for a few milesdorsetshirelad wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:25 pm
…before breakfast of bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms and tomatoes all washed down with cowboy coffee….
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sunday conundrum.
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- Views: 321
Re: Sunday conundrum.
‘S one of life’s great mysteries - like the ways of a man with a maid or how does a horse do that while he’s walking…
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 499119
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
….. my first batch of sauerkraut has seen the light of day. Congratulations. Enjoy. :-bd Making sauerkraut is very satisfying. Mine is made in a 10 litre plastic bucket, then bagged up in manageable quantities (for two), then frozen. Kefir is fun to make too. I made lots last summer but Mrs Frog ch...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22195
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Berwyn tour with Reg - Supplemental. Reg very kindly skirted around my little mix-up re start date. Mea Culpa. There, I’ve said it - but anyway, moving swiftly on…. Here are my few pics:- The night before…. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV87BDJjyzyDEj-2Q1Vx8scVs6OnaxjYs2C-kH1ONltlbI6VHNu8o...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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- Views: 499119
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I’ve got some old doors you can build a shed out of.Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:26 am Cheery Friday here as we take ownership of our new allotment today. I'm off to buy a pipe and some tobacco and a hoe later.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 293
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 293
Re: What to do about this tubeless sealant
You'd say the sidewalls are porous Lu and the sealant is simply doing its job. Is the tyre still going down? Yup. Well I say Yup but I haven’t ridden it since the WE. It’s soft now but I wouldn’t like to say how quickly it went down. I had noticed in the past that it would “sweat” clear stuff but n...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 293
What to do about this tubeless sealant
Before the latest Winter Event I thought to make sure my tyres wouldn’t go down and topped up (with more Stans) the Stans sealant that had been in for a year or so. Next morning:- https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV85SaH3sCFU18GxDdOhWegdn71RhvyDXYbUtSyiURzYXIHRqxzoKwZFaVpEHDfbD6VdPSFZ7PyJuqLv...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleeping Socks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 342
Re: Sleeping Socks
My answer to cold feet is a hot water bottle (actually, a small platypus bottle) and dry socks. Half fill with cold water (not the socks :grin: )then top up with hot. I find I can’t get to sleep with cold feet, but once they’re warm, they stay warm. As an extra bonus, the water still has some heat i...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 499119
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
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Re: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
I had a tank slapper on a 1939 Royal Enfield Flying Flea. It wasn’t terrifying, because it was on a grassy field and I doubt the speed was over 25mph.yourguitarhero wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:26 pm I once had a tankslapper on a GSXR600 at full throttle. Absolutely terrifying!
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22195
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I’m in again.
1/12 on the WE with RIP, MuddyPete and Raggedstone. Reg has brilliantly covered the trip in the WE thread and I have no more to add.
1/12 on the WE with RIP, MuddyPete and Raggedstone. Reg has brilliantly covered the trip in the WE thread and I have no more to add.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2384
Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Well, what a weekend it was! It was great to ride with (follow - I had nothing to do with routing, I just tailed along) RIP, Muddypete And Raggedstone. And we got to see THE waterwheel in the mine. Impressive! Apart from the riding and good companions, my WE was notable for forgetting my riding jack...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2396
Re: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
It's almost to late to post WE coz that’ll be done in a few days.
WRT.
And an OT tick-off of the bucket list….. the Great Glen Canoe Trail. This with my daughter, two sons and at least one grandson.
WRT.
And an OT tick-off of the bucket list….. the Great Glen Canoe Trail. This with my daughter, two sons and at least one grandson.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:03 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Ideas for old self inflating sleeping mat?
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- Views: 1453
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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- Views: 499119
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Thanks. So do I. I'll take him to the vets tomorrow and get him checked out.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
It’s been a pretty miserable Friday up until 7 o’clock when our big cat came home after being AWOL for three days. The day he went missing, I came down in the morning and found the utility room that the cats are shut into at night literally covered in cat poo. It was spread about the floor, on a pil...