Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Yeh! The replacement plastic mirrortrim arrived this morning...

 

zook BOB, Looking good DAVE

Thanks Mark

Just been editing the JimnyBuggy (Wordpress) Blog - added a Videos and a Links page...

There's a link in my signature below

Bit more today... not much though, as I woke up with a fond attachment to the toilet shall we say...

But, the garage around the corner had offered me the loan of their brake pipe flarer this morning, so I needed to do that and one other little job, so I just worked the morning... 



Ahh, I was expecting something rather different to Alan's antique one...  

After nipping round to the garage I popped in the shop for a cuppa and found the postman had been -

 

Banjo bolts, just in time!



Back to the flaring tool... it worked on the third attempt... the block has to be extremely tightly bolted to hold the steel brakeline in place... and you don't like to go too tight with someone else's tool... but I got the hang in the end!  

 

In place after the pipe was rolled around a "pulley wheel" type former that was also in Alan's box of tricks...

 

I was just finishing the banjo bolt on the other side when, speak of the devil... Alan! he called in whilst passing from the local plumbers and coal merchants, and had a quick socially distanced chat and and a look at the buggy out on the drive...

He'd been tinkering again! -

 

And had made me a custom key ring from my Avatar on this fine forum



I hadn't seen Alan for over six months! So these were my late Christmas presents!

 

The other one... a Gigglepin Stump Hook which should also fit in the faux jerry can with my tree strop...

Cheers Al'! :woohoo:

My last job of the morning...?

 

Squeeze the Boogie in as far left and forwards as possible to make room for our new boiler to be delivered on Friday... our 22 year old one is no longer up to the job of the 24 radiators in our house, so it's the size of a washing machine, and all the bits that come with it...

That unfortunately means I probably won't be able to get near the buggy on Sunday and might have to have the day off! :woohoo:

More soon though!

That hook looks like an accident waiting to happen, it'd have to be muck or nettles before I deployed that.

It's a tree stump / rock hook -  gigglepin4x4.net/stump-hook-ground-anchor-2356-p.asp
Made by Glyn Lewis 4x4 -  gwynlewis4x4.co.uk/product/stump-hook-gl1184/
for when there's no (pesky) trees or ground suitable for the, errr, ground anchor to winch off...



But yes... like any revovery equipment, needs to be used with extreme caution...

Nothing worse than a Hi-Lift Jack in my opinion / experience, lethal in the wrong hands...!