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ditchman

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  1. that is a beast of a knife..........it looks in good condition as well.......nice one.. i wonder if you could trace the name to a person on the war records ???
  2. i bet they thro a bit of light..................are they still in working order ?
  3. ooohhh they are nice....................
  4. cheers for that..............to be quite honest it works and throws a nice ammont of light......far more so than a candle...............it is 3/4 's full of parafeen and sits on the desk and no longer smells...but is always ready to be lit ....as we have several power cuts here from time to time...... i have been looking at some of the large drawing room oil lamps on the net ...some of them with glass shades.....i bet they threw some light as well...
  5. put the wick back in and trim it ......polish it up ....clean the chimney and light it up ....... jobs a gooden.........
  6. heat up the handle and melt it away from the body..............clean.....(it must be clean)...and re-solder......
  7. what about a bottle of Justeni and a packet of pork scratchings.......that was a good night out on a park bench...
  8. next thing was to .....give it a good old clean up and check what needs fixing.....the burner was ok and i had the wick out and washed and flattered it and trimmed it ...then a look at the body ...and as you can see ...where the handle joind the body ...the solder is cracked............
  9. they look reqally nice................i re-built a HY 77 a while ago..........not to that standard tho........mine was a barn find and has alot of the blueing missing / worn off...and had a very very strange mod on it......i will put some pics up of it some time... but that pair you have are really smart..........troulble with the HW's you need a wheelbarrow to cart them around ..
  10. in the back of the shed .......i have this old diddy parafeen lamp.......dont get used in the house as it has a couple of splits where the handle joind the body....so it does stink on parafeen..........so i had a bit of time on my hands about 3 weeks ago...and decieded to take it apart and clean it ..take the dents out and mend the holes...cause i rekon it is a pretty little thing and should be bought back into use... will post a few more pics of progress later..............
  11. i have a very low alchohol tolerance...........i can get slap faced on a wine gum and a glass of water.............also i sober very quickly.........i have awesome kidneys.. (and a childish sense of fun.......im not ready to grow up yet )
  12. im just starting to come round now...whole bot' of red whilst cooking.......
  13. that is awful...........i hate litter of any kind...well done you for clearing it up... i take the piss out of socks.......but really ...thats what you should be like..........take memories home with you and just leave footprints...
  14. just waiting for my mate to do a bit of turning and then the alarm mine is ready for action.....as i said previous "elswhere"....i shall be making my own napalm as the commercially avaiable stuff is naff....
  15. very neat and tidy.............trouble is folk will be able to see you humping your bird...bit open plan....
  16. just eaten .....im a comin round noe ...
  17. had a gud day tofay....cheap souff affician red bussim himll....£5.99 / bot............get un ther boi...........
  18. rock garden...................... them rocks would be worth £1000's in B&Q.......
  19. wooooowwwww............that is a sight that i cant "unsee"
  20. President Trump will be along shortly.................disifectant my man......disinfectant.........thats the answer
  21. the pictures are better than elswhere.............there are some serious food adicts on here........
  22. hi there babe............ ? yvonne keep away from the food section...............its bad for you
  23. starting to report it on sky and BBC now...........
  24. love it when folk get stuck in and do stuff like this.............there is still hope for the human race........those things on the end of your arms can do anything with a bit of help from a brain... loverly work.........never worked with leather...
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