OT whatisit?

I reconise the small cast BBQ in the background. Mine was a £5 last year, late summer bargin from ASDA. chink chink...

I think ours came from Lidl a few years ago for a similar sum, quickly turned into a planter - never really got on with BBQ's.

NHH

Nick, I am sorry to say god knows, very nice cat house, a bell that didn't get finished. You would think its a stand of some sort but I doubt that either.

Martin P

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I used a similar tool when I was an apprentice in the motor trade .Unfortunately the pecking order meant I did all the punctures/tyre changes and I was in the commercial (trucks)dept .The wheels / tyres were almost as big as me and possibly heavier(then not now :-) ). Mike.H.

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If it was a stool you needed funny shaped rears to sit on them :-))

Martin P

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Thanks Mike. Vendor (at spring Enstone) thought it might be something to do with wheelwrighting and I had a vague recollection of seeing something similar in the tyre bay at Silverstone when dad and I used to go to vintage racing days many years ago. I think your link pretty much clinches it.

Only remaining question is why did I buy it? ;-)

NHH

How was it used - an off-list respondent commented that it looked a bit low for the supposed application?

NHH

And an even funnier one to pass it ;-)

NHH

To keep your pussy dry and shaded - of course (;-(

Pete

The ghost of Mollie Sugden lives!

BugBear

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Nick,

Very good response to my quip and the reason you bought it is because you can, simple as that :-)) but how you explain that is another matter :-))

A couple of weeks ago my lady wife mentioned in passing that our garden was beginning to look like a scrap yard so as I was looking for Brownie points for Dorset, our wedding anniversary always falls during the rally, I thought I would have a cull. I loaded the trailer with stuff that I had done nothing with and headed of to the scrap metal merchants. I came home with £72.00 in my pocket having tipped 720kg's even I was surprised about the weight. Scrap prices are starting to rise again by the way.

Martin P

campingstoveman wrote (snip):

I say, that sort of behaviour is frowned upon in these parts - even the most uninspiring little rust flake should be cherished and treated like a national treasure ;-)

NHH

Ooh er Mrs!

NHH

No engines were hurt during this demonstration, I tend to find a bit of pipe on a job and think I might have a use for that and then I don't but then I find another piece of box section etc,etc :-))

Martin P

Hmm, that sounds worrying familiar. Worse still is that I *do* tend to find a use for this stuff - but usually for upwards of 5 years of storage in the meantime. (which is the real pain about moving countries - I've still got a big cache of "useful junk" back in England that I can't really ship, but keep finding uses for here...)

(I seem to be drowning in bits of ally window frames right now, although they make useful garden stakes...)

cheers

Jules

I would have expected that any bits of box section would automatically have found their way to Peter Forbes in case a new trailer needed it ;o))

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

The box section for the new trailer was procured over 2 years ago, along with the axles wheels and tyres, but haven't had time or the space to get the thing on the way yet, too much going on!

Peter

-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK snipped-for-privacy@prepair.co.uk