United States of GRIZZ - Just how random do you want it?

[Grizz]

This is another thread that makes me feel feckin' lazy!

Thanks for taking the time to post these, Grizz...

One of the retirement projects I had hoped to get on with is some sort of outside kitchen. I could then burn, boil and fry things that smell without the wrath of Mrs Rocker. Will watch with interest.....

Here is a complete build thread of this BBQ


https://retrorides.proboards.com/thread ... ent?page=1

[mercrocker]

Great, Cheers!

[Grizz]

Six Bells Pub in Cliffe near Rochester, Kent has a Classic car and Bike Event, Meeting, Gathering once a month.

During summer it gets really busy with hundreds of people attending from 4.00pm onwards.

I have been there before in the S10 but yesterday I took the Astro van again.
Going via the best road, still a terrible surface as low cal council continues to fail on even the most basic level, to maintain roads, it is about 10 miles or 16km

So I got there early and left quite early as well, with loads of cars and bikes passing me on my way home by 7.00pm after being there 3 hours.

I made up a short clip of cars attending and a few arriving.



My buddy Ricky is a regular in his own built beauty.



And of course the Six Bells pub on the corner.

I had a £5.00 hamburger with cheese, onion and a really nice BBQ sauce. And it was absolutely delicious and worth the money.




VIDEO




I will certainly attend again in May, when the next meeting is, if I remember on the day.

Insomnia sucks.

[59Impala]

Nice meet, I recognise some of the vehicles bearing in mind I used to live not that faraway in Bexleyheath. I know Ricky, please tell him that Paul with the black '59 Impala says hi. The Mk1 Zephyr estate is my mate Kev who has his workshop at Cliffe, Zodiac Motor Services. Pretty Anglia, quite an early one (but probably not as early as mine). I want a cheeseburger with onions now but I'll have to make do with toad in the hole tonight. Also want my Impala back with its rebuilt engine but that will have to wait for a little while.

[Grizz]

Nice meet, I recognise some of the vehicles bearing in mind I used to live not that faraway in Bexleyheath. I know Ricky, please tell him that Paul with the black '59 Impala says hi. The Mk1 Zephyr estate is my mate Kev who has his workshop at Cliffe, Zodiac Motor Services. Pretty Anglia, quite an early one (but probably not as early as mine). I want a cheeseburger with onions now but I'll have to make do with toad in the hole tonight. Also want my Impala back with its rebuilt engine but that will have to wait for a little while.

I think a lot of the same people attend.










I thought you bought another Canta and transported it in the GMC


Ahhhhh

You have no idea how close to the truth you are.

In the back of the van.

Needs cleaning.








And yes, soon I will have a fleet of them if I can find some more in different designs.


They do exist, some more unusual and rare than others.

Taxi ?

[Grizz]

Mate Kevin retires fully on 9th May.

That means nothing.

He has a ton of things to do.

Last week he came to replace the front brakes on his runaround. You may remember he has a black T6 camper and helped me fetch the hateful 206 CC.

Kevin is extremely methodical.
First person I ever saw who actually reads the instructions. But that is how he does stuff. Having worked for railway support companies all his life.

Order.




Since I moved into this house in 2010 the rear driveway concrete strips have bugged me.
So Kevin suggested we tear them up and move the drive over by 18 inches or 450mm at its apex.
I also decided that after 13 years it was time to tear down and rebuild the BBQ.

I will need help.

I will need help

I will need help.

Did I say that clearly enough?

Keep reading and you may decide you can.

Along with copious amounts of strong tea with little milk, Kevin fixed the brakes.

Then we measured and marked out the potential new driveway.

And NO, I don’t want to remove the shrubbery on the left against the boundary hedge.

There will still be a curve, but it will be a solid slab rather than two strips to balance along, reversing down the drive.

So we started measuring out the job

19 meters and about 2.6 wide equals about 5.5 cubic meters of concrete cast.

Checking the depth of the existing concrete test hole.



Lay out.



So the resulting projected outcome will look like this.

I want to add an Arris rail three bar fence to the side of the small shrub bed to keep the shrubs contained. The plan is to use some large Metposts to hold the uprights.



And if the grass regrows on the gap, this may be the look.

I had wondered about putting a green colour into the concrete but have decided against it.



And it’s still a no, no green cement.






The plan is to plan and Kevin is project manager.

I want to hire a mobile crusher to create all the hardcore for the foundation from the BBQ and concrete strips rather than buying in loads of the same stuff and paying for a dumpster/skip to remove all the spoil.
I need to hire in a Mini Digger and then I NEED HELP I NEED HELP I NEED HELP I NEED HELP I need a capable operator for a day to dig, scrape, create the new foundation space and also move any topsoil into a specific place in the garden.
Steel reinforcing to be added.


I plan on getting the new concrete mixed on site, out on the street, by a dry mix rig and then running it through to the rear and casting the new slabs.

My nearby neighbor has a1972 model Winget dumper truck that he will let me use to run the concrete through from the street to the rear.

This should be interesting.





So……..

Needing a digger driver.

Some time soon.

[Grizz]

Forgot to mention

[Arthur Foxhake]

Where do you live?
I drive diggers at work all the time.

[Grizz]

Where do you live?
I drive diggers at work all the time.

Morning

Near Allhallows, Rochester.

[Grizz]

I may have bought a Mercedes Benz SLK 230 this week.

Foolish?

Maybe.

Collected it on Monday morning.

Giving it to Sally.