My Week this Week, My workshop videos

[hermetic]

Hi All, We complete the MOT work on the Volvo, only to find we can't get a test booked till next Wednesday! No matter, we have plenty of field work to complete so it is on to clearing out around the new fence in the Field and a couple od days of "Osswork" It nearly kills us, but we just survive! It has made a huge inprovement, and I can report that Saturday morning I am feeling better than I have felt since before getting covid in November. Even though the work is very hard, even the icy blast from the north on friday, complete with sleety rain Couldn't stop us!
Phil, sun wind and sleet in East Yorkshire

 

[hermetic]

Hi All, The Volve passed its MOT! so keith is back on wheels again! So tis back to the fencing, and a day in the workshop doing a few jobs on the tractor, and mending a pillar drill spindle for the FIL! Bitterly cold north wind blowing, and snow forecast for next tuesday! I may stay in bed!
Phil, the north wind doth blow and we shall have snow in East Yorkshire!

 

[hermetic]

Sorry folks, no video this week, went to the workshop monday had a good tidy up and did a few little jobs, reached for the camera only to realise that the case was empty and the camera was back in Driffield on my desk! then the weather turned and was very cold and snowy and Langtoft was suddenly very far away!! Back with a vengance next week!
Phil

 

[hermetic]

Hi All, We take advantage of the gradually warming weather to finish the fencing on the dog run, and then clear out the rest of the bank top in prepeation for the new fence up the side of the field to the house. Wednesday I am back in the workshop, and thursday its another mixed bag of Antique repairs and appliances on friday!
Phil, It could be spring in East Yorkshire!

 

[hermetic]

I started the week with a couple of days of small repairs in the workshop, then went up to the field, and continued with our big clearance in readiness for the new fencing. Fixed a hydraulic leak on the tractor tip pipe. I also ordered the PTO clutch for the tractor, and on sunday, went to Catwick to buy a very reasonably priced machine lamp which is the exact one for the Harrison milling machine, but more of that next week!
Phil in windy, rainy but definitely springlike East Yorkshire

 

[nononick]

Hi All, The Volve passed its MOT! so keith is back on wheels again! So tis back to the fencing, and a day in the workshop doing a few jobs on the tractor, and mending a pillar drill spindle for the FIL! Bitterly cold north wind blowing, and snow forecast for next tuesday! I may stay in bed!
Phil, the north wind doth blow and we shall have snow in East Yorkshire!

Hi,
Just a long shot, and I realise there are probably lots of Whitleys in Yorkshire, but might you be related to Joseph Whitley who had an engineering company in the Leeds area, and with his son Jack worked for many years in the 1880s & 90s with a Frenchman Louis Le Prince (who married Joseph's daughter), trying to develop a motion picture camera and projector? I have been reading the book by Paul Fischer, "The man who invented Motion Pictures, A True Tale of Obsession, Murder and the Movies". In my working days I was a documentary cameraman.
Nick