2008 at the Hammond Barn

[cliff]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

While doing my greasy CMP stuff Joyce was up at the wee hours to practice with her new camera/lens that Santee Clause got her...... her is a sample of her owling pictures......

Bob

Bob my wife Kathie collects anything to do with Owls and just happened to see the owl photo you posted. I was wondering if it was possible for you to email a high Res copy to me for her collection please? She is as passionate for her Owl collection as you are with your CMP's so you will understand her craving

[Bob Carriere]

Bonjour Cliff

I will get Joyce to to contact Kathie direct...... so the birds of common feathers can chat...... send me a PM with your He-Male address.

Bob

[RHClarke]

Bob, Grant,

Anything happening at the barn lately? What were you up to last weekend? What is the plan for this weekend? I may have to do some time at home this weekend as I have been out of town. I hope to return late on Friday night (Air Canada willing...).

Fredericton is overcast and only -6oC - nearly tropical compared to Ottawa. I have not yet had a chance to track down Wild Bill, but will try to see him at work (I hope you are lurking Bill, just so you can "look" busy if and when I stop by).

Cheers from tepid Fredsville!

[Grant Bowker]

We missed our chronicler (sp?), but not lunch break.
Bob carried on his long running fight with floor plates, linkages etc. for the various parking brakes, winch brakes shifters et al. I kept up the assault on small parts, headlight buckets, pedal assemblies etc, cleaning them (solvents first, then blasting, following up by paint. I also started work on the wood rimmed steering wheel that came with my truck. There was only 3/4 of the rim present so the wood was removed, the bends removed from the metal, a crack welded up, everything blasted and the remains carted home for painting. Now I have to figure out how to make a suitable new wood rim and fit it to the spokes. Some planning, thinking scheming and a bit of luck might make the first try useable, otherwise I'll have to say that it was a deliberate trial run and make sure the next one is better. I doubt that I'll be steaming and bending the rim, more likely finger jointing 8 segments together into an octagon followed by router and hand work to form a ring, then add finger grips and finally join the result to the hub and spokes. The originals were painted, so if I paint mine no-one will see that it was joined instead of bent.

I think it will be Saturday at the barn for Bob and me, hopefully for you too Rob.

[Bob Carriere]

......yes Joyce is working on Saturday so I have a day pass.

Probably Sunday as well but not a full day......

Rob you lucky stiff you missed our -29 F***n Celsius degrees of last nite.

Spring will be here by Saturday and Sunday with rain on Monday.....

I now need to make new shifting rods///// either pre threaded or cut my one threads on blank rods.... will photograph and post for next week.

BooB

[RHClarke]

The past few weeks saw the Hammond Trio fighting the ravages of Mother Nature including her most evil of weapons - SNOW (hey! it's a four letter word...).

How much snow? So much that weekly shelter cleaning is a must.


Where are the global warmers when you really need them?

Bob tended to the yard clean up:


I tended to the roof of the old barn:


Access was easy:


Lunchtime interrupted the clearning operation. There was some "eye-popping" new talent serving slop at Chez Maries! Lunch went by way too fast, eh, Bob?

After lunch we worked on fixing the hole in my sliding hatch cover.




Some welding and clean up is required, but this is when my leave pass expired...

[Grant Bowker]

I'm just glad we don't have to resort to these methods at the barn, at least so far.

Unless you are a masochist, the only way to get into the feilds of dreams is by snowshoe. Once you got to the field, I don't know how much you'd see sticking out of the snow. Bare chassis would be invisible and most trucks would probably be little more than a few corners sticking out of the snow pile.....

I've been watching as this snow pile grew during the winter. They started by just dumping the truck loads. As space became scarcer, they pushed the snow up into a heap using a bulldozer. Now they've run out of space for simple measures and are using excavators to lift the snow from one level to the next and then to the next. It will be several months before the ground gets back into sight from under the pile. No perspective tricks were used, in fact the pile starts several hundred feet behind the bus. These are real excavators as well, not the toys used by landscapers.

[Mike Timoshyk]

Hey Grant!

Want to get away from all the snow...there is none down here in Sunny Windsor...oh ya bring enuf dot dash dot plate for a master cylinder access hole...red wine comes wit the board.

cheers

Mike BTW Nice work!!!

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

Lunchtime interrupted the clearning operation. There was some "eye-popping" new talent serving slop at Chez Maries! Lunch went by way too fast, eh, Bob?