1.5 inches of rain

[solarman216]

worked all day again today, fully dredged and widened the stream no time for pics plus not wanting to handle camera while all muddy, will take some pics tomorrow of job so far, knackered now so early night, Rick

 

[Sweety]

Glad you've managed to sort the stream out & hopefully the work will stop it happening again:thumbs

 

[AlexD333]

Blimey, sound intense still.

Hopefully this work being carried out now will be a future proof preventative measure to ensure the water cannot reach your land

Fingers crossed it all goes well for you!

 

[solarman216]

this is my gate, 9.30 Thursday am the water was running 2 inches over the top of the 1ft board on the bottom of the gate, the flow was coming from the right hand side as the culvert under the farmers road was blocked, with what was coming out from each end of the gate it resulted in a 2 to 3 inch layer of water flooding down my road, you can see how clean it is, not often it is seem like this,

 

[solarman216]

this is the stream as seen from the orange pipe in pic 1 , after we dredged it yesterday

 

[solarman216]

looking back up towards the gate

 

[solarman216]

the water level in here covered the yellow mig welder, have not stripped it yet to see if it will recover, my DC clamp meter has survived after stripping washing and drying still got lots of other bits of kit to test and sort yet, but priority is to get a couple of loads of sub base in and laid while the road is still clean, Rick

 

[jonela]

My mouth is watering already, did you get your screen in OK, Rick

Yes thanks Rick , What a task ! Took me all week end ,I have just been putting the trim back on this morning. I will post it in a thread later on . John

 

[AlexD333]

Crap dude that's terrible news....

Possibly a terrible suggestion but get the wood burner going in the workshop to dry all the damp out perhaps?

 

[solarman216]

not something I would leave burning unattended, and it would make little difference anyway, but nice thought, Rick

 

[kitchenman]

Is that an Oxford arc welder I see in the workshop?
I have still got one of those, still going strong

 

[solarman216]

Is that an Oxford arc welder I see in the workshop?
I have still got one of those, still going strong

the blue oil filled jobbie, then yes (no name plate on it so did not know) fantastic stick welder run at high amps all day long, welded my 45ft narrow boat with that well over 200 mtrs of high amp weld, hardly used now though have little call for stick now, Rick

 

[kitchenman]

Sounds like the one, I will send a pic of mine later, I think it says Oxford on it. I have had it from new, not done a lot of work, I guess less than 50 hours, I bought it for a specific job, like a lot of stuff I have comes in handy now and then