Rare, precious bass

[rwillett]

Possibly overpriced by 100x

 

https://ebay.us/m/ffFDAS

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Si600]

Or for the same price, seven bags of this stuff...

 

https://nenevalleyfirewood.co.uk/product/kiln-dried-economy-firewood/?srsltid=AfmBOoqmVox3yrPuzTfRn4cnfIkTHh-8RvfEOLL1q3kJcjXFF_yenBh1

[rwillett]

Hi @Si600

 

And I know which is far more usable. I could probably cobble together a better bass from the firewood than the bass for sale. I'm going to watch it just to see if any fool is parted from his money. 

 

Also as there is a discount on three bags or more I could probably get half a bag or so extra. 

[Si600]

38 minutes ago, rwillett said:

Hi @Si600

 

And I know which is far more usable. I could probably cobble together a better bass from the firewood than the bass for sale. I'm going to watch it just to see if any fool is parted from his money. 

 

Also as there is a discount on three bags or more I could probably get half a bag or so extra. 

Delivery cost from Daventry to North Yorkshire would be a bugger though, you may not get the extra half bag.

[rwillett]

That's very true. 

 

I used to drive up the A1 regularly and would always stop near the Nene Valley railway as it was a pit half way from London to York.  Never had the opportunity to go on it. I do become a little boy when near a steam engine. No idea why as they had long gone when I was younger. 

 

 

[Si600]

I know why I do....

 

   

 

I can thank my dad

[rwillett]

When I was 7-8, my best friends dad used to make steam engines, He'd do everything including making the tiny nuts and bolts. It could take him 10-12 years in his little shed and little lathe.

 

His last project was a flat four engine based on the original engine that was supposed to go in the Morris Minor. The engine that did go in was a more normal straight and upright four. This is why the engine bay in an old Morris Minor is so wide and why you could drop a somewhat large engine in to play with, you needed to upgrade the mounts but a small V8 has been made to fit. 

 

This useless fact was brought to you by Car Nerds 2025  

 

Rob

Edited yesterday at 10:30 by rwillett

[Si600]

 

I'm not sure you'd be allowed to a) run live steam down a road at a village fete with only a rope pinned to bales as a safety barrier or b) allow 11 year olds to drive said train, with paying passengers.  I loved it mind you

[rwillett]

Seems perfectly acceptable to me... 

 

I live in a small village in the Dales, sometimes it feels like the village that time forgot. In fact you can see my village here in this YouTube video from 1962. Apart from the cars, it looks exactly the same. I live just before the house that you can see the side off on the right., One of our gateposts can be seen, but not the house. Just about everything else is identical, though the trees are 60 years older and taller. 

 

 

[Si600]

Oooo, I've been there.  We went up t' top o' Ingleborough one holiday.

 

None of this is relevant to a firewood bass though  

Edited yesterday at 12:37 by Si600

[rwillett]

Did you get issued a mandatory flat cap and t'ferret?

 

We will get back on track though

Rob

[alyctes]

We moved to Horton in Ribblesdale when I was two.  Then to Burton in Lonsdale from the age of three to the year I was ten.