Weeting
 

Visited yesterday and managed to stay dry. Good show with lots of action/movement from the steam boys. Shame about Sentinal 8827 being unable to attend. The Tiger looked very smart, unlike it's shirtless driver. Personally I don't think I'd drive an engine without a shirt for safety reasons.
However, some pictures of the day.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Marina1886.jpg
Belting Burrell 1244 Marina to the stone crusher.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ll26931904.jpg
Burrell 2693 was still sheeted whe I left at 2.30.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...nought1907.jpg
Burrell 2948 Dreadnought was busy all day with the impressive threshing set.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Mary1920-1.jpg
Burrell 3833 Queen Mary looks so fine in its working clothes

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...emarie1930.jpg
Burrell 4088 Rosemarie in picturesque setting in the woodsawing area.

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Fowler 11421 The Countess with a pair of impressive traction wagons.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...eTiger1920.jpg
Fowler 15629 The Tiger positively gleams in the sun.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...iger1920-1.jpg
As above

That will do for now.

Any news on trouble in the beer tent Saturday night?

Personally I wouldn't have a problem with doing so. I also regualrly wear short sleeves on an engine.

I've seen comments regarding this on TT before. Stood on a traction engine, the boiler is beneath you, the bit most likely to burn and scald is the gauge glass. It is at shin height. For that reason I would not wear shorts, having burned my knee badly once sheeting an engine up after I had changed into shorts for a balmy evening.

Is this ''it is dangerous'' manure a railway thing?, where the crew are stood behind a boiler with the gague frames at arm and head height?.

Has Queen Mary had a larger dynamo fitted since removal from Vivs yard?

I think it's also about having some protection on your arms in order to be able to isolate a gauge glass - though of course this depends on how you go about doing it?
I always have a jacket handy to chuck over a broken glass to block some of the steam for this purpose.

Conversely, I've seen people on railway locomotive footplates stripped to the waste on hot days - totally useless if a glass went - they'd never get near it.

By the looks of it yes, Queen Mary has been fitted with a bigger dynamo. The body is certainly a different one to the old one.

http://www.steamscenes.org.uk/tth/09/DSC_3758.jpg

To pinch one of David's photos from another thread.

Confirms its had a bigger dynamo fitted

Also different to this one
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...31FUJI0247.jpg

did mr parretts new burrell turn up if so any picts

as regards to the above, not as far as i could see, and yes its now using Ex-mayors old dynamo, as its still blue with all its gold leaf. was a good 3 days and were off again next year

It was me that commented previously. A railway thing if you like, but water at 150c and upwards flashing into steam and then vapourising won't just pick on your shins- honest. If you are supremely confident in the integrity of any restrictors and balls in the frames, then take the risk, but if not, please reconsider. A glass rarely gives notice of its intentions so it is a shock when it happens. So many accidents have happened as a knock on of the Driver nursing injuries, so not being able to attend to his duties. Remember, a protector often acts as a deflector, spreading the good news around the footplate and if you don't have backplates, the shards of glass get everywhere. Boring Vern.