Weeting

[YYS4BOB]

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.


Belting Burrell 1244 Marina to the stone crusher.


Burrell 2693 was still sheeted whe I left at 2.30.


Burrell 2948 Dreadnought was busy all day with the impressive threshing set.


Burrell 3833 Queen Mary looks so fine in its working clothes


Burrell 4088 Rosemarie in picturesque setting in the woodsawing area.


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


Fowler 15629 The Tiger positively gleams in the sun.


As above

That will do for now.

[SDSPS]

Any news on trouble in the beer tent Saturday night?

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

Originally Posted by YYS4BOB

Personally I don't think I'd drive an engine without a shirt for safety reasons.

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?.

[SDSPS]

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

[Stirling]

Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner

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?.

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.

[Lancashire Lad]

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.



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

Confirms its had a bigger dynamo fitted

[mark lewis]

Also different to this one

[Gjudge]

did mr parretts new burrell turn up if so any picts

[millsie]

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

[Vern]

Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner

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?.

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.