Friday, 29 May 2009

a fairground life(rice pudding)

I left at 7am to get the first loads into Drymen. "r" is in Poland with uni pals so "m" an I are doing it all. The Skydiver was in Drymen for 9am. At 12pm we started to get set. After an hour we had the skydiver stuck just off the path. 2 hours later the tractor arrived to tow it. It managed to pull it back 20 ft to clear the path. The ride was now building up as landed, 45 degrees facing the wrong way. Next we tried to get the DZ in. The tractor towed it in but only 20ft in and it sank. The wheels were not even turning just dragging like a sledge. The tractor could not tow it out again but we got it out using a 6 wheeler on the path. With the dz out we changed angle and tried to come in down the hill. Again at 40ft in the ride sank, the tractor could not pull it in or drag it out, again a 6 wheeler on the path JUST managed to pull it out (after we dug the mud out from the front of the wheels). That was it we took it right out, end of for that ride. "d" tried to put the energy storm in on boards. It smashed thru them and promptly sunk. During all this I did get the skydiver built up but will have to do some gardening today. The ground is like a rice pudding, hard crust with mushy centre. At 8pm I brought the dz back to the yard last night, "d" is getting tracking today for the energy storm, I've had enough no dz this year.

4 Comments:

At 29 May 2009 at 15:03 , Anonymous borderer said...

good day showman hope drymen ground gets dry with this good weather weve been seeing today get the ground toughened up was at hawick last night "d" energy storm not there but "b" twister in its place. when drymen start showman how much you want for the dz lol. cheers borderer. hope all regs well blakey you have to go ahead yet to try your luck getting onto drymen.

 
At 29 May 2009 at 19:47 , Anonymous blakey said...

It took five hours to do two hours work but managed to get all my gear in to drymen. Not got everything on normal plots,but needs must and big d did well to get the fair looking not to bad despite all the problems. Showman was certainly not the only one to build up where he landed. I had a tractor on the blakeymobile again today.It's not in strait,but it will do. I was lucky as couple of showman had to do what showman did yesterday. Their lorry's were too heavy to reach their plots,and had to give up and go home. It's ironic because it was scorching today,and is to be same again tomorrow. It just came too late to dry the ground out in time.

 
At 30 May 2009 at 15:23 , Blogger jesters said...

Weather looking good for drymen. Unfortunatly i am still indoors! So it has killed it for me. Shame the dz had to return to base, better that than get it stuck totally. Finally got the bearing on the large trailer done today. Wee trailer moved today to a farmer friend of mine so its closer to next sat event. Washed and parked up it towed fine so the winter hasnt done too much harm. Hope the other one moves this sat coming without any hassle.
Also praying it stays this warm for the next few months. All the best to the regulars. Let us know how you guys get on at drymen!

 
At 31 May 2009 at 09:42 , Anonymous borderer said...

good day all showman, blakey hows buis at drymen and hows the ground more to the point. what a cracker of a weekend hopefully that pulled the punters in to spend a few pounds.cheers borderer.

 

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