The Wagon has spent the winter in my friend Jacko's barn. It has had an MOT and quite a lot of work doing to it by vintage car mechanic Colin Shail. The springs were repaired, the front turn table realigned, the axel realigned and the frame refited, the breaks were reajusted and new nuts and bolts everywhere they had rusted. A big job - poor Black Jack Louis had not only been carting round nearly a tonne of weight but it was running - unbeknownst to me - very dangerously. A warning to all fellow pikeys: GET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT MECHANICS TO CHECK OUT YOUR WAGON!
So with the weather looking good and Easter encroaching it - spring is in the air - BJL has his shoes on and the wagon is ship shape, I am formulating a plan to get back on the road.
BJL is near Pewsey and the wagon is near Ogbourne St George - so on good friday I will walk BJL up the Ridgeway which joins perfectly horse and wagon.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment