(14-06-2024, 09:27 AM)JJB Wrote: Nature and I are going to fall out big time. Yesterday I found a squirrel in the fruit cage happily eating strawberries. It had chewed holes in the plastic net which I then mended and reinforced with chicken wire. I set a humane trap last night and checked it this morning. He'd only chewed another hole, avoided the trap and escaped. As it is I've reinforced all round  the bottom 8" of the net with wire mesh in previous years.  Today's job, if rain allows, is top reinforce a further 8" around the bottom, although the first holes were chest height so that might not be a solution.  Some big birds are pecking off the heads of my French marigolds too. The other strawberry patch was decimated by mice, so much so I'm considering digging them out and not bothering. 

I'm disheartened. 

(14-06-2024, 12:19 PM)Vinny Wrote: Yesterday I made a start at recommisioning the Fergi! It hasn't ran for at least six months so I thought I would need to invest in a new battery. I was very surprised when I turned the key that the ignition light came on so I decided to remove the battery and charge it up. It's now charged and seems fine. I wil refit battery today then drain the tank of manky petrol and after adding fresh petrol,and hopefully a bit of tinkering, will get her fired up!  Weather permitting of course as it has just started raining and thunderstorms are forecast!

(14-06-2024, 01:06 PM)JJB Wrote:

(14-06-2024, 12:19 PM)Vinny Wrote: Yesterday I made a start at recommisioning the Fergi! It hasn't ran for at least six months so I thought I would need to invest in a new battery. I was very surprised when I turned the key that the ignition light came on so I decided to remove the battery and charge it up. It's now charged and seems fine. I wil refit battery today then drain the tank of manky petrol and after adding fresh petrol,and hopefully a bit of tinkering, will get her fired up!  Weather permitting of course as it has just started raining and thunderstorms are forecast!

What do you plan to do with the Fergi once it starts up?

(15-06-2024, 05:05 PM)Vinny Wrote:

(14-06-2024, 01:06 PM)JJB Wrote:

(14-06-2024, 12:19 PM)Vinny Wrote: Yesterday I made a start at recommisioning the Fergi! It hasn't ran for at least six months so I thought I would need to invest in a new battery. I was very surprised when I turned the key that the ignition light came on so I decided to remove the battery and charge it up. It's now charged and seems fine. I wil refit battery today then drain the tank of manky petrol and after adding fresh petrol,and hopefully a bit of tinkering, will get her fired up!  Weather permitting of course as it has just started raining and thunderstorms are forecast!

What do you plan to do with the Fergi once it starts up?

The best laid plans of mice and men dictated that the big fire up wasn't about to happen! After coupling up the battery,stopping the petrol at the tap and washing out the glass bowl the carburettor decided it was going to leak from the choke flap! I have ordered a carburettor gasket kit but I am unsure whether this will cure my problem. I then spent an hour disconnecting the carburetteor from allt he pipes and linkages, took itinside and gave it a good clean down ready for when the gasket set arrives. If I can get it sorted I should be able travel to the allotments a couple of miles away(it is road legal) and sort out any little niggles that rear there ugly head! Once sorted I can take it fishing which is abut a 10 mile trip.