Tag: hydraulics

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SAP Maintenance

Set alarm for

Booked into SAP back beginning of June to get the Jacks and the VB Semi air checked over as been on for 2 years.

Set alarm for 05:00 so that time to wake up, have tea etc… before leaving just after 06:00. Set of perfect traffic light to Lincoln and virtually all the way especially round Doncaster.

Arrived SAP bang on 08:00 got through gates and currently waiting whilst they finish off a van to make room. Always the same but normally do not care as we are not waiting.l, but today we are waiting and waiting. We should be away by 10:30, as along away by 11:30 my karma will not be broken.

Darren, popped his head round the door saying ‘… you’re right the leg has moved so we need to fix, where are your batteries?’. This simple query was easily answered and after emptying garage and showing them the battery store. I asked why? We have to do some welding,. WHAT!!!

At midday Darren appears and explains all done and ready to repack garage. So they checked the Jacks, refitted one jack to chasis which required welding, change seals on 2 jacks, check oil level and checked the semi Air, cost 0.00.

Trip home was uneventful other than Royal mail failed to deliver a parcel, so we have to collect from Horncastle PO, as they cannot press a doorbell.

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Setthorns, 24th Feb

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Wanted to visit New Forest to get a tree fix, so booked into Setthorns. This time we booked a standard pitch with EHU, not a Select pitch. The pitches are smaller as such harder to get level on, we managed but did for the first time park up somewhere we could not get level with the hydraulics, we moved.

We also had a look around and decided that Select pitch next time.

Saturday, walked about 6 miles to the pub and back, Geza managed it but was tired. When we got back a caravan alarm was going off turns out it was the one next door, nothing untoward but quite annoying, we decided not to move and they did come back under the cover of darkness.

As it turns out the walk was a bit too much for Geza and when we got back home we ended up taking him to the vet, after offering to put him to sleep which we declined we took home with some Antibiotics and pain killers. He did not move or drink/eat anything for about 36 hours, by this time we had been back to the vet and they gave him an anti nauseum injection whihc did not help. Tuesday morning after deciding if no improvement we would put him to rest, he seemed to perk up and almost back to normal. Much weaker but still quite alert.