hi fellow windies. just a quick posting here for you all to be aware of, this morning when my neighbour called for a blether (chat) i noticed a different tone of noise from my bee wind, and as we stood looking up at it we noticed it was not moving on its swivel mount, the snow and sleet from the blizzards had frozen the pipe over pipe swivel, and she was at about a 45 degree angle to the wind, and really swaying the pole on ever gust of wind. so just watch your wee ameteks and make sure they are free to seek out the wind, it took a good crack from a lump hammer to free her this morning.
lump hammer is your basic middle of the road implament highly portable not quite as dainty as the manchester screwdriver (carpenter hammer) but not quite a sledgus maximus or "sledgie" often used to put vent holes in shippen walls modify cars for oval racing and delicate surgically precise "give it a whack" type situations