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AA family cover £209, it's 4 person not vehicle specific. Think NFU still throw in green flag as part of their commercial insurance.

She had sausage last night.

yes there's a dilemma in that during the nesting season if you have enough cattle to trample the bracken you increase the chances of trampling eggs I suppose. The nesting season is the only opportunity to cut and collect the bracken.

I have cover for the Landrover as an option with the insurance, lot cheaper than a year of AA and AA/RAC were funny about old vehicles. Luckily haven't tested the quality of service.

Was going to add sausage?

Going forward, I need to organise this, who do you use or recommend? I got a Disco 4 and a toy car. So I'd go personal rather than vehicle based. I did wonder about a family policy but there are 4 addresses for us all!

To be fair the one in the photo on the Farming UK article looks a bit overwhelmed as well ! They do make the point though it is a long term solution which relies on numbers trampling the bracken as much as eating it .

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Yes, I understand that, amazed the bit(s) didn’t leave a single mark left on its way, but if that’s what experience says then I’ll check the brgs. Maybe I’ll find some damage in the bottom end if/when I end up splitting the cases. My blow-by question was relating to the black on the crank weights. Same shade of black as the carbon deposits on the piston skirt above and below the ring. Which is combustion gas getting past the ring. (Piston hasn’t been hot enough to cook the oil). Thanks for your reply’s.

Warm dry summer elevated the aphid population hugely-for the ladybirds that meant lots of food, lots of procreation and lots of babies ! Malthusian population model in action

You can aspire to better than that.

This lot are great. Like a much easier 65daysofstatic and a much better Sigur Rós.

Galloways have been used on all of Surrey Wildlife trusts sites for about 20 years and there are about half a dozen on the site in question. They don't seem to have much effect on bracken. The are using the gps neck collars on their Chobham common reserve which is much bigger.

Well storm Amy settled entirely by 9am this morning and it was a t-shirt day thereafter, gorgeous. Saw some proper Mackerel clouds this morning in the yard. And not a bad sunset on the Moor either.

I meant in a Dempsey strap kind of way.

Have a Snickers, Dave. You're not you when you're hungry. I'm simply advising learning the industry best practice first to get the fundamentals right. You're not naive enough to believe I've gone my whole career by the book. I'm a freelance climber first and foremost. The problem with dogmatic people like the OP is that they'll simply pick the advice that suits their opinion. Everyone does to some extent.

Noticed a lot around lately too. A good excuse to tell anyone that'll listen what I recently heard about the summer of '76.

Tease.

Same here in upland Brecon Beacons, hardly seen a ladybird all year, today hundreds. What's going on?

Duh.

I've got some rings knotted on double braid. Is it as strong or as neat as a splice? No but I can tie knots and see they're still there. And the price was right. I can't splice double braid. Or rather I never have. Also have some spliced onto three strand, which I can splice and was happy to because you can see the strands holding. By yourself or not, rigging from the tree is mega useful. Sometimes the groundsman is useless, sometimes he's gone to chip up or shoot up. Sometimes you'll want to drift a piece onto the main system, or catch a butt. Or even sometimes you can run another down on a crotch before they've untied the last one on the main system. Or or or. The friction up top thing is less about protecting a weak rigging point (you can do that better by triangulating with predirects™ and redirects) and more about spreading it about being just nice. Reg Coates has a video on youtube explaining why he likes rings. The fact you can drop the rope and it won't zip up to the top of the tree is a good start. I use the 16mm Marlow in your link. There's nothing illegal about running it through pulleys and rings too. It might trouble Joe and his catalogue model mates though.