david wood
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whatever boots you get make sure they are goretex lined, makes for much happier days - my biggest pet hate in life is cold wet feet
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love dead elms - amazing firewood once seasoned a lil. just finished splitting 3 tons of it and wow theres been some hard bits but sure will be nice come winter
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definetly worth taking to an expert, my last hard drive died big style and i thought i had lost all files - couple hrs later i got 99% back.
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I burn about 10 - 15 trailer loads a year, have done for the last 14 years here and must have burnt about 2 trailer loads of hardwood in the last 10 years - never been cold yet! Supply my mum with any hardwood i can get my hands on so she burns pretty much the oppisite of me year on year and she never been cold yet. So can only take from that both do the same job - nice cosy houses.
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roasted alive here in banchory, 27c. been roasting since real early on in morning! Managed to dodge doing a huge bonfire - way way too hot for that.
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type c as you know for assement, and then save for the coldest days in winter. type a the rest of the time for comfort, its what i do.
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well we taken a hammering today in banchory, aberdeenshire. Had to give up on the mewp work at half one when limbs of trees started coming past! Place is hammered. going to take an age to tidy up, lots of split conifers down, most lumps around 40 - 50 feet in length. old 266 going to get a nice workout tommorow clearing the trees off drive. pain in the rear cause we got a mewp on hire for mon, tues, wed to do some hedge cutting.
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yep its the b3030. about year and half old now. costs us plenty to service and maintain and got quite a few design issues, i think the stupidest being if you open the side windows at all then cab fills up with debris off the rear wheels cause they protrude well outside the arches. drives me nuts cleaning windows when somebody opens them, and its horribly unstable on slopes, had a lot of scares. just needs to be a bit better and it would be lovely machine.
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The lil toy kubota i drive at work shifting some of the firewood from a lump of abies that blew down. Load was a touch heavy but didnt want to go back for 2nd trip - not on public roads
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for doing jobs like that, although i have never done one just lots and lots of spraying i would want to use a nomix controlled droplet aplicator. do the whole lot with one 5 litre pack of concentrate easily (dont qoute me on that) . carry 2nd battery and off you go. we got one last year at work and its transformed the spraying. i used to need 8 knapsacks to do one circuit of all car park edges so lots of weight in water, lots of time off refilling etc. now a couple of hrs walking and job done - i love it to bits!
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felco 2's for me, only on my second set in 18 years and thats only cause some sod nicked first set
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between my friends, brother and myself we have gone through a lot of drills - usually cheaper ones. Now the only thing i would recommend to anyone is the makita lxt kit. 18 volts li ion batterys, make sure its the 3amp stuff. Completely bombproof. Not the most perfect hammer for drilling into granite but for that i bought one of the makita hammer sds plus drills, eats granite like it aint there with decent drill bits. So makita - makita and makita for sure.
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would normally agree how amazing the landys are - but mine is suffering from weeing its self today and in garage getting repaired. The rear diff flange seal has let go after a month of getting done at mot time. So whole new flange this time to cure it - garage being really good with a deal on the work. Oh and its getting chipped hopefully on tues - got offered a nice price on an autologic download which gives about 50 more hp and about same in torque so should make towing a lil gentler on it as i wont be working it quite so hard. Davie
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at the risk of seeming stupid - its late and i have had a drink or two pretty sure the 300 tdi's didnt have any form of a chip/ecu, could just screw the pump up a lil to get some more power. But i am soooooo likely to be wrong and learn something new here.
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Hey Tommer, Yeah i think my cooling system was a lil past its best - along with rest of car sadly. Worst was a mate who ignored a tiny lil coolant loss on an old 300tdi with over 150k on clock, result one head in scrap pile as i belive the 300's use an alloy head so cant take heat the same. my thoughts were kinda just dont push to limits on long hills if you even suspect cooling system a tiny bit - gets expensive quick. The transfer box uses disco gears, got from ashcrofts (brilliant service) so does uprate low and hi ratios. davie
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Hi and welcome to arbtalk. The 300tdi defender is a lovely tow car, just watch the temp gauge carefully if towing a heavy load - they hate being overheated more than anything! I would personally stick to no more than 12 foot, but prefer 10 foot lengths in a trailer, i find my current 10 by 6 foot 6 trailer fully laden to be plenty of a load if not a lil too much for a 2003 td5 defender. On steep long climbs i find it sitting in third gear, although i have swopped to a discovery transfer box so a approx 25% increase in gearing. I have no idea on trailer/crane combos since never used one. I would be looking at towing no more than 3 tons very very max to save risking overheating, ensuring the radiator is in good condition first (can you tell i blew a rad towing uphill loaded once).
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just gone up here in banchory to £1.34.9 per litre - this sucks!
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if i were many many miles closer i would buy that lot no bother - split and dry for next winter no bother. Shame its so far away
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samsung b2100 - definetly a great phone
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having just gone from a 340 as my own saw, and using a 351 at work i would definetly say get the 357 - its an amazing saw and an excellent price from fr jones
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done, my answers can be duplicated for two households except the age part.
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yep same here, distance or else would have the lot. Same as lawson cypress stems from a hedge, burnt a lot of it this winter
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Having had two hernias now i feel your pain - although the bad news is it does get worse.....after both ops some very delicate parts swelled up to try and impersinate beach balls. All good now though, just cant wear trousers with a belt and bend over at same time as it presses on scar tissue from 2nd op. Definetly do the swimming. Oh and laxitives could be your friend for a few days after op,,,,some functions decide to slow down massively.
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I think now in total between other half, family and friends we have at least 15 pairs and not a single complaint! The wooly hats also went down a treat this winter
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we have a kubota b3030 at work and although it starts so far every day in the cold its the most god awful tractor known to man in terms of the front loader, even if its just zero or minus 2 -3, let alone the minus 15 we got. The controls for the loader inside the cab are connected to two cables that pass out to the valve block and freeze solid. takes a good 20 - 40 minutes sitting in the shed on idle to that out before you can move the loader in any way. So have learned to park it with loader off the ground so at least tractor can be used or moved out of shed at least. Was the same all last winter and had kubota dealer out to look at it a few times and theres no solution apart from take the sheath the cables run in off or cut hole at lowest point to let any condensation drain out. Definetly a tractor that needs a heated shed/tropical climate.
