eggsarascal

A certain age.

2 hours ago, Will C said:

Good trip eggs? 

Wound the jacks down about an hour ago… sigh of relief…

58 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Is this for work mate, or have you moved again?

The yard I’ve been renting was coming to an end at the end of this month so I had to get out, few phone calls and there’s some work Essex/Kent. Although I’m a Stokie through n through it’s a shitehole, had no trouble but glad to see the back of it. East Anglia is where I feel settled.

Rig pulled together, over towing capacity but it is a Sunday, fingers crossed! You 

Late one night, a burglar broke into a house he thought was empty. He tiptoed through the living room but suddenly he froze in his tracks when he heard a loud voice say: "Jesus is watching you!"
Silence returned to the house, so the burglar crept forward again. "Jesus is watching you," the voice boomed again.
The burglar stopped dead again. He was frightened. Frantically, he looked all around. In a dark corner, he spotted a bird cage and in the cage was a parrot.
He asked the parrot: "Was that you who said Jesus is watching me?"
"Yes", said the parrot.
The burglar breathed a sigh of relief, and asked the parrot: "What's your name?"
"Moses," said the bird.
"That's a dumb name for a parrot," sneered the burglar. "What idiot named you Moses?"
 The parrot said, "The same idiot who named the Rottweiler Jesus."

2 hours ago, Botty Cough said:

Bullshods van insurance is the same written or not and magnets are for pikeys.

What a croc, the lass I’m kicking about with is an insurance broker, with her company, and many other insurance companies there is a 10-15% uplift for sign written vans. As for magnetic signs being for pikeys I don’t think I’ve ever read such nonsense, I can’t remember the last time I saw a traveller with magnetic signs, and I mix with quite a few. 
 

Some of us don’t have any option, well, we do but I wouldn’t get the subby work I get if my van was sign written.

6 minutes ago, AHPP said:

@eggsarascal

Do keep up. 

When did you get him/her?

Picked up a Peugeot Bipper this afternoon, 09 plate 75k on the clock, timing belt done 4k miles ago, full service history. I’m going to put a new clutch in it on Monday, it will come with 12 months ticket. £1750-£2k depending on what it needs, if anything, when it goes in for the MOT. 

4 hours ago, AHPP said:

It's particular to your circumstances. If you're only ever going to take a climbing kit and top handle, then yeah, whatever car and a trailer for wood. People carriers are a bit taller, which is nice. At the other end of the scale is that bloke in the converted fire engine with thirty saws on board and god knows what else. I've just about outgrown a MWB high roof van but only because I preserve bed space and skidsteer space in there. As a pure tool van, SWB low roof would be fine. 3.5 saws plus spare bars, 3.5 climbing systems plus spare stuff, 3.5 rigging systems plus spare stuff, Hobbs, GRCS, petrol capstan, tool bag, 20 litres Motomix, 20 litres unleaded, probably a can of unleaded mix, axes, poles, bag of tongs, wedges, tape etc. Lot of tat and I still have to fit my dog and my ego in the cab. 

What dog is this?

10 minutes ago, scbk said:

It's a mk6 transit so 20 odd years old, probably rotten.

 

My mate had a photo of his renault master, newer than this, with the body in a similar position, it ripped off by the hinges! (rust) Lufew ckily for him he was tipping at home so saved a red face of it happening in public 

Funnily enough I tried to palm a MK6 Transit tipper off on Bolam the other day.

He politely told me to go forth…

When the boss man says, go to tip off, I’m not sure this was what he meant. I 

I decided it would be a good idea to fall off my mates crosser a while back, I didn’t plan on almost leaving my little finger behind, Arnica cream seems to soothe it a little, but it can be a right face puller if a catch it wrong.

A-Plan, now Howden insurance work well for me. I’ve got my van, tipper, camper, and box with them. Not had to claim off them but their reviews seem good. 

2 hours ago, GarethM said:

It's the exhaust 

I realise that, unusual to see one fitted not on a boat.

15 hours ago, Peasgood said:

Wires are a bit scruffy as they are fitted to a spare battery, in the process of running a wire to the next room (where the heat goes) and connect to the battery bank in there. That is charged off solar and runs all the other stuff in there such as lights, pc, printers and labelling machines.

No fuel filter fitted as the one supplied wasn't sealed so no fuel could get through, will fit one when it arrives.

2m exhaust going through a bulkhead/thru-hull fitting. Designed to go through boat hulls and is double skinned. Goes through the door because I didn't want it through the wall, it is an insulated cavity wall with brick on the outside and didn't want to put a hole in it. 2m exhaust should be cool enough by time it gets to the wooden door. There are lots of doors and I don't use this one.

Fittings holding the exhaust were what I had lying around from a previous project involving water pipe.

Hole in wall for heating is just a single block wall into the next room, hole in that doesn't matter to me. Heater the other side of wall from where I would normally be working to give less intrusive noise although with the radio on it's not an issue anyway. Would be different if it was where I wanted to sleep.

Put fitting into top of tank asI reckoned less likely to get leaks than a failing connector in the bottom. It works fine.

I was wondering what the skin fitting was about, have you thought about ducting the air inlet into the part of the shed you are heating to recirculate the already heated air?

I’ve not got one in my present box as I’m waiting for the Hcalory 2kw to come out, although I did read a week or two ago that it isn’t going to happen now. In my last box I ran my Maxpeedingrods day and night all through winter with no issues, as did many other people I know or speak to. I realise they are cheap knockoffs of the German heaters but after all they are night heaters. I’ve often wondered if my insurance would pay out if my box went up in flames due to one of these heaters, I guess I know the answer! I’ve never heard of one going up in flames.

Have you got a picture of your setup?

Saw this on a Facebook group near where I used to live in Suffolk earlier, couldn’t let it pass me by. Roll on!

2 hours ago, Peasgood said:

I got one for my shed, arrived earlier this week and got it fitted and fired up by this morning.

Runs on red and uses very little, been on all day and used a litre maybe. Does throw out nice warm air but my shed is too big for it to ever get hot in there.

Way too much heat goes out through the exhaust and it really needs to go through a household radiator or something to get more out of it.

Shed was 3°C and is now 8°C. Doesn't sound great but it is full of bottles of apple juice which act like a massive thermal sink. Got to warm all them up before it gets warm. Don't really want it too warm but it's too cold to be working in there at the mo.

The problem I have in there is the bottles get very cold during this weather and then when it warms up they get condensation on them. Bloody nightmare trying to get labels to stick onto a wet glass bottle!

Plenty of videos on YouTube showing heat recovery from the exhaust to heat a radiator.

7 hours ago, scbk said:

I fitted a brand new eberspacher d2 to a van years ago, that thing was about £800! And a fair bit of work to get a feed from the main fuel tank.

 

 

Got one of the cheap chinese heaters for the house, still not got round to doing a proper heating system. Got a woodburner in the lounge but it's not enough when it's sub zero.

Removed a disused vent and put two 4" stainless pipes through the wall for the warm air and return to the heater, and some plastic waste pipe for cables.

Extended the wires on the controller/display so that is inside the house.

The battery is an old lorry battery, 12v 220ah as I have a few lying about. Charger is inside with an extended cable going out.

 

Still needs a bit of fiddling round ie try and insulate the air pipes a bit more.

Tin cans can be used as joiners/adaptors for the 75mm ducting, and to get the exhaust through wood

Fuel tank is 5l but only about 4l is usable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can buy insulated ducting for not a lot of money, recirculating the warm air, as you have is the way to go, makes the heater much more efficient.

11 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Not yet mate, got to have a sort out in the workshop first.

Temperature will be back in double figures first.

Did ya get one, Bolam?

Believe me, I’ve been there. unless you are big time or processing arb arisings it’s a lot of work for small profit. Much easier ways to make a living.

29 minutes ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

I can say more if you work full time you can’t have Malinator they very attached to humans as most of them ,but working lines of any breed must have human attention in big hours , take herding Colle or Aussie as example they  always with there colleague farmer or close to  herd , put them in to the back garden and it’s over it will be maddest dog ever,,or hunting lines of a spaniel, or husky, I grow with husky’s they can run from Dawn till Dusk and have live span of 20 years , so much energy and drive to run run run run, how can somebody put that in to back garden or lock it in the room , ofcorse dog will go mad and become a killer of sofa or worst a child. Anyone wanting a friend should go to shelter and foster a dog first just to understand what that mean , and if some one thinks that dog can protect him in reality he is delusional ,there is very few dogs who can do this and it is lots of training otherwise it’s like giving charged double barrel to 3 years old and most of the time those dogs will turn agains owner family members usually kids that’s is the nature of the dog flock mentality as example we have no guest with small kids at all ,cause Eva will try discipline them and usually will chase them to the room corner and will keep them there  I did spend 2years trying correct that with no results ,and I am very experienced she know 30 commands and practice every day. So imagine she is in another family, aaaaa aggressive monster put her down , or aaaaa put her to dog poundbut answer  is simple you have small kids = you don’t have dog ,it is some exemptions  but not many and if someone believe those tick-tock videos where 90 kilo monster Cane Corso or 3xxx bull terrier liking a baby face then I can say you are Lunatic and your place is in mental asylum no less.And I still saying Malinoa is very specific dog breed not for any hausehold  as any other working lines , shelters is full of them every 3 now is Malinator  OR  GSD or Bully or Husky and most of them will be put down cause it’s very hard to teach old dog new tricks and all of them had Beauvoir problems.Apologising for my annoyance.

No annoyance from me, many dogs have a bad reputation, many people blame it on the breed, many people blame it on the owners. At the end of the day, any breed of dog can be trained and exercised to be calm and civil.

On 22/12/2023 at 00:56, bluebedouin said:

That's so easy I could do it standing on my head!

I don’t know how true this is… an associate was being sentenced at court, the magistrate gave him six months, he replied, I’ll do that standing on my head, the magistrate replied, have another 30 day for contempt, do it standing on your feet…