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Unless desperate for cash I’d leave the gold in his will to her- it’s going up in price and is a stable reserve in these uncertain times. It’s almost certainly only worth scrap money, but with that quantity it’s worth driving a bit to find a proper bulk dealer, not a pawn shop. A few quid extra per ounce will add up.

You can spray it any colour you like, but without an etch primer coat first it won't stay there!

Makita all the way.

I keep thinking that. As I rip it out by the roots with a grab and swing it onto the fire with it's companions.

How expensive?

Indeed. And the young farmers will keep playing the big I am with a 13 tonner, Daddy's tractor and Daddy's (red) diesel!

Can't disagree personally, but I don't see it happening.

I reckon ag will still be exempt, as farmers are price takers and the government doesn't want to see the price of food rise. So the abuse will continue. All they have to do is clarify and then enforce existing laws. Wouldn't take much, just a civil servant with knowledge of the industries involved ? and a flying pig.

An exemption system would just be abused the other way. Farmers would be fuelling a fleet of diesel range rovers and claiming they only used a tenner of road use a week in their diesel corsa. Plus the manpower needed to audit all this- it's like means testing for benefits, it would be cheaper to turn a blind eye. Red is easy to prove- you get caught, throw the book at you.

It will put the cost of everything up. How much more would quarried stone cost for example? Excavators and crushers running on white!! how about we enforce existing laws first? It’s not hard. Pull a few gypos running their transits on red and make an example of them. Why should I put road fuel in a generator??

I can't see gas going any time soon. People talk about their log customers, who only have a log burner, like it's the norm. It's not. For every cosy stone cottage with a wood burner, there are a hundred flats heated upon gas in the towns and cities. By luxury, I mean that gas is cheaper than logs bought in. Someone on here once worked out the cost per kwH of logs vs gas or oil. It was a huge difference, and gas is pretty cheap right now.

Same as any 50/50 tyre really. That’s why I have a set of mud pluggers on different rims. Five minutes with a forklift and impact wrench to swap them.

You might be best off getting a price for a nice new alloy one. Check fitment between this and newer models- if the truck is currently sound and you'd go Dyna in future, then you can always buy a cheaper flatbed and swap bodies down the line.

Lack of efficiency. If we're wasting five tons drying twenty five tons (or whatever Big J worked out), then that's five tons that has to be replaced by fossil fuels to meet total energy demand. Mind you, if you go too far down the efficiency route then the logical soloution is central CHP plants in a town running on woodchip. Which they do a lot in Europe I believe. Logs in the UK are a luxury product, that's all there really is to it. As for RHI- fucking criminal. There's a reason the NI government collapsed over it.

Been happy with the Cooper AT3s after being recommended them on here. Did see faint cracking appearing in the sidewalls after only a couple of years though, apparently I should have been polishing them with silicon ?

20% less than the best ex vat price online would be a good start point.

I remember my interpump being pricey ish for spares, but at least it's repairable (simple too) and hasn't missed a beat since. Nilfish in my experience give as much electrical trouble as Karcher, at least on steam units.

The pull will be partly depending on the pressure blow out on your aux circuit so worth checking that against your winches recommend pressure as I know on ours that maxes out before the winch will. Mine needs a pressure reducer to protect the winch.

My metabo 6” angle grinder is simply fantastic. Mind you, it wants to be for £220!

It's going to have to come from the aux simply due to flow rates- a blade tee woudl be far too slow. To be fair, the faff of hooking it on is probably comparable to the faff of removing the grab/rotator combo! With 4t more pull than yours I'll keep it on the blade I think. Has a radio remote control- should be handy when it's finished.

Seconded. I'm midway through mounting a 10t winch to a drop on blade tray for my E27- I wasn't sure I could trust the boom to hold/not snap in half if the spade anchor slipped!

I can never sell large ash for milling. Couldn't even give it away last time- and the mill owner was there with his tractor!

Yes, ballcock inside IBC (tricky two man job to fit!) Takes less than ten minutes to empty and two hours to fill... If I end up using it more I will run a dedicated 22mm feed, it's just teed off the 15mm at the moment. Looking again at the pump specs, it says 210 lires/min, not 100. I'll have to get a stopwatch out next time I wash the yard down.

Yes, but not a huge amount of pressure (sorry if not clear). Much greater pressure than a normal water pump, but not a pressure washer. Kind of fire hose pressure- in fact, some are used for this and we use ours as first response mounted to an IBC in the back of a truck on scrub burn ups. It's a Japanese unit, and very good value IMHO. It was less faff to install than an electric washdown unit with the benefit of being forklift portable as one unit on an IBC- just gotta remember to take the drain plugs out when not in use in winter. I have it mounted halfway down the IBC so you turn a tap and it self primes. You can see the brass pressure relief valve I've added so that you can shut the nozzle off safely with the engine still running. Total cost around £700-£800 for all the bits, and it's probably saved that in labour in the first year washing down machines and yard. I wouldn't be without it. Yes, it uses a lot of water, but a cube is only a couple of quid, and there's no reason you couldn't run it on rainwater with a much bigger buffer tank. Again, cheaper than labour. Tsurumi TEF-25HA 1" Petrol Powered High-Pressure Water Pump - Machine Mart - Machine Mart WWW.MACHINEMART.CO.UK In practice you're never washing on hot for hours on end. I might use 5l per month if doing a lot of repair work. Can't beat it for shifting grease. Diesel is cheaper than labour, and you can always run it on cold for most of your normal washing.

100%, and I alluded to this in my earlier post. However, marcus said 230v, and 13litres/min is simply the most you'll get from a motor running from a single phase supply. If you need bigger, you're looking at 13hp petrol models. Don't be tempted by cheap 6.5hp petrol models promising a gazillion PSI. As Eggs says, flow is much more important. For washing down machines, I use a petrol 'high head' type pump that pushes 100l/minute, running from an IBC. Brilliant for diggers caked in wet mud. It also has no pressure washer equal for washing down a muddy concrete yard- if you've ever used a dairy type washdown hose, it's comparable to that. Horses for courses. I still have a 230v Cleanwell steam cleaner, and I'm tempted to get a 13hp petrol pressure washer.