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It will turn to cork followed by mush very quickly. A few months is OK but you're bound to forget about it!
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Is there any reason single cylinder engines arnt fitted on chippers?
doobin replied to Big T's topic in Large equipment
What about a twin cylinder Kubota? Kubota Z600 twin cylinder diesel engine | eBay Will not fall to bits like a Chinese Honda copy, good on juice and long lasting. I have one on my tracked dumper. They were popular as engines to run fridge boxes on lorries. Might be worth a call to some vehicle breakers. -
It's a great wood, I love the smell. Don't sell it without mixing it though as it burns too fast and even the slowest customer realises it. Goes well with oak and the like, to add some flame and light to the fire. That said, given the hassle of keeping it dry (ie. the fact that you can't store it as cordwood/roundwood outside for more than a year), I'd say it's value should be less than other hardwoods.
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Actually, blubber (fat) was the main source of their calories. In fact, they knew that if they had only lean mean available it was better to go hungry, for eating just lean meat would give them the runs. Keto is high fat, MODERATE protein and low carbs.
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Amen.
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Not at all. Keto is the process of burning fat for fuel. It's converted into ketones which your body can use for fuel rather than carbs- interesting sidenote, cancer cells cannot use ketones, only glucose, and there have been interesting studies into a keto diet to fight cancer. If your body is 'eating itself' (ie. muscle) then you are not eating enough regardless of whether you are keto or not. Once in keto, your body will seamlessly switch to burning body fat if you eat a slight calorific deficit. You feel full all the time, your blood sugar levels are stable, it's awesome. I dropped from 20+% body fat and 13st 6lb to my current 10% body fat and 11st 2lb in six months with f all exercise or effort I'm six feet tall. My avatar is a bit small, but that's my former chubby self! This is a good keto resource.: Ketogenic Diet Resource
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I read the overview online, and whilst it's good to see the 'fat is bad' dogma being challenged, the guy on the fat diet cut out all carbohydrates, and then complained he had no energy. Well duh. Firstly, you're supposed to keep it under about 30g of carbs for keto, not zero. He can't have been eating ANY veg either to avoid carbs. Which is just dumb. Secondly, a month is about as long as it takes to adapt to keto. Lethargy in the first month is common- it's termed 'keto flue'. Had he persevered (and eaten veg) then he would probably have felt much better. I was too busy to watch, but did they address any of the above points?
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I came back to this post to say that I lifted a 30 inch diameter 8 foot long log today with my loader tractor, and she was not happy with it. No way a compact crane would even start to shift it!
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Which (compact?) tractor, to do everything on a smallholding?
doobin replied to sandspider's topic in Large equipment
Yes, but to be fair, on a 2WD tractor double acting lift rams aren't a huge amount of use. -
Anything except rap and jazz. Currently listening Greenday and modernish bluegrass/old time music (Hackensaw Boys, Old Crow Medicine Show) (I only have a small memory on my phone!) But really anything from Abba to ZZ Top.
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That looks a great bit of kit! How much was yours?
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Which (compact?) tractor, to do everything on a smallholding?
doobin replied to sandspider's topic in Large equipment
454 or 574 are cheap and handy sized. Shuttle gearbox, power loader, power steering and power brakes. Ideal loader tractor, will lift about 800kg max I'd say. international tractor international 454 tractor loader tractor | eBay If the above had a power loader it would have been a solid buy at about 1.5-1.8k. Funny, but that's the first one I've ever seen with a trip loader. This is my old girl next to a mates David Brown. Really is the best value, cheapest loader tractor around for a small firewood business or similar. -
Which (compact?) tractor, to do everything on a smallholding?
doobin replied to sandspider's topic in Large equipment
Nice tractors for what they are, but not much use for loader work etc. International all the way. -
Woody, have you settled on a power level that you require? The Husky 545 is 3.3hp, the Stihl equivalent would be the MS251 at 3hp or the MS261 at 3.9hp. I'd be inclined to buy new and have peace of mind. That Husky does look a nice saw, a genuinely good all rounder.
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And an engine bench will be easy to sell/won't loose value at all if bought second hand to begin with. You're probably the only bloke in the country right now wanting a hydraulic bench. Have you decided yet?
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It's possibly. However it's not worth the hassle for the following reasons: 1. Economics. Direct drive from an engine is much more efficient. Hydraulics are expensive and require more maintenance. 2. The hours you put on the mini digger would quickly start to cost more than just buying a bench with an engine (which is probably no more than a hydraulic bench, hydraulic motors are expensive). Every hour on a mini digger clock devalues it, in addition to the normal running costs which I bet are more than a small sawbench engine to begin with. HTH
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It's possibly. However it's not worth the hassle for the following reasons: 1. Economics. Direct drive from an engine is much more efficient. Hydraulics are expensive and require more maintenance. 2. The hours you put on the mini digger would quickly start to cost more than just buying a bench with an engine (which is probably no more than a hydraulic bench, hydraulic motors are expensive). Every hour on a mini digger clock devalues it, in addition to the normal running costs which I bet are more than a small sawbench engine to begin with. HTH
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Seriously, how much worse is the t540 than the 200t? As in, how much will it really affect your productivity? Not trying to start an argument, but it's madness to be thinking of a secondhand 5 year old saw rather than a new one with 2 years warranty for £150 more!
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Absolutely. It's simple, which is just as well. Saudi Arabia is an ultra conservative society. Nudity and pornography are illegal. The UK (along with the rest of the Western World), on the other hand, has been subject to ever increasing amounts of porn, nudity, and indeed sex being used to sell things over the last 40 years. My point is that in the UK, the pendulum has swung so far that a cartoonish image of a naked lady cannot be considered 'selling with sex'. Cast your mind back to the music awards where Miley Cyrus (I think ) was pretty much shagging that bloke on stage but with clothes on. This sort of thing is shown day in day out in music videos, often viewed by children. Lynx commercials show couples in intimate scenes, leaving little the imagination. The message is clear- buy our product and you will get laid. This is selling with sex. Anyway, PM me your address babes and I'll pop a couple of spare caps locks in the post x:thumbup:
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My woman can shrink anything even on a 40° cycle, I'd be careful. Unless the OP is into bonsai?
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I'd say you might have a quicker response from LandForce? They must have this info on record surely.
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Please define 'a touch of racism' Throwing buzzwords only wins you the argument in sixth form Gender and Equality studies, you know that right?
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Have you a link to back this up? A quick Google provides no obvious evidence for this, and the top result provided me with this snippet from a study: "Von Ehrenstein et al. conducted a cross-sectional survey of 10,163 school children in southern Germany.10 Children of farmers had a lower prevalence of asthma (OR=0.65; 95% CI: 0.39–1.09), hay fever (OR=0.52, 95% CI: 0.28–0.99), and wheeze (OR=0.55; 95% CI: 0.36–0.86) compared to children not living on farms"
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Do you need a worker for a week or so over the summer??
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It's not selling with sex. It's selling with tongue in cheek humour. This country is so sexualised these days that if you were even mildly aroused by that picture you must have been living in Saudi Arabia for the last forty years.... You only have to watch modern music 'videos' (WTF happened to enjoying a tune for it's music value alone BTW? ) to see the difference.
