teepeeat

Surprising how many horny nurses could fit in an origional Fiat 500.

heh heh heh!

go on then, how many??

Have had 8 nurses + a driver in a mini doing a 5 mile run to the college barbecue

Go and get a lottery ticket mate, today's your lucky day!

:lol::lol:

regarding utilities - we shifted ours around a bit and then a bloke rang up to enquire about plotting where everything was. No problem says I, make it when I am about and I can show you exactly where it all is.

Turns up while I am away and seems to have guessed where it all is - numpties :lol:

yup, makes sense to keep the options open for later expansion.

If the build method is kept simple, just add another bay as and when if required

From memory it shrinks in to 950mm(the width of the cab ) and expands out to 1300. We ,ve also a 1ton yanmar that goes from 1000mm down to 760 mm so it fits thru a pedestrian gate or thru a standard door frame with the roll bar folded down.

thanks Gareth - so both those options expand by about a third of their narrow setting. Interesting

I think these things are fairly easy to pick out, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

 

I remember one of these adds I enquired about a while ago I asked for a phone number and they claimed they couldn't talk because of recent throat surgery...I kept them convinced I was really interested until I got bored and sent them probably the most abusive email I've ever written. I got a bit of satisfaction imagining them getting excited and then reading a torrent of swear words.

 

It's just a shame that nobody can do anything about it, I can't imagine the police would care.

yea, would be good to be able to reach through the computor screen and grab the b*&%$ds by the throat or punch their lights out.

What we need is one of these hackers or IT geeks to be able to track them down somehow and send in a squad to sort them out.

I am sure there would be a few volunteers on here to help out.

I think this is the firmCHP | Combined Heat and Power - Power Guard

Cheers Craig, much obliged.

Will pass on

Is that his private plate? Seems like the Y 3 and H are surplus

:lol::lol:

:lol:

occasionally the company arranges a hire car to get me home and on a recent occasion, was being teased that I would get a fiat 500 or mini (I am 6'6" tall)

Sods law a cream with red highlights Fiat 500 turned up and had everybody rolling around in stiches

In its defense, I did fit in (without having to put my head out the skylight as predicted )

Got me from Great Yarmouth to the west country in pretty good time.

did it on a thimble of fuel too.

Would I buy one - no :lol:

Here's our wee 2t Volvo with a bucket and toe combination. Easy moved between sites, expanding track which go down to 1m wide so it fits into tight spaces, will probably lift between 250-500kg depending on the reach. (And yes I know - a stupid place to leave a saw lying.)

 

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excuse my ignorance, but how common is the expanding track option in these machines and how much do they generally expand by?

edit - re expansion, it obviously depends on the specifics of the machine, but does it add a significant width - 10%, 30%??

ha ha spotted the owl too Nick

Fantastic bit of timber Andrew.

As has been said, the costs incurred will soon be forgotten, if not already considering the outcome.

A few years of letting it season quietly will be well spent planning exactly what and how you are going to use the timber.

Once you do get to that stage, please update us with the results. No pressure to rush, just let it evolve in its own time - it will be worth waiting for.

regarding quotes for running in services, they tend to start with a high price including all installation of pipes/wires etc. If you do some of the work yourself the price drops right off.

We did the trenching and installation of the cables/pipes and they just arrived to do the connections either end - made a huge difference to the price.

Mind you I have heard that they dont like you doing that anymore, but not sure.

i'll ask, as I remember it was a 3ph gen to run the farm that also automatically heated the thermal store for dhw and ufh and charged a battery bank/inverter for the house, with the option to add in both solars, around 40k from a firm in Lincolnshire.

interested in a link for this as well Craig - my neighbour is looking at options at the moment.

dont know much about top handled saws, but would that qualify as one:confused1:

Just ordered a Cat 302.7d.

It's the newer model of the 1 I used last year daily.

It's the zero turn, I was doing too much thinking so jumped in both feet.

Their service was great and I like their salesman. So deal done, hopefully get it Thursday.

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haha - yes sometimes we can put too much thought into things.

Whatever you ended up with there will be pro's and con's.

I am sure you will find work to keep it gainfully employed one way or another.

I would be looking at a 4-6 cyl diesel 3PH generating set.

BUT, harvesting the otherwise wasted heat.

Not a poxy wee off-the-shelf mains gas fuelled pipsqueak/lifestyle CHP set.

The bonus for me would be the 3ph electric.

My 3Ph electric usuage would be so intermittent/some days only /some daylight hours only, that if needs be I could either use the 3 PH to drive the GSHP or satisfy my demands with the GSHP switched off.

ah, with you now

Sounds like the CHP situation is still unchanged then - utter shite

I was getting drunk in he pub and I had my iPad with me.

and assuming you have sobered up since while using it, not too bad a result for a pissed up purchase - there have been a lot worse :lol:

Thanks James but too late for this as client was happy with Tung oil. I must try some of this Osmo oil as I keep hearing yourself and others singing it's praises.

second the Osmo - we have used it and the kitchen fitter who helped us only uses Osmo in all the kitchens he does:thumbup1:

We put in solar thermal and saved by installing it ourselves.

Your thermal store is already to take the feed so that is a good start.

We get 'free' hot water from mid march to mid october generally, requiring no other energy input (obviously lecky for the pump:001_rolleyes:). It does contribute a bit through the winter but not much, but then we specifically optimised it for summer.

As with everything, some solar gear is good some not so good, so do your research before you spend.

As with all these building energy issues, the Navitron & the Green building forums are a useful source of info.

Heating systems have to be flexible, because different fuels will change in relative cost over time.

One other certainty is that all fuels will go up due to increased demand from an increasing population.

Gas will run out and even if the shale gas numbers do actually pan out (personally think it unlikely), that will only last so long as well.

Reducing demand is key, so insulate,insulate, insulate.

When we renovated the house a few years ago we put in 2,5 times the required insulation (oh how they laughed at the time) and just as important, installed it correctly and now run a 200m2 house on an 8kw stove in the winter - supplying hot water and heating from on average 2 small builders buckets of seasoned wood a day.

Only problem we find is we got the balance a bit wrong as the stove gives of too much heat to the room when trying to get some heat into the thermal store to give enough hot water. (exagerated because two children and the missus arnt very efficient at using hot water - hrumph)

Our achilles heel is electricity - cant run our stove without it as went for high efficiency system requiring pumps, sensors, controllers etc. Have wired all the essentials into a separate circuit in case we need to resort to a genny at some point. Our electricity supply is a spur off a spur through the woods to our place and the neighbours so physically a bit vulnerable without even getting into the whole national supply debate.

@ Difflock

Has there been much advance with CHP. A few years ago when I looked, they could barely supply enough power to run a torch , let alone cover the peak demand of a GSHP on start up.

penny for the dog's thoughts Predator :lol::lol:

second that Geoff

Regarding his wife, seem to recall him saying she only had minor injuries.

I agree with difflock too.

I am in a position that I have no central heating except my Morso 3610 that heats my house and the c 1960's back boiler open fire that heats two showers worth of water. When I have finished the building work, which includes installing massive amounts of insulation that is required on a house built in 1859, I will have minimal heating costs.

 

I am hoping to get down to a 5KW rather than a 16KW burner which would operate over the two coldest months. I plan to have a pellet boiler as primary heating and instant gas for hot water and cooking with solar to boost the hot water whenever the sun shines.

I burn about fourteen tons per year this way and by the costings that I read, yes I'd be better off with a different heat source but when you are unable to fit one, 'tis difficult to do anything else!

I finished one room recently and just the heat from the two spot-lights on their stand, that were helping me see, quickly raised the temperature to 60 degrees so I'm looking forward to finishing others.

 

The biggest plus recently though was that during the power cuts that the storm created our simple system that does not rely on electrickery merrily carried on regardless so we had hot water, heating and were able to cook with the only addition of a match to light the cooker as the electronic ignition was not operating. There's a lot to be said for the KISS principal!

codlasher

thats the key Codlasher - insulation to reduce the demand.

Unfortunately most of the UK housing stock is poorly insulated and where there is insulation it is often badly installed.

vw here too, although might be biased as I grew up with them and just bought one also a few pints of cizzer down :lol::lol::lol:

how old is that??

Fine effort by the membership and thanks for setting it all up Steve.

Gives us a way to help in some small way.