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We have had more than enough rain here in Nth Co. Antrim to do for the rest of the summer.

AhHa! Well deduced Dan.

Being only £195.00 per year, after the eye-watering unjustifable greedy £5490.00 on first purchase. And also the stated fuel consumption figs? Like 10.6mpg combined average, fir a diesel. Surely this does not compute. Gibber, mutter an twitch.

Well, ah went inta tha toon, this afternoon, and both motor factors recommended a GYS Batium. They both also, each, despite retailing multiple Ring products, described the Ring stuff as only suitable for very occasional use( an who fornicating knew?) So ah bought a 12V/15A Batium . Despite its French provanance. For a relatively insignificant amount more than random on line suppliers. Fingers crossed.

Well, when I opened the Ring charger up, hoping to fine a failed fuse or something obvious, since it stopped working with a distinct "pop", the only fuse I found beside the 230V input, was 100% good. But, good Lord, 2 full circuit boards with a shocking( & pun fully intended) amount of electric/electronic components mounted thereto. Cheers Might just buy myself a stupid=unsmart Draper one.

Hmmm? Sounds like it is isolated, so start with a Silky saw or HD secauters, cut off at ground level, burn arisings or otherwise dispose of, and spray any regrowth with glyphosphate. Or post ground level cutting, gorr out the roots wi a digger, wait, and spray any volunteer regrowth wi glyphosphate. Rinse and repeat as necc. From an uninformed bloke that, a few years ago, helped a daughter eradicate bamboo that had spread beneath a boundary wall and invaded the neighbours garden. It has never come back, nor have we heard owt from the neighbours since.

Ah, yes Dan. Well spotted, my proclivity to forget about stuff. Incl battery chargers. Though oddly enough only a month ago, I had been very intermittently using the wee Kioti, without issue over a few weeks, then after a 3 day gap, the battery was completely dead. Refused to take a charge, so I swopped it with another one. And then I tried it again with the wee basic charger, and after violent full needle deflections and various other non charging aberrations, I finally got it to take a charge, it however took a full week before the battery, a Yausa showed the green light, and the battery once swopped back into the Kioti has been preforming faultlessly ever since. All most odd.

My 50 year old Halfords special, has finally lay down. After long and loyal service. This after the £80.00 "smart" Ring brand charger ( bought some 15 to 20 years ago!) shit itself just outside the warranty period, this despite very little use. I am still sore about that expensive( for me) mistake. Which kinda, however irrationally, makes me distrust so called smart chargers, because when it was working, it did not appear to do anything the basic wee Halfords transformer charger did. I only charge 12V lead acid batteries. So do I even need a so-called smart charger? Thoughts?

Thanks for those informative comments re the wood pigeon.. P.S. My recent iteration for billet bundling. Makes for a nominal 1.0m3 bundle. With 2 straps at each end, and I was using 3 straps on the 0.5m3 anyway. Twice the firewood moved and stored with the same amount of handling/ tractor use. I had increased the size of the bundles, to about 0.75m3, using the old wooden former, but stacking them higher( i.e. egg shaped)as seen in the image. The last bundle is my first at 1.0m3. My new former still needs a couple of wee mods, before it is off for galvanising.

That idea did not work. The orange mesh was far too slippery. However changing the shape from circular to ovoid or egg shaped, worked a dream, no sag whatsoever. P.S. Another ponder. We have had a single pair of wood pigeon this past 20 years, never more than 2 but always 2. The nest in the scrub at the front of the house, and feed up and down the lane and on the hard where I intermittently process our firewood. So why only 2? Since I understood pigeon were a social bird that was always found in flocks?

Another drip cured, astounding that a lift pump with so many internal fiddly bits, can be so cheap. And work. P.S. How the old one was working at all, and it was , faultlessly, though leaking badly. both non return valves were broken, or could not have been working, with broken springs and misplaced seals. The fuel must have been feeding near enough by gravity, and guessing some slight suction from the IP?

Indeed it is. In my lifetime, and I will be 66 in a few days, we have only had 2, 1976 and 1995. So another would be more than welcome. Cheers

The very experienced local bloke, like he has been there 25 or 30 years, that got my FS200 running again quite recently, said to avoid E10. That they have cause to associate it with, presumably, a significent increase in carburettor issues, particularly? on strimmers/ brushcutters.

It would suit us quite well, the fine hot weather..

I am daring to wonder, could this another 1976 or 1995 shaping up? Fingers crossed.