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Why would you need a soot/tar remover chemical for your flue? Burn dry wood, with sufficient air for complete combustion. Worked for me since 1996.

Old Morso, yes, newer ones since they closed their own foundary in Denmark, and for cost driven reasons started "buying in" the CI components(from the old E Germany) not so much. Since our 2 No. 1997 vintage Morso stoves that were each, and 1 in particular, stupidly overfired and abused by an unsober me for a good number of years are still mechanically perfect. But the one we bought about 5 years ago and that has never been overfired or abused, has an easily visible crack in the CI top plate, between the flue and centre front. Which crack occurred relatively soon after purchase. This poor quality CI issue may well have been resolved since our experience. I also admired and rate Astroflamm from Austria, since they appeared to be very well constructed.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Israel is left in a horrible situation, but I support them in their difficult choices.

I most very strongly disagree with that 2nd last line of yours "J". Tough.

Eggs, Not a group of "vanifiers", more the New Age Traveller types and their fellow travellers, plus hippy types and actually from reading multiple accounts in the varios press, mostly sob stories from the wannabe housebuilders who chanced their arm and flouted the rules most of the rest of us mostly attempt to abide by. Crying about how they are not allowed to build a proper house where they live. like in an abandoned cricket pavalion in one case, Another was a so-called animal rescue "charity" where the person was crying that of course they needed to live on the greenfield site where they looked after the animals. Nevermind the horsey types with "shelters" that become habitable shacks, that then get lived in, "only for the foaling", and then next thing they are def-facto living there, and demand full PP. etc etc etc

Unfortunately people who claim they only want to park-up or "camp", often do as Andy says and establish "roots", then if left alone for a few years, claim, most vocerifiously that they live there, and demand planning permission to build a proper home. For them and their brood. same old same old.

As 64 year old absolute non drug user, well cept moderate alcohol, but not while driving, I am somewhat ambivalent on this vexxed issue, knowing, mostly through the TA 40 odd year ago, many genuninely high functioning alcoholics, nevermind acquinticences in the RUC ( some of whom who were rarely sober), never never mind the long deceased FIL, an Army bloke that routinely drove while well stocious(but never ever had an accident), plus an uncle of sorts that drunk and drove home, again 40 odd years back, again without accident or incident. And we wont mention the relation of sorts in SB, who job was to sit in pubs and drink and listen, and then drive home, part of hs cover I suppose, though he did write off a few cars, in SVC's. No doubt at HMG's expense? So it can be done, most probably with age and experience, aka habituation. And an old uncle spoke of a truely gifted signwrighter, who could not preform unless fettled wi drink. But as mentioned, in todays society, LIABILITY! P.S. My rueful observation, based on this forum, is that the arb inductry has, overall, a significent problem with substance abuse.

Tell you what, problem solved; All-Island Rail Review: Ambitious £31 billion plan aims to reconnect rail network in Ireland WWW.BELFASTTELEGRAPH.CO.UK Ambitious plans to transform the railway network in Northern Ireland includes new lines from Derry to Portadown and Belfast to Newry. Thoughts, please.

Bugger! And why specifically? Perhaps bearing in mind min will not be doing much more than hobby cutting. And in my defence I went in to buy a 262. to directly replace my 1997 026.

Wots wrong wi my 362? That the bloke in the shop was wile keen to sell me. Not that they had much else on the shelves, and it transpired the dealership was in the process of being sold and then moved to another location only weeks/ months later. Hence the stock rundown.

What did the revered racecar builder Colin Chapman say, but; "for speed, add lightness!"

Nilfisk GM80P @ Vacuum Cleane WWW.CLEANROOMSHOP.COM The GM80P is an industrial vacuum cleaner Ideal for users needing great suction power and ease of use Comes complete with combi nozzle, HEPA filter exhaust kit Rated power (W)... This is the answer. I grew up wi one, it was indestructible. I should still have 3 somewhere but the MIL coerced SM into gifting her the bestest/newest one, then she died and the ould bollocks she had taken up wi still got it, I hope! I still have one for shed use, and cant actually figure out where the 3rd one went. I am STILL sore about the one the MIL blagged offen the wife btw. Or a Beam/Smart system mounted in or about a utility room with a 10m wander hose should cover a lot of the heavily trafficed back door territory, inside, or out.

I was pondering if it could somehow be connected to the owner of the ground where all the wannabe re-creative photographers stand to take their version of that famous image? Or abandon cars, or piss, crap, or discard litter, all while engaged on their holy quest. H & S recommends removing the source of the hazard, if possible, so on that basis . . . A pissed off landowner might well fit.

Except anything power generating with moving parts in a marine environment has a very limited life due to; (i) The limited number of materials that are both mechanically strong while still being unsusceptible to salt water/salt laden sea air corrosion. and, (ii) The insurmountable issue with barnacles and other such sea life, that get in everywhere, escpecially there is a moving current of water to provide them with nutriants. (iii) Never mind the destructive power of storms, likely making construction cost prohibitive.

Hawthorn/Quickhorn/Whitethorn. Cut last March, when Ian McClelland removed the dying roadside Ash trees. Full of sap and left stacked uncut in the round until sometime this spring or early summer. Brought into the shed and I ran the thinner stuff run through the firewood saw, merely cut to length, not split, up the elevator into a pile, the heavier stuff I left in a pile in the shed, thinking I might salvage some of the heavier lengths for future woodworking projects like breadboards. BUT! it developed cracks I could stick my fingers into(must get pics tomorrow) so it will all be for firewood, and, hey! no need to bother splitting it. Anyway, I brought a couple of banana boxes of arm to leg thick logs in this past couple of days, and it burns so so beauitfully, even when a mere 2 lonely logs were set on the near dying embers, like this evening. So it must be dammned dry. And the heat! So thats my favourite firewood.

Squirreled away in the back of a dusty shed, minus a headlight I robbed for to get a sidelight bulb for to put the Steyr Puch through her MOT earlier in the year. Also no interior, cos I never refitted it after the bodywork repairs.🙄😳

I own a near 40 year old G Wagen, with GIW 405 as it's original no plate. Come Jan 2024 I intend to put her back on the road, since she was MOT prepped at some considerable expense back about a year, or perhaps two ago, but I got distracted and never bothered putting her through the MOT. Anyway it appears, per Pleasent and Will C above that to transfer the plate, I would still need to MOT her. Since I might rather have the GIW plate on our daily driver. Cheers all, Marcus

Is it in anyway "tied" to the original vehicle once the magic 40 year birthday is passed? Or can it subsequently be transferred same as before. Cheers, Marcus

Chipper engines operate in a very harsh environment - lots of heat, lots of dust, often worked at maximum power, always running flat out, often operated by muppets with zero mechanical sympathy (no warm-up/cool-down etc), regularly filled with fuel from dirty containers in dirty environments etc etc. They are bolted to a lightweight platform and are shaken, beaten, soaked and blasted with salt, and that’s just on their way to and from jobs! I take your point🤣

And yet the B & S engine in my Stihl lawnmower is v easy started and has so far proved faultless. but no wile hours on it yet.

I believe Metabo are in there, in this common battery alliance, cos happenstance I bought a Metabo combo drill/driver set a few years ago, which has not yet dissapointed me, and I believe I recieved some advertising bumph about the shared battery platform.

I still remember the 100% stunningly positive thread on the BFF a few years ago, about the newly launched Milwaukee "Fuel" range of 18V cordless impact guns, 1/2" and 3/4". Cynical grumpy hairy arsed mechanically minded anvil-breaking farmers were simply in awe of what these 18V cordless Milwaukee tools were capable of. P.S. I also recall there is a mostly German branded bunch of cordless tool manufacturers (about 30 ish) that cooperated to develop a common 18V battery system, so that buyers were NOT tied to one particular brand.

I have often pondered the need or rationale for 3 axles on a 3.5t trailer, surely 2 more widely spaced axles with suitably rated tyres would be just as stable, and with lighter unladen weight? So does IW build them purely on demand based on ill-informed folk-story/hearsay opinions? or because of some specific attribute the 3rd axle provides that I fail to recognise? Or is it simply a case of being able to loose one tyre(or even 2 ) to neglect/underinflation/misuse/damage/punctures and still be able to drive on?

I tried to console myself that if he can still make that much noise, he was not critically hurt.

Very sensible that is , since they ud need to be foot operated, for when ye chop yer hands off like!