difflock
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Well after 3+ weeks of solid Sun, exceptional heat and zero wind. Last night's storm played absolute havoc with my ever-so-promising looking Raspberries, never mind the bloody Ruhbarb. And the uncut grass verge beneath the Hawthorn hedge looks like it has been badly strimmed. Gerrrrr ! ! !
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The singular fact that struck me, was the generous amount of room left for the wooden shaft! Which after ruefully observing the failure mechanism of various hammers and sledges that I have owned and reshafted. Is significent. marcus
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I dont do faceache and am unsettled/disgusted/appalled at the average shallow postings about how apparently wonderful peoples lives are, mostly showing off how they can spend money and enjoy themselves on endless holidays or big nights out. No one wins that particular arms race. It is however a very powerful tool for communicating. Marcus
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Tis a strange strange world when folks complain about soil being too fertile, but this should be better for the apple trees though? & graze a few sheep perhaps
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Erm, cough, cough, but why? will the suppliers not put this snake-oil additive in(bought more keenly in bulk, obviously) and charge a fraction of a pence more per litre, for long-life diesel. just-a-thought mth
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I imagine yes, the dreaded black sludge, now more common due to the small %age of added "biodiesel" that absorbs any water that would otherwise sink to the bottom of the tank. i.e. "old" diesel was better than the newfangled "new" diesel. sigh ! mth
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Ah !
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Erm? Der tunnel goes through the hill, the locks go up one side and down tother, lad, to avoid tunneling through the hill like!
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drinksloe, Yes to your first paragraph, 100% Re the 2nd Para, yes simply unbolt the 450mm wide city-pads, and replace with 600 triple grouser pads. Re replacing rubber with steel tracks, you must also fit new sprockets, I dont know about the rollers. cheers marcus
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Well!, I have, cos tis not really a well per se. it simply catches local surface groundwater, water trapped just sub-surface by the local glacial clay, water which in our relatively wet Nth Co Antrim is rather plentiful. And since I have returned 15 previously farmed acres back to nature, I deem this a more than fair exchange, I fink I have paid my dues to nature and the local/Global Environment. cheers marcus
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Whew! Perhaps there is a God in Heaven, oil leak was from the DSG, an me was for Yorkshire et. al. parts last week(as above post), hopefully a new cover and fresh oil will see us right. The bitch is the damage was almost certainly due to warranty work, since the tin cover is 110% perfect except for where it looks to have been damaged during fitting/refitting and therefore rusted through.(but 6 years ago since warrenty work) marcus
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Eggs, I would need to find the last water bill, but since I incinerated it in the wood stove,, a tad difficult. Anyway just Nth of £1.00/m3=1000 litres = 1 tonne. there may be a %age discount for volume users? But all I know is our 3/4" connection costs us more than our 1/2" connection, so perhaps not. Now that the showering-while-still-asleep weans have growed up, we only use about 60m3 of the allowed 100m3 allowance, so we only pay for the meter. I dug a 4.0m deep* well, by hand, to provide water for the garden, plus our roof water is directed via a pond before running to waste. The "well" is pumped to an overhead 600gall=2700 litre tank 4.0m by 1.8m dia = 10m3 of spoil =nominal 20 tonne all hand-dug and wheelbarrowed out. cheers marcus P.S. Must water me strawberries.
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Except farmers will be on a metered supply and paying for every drop, the average consumer does not give a toss, hey water's free. innit ! P.S. We are also on a metered supply, I know the cost of water, but actually I did before I had to pay for it, growing up on a non-mains supplied farmplace.
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Well anytime I want to fall about laughing I only got to read about all, as in ALL*, the failed Communist/Markist/lefty states, always built on bloodshed. like fer instance, Comarade Chavazs's most recent Venezula "experiment", just hard to laugh knowing about all the destroyed lives, destroyed communities and materiel damage & cost. Cheers mth *except China, not failed, but at the cost of vast and totally unnecessary human suffering due to the political elite playing God in the past.
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No, but ah kin reed history bukes, re 1917 loike.
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Matthew, Yes, I definately need steel tracks, from my personal observations, the city pads might just suffice, but still a bit narrow. And David, yes whilst I appreciate the extra grunt at reach, associated with a traditional rear engined counterweight layout, the ability to squeeze and work between trees afforded by the Kobelco could be wile tempting? For 3k more I could get a Kobelco115 with a blade, but I need to avoid "mission creep", price wise anyway. And when-not-if, I ever get bogged a lighter machine without a blade will be easier extracted methinks. Anyway I need to find out what the brand new this morning oily puddle is below the Skoda, before I head off across the water in her, btw I am guessing power steering fluid and at near nuff 8 years and 120,000, no shame to her. marcus
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A choice of 3 all within £1,000.00 of other; (i) a 2006 ZX80LC on city pads (ii) a 1999 EX100, on steel tracks (iii)a Kobelco SK115SR, ditto I have plenty of room, so dont need a compact digger, nor do I envisage moving the digger myself. To do general "farm" duties, cleaning sheaughs, extending and maintaining hardstanding, fencing, possibly digging a Pond, plus, just perhaps footering with timber/firewood. An outlier would be a Case CX145SR, heavier, but at less money. Thoughts please, I would plump for the ZX80 iffen it were on 600 steels. marcus
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I wonder how they dispose of the crate?, I suspect some of the numpty chatteringclass purchasers, put it out for the binmen?
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And of course the premier wood for burning is the fabled Black Walnut, worth an absolute fortune, and often offered on such sites a Gumtree or Ebay. but I digress !
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The first reply was a very good answer.. I would only add that whilst mostly firewood is sold by volume, and the dry weight of various woods varies widely, hardwoods generally being more dense than softwoods, and since the burning(calorific) value is actually remarkedly consistent per kg of dry weight, most common hardwoods will outperform most common Conifer/softwoods volume for volume. BUT Dry Softwood/conifer is perfectly good firewood, for burning in a stove, if priced/bought correctly. I only burn conifer/softwood, and have done so for 20 years without issue. marcus P.S. I wuz till typing while others were posting!
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No, but the left(ies) are so much better at throwing a violent destructive strop/riot/revolution when they dont get their way, with a proven track record going back to 1917. imho(where the "o" is for observation, not opinion)
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Perhaps a touch of Sharia Law should be applied to the no-doubt devout Muslim men, who were involved in these awful grooming cases, and, of course applied with the reasonably sketchy burden of proof that seems to be required in Middle Eastern/Arab trials. Like the old Wild West approach to their known wrongdoers, "he will be hung after a fair trial" cheers marcus
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We ran those Suzuki 2 stroke engines in(I think) Victa push mowers, quite phenomenally light, powerful and torquy they were too. The 2 brothers who "owned" them meticulously used the red Stihl 50:1 mix oil, and they never need a plug or missed a beat. Unlike another individual who mixed by *guesswork, this despite 20 years of experience guidance, explanation and training, and changed plugs oftener than he changed his underwear(probably) *Idiot, who could not be told, would never jibble fuel jar remnants to allow him an empty 5/10 or 20 litre jar. No Sur, 3 litre, 7 litres, 11 litres, God knows how many litres, ergo he could not get a 50:1 mix. but I digress
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Never mind this shameful issue; https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/965633/army-veterans-jeremy-corbyn-soldier-prosecutions-white-feathers
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Ah!
