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Still being on a Logosol mailing list I was trying to figger out "whose" bandsaw mill that was, that Logosol are rebranding and selling as their own. Good luck with your move to Devon Big J. P.S. Since an electric motor powered mill always requires a massively oversized generator to provide for the *3 to *6 start-up current, which motor once up and running then prematurely knackers the diesel driving the generator due to not being worked hard enough. Why is a diesel-hydraulic pump-motor set up not used, simply to drive the band, even if electrics used for other bits? I like hydraulics. mth

RH, Dare I presume they all passed the course? OSM (i) Yes I only work to myself on our own ground, though I used to tidy up windthrown stuff, fell leaners/rotten tree hanging over public footpaths in the Riverside Park myself, and nobody said "boo" . (ii) my handwriting was indeed plumb terrible, oddly post retirement, & less stressed perhaps?, it has improved. It prob took me until I was near 40-45 to realize, or accept that others had, how shall we say, entirely different hazard perception & avoidance* skills to those I took for granted. cheers mth Like being somewhat=very drunk in a billet one night and attempting to contrive an air-burst Thunderflash, by using a Schermuly flare as a launch tube, but despite the copious amount of my drunkenness, I wisely desisted.

Having used a chainsaw for 59-14 years=45 years, no training, no tickets, all self taught, cutting mostly windthrown shit, that should take about a months training to master,with over all those years only a couple of probably tiredness related frights, but no injuries. Some might call that luck, but I feel the statisticians would have cause to disagree, over that timespan. Probably being somewhere on the autistic spectrum(with relatively poor interpersonal skills) ,always allowed me to intuitively see tension/compression and understand the hazards so presented, and naturally position myself so as to avoid it, the best way I can put it is "I can read a tree" standing or windthrown. btw. I in no way thought this was unusual behavouir, until I observed others who could; neither see the risk, nor be told nor taught. nor never learned. I can still inadvertently do stupid things/break things, but tend to focus once a chainsaw is in my grasp, simply because I appreciate how potentially hazardous a chainsaw is. Others do not. They should not use chainsaws. but Dunning-Kruger done got a lot to answer for. cheers Marcus

If one needs a £750.00 course to learn to use a chainsaw safely, one should not be using a chainsaw. simples! From 50 odd years of perplexed rueful observation and personal experience. marcus

Oops, OSM I had started looking at 100W solar panel arrays, for this very reason! To drive my 54W pump cheers again mth

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I would chance sommat like; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10w-Solar-Panel-Caravan-Boat-Car-Battery-Trickle-Charger-PV-c-w-4M-cable-clips-m/332061473978?epid=1483556471&hash=item4d5067fcba:g:FzMAAOSwtdVa2Fy3 I guess 10 or 15W should be plenty, should give up to perhaps 1A, which should be enough, but watch out, I read somewhere about the cheaper solar kits allowing the battery to discharge through the panel when insufficient sunlight, though if sold as a solar trickle charger this should not happen. Only rub is, during the winter months, when one needs the battery fully charged, the solar panel will be at its weakest output, so you need to size the panel for your winter sunlight. cheers marcus

With our RHI Scheme no longer open, I have not enquired re the PV set-up. Being disgusted by the incompetant twerps "accredited" to install under a previous grant scheme, and charging inflated prices to balls it up, I was simply going to install a hot water kit myself, & stuff the grants. mth

Daniel, and OSM, I "missed" the fact that the charge controller "doubled up" as a battery guard, or should, if the correct one is sourced. thanks Daniel. And yes, I have grasped the battery need only be big enough to "smooth" the voltage/current input/output. cheers again mth

To freshen thissun up, 1 coat applied yesterday, another today, intuitively I really like/rate this Osmo oil product, and it is easy to apply, or well behaved on the brush. and if it does what it says on the tin, I will be well pleased. Also, per the tin, a 5 year storage life, which prob means I will still be using some of the 4 by 2.5l tins I bought in 10 years time. cheers marcus

OSM thanks for the above, I do not possess any of the needed components at present. (i) I think I looked at a very similar/looked identical visually solar charge controller from "Photonics" on Ebay My understanding of DC motors is limited to "knowing" insufficient voltage will not run them/"stall" them and eventually burn them out? and excess voltage will overspeed them/kill them quicker, but that they cannot "draw" excess Amps, (i.e. can connect direct to a 12V automotive battery that can supply hundreds of Amps to a starter motor, without harm), but quite how lower than max Amps affects them I am not sure? I prefer to source "off-the-shelf" stuff rather than faff about soldering and wiring individual electronic components. And I am minded to simply purchase a new 12V liesure battery, and stick to simple 12V DC circuits which (I imagine) I understand. So, (i)Solar panel(s) bought complete with solar battery charging unit. (ii)12V battery (iii) battery guard (iv) 12V pump simples ? marcus

I fancy installing evacuated tubes for our solar domestic hot water supply, unfortunately despite choosing to fit a 210 litre hot cylinder when I plumbed the house in 1996, I did not have the foresight to pick a hot cylinder with a second indirect coil suitable for solar input, though I understand a "Willis" type solarsypthon will do the same job. Though, when I crunched the numbers in 2016, it was uneconomic, in comparison to the(measured) very small amount of kero we burn over the summer heating the hot water. marcus

OSM, You said; "How about nicking a super capacitor from a pimped up Corsa and having a relay running the pump only when the capacitor is at 12V. This way the motor isn't draining current below its stall speed." Since the battery I intended to use is apparently "goosed", having failed to trickle charge overnight, could you better explain/describe the circuit/components needed for to get the above set-up to work? cheers marcus

OSM Thank you, your advice is genuinely apreciated. I understood the "battery guard" protects the battery from over-discharging, or perhaps more correctly ensures sufficient charge remains in the battery to start the vehicle the battery is mounted in, based on the dropping voltage from supplying ancillary devices, but in so doing it will thereby protect the pump from damagingly low voltage, or so I figger? I understand 12V Lead Acid batteries, but not capacitors, and I got a battery already. I am not concerned about marginal sunlight conditions, since I only need to irrigate during, for us, exceptionally hot/sunny weather, when the panel should be working optimally. btw the pump I linked will pump to a max of 12m head(at zero flow) and 7l/min my needed 7m of head, per the attatched graph(s) ,the one labelled in red ink. Or the pump I order certainly will as per the specification table presented. That site impressed me with the data/facts so clearly laid out. cheers marcus

Thanks McPherson, I got an old 12V tractor battery that should do, to be charged from a panel kit like you linked to. And Then use the car type undervoltage protection kit to safeguard the motor, I can let the pump motor run ad-infinitum, while the sun is shining and the battery is charged, and let the water overflow back down into the "well", perhaps past a waterwheel for aesthetic effect! cheers marcus P.S. How does the solar controller "dump" the excess voltage/current from the panel, after the battery refuses to accept any more charge, simply put it through a resistor and dump as heat? Anyway the 20W Solar panel per McPherson A 12 V battery a "battery Guard" at £18.00 Plus, this pump & see link, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC12V-Speed-Adjustable-Brushless-Water-Pump-Solar-Pump-DC50K-12120A-1260L-H/282909534103?epid=1985627580&hash=item41deb8e797:g:yQcAAOSwTmtawoJn Should work To pump say, at worst 1000l per day = enough

Son(s) should get an ordinary job(s), Re-wild the ground, soak up the grants, and enjoy nature. Perhaps set up as a Charitable Trust? Simples P.S. A local landowner, on a small estate, has set up a charitable trust for their lands/families future, I dont know the ins-and-outs, but he is a shrewd bloke. So there must be an angle. mth

Jesus Fernandaz Salageuro (or sommat like that) a Madrid born Spaniard, stated that the climate in Madrid was; 6 months of Winter, followed by 6 months of Hell. I remember at the time thinking how we all choose to complain about the weather! mth

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Photonic-Universe-controller-battery-caravan/dp/B008BV8CIW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1525532628&sr=8-2&keywords=5a+12v+solar+panel&dpID=512aYDf%2BQRL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch This looks like a likely solar panel, to drive my 4.5 Amp (dry mounted) Shurflo pump ? thanks for the interest and input guys mth

APHH? Sounds like my kinda "engineering", electrical or otherwise, but please explain how the 10p resistor works? I had origionally "picked" a Shruflow 12 V pump, see link; https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/SHURflo-Caravan-Marine-Water-Pump-2095204412/1112679694?iid=171547564513&chn=ps&adgroupid=54682298551&rlsatarget=pla-413984953583&abcId=1133906&adtype=pla&merchantid=101748807&poi=&googleloc=9045175&device=c&campaignid=1058607774&crdt=0 And was looking for suitable solar panels to "drive" the pump directly, i.e. without a battery, because with 600 gall of storage, and only needing water to water the garden when the Sun is shining, I should be able to get enough current/voltage to pump when the Sun is shining, and be able to accept the pump not running during the dull periods. But prob need some "black box" electronics to protect the pump from low voltage, thinking an automotive related "battery guard" device between the solar panels and the pump. a marriage made in heaven, so to speak. cheers marcus

I got a 600 gall water tank situated comfortably above head height, and water about 3.0m below my feet, say a couple of feet deep in a 1.8m dia conc manhole ring. so looking to raise the water say 6.0m powered by Sunlight I had been using a 230V submersible pump, which has died recently. Anyway, Solar is more elegant. marcus

Any EH winch is/should be remote compatible, but better bought(more cost effective) with the remote already fitted. Google is your friend. Though how many of the smaller winches, suited to a 40HP Tractor are likely to be so expensively(radio remote) equipped is doubtful? mth

Yanmar is stitching up Kubota then, as an engine supplier? And, my ears pricked up hearing, in the Multione case, a Yanmar paired with Poclain hydro transmission, nowt better out there imho! cheers mth

But, surely, knots burn better, well leastwise Pine and Spruce knots do.

I presume to attempt to make headway on the vast backlog of illegals. Like eating an elephant, one bite at a time. But, most probably, to allow senior Civil servants to claim "efficiency/performance" bonuses. If the self-set "targets" were met. cynically yours, mth

Wait out . . . P.S. I found a nice image of Hugo-Dog when "finding" the lawnmower image.