difflock
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And a scythe, to effortlessly cut the same grass, would need a fraction of a single HP.
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hardly new though, sensible nonetheless, presumably relying a lot on up-specced (synethic perhaps?) oil as well. And telling porkies re protecting the oil from thermal stresses due to not being kept in the sump, since that is not where the oil gets thermally stressed.
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3 no stickers evenly spaced over the 2.1m length, say 400mm between them, reasonably on top of other Is it likely to need more? Easy enough to restack/resticker cheers mth
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Well 3 years in, I finally unearthed the pallet and assembled the Farmers Mill, with the 390 saw, which while not fast is OK for my needs I appreciate Agrimogs comment about the gel filled gloves btw! I am cutting 12" to 15" Sitka Spuce, cut 2.1m long ( felled back in March btw) @ a 1/2" thick, for to use as weatherboarding, currently sitting stickered and stacked, how long will it need to season? The weatherboarding will be solidly supported every 3', on reused 4" square posts. Sawdust everywhere! mth
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If it walks like a duck, swims like a duck....
difflock replied to eggsarascal's topic in The Lounge
A cousin who works as a steel fabricator, and has worked to the same firm for near 40 years, spent a few years "self employed", when it was a widespread acceptable dodge(to both employer and employee byw.) Anyway in casual conversation one year it became clear that we were both paying about the same tax. Cept I paid mine every month. He paid his once per year. I exaggerate, but only minimally. Van expenses, clothing, laundery, private health insurance(perhaps?), all tax deductible expenses, plus oodles of tax deductible tools to use on after hours "homers". A good screw while it lasted, that is until HMRC clamped down on the practise. -
Was it George Orwell, in Animal Farm who stated "all pigs is equal but some pigs is more equal than others" Which nonsense statement sums up the logical fairness of any quota system. P.S. Like wot about employers being told to ask where their job candidates were educated?, Public School Sir, go right to the back of the queue. And yet "they" bleat about the horrors of discrimination, all the while introducing discriminatory measures tho suit their politics or agenda. Scheesh
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And the 97% acid drain cleaner bottles widely sold? never mind the phosphoric? acid sold in 210 litre barrells to preserve silage, nasty stuff from 40 year old memory
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As Jordan Peterson attempts to explain equal opportunities does not always guarentee equal outcomes, and considering that all men are(incl women)only born equal in the eyes of God, it sure is tough to ensure equality of outcome, which is what the feminists want.(or so I conclude) i.e. study touchy feeley non-engineering/scientific subjects, work short hours near home, but be paid the same as those who studied in the STEM fields and endure tough contracts away from home, oh, and with comensurate benefits and pensions. Spud has it summed up more succiently in his tagline.
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As opposed to some of my line managers, who preferred plausible personable politically aware syncopants, I always preferred working with those who were capable of doing the job they were paid to do, even if they were abrupt, bytimes rude and crude in their comments, and lacking in the small talk, apparently such small talk being so essential to the workplace in Local Government that it merited promotions, i.e. "he/she will fit in". Unlike a local highly respected kitchen fitter known to all as "Silent Sam", because he worked instead of talking. But could never be employed by any LA, simply because he would not fare well at interview. cheers mth
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Well Obama was certainly more personable and plausible, and indeed a better politician, but was he any more persuasive?, other than to his fans so that lot aint worth a real-world shit, & the crack about the Nobel Peace Prize was 100% correct btw. mth
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I shot a Webly Osprey .22 to bits, favourite sport was a cork or bobbin, or 35mm film container, tossed out across a concrete street, and keep it moving by repeatdly hitting it over open sights. I liked the .22 simply because the pellets were less fiddly. Bugger is here in NI, even humble sub 12ftlbs air rifles are on a FAC. Gerrr
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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.
