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I did not appreciate your sensitivities Steve, nor did I mean the "bollocks" to be as offensive as it was percieved to be. but for anyone to state that a rocket mass stove, or whatever, can use 1/8 of the fuel to heat the same space is more than a tad incredulous, hence my "involuntary" exclamation. P.S. Openspaceman, impressive and convincing calcs you provided. regards marcus

Bollocks ! ! ! Any decent respectable brand-name wood stove, that anyone with owt approaching brains ud buy, has loads of cast iron to modulate the heat output, and hitting 75-85% efficiency, means a rocket stove must be 8*80%=640% efficient, which canny compute, ye ken, like ! ! ! regards disgusted-of-Dervock

In light of the above post I am in the process of registering a patent for a Burning-Wet-Wood Stove Snake-Oil-Injector to burn wet wood cleanly. If you get my drift. mth

Well iffen our Government was as all-fired concerned about the Environment and our health, they would be supplying rebated petrol, to encourage its use in non road going plant and machinery, no doubt this would be supplied by flying pigs! but if we got red diesel, why not red petrol? mth

ya boo sucks, from an absolutly non-participating facebook account holder mth

I liked this a lot, see link; https://www.facebook.com/lyons.richard.l/posts/1907029039317484 hope that worked mth

I do keep reminding myself that a lot of the over done stomach churning BBC saturation coverage, is hard nosed commercially driven by the associated tourism revenue generated for GB PLC Which is good. At least here in N I it is easy to escape the hype if one so wishes, simply go stay in an overtly republican area, and/or drink in republican pubs. Or, on the day, attend our local North West 200 motorbike race. But I rather spend the day in the fruit garden listening to the birdsong. Simples!

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Classic Tractor, April issue perhaps? featured a farm dispersal sale by auction at some date in this month, which featured a pristine one owner one driver 1455 International, and other equally well looked about tractors.

He was telling porkies, me knows, 3' of snow on road tyres?? Had it been compacted down to a solid layer before he drove over it? or how? mth

What HP was the tractor, guessing 20 ish, 20+ prob and what hyd flow have you got to drive the hyd motor, that is how big a motor will the Avant drive? I am only really guessing but I would be looking for about a 15 to 20HP motor good luck marcus

Whilst driving in the Yorkshire moors a few year ago, I got verbally abused by a group of cyclists who choose to meet me head on, as I peeled off a large fast roundabout, i.e. they were deliberately choosing to go against the traffic flow, on the wrong side of a traffic island, headlong into any oncoming traffic.. Can anyone explain this behavouir? P.S. We were sightseeing, I was not driving fast, I also saw them in plenty of time, and conversely the must have seen me, but I was, presumably, expected to stop to allow them to recklessly proceed. I declined to be so bullied and calmly proceeded, much to their chagrin. marcus

Parachute in, make a dug-out canoe outta the tree, and paddle out, film it, and put it on Youtube. please

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