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Hey Ho ! Nay worries here in Ulster = Cash-for-Ash la-la-land, especially now as the local yobbo's are collecting for their culturally rich 12th Bonfires. sigh.

What distresses me is the pandering to the acute sensitivities, both physical and psychological of the fractionally small %age at the extremities of the bell curve, and this at some considerable financial cost and curtailment of the simple pleasures of the vast bulk of the population. So should tractor pulling and Santa Pod be banned? And all unnecessary pleasure/liesure related carbon and pollution producing activities Gosh! and how about those filthy traditional charcoal burners, spewing all those toxins into the air. Are we going to be prevented from barbacuing? especially Pork ribs in a Muslim neighbourhood, well if they can smell and identify the aroma, they can choose to be distressed and therefore litigate, for example. etc etc P.S. Perhaps due to my upbringing, but mostly due to a simple formed from observation core belief, but; I consider the average human life to be overvalued, we are born, get or take our chances, then die, if one has led a rich life, why should one wish to continue in a frail shell of a decrepit failing body, and harshly, if one has not had a good life or enjoyed life, why should we expect this to change in our dotage with both a failing mind and body. I mostly enjoy life, and enjoy seeing others enjoy their lives, butI also value nature above some of the lives of some of the negative-equity dross in the "living" in the wider community. again, tough love. mth

There are however quite a few complete nutters "ranting" on other/another forum about deadly woodsmoke "killing" them, in one case it was about the smell of the neighbours woodsmoke.(but I bet the complainant used plenty of aerosol products and perfumes!) Personally I buy into the balanced viewpoint, that mankind evolved to deal with reasonable airborne particulate matter, like simple dust from the natural environment, and that the particularly sensitive outliers should not be pandered too, especially if, as I suspect, there is/was probably parental over-medication, over cleanliness, etc etc leading to the asthma and allergies. Like our disgustingly healthy 25 year old Son, was "diagnosed" with breathing difficulties/bad chest=needing antibiotics when little more than a baby. Which he did not get, well he got one dose, then I dug my heels in. Unsurprisingly, to a country bred and reared person anyway, he lived! In my experience Nurses are the worst for over medicating themselves and their children. P.S. I understand there is a growing realization/acceptance, within at least some of the medical community, that babies and toddlers require exposure to "germs" to develop their natural immune system defences, this means allowing our children to get sick & spotty & snuffle and snotter. Without dying. Tough love. mth

Source? but Too good to be true surely? mth

I would always cut the log or billet in half, then probe the centre of the freshly exposed cut end. I wish I had kept splitting a month ago to have availed of the past couple of weeks of phenomenal drying weather here in Co. Antrim. mth

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!

Meh !

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

Actually I was wondering that no-one was thinking about using the latest ultra-capacitors to provide the extra start up current needed for electric motors, when driven by a genny, or indeed even mains powered.. BTW. I came across an interesting article about the latest electric motor breakthrough; "self writing" motors, that use the latest electronic jiggery-pokery associated with cordless power tool motors, to allow for up to 100HP single Ph electric motors, but seemingly more pertinent to the US than the UK or Europe. Fingers crossed there is hope on the horizon for my electric 30HP motor driven Baker bandsaw mill? Cheers mth

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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