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A tidy solution that, and much safer than a seat.

Indeed, I believe it be to common knowledge that the IRA, only swithed to a SF headed Political Operation, but only when they realized, and then eventually accepted, that the Security forces had rendered their murderous "military" operations ineffective, by dint of informers and other good intelligence gathering. And possibly realizing they were in danger of losing the blind unquestioning support of a significent %age of their Nationalist supporters, who were ever so slowly accepting that the RC population were now actually doing quite well as a result of years of positive discrimination. Hence our current "cracks-papered-over" stalemate.

Interesting times . . . btw. I am of the same opinion as best expressed by Sir Norman Tebbit. mth

Winter? Wot winter?

The better the day the better the deed! (Or so I have heard quoted) As in I welded my euro8 brackets on my forklift carriage today.(so, like wrsni?, do you want me to bring the wee Inverter welder round tomorrow:001_tt2:) And the wee Kioti will lift 1500kg, centred 400mm out on the toes, or 88 no 18 by 9 by 4 blocks, comfortably. Well pleased I am, so now to get my clip-on log beak fabricated

I bought my ex forklift carriage from a local forklift specialist, with a yard full of stuff "a breaking", saw an absolute honey of a virtually new looking box tipper carriage, with a hyd. motor driving a worm to give endless rotation, £1000.00 though. Ah could near be tempted . . . PS The Quickie Euro 8 brackets, the proper drop forged ones pre set ready to weld on, cost me £50.00 from a local agric engineer, i.e. cheaper than ebay!

Thanks wrsni, I bought mesel a 2nd hand forklift carriage and euro 8 brackets yesterday, I intend to fabricate a clip-on hyd log-beak of some sort, using a cheap hydraulic top link. With the fast hydraulics and the creeper gears, near as usuable as a hydrostatic drive for loading the bucket without riding the clutch (with a filled link box on the back as ballast), a concreted filled 45 gallon drum will be perfect at about 500kg. I intend to fit better fat radial tyres at some point, be ideal iffen I can source ones to fit the really good Stocks rims. cheers mth

Oddly for someone who is "careful" with money, I would unhesitatingly plump for the 600mm wide radials, tyres being essentially the one key limiting factor, irrespective of what vehicle they are fitted to. But I suppose that is why I am regarded locally as being (a bit) barmy for fitting new(15 odd year ago) 520/70/34 radials to my knackered old 1984 vintage David Brown. cheers mth

Thanks for the replies guys. mth

(i)better dayz, what sort of ground were you working on?, I figgered the Geogrid would prevent the hardcore from "punching" through any softer areas, and , by my rough calcs each layer of Geogrid would only pay for 125mm thick of hardcore(without costing in the diggers and dumpers), so sig. less depth when placed. (ii)scbk, tyre bales would add too much height, with the rodden already being higher than the surrounding moss, and I dont be aware of anybody local offering, though I have successfully used interleaved tractor tyres to revet places in the moss, and filling them with hardcore, tedious but effective and doable on my lonesome with a tractor and linkbox.

A long title, but I got from a minimum of 600m ( & up to 1500 m ) of undisturbed peat rodden that I wish to improve, for a well shod tractor and trailer(& see the "Yoke" in my Avatar) in dry(er) conditions, or rather be prepared to avoid using when too wet. Peat about 3m-4m deep, mostly reasonably dry, but undulating, with a good "scraw" of grass, but bare wet patches.(which I will "darn" felled birch into first) Anyway I can currently get virtually unlimited crushed demolition hardcore, but, as always, at a price. I was considering hiring a tracked dumper to draw forward to a tracked digger, and first filling the hollows, with crushed hardcore, to leave a relatively flat surface, without removing any "scraw". Then unrolling 4.0 m wide 20/20 "Geogrid", (@ £200.00/50m roll) before covering with, say 150mm-250mm-300mm more crushed hardcore, again drawn in by tracked dumper. If needs be doubling up on the Geogrid layers in the softer/wetter places. Anyone tried anything similar? mth

Eggs, although my God fearing country bred Mother, never actually expressed it as such, I believe her innate belief was "life is not meant to be easy", and so she kept her chin up and carried on. Or, indeed, despite my depressive moments, I have commented; "Iffen anybody decided to shoot at me, I ud probably do my best to run" i.e. I am definately NOT sucidal/ life is not THAT bad, yet. So, be thankful & soldier on. PS Just back from the pub, where ; (a) one bloke has bin chucked out of his v recently deceased partners home after 30+ years, like 3 days after she was buried. (b) Another bloke was grieving ( as in, tears running down his cheeks) over the recent self inflicted death of a 44 year old Son. So, indeed, my/our life is pretty good! regards Marcus

I liked burning Birch, but when I switched to burning Lodgepole/Sitka, I found no odds, since I am only carrying the same weigh in for the same burning value, and the heavy metal stove modulates the heat output very effectively. BUT! hardwood is so much nicer to handle.

Unfortunately this is where "cant fix stupid" really kicks in, ditto for ambulence drivers destroying clutches(absolutly needlessly) when bogged on a bit of wet grass, or binmen driving down glassy smooth ice in a cul-de-sac, then wondering why they (i) cannot get turned, (ii) or magically drive back out uphill. I.e any of these great nationalized services simply cultivate stupid. Send em on a course and they will ALWAYS come back rubber stamped as trained, no matter how cognatively challenged they happen to be.

Hardwood or softwood?

Local feed merchant is charging £40.00 for a dumpy bag of mixed birch and goat willow, this bag about 0.65m3 from memory. I have just filled a trailer with a generous 4.0m3 of dry conifer, cut to nominal 8" /10" lengths. So, what to charge? Thoughts please. mth

Darn it! I intended "Direct Rule" in my title, not Devolved.

I would not say "bollocks" to medication, as I will probably remain on a wee tablet for the rest of my life, the Doc, who it must be said cannot understand depression/mood swings, admitted that it was a "suck it and see" approach, trying me on a couple before finding one that was compatible with my particular chemistry, i.e stabilizing without zombiefying When I came off the meds one spring I went bloody hyper and bought yon 3PH Baker sawmill, which still sits as an expensive reminder to stay on the meds. good luck mth

As a reasonably educated 58 year old Presbyterian raised citizen of the United Kingdom, (who lost no close kin during the Troubles, but loathes the pure hyprocisy of the SF/IRA party.) I believe I could stomach a United Ireland, IF, and only if SF/IRA admitted to their guilt and atrocities, and with after such a confession the likes of Gerry Adams (and the rest of the "Old Guard" ) retreating from public/political life. Simply because the ROI is no longer in thrall to the RC Church. BUT The British minded population, of a United Ireland, would need protection from the JackBoot policies of o so sweet innocent SF. N.B. Pre partition, about 30% prods in the South, due to blatent discriminatory RC Church driven policies this rapidly dwindled to about 3%. Oddly enough, the %age of RC's increased "up North", despite the Unionist control (50 years of misrule and all that!) during this same period. marcus P.S. I did NOT vote DUP

Eggs, I can only sympathize, since a streak of manic depression runs in my breeding, I was very bad a few years ago despite a v good supportive wife, happy healthy children and no money worries. Sat in a chair and mostly stared blankly at a wall or out the window for about 6 months. The local, mostly farming community, were very understanding since "there is a lot of it about" The best I can offer is accept that it should go away, and sit it out, a few bright Spring days is all it will probably need to re-set your mojo. good luck marcus

I had hoped for some moderate middle ground sanity to start to emerge, in line with Mike Nesbitt's comment that he would like to see UUP voters giving their 2nd/3rd/4th preference votes to the SDLP. And presumably vise-versa. Since, in conscience the DUP & SF can only be regarded as the 2 mainstream-extreme parties. Interesting times indeed.

If the DUP cannot stomach the outcome of Thursdays election, or will the DUP swallow their pride and accept parity with SF? But with Birkenstock over here and May in charge at Westminister, perhaps not. Game on! mth

OK:thumbup: & Thanks for this tip WP

There is a spare set of DA at the rear, but with the cost of hydraulic hose, and the seperate control lever and the routing of a pair of hoses, I figger a 12V switch mounted to the top of the loader joystick and a 6 port was a neater solution. Be looking a set of forklift brackets tomorrow, and having seen the tidy "clip-on" type log-beak for a standard tractor loader forklift advertized on ebay. It looks a very sensible idea. cheers mth

Is Minezis (i) 70litre/min oil flow (ii) 24 F/R (iii) mid mount PTO (iv) splined shaft left to connect a front PTO (v) sub 1800 Hrs and v clean and unabused. Underneath not really suitable for spraghling about up the moss(yet!). I just need to sort out a 12V/6 PORT valve for a 3rd service for a log beak or timber grab to the front, An, cough, cough, an a wee weight block for the back(cos quite a fast powerful loader)