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Of the top/mainstream brands , whatever brand has the bestest localest dealer is the best pick, imho.

Update (i) Mucho frogspawn (ii) A Duck egg resting on the weeds, no nest to be seen, guessing a young inexperience duck dropped an egg by accident? while prospecting for a nest site. (iii) No fish, yet.

A local landscaper (who already runs an Avant) was admiring our 640 cleaning our pavoir surfaced caravan bays with the rotary wire brush. They then merely require "rinsing" with a pressure washer, and come up like new. A very slick cost effective operation. The ability to easily get into the back corners was what really appealed to him. m

Tell me More! Being from NI where any&all air rifles are held on a FAC. The 12ftlb is not applicable So I had homed in on the HW 80, as supposedly being origionally designed and engineered to shoot .22 at about 18ft lbs, with a larger dia piston, larger swept volume etc etc. so other than being a heavy lump of a man sized air rifle? Any other comments? I want a Springer (harking back to my adolescent years) and fancy .22 since the .177 pellets are so dammned fiddly with my poor eyesight:lol: I Already got a PCP in .177 btw

I gave up on tarpaulins, simply windy up here in the NW, based on 20 years experience. Some sort/any sort of frame and tin sheeting, however rough, & significently maximize cover by fitting sheets upside down and NOT overlapping, even leaving about a 15 to 20mm gap between the upturned edges to encourage ventilation. Surprisingly Insignificent amounts of rain will penetrate btw. OR I found that if I stacked the billet bundles 4 or 5 high, only a portion of the top row got wet enough to matter, and if set aside for a few days even they too dried enough, or simply leave them out another year, lower in the stack. But in this respect the wind is my friend, not my tarpaulin shredding enemy. marcus

Just to add, the last 6 billet bundles (at 1.0m long) I cut to length in the comfort of the dry shed, were (i) Still remarkedly tight in their Polywotsit strapping (tensioned with the hand held tool) (ii) Despite being tight, i was easily able to spring the strapping over the ends of a billet or 2 then wriggle it/them free, thereby "loosing" the bundle without cutting the strapping! I do be a trifle "anal-retentive" in my bundling operation though, but time well spent to ensure sturdy, easily handled bundles. So can at least re-use once, albeit for smaller dia bundles. cheers M

Uncle Arthur Morton had a "recipce" for cooking some otherwise unpalatable freshwater fish between Elm boards, with various herbs and other palaver, over a long cooking period. Gist was then dump the fish and eat the boards boom boom!

Begorra Patrick, Tis a new wan tay me, turning hay wit a Motorbike 'n all! such progress.

tsk tsk u = uninformed, cos see, I recognise some of my limitations:001_tt2: Anyway how could it mean unbiased, since that is patently impossible in respect of a statement about ones self preceptions? And no not even Viking build brick shite-house quality ride on mowers:001_tt2: PS The Huskquy rep admitted their strimmer fuel tanks had a habit of splitting in the past. He also explained their recent and very simple model numbering system. Which even I kin now ken (understand, ye ken) Methinks someone has got a "grip" at HUSQVARNA.

Cos ah wuz at a husky open day/demo today:001_tt2: Absolutly ogling yon big Kubota engined out front Husqy mower, built like a brick shite-house, pity about the £18,000.00 list/£15,000.00 actual cost though(plus VAT mind) Apparently it is NOT designed to cut cast iron manhole covers, so no good for some of my operators. Also some seriously sexy well engineered(imhuo) battery powered stuff. And thats from a dyed in the blood Stihl man (but Husquy now got seriously lower vibration figures) sigh

Funny enough, despite a v sound marriage, good weans 'n sound finances, I am only now, at going on 57, started to peek over the parapet again. Ye Haw! Perhaps a recent medical which revealed a cholestrol level of 10.75 focussed my mind! I now intend to live a little before I die a lot. m

tsk tsk!

Now just why do i get the impression that the Netherlands differ in topography from Norn Ireland. Tis (i) all flat (ii) all straight (iii) all sand (iv) and No stone ditches or hedges etc etc etc Unless there are 4 men in the cab?

Go on then annoy us proper like, by telling us how little? Cheers M

My personal experience is that fatigue IS the main killer, I know that I cannot think properly when tired, let alone stupid tired, and have had a few relatively narrow escapes when younger and "pushing the envelope". Ditto applies to driving. From experiences when I was perhaps simply less "risk-averse" but fortunately always lucky. Or is it luck?

That too was my upbringing, my fathers brother was very protective of us growing up about a farm place, and basically drilled in "think", think think, i.e "what if's", never leave potential hazards for others, or oneself, i.e nails through wood etc, and if knowingly putting oneself in some hazard, have an escape route reasonably planned, and when I started to drive I still remember he said, "but can you drive the other car as well? Unfortunately many now have grown up with the idea that they should be protected against themselves and their ill considered actions. cheers m

And yet . . . the statistics tell us if you need an operation done, get a surgeon who has preformed thousands of these particular ops. because he will be better at them. Even though the previous post would indicate an ever increasing risk of a cock-up with every operation preformed. m

(i) The numpties, both sexes who simply cannot turn in left, in a humble wee car, without swerving out first. (ii) Indicators, whot's them, I now regularly enter roundabouts with the window down and left hand ready over the horn, To point and blare at the right turners without indicators. (iii) Dorks who swing into their drive of an evening, and then expect the traffic to stop for the AS they blindly reverse out. (iv) Persons who should NOT be allowed to drive on narrow rural roads, cos (i) they dont want to get their car dirty, or(ii) dont know their bloody width (& shiney clean Land Cruiser Drivers are Included) (v)Those super-safety conscientous drivers who stop on a blind crest or bend to answer ther mobile phone, generally stopping 2 or 3 feet from the verge. (vi) Mobile ph users who stop near a "slap" but refuse to pull in cos they might get the car dirty. I could go on . . . and on and on and on, but i wont

We have always worked with rescue dogs, and apart from the odd mother & pup(s) they always been singletons. Until SM went all the way to Castleblaney and brought back 2 pups, one being the "runt" of the litter with a very pronounced pig jaw. Watching the 2 siblings grow up together, absolutly knocking lumps out of other while playing boisterly, then falling asleep in a lump, I would almost say it was un-natural to raise a pup on its own. So well-done Tony. Marcus

F & M's Earl Gray or Lady Gray, though we just finished a ****-ton of Williamsons (Elephant logo) tea, in lovely tin caddies, flogged through BM Bargins at an absolute silly knock-down price. Twinings in a pinch.

I were speaking with a tree guy today, who was showing me this very (Diverto) link, and wondering . . .

wot e said!

On the other hand . . . see link T 204 H - AUSA Ausa do a telehandler weighing 4050 kg unladen ( & therefore transportable on our 7500kg Beavertail) That will lift 2 tonne Talk about a "quart in a pint pot" Kubota engined too! M

About 2.7 tonne so perfectly suited to towing on the 3500kg 50mm ball hitch/overrun braked limit. As I believe mentioned somewhere above. Which was probably a part of the design brief. A proper "wee honey" bit o kit.

Ah! ah wis thinking about cardboard tubes from carpet rolls etc but bloody hell! BINGO How the cardboard will survive the drying/seasoning process though, though perhaps all is needed is a temporary "former" to keep the billets in-situ until strapped tight. Certainly worth a try Thanks gdh