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  1. difflock
    neat!
  2. difflock
    Spud, I am, and have been, proper jealous of your signature line, i.e. life is definately tougher when one is stupid, nor can it be fixed:lol: PS The "G Wagen" forum entirely failed to unnerstan my pithy statment; "There's nathing as wot wouldny werk better fer bane taken asundry furst":lol: m For those of an English disposition, translates as; "There is nothing that would not better after being completely dismantled first" Honest Mum!
  3. difflock
    Subbies in on a job, with a new to me Stihl chainsaw. They could not get it started, I smelt the Petrol, and concluded it was flooded, as I set it to run and started pulling it, the guy says "its sommat to do with the on-off switch" indicating the knob that rotates thro 90 deg to secure the air filter housing. Doh! After explaining the true purpose of this knob:001_rolleyes:, and the actual control settings, finally I got her started. I do suppose youse have all heard about the new "wind-up clockwork chainsaw":lol: Bloody knackered by the time I got the wee skitter started mind. might as well o bin clockwork. PS No spark plug removing tool present.
  4. difflock
    Bah Humbug try living in Northern Ireland. Every individual shotgun and Air Rifle, no matter the power, Individually argued for, case by case, an a FAC. Why does Sir require 2 weapons of the same calibre etc etc. With a fresh Application every 10 years, NOT a renewal. Mind you means multi shot shotguns and high power Air rifles, are a "might as well" Plus TeeHee We got to keep our Pistols Both the Legal and Illegal ones
  5. difflock
    yes, but I suspect significently more expensive. My preferred option ud be wood chip burner, cept I ud then need to hire somebody in to chip my trees, I havnt found a local guy yet, but am putting out feelers re. cheers m PS Ah bin wile lazy this past year, & productivity been v low:blushing:. Or perhaps my 50 year old wife is wringing all the Sap outta me:lol:
  6. difflock
    HeHeHe!
  7. difflock
    Must try that at Dundonald Ice Rink!
  8. difflock
    Humph! Ussens here in NI only get 5.6p/kWHr, and capped at £2,000.00 per annum And with the cost of pellets being near enough 2* the cost of heating oil, based on calorific value per kg. Even with a near max annual "deemed" payment, spread over 10 years(with subs for 7) With the capital installation costs to cover near enough "break even" so no point
  9. difflock
    Erm, gents, the price of ANY fuel, is driven by oil. Since oil is now dirt cheap again, this will inevitably drive down the price for other fuels. Never mind the (however short term) glut of fracked gas. Simple basic Capitalism at work. marcus
  10. difflock
    I still have not committed to our NI RHI Scheme, mostly heating with currently cheap oil at the moment, but pondering if now would be a good time to get an install done, as hopefully with cheap oil, fewer people "mad" to install biomass. Therefore perhaps a more competitive installation quotation, and indeed a better quality installation? Ho hum, decisions decisions. marcus
  11. difflock
    ps Those funnels with the super fine water stopping gauze, do work, or at least the one I bought 20 years ago still does, or certainly appears to. You need to blow the gauze out with compressed air periodically, and if the diesel is dirty, it will be painfully slow, clean diesel goes through fine though.
  12. difflock
    I found mounting the 5 tonne Krpan to the 1490 DB quite tricky, no bloody room to work between the tractor/tractor wheels and the winch. AND the PTO shaft had to be cut very short,(I did it incrementally to be sure) and even at the longest possible length, it left the overlap marginal enough for safe working/to minimize wear, to my eye, like a couple of inches/40/50mm. And due to the off centre mounting of the PTO stub on the Krpan winch, the angle is acute when running, especially when the winch "digs in", the PTO shaft "knocks", it really needs a (more expensive) shaft with CV joints as opposed to Hardy-Spicer joints So I can only presume a tractor with shorter link arms would be even more problematic. so you have my sympathy.
  13. difflock
    cut with kero=heating oil, why use petrol unless for DERV? oh yes and observe "good fuel hygine". and also worth consideration, keep the fuel tank as full as poss to minimize atmospheric moisture condensing therein.
  14. difflock
    "Cant fix Stupid"
  15. difflock
    Oh, farmers Son that I was, this is so obvious, i discounted it as even needing explaining, 'n though it were sommat more exotic. Cheers M
  16. difflock
    explain "pulling locked buckets" please, ner.
  17. difflock
    Agrimog, As a ex TA person I fell about/fall about laughing when anyone/some says a Ex Army Landrover will have been well maintained. Having witness wholesale/systemic filling in of service records that had never happened. So I appreciate your concerns. However since stock farmers, and some wood-cutters on here, cough cough, are near as wilfully bad to their machinery, I figgered no odds. Anyway low hours, and a Pardon the pun a "Bombproof" build by Valtra of this period.
  18. difflock
    I was not aware we were seperated at birth Sloth! My sentiments exactly Bah Humbug!!
  19. difflock
    The storey goes that when RJP Nutt was engaged in dredging works at Carrickfergus Harbour back in the 50's or 60's, such works only being possible at low tide. Any old RJP himsel called up one day when the tide was in, to find his No1. dozer driver looking pensive while smoking a pipe atop the Harbour wall. RJP asked why he was looking so thoughtful. Yer man says "Patta, can sommat be lost if ye know where it is?" Patta replied "Dont be a very silly man, of course not!" , or words to that effect. Yer Dozer Driver then motions with his pipe down towards the water, as he says "Thats a relief then, cos Yer Dozer's no lost, fer shes down in there for sure"
  20. difflock
    Valmet , 665-4 tractor fitted 2.5ton loader, #77689 - MOD Sales, Military Vehicles & Used Ex MOD Land Rovers for Sale very very capable apparently. specially way yon wee counterweight on the back:lol:
  21. difflock
    ^^Ah!, thats my kind engineering Bob.^^ I like it. Cheers M
  22. difflock
    Morris, Other than having viewed youtube clips of various different brands of tractors using the Ferrirotor, and marvelling at its apparent effectivness and speed. I do wonder how much of its speed is due to the fact that it always appeared to be used on Poplar stumps on sandy friable ground? i.e. very weak timber, & not massive stumps. I also wondered is there not a digger mounted "Hydracrack" type screw splitter (and i believe there are several about) that would do the same job, with perhaps better control? Certainly a tracked digger would allow for better access to wet ground. cheers M
  23. difflock
    Will check once home, cos I recently purchased a set off ebay that weigh up to 300kg(if I recall correctly) To weigh my 0.5m3 billet bundles Seem to be 100%, from recall about £50.00 I recall the greater payload ones were significently more expensive though cheers M
  24. difflock
    "Yer better with a Zetor" Anyway I like their production of proper stockman spec tractors with manual controlled hydraulics etc. Less to go wrong. Never mind their recent re-introduction of the, the then, rightly famed Zetor Crystal, again with a simple "brute horspower" uncomplicated varient, but with a Deutz engine! marcus
  25. difflock
    Wots the subtle difference between spalted but sound, and spalted rotten?

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