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The Woodland Trust ash dieback campaign.... thoughts?
difflock replied to SteveA's topic in General chat
yup! We have had our first official notification re "ash die back" over the sake of a sapling in a T Centre car park, no thicker than my girly wrist. Which to my jaundiced eye looks remarkably healthy, bark wise, all smooth and green, obviously no leaves to be seen in Dec. A man with a bicycle and a bowsaw could remove it in 15 mins. But I suspect it will be a somewhat larger operation! -
I ud have presumed for stringing high tension cables over plyons, dont quite know why, but that is my intuitive judgement. And the name would sureley support this notion?
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Drinksloe, I am in agreement with your assessment. A good log burner in a reasonably insulated home heated with oil or gas, seems to be the most pragmatic/best "fit". I.e. keep the living room warm, & screw the thermostats back elsewhere, a kitchen should be warm anyway, but ours backs onto the wall with the stove in the living room so even better (as was indeed planned) And when we used the bedroom above the living room, it was also nice and warm, being above the heated room with the flue running up through the associated en-suite. Perfect. Cheers M PS My assessment of ALL grants is they are there to support the suppliers/installers, not the end users.
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Hmmmm? In which case "they" may have to increase the amount of the "counterfactual" KwHr payment, specially now that fossil fuels have become so much cheaper. I will therefore wait (cos we in NI only get sommat like 5.6p/KwHr currently) cos hey, our oil was more expensive (than mainland natural gas) therefore we were deemed to require less encourgament to switch to Biomass. Marcus
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Quite stupendous stuff, I liked the cat's dismissive "go-away" gesture btw
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The 1998 Steyr Puch Van went back on the road today. I paid £220.00 for a wash, and a seal to the steering box, literally the only work needed, this £220 incl the test fee. I could/should have knuckled down and done the work myself:confused1: No sized brakes or owt else requiring attention. It had been parked up for 2 or 3 years in a grass field. I did fit a new battery, at £90.00, to get it rolling. It started absolutly first kick. Oh and £168.00 to insure class 1 Business with the Farmers Union. I reckon that is value for money. Also got divinely comfortable supportive Recaro seats with proper armrests. 24mpg is the only issue. marcus
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I will be buying another Viking mower, or 2, since the one we bought last year has proved so popular, currentely clearing out a mixed bag of assorted unloved, underused & unwanted lawn mowers. Also fixated on purchasing more Stihl blowers and Strimmers. Purely due to them being a good product, with absolutly excellent local support. Marcus
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If prepared to consider LHD, though there are a few RHD's about, consider a 461 "G" Wagen, particularily with the 5 cyl 120BHP "Sprinter" engine therein. From about the year 2000, little to go wrong and properly hammered together. Marcus
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neat!
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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!
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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.
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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
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heating with Biomass, have I got the figures right?
difflock replied to difflock's topic in General chat
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: -
HeHeHe!
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Must try that at Dundonald Ice Rink!
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heating with Biomass, have I got the figures right?
difflock replied to difflock's topic in General chat
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 -
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
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heating with Biomass, have I got the figures right?
difflock replied to difflock's topic in General chat
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 -
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.
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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.
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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.
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"Cant fix Stupid"
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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
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explain "pulling locked buckets" please, ner.
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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.
