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  1. difflock
    Coming out of my Winter Hibernation (in Mid May!) see The stacked pile was the result of tidying up the mixed size mess that had accumulated over 10 years. The billet bundels are the "way forward" I intend to start processing into billet bundles, up the Moss "at source" then transport (on front and rear linkages) the billet bundles down to the yard to stack to season, then lift and place under cover, one last lift to inside the boiler room (& a Pallet truck looks ideal) Cut to length with a single Phase cross cut saw and straight into the boiler. To minimize manual handling.
  2. difflock
    A strong chance of Repetitive Strain injury to my right wrist.. .. .. perhaps:blushing:! But no excessive vibration.
  3. difflock
    AhHa! My wife and Daughter both got Raynaulds, and even as a young man in the TA, I could not grip a pencil in the Jan/Feb Scottish winter cold, while others were not the least bothered. Prob just age, and ongoing physical decrepitiude related, since only started recently. Ah well. Still glad to wake up grumpy any morning!
  4. difflock
    I am quite fond of the few Rooks that nest locally, and in company with the Jackdaws (who are nesting in the Chimmneys of the house) and Magpies,(vermin that need shooting) come back religiously each Spring, I presume at the hungeriest time of the year, to raid the dog nuts I put out each morning at 06:10. To feed the young in their nests presumably. Quite cheeky too! Right in at the back door under a car-port. Sit on the Concrete only 5 or 6 m away for the dogs to finish. M
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    How much exposure does it take? Which hand, if there is a difference? is the most likely to Exhibit symptoms. cos my left index and second finger have started getting bloody annoying in the cold. Just this past Spring.
  6. difflock
    tsk tsk the mounted howitzer type obviously DUH!
  7. difflock
    Toyota Mega Cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I want I want I want! just one ud do
  8. difflock
    If the gearing wisnay changed, and since tractors are limited to 50km (say 30mph) What unearthly engine rpm's were they not pulling to clock near 90 mph! Three times the normal max revs by my crude calcs. Does not quite compute.
  9. difflock
    Simply allows mechanical handling, incl higher mechanical stacking, therefore less covering required, plus easier, or more definitive measurement of volumes. M
  10. difflock
    Strangely enough having read this post sometime last week. When we were leaving the house yesterday morning, I could not help but laugh at a Blue tit very very persistently scouting out the 1490 DB, currently abandoned in the middle of the back yard. No doubt I shall find a nest in about the air filter or radiator cowling or somewhere such-like!
  11. difflock
    :thumbup::thumbup::001_tt2:
  12. difflock
    Hmmm:001_huh: but how does one slacken the wire, or just knock a billet or two out lenghtwise first perhaps?
  13. difflock
    Here in the blessed beautiful North Co Antrim, there is going,sooner or later, be carnage on the roads, when a group of inflated ego Motorcycle riders mangle a group of equally inflated egotist Lycra Clad cyclists. Judging by my observations of the behavouir of both groups when met or overtaken by a courteous car driver. It does not bode well.
  14. difflock
    bah humbug!
  15. difflock
    But I, me, mesel, personally, by name, in our local Community, know various persons who, whilst qualifying for the higher rate DLA (and the "free" car) are perfectly capable of working, (2 cases of injury damaged feet), leaves them 90+% mobile and 100% capable of a desk job. So why should they not be allowed or expected to work?
  16. difflock
    Plus the real irony was some of the new home owners doubled down (or is it up) and remortgaged the homes they never made a payment on subsequently, and blew it on fast living and consumer goods. And then expect our sympthay.
  17. difflock
    As above.
  18. difflock
    bit like Labour "back in the day" promising low rents, to buy a few votes, or is there a difference I missed?
  19. difflock
    (i) The trueley frightening inefficiencies and costs of La or Govt managed and maintained houses were unsustainable. (ii) The apparent "lack" of housing has more to do with every wee knocked up girl getting her own rent paid home, whilst the father(s) of her children are paid to live elsewhere. (iii) Plus divorced couples living in seperate homes, often getting their rents paid, while sons and knocked up daughters occupy other discrete residences. I not unreasonable believe that if those who find it hardest to afford a home or rent, lived a bit more communally, i.e. more persons under the one roof, it would be better for all. Has anyone figures to hand? PS Do charitable Housing Associations be liable for rates? I know the Commercial property rented to a charity is rates free for sure. So is this behind the move? Somebody gott pay! PS We never took mortgages, therefore never subsidized bankers.
  20. difflock
    ^^^^^^^ Wor "E" said!
  21. difflock
    Curiously ambivalent Sean, and curious as to why this has been suggested. (i) The presumably untertrodden HA tenants will now get a freebie, if they so wish(Power to the People n all that Right on Brother stuff) So does HMG think that the various Housing associations have grown too powerful?, or indeed could be abusing their position, taking unfair? advantage of their Charitable status? Regards, M
  22. difflock
    Above is quite correct, from recall. PS I currently own 3 no, "G" Wagens, not Argy ones mind. I really really really need to put the 290GD van back on the road, sigh. M
  23. difflock
    Thanks Cod, I had forgot about the dust! Right about the "bad" idea mind! cheers m
  24. difflock
    guessing a "TB" retrofit conversion then Jim?
  25. difflock
    If, as it classically is, dumped over the boundary, particularly if remote from any other persons access, I cannot see how they can reasonably deny it. This is one of the few issues that genuinely causes me to "red mist", generally caused by persons not belonging in the countryside, who keep their gardens exquisitely tidy, but seem to imagine that any ground outside their ownership is "common" ground and good to dump thereon. A tractor and hydraulic link-box is "wile" handy bytimes. m

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