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Only about 4"/100mm long max. Yes we are under a Heron flightpath! The clay the pond was constructed with is the (from my experience) the "bog standard" Co Londonderry/Co Antrim "blue" clay, being, I presume from glacial activity "x" years ago. And, from standing in the bottom when dug, should be about a person deep, at least, so say 1.5 to 1.75m.(spited I did not actually measure at the time) Guessing it should be reasonably mineral rich. Pond fed with rain water since construction. And, as said, a surprising amount of natural vegitation already present. I can only presume the wee buggers are still happy on the bottom. PS Not seen the Heron about, and up at 06:00 each morning. marcus EDIT Nowhere for the Heron to stand as the sides are about a 45 deg slope right round.
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Cos we introduced 10 to the pond about a week ago, and haint seen them since. Said pond is about 6 months old and constructed from the underlying clay, about 1.75m deep and 12m across at the surface, with a surprising amount of natural vegitation established already. So are the expensive wee fishuckers, too busy exploring and feeding of the probably algae rich bottom/dying/dead vegitation to come for food. Or wot! PS Pond entirely fed from rainwater from roofs. marcus
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A near neighbour has 3 PH, which he has not used in prob 25 years, the electric supplier came at him to relinquish his supply. Bodie says " how much would a new 3PH connection cost?" Why? says the Engineer. Because, says Bodie, if you give me a cheque for that amount of money now, I will allow you to disconnect my supply. Needless to say he still has his live but unused 3PH supply!
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Yup, spent 7 hrs of extreme boredom on Thursday past finishing my 5 days worth. I am now attempting to corrolate a link between CPC Training and suicides. There MUST be one! Marcus
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125m2 of concrete down today to house my Baker Bluestreak 3036E. (I have so far chickened out of filling in the forms for the 3PH Mains connection.) Though sensibly need to explore it before I invest in an Genset. Though not quite sure where to set the limit. i.e If a gen set costs "x" £stg, is 2*x, or 3*x justified/justifible for a 3ph connection. that is say guessing £6,000.00 for a Genset, could £12,000.00 or £18,000.00 be justified for a Mains connection. Suppose I need to get a kWHr price first, against what a Genset ud cost to run. Edit There is` another reason for perhaps wishing the 3PH Mains connection. To run the heatpump for ground source heating on the RHI Scheme. Then I sell ALL my firewood, for Guiness tokens.
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I planted an Ash tree, between the shed to be an the Duckpond.
difflock replied to difflock's topic in General chat
Bingo(from a failed Civil Engineer btw), got some big natural land stones ready and waiting, will place when a digger is about shortly for other works. -
Surely better to make biodiesel?, for a diesel engine. Or for a stationary application simply rig a insulated fuel tank with a heater and run on Straight vegetable oil.
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I planted an Ash tree, between the shed to be an the Duckpond.
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£50.00 quid of Coi Carp installed this evening = 10 No. They snuck off down along the bottom. I reckon the volume at about 90m3 and should be 100m3 when properly full. Hopefully due to my 45 deg sloping sides it will not be particularly Heron friendly. Since nowhere to stand? We are unfortunately absolutly directly under the feeding Herons flight path, as observed over this past 18 years. cheers M -
Needs some Ferguson/St. Louis coppers on your beat.
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I planted an Ash tree, between the shed to be an the Duckpond.
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Merely require to ballast the end with a concrete block, I have it guyed with Galvanised catenry wire btw. -
Ah but! First; How much labour is involved, or extra covered space required to get the net bags of leaves and twigs dry, I imagined"composting" taking place if they are stacked in bulk. Second; What price is each net bag?, not insignificent I presume (though if it allows the use of an otherwise wasted recource, no odds) I really really do like the "concept" and my limited acreage of Birch would be just perfect for this bit of kit. But too soon exhausted feeding a 40Kw boiler. PS Must get signed up for our MUCH delayed/and as not yet launched RHI scheme(with sig poorer payments than the English RHI scheme) fume fume!
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Seee, (i) Will this plunging gutter water be sufficient to aerate the pond for Carp? (ii) going to fabricate 9.0m lattice trusses to skip a girder/upright, so as to give a clear opening to allow access for tree length timbers to the BakerMill. N.B. Note the Wheeliebin staff holder! Quite perfect, an it disnay answer back oo let the staff lean or wander. The last photo(sideways on) is for the overflow from the Duckpond, it will also (i) provide free drainage for the flower garden and (ii) Give Senior Managment a "wetland" environment to plant up. PS I am going to cover the orange wavin sewer pipe with chicken wire mesh, and plant a Wisteria or sommat climbing to mostly hide it.
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Need(obviously) to keep the leafy stuff/very fine branches out. Is that a "top filling" ETA boiler. They do do one that is advertised to burn mixed timber
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Good luck! Having tried and worked my way up to a "proper" Polytarp from Cunningham covers. Which still pulled the eyelets out, despite being very carefully secured. No subsitute for a proper woven from linen tarpaulin. PS Sailcloth if it could be got? But presumably sailcloth useless in respect of abrasion or rubbing therefore no good for covering.
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Thank you 100% wtf no Politican dares mentions an "end-game" or suggests a stable population society, I do not know. Well I do actually.
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Options are a bit limited surely. Either got to bag (an thinking a disposable net bag) Then hand-ball into the firebox. BUt Bound to be voids, UNLESS someone designs a tubular firebox to suit the bag diameter. Hmmm? Better get my HB doodling pencil fired up. Or use the small logs as bulk fuel. And Load into a hopper with a loading shovel. Buts that is a commercial op, and this stuff more likely to be a small output operation. cheers M
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Good luck Predator!
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Any person meeting or exceeding the above criteria is worth 50k per annum. Plus benefits.
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Feed the VIN No. into the MB system "What would you like Sir" Though the last time I needed a back box for the Exhaust, the MB system came up with some (not unreasonable) statement the since these veh were (i) 1998 vintage (ii) Only 30 imported to the Uk therefore MB would not undertake to garentee future spares. When they are gone they are gone, or so I understood. but # BUT Regardless, in respect of engine, transmission and suspension bite = "bog standard" Merc van/truck stuff. cheers M
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Lovely looking babies Mark. Congrats. m
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Huck, Having been driving for some 35 years, I "rationalized", that regardless of the other traffic in the lanes, IF one was simply maintaining a steady speed, and some half-wit chooses to sit blocking the outer lane while travelling slower, one would not be done for "undertaking". i.e. Myself not changing lanes, nor accelerating. merely "Maintaining progress" as in Paul's post. Cheers Marcus
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Top post above, says it all. Though my familys limited history of manic-depressive behavouir does not-never include self-harm or suicide attempts. Damm it we gotta live to make others around us miserable:blushing:
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Provided for hot water for making your tea when on site! Marcus
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Presumably an "indicated" 85, so prob still on the safe side of a genunine 80. I required to be careful recently while driving on the Sat-nav as I rapidly started using it as the speedo, and was allowing for the inbuilt speedo error. but oops no error in Satnav 85 IS 85 Not really realized until a glance at the Speedo shows nearer 95mph.
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Absolutly correct. Thank you, bin doing this this years, without incident. A friendly Royal type wave out the window, while going past, does sometimes appear to have unwarranted effects!! marcus
