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We ran a Camplet trailer tent when the children were young(ger) Our only problem was persuading the children to leave the various campsites, once they had found the sand pit/play area and the other children, they were set for the duration. We mostly went to France, the Municipal sites were always very pleasent, especially in those non touristy areas that were trying to build a tourist trade. cheers M

I suggested using the stoner, John went one better, See; A low lying wet site where the paths always erode and get muddy.

Hmmm, a good question, the wife started gardening about 5 year ago, and got carried away planting blackcurrent slips/cuttings, with about a 99% success rate, they seem to love our conditions,(acidic soil) and be immune to diseases and pests. Unlike the Whitecurrents/redcurrents(birds love them, and will need a fruit cage next year, and btw the Lidl whitecurrent plants are very good ) and Gooseberries(sawfly saw to them) And I hate to waste anything/see owt go to waste. but a good question nonetheless:lol: cheers m

Ian, Funny enough, my first comment was going to be; "Just how much blood do you want to see?"

I reckon with bagging the currents in sandbags (yes, seriously!) and I bagged up about 100kg tonight of already frozen ones, these sandbags fit beautifully from front to back in the chest freezer, 5 rows by 6 deep =30 by 10kg =300kg plus about another 30 or 40kg above the compressor housing. Should make a hole in the supply for a week or so, if the bloody torrential rain stops. Then might need to consider buying another 21 cube foot chest freezer. Plus I ate about 500 grammes of absolutly perfectly ripe 10mm to 15mm perfect specimens, in a bowl of greek style yoghurt. Topped by rich dark sugar. yum yum

Well, as I pointed to another forum frequenter. The Krpan has the USP of very easy, almost even accidental conversion to one handed operation. Purely for owner operator use. Whether this was cunning Slovanian design or pure serindipity, I cannot say. but wile handy nonetheless. m PS Paul?( I am terrible with names) yes I can see the ce/EC Conformity issues, and yes it was quite expensive. But if importing direct for ones own use? Perhaps.

(i) "Home made" Hydroformed expansion chambers, yeah, like I found a hydroformer chucked in the Skip last week. (ii) It's NOT for a boat.

Bare hands! Oh God Forbid! Cos I thought one was supposed to wear gloves when handling a chain? Being new an razor sharp an all. m

Good points Hawthorne and RJ, more about constricted sites/manouveribility. Them dammned tractors DO need a whole lot of room. Cheers Marcus

Senior managment has been giving away her excellent home made jam (with NO added water/No Certo or other non-fruit setting agents) plus copious rubarb. For about 5 years. At least. Prob hundreds of kilos worth. The reciprocation has been very very very, very limited. Regards, Marcus

We picked and bagged up 40 kg today in a short time between MEGA showers, plus picking raspberrys and strawberries. With the previous intermittent picking thats about 100kg in the freezer already, and we havny even got right started. m

From memory, I recall concluding these were the dogs dangly bits FOR SPLITTING RINGS see: Time-saving Wood Splitters and Bundlers | Commercial & Private Use Logs fall off into bulk bags, or a bulk bag on one side and an elevator on the other. The key was the absolute lack of lost time, with the splitter working in both directions. Pure poetry in motion, from the demo my cynical eye saw anyway. marcus

Good bright light causes the pupils to "stop" down, the finer aperture allows for a more forgiving focus, or better "depth of field" in camera speak. So we literally can see better.(for those of of us of cough, cough, a certain age) but I much prefer reasonable natural daylight to any artifical light. nb Must put a micrometer on my chain sometime, just to see.(how good I am or am not) Ditto some of the sharpened out chains hanging on a nail. But, as a self taught .325 chain sharpener (semi chisel I think:blushing:) I use the wee Stihl file guide and judge by eye. BUT: I am a trifle OCD in ensuring that each tooth gets three full length file strokes, absolutly perpindicular to the tooth, i.e. following the tooth if/as it lies over in the bar, and religously rotating the file between each stroke and equally religiously cleaning the swarf off the file between each tooth, generally wiping on my arm or leg. And always looking for curly wurly shavings, or large clean chips. m

Our complete (and insert a string of ban inducing expletivies) of an ex PE Teacher (the bully boy type) turned LA Director. Borrowed the Council chain-saw, without my knowledge, and took it back to the Council joiner because it was not working properly, the engine was starting and running, but a bit gutless when revved to cut. Yes you guessed. The chain brake was engaged. Doh!

Lambda sensor, same as a car exhaust one. Senses the oxygen in the flue. Too much oxygen in the flue, turn down the fan. Too little, turn it up, i.e. for optimium burning without needlessly stripping heat from the fire and dumping it up the flue. All within the overriding thermostatically controlled burn programme. marcus

Coming from a suckling herd background, ie keep cows to produce calves to either sell a stores or finish ourselves. I can assure anyone that antibiotic use was very very miniminal, i.e. targeted on the few sick animals only. Perhaps the Diary sector use more antibiotics, I dont know. BUT I do KNOW how many silly/stupid/misguided people run to the Dr. for antibiotics when they either are not particularly sick, or indeed for illnesses that antibiotics will NOT cure. And the adults who also do not finish the course of antibiotics, or swill alcohol during it. ESPECIALLY for sniffling, naturally mildly sick children. I ABSOLUTLY know these facts to be true from observation within our average local community. So hey folks look to the beam in your own eyes before blaming farmers motes!!! regards, marcus PS Our suckling hear survived with badger setts on three of our boundaries. Never any issues that I was/am aware of.

v tidy, why the log grab though, what is its intended use?

sweetened with silivia! YEUAGH!!

Despite having lusted after a Yanmar T80 (akin to the`Mooroka) I imagine that for the woods (read stumps) one would require steel tracks. Comparing how my rubber tyred tractor skids on/over stumps, compared to the bone jarring/teeth rattling grip provided by the wee steel tracked Fiat crawler. m

Bound to be a supplier to the Agricultural type trades. Look up/search "Agricultural sheds" perhaps? Over here quite a few local guys stock "wriggly tin" in various permutations. And generally stocked and priced "per foot" run. Just watch, some suppliers products do have different covering widths/overlaps. cheers M

Eh! If using a PTO hyd pump what da heck has the tractors hyd oil flow got to do with it? cheers m And, cough cough. As far as I am aware one can drive a hyd pump geared to/for a tractor PTO from anywhere between 350 and 550.(being PTO revs btw) seriously.

However having the splitter tractor mounted makes for good stability, especially necessary if splitting larger chunks. And second make the splitter easier moved positioned to where the wood is. And if using a PTO stub shaft hyd pump, the tractor is only at Tickover revs. AND Most important, IF you want to build a FAST splitter, the MF35 will NEED all its limited HP to drive the pump. Since my 17tonne (being the forerunner to Woodworks later purchased 18tonner) CAN strangle the nominal 84HP DB, running on the 1000 shaft when running at 1050/1150 engine revs (gives about 540 shaft speed) So simples use the tractor. You will need it. Especially if you add a wee 1000kg winch to drag &lift the logs/trunks/butts in to be split. Oh, if building your own splitter, copy the neat oil resovoir design used across all the professional built models. Fabricate a heavy wall rectuangular section to both carry the sliding splitter head. And store the oil. m

Oh! "suits you Sir", very very nice, I am proper jealous. Marcus

Meh, Straight bole, predictable timber structure, an the gap was close in/near by. I ud welcome the chance to try btw, never yet having presented with the opportunity. But I was dropping twisted, leaning, irregular, bruckle Lodgepole Pine on a hat sized target "on the fly", no studying, nor no wedges, course it did not matter iffen I got it wrong, which allowed me the confidence to get it right! cheers, m

Buy one. A good choice available. I would, of course, suggest Krpan from Marshalls Agric, or Posch from Wilsons or indeed one from Jim at Riko. I would not/could not suggest building one for an employee to use. Purely due to potential liability issues. Simples. Marcus