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The cousin installed a "woodburner" stove, that really really required coke-can sized logs. And the small firebox required tending about every 15/20 mins (or so it seemed) m

A gurt heavy trailer behind to ensure max traction. Attatch wire rope (& HSS hire them out) to back of gurt heavy trailer. Bob=uncle

Excellent, even I can see the apposite nature of the name. cheers M

Absolutly excellent post. When Judith Hackett took the job on, she VERY quickly published a full page spread in the major newspapers, Times and Telegraph for example (cos I read it at the time and wish I had kept a copy) The exact gist was that most of the loony "H & S" rules were made up by twerps misinterpting and then Gold/Titanium/Platimum plating to be sure, to be sure, to be sure , to be very very sure. There arse was covered. to wit the "no working off ladders" nonsense. cheers m PPS I always include the standard phrase " wear a hard hat at all times" in my risk assessments reason? Stuff falls off aeroplanes. One simply MUST cover ALL possibilities, however absurb. my staff now got a veritable bible of risk assessments to read. Which the cant or wont as everyone well accepts. but they gotta have them apparently sigh marcus

Earl Grey, from a reputable source such as Fortnums or equivalent, though Whittards will do, we also bought a load of HEAVILY discounted EG tea in elephant branded tins from BM Bargains that was excellent. With a dribble of semi-skimmed milk and perhaps 6 pickles of sugar. PS Seriously bought F & M tea for years during our London visiting TA days. Only fractionally dearer than ordinary tea, and compared to the base-load costs of living an absolutly miniscule additional expense. Loose leaf of course, and said leaves were thumbnail sized when wetted(infused). And presented in beauitful square tins. Yum yum. Marcus

The VW Sharan family in 1.9TDI guise (and I presume PD Guise too) were absolutly formidable as a family car. Mechanically sound (despite stories about duff gearboxs), exceptionaly frugal, and easy worked on. And absolutly humengeous with all rear seats removed. cheers m

Succintly put Sur!:lol: I like, a lot.:thumbup:

Probably a 4.0/4.5 tonne trailer,(I cant remember which) on the correct coupling and with air brakes. I recall stumbling across this factory fit option for the Range Rover many years ago. When RR's were stilll used as working vehicles. cheers m

Mulch the Ruharb, quick!

(i) Was following 3 lovely ladies in their 60's as we approached the entry. I was genuinely amused to catch a snippet of their cheerful conversation, concerning that vexed subject of that when being used to a Bentley Arnage as the daily driver, that the other car was absolutly gutless. (it was prob only a "S" Class Merc or 7 Series BMW I suppose) (i) Of the 10's of thousands of people there, I only saw 2 smoking, over the course of 5 hours, it took me quite a while to realize what I was not seeing. But quite a lot of champers and fizzy wine being consumed! Not to mention the booked out Hospitality suite at £128.50 per HEAD!:lol: Eh oop lad, how the other 1/2 appear to live. m PS There were also quite a few mature trees there, and one tree managment Company:001_rolleyes:

So 6.35-3.50= 2.85 tonne(only) available for a trailer

Well we got the harvest finished on Sunday past, the Mrs. picked the last sandbag full (about 8 to 8.5 kg worth) the poorer fruit, over or underipe was left with the striggs on for juicing. The better fruit is all single berry clean. AND, Bloody hell, was quite astounded at the poor showing of blackcurrants at RHS at Tatton today. Ours would easily have taken a prize. On the other hand, cherries, read and white currants, never mind goodeberries whos mothers OBVIOUSLY got knocked up by a daddy Melon. were all ASTOUNDING, by owt I have seen eleswhere. Oh and blackberries the size of a mans fat thumb. but not the blackcurrants!! Poxy small by ourn standards. cheers m

Chinese Wheelbarrow.

Darwinism/thinning the herd/self selecting for de-selection. the list goes on. And as for that boke inducing rescue write up. BOKE!

I have successfully debarked trees with the 4WD tractor front tyre , come in alongside with a slight cut on, the newish large tyrelugs will pull the bark off surprisingly well, assuming the trunk is sufficiently large to baulk the tyre from climbing up and over. Only when trees were suitably presented, and only to happenstance aid drying. Not deliberately done. but the technique worked. m

P.S. It is as easy, or hard, to fell a tree, as it is to drive competently! Both merely require a modicum of brain function and physical coordination. Seriously!

He had prob bought hissel a Granfors Brucks and simply needed to play with it!

I remain Quite Flabbergasted, that this company still gets buyers. From the overwhelming poor press they invariably get. And, shall we say, it is(well apparently) not down to a wee misunderstanding or two on the part of the buyer. m

CPH our local larger hire outfit, has only very recently started putting tracked dumpers on hire. It had puzzled me that they were not before, so I asked why? Answer was that they had previously looked into the running costs/economics, and that the prohibitive undercarriage maint and costs were the choker. I must ask what changed in respect of undercarriage maint, or perhaps demand was simply sufficient to allow them to charge enough to cover costs. m PS Surely a local engineering company could reverse engineer the rollers and knock them out for significently less, even if perhaps they did not last quite as long?

I have seen "log splitter" valve-blocks, for sale by Whitehouse. I unserstand this to mean the valve-block with the oil injection or whatever it is called however it works SYSTEM that recirculates some of the returning oil to speed up the ram return stroke. I imagine. but anyway such valves are now commerrically available

There is only one walking boot. Lowa Combat GTX High leg. At least for my feet. Only prob is, it is a £500.00/year footwear habit. Soles and uppers both being "done" after 6 months. m

Here at Work we are/I am currently getting a lightweight alloy beavertail body built on a Canter/Fuso/Mitibshui chassis. Body will weigh about 640kg, leaving a legal Payload of just about 4000kg (incl the Dvr unfortunately) So guessing 3800kg usuable (with an electro-hydraulic full width tail-ramp too!). This will allow us to move a 3.5 tonne excavator, with some attatchments. If needs be the allowable 750kg trailer allowance could bring another attatchment/buckets/rockhammer along behind. Or bung the excess buckets/attatchments on another light truck, since generally more than one truck on site anyway. The key is carrying the "indivisible" load, being the basic 3.5 tonne digger. cheers m PS Already bought a "fingerbar" cutter for the digger, should be low oil-flow, so should work, though not tried yet. The appeal is getting a machine that can top wide/high hedges, as well as face them. My next cunning purchase is a hydraulic driven chainsaw bar, to cut higher overhanging branchs, without climbing. If the fingerbar cutter does not work on the digger, it can easily be re-deployed onto the 640 Avant.

Peasgood, Photos no work. But, It is the sum of few things; (i) Hybrid? fruit body still green and rockhard, ALL other blackcurrants ripe/very ripe. (ii) This at the very top of the stem, where the fruit is ripest. (iii) Growth habit is different, fruitbody sticking straight up on a short stem, not dangling like the blackcurrants. (iv) Plus it looks more like a bloody gooseberry, ovid in shape and stripey. cheers marcus

Lee, The wife has given an inordinate amount of Jam away over this past 5 years, and the sugar and (some of) the jars arnt/wernt free! (About £0.40 per pot for the Pallet of pots I bought) Essentially randomly to delivery men, tradesmen etc. Plus random acquaintences/friends at work. Plus neighbours. Like that about the Sikh temples though Lee, a very good idea. Re the photograph of the hybrid, no Macro facilityon my wee camera (brill in other respects though), but I will try Peasgood. cheers marcus

Ca? My understanding was the gooseberry had fertilized these 3 blackcurrant flowers. Hence the hybrid fruit. Need to get the hybrid seeds to germinate, to see what fruit (if any) they in turn produce. cheers m