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No idea either but; The drawbar shape/configuration looks professional. Nice to see the brakes and lights as a seperate item Are the lights LED though?, an absolute must for trailers BUT Watch the tare weight /gross weight and what payload is left. Very very easy to make them too heavy, then a pig to tow even when empty or lightly loaded. I do see he is, I think sensabally plating at 3000kg, which keeps a wider selection of pick-ups fully legal to tow this trailer.

Cant really offer a "back-to-back" with the equivalent Etesia. Another brand I would generally "rate", but I cannot get my staff to take to them. I had an Etesia out on demo for a few days prior to buying the Viking. Just no interest from staff after a few very desultory "trials" I do however reckon that the Honda mowers are overrated. m

specifically MB 755 KS - 21? self-propelled professional mower with blade brake clutch Interestingly, and I think, significently, Viking only offer 0NE professional spec lawnmower. Unlike other brands that offer a whole pleortha of alledgedly "professional" mowers. And the Viking offering does exactly what it says on the tin. marcus

Sniff, telephoto lens at work! (the "foreshortning" effect) An a bit o reasonable flying forby.

(i) What is your timber source? (ii) Is it likely to be secure over the 20 years? (iii)What is the max recommended size for your 180kw/hr boiler (& I know for my wee boiler one requires to be fairly rigid about size, smaller is definately better) (iv) Is there potential to source forestry "rounds" of the 100 to 150mm dia, season for longer, and burn unsplit? Because I am guessing that 100 tonne per year is unsustainable unless sourced from commercial Conifer forestry (v) If this is possible consider simply cutting to length and bundling in nom 1.0 m3 round bundles strapped with Polyprop, for stacking to season and ease of onward handling. I could see the advantage in mechanising that particular operation. Offload artic timber truck straight into racking and no manual/hands on contact. need more details to offer any useful advice though. I am significently better at "imagining" than doing. Marcus

Funny enough . . . I am eyeing up the very densely coated Rottador, who suffers in the heat. Thinking a Racehorse style clip. OR short back and sides. Not sure how he will react to the clippers though.

very very impressed with all these commissions 7th. Beauitiful work. Marcus

I suspect they may be insurmountable problems with the concept, due to the ratio of the 1.0m length to split diminsion of say 100mm/150mm. One would need very carefully selected timber to allow it to be AUTOMATICALLY reliably split to these diminsions. i.e. will there be knots? Or one will simply get a pile of misshapen lumps and kindling. The other issue is the length of the logs being fed into the splitter. 3m to 5m I guess, is it really worth it for 2 to 4 cuts? Better use a fast manually operated splitter, with a well thought out set-up and mechanical handling at both ends. When I split my 1.0m billet lengths I am constantly assessing where best to split, this after cutting out the worst of the knots. And it is still very difficult to get reasonably regular sections to efficiently stack. btw. I do appreciate you may have a supply of German/French type straight Beech logs, as opposed to my Shitty knotty/bent/twisted Lodgepole Pine.

OK Endex/game over, we now have the winning comment:lol:!

"E" tha girl bes up for a challange then Broonie. Iffen she marriet ye. tee hee.

Yep, I am still using the Wahl DOG/animal Clippers, the wife bought in the cattle grooming place. Cos they were seriously cheaper (and seriously. literally identical to the human clipping kind) Still going strong, whereas the cheap ones sold anywhere else simply did not last, I went through 2 or 3 of them

My 40 odd acres of mixed age Conifer and Lodgepole, oldest plot about 40 years, youngest plot probably 25 years old. I was offered (i) £10,000.00 for the lot or (ii) A tonne price at the Roadside, but I paid for all "roadmaking" to extract. Now I may just be a trifle cynical, but I would deduce the road making contractor and the timber extractor would have a very close working relationship! So I would realize very little. And Prob in both extraction sceanarios, in Moss, would be left with a massive rutted wasteland. So if/when I get a roadway in (and I am getting there year on year) I will employ a harvester to cut the timber directly. After I establish a paying market. BUT More importantly I am deriving great pleasure from bringing on the naturally seeded (by Jay's?) Oak and the very Occosional wind seeded Beech. By this I mean cutting away competing overshodowing tress and bushs. By the time I die in 20 to 30 years I hope to have and to leave some REAL woodland for future generations to enjoy. Marcus

I will have my Stihl stickers ready and waiting:001_tt2:

Thanks Gavin, I am shamed/inspired by watching what the wife achieves. Since retiring at 40, from teaching, due to Arthritis (the pain meds were such she could not function, at the level she felt the pupils required) Since got 2 replacment knees (which were a failure) still in constant pain despite the meds. But simply says nowt, puts her head down and battles on. She does fall over occassionally (literally!) when a knee gives way. But picks herself up and continues. One tough Lady!

Does one perhaps partake of the odd CowPie there Stubby, or was that your father?

Spot on Doobin, The No.2 gets a trot right round my skull about once a month. Simples! But before I simply used cheapie disposable "Bic" type wet razors. My reason for stopping shaving was driven by the analysis paralysis induced by the vast and growing number of such razors on the market. I were reduced to a gibbering wreack each time I re-purchased.

A combination of sciaita (due to doing too much the previous weekend) and just plain "being down" (being manic/depressive or as is now described Bi-Polar) Saw me spend most of this past weekend of absolutly magnificent weather in bed (and it was me birthday too!) But got a bit done last night until I surrundered to the midges at 22:00 hrs. Playing with my new (6 months ago) Magnetic Drill. A Rotabroach Panther, proper magic that tool is. Now need to source an invertor welder (but waiting until I get a Genset sussed, cos I ud might get a bigger one than our mains supply will drive) Regards all. PS First GOT to finish the ensiute for the daughter before the end of June. GULP! And then put down about 10m by 8m of concrete before I put the shed roof over. Ah proper HATE laying concrete.(As does my back!!) Marcus

very very impressive

"T" Cut?

But if the Snap On dosnt EVER break, AND one is attempting to loosen obdurate nuts, SURELY it is INEVITABLE that one will OCCASSIONALLY shear the bolt, and bust knuckles/fingers anyway. Ca?

Ding! ding! Seconds out! PS I'm in Doobin's corner.

The area of "shrub" that naturally regenerated on the bare peat (where I got a height dozed into a hollow) only about perhaps an acre in size, mostly goat willow and birch with a few whins and lodgepole pine, plus misc flowering shrubs, Rowan etc. Plus I planted mostly quickthorn/whitethorn/hawthorn hedges over some 500m, which have been growing uncut and unchecked for prob 8 years and flowering in parts for the first time this year, and the smell on a damp morning was heavenly. Is all proper HOOCHING with bird life and game trails. not 100m from the house.

Enrib, not intending to offend. But (i) Not all statements by all posters on the internet can be taken at face value:001_rolleyes:. (ii) Genuinely puzzled that there was not a better = purpose designed bit of kit for this very particiular and often repeated operation. (iii) I fondle my big 15"/18" Bacho adjustable spanners, ditto the Record 24" (or is it 30") Stilson, quite regularly, and despair seeing "professional" fitters using utter dung of adjustable spanners. Regards, Marcus

How would "virgin" tool steel differ from any other tool steel. As far as I am aware scrap steel is a vital part of the blend for any steel production. And cough cough I know tradespersons in different trades, who make a good living, doing things a certain way. Simply because that was the way they were always done. And they know no other/choose to learn no other. Irrespective of the changes in technology and materials affording a "better" way. Seriously. PS Wanna drill a hole in high carbon tool steel. First stick an old dull drill bit, or length of re-bar or round section steel in the drill. "Bore" until the tool steel is red hot. Smother the area in builders lime and walk away. Return after the component has cooled. And bore a hole in the now annealed steel. Or for the brickkies, try the "Donegal" bond. (Prob from a hungry Donegal farmer being thrifty) One can "look it up" Saves wastage and more importantly TIME. Looks ugly, but hey iffen it is plastered after, no odds. regards, Marcus

enrib, Sommat kinda disnay add up, in respect of your claims re tool life. All employees in that Garret fixing section must have been built like Popeye, and working 24/7 forby. Anyway such misuse and abuse of tools simply tells me that someone (incl perhaps the Snap-on rep, were failing to identify the correct methodology for removing these seized bolts. There are means other than a simple spanner, incl simply welding a square or hex section of bar to the bolt head, the intense localized welding heat also being perfect to assist breaking the bond. etc etc.