difflock
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Saw it on Facebook iffen anyone interested. Vintage & Classic Tractors Uk & Beyond | Facebook WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Vintage & Classic tractors UK And Beyond. The group was created for enthusiasts or people with similar interests to discuss,help,share knowledge and pictures of vintage and...
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When I get the 461 van back from her protracted, and no doubt expensive refurb works, her be getting the proper transfer box mounted PTO offen the Black bollocks of the LWB car type that, because it was a MB demo vehicle, had this rather expensive optional extra fitted by MB. To drive a hydraulic pump, with the oil resovoir in the well behind the seats, to provide hydraulics for a winch, et.al.
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So like a Blackthorn into the back of the knuckle then, only worse?
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I clamp the handheld belt sander in the wood vise and use that, I find it excellent, then finish on a Trend double sided 300/1000 diamond "stone", and strop if feeling right particular.
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Nope, regardless of the intent, I am not being played. It merely activates my deep disgust at the sad mad state our society, or vocal elements within our society, has sunk too. Cheers
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Would Admin please arrange for a suitable deeply dissaproving/mad angry "smiley", since there are not adequate to express my deep feelings on this story.
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The other imponderable aspect of reversing a trailer, and pertinent to arb as well as agricultural, is localized undulations in the ground, which heights or hollows beneath the trailer wheels really really affect how the arse-end of the trailer moves.
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It is a 1984 registered G Wagen. That I was hoping to keep on the road at minimal cost. It is parked up for now. Until next year, 2024. Where do the years go🤔 Thanks Andy. -
Open a window, or two.
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First, are there any relaxations for 40+ year old vehicles in respect of MOT and/or whatever they call car tax now? Or did the UK simply fix 1972(was it?) as a fixed cut-off date for such derogations. Second, how difficult is it, and what will it cost to register a 2010 Polish registered LHD G Wagen in the UK. this being a rather rare G Wagen "Professional" with the OM642 engine, that might be coming up for sale in Dublin. Well the first question was easy answered. /assets/static/govuk-opengraph-image-dade2dad5775023b0568381c4c074b86318194edb36d3d68df721eea7deeac4b.png Historic (classic) vehicles: MOT and vehicle tax: Eligibility - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Vehicle tax exemptions and MOT exemptions for vehicles built or first registered before 1982. And, bugger it, I dipped out by 2 years! Gerrrr!
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Wheres the liquor?
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I have lost the link but I saw an document published on the "Quota" site which described how the FAA has significantly "moved the goalposts" in respect of their mandatory Pilot ECG's, to account for how the Covid vaccine or booster has fornicated the Pilots hearts, as evidenced by these ECG's. Science, eh!
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I would like to spout some shite about us farmers sons being able to reverse wee-short arrised trailers, BUT . . . you bes well correct Bob. Course iffen the cousin an me built one we could design in a long drawbar, or actually, erm, a telescopic one, hmmm he thinks . . . EDIT; Ah just remembered, way back about 1984 when we were at a TA Camp at Manorbier in South Wales, to fire the Blowpipe missiles, I watched in awe as Gunner Matt "Hellesby" Huston reversed a 110 Series III LR with the very short-arsed army trailer, flat out for a significent distance, say 25 to 50m. Because some SNCO said he could not do it. Seriously impressive to watch, specially as I would have carried the can iffen it hadda went wrong. But, hey, he worked on a farm.
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I have been idly considering the purchase of a "wee handy", single axle trailer to tow behind the Rav4, to complement the rather sturdily constructed(aka heavy) 3500Kg Dale Kane trailer. Prices are currently putting me off, having looked at the cute IW single axle manual tipper at the APF show, and a few kinda similar others. Though the mesh sides on the DK have proved invaluable for carting the well tramped in bushes and other rubbish from the sons Belfast house. Which mass of tramped in brash is rather neatly removed en-mass/of-a-piece with the tractor loader and pallet toes. I should probably build another trailer with the cousin, though having totted up the price of bought in axles, lights, hitch, steel and galvansing etc. GULP!
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Woodburner with Backboiler Advice
difflock replied to findjammer's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Just spotted this post, I disconnected a humengeous plumbed-in solid fuel stove, the biggest Clearview I think, anyway 9kW to the water,9kW to the room) by simply doing away with the pipework and mostly draining the boiler. Obviously NOT capping the boiler connections. The daughter has been using it ever since without issue to burn wood. -
Moderately heavy snow for us, but a lovely sunny blink about lunchtime. Power off all day from 09:00 until 16:00, for planned and notified maint works, but sitting at 25 to 26 deg in here with the woodstove coping nicely.
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One would imagine the poor waif is starved! Hidi is as fat as a fool, and choose to leave the stove, demanding to go outside, because she saw me throwing a generous helping of crumbs out for the birds. She was probably out there for near an hour.
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A pic of the ped gate.
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Some people should NOT be allowed near a chainsaw, or a good tree.
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The stile of these gates is forged into a cylinderical section at the bottom, which must have sat in a socket, the same way agricultural gates used to be swung.
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Dumper, you know your gates, and you would be correct, (but I lazily used the Victorian label, since the house simply looks the defination of Victorian period too me) since the house was built between 1906 and 1912. The bottom socket is still in the concrete. Since the bottoms of the gate posts were rusty I just cut them off. I can kango the socket out? But why? Cheers
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As I said, I would have sworn I took photos, but cannot find them. Will take pics tomorrow. If I remember. . . . Found these on messenger, derp! They were simply too narrow for modern cars, and rusty anyway.
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Bugger! No image.Like wot I thought I had. Anyway, taking away a hedge and almost certainly late Victorian period gates, one double set for veh access, and a ped gate as well. They are rusty in parts, mostly the flat sections, but still loads of solid nom 3/4" square section bar, and they are seriously seriously heavy. So is the wrought iron likely to be of interest to someone in the blacksmith community, before I cart them to the scrappy. Marcus
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Am or pm? Or up at 03:00 and knocking off at 13:00?
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And, in extremis, significently drop the tyre pressures, until the sidewalls start to "squidge" or bulge. Assuming one has the means to reinflate them. Or not, depending on ones levels of desperation.
