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  1. difflock
    I bought a 2nd hand 5' by 10' 3500Kg Dale Kane, with clip on mesh high cribs, tis indeed a heavy fornicator, best suited to the SDP Van than the Rav4, so I might need to buy a lightweight trailer for behind the Rav4. but in conscience the Dale Kane has already served me well moving various loads of rubbish from the daughters place, where the high cribs were well needed. I was however admiring a 2700Kg Nugent recently, that looked better suited to the Rav4, being no heavier than it needed to be, though sommat, like a Benderup, plated at 2000Kg would be a better fit.
  2. difflock
    I did have the gritted teeth experience of watching our "trained" chainsaw operator catch the asphalt with the point of the bar, while attempting to trim the butt of a tree for Christmas. While the idiot chargehand waved and gesticulated, "cut it there", with his unprotected fingers. Which blunting then necessitated a round trip to the local Stihl dealer, because none of them could sharpen the chain, nor even have the wit to keep a spare, etc etc etc. And no Council vehicle could apparently go anywhere unless at least carrying a co-pilot. Also watched another idiot attempting a deepish cut, but round in a circle with a masonary saw. And he could NOT comprehend why the saw was fighting him!
  3. difflock
    Yup! That is where I got it, identical.
  4. difflock
    Not actually sure, but I seem to recall recovering a very powerful round one, like one that would draw blood as it nipped a careless finger between it and a girder. cheers
  5. difflock
    Surely stroking the tool with any strong magnet is al that is needed? Like one liberated from a bust microwave.
  6. difflock
    More the weather for a hot whiskey over here today, from 16 deg on Friday to 32 deg on Monday and back to 16 deg inside of 48 hours. Mad!
  7. difflock
    Well I admit the beer I drank wernt a real mans beer, being Peroni(which I blame on the daughters choice of fridged stocks) Mind you I got a heavy walled glass in the freezer drawer for another bottle of Peroni later today.
  8. difflock
    Sall right, whilst my written statement was actually factually honest, honest Guv, mostly it boiled down to simply being outside all day yesterday on my feet and active in the heat. I did break sweat when burning the bamboo and sparks and big smuts drifted over onto my massive and bone dry firewood stockpile, in the wind that wasnt. But the petrol pressure washer with the orbital nozzle makes the perfect misting/rainmaking device, to drift in the same non existant wind. Phew. Senior Management was most disapproving. Especially when I then told her I was going out on the bicycle.
  9. difflock
    This ould done 63 year old, wot sat behind a desk his working life, was up at 05:00, spent all day loading and levelling and raking topsoil, then a spot of picture hanging for the daughter, then fighting with bamboo and shovelling stones, then went for a cycle at 20:00 after a bamboo bonfire back at base. Worked in shorts and a teeshirt with a baseball hat failing to protect my neck in 30 deg heat and strong Sun with zero suncreen. And never felt fitter, though I did gargle plenty of fluids, incl a couple of beer. Zero sunburn or heatstroke either. P.S. It is to be 16 deg tomorrow and pissing with rain!
  10. difflock
    An update, it seems that after switching their fuel supplier, fuel consumption went back to normal. Suggesting that the previous "cheapest" fuel supplier was somehow adulterating the diesel(simply cutting it with kero perhaps?). Not that I imagine that cutting or diluting diesel with anything that will still burn or run in a diesel engine, could double fuel consumption. And as likely all the attention and discussion simply caused the fuel thief to cease and desist. marcus
  11. difflock

    Moorhen?

    difflock replied to difflock's topic in Picture Forum

    BINGO!
  12. difflock
    Sounds like, as in my wife was making noises about thinking about lodging a claim of "harrassment", which is very NOT like something she would suggest. Mothers, eh!
  13. difflock
    Thanks all, Lydia has blagged my jar of Symbol, though is holding it back as a last resort. I advised her not to offer to or to set foot next door, let them sort their side out, and anyway the neighbour told her not to be coming round? cos they got CCTV cameras. Fingers crossed it will all blow over. P.S. The boundary wall is 50 years old, block built and plastered and still 100% vertical, straight and sound, which suggests proper deep founds, so I was surprised the bamboo had found a way through, but guessing most probably via an unfilled or improperly filled joint in the blockwork. Thanks all, Marcus
  14. difflock
    So our daughter bought a house about 5 years ago, which was rented out for about 3 years, now that she is living in it she has started to tidy up the neglected and overgrown garden. In this process the neighbours over the boundary wall "braced" her about the invasive bamboo which had migrated under the wall and into their flagged back garden. Lydia started to remove the bamboo immediately, which she had been minded to do anyway. The neighbouring husband was on the warpath this afternoon again while Lydia was actually working at removing bamboo roots on her side of the wall. Lydia had been quite unaware that the bamboo had migrated under the boundary wall until the neighbours first spoke to her a month or so back. What is the legal situation re liability? Should she speak to her insurer? Marcus
  15. difflock
    Ah bin burning conifer, Sitka and Lodgepole for 20 odd years now, straight, pure and unadulterated, but BONE dry. Zero issues, nor has the flue ever required cleaning. Super easy to light, and with an almost instant hot fire. mth
  16. difflock
    asahi+beer - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM Was probably to blame! Ask me how I know. P.S. Lovely work Andy. Despite the beer.
  17. difflock
    I thought of SS, Aluminium, or galvanised, but figured that whilst it might have been copper, or more likely cheap brass origionally, the galvanised would be the most period appropriate. But since I have the copper and it is easily worked, and I can solder the corners leakproof and it will look attractive and age gracefully. So now I need to contrive a contraption of a home made brake-press. Or try and get the cousin to do it at his work? Cheers all.
  18. difflock
    You want a solid block, of such a height that the head of the splitting Ax or maul strikes the top surface of the block being split at near enough 90 degrees. Force vectors or some such.
  19. difflock
    The daughter has eyed up the perfect place for it, in a wee "bolt on" front porch, so I figured the UV resistant Osmo(that I used for the window frames) should be best suited, plus it is so easy to touch in any scratches or damage.
  20. difflock
    I have genuinely forgotten where I acquired this hatstand, most probably being discarded in an office or store red-out by the Council. Anyway it was falling apart. See pics. A whole lot of scraping(and aren't old hoarded disposable Bacho handsaws so useful!) 80 new dowels. Some short tempered swearing/squaring before the glue went off(it was warped and twisted, one leg in particular, but I got it sorted) I had to make the base up from scratch, which was tricky to fit since the oak side rails were bent, and canted inward towards the top! Hmmm? I might try and source a sheet of copper, from an old hot cylinder I did NOT take to the scrappie when scrap copper was stupid high, and fold a tray to sit in the base to catch the umbrella drips. And finished with Osmo. I enjoyed this project for the daughter, but if I charged by the hour? Cheers, Marcus, the hat.
  21. difflock

    Jokes???

    difflock replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    Naw, a wile pity it didnay ignite!
  22. difflock
    Sniff. MB OM606, pure mechinical and apparently good for as much as a reliable 500HP, though prob not if towing.
  23. difflock
    Kinda like!😁 EDIT To go back to the OP. The wife kinda likes me working slow!
  24. difflock
    Cough cough! Shoosh you. OSM. Can you draw off the liquid LPG though? Which you need to do to fill another tank. Cos a God fearing Free P neighbour tried running a dual fuel Vauxhall off the bulk tank for the grain dryer, and ran into this problem, the tank was top tapped, so he only ever got a sniff of gas in the tank.
  25. difflock
    Now could well be the time to buy a thirsty brute of a V8 petrol "Jeep", with fingers well crossed, and I also suspect LPG must be attracting fresh interest, IF it is still available at fuel stations? Marcus

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