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Car or super single tyres, filled with subsoil or dirty gravel, staggered joints and raked back at an angle, if needed, but prob not, (vertically darned with heavy section re-bar, if paranoid). Easy to place by hand, rounded and soft in appearance, everlasting, and vegitation can either be planted in the chinks, or will naturally grow over. marcus

A farming neighbour, who is 6 foot 7 and built to match. When building the replacment farmhouse, provided himself with a Belfast sink, between the back door and his adjacent office. Specially to give himself a rinse down in, after work. It is about 5 feet off the floor. His wifes nose would just about touch the rim. I thought that a work of pragmatic genius.

Erm, Actually a high powered remote control helicopter with specially sharpened blades. Chop chop chop Or yon NZ hedgecutter flicked on its side

You do realize with 2 squadrons worth of Spitfire pilots co-habiting. You are going to be very firmly at the rear of the Emily Blunt queue. just a thought m

Americans do appear to be better at designing machinery fixable with an (i) angle grinder, (ii) a hammer, (iii) a stick welder and perhaps a basic socket set.

Doobin, Huuussssh! there The Master Plan is to get the poor chap so lumbered with the debt incurred buying a humuengeously unneeded machine. He will very soon go bust:001_tt2:

Should not need that much height. Lift loader (to max if necc), tip forks to rotate IBC forward, even if the forks are touching the bed of the trailer, the IBC should be "teetering" on the point of balance. Manually tip IBC, onto front side, then simply "crowd" the forks back up to lift the IBC base upwards. AH! I forgot the check chain/rope needed to prevent the IBC tipping too far/ allow the toes to lift it back up when crowded back. gibber, mutter an twitch May need furthur development:confused1: or a proper loader:lol:

so 1.200 by 1.830 = 2.196 by 0.914 = 2.00m3 by 0.965 = 2.12m3 by 1.070= 2.35m3 weight of contents may vary:lol:

see, i hope? Should work, I imagine. Gravity being generally reliable. Why did I label the IBC an IBU? ibc tipper.pdf

There is a better way! Await scribble an scan. m

Hi Sur tis better than some o ourn (English) Nivver mine der German. (I could always communicate sufficient to order beer when in Germany though) Once, after a particularly tiring day on recce, breaking into pidgin:blushing: German in the NAFFI. My how they laughed, funny thing was it took me ages to figger out why or what they were laughing at:confused1:. Ps Do Bindenberger not produce something like what you are looking for? Blue paint and hot dip galvanised machines. cheers marcus

I have had cylinder mowers end up like that, cept they merely went in to have a leaky pipe fixed.

thanks for that openspaceman, worth consideration, got a while yet anyways

Oddly, despite our dogs regularly frolicking up the moss, through endless heather and other vegitation. Only very very occasional ticks. This could be because the Jack Russell is a proper fiend for grooming all the others, teeth chattering like a sewing machine. marcus

If I said my wife says I can wait.................................................................?

thanks, I lifted local (NI) info at some show recently really must follow up on it cheers m

Ye cudnay do one on "appro" like! Or a Zetros would do push come to shove

Bee keeping would be my next goal. (an pigs) Fattened thousands of the blighters this year, an they carted all the Honey up to a guy in the Village. An did he even offer me a pot. Hardly! bah humbug! PS Senior Managment says Radio 4 says Apple Jelly "is the new Sex", apparently. Me? I still prefer the old kind.

Yes Huck, thats my Honey in the red jumper:thumbup: However The stuff in the jars is; (i) Apple jelly with fresh home made Lemon pectin added. (ii) Pure Lemon made from scratch Marmalade, 24 lemons worth. No added water or pectin in any of Senior Managment's jam. They are however new bought jars, and usually sold to Bee Keepers for Honey. cheers marcus

see, domestic bliss, I were sitting at the kitchen table with a bottle of cider giving helpful advice:lol: A skill larned from mi father:001_rolleyes:

An see, If I recall this was all laid with 5" by 3" stick on its FLAT, so nominal 4"thick. The scabby concrete in the foreground in the first photo was the first concrete laid in November with frost "proofer" added (and covered with a tarp and rugs/carpet) It was a 5.0m wide bay meant to be laid with a vibrating screed, which was hired but shited itsel, therefore concrete started to "go off" before it was fixed. After getting burned with that experience the rest was laid the traditional way an levelled/tamped with a straight "stick" with blue water pipe handles (another cutting edge invention o mine, way back then) Note this concrete ALL survived the 2010 bitter frost without spalling (well except for the shitty first batch) Simply because no excess water added, therefore no pores cracks left when the excess water evaporates, therefore not porous therefore no free water contained within the concrete to freeze and burst. The professional job done at my work, after this concrete was laid has since been replaced. And it was reinforced and about twice as deep. Gibber mutter an twitch.

Perversly the wee place we bought as a retirment project. Had a brand new oil fired AGA fitted about 20 year ago. U nfortunately I would have been more interested in the solid fuel range that was wrecked out with a sledge (cos I found the scrap bits round the back o the barn) Seriously considering converting to wood fired, if at all possible/practical as I do not wish to keep the bugger in oil, on a megre pension. m

Hi sur, I tuk photos this afternoon. Will post tomorrow. cheers m

Just recalled another snippet, the deeper the pour, the easier it is worked, plus the standard full 6 to 8m3 load covers less area, therefore less finishing time per full load. PS A very good University friend who is now a Senior Physio turned up one day while me an the two brothers were waiting for the next truck load to arrive. Gillian rather neatly summed us up as, "3 cripples waiting for more concrete" She warnt wrong!!