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Live Steam Drive Belting Thrashing Showmans Traction Engine Lister Stationary | eBay
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Biggaz right but wrong. The mass of the attatched limbs and leaves damps the induced movements caused by the climber. Once down to a bare pole it becomes more "lively", plus the not inconsiderable psychological factor of feeling more exposed. From a ground dewellers viewpoint. At 54 I have learned to live with my irrational fear of heights, now being able to work at height, despite still being "feart" Possibly due to the Mrs. repeatedly explaining that I am now redundant as her child bearing years are past. But to miss-quote that Wall Street saying "Fear is good" It ensures survival.
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Per dear Tone's masterplan 50% of school leavers were to attend University. I keep asking wtf jobs were those Graduates going to get. How many NHS Managers, Doctors, Soliciters, Civil Engineers etc, does any civilized society require? And Nursing is not a Degree requiring job. Why was a rigorous apprenticship scheme for trades people not encouraged. Like the "Tech's" provided 40 year ago. I guess 10%?, 15%? abs max 20% of any population are truely University material. Rant over.
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JHC:001_tt2: What a pack o pussies youz iz. I nivver yit bin stung by a Hornet mind you:lol:
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Oh ere Good job I dont imagine I could use one o them. Dammn. But then the defination o a bargain is Sommat that one dont need................................at a price that one can afford!!
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Funny enough, when we lift bonfire debris, old mattresses and commercial tyre remains. The loader tractor tows the wee 2250kg digger to the site. The toy of a digger then fills the large tractor bucket (with the back of the sheaugh bucket) Tidying in any snotters as needed. Tractor transports a full bucketful to the lorry on the hard. This actually works surprising well. It takes a second man....................but he drives the lorry when it is full. So the circle is squared. No abuse of the tractor clutch either chasing the stuff round in an attempt to fill the bucket.
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I self installed a Worcester Bosch 90/110 in 1996. It has not missed a beat despite only 1 service about 5 years ago. Has been run on kero and gas oil (jets changed and pressures tweeked) On this basis I can only say a good brand.
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blu-tac and a paperclip to replace the busted distubritor rotor arm on an 1100cc Polo. Bought a proper replacment but then got tired of waiting for my "bodge" to fail. (And I thought it would be lucky to see me home) So I replaced it anyway!
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Atholl Brose = porridge put through a seive and then well reinforced with Whisky. If the slimy mess stays down........................................................one feels better. If the slimy mess refuses to stay down.................................one still feels better. Best consumed on the battlements of Edinburgh Castle of a December morning.
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Easy Life - steal what you need then just keep it!
difflock replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in General chat
I suspect if the Polis turned up to find a previously stolen tractor to the value of 20 or 30 k, sitting in my yard. Saying "Honest constable, I bought it offen a guy down the Pub, in "good faith" I got a reciept an everything". Would have produced a significiently different outcome. PS I must run that sceanario past a local CID bloke I kinda know. Sound him out like. Couple of local tractors I could be doing with:lol:. -
Gentlemen, Quite seriously, that section of the Russian Security Service responsible for their Presidential security, has very recently ordered 20 or 25 traditional ribbon typewriters. Super sensitive documents to exist in individually numbered hard copy format only. Eh! Back to the future indeed!
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What width blade does the LM1 run I think? I searched the linked site reasonably througherly. But could not see it listed? cheers marcus
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Sorry "J" you misunderstand (i) Was an M8 Logosol, I were considering. And (ii) As a Scots emigrant offspring bred with hungry Co Antrim farming stock. Sexy can only really be really sexy if affordable=inexpensive. So the all hydraulic LM2 is oot. In seriousness I bought into the argument in favour of the higher diminsional accuracy afforded by the chainsaw set up. Probably of more intrest to me than higher volume production of the bandsaw mill. cheers marcus
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Hmmm, An there I was near ready to order a Logosol after talking to Agrimog a week past. Still swithering. PS The Logosol is still sooooo much sexier looking that LM1 looks wile "plain". Sigh
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Yep Always tempted to bring a wheen back sometime them being so dammed "cute" an all.
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I bought a 5 tonne electro hydraulic Krpan. Cant fault it, but: (i) The PTO shaft runs at quite an acute sideways angle, and on the DB1490 it also requires to be cut quite short which does not help. (Which is why the Igland has the drum mounted so high, so as to allow a centrally mounted PTO stub on the winch) (ii) It is relatively/surprisingly noisy, the chain reduction drive I presume. I would however strongly advise the electro hydraulic option,on whatever breed of winch, cos that allows one to upgrade to remote control operation. But for my needs/frequency of use the Krpan is a solid well engineered bit of kit. regards Marcus PS Fairly sure I admired a tractor mounted "Tiger" winch on hols in Austria in 2010. Colour is identical. If I am correct it were it looked superbly engineered.
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All those saws an only one fuel jar?
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"Sex on a stick"
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Meh! Log was rotten in the heart. Big deal On balance however a tad quicker than my 026................................I think??
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A proper wee dinky toy compared to an old style Hayes, or Pacific logging truck. Nice loader though. Cheers m
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OOPS, DISCLAIMER................DISCLAIMER.....................DISCLAIMER. Not a professional or technically informed opinion but Yes , I would have reckoned min 75%, hoping for 80 (ish) N.B. Based on gut feelings only. Dumper Yep beauty with traxcavator type loading shovel is the out front bucket, no need to reach over. But then one could configure a 360 in face shovel type spec by rotating the bucket 180 on its pins. I presume seriously more akward to "dig" with everything being arse about face. I will add my experience has been limited, and limited to "be a shame to lose that good tree, lets at least try and re-locate it, digger is going to root it out anyway. So done without any particular forward planning and without the deal of loving care, that would otherwise apply. PS Dumper Nice to see a %age figure btw What was the cost per m or per m2 of moving 220m for the MOD. And why was it moved? cheers marcus
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100% agree, as big a bucket on as big a digger as can be worked with. Ideally scoop out a shallow trench to the same profile as the bucket. After moving copious amounts of water, consider installing drip lines in the bottom and sides of the new trench, certainly along the surface. And/or set up a dust suppressing mist gun (used to control dust on demolotion sites) to damp and cool the air along and around the transplanted hedge line. Running 24/7 on surprisingly little water this should be very effective at preventing the killer transporation water losses. If it could be left to Sept/Oct rather than August I would guess a surprisingly high survival rate. I have moved and seen moved surprising large stuff moved, apparently quite roughly with a digger, but the key is one quick, minimal disturbance move only. The soil and micro what-nots around the roots are essentially undisturbed
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Pics for Chris Sheppard. MF390.
difflock replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Now with a steering wheel and forward reverse shuttle to the rear. That ud ave bin a cracking bit of kit for buckraking silage. Back in the day. Wit a bit o added turbo poke. I was entirely unaware that MF ever produced any sort of rear drive 390. Or was this an aftermarket conversion. One of my passing notions was an MF based Moffat Mounty that sat in Christie and Jeffers yard a wheen (10 ish) of year ago. It could have bought for sensible money and I ruefully reckon would have been a much better investment than money in the Bank, or shares, or property. -
Well hardly!
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Bit like some of the other regs. Assuming one is operating some specialist kit, which is lorry transported by the operator. And you get an hours work 4 hrs drive away. The ONLY reason one is driving 4 hr there and 4 hr back IS to allow one to access the job site and operate the specialist equipment. So could driving be construed to be the main part of the job, simply because it was being done for 8 out of the 9 hours. I would argue not as the driving is merely a by product of ones core employment. Something like a crane for instance, though I tink historically they have always been a special case/not considered to be HGV's. but as commented somewhere above, might as well do sommat useful like First Aid training. At a stretch chain saw ticket training should qualify as it was made clear to us that the training subject was not in any was prescriptive. How about that for a straight faced dodge.
