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I really really liked the cabinet below the sink.

very impressed, again I wish I could claim to have "done" this from tree to finished product. Marcus

It was a fairly professional (attempted) scam, incl the follow up communication from "ebay" from I presume the same scammers wishing to investigate the attemp to "hack into" my ebay account. Copy and paste of pages of genuine dense text is a very powerful tool for hiding the few significent doctored bits. Hiding in plain sight a kinda. A Good job I am a kinda paranoid, if technically incompetent, about computer money transactions, especially involving MY money.

A mate of the brothers 15 or 20 years ago had sommat similar, an old straight 6 diesel Nissan Patrol, here in NI He towed a large sheep trailer from Claudy to Ballymoney and furthur daily. To look sheep, not transport them. Brother asked why he did not unhook the trailer to save fuel, & speed up the journey. Mate said "no odds whether the trailer is hooked on or not, makes no difference to either speed or fuel consumption" so on the off chance I might need it I might as well have it. PS About 20 mpg on a good day, from recall.

And yet stateside they will be rated for to tow 10,000 lbs plus say about 5 tonne. With electric brakes as as I understand. Generally speaking. Sniff! to the above That is why I particularly spelled out LC Amazon I baint entirely stupid.

Rover, Apologies, I paid scant attention to your list:001_tt2: I suppose I was over generalizing. However I despaired at the number of belligerent a**holes driving lifestyle pick-ups, Mitibushi Wotsits "G" Wagens even:blushing: etc etc who insisted they were legal to tow 3500kg, even after I had lifted the bonnet /opened the door and carefully explained how to read the manufacturers plate. Tis but simple fornicating sums, wot dont even need a calculator. This btw is from memories formed over the past 20 years.

Funny enough I suspect a lot of farmers now yok into a tractor for the bigger cattle trailers. Actually faster across country even IF limited to 40K and plenty are doing 50k Plus one can see over the neighbours hedges much better.

Erm, actually, most of those listed were not legal to tow 3500kg, but everyone did regardless. Ditto for Transit vans plated to tow 1600kg. Sure its a Jeep/a 4*4 a whatever "of course it tows 3500kg" The LR products and the Fourtrak were actually oddities in this respect. Not sure about Toyota Land Cruiser Amazon, cos I tink some of them could not even tow 3500kg legally Recently tow weights have actually crept up significently.

I got a "second chance" proportedly from ebay offering me this item because the high bidder had pulled out. Looked very genuine, £10,000 guarentee etc etc. But I was suspicious due to a few wee things (i) like del to N Ireland for £100.00:lol: (ii) unable to view because divorced and moved to Inverness (iii) No VAT mentioned Finally got through to ebay on the phone. the key was demand for payment by bank transfer. Plus no communication from "my ebay" & ebay always uses Paypal. A experienced ebayer work mate here said it looked 100% Bastard near owed my £4,400.00 but Gosh for the very first time I am wiser without being any poorer except for lost time. cheers Marcus

Gortex lined Lowa + Kiwi + multiple pairs to alternate. Hose them down, perhaps a brisk scrub. Leave a while to surface dry naturally. Apply polish while still damp. It seems to do more good the longer the polish is left to soak in before wearing. Mind the polishing while damp means that as the moisture evaporates it "sucks" the waxes in. Or so I understand.

Actually a modified mini digger could now easily do the work. Of cleaning the leat/lead BUT...................what does one do with the silt in these Environment Agency lunitic dominated days. At work it is going to cost us a conservative 1/2 million £ sterling to de-silt a duck pond, because the arisings have to be treated as "special" waste or some such utter nonsense. there is nor never was any heavy industry, indeed any industry upstream, yest it has to be tested for heavy metals etc etc. FFS!

Well to be generous one could double that valuation with 4 good tyres and a full tank of diesel:lol:

I take it the throttle is taped wide open and the aim is to cut off the post in the middle ( & yes I saw it was actually another saw) But I tink my idea is much better for an after pub activity.

Dammn you Catweasel!! I were gonna say that, about the energy generation/consumption of an old flour mill/corn mill, being very modest. There is also the issue of seasonal fluctation in water supply. I suppose, however, this reasonably matched the harvesting of the crops. Plus the mill only run perhaps 8 out of 24 hours, and def not on a Sunday, with the head-water being held back in the mill pond, to meet the days demand. So not every water mill site is suitable for reasonable 24/7 power generation. There was also a massive amount of physically onerous maintenance of the water ways involved, keeping trash out of the system etc etc. We used to run 3 or 4 Blakes hydrorams when I was growing up. It could be a proper pain keeping them running/unclogged. Nuclear fusion is our only hope. Fingers crossed.

Tata = Tata Steel = bought British steel and i tink they also bought JLR So not to be sniffed at. and yes I believe they used a outdated/superceeded MB engine built under licence. I also tink that one of their vehicles was a poor(er) copy of der "G" Wagen. Good luck. Marcus

I prefer two-tone 2 syllable names to roll off the tongue when calling them back in, up the forested moss, where they could be some considearble distance away among trees distracted by a scent. PONG-GOoooo (was named Pongo) BOOG-OHoooo ( was named Hugo) POP-SEEeeee (was named Princess Poppy Pieface) etc Anyway it works. I also have found that a name "grows" on a dog regardless of what it is christened, in our household anyway.

Erm, That makes perfect sense to me. A fire in a pub is generally only for atmosphere. The last thing they generally need or want is a roaring hot fire. In this respect peats are perfect as they kinda smoulder/burn stadily while putting out a wonderful smell. The other perfect pub firewood in an ideal wood would be whatever Sid was burning in Spain, one time we visited, probably Olive wood or grape vine roots. A single nominally football sized, but kinda scraggly, sat all lonesome, and very slowly burned away, in an open grate. Almost certainly bone dry, but burned very slowly and steadily. I was fascinated, but Sid was unable to identify the wood, simply local firewood. So import some of that for your local pub.

I believe in Northern Ireland this is known as "adverse posession" We lost 1/2 a lane to a neighbour because our soliciter "cocked" up Or rather he refused to believe what I told him:001_tt2: This bit should have been under our title when we bought the property, but a section of the lane literally "fell off" the map at some previous transfer of ownership:lol: Btw! I understand English law was changed moderately recently to make claiming of "squatters" rights, on registered land leastwise, more difficult. After a couple of high profile High Court cases. One of which involved an entire farm sold to a "holding company" or "land-bank" somesuch investment type body, who when they finally woke up:blushing:, perhaps due to liquidating assets, and realized they had bought it.............................. had already lost it back to the previous owner who had never ceased using it.

Paint em bright PINK. Per the South Eastern Education board's policy (in the 1980's, I think?) of crudely brush painting all School owned VCR's and TV's JCB yellow, to discourage/prevent theft. They looked hideous, but still worked and one presumes were hardly saleable if stolen. Wherever did you get your new TV Mrs? I liked that solution.

Coming from a farming background I understand the feeling of being responsible can can be depressing especially working with the vargaries of the weather and product prices and Dept regs and the EEC. However having been a member of this forum for a while now I get the impression that quite a few Arboriculturists are not exactly business minded. Based on quite a few threads I have followed. No sums done vis-a-vis costings or ret on investment. Live it up when times are good and no thought for a rainy day. Holidaying, skiiing, boozing. Buy kit when flush and sell it when tight. It could be the profession attracts a certain mentailty/personality type. I dont know but that is certainly the impression I have formed. I do not wish to offend, merely stating my preceptions, as an outsider. Ps As per a previous post I too suffered very badly from depression. So anyone so afflicted has my sympathies, it is not easy, and one can NOT simply "snap" out of it. And, yes this would be the "lowest" time of the year.

Hi Sur, but it taks a Norn Iron man to know a praper guid wheelbarrow there Gareth. Mr Dyson please stand down. PS Anyone got tips to keep the Mrs. from "acquiring" my wheelbarrows for her gardening duties, mostly for long term storage solutions.

There was a recent thread on the BFF re rotting posts/inadequate treatment. I was surprised that Cresote is back, with certain restrictions stipulations. Softwood posts here in NI have been a proper farce since well before the least worst Environmentally friendly treatment was phased out in 1999. Probably since about the mid 80's shitty Sitka with 10/13mm growth rings , treated while still wringing with sap, NOT vacced , rinsed with treatment to smell like they were treated. Good for 5 years max in peaty soils. An absolute disgrace especially when used in Government grant aided fences. cheers I bought a pallet of Russian spruce 100mm pencil posts, years ago, but they are too good to use, I just admire them sitting in the corner of the shed m

I agree wholeheartedly with the OP Wheelbarrows are proper crap. The wheels are even crappier. I want a teflon coated titanium (for strength and lightness) wheelbarrow with Kevlar reinforced (puncture proof) tyre, that will not scuff the tub and sufficiently long shafts stiffly fabricated from carbon fibre, (sufficiently long that is for my tincy wincy size 8's to clear the feet without waddling like a duck) With an industructable edge formed from super duper reinforced composite to strike a spade or shovel on so as to remove our super sticky clay. Heated handles and electric assistence to the wheel would be nice too:lol: With interchangable bodies for either bulk material, logs or flags/kerbs Not much to ask is it. Mr. Dyson if you produce such an article, as described above, I will even forgive you the Ball Barrow. In the meantime I suppose I will research that green French wheelbarrow. Tratiors.

Regardless of the methodology used, and I would suspect that most of Lance's serious competitors were skating on the same thin ice. Lance was/is simply an exceptional individual. OK to put yourself through the pain and grind (despite the drugs) to win once. But to repeat 6 more times, takes an unusual mental attitude, to say the least. A driven individual, who would have been seriously competitive without the questionable medical regime. Being personable is not necessary to win, fairly or otherwise. And btw I thoroughly enjoyed watching Bradley Wiggins win as well, who appears to be much more personable, but must be somewhat tough beneath the surface veneer, or he would get tramped/cycled over . I dont cycle but enjoyed Lance's book "Its not about the bike" simply because the title was so apt. Cheers Marcus

Huck, Treat owt I suggest with a little caution:001_huh: (i) A 150kW boiler sounds huge? (ii)what is your heat load?, and what size of pipe is needed to transfer this amount of hot water over 60m (since I was told 28mm was too small for my 40 kW, but its not:001_tt2:) Distance is a killer in pipe sizing though I think the super smooth HeP2O Type pipe is not so bad, with fewer joints etc. (ii) A rule of thumb for sizing accumulator tanks is 50litres per kW =4,500 litres = 4.5 tonne of water,( and I wish ours was larger than this rule of thumb calc determined. being 2200litre on a 40 kW boiler) An unvented system is the only practical way btw (I think) Otherwise a horrendous amount of "Fernox" type treatment needed. Consider keeping your accumulator tank beside the house where the heat is needed, 2 reasons for this, (i)the heat loss in the 60m of pipe is lost prior to storage. (ii) Almost instant response when the rad circ pump is switched on, rather than the time lag associated with pumping 60m gibber mutter and twitch PS there are some very good online "pipe sizing" calculation sites.