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  1. difflock
    Erm, actually very simple plumbing if using a "Laddomat 21" or similar. At least our system is. Top of boiler connected to top of accumulator tank. Bottom of boiler connected to bottom of accumulator tank. The Laddomat is installed close to the boiler, plumed vertically between the top and bottom pipes. Draw/pump hot water off from the tapping provided at the top of the tank and ret via rads etc to the bottom fitting. pure simples. Our 40kW boiler is plumbed with 28mm copper pipe (by myself) running 5 + years without a hitch. Ditto 28mm pipe from the tank to the man boiler circuit in the house, which is also 28mm pipe(from a 30kw oil burner/boiler) I will admit Longstroke that your system is a trifle more complex. cheers marcus
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    Does no one make hydraulic clamshell shears that would "bite" them off right down to the paved surface, then minimal grinding. I know there are excavator mounted "log buster" type splitters but they are really designed to split with the grain. I would have thought fresh green wood should not have been that difficult to cleave across the grain with hydraulic oil pressure, and sharp hardox edged shears.
  3. difflock
    "Donate" to the local village for a 11th July/Halloween bonfire. This also works for unwanted super single tyres. Leastwise here in N I. it does.
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    That 1 deg per 24 hours is for an Akavatherm tank, but I suspect that it does not take account of all the pipes and fittings that are more difficult to insulate. However in a well insulated boiler house this heat should not be wasted. jat m
  5. difflock
    Bejeasus, the dazzle from me halo (off the laptop screen) has proper lamped me:lol: tis all them years of guesstimating estimates/quotations for work:001_tt2: marcus
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    A completely uninformed opinion, but I would tend to use it "as is", straightening/tidying up the ends and knocking any loose bark off. Value. No idea, what will the market bear? £100/£200?? I really have NO idea
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    "Dinak" brand name, which I used. If I recall can stand unsupported for 3m (=3 lengths) above the last support. But they also supply a collar that acts as a jointer as well, that has eyes for (3No?) guywires, again if I recall correct. I choose to guy a 6.4m long 4" Galv pipe on top of the portal frame, as a support, in order to get 10m of vertical flue (and about 12.5m from the ground in total) to clear or ridge as I knew the prevailing wind would otherwise cause problems. I used tube as I bought it ready galvanised. So one should be able to get easily say 5m/6m above your roof ridge by guying 3m above, with 2 or 3m then "freestanding". My boiler specified 8/9m min of flue.(which I only found out after problems arose) the bollocks who installed it fitted 5m (to keep the estimate down) I then reinstalled it myself after it indeed proved to be unsatisfactory. (see above)
  8. difflock
    Yes, a perfectely straightforward installation. Mine is simply "T" ed into the 28mm pipework coming from the oil boiler. I use either wood or oil depending. Absolute simples. PS Just ensure the flue is the correct height, as it is expensive. Also look on the "greenbuildingforum" cheers M
  9. difflock
    I bes out gentlemen. not prepared to got to over £5,300. +VAT So feel free to carry on:001_tt2: cluck cluck cluck, squak!
  10. difflock
    Sniff! Nick @Arctree.... I kin top that story. I finally bought an estate car that I had been "buying" for a couple of years, at auction whilst the Mrs. was in labour To replace our somewhat knackered SWB Polo. I were proper motivated. I think I was perhaps under as much duress as the wife:lol:. :blushing:OOps:blushing: Congratulations and best wishs.
  11. difflock
    I suspect that some of the better UK MB Trac's are going back to Germany as collectors items, which may or may not influence the price. I have also formed the impression that more UK "Tracs" are coming on the market, perhaps for this very reason? Now they are worth selling. Good luck Marcus
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    Thanks for that link. I got a couple o pair of Lowa's with Vibram soles needing replacment. And at little over a 1/3 of the price of a new pair. Worth doing once, but I reckon one re-soling will see the uppers knacked vis-a-vis good ankle support, which is my primary reason for wearing.
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    Samarb, You may well be aware of the couple for sale on tinternet. J Brock and Sons have a MB Trac 1000 for sale for 14 or 15 k + vat. From comments on the british farming forum I would have no hestiation in dealing with Brocks. They may be a fraction dearer in their prices but the kit is always absolutly as described, if not better. Per various/several informed comments. This would be contrary to the Universal merriment that ensues if anyone asks about an item listed by QF Tractors. Which always appear to be keenly priced, but are generally Quite Fornicated. I have already scratched my MB Trac itch, otherwise I could have nibbled. PS Worth buying a 6 cyl (1000 an up) simply to listen to it running Which was all I done with mine. So far.
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    As an old Bisley hand I like the sound of that sniper kit. please explain away TCD. cheers m Derp I googled it:blushing:. But sure iffen more than one genuine bidder is interested, and they are both using E-ZSniper......................... it makes no odds:confused1:
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    I had intended to go and look at on Friday, but the Mrs. made me a better offer, which unfortunately ultimately ended in a minor car accident:blushing: (last night, not serious mind) I am not an e-bayer, and hate auctions generally, but hey-ho, I never was any good at negeotating with dealers either. I will needless to say be posting photos:001_rolleyes: if successful. I would rather have picked up a genunine Fiat built Fiat crawler , rather than a Romonian copy, and a tad more powerful perhaps. But reckon it should be good for the 5 tonne winch to extract from the moss at the back of the house. Also be easier (lighter) to extract once bogged. cheers again m OOps:blushing::blushing::blushing: I tink I recognise that "0" feed-back bidder btw:001_tt2: Did I mention:confused1: I like smilies
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    Ere, bleeding ell, back off maties. I got a bib or 2 on that (recently) and am biding my time. I was wetting myself to disclose my interest but did not wish to draw any undue att to it:001_rolleyes: Marcus
  17. difflock
    To interject interfrastically (refer Blackadder/Dr. Johnston skit) and skip back to the long wood shavings clogging the saw. I have experienced this when cutting Sitka butts very close to the ground, so cutting almost along the grain of the buttress, plus with the saw so close to the ground that it could not easily get rid of the shavings. But wonderfully long continuious shavings. Plus growth rings as wide as my finger therefore very soft timber. I tended to think that the saw was cutting right when doing this.
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    As long as it comes with a full tank of fuel and 20 blades forby.
  19. difflock
    Remind Frank I am bred off a Scots Presbyterian, North Antrim farmer crossed with a hungry Co Cavan wife. And marriet tae a 1/2 Scots 1/2 Prussian wife,(whos Mother left Prussia in 1941 at an hours notice from the Cossacks) who, therefore, thinks I were reared proper saft. An btw. currently paying 2 weans through Uni. Strike up the Violin. Cheers J Marcus
  20. difflock
    No final price yet, but listing at about 5300 + 500 for 1 ext + 200/400 for blades + del plus VAT So about 6 plus VAT might need to hunt out some of the other likely contenders prices or offer sommat similar for the woodmizer on ebay eek
  21. difflock
    Hmmm, I tink I have made my decision, a 1220 Timber King, with one 7.5' extention and the 18HP Kohler, just awaiting a keen price for to incl del to NI. Thanks Rob for your unbiased advice, and also thank you Big J. And Agg221 also for the construction tips/suggestions. And anyone else that knows me:laugh1: (I used to listen to Downtown radio) Just need to find sommat affordable on tracks to extract the logs. Mind that M B Trac on the bay with the humengous tyres would dammd near float, once the drill rig was removed. Theres also a Mooroka tracked tractor.
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    rtfm, or plate, or spec sheet:001_tt2: Plate on door jamb or under bonnet or both. That should be the "gospel" Axle 1 Axle 2 GVM = 2nd largest GTM = largest from recall, sommat like above. anyway the numbers should make sense. Largest number - 2nd largest number = tlr weight
  23. difflock
    TCD, Live and learn, or experience always costs. I wondered was it the acute angle PTO making the noise, but concluded the coarse chain was a more likely cause. sigh PS How is the BGU driven? I would have presumed chain?, but a better engineered one?
  24. difflock
    Bump again. I just realized:blushing: this Granberg "flip and Rip" is essentially a bandsaw mill set up............ except using a chainsaw as the cutter instead of the bandsaw. Am I correct in understanding that the potential problems with a narrow blade bandsaw mill are most likely to be due to the "band" wandering due to poor sharpening, incorrect tension, undue forward pressure etc etc. I presume the more rigid chainsaw bar is less susceptible to such deviations, especially if supported at the end of the bar as with the Grandberg. (but optional on the Logosol?) I always like to know the "why" cheers (again) M
  25. difflock
    I did toy with the idea of buying an Iveco SWB 5.2 tonner equipped with a 5th wheel, i.e set up as an artic tractor unit. They were a UK factory option though not many ever sold. Mostly for big exhibition units large on volume but light. They may also have appealed to the pre 1997 licence holders as the GTW of 8250kg allowed quite some flexibility. I was toying with legally transporting a nominal 3.5 tonne excavator, on the "grandfather" "B" + "E" catogory. Could be a tidy "yoke" but work out quite expensive. 11.4m + allow 6m for Van/pickup = sub 18 m = job done.

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