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A bit perplexed by the tax on a new landcruiser. . .
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Being only £195.00 per year, after the eye-watering unjustifable greedy £5490.00 on first purchase. And also the stated fuel consumption figs? Like 10.6mpg combined average, fir a diesel. Surely this does not compute. Gibber, mutter an twitch.
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Well, ah went inta tha toon, this afternoon, and both motor factors recommended a GYS Batium. They both also, each, despite retailing multiple Ring products, described the Ring stuff as only suitable for very occasional use( an who fornicating knew?) So ah bought a 12V/15A Batium . Despite its French provanance. For a relatively insignificant amount more than random on line suppliers. Fingers crossed.
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Well, when I opened the Ring charger up, hoping to fine a failed fuse or something obvious, since it stopped working with a distinct "pop", the only fuse I found beside the 230V input, was 100% good. But, good Lord, 2 full circuit boards with a shocking( & pun fully intended) amount of electric/electronic components mounted thereto. Cheers Might just buy myself a stupid=unsmart Draper one.
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Hmmm? Sounds like it is isolated, so start with a Silky saw or HD secauters, cut off at ground level, burn arisings or otherwise dispose of, and spray any regrowth with glyphosphate. Or post ground level cutting, gorr out the roots wi a digger, wait, and spray any volunteer regrowth wi glyphosphate. Rinse and repeat as necc. From an uninformed bloke that, a few years ago, helped a daughter eradicate bamboo that had spread beneath a boundary wall and invaded the neighbours garden. It has never come back, nor have we heard owt from the neighbours since.
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Ah, yes Dan. Well spotted, my proclivity to forget about stuff. Incl battery chargers. Though oddly enough only a month ago, I had been very intermittently using the wee Kioti, without issue over a few weeks, then after a 3 day gap, the battery was completely dead. Refused to take a charge, so I swopped it with another one. And then I tried it again with the wee basic charger, and after violent full needle deflections and various other non charging aberrations, I finally got it to take a charge, it however took a full week before the battery, a Yausa showed the green light, and the battery once swopped back into the Kioti has been preforming faultlessly ever since. All most odd.
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My 50 year old Halfords special, has finally lay down. After long and loyal service. This after the £80.00 "smart" Ring brand charger ( bought some 15 to 20 years ago!) shit itself just outside the warranty period, this despite very little use. I am still sore about that expensive( for me) mistake. Which kinda, however irrationally, makes me distrust so called smart chargers, because when it was working, it did not appear to do anything the basic wee Halfords transformer charger did. I only charge 12V lead acid batteries. So do I even need a so-called smart charger? Thoughts?
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Thanks for those informative comments re the wood pigeon.. P.S. My recent iteration for billet bundling. Makes for a nominal 1.0m3 bundle. With 2 straps at each end, and I was using 3 straps on the 0.5m3 anyway. Twice the firewood moved and stored with the same amount of handling/ tractor use. I had increased the size of the bundles, to about 0.75m3, using the old wooden former, but stacking them higher( i.e. egg shaped)as seen in the image. The last bundle is my first at 1.0m3. My new former still needs a couple of wee mods, before it is off for galvanising.
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That idea did not work. The orange mesh was far too slippery. However changing the shape from circular to ovoid or egg shaped, worked a dream, no sag whatsoever. P.S. Another ponder. We have had a single pair of wood pigeon this past 20 years, never more than 2 but always 2. The nest in the scrub at the front of the house, and feed up and down the lane and on the hard where I intermittently process our firewood. So why only 2? Since I understood pigeon were a social bird that was always found in flocks?
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Another drip cured, astounding that a lift pump with so many internal fiddly bits, can be so cheap. And work. P.S. How the old one was working at all, and it was , faultlessly, though leaking badly. both non return valves were broken, or could not have been working, with broken springs and misplaced seals. The fuel must have been feeding near enough by gravity, and guessing some slight suction from the IP?
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Indeed it is. In my lifetime, and I will be 66 in a few days, we have only had 2, 1976 and 1995. So another would be more than welcome. Cheers
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The very experienced local bloke, like he has been there 25 or 30 years, that got my FS200 running again quite recently, said to avoid E10. That they have cause to associate it with, presumably, a significent increase in carburettor issues, particularly? on strimmers/ brushcutters.
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It would suit us quite well, the fine hot weather..
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I am daring to wonder, could this another 1976 or 1995 shaping up? Fingers crossed.
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I knew a lovely bloke in the OTC, back in the early/mid 1980's, he lived out along the lough shore heading towards Bangor. A big detached house, sweeping down to the shore, with massive Beech trees in the garden. One of these trees blew down in probably the 1987 storm. No particular inconvenience, they just drove round it, while nibbling away at it for firewood. Us other impoverished students were agog that one could own a garden so large that one could simply ignore a massive fallen tree.
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The smell from the just flowering hawthorn walking out our lane in the morning, while the dew is still on the grass, or of any random evening, is quite sublime. Though a few Oak seedlings in pots seem to have had their tender leaves nipped by the couple of mornings of tight hoar frost this past week. The weather here in N I. Since March, has been shocking fine and dry and sunny. Today there is not a cloud in the sky, and a warm wind from the South. Other years, mid May, it could be perishing cold , wet and miserable. With a proper bastard lazy wind.
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See how this idea works. The tube had a habit of slipping and moving when I lifted the bundle. P.S. Reusing the polyester cordage/strapping and clips with no issues or problems. Need to blag a stack of the plastic inner tubes from the silage wrap, I figure they should be perfect for the tubing. I have also started using a rachet strap, for added security when spiking and moving. I am actually shocked at the difference it makes, because no matter how tight I get the 3 sets of 15mm wide "Cordstrap" polyester I am using, as soon as I release the rachett, the bundle sags and deforms. So I need 40 or 50 rachet tensioners? But cost prohibitive IMHO.
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Finally, finally got a start made cuttin stix. It makes Heating oil seem wile cheap. Especially since kero is well down in price. Sigh.
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Bloody Hell! That is a turn up for the books Conor. Thank you so much. As they say, you don't ask, you don't get.
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Thank you WNH and WF. Useful info to know. Cheers, Marcus
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The next thing I need to sort( and I briefly looked, without much success after I bought her) is agricultural tyres, instead of those hard inflexible badtard US style commercial ones she came on. The square edged fronts cut in really badly when turning, and the rears would spin on a snotter. And we are in moss. Which does not help. Though I will almost certainly need to source rims as well.
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I "understand" one prunes in the winter, or Halloween onwards, having observed vines being pruned in the Moselle valley during Halloween school hols, cos the wife was a teacher. So I prune sometime about Christmas, I think? I must leave windows open to allow some insect life in then for pollination, another year. Cheers
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Well, anyway, I tried out that "regen" function. And it makes the tip function twice as fast, 4 sec instead of 8, for the full stroke. And he thinks? Is there something about the return stroke on the better hydraulic log splitters, that uses this same hydraulic flow function? For the same reason. To speed up the empty return stroke.
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Sime42, In so far as I have observed, vines fruit on the new seasons growth. And hard pruning should not, as far as I know, be a problem, if one observs how hard commercially planted vines are kept pruned. My pruning is almost random, verging on the chaotic, and was quite ruthless a couple of years back, when I identified what I imagined were the best strongest stems coming from the root, and kept them, while getting rid of the others, all while attempting to get them trained away from the light to the front, and round onto the warmer back wall. I would need to tober the stuff that is growing quite madly up under the heat of the roof(a full unreachable without a ladder, 2 stories up) Cheers P.S. Anyone know how they are pollinated? Obviously self pollinating since we only have the 1 vine, but what is the mechanism? Not wind, and no flying insect life in our porch.
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Ah! Ha! Two bunches of grapes shaping up. Fingers crossed.
