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Our flue is 9" earthenware lined surrounded by Vermicilite type stuff. House was built in 1995, we moved in for the winter of 1996. A Morso stove has burned for 6 months of each year, sometimes for 24-7. The flue has NEVER been cleaned. And probably this past 5 years or so I have been burning mostly softwood. It has been a long time since I heard it burn either. But still pulls like a train so I can only presume OK Cheers M

A pure pleasure compared to the wee 13 tonne petrol engined one i used to hire. Bought a Krpan with the wee 1 tonne PTO winch, works exactly as I had hoped/planned. I will soon have run through what I thought was a fairly large pile o Lodgepole Jist need some better road to get mair bugger trees oot o the Moss.

I would prefer to burn Birch, but currently running on Lodgepole, I try to keep the chunks larger to slow the burn a bit, cos I am too lazy to replace the rope seals, and the stove is a trifle "leaky" but all is good. I am happy with the way it burns weight for weight. PS I thought I was the only one bringing firewood in, in the wheel barrow

Sniff! Do it right (& I would if we in NI got the grants ) http://www.antoniocarraro.it/na/products/MACH4~4970 Only £68k +£6k for cab +£6k for Joystick controls All plus VAT of course Does 40k and can drive on the road on a car licence. So about £96,000, less discount of course. Hey heating oil IS cheap. PS Thanks to "Pudding" for the idea, I had wanted a Humble Yanmar T80

We allowed our weans to play with knives as soon as they were big enough to weild them , so say from about 4 years. Then No1 Son progressed via a couple of discarded abbotoir knives to his grandfathers Army Machete ( with the edge dulled) Attempted to cut off (only) one of his fingers, then one of his younger sisters, again the once only! the wee sister then some time later branded him with a red hot poker quite accidently? you understand. The only time he needed stitches was from a small sharper knife, the very Nigerian? (impressive ritual facial scarring) Doctor was impressed when wor Son explained it was only a wee knife, not the Machete that caused the cut. PS same children were sharpening sticks on a concrete wall when no age to throw at each other as spears!!. They were VERY pointy. They only LEARN from their experiences. The younger the better. Like when he was first allowed to play with the Machete he could hardly lift it, therefore inherent "damage-limitation" PPS We were allowed to Foster:lol:

And there I was going to say make a stock for a Shotgun!

A dog on a lead is not necessarily under control! A 10 stone Rottwiler with a 7 stone bimbo on the other end of the lead How does that work exactly? Conversly, witness "Daddy" on the dog Whisperer, a Pitbull perfectly behaved but NOT on a lead. We, the owners, and the dogs are ALL different. PS Some owners are overprotective of their children too. Assuming that a big dog must be a bad dog. JHC! And btw a herding "nip" on the back of the leg is not really a "bite" People should understand the difference. Honest

Well at the risk of being misunderstood, and as a total non-climber. I once as a non HGV driver attempted to instruct an HGV driver to reverse in a narrow gateway, after gteeing him to approach it from the correct sensible direction, he with a lot of backing & filling finally made it in. The next driver in an identicakl truck from the same firm, very briefly pulled up, sized it up and did exactly as i had instructed the previous driver, without requirinf any direction from myself. Sometimes one does NOT need the actual experience to make the judgement from a Farmers Son the Bushmills was better than my typing apparently is hic

I fancy one of these YANMAR | T-80 Comfort Cab Edition Standard tractor back end, and a proper steering wheel. Cant quite warm to the Antonio Carro Mach 4 as much as I fancy the Yanmar but for wanna-be Quadtrac owners see http://www.antoniocarraro.it/en/products/MACH4~4970 Dribble & drool:lol:

Would someone kindly post a photograph of an A10 Thunderbolt. The only plane I ever really wanted to fly. My reaction time and its speed would have been nicely matched. Plus it got a big cannon.

I do recognise some of my oddities/traits. The biggest was and is always asking "why" Did this happen? (The car skidded,& note NOT the Driver) Did that not happen? (in apparently similar circumstances) There is ALWAYS a reason. Unfortunately at least 50% of the population fail to notice any difference. I do despair bytimes. Gibber Mutter & Twitch PS My "expertise" wit explosives was purely TA, but fun nonetheless. Well the SLR camera & Tamron lens might well have cause to think different:blushing:

As my ould Da didnay useta say "never let facts interfere wit a guid argument" The power in explosives is all in the placment. A couple of ounces in a bit of copper tubing properly placed can totally wreck yer average car........well leastwise from the drivers perspective. A few kg in the next townland, pah! PS I got a perfectly good sense of humour. But if the BBC want to make a very expensive point (and at our expense!), try and make it half believable. It would be so much more impressive.

Why do I hate the BBC? Was as well proven in 30 years of the conflict over here, as always they have to distort things. The underside of the Hummer was packed with 7kg of Semtex type stuff, probably mostly in the vecinity of the drivers seat. In the case of the Marauder it was simply left on the ground at the very rear of a prononucedly higher vehicle. JHC!!! Lying toe-rags

I did not realize that they were producing Common Rail engines in 1936:confused1: There's nowt new under the Sun

Might I suggest on behalf of the H&S Exec that the toes on that Forklift were dangerously worn and should not be used:001_tt2:

(i) What %age of firewood merchants mostly/merely retail imported firewood? (ii) What price would firewood need to be to cover the costs of locally producing same, i.e buying in, processing and selling on. if it is cost effective to import, as above. (iii) Is most of the UK produced & sold firewood simply a by-product of the Arb industry?, and was thus historically underpriced being merely off the record/cash sales/beer money? Is this changing? Gibber Mutter & Twitch

I suspect the fuel consumption could be the boker (Norn Iron = being sick) EVEN when running on Red:lol:

Sniff! It's "G" Wagen:001_tt2: In der German pronounced "Gay" Wagen:lol: Honest The absolutely lovely couple in our all male factory tour thought that was particularly hystercial. PS I was kinda disappointed wor Van failed to pull out an 6 wheel pre-mix truck, which was stuck, the driver had thought he would wind me up by suggesting I did so. Nay worries, I had an Army tow chain lying behind the seats, I couldnt get the weight transfer right so despite all wheels locked and low ratio she simply sat and gorried 4 holes. I still dream of a 350/280CDI 461 Model "worker":thumbup:

"That God-Darned Stupid needs fixxing agin" I can only presume he had been "trained" and properly risk assessed before featuring on the BBC? Cos even a totally untrained farmers son could figger that out from about age 12 or 14. Starting with a BOWsaw was a great educator:001_tt2:

Unfortunately the post 1997 car test being reduced to 3.5 tonne (from 7.5t) plus the 3.5 tonne break point regarding "O" licences is a bummer. What however is the situation regarding "O" licences for ARB work? I presume the distance from base is one factor , but surely one "owns" whatever one is carrying in the truck, plus the trucks main purpose is to transport the guys to the site and provide support whilst there. all I know is that because we only work a standard 37 hour week, are a limited distance from the Depot, always return at night to the Depot,& do not carry third party goods. We are exmpt from "O" licence regs, taco nonsense, and indeed that CPC palaver. We run a 5.2 tonner downplated to 4750 +the 3500 kg tlr and 7.5 tonner, the only bind is the bloody post 1997 reduction to 8250kg GTW (as was)

Good comment about the sparks seen iffen working in poor light, I became aware of this when cutting in an unlit shed. Very educational, and I am pernicity about what and where I cut. In my epxerience Hawthorn is one of the "grittiest" woods I have come across, whether due to birds nesting in, or the age it is likely to be before big enough to be worth cutting for firewood, or dust/grit getting trapped in the many narrow forks? Especially seasoned Hawthorn:thumbdown: Pity it is such fine firing though. Cheers M

I think? these were also sold in India/ sold rights to India/ built in India/ still built in India? PS Agrover= Poor Unimog copy:lol:

It would indeed appear to be exactly as postulated by yon grizzled Yankee logger on the "Axemen" show "Ya caint fix stupid" From someone with a dicky back from lifting 3 by 2 paving slabs single handed into the back of a Polo and being more worried about the paintwork than my back:blushing: But Hey ho! who, who has manually laboured has not hurt themselves? No one that I know of in the mostly farming community.

We wuz towlt that the Georgian/Victorian engineers had nowt to learn (in My Polytech days) Belfast is built on piles, where i presume the pile top is always below the water table so no worries. But for some Georgian/ Victorian warehouse project in Belfast or perhaps Liverpool where the pile tops were going to be exposed to the air, the engineers arranged for the multiple downpipes to run off so as to keep the piles constantly wet, they may even have used the hollow section cast iron stanchions as the downpipes (cant remember the exact arrangment) but it was all very elegant. When said warehouses were eventually demolished in the 20th century the piles were all still perfect, course they may well have been prime teak forby. We wuz well impressed.

If the bags costs say £6.50, charge £7.50 with £3.00/£4.00 payback (not sure how much) on return in good condition. Be cheaper than buying more bags and might as well be seen as being "renewable" in their re-use. Surely thats a Win-win? Bugger Monkey business, well spotted:001_rolleyes: , one could always re-use on ones site for static storage though therby always issuing fresh bags:001_tt2: