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Except anything power generating with moving parts in a marine environment has a very limited life due to; (i) The limited number of materials that are both mechanically strong while still being unsusceptible to salt water/salt laden sea air corrosion. and, (ii) The insurmountable issue with barnacles and other such sea life, that get in everywhere, escpecially there is a moving current of water to provide them with nutriants. (iii) Never mind the destructive power of storms, likely making construction cost prohibitive.

Hawthorn/Quickhorn/Whitethorn. Cut last March, when Ian McClelland removed the dying roadside Ash trees. Full of sap and left stacked uncut in the round until sometime this spring or early summer. Brought into the shed and I ran the thinner stuff run through the firewood saw, merely cut to length, not split, up the elevator into a pile, the heavier stuff I left in a pile in the shed, thinking I might salvage some of the heavier lengths for future woodworking projects like breadboards. BUT! it developed cracks I could stick my fingers into(must get pics tomorrow) so it will all be for firewood, and, hey! no need to bother splitting it. Anyway, I brought a couple of banana boxes of arm to leg thick logs in this past couple of days, and it burns so so beauitfully, even when a mere 2 lonely logs were set on the near dying embers, like this evening. So it must be dammned dry. And the heat! So thats my favourite firewood.

Squirreled away in the back of a dusty shed, minus a headlight I robbed for to get a sidelight bulb for to put the Steyr Puch through her MOT earlier in the year. Also no interior, cos I never refitted it after the bodywork repairs.🙄😳

I own a near 40 year old G Wagen, with GIW 405 as it's original no plate. Come Jan 2024 I intend to put her back on the road, since she was MOT prepped at some considerable expense back about a year, or perhaps two ago, but I got distracted and never bothered putting her through the MOT. Anyway it appears, per Pleasent and Will C above that to transfer the plate, I would still need to MOT her. Since I might rather have the GIW plate on our daily driver. Cheers all, Marcus

Is it in anyway "tied" to the original vehicle once the magic 40 year birthday is passed? Or can it subsequently be transferred same as before. Cheers, Marcus

Chipper engines operate in a very harsh environment - lots of heat, lots of dust, often worked at maximum power, always running flat out, often operated by muppets with zero mechanical sympathy (no warm-up/cool-down etc), regularly filled with fuel from dirty containers in dirty environments etc etc. They are bolted to a lightweight platform and are shaken, beaten, soaked and blasted with salt, and that’s just on their way to and from jobs! I take your point🤣

And yet the B & S engine in my Stihl lawnmower is v easy started and has so far proved faultless. but no wile hours on it yet.

I believe Metabo are in there, in this common battery alliance, cos happenstance I bought a Metabo combo drill/driver set a few years ago, which has not yet dissapointed me, and I believe I recieved some advertising bumph about the shared battery platform.

I still remember the 100% stunningly positive thread on the BFF a few years ago, about the newly launched Milwaukee "Fuel" range of 18V cordless impact guns, 1/2" and 3/4". Cynical grumpy hairy arsed mechanically minded anvil-breaking farmers were simply in awe of what these 18V cordless Milwaukee tools were capable of. P.S. I also recall there is a mostly German branded bunch of cordless tool manufacturers (about 30 ish) that cooperated to develop a common 18V battery system, so that buyers were NOT tied to one particular brand.

I have often pondered the need or rationale for 3 axles on a 3.5t trailer, surely 2 more widely spaced axles with suitably rated tyres would be just as stable, and with lighter unladen weight? So does IW build them purely on demand based on ill-informed folk-story/hearsay opinions? or because of some specific attribute the 3rd axle provides that I fail to recognise? Or is it simply a case of being able to loose one tyre(or even 2 ) to neglect/underinflation/misuse/damage/punctures and still be able to drive on?

I tried to console myself that if he can still make that much noise, he was not critically hurt.

Very sensible that is , since they ud need to be foot operated, for when ye chop yer hands off like!

Bah Humbug! We got 3 wood stoves and 30 acres of forestry. So the science is settled.

I have mentioned before, how I can only deduce that Krpan paid some clever bloke to design their mandatory two handed safety system so that it is easily converted to single handed operation with a single spanner. Or this was the case when I bought one 10-12-15 year ago. I was actually impressed. Bit like the wonderful Victa two stroke lawnmowers from NZ with the faboulous Suzuki engine, which came 4 holes in the disc, but fitted with two blades only, with 2 spare blades also supplied, and a line or comment that the 2nd set of holes were spares for when the first set wore out, and not to be fitting the 2nd set of blades to the extra two holes. But it cut so much better with 4 blades, like it was origonally designed to, except the 2 "extra" blades exceeded the then newly introduced tighter noise regs in the UK market. So, hmmmmm, lemme think about that. . . Pragmatic marketing gunius that was.

I thought this was a link to sommat like; Goats, forestry and a Stihl advert thrown in. What more could a man want. Well a kid stewed in its own mothers milk might be nice.

I thought Bill Gates had been backing these SMR's? I seem to recall that Fookesheema put the kybosh on those plans for a while. Anyway, for my Clapham Omnibus perspective, they appear to be an eminently sensible solution. Cept NIMBY!

Small Modular Reactors. No vast transmission plyons needed. For heavy industry, stack them like batteries.

Unless one of those 2nd WW German guns for shooting round corners. In a word No. A convoluted flue.

Cheapskate that I am, I keep coming back to Banks Bitter, which, regardless of the price is a bitter I really enjoy. Mind you our Co. Down based Whitewater brewery do some stonking fine beers, specially their Belfast Black and Maggies Leap. P.S. This profilation of posts is not alcohol induced, I am simply bored.

And your tripe cooked chips Andy??

Melting the plastic bottle, a fine sign of an excellent vintage I always found.

Her long deceased father never did forgive us pair for pinning his prized bottle of Metaxa, I mean come-on, who knew Greek brandy could be expensive. P.S. I got a nominally £800.00-£1,000.00 ish bottle of 24 year old Bushmills malt safely tucked away. Either to wet the head of the first grandchild, or otherwise to drink at my deathbed and wake.

Sigh, I used to be able to borrow sewer rods from the Council, until I got fed up buying endless rods for others to borrow and not return, and anyway now I am retired and their is a new regime(two thicko brothers and one smart wife in admin) in place, I would not ask regardless. P.S That is the first time since 1996 the Jackdaws have blocked that oil boiler flue. So they must have been ignoring it until recent.

ERM! On further investigation, I did require to remove a Jackdaws nest from the flue! Their revenge for me blocking them from all the other flues I suppose. No draught whatsoever! Derp. Witches hat going on tomorrow. P S. The state of the art mains powered CO/CO2 detector in the boiler room never once cheeped? Improvised device to hoke and break up the nest from above(the bits then dropped down to where I could reach in and get them from the utility room), not handy, but all my own doing back in 1996, a mild steel screw tent peg was rather useful. Ducktaped on and ducktaped together!

So we noticed a gas type smell in the kitchen and utility yesterday morning. After I fixed a gas leak on the high pressure rubber hose feed to the regulator outside the utility window, the smell was back this morning. And I deduced/decided it was from the oil boiler. Now this oil boiler was properly serviced and calibrated/set up some years ago, by an honest to God oil boiler service bloke, who DID know his stuff, and was most pleasent and helpful, then basically taken for granted and forgot about🤗 So first off I got in her guts, which were black, cleaned up, replaced the rope seal to the top plate etc and replaced the jet. This is the flame I am now getting, and surely, unless the pump is goosed or at least worn and therefore not putting up the pressure. I should not require to readjust the air or owt else. P.S. I did have this boiler running on 35 sec oil years ago and was able to adjust the pump pressures without issue, now if I could just find the wee pressure gauge I bought for this purpose, hmmmm? Thoughts please🤔 VID_20230726_122845576.mp4