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  1. difflock
    Well! Whodda thunk hit!
  2. difflock
    Despite being very strongly right handed and btw my master eye is also the right one, my father always said I was "kitter fisted" using an Ax or sledge, in that I keep my right master hand on the end of the shaft for control, then let my left arm do the brute physical work, very very naturally. BUT I cannot use a Cricket bat or Golf club for love nor money, not in neither hand, it just feels wrong no matter which way I try.
  3. difflock
    Per some of the posts above, while I was still running the boiler, I joked that iffen I hadda sold all the wood I burned, it would more than have paid for the heating oil needed, and been simpler. Because. It is a wile pile o drudgery lighting it and tending it etc. Or so I found, being constrained to working around full time employment Also, as said above, Insulation, insulation and insulation. And then perhaps a GSHP driving underfloor heating for background heat only, with a woodstove in the living room to top-up/fine-tune the heat needed. Which is essentially how we operate, except the underfloor is oil heated, but IF I had applied for our RHI, it was going to be for a GSHP system to feed into the pre-existing underfloor. Cheers Mr. Ed. Marcus
  4. difflock
    From memory we got the 50% grant on about a £5,000.00? install cost, about 15 years ago. Leaky plumbing joints(from hazy recall) Shitty clearly visually non plumb 4.0m minimal flue which would not draw. I put my own 11m flue in. Also a bollocks made when fitting the flue. A full 28mm copper pipe to the expansion vessel(when only 15mm was needed) proving poor understanding by the installers. Terribly badly painted steelwork to the boiler. Tedious and slow to light, and VERY tedious to clean the akwardly accessed flue pipes through the boiler. etc etc Perhaps I somewhat got off on the wrong foot due to the cowboy installers.
  5. difflock
    Good luck Mr Ed. I cannot comment about the other Firebird boiler, but I too ogled a Froling, but declined to spend the, to me, eyewatering price. That may however have been a mistake, since the cheap shit outta Slvakia(or wherever) badged as a Solarbayer was a poor investment, and very poorly installed, because of the grant aided demand. Anyway now back to happily heating with Kero backed up with a woodstove in the living room. BUT With cheap heating oil and no grants, at least you are better placed to negiotate a fairer price? Marcus P.S. Just looked up Firebird logwood gasifiers. They look very, very similar to our shitty hard to light/hard to clean 2 door Solarbayer.
  6. difflock
    Curious how a magnet needs to be "underwater" spec to work underwater? Not like they are gonna short out or anything!
  7. difflock
    It were a right manky morning this morning, quite horrible by my reckoning, but wor frogs are apparently made of tougher stuff. They are most unphotogenic though.
  8. difflock
    Be a bad job iffen ye ended u shagging yer own wife by mistake . . . .
  9. difflock
    The problem with getting or keeping cut to length firewood exposed to drying ventilation, was the reason I went with the billet bundles. Stacked 4 high, with runners beneath, the wind fair whistles through them, and easy to cover with tarp. But then I have the luxury of being able to wait for a bracing dry spell to bring them in under cover and process into my logpile.
  10. difflock
    So, what is this?
  11. difflock
    Macpherson, "I recommend enjoying a drink" I do, and thank you for this very pertinent advice.
  12. difflock
    Probably due to computer illiteracy/incompetance, but I had idly tried googling a few times this week without success, then whatever slightly different way I worded my question just then, and "BINGO!" thanks mth
  13. difflock
    Btw I am "googling" it. And apparently H30=4.8mm file! ye ha! Erm, and look where I found it!
  14. difflock
    Apologies for the delay. 30 on the drive links, and "Husqv". Bar is marked .325-64 DW Cheers Marcus
  15. difflock
    I used a 4.8mm same as for the .325 chain on my wee 026, and took the depth guides down using the guide for my .325 chain. It seems to be cutting OK. Did I miss anything? Is this the best chain for this saw? Marcus
  16. difflock
    Well 5 HP, will easily generate 25 tonne force(and it should really be expressed in Newtons), but slowly. Simplistically speaking 50HP will generate the same 25Tonne force, but the ram will be travelling 10 times as fast.
  17. difflock
    She is sure welcome to defend hersel with a suicide vest, in an empty bunker, anytime she wants.
  18. difflock
    And apparently Bagpuss is still somewhat fornicated, since the Supreme Court has ruled that she has no right to return to the UK! Have they smelled the wind?
  19. difflock
    Only once did I witness similar, but on a corking dry sunny May/June day, when I lit a bonfire a good few meters (10 to 15 ish)upwind of my substantial logpile, then the wind got up and the sparks flew. There was a fosey rotten Spruce stump angled so as to be facing the Sun full on, and dammned near toasty dry as a result of the previous fine couple of days. It kindled as nice as you like from a single spark, and would have started a fire in my reonably large woodpile except I misted the hose over it and the surrounding area. Phew! Edit; Chestnutt burns very sparky dont it?
  20. difflock
    Well ah plucked up me courage and pulled the undertray off, refilled the header tank(with water!) and voila, dripping out the bottom. The hose running down to the electric coolant pump is routed so that it can do nothing BUT vibrate against a very sharp protruding plastic edge. WTF imagined anything else could happen I cannot imagine. And Lord God but the fank of shite, gubbins an hoses sandwiched in the non existent room between the front of the engine and the back of the radiator leaves me in despair! It being quite impossible to either see, or get a hand, nay even finger tip in to establish where or how the upper end of the punctured hose terminates. Marcus
  21. difflock
    Here in NI at least, our dryest ground/undergrowth would be found from about mid Feb until mid March, when we get that biting drying cold wind from the East that sucks the moisture out of the dead vegetation and the surface of the sod, plus there is no new moist fresh greenery. If I wanted to kindle a fire without importing kindling and using nothing but a single match to light it, that would be the time. Not in the humid summer heat. Mth
  22. difflock
    Well some progress today, after charging the battery for 24 hours due to probably? unassociated electrical gremlins, started the engine and ran it at about 3000 rpm, and she dumped the contents of the header tank into the undertray. In a very few minutes. So presumably a tiny split in a hose opening under the extra pressure created by the higher RPMS? I had searched and found a comment about a poorly routed coolant hose that could chafe through in a very few thou miles More to follow.
  23. difflock
    Paddy and AHPP, I used to drive a Citroen with the hydropneumatic suspension, and other older cars, so larned to look for drips and leaks, but NO, no drips seen. The van is mostly parked on clean concrete at the back of our house, so I should have noticed. The daughter WILL NOT CHECK, for fluid levels/leaks, despite my frequent and direct instructions, so I have no idea. I pulled the dipstick and the oil looks clean and oily and at the correct level. I did suspect some long term slow loss associated with some unnoticed damage due to the frontal collision. Anyway she is taking it back to the bloke she bought it off, since he also services her car, and seems decent and reliable. Thanks again mth
  24. difflock
    The daughters van, the DPF light was on and she was driving it at elevated engine revs to attempt to clear the blockage, per internet advice, when there was a "ting" and another light/warning measage came on, and when the bonnet was lifted no coolant to be seen in the header tank. Only 40,000 miles showing on a 2016 damaged repairable, imported and fixed local by a trusted acquaintence. Starts and runs fine, but "check stop start" message and another message something about "pollution device . . .", that I cannot get to come up again, it now just says "check stop start" So I put a battery charger on just in case the battery was getting low. But that aside no coolant, so any obvious or know weak points in hoses or owt else? Cheers Mth
  25. difflock
    You working on the 24 Hr clock then Steve, normal enough for you software savvy blokes I suppose.

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