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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.
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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
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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
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You working on the 24 Hr clock then Steve, normal enough for you software savvy blokes I suppose.
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My pancreas decided it did NOT like ANY alcohol, at ALL. Not even the single beer some, perhaps most days with my lunch. So ah bin dry this month or so. I have already noticed some weightloss, mostly due to the lack of the appetite inducing effects of the alcohol. But God I could murder a beer some days. Marcus
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tsk tsk! amen - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM
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Yer overworking the "h" ziz, so early in the morning Stubby.😉
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This was a significent issue when I attempted to test my meter, this despite fossicking into the firewood pile to extract a suitable regular shaped piece, that had been protected from partial(1 end in, 1 end out) exposure to the vageries of daily and diurnal humidity changes. Being somewhat differing readings for the 2 different ends in particular. I suppose I should have sealed it in a plastic bag in the kitchen to stabalize for both temp and surface/sub-surface humidity. Anyway as near as I could judge my meter was reading 20% instead of 21%, insofar as I was able to measure. So near-nuff for firewood. And if I remember, the wee instruction booklet says ad/subtract .5deg C for every 5 Deg C below or above their normalized 20 Deg C. Which I did.
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I did not ken ye were in a Fight Club Andy.
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After Thur and Friday being lovely and bitterly cold and dry and clean, as soon as it started to snow yestersay morning, the temperature rose. Today when I went out about lunchtime I could hardly credit how warm it was, with the wind fully from the South. About 10 or 11 deg. A shocking change inside of 24 hrs. mth
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It shows, but in a good way!
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Not today! A bit too wintery! Frustrating that the camera cannot capture what the eye sees, like it is quite a blizzard out there, but does not look it in the captured image.
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We have had a few cold dry days, with that biting wind from the East. Everywhere is so dry and clean. Quite perfect for plundering about in the Moss cutting sticks. Image of the 1490 after 3 days cutting in rank peat moss. And clean clean clean! As was I, most strange that was.
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What's the correct method to take this hung tree down?
difflock replied to Unframed Dave's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Interesting, especially since I have "jackknifed" a few down, as demonstrated but without a rope. Again I had no idea it was an approved method. I always have a cleared escape route, and I have the luxury of only cutting trees for a hobby, so sometimes study up, walk away and come back another day to study again, before committing. Cheers. -
What's the correct method to take this hung tree down?
difflock replied to Unframed Dave's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
See a few more, the two trees were leaning at this angle before I cut them, and I got them cut right through without nipping the bar. Call me a self taught idiot-savant. Btw. I believe I am at least 1/2 right in that assertion. P.S. The barber chair was quite deliberate, tis only for firewood and I did not dare risk mouthing it, it behaved as I expected and I was well back before it let go after a wee tickle with the saw at arm's length, the beauty of a nimble wee 026! I kinda subscribe to the Wartime RAF saying that a good landing is one you walk away from. Cheers
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Can you not get true CV jointed shafts, same as car driveshafts?
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"If"
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I commented way back in 2013 near the start of this thread. To repeat, and thereby hopefully spread the gospel a little. I been burning exclusively dry conifer, a mix of Sitka and Lodgepole, for say minimum 15 years, and the flue has never been cleaned nor does it need cleaning. It still "pulls like a train" It has never been cleaned since we moved in for the winter of 1996, but I started by burning birch off the overgrown roddens, before switching to the windthrow conifer. Which is air dried only, for 1 season before moving into a shed during a dry period sometime during the following spring/summer/autumn. But I dont fiddle with the air setting, I leave it full on and add sticks as needed.
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What's the correct method to take this hung tree down?
difflock replied to Unframed Dave's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Apologies folks, I am still getting used to using the camera on my phone, and transferring them to this forum on this laptop. Currently by sending them to my Gmail account and then downloading to "click and drag", but there must be a better way. I also have real difficulty in getting them to appear in the correct order! So in the meantime younz can be my guinea pigs. P.S. Perhaps wor daughter can enlighten her ould Da to morrow. EDIT Thanks Woody, got that sussed, I hope. -
What's the correct method to take this hung tree down?
difflock replied to Unframed Dave's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I took down a few today that were similar, but Sitka, and fatter than my 16" bar. As can be seen in the shot of the butt looking "up" the tree on the ground, that was the saw maxed out. Apart from a chainsaw, a winch is also wile handy. A hard hat can also be a good idea! Specially if cutting away other leaning but supporting trees.
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And we still got a business account, that we did not need in the first place, lying semi-dormant this 10 years or so.
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Firewood moisture meters, and "wet basis" vs "dry basis"
difflock replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
I kinda doubt it? No idea what I paid, but guessing sub £100.00? Nicely made robust thing though, in a wee cordura carry case, with an optional plug in temperature probe. Cheers Mth -
Firewood moisture meters, and "wet basis" vs "dry basis"
difflock replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
I had commented on another thread, as to how dry my firewood was, according to my GEM moisture meter and averaging readings. I kinda knew the readings were too unlikely low to be correct, so I "investigated" a little. I had somehow, inadvertently clicked the wrong range for timber specis. Back on the correct range it gave a more likely to be correct 20%! I am oven drying a sample log to check the accuracy. marcus -
Dithering over which little old tractor
difflock replied to Mr. Ed's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I remember being in awe of the simplicty of how the power steering worked on the new bought Universal 540, back in the mid 1970's, it was the same as the retro-fit kit as pictured above by Billhook. It was genius mounting the valve on the end of the ram and having it operated by the existing steering linkage. Or so teenage me thought. That was our first tractor with power steering, and having just staved a thumb by dunting a front wheel in against a wall while driving the DB 990 I allowed PS was a very good idea! Mind you Dad had refused to pay for the optional factory-fit PS kit for the 434 International, when he bought it new, and it replaced the B250 on loader work, for about 20 years. mth -
Paddy, I saw that stunt done with a balloon, filled with the Oxy-Acety mix, and after carrying well away from the cylinders(or perhaps not😌) ignited, it was a most impressively hard sharp loud "BANG". It certainly emphasised that Oxy-Actyl should be treated with respect.
