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Only for glorified hobby use, but I take some pleasure in decent tools. So not Lidl type rubbish, but equally well I dont need RR quality(and price) marcus

I was impressed with Reg's groundy, she simply looked clean, tidy and competent.

OSM Seeing as I worked within local government and persistently queried where our obviously polluted blue bin waste, never mind the polluted "colour segregated" glass went and was always rebuffed. etc etc The uncaring idiots were running the aylsum and costing the ratepayers and the Enivironment a fortune in hard cash. Like trucking heavy wet green waste miles to a composting facility when they had acres of ground nearby, a closed "dump" where it could simply have spread to decay naturally and give nature a helping hand. The waste involved in handling our waste drove me to mental despair, quite seriously. Never mind the seriously frivilious expenditure of the landfill tax cash-back from the Government, on stupid, ill considered short term community/vanity projects. Marcus

The wisdom of capitialism vis-a-vis Government is again demonstrated by our latest revealed renewable energy fiasco here in NI. Where stand-alone wind power installations attracted something like 4 times the subsidized return than those in wind farms, giving a payback of as little as 2 years with 18 more free and clear. Bringing in figures between £100,000.00 and £200,000.00 per year over 18 more years. Oh! and if you put in a way-oversized and de-rated turbine you could furthur "game" the system. All paid for by helpless mugs like us paying our leccy bill. DOfornicatingH!

All I ever saw was the immense arrogance, financial chicanary and venality of the EU Beaurcrats. I would never have considered them stupid. I always, and rightly, suspected and distrusted their Empire building motivation. All power corrupts and the power they seek is corrupting in the extreme, as can already be seen.

Regardless of the exact mechanism, and mostly from experience of 1970/80's tractors, using the engine in lower gears gong downhill, worked better than the so-called brakes connected to the brake pedal. My understanding was that a diesel engine without fuel being injected acted like a positive displacement compressor, which will require significent energy/work to function, and that the Jake brake merely enhances this effect. And now I gotta go and establish exactly how a Jacobs brake works, thanks Clessie. mth If I understood the rather poor explanation, the Jake brake overrides normal exhaust valve operation, such that each upward piston stroke is a compression stroke, the valves only being opened to release the pressure after TDC, is this correct?

Stubby, Senior Management says she paid £20.00 about 4 years ago. End of/one time payment. It is still working on the spare TV.

The VAG DSG is absolutely excellent in this respect, i.e. correct gear selection including when pulling heavy/over heavy loads including up hill. Proved by our wee 1.6TDI DSG pulling a measured 3.2 tonne uphill, over viscious speed bumps, with no fuss and at minimal, but sufficient revs. I was well impressed since the car is rated to only pull 1.6 t max. Big J has also commented re his Toerags towing prowess. Our dry DQ200DSG is SHITE at low speed manouvering on a slope, particularily in reverse(and reverse is too high geared) due to the shitty software protecting the shitty dry clutch packs, which CANNOT be allowed to slip AT ALL, however the wet DSG's are bullet proof and better in this respect. There is still a slight pause, and bytimes disconcerting in the face of oncoming traffic, this at road ends from neutral. The modern TC proper automatics with lock-up are simply the best of both worlds. And re off road driving, wor Steyr Puch with the oldschool Merc 4 speed TC autobox is superb off road and for heavy towing. Derp, just remembered the cousin drives an atuomatic Ford ranger 3.2 diesel, it is faultless towing, and I have sat in with him a few times to form my own conclusions.

We dont have Amazon Prime, but do got an Amazon Firestick. It works flawlessly.

I may have done Eggs? but I cannot remember doing so, a very blunt yet cutting comment if I did however. "Ye canny fix stupid", would rather be one of my favourite mantras. Not many on this forum qualify for that particular epithet, but there are a few, who shall remain nameless. I in no way imagine you to be stupid or uneducated, merely somewhat misguided in your political perspective on certain issues. 😉😉 P.S. In respect of computers and smart phones I am quite useless.😞😞

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A bit the same as the snobby upper class well bred birds still liking a quare guid shag, wor rather pedigree Bulldogs simply LOVE eating the neighbours horseshit, there is a pandy out front that one would swear came from a grass fed pony, but in fact it was our Boudica! Nom nom nom!

Come and live in NI, and at least you can still own and shoot pistols, if not full bore semi auto rifles.

Red, White and Blue, SO good to see she's one of ours too!

Yes yes and yes, plus according to the wiki article I scanned, timber is less/significently insulating along the grain. I imagine it started as an adhoc construction using soil/clay and short, otherwise scrap cuttings of logs? cheers mth

Euagh! Re stackwood/cordwood construction that is. Codwood construction ud be worse though.

I really like the look of Tim's dwelling, but strictly speaking it is a timber frame with timber cladding rather than a log cabin. However chances are we will be more likely to go down that route than a true log cabin. I imagine I must have watched that Slovian bloke on Youtube, and was SERIOUSLY impressed at his skills and work ethic. But tightarse that I am I will probably balk at paying for the endless hours of seriously skilled craftsman ship required for a proper log cabin, and the likely difficulty in establishing a fixed price for the work, before committing. I was probably imagining a 1/2 way house approach, where the logs are milled and CNC machined in a factory and delivered in a ready to assemble kit., but a solid(if milled) log construction. The wife still fancies a Huff Haus, or very similar, which no doubt would make the proper hand crafted log cabin look cheap in comparison! Cheers Marcus P.S. I looked up Dan Franklin, thanks Bill Norfolk Residential Cabin | Woodenways WWW.WOODENWAYS.COM

Plenty big enough then, how is it constructed?, or what way are the walls made up?

Looks good, what sort of size though?

Seeing as wor daughter found reason to stay an extra week up Aberdeen direction . . . Scotland may beckon to us too?

For a Co. Antrim location. In the notion of something that could be hired out as a holiday let until we decide to move in . We have a suitable site already. Thoughts, suggestions or recommendations please. Marcus

Funny enough Kevin, I had been attempting to articulate how infuriating it must be to work with a roomful of intelligent, or at least well educated, but probably both, and certainly smug, knowing they are unsackable, Senior Civil Servants, who delight in frustrating the Ministers honest efforts to introduce needed reforms, while knowing and delighting in knowing that the Minister carries the responsibility for their actions, or inactions, BUT cannot sack them. Ah pure bliss, for such jobsworths. And I can do no better than refer to any random episode of "Yes Minister!"

Paddy, while accepting your impeccable logic that cleaner/low ash oils allow for running at lower mix ratios, without fouling the plug etc., I simply know that the 2 blokes who looked after the Cemetery were very particular about mixing their red 2stroke at 50:1 to run in the 2S Suzuki engined lawn mowers, which ran 5 days a week, for a solid working day(these 2 blokes were honest and hard-working and genuinely worked the hours they were paid for) for years and years and years. Like when 2s engines were discontinued they preferred to hold onto their old mowers way past when they should have been replaced. Without ever missing a beat. So that and my own limited experience in running an 026 from 1997 until present, at 50:1 on red Stihl 2s, without issue(admittedly little more than heavy hobby use) tells me there is no reason to overoil.

Due to several Rememberance Sunday pissups in various houses in our village, and no doubt plenty of mingling and drunken embraces, the village is now apparently rife with the 'Rona. A very very decent bloke in his seventies is on a ventilator. Our antisocial nature has however been our salvation.

That could be why wor lass got a poor reception in Skye, earlier this week, in a van.