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Home made organic duck egg quiche with, naturally home made Basic pesto(though the Basil was bought in Tesco's) this a couple of days ago and home made something in filo pastry today,(the beaten egg did not get enough time in the oven, but a 60 second ping per portion in the microwave sorted that out) followed by home made ice-cream,(pure Hagen Daaz quality) made with whole uncooked eggs(unfortunately bought, not the Dublin Duck eggs) Plus the daughter made several batches of devine chocolate brownies. And Senior Management is gargling down her organic Blackcurrant juice, made in the German steamer/juicer. Life is good. A few hens might be an idea.

My "E" stop button got squashed years ago( I seem to recall trapped in about the rising link arms) but it simply stopped winching, or free spooling, i.e. it rendered the wired remote control effectively dead. I am also bamboozled by the use of "clutch" and "brake" as the only labels on the diagram you found. Where I think of "brake" as the default settings, with "winch" and "free spool" as the selectable options But no "winch" function is mentioned. Gibber, Mutter, 'n Twitch. But again, regardless of my continued bamboozlement, thank you a whole lot Gareth.

Well, success to temperance(an ah bin aff the beer for a whole week, so a slight bearing perhaps) and a big thanks to Gareth for that circuit diagram. BUT I still needed to figure the colours of the 3 winch wires and the 3 switch wires. But since I had established the yellow wire to the winch was "common" to both winch and free-spool, it was only a 50/50 call re the brake/clutch vis a vis blue/brown, and I had remembered that the ONLY traceable wire that I had found was a short brown stub to pin 1 on the socket. So I tried that permutation. Then the switch, well try feeding the positive down the brown, knowing that it gets switched to the blue and the yellow depending on whether winching or free-spooling buttons pressed. Then temporarily disconnected the positive supply, switched on the ignition and gingerly touched the positive to the chosen pin. No sparks=GOOD Then connected it and tried the free spool button, to hear a solinoid click. =O K. Then the winch button, a subtly different click from probably? the other solinoid, double check, yes def a different click from the other solinoid. Wired all up and churned the PTO with the engine stop out, all OK. I.e. No winching! Phew. Fired her up with PTO engaged and all worked 100% I still do NOT understand how the wiring works? Must be something to do with the diodes in with the solinoids allowing for reversing the polarity without causing a dead short. Now going to label the circuit diagram with the various wire colours and staple it to the original booklet. Thanks again Gareth.

When I stepped outside this morning at 06:00 it smelt like Spain(from 40 year old memories) I could figure it was the warm hard surfacing. It still smelt the same when I went out after breakfast.

I dont believe that yarn🤔, I mean, come-on, a Tax Inspector with a sense of humour🙄, it never happened!🤣

You are a star Gareth, thank you. And yes, I had rationalized that the 12V DC wiring for all basic EH forestry winches should be identical, or was prepared to gamble on it being so(with the proviso of having a pair of side cutters in my other hand) Wait out . . .

Gareth, I knew where the paperwork was from when I purchased the winch, the unblemished booklet has oodles of unneeded advice about all kinds of nonsense, but NO wiring diagram. I searched the internet and Youtube, but all I got was adverts for forestry winches and wiring diagrams for 12V electric winches. The wife had no better luck. I emailed Jas P's, and unfortunately I did not think to ph them earlier today. Cheers, mth

An astoundingly sunny hot hot hot afternoon here today.

Indeed Gareth, and I have long pondered the benefits of wireless operation, since this has been only one of a few mishaps with the trailing wire of the remote.(but n o t r e a l l y helpful😁!) Though this is the first time I lost how the wires were connected.(And if I go wireless I WILL lose the remote!) And, while I just finally sorted out a plausible looking wiring diagram and wired it and got it to work without any dead shorts, and it worked, but it does NOT work correctly, in that ok, it will start winching on the button, but NOT stop when the winch button is released, OOPS! requiring the free spool button to be pressed to stop winching, Phew! AND then the free spool stays "on", even after the button is released, which it should not do. so an "EITHER/OR" mode of operation. Hmmmm . . .

I dropped a wee tree(really, it was) on my Krpan EH winch today(my first rusty outing in 2 years is my excuse) Anyway I pulled ALL the wires out of the 7 pin plug/socket where the power supply from the tractor connects to the winch solenoids via the switch. And I will be buggered if I can suss it out. I know how to get it to work by touching/connecting the power directly to the 3 wires that go to the 2 solinoids.. But cannot fathom how to wire the switch to achieve the this effect. Anybody want to volunteer a wiring schematic. Thanks in anticipation. Brilliant days weather here btw. Gibber, mutter 'n twitch I just realized where I may have erred, fingers crossed

No, first a Dojo, who was also a builder, then a rough as f . . .plasterer, then f.... knows as she works her way down the food chain. I gleefully suspect that in her and the brothers local community(since they have lived all their lives in the same small town) the word is out and nobody sane would touch her. But it must be tough for the 2 secondary school age children.

The brothers accountant advised him to put his two rental houses in his wifes name, for tax purposes. Then she cashed him in. Mind you it was the best 200k he ever spent.

I keep telling myself that the exercise is good for me, every time I rehandle timber that I already handled multiple times. Though having the ever-so-small ever-so-decrepit 40+ year old forestry trailer to lift, transport and stack that pile of timber was much appreciated. My limited cycling this past 18 months also told a positive tale since I was not huffing and puffing like other years I started on the firewood prep regime. Cheers Marcus

Pics, I should have left the pile another year by rights and dragged more Sitka and Lodgepole down from the Moss to cut split bundle and leave to dry over the summer, before stocking the shed, but hey-ho. Hawthorn, going in at about 25% a few nearer 30, and a couple of outliers that read 35. But it can lie in the shed until winter after next as I have room for more than 2 years firing. I will split the heavier(and wetter) stuff and leave in billet bundles outside the rest of the summer.

Pics? Of Route 66!

But I do intend to leave it in the round, and full length, to minimize the losses at the ends. But thanks for confirming that is the best way to do it PB.

Well I scrapped a "BUI 74" many years ago, sigh. The Renault 5 it was on was totally rotten when the MOT was finally introduced over here in NI. But I like "Dibbles" plate, being V 575 DBL, and come Christmas when I put the 40 year old SWB back on the road, its plate, GIW 405 will be transfered to our daily driver. I did be sorely tempted to buy G 14 ULT a wheen o year ago. Gibber, mutter, n twitch.

On your advice I shall leave the larger straighter pieces by, outside, stacked somewhere windy/dryish. Though I suspect it would be much easier milled with some moisture in it. But, hey-ho.

They did last year, so fingers crossed for this year. I am swithering about the Birch saplings getting established, mostly at the rear of the pond, fingers crossed they will do more good than harm? I will probably leave them for now anyway. Just sitting out for a breather just now and contemplating life.

Before I cut it up for firewood. Relatively straight lengths up to 9"+ thick.

'E got the leg over yesterday late afternoon, cos I saw him at it in the Bullrushes. The Moorhen that is. And out all lovey-dovey for a wee evening stroll with his lady love there now. They appear to be quite unpreturbed by the dogs and yet have avoided the local cat which does a regular morning and evening patrol. The Mallard are also still about bytimes and happily ignore my presence a few meters away when they are on the pond. And the Sparrows are fair going at the ripe Bullrush heads, judging by the beakfuls they are carrying away, it is for nest building. Aint nature wonderful!

Well, derp European Cherry is "J" the same as European Bitch, which setting I had used yesterday(cos I was checking Birch anyway) and figured the two woods were each similarly dense and fine grained to perhaps be a near enough match. Anyway getting 25 to 35%, only cut a horse's cart load of arm to lower leg thick stuff for now, while I ponder whether to proceed. . . Since the heavier stuff is remarkedly straight I might cut it to 1.0m lengths and split it to leave it outside to the end of the summer? Cheers guys. Mth

I need to see iffen Plum or Cherry are listed? Bonus pics of my thorn stack. Subjectively judging by the weight(or assessed denisty) in the hand, they are pretty dry. Well except the one in contact with the soil(the rest were kinda up on bearers) Cut last spring and left a year in the stack, and trying to grow! (I shall split it and leave it to dry outside over the summer.) Ain't nature wonderful!

Needed to move the parked up 1989 LWB 460 out of the shed, so after putting a sniff of air in the tyres and dropping an old battery in her, she started near first kick. Drove her up and down the lane and round the back field to give her a bit of a warmup, and actually enjoyed driving her, prob because the inside is in really good condition. So I might throw a wheen o pound at her as well and keep her. Bonus pic o the van. And wayhay! The wee ♥️ one turns 40 in Dec this year, so no income tax/no VAT.(Road tax nor MOT) See pics

See pic. As in Hawthorn/Quickthorn/Whitethorn is not listed in the booklet. So which other hardwood species would be the best match for Hawthorn. Which had been lying in a tidy stack exposed to the Sun and wind since last Spring. I was therefore considering cutting the arm-thick lengths direct into my firewood pile, probably for use the winter after next. To save double handling. P.S. The meter was giving me 15% or lower for the stuff in the shed, when set for Birch or Sitka, and middle single figures no like 5 or 6% for the exposed to the Sun and wind Ash butt ends yesterday, such has been the cold but bitterly dry and Sunny weather we have got this past 10 days. I know this figure is not an indicator of actual moisture content, but I suspect it was accurate enough in respect of the surface moisture content.