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difflock

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  1. "Tree Rats" says it all. And they must throw off some dog-enticing scent, go since I witnessed our 2 Spaniel/Daschund crosses frantically criss-crossing and following a ground trail, while Mr Grey scurried away 40' overhead.
  2. Eggs, thanks, So just the same as a standard lead acid battery vehicle deeply disliking deep discharging, OK. marcus
  3. Eggs, How or why are the batteries wrecked by newbies? mth
  4. I would be more concerned about the extra long nose, sticking out into traffic at junctions, (and I believe the legal status of Unimog front mounted chippers, not winches as I appreciate, has already been discussed on this forum) it is just that that front mount winch just looks awfully awfully "sticky outy" to my eye. This comment based on my NI rural road junction experiences, never mind getting out of fields/properties onto the County Road. Perhaps a man with a red flag in front is needed? Good luck, an as they say over here "your good health to enjoy her". Regards Marcus
  5. Wow a "metal" chainsaw, whoda thunk it. So not a Stihl then I presume!
  6. I noticed, a couple of weeks back, that any of the various volunteer Oaks coming up the Moss, that had had the temerity to come into leaf with the unseasonally warm April weather, were well tobered by the subsequent cold blast of air from the North. The fresh green leaves looked more like tea-leaves. And that was even in sheltered locations. mth
  7. maybe sterilise the Jeremy Kyle demographic? KJ, I see a use for that rather neat label, I shall therefore file it away for future use. P.S. Would you still allow them to vote?
  8. Except each of those three pictograms need a 3 diagram to show the fall in the cost of food/the number of houses built on fertile floodplains/population increases/the acres of agricultural land covered with concrete runways to facilitate needless holiday travel, etc etc. All to easy to focus on the farmer, when his choices are driven by or constrained by societies ruthless demands. Unless you can persuade the Green Party supporters to turn up and labour manually for free like the serfs of old, to support the non-mechanical food husbandary they so apparently favour. And eat the very plain fare so provided, you want another bowl of pottage there Jonathan and Siân?
  9. But with the GoT budget or finances why the apparently appallingly writing of series 8, so I was referring to the perhaps deliberate "killing off" of the series, i.e. was there a sub-plot to/story behind, the clearly sub par writing?
  10. Any possibility that the actors got greedy/too hard to pay?(while appreciating the money spinner the GoT franchise is) I am waiting on a hard drive with the entire series thereon so will reserve judgement on Series 8, but what I liked about the random earlier episodes I watched, was the balance of the characters, no individually was wholly good or wholly bad(well mostly) or at least even the "heros" have flaws.
  11. And there my Mrs. thinks God created Men for Woman's pleasure(ing) . . .
  12. But they are both on black, ergo joke does not work
  13. Presumably the excavation for the founds, effectively killed the tree?
  14. That will be a Council job, the planning and execution of the wall building took so long, that the tree had already died and been removed by the time the wall finally got built, but the drawings had to be obeyed!
  15. Cough cough, actually "Identified". Just saying like . . .
  16. EDIT, Better replies above(once I read them)!
  17. When we built the house back in 1996, we had House Martins move in immediately, for a few years, then they simply did not return, yesterday for the first time I saw a pair investigating one of the favoured West facing peaks, fingers crossed they are here to stay. The Swallows, (and I never could tell the difference between them and Swifts), have been in residence, in numbers, since the couple of sheds were built. Regardless of particular species, it is a pure pleasure to watch them feeding over the pond. I must try and spot the bats again, they are certainly about. cheers mth
  18. https://www.austenknapman.co.uk/blog/faqs/a-3-step-guide-to-painting-aluminium/
  19. Dare I suggest, that if a tractor, or other machine, bought from a large reputable firm like Wilson's, and bought to be worked hard for a living from the get-go, while still under warranty, hours and appearance are no odds, it is a product that merely has to function to earn its keep, i.e. little odds about future re-sale value. It is not bought as an investment, rather a callously depreciated working tool. mth
  20. Indeed Eddie, from a laymans POV they always struck me as being very akward to use, conditioned as I am to our traditional "digger" type geometery, just curious if I missed something, my only thought was from the "gradall" name, in that I suppose for levelling/grading backfill on roadways, or what. But our cousins across the pond are not that stupid, so there must be some niche or reason for this configuration to exist.

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