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Pity I did not buy a 390T, back when they were merely 2nd hand tractors, and the brother suggested I should too! But anyway here is Mrs. 1490 in her working cloths. The log trailer(bought off Jas P Wilson 20 odd year ago) came on the poxy wee tyre shown beside the road works sign, so I put a set of ex slurry tanker Russians on her, I had a larger set, which I returned because the axle was simply too wide, anyway the set pictured carries remarkedly well, and from experience the trailer is perfectly matched to Mrs Brown's tyres and tired HP. Oh! the untidy alignment of the logs on the trailer is because of a big butt, the bottom 4' of the largest tree on the trailer, that I did not want to leave behind. They were all leaners at about between 30 and 45 deg off vertical so were cut at a safe height, I got some spectacular barber chairs too, but was not prepared to get the saw nipped cutting a mouth, nor indeed put myself in any danger. Marcus P.S. The weather here today is simply magnificent.

Hats off the JCB, they really did get the Hydradig right, first time, and such irony that the UK prevents the Hydradig being so simply maximally utilized with a trailer for the various attatchments. DOH indeed!

First, thank you Billhook for that post above, which exactly mirrors my own beliefs(& I was wile tempted to merely post "perhaps" in reply to "J's" rather dogmatic statement) then Hmmmm? Apart from building a big slap of conventional, but reasonably insulated, masonary construction house, which should do us, and future generations for 100+ years, we live very plain, i.e. we do not buy clothes for fashion, then dump them, ditto for household appliances, furniture(or every-day used suite is 30+ years old, the rest is cherished 2nd hand stuff), electronics(we dont hardly own any) and cars(the ave age of our 3 veh fleet is 20, and would be 26 if I put the 1984 veh back on the road) So unfortunately I do regard most humans as a plague on the Planet with their trashy profligate jet-setting resource wasteful polluting ways. Btw. I spent yesterday lifting others peoples rubbish from the roadside woodland we are custodians of, said unprotected woodland that I could well have sold for building sites, probably at least 2 but choose not to. I also hope to leave an area of woodland for future generations to enjoy. Yes we drive a limited amount of unneeded miles for pleasure, but that is about it. And we only had 2 children. So yes, most people choose to bury their heads in the sand, or say "its not our fault". But it is, and to some unavoidable extent, ours too, but I can live with the responsibility without wearing a hair shirt or other such virtue signalling.(& could the above statement be construed as virtue signalling?) EDIT: Just to say I am plagued by doubts, and as lazy as sheaugh water, and not to sound too much like TVI, but prone to ponder the meaning of life, so far far from anything approaching perfection, just in case that all sounded a bit "up myself". BUT, for sure I detest our current society and its "values", comprising as it does of mostly plastic people seeking continual instant gratification with the entirely needless trash they generate and so generously distribute throughout the countryside. Cheers, Marcus

Universal consensus is another way of saying groupthink, and driven by grants and funding. Like a Consultants report for my employer many years ago which blandly stated "It is clear that . . ." with no explanation or facts to explain why what was so clear was so clear. But to what extent is climate change human caused, a / of a % or a more significent %? and how much is entirely natural. For example anyone care to argue with an Ice Age caused advancing glacier, or how to prevent its inexorable advance, I dont doubt the IPCC would pontificate, quoting many "facts" but even they could not generate sufficient hot air to prevent the ice advancing. So, simply, I do not believe it is within the power of man to change the affect of humankind on the Planet, with sufficient speed to contract the hugely alarming predictions of rapid climatic catastrophe, plus I would be more concerned about ever increasing habitat loss and specis extinctions. Anyway I read a rather good article about the down through the ages predictions of "the end is nigh", and how the current breast-beating climate-change doom-mongers are merely the latest incarnation of this prevailing trend. Marcus

And yet the unmarried mothers, of multiple children, are already whinging, about being accommodated, at the expense of others, in converted office blocks, they want real family homes, you know, like those bought, with the associated financial privation and suffering, by married couples in days of yore, before they had children, this despite being a married couple. Marcus

No scruffy mixed breed mongrels for you good Sir! Lovely dog though.

Why would I respond with abuse? Anyway, being TA, I only had very limited Army experience, but I did pick up on the black-dank Gallows humour common across soldiers across the world and down through the ages, it is simply a coping mechanism. Unfortunately someone with experience observed that Army life multiples personal traits, so the bad get worse and the good get better, plus the affects of PTSD. Like a Parachute Regiment soldier that I met on an attatchment somewhere, who post Falklands recounted that after a mortar stonk, a soldier was lying on the ground screaming that he had lost his leg(and he had) whilst the medic was attending to him, a fellow soldier could not help correcting him by saying "no, no you hav'nt lost your leg mate, cos I can see it lying just over there". Boom Boom! I will be a long time of regarding murderous IRA volunteers as bona-fide soldiers btw, seeing as they specialized in the slaughter of the unarmed and innocent, by and large.

Hunger strikers helpline phone no 808080, ate nothing ate nothing ate nothing

My dumb-as-a-rock ringle-eyed beautifully Dalmatian marked Hound-dog, was a proper gentleman, he always sidled up an had a wee nibble at the bitches ear, before adroitly throwing the leg over. But then wor Bessie was not a bitch to be trifled with. mth

No, No, there was definately a heavenly Chorus struck up just as ah luked out da winda. Seriously, I suffer from a peculiar vowel placement form of dyslexia, I can recognise I have misspelled a word, but God help me, I cannot get it right, until I google it, and voila, tis either the use of the wrong vowel, or the misplacement of a dammed vowel. Yet I can spot a spelling mistake in others work very easily, and good with the correct use of affect/effect, their/there, to/two/too etc etc. Our local bastard Scots/Ulster dialect with its general larned mispronouncing of words does not help Sur! Marcus

Really just noticed the Blackthorn in full flower yesterday, and viola! snow floating down past the bedroom window this morning.

But my cunning plan was to lure the midges away to the other side of the pond with the lights, cos vividly remembering a heavy courting session up a Glen at the back o Helensburgh, many many year ago, where ah got the sweaty bollocks ate af me, ah proper hate midges. But anyway, you were saying . . . P.S. Already got the sheltered area sussed out for the decking/shelter/seating etc.

Really only want enough light to reflect romantically off the surface of the pond, when required, I was intending to simply run the flex back to a socket in the garden room and switch the lights on as and when required, so the circuit would only ever be live after dark, when hopefully I should not be mucking about with a spade, lawnmower or rotovater. Cheers Marcus

Ah!, he said, in hindsight, an ah fink the key word in your explanation was "siamising"= BINGO. so Thank you. Marcus, the better informed.

Stepped out at about 80m, and visited the 3 electrical wholesalers in Coleraine this morning. It seems that most any of the(and see example;https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GLGUSPBK.html?source=adwords&ad_position=&ad_id=315107931576&placement=&kw=&network=u&matchtype=&ad_type=&product_id=GLGUSPBK&product_partition_id=295798815819&version=finalurl_v3&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7YblBRDFARIsAKkK-dK8IuMSkATYUxjENxR0dKjTEwXuGONFgpONeqWp2gojVOayGZAmtkUaAu1LEALw_wcB)230V ground spike lights have a 2.0m trailing lead, therefore each will need a junction box, which will essentially be lying in the dirt, unless I bring them all back to a (minimium) IP65 enclosure, since I saw these; https://www.rapidonline.com/CamdenBoss-CPWP3I-IP68-Waterproof-Field-Assembly-Connector-23-3020?IncVat=1&pdg=pla-339087520473:kwd-339087520473:cmp-757438067:adg-44804851896:crv-207912323492:pid-23-3020:dev-c&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7YblBRDFARIsAKkK-dIllLydpPQ-qAzZ3Qn7255sH2-ZEgT4YSbcBW0M9dkzulNMp1hVCf8aAu9tEALw_wcB which will allow a tidy solution. I got oodles of 1.5mm2 blue flex and roll of 40mm ducting, plus a suitably sensitive plug-in RCCB, i.e. bugger the SWA cable.

OSM, Not intending to sound cheeky, but how could a PTO pump be any "faster" if it "draws no more" than the tractors integeral pump for the linkage? oil flow is oil flow. Regards, Marcus

Or Russia, loosely speaking.

So, what?, was he bathing in it, flagrantly ignoring common sense/good practise etc etc, etc, etc. Why are these systemic underlying abuses never examined? imho Knowing of such stupid practises within the agricultural community in respect of Organo-phosphate sheep-dip, a product my father, a non sheep farmer, warned me about, also Dad, when mixing various "tank-mixes" of herbicide for barley, was fucking paranoid careful, some 50 years ago, before any of this shit came to the fore. His simple logic was that if the product could do "what it said on the tin" it must be a powerful chemical, and therefore deserved to be treated with simple respect. Why is that so hard to grasp, judging from the behavouir of some? Who then plead stupid ignorance. And claim big.

As the title, looking to put a row of lights at the back of the pond, say 30m/40m from the house, plus 20m frontage, about 50m/75m max of cable, or do I go solar? Marcus

Erm, First the posed photograph? Then; In the "cant fix stupid", catagory, why is my immediate reaction to the supplied photos and text, that "someone" (& possibly at least incl the grandparents) was "tidying up" with a chainsaw, and cut the trunk that was attatched to the rootplate, or otherwise relieved the load on it somehow. Without any regard for the childs whereabouts or safety, and with reference back to the posed photograph. Seems clear from the evidence provided.

Sniff!, why do I not unreasonably suspect that stating "any other oil" must be mixed at 33:1 has, at least, 2 positive effects; (i) The saw will not run a well at 33:1 mix, (ii) it will cost more for the greater quantity of 2S oil required, ergo, the gullible owner will buy the Husquvarna oil. I simply cannot see how any modern computer designed or optimised for a particular mass market application 2 stroke engine, is any different from any other. Ditto for reputable mass market 2S oils designed for particular applications. Pure happenstance I run Stihl oil in a Stihl saw, but adhere to the view that good oil is good oil, when used within its particular manufacturers recommendations or specifications, regardless of the branding. Marcus

21/36=58%, is a significent majority, I say the 21'ers have it.

I agree with the 21st, and boy-o-boy is it Spring out there this morning, zero wind, very mild and incessant birdsong. So mild I was actually tempted to go skinny-dipping in me new pond when I had the dogs out at 06:00.

Have not modern tractors rendered Unimogs a trifle unnecessary? Especially with the easy availability of front links and PTO's on "ordinary" tractors. Never mind modern tyre technology allowing for high road speeds and phenomonal flotation/traction once off road. Plus the proponderance of CVT or Fendt type transmissions. Aside from the non-HGV steering issue, but I suspect this is currently a bit of a moot point, since hydraulics are now so reliable?, especially if subject to regular checks on the hoses.

I always found it a trifle ironic, that we in Western/European culture, quite naturally and instinctively, pull a handsaw to start an accurate cut, but then insist in push-cutting to cut. I can only presume the human musculature can generate more power pushing, hence the development of our push cutting saws.