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  1. https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/woman-mistakenly-lit-explosives-instead-of-candle-during-power-outage-suit/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
  2. The Irish GWagenregister club are hoping to have some 40 No. G Wagens rounded up this weekend for Eddie Gilmartin's annual jamboree, I might take photos, but the daughter will probably have a proper camera along, fingers crossed.
  3. fingers crossed Do I need? a fourth? That much? EDITED with Jackson's reply. Thank you for your enquiry, I can offer the following, Mercedes G wagon 250 LHD box vehicles, choice of 2 in stock in good condition, 15,000-30,000 kilometres only, Price each from £19,500-£22,000 plus vat
  4. http://www.gwagenregister.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5340
  5. see post below
  6. Sniff! Well after 2 protracted weeks with my mechanic, I finally got her back after 17:00 Friday past. The mechanic was saying how good the brakes were, and the brake pipes were lovingly greased. Booked in for a Sat am MOT test, and all 100% except for the Service Brakes to the rear axle, a 73% differential across the axle. After calming down, I stripped the rear brakes on Sunday, the brake cylinders were a bing of obviously unlooked at shit and rust. So I fettled them myself, and got her booked in for a Monday re-test. And . . . Got 2% mismatch (and one is allowed up to 30% btw), so near enough as "perfect" as is humanly possible. I did not pay the mechanic on Friday, and it could be some time before I pay any well-adjusted bill. Marcus
  7. Hmmm? Are there any other differences between Conifer and Birch, since in the Scandanavian context I presume hardwood means Birch and not Oak or other hardwoods. Like the acidity of the flue gases, or the temperature produced, i.e. could they simply be seeking to prevent damage to the stove body or lining materials, by recommending hardwood over softwood? Or perhaps Scandanavian chimmney construction is different to UK specs? But if so I would have imagined they would be more specific in their wood specification, since I have seen on here that burning undiluted Oak is bad practise due to the acids produced (if I am remembering correctly) I always like to know the "why"? I would certainly much prefer felling, handling, splitting and burning Birch, if it was available in sufficient quantities. The Conifer could then blow down and rot insitu. And the smell from the Birch bark burning is a pure bonus. Marcus EDITED Erm I went back and read the first post, and it was quite detailed about other hardwoods, so I am still perplexed.
  8. YAWN! Since the winter of 1997 we have been burning a mix of Birch to start and pure conifer this past 15 years, into a clay liner flue surrounded by vermiculite, slumbered overnight when on the Birch, but re-lit each morning on the Conifer AND the flue has NEVER been cleaned and still pulls like a train. Nuff said!
  9. From the surrounding swamp, this result should hardly have been a surprise to the driver . . . However I too have been known to push my luck
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  11. I dont quite know why this sprang to my mind, but about 50 year ago, when slatted houses for cattle were being promoted as the modern replacement for traditional straw bedded houses, my father attended a promotional day at Greenmount, the local Agricultural Collage, and after being taken with the group to view the livestock in the new slatted house, he smelt a rat and wandered off for a nosy. To find the mingeing/shitty dirty "culled" livestock, pulled from the slatted house stock, discreetly housed out-of-sight well round the back. When he re-joined the group, and at an opportune moment enquired about the livestock "round the back" . . . enough said Cept they, indeed "dont like it up them" Do they?
  12. All I know is my observation that any brochure or promotional video for firewood processors, of Scandanavian manufacture, is the stacks and stacks, and stacks, of telephone-pole straight Birch. I am always mighty jealous. P.S. Having unearthed a stack of lengths of mature Birch buried in my logpile in the shed for a few years, that I have cut into large logs, it is definately the dogs-danglies of firewood. A large, and bone-dry lump, set on a bed of embers will burn slow and clean and hot, itself all alone. Which makes it much easier to keep the room at a steady comfortable temperature, it was generally too hot with the conifer, because I tended to put on more logs rather than see the fire go out. Marcus
  13. Iroko, was the wood that triggered the allergies of a lifetime old-school joiner that I knew and worked with at the time he was afflicted, he was perplexed how it happened after a lifetime of working with Iroko, in the days before dust masks or LEV.
  14. Assuming a forestry winch? Rabauld is the only one I am aware of. Chain = constant pulling force, and presumably easier pulled out and easier "fought" with But the chain will be shorter. How do the chokers/sliders work on the chain btw? Regards Marcus
  15. We came across the "tourist tax" some 40 year ago in France, all neatly itimized on the back of the door of the room. I bristled at first, but on reflection, it made perfect sense, tourist visitors need facilities, on a seasonal basis only for coastal destinations that it would be unreasonable to ask the local residents to pay for, and in conscience the French did provide such needed facilities. P.S. Start taxing jet fuel as swingeingly as car and truck fuel is taxed as well.
  16. I merely came across this on YouTube,
  17. I have found the offer of an insertion heater works, they either stop complaining or . . .?
  18. Hmmm! Need Boudica's sythe blade equipped chariot to mow through that lot o grockles.
  19. I love my Continental winter tyres, makes driving on smooth white hardpacked snow not much different to driving on a wet road, quite astounding the grip they get. Also very good in slush, but really need plenty of tread for that. Owt below about 3.0mm I then drive them done over a summer, or used to when I did the miles. mthP.S. I read an account on another forum, where a savvy BMW driver had had winter tyres fitted, and had occasion to pass a spun-out LR/RR(the LR/RR was on smooth tyres to be honest) on a hill. As they say, quite priceless!
  20. That must be very frustrating dig-dug-dan, A pity the insurance companies would not sponsor or set up an office/officer to attempt to recover goods/machinery they have paid out on? Sounds like a "handy number" for a moonlighting or retired Police Officer surely? Marcus P.S. Regardless of whether the present owner was the thief, I understood that one stood to loose any property, that turned out to be previously stolen, despite being "honestly" bought and paid for, like a car for instance. Simply tough, and presumably is deliberately so, so as to attempt to dissuade persons from buying stuff, nudge nudge, wink wink, that "fell off the back of a truck"
  21. We had an accident just outside our house on Tue evening, we were returning home just minutes after it happened. I walked back down to nosy, and could not make sense of the accident scene. Spoke to the Polis, who was surprisingly friendly and informative. A veh had stopped to turn right, the car behind, driving into the evening Sun, just got stopped in time, the van behind that did not. BUT The van missed the middle vehicle and struck the veh waiting to turn right, how I could not figure, since it then rolled in through/over the hedge, on its own side of the carrigeway, and ended on its side immediately inside/beside the gap, i.e. no speed involved, but the middle vehicle was stopped slap bang dead centre of its own side of the fairly narrow road, with only room for a bicycle between it and the hedge. I could not see the right turning veh btw.
  22. BTW! Having set out to sell the parked-up 1989 LWB 460 GD300, in this 40th anniversary year opportunity, but also inadvertently/simulteanously looking to replace the disposable daily driver Skoda Octavia, in the short to medium term. I am now thinking I will simply keep the 1989 "G" Wagen as a daily driver, since being settled into retirement we are doing very few miles at all. And I actually like the old brute/bitch. Also the absolute reliability of 1980's MB engineering technology. No "Computer says NO!", unlike die dammed DQ200 DSG Skoda! So I might(again) re-consider re-engining in due course. Gibber Mutter & Twitch
  23. A stout sub-surface cross member is standard in peat/peaty ground, for 'leccy poles at least. not sure if athwart the line or in-line with the line to prevent toppling sideways.
  24. Water, I understand, to be properly counter-intuitive!

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