difflock
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Rings must have been badly worn, therefore each ring able to move and so run sideways. P.S. Even more fun trying to reverse a set of rolls?
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Cambridge rolls ackerchuy.
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Which is why I understood nightwatchmen types favoured them, or so I seem to recall, the big Maglights that is.
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Ah that explains the incoherent rantings from Diane Abbot, Corbyn, and all on the loonier-lefter side of the Labour party. The poor dears.
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Working for the Commission for the first time
difflock replied to Big J's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A brain locker, for all staff to put their brains in, before entering the site, in case they should indulge in any potentially hazardous "thinking", instead of blindly following the "rules". Said rules generally written by a learned senior management type that has never actually been "hands on". This concept was explained to me 40 odd year ago, by a bloke that had spent some time with a NI Government agency. I found it to be true during my Local Government Supervisor duties too. Though the FC may well be different. Anyway, best wishs for your new venture, regards marcus -
Touche!
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I have carried an Elora strongbar this past 40 years, seriously because I once got caught by overtightened wheels nuts on a deflated tyre. It did occur to me that it could potentially have other uses, c/w a finger-moulded non slip grip and a lovely handy "heft" about it. different brand name, but the same product see link https://www.howdentools.com/products/king-tony-strong-bar-flexible-handle.html?page=19
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Der 461 Steyr Puch has been working for her keep this past 2 weeks, hauling kerbs and premix concrete for me to set aforementioned kerbs, not bad for a relatively neglected 20 year old. But as soon as I get the building works finished I will lavish some tender loving on her over the winter months. Unfortunately it looks like she will need a new offside front wing, though the chassis is still shiney and sound. Cheers marcus oops a 605C Fiat crawler, nominal 60 HP, unfortunately missing the High/Low gearbox, but very very easy started and fuelled.
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Well, see, from an N Irish perspective, if SF/IRA support Hamas, and they undoubtedly do, we got to support Israel, and I do. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. But sometimes a friend is just a friend, regardless of common enemies. But I do support the need for a safe space for those of the Jewish faith, whilst still having sympathy for the origional displaced Palastinians. However Israel has made a better fist of running a country, in the most difficult of circumstances, than most/all of their fractious Arab neighbours. And having grown up during the often miss-reported NI Troubles, and all too often our own BBC were the most, mostly subtly, Nationalist biased. I learned not to trust media reports. since SF/IRA definately took an early lead and won their relentless drip, drip, drip propaganda War with the British Establishment. Marcus
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Was that VW engine perhaps prone to overheating, for whatever design/location reason?
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But I understood the Caravelle and indeed the Combi Van were both derivitives of the Transporter Van, and if the Vivario had seats fitted in the rear, essentially it is designed to do the same job as the Combi Transporter. P.S. The Transporter has also surely got a high seating position, c/w transverse engine and transmission being FWD. Ditto the red-herring of fuel tank, exhaust and suspension gobbdly-gook, since Van designers all use the same CAD packages surely? Now if they had simply used some criteria like some minimum "x" m3 and "x" kg of cargo carrying capacity, after the seats were fitted, it might have been simpler/clearer/fairer. marcus
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Take it from me, tracks, whether steel or rubber baint no fun when going over stumps, as the Yanks ud say they be a "force multipler", and yes I would have doubts about rubber tracks gripping, based on my somewhat limited digger experience. That Yanmar bes a sweet bit of kit though, with its differential steering, complete with a steering wheel, I presume. marcus P.S. Re the "skidding", me being in rank Moss, stones, or even grit are not an issue, and skidding is simply the most efficient way, if not the only practical way, to extract the timber. I do shudder at the sight of logs being blithely skidded over granular soils, mostly on Youtube footage.
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If kinda hard enough underfoot 2WD should be fine, but one probably would need the brakes to skid steer, if working a 2WD to the max, thinking winching/skidding, so surely the Zetor is on the back foot in this respect? Actually so much simpler to max out the rear tyres for flotation/traction on a 2WD, that it could make sense, if the front wheels dont be doing nowt much except keeping the front off the ground when stopped.
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I try to do an honest mornings work at least twice a week, but at least I get to kip after . . .
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Not particularly a specialist job, technically a press should be used to push out the old bearing shells from the yoke, but I watched my father achieve the same using a carefully selected socket and a hammer. mth
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No job* undertaken with any knowledge or forethought, perhaps excepting bomb disposal, should be "extremely dangerous", or simply put, you are doing it "wrong". I do agree with the physically demanding and exposure to the elements stuff, never mind the mucho-macho bollocks though. marcus * i.e. deep sea diving
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no idea, bought it 10 years ago?? Marshalls are still the importers/agents I think http://marshalllogging.co.uk/ cheers
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I understood that the only requirement on replacing UJ's or Hardy Spicer joints was to match(or should that be unmatch?) the joints at the 2 ends of the shaft, to cancel out the inherent* cyclical speed fluctuation of such joints. Otherwise it should bolt on "anyhow" being a balanced component. mth *being zero when straight but increasing with angular deflection P.S. Our bin lorries were a mix of older Iveco and newer Mercedes, similar parts for each brand were often cheaper for the Mercedes, perhaps proving MB's promised lower "whole life" ownership costs, despite the higher purchase price.
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I used to hire a 13 tonne Thor road towable(petrol engined) splitter, it was very slow and the splitting wedge constantly broke the roll pin that secured it, due to pure poor design, from hazy recall. I really like my 17 tonne PTO Krpan though, plenty fast enough splitting on tickover revs and with the auto return the splitter has retracted by the time I have the next log in-situ. I find the single splitter much more useful than the 4 way head that was also part of the kit. marcus
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I ud say tis all about simple inertia folks, the tree top needs time to start to move. mth
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I would have scorned Poplar as firewood, but having had to fell a couple to access other trees, and noticing how easy(prob in the Spring) it was to de-bark using the front tyre of a 4WD tractor, I cut, split and stacked it. It dried remarkedly fast & well (from recall) and was bloody excellent for lighting the wood stove along with a couple of handfuls of scrunched up newspaper. So ah hadda rethunk my notions. mth
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Many years ago I observed the electric door lock mechanism was identical on both the rear hatch of the BX Citroen and the rear door of the early 1980's vintage 460 "G" Wagen (probably Valeo or similar OEM.) The Citroen part "probably" retailing for somewhat less than the identical MB component! Ditto for the headlights for a particular early BMW model, which were identical to those fitted to a Ford Capri model(I think) at about 1/4 the price. marcus
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Bugger me spelling, i not y blithely https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=blithely&oq=BLYTHLY&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.11886j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Not a lie but an alcoholic mechanic(where I worked) spent a couple of winters trying to get a Victa mower to "go", incl replacing the carb, with a store bought brand new one, etc. etc., no expense spared, & all blythly charged out to the "other" department who owned the mower, and all without any success. Hi successor, when he found the then by forgotton about mower, first emptied the stale fuel from the tank, it was mostly red diesel. Doh! p.s. I too would have said red diesel.
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Huh ! Me back is aching even thinking of moving that lot! marcus
