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  1. Just goes to show what burning wet wood can do.
  2. It looks more like Meripilus giganteus to me
  3. Apart from that the socket and lights must all work there is only a legal requirement that a telltale in the cab must work in unison with the indicators, to show the bulbs are working, isn't there. I do wonder how they current sense?
  4. I have a towball on my 1999 vitara, it can tow 1.2 tones braked but only 500kg unbraked as it is only 1tonne unladen.
  5. Yes but brush cutting predominantly bramble, even with a mulching blade, is frustrating. If you can wait for stuff to die down after cutting (or roll it up) then a sharp, long handled slasher is effective. Follow up with a mower.
  6. I reckon the 2kg would be enough to tension the wire on a capstan. With an 8mm diameter semicircular thread machined in the capstan and a fairlead to keep the wire in the groove. Drop the tail to the ground and then launch off on the active part of the rope. Once on the deck unclip and the next person clips on.
  7. I wonder if it was an eddy current device, a large copper disc spinning between two static discs embedded with permanent magnets. I would expect it would need gearing up. The whirly bird type speed regulator ( basically a centrifugal fan in free air) absorbs power with the cube of RPM. If I ever had to live in a high rise flat I would have an eddy current device above the window with an 8mm wire rope wrapped round the capstan 8 times and a 2kg weight on both tail and active end
  8. Fairy fingers but have never seen them myself, Clavaria fragilis
  9. Same here but I like to see them. It annoys me that the fungi eaters kick over the ones they don't want.
  10. Good. A couple of things: Burn the wood hot and fast so that there is always a flame. If the stove is unlined, i.e the fire directly contacts the metal of the outside of the stove, consider lining the inside and baffle with vermiculite boards to keep combustion temperature up.
  11. Over the years I used to meet a chap from a nearby road with elderly german shepherd dogs, two sets of sisters. As two of them became less able to walk he would sit in a clearing and throw sticks for the active two. He died very suddenly while working, in March, of a heart failure.My wife took to meeting up with his widow and and soon after one of the white sisters became totally immobile and was put down. I think all but one have a congenital spine problem. One of the black pair succumbed and was losing the ability to stand or walk Last week I was presented with a wheeled frame for her and at the weekend, after a bit of head scratching, we fitted her up, this clip is her on her second day. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12LQeNqevUC1a87Q37lsdxBRW42Oe6Ck-/view?usp=drive_link I'll leave it up for a week or so The wheels are loaned from a charity called WWW.WINSTONSWHEELS.ORG.UK
  12. I would say you are burning wet wood, the water is lowering the combustion temperature and any flames are quenched before completely burning out, that grey haze is moisture. Also I have seen a restricted cowl like that blocked by soot, resulting in carbon monoxide alarm sounding in the boiler room. You do use a carbon monoxide alarm don't you?
  13. Now that, in a shooting context, is ambiguous.
  14. Mostly whether I'd get into the knickers of Mandy, my big sister's friend.
  15. Seatbelts would have probably maintained the line up

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