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I doubt it but it would have been fitted with a roll bar as standard for the UK market from about 67, so to be in keeping it would need one. It's a long time since I was an assessor but I would not allow the assessment to go forward if the operator was anywhere in the operating envelope unless he was protected by FOPS and POPS. Also the exemption under LOLER for loaders not to need a full independent inspection is that the operator is protected.

Yes my bet is it will fetch more done up in agricultural spec. Finding a roll bar to replace the loader frame may be a problem. With the loader on the trailer you have the choice of tugs.

I did sink the spades round some bigger trees but as I said my involvement became less as I went into harvesting so never got to see the results. I was totally out on the dates as this picture is of us moving poplars on a golf course development in 1980. I knew Deafhead before I had even picked up a chainsaw and he will remember the next picture: Which shows me planting oak trees on the farm before it became a golf course. I shall try and remember to see if the trees are still there, though I doubt it. The area is tree less because the farm had just been acquired and all the hedgrows were dead elms, which I and others felled and burned. The four biggest butts were felled and milled for farm use. We used to get the GMC stuck so frequently that I ended up permanently attaching an A frame to it and Deafhead reminds me I once pinched his MF300 traxcavator, without his permission, to debog it. It was a bit different to drive as when you started it the throttle opened fully and you had to press on a pedal to cut the revs, I suppose the idea was that it would be working flat out when loading.

Well as AFAIC the tap root only exists for a short while from the acorn and the sharp taper of the TS4a would contain it. In leaf we would spray with a PVA sealant to reduce desiccation, in dormant season 4" and 25' tall wasn't a problem. It got very little use by me as after the storm hit I was mostly dealing with windblow. It was used to transplant trees from a stock ground around the farm but when that got sold for development most of the trees were taken out. One thing that struck me was the trees never grew as well after transplanting as whips would do but then we didn't have time to get really expert at it.

Sounds like me, spade was owned by my late father in law and AFAIK only his son and I operated it. Is there a clue in your username? Take it to PM

The late Judith Rowe at the FC said it was displaced males and they targeted trees with a wide phloem, which tends to happen after thinning as the trees put on a growth spurt as the canopy reacts to more sunlight. The attacks happen in late spring but it's when the branches die that the dead bits in the crown become more noticeable. This is why warfarin should have been a good control method before it was banned but it was largely poorly deployed which meant it became useless over time. Nearly always the stripping seems to start from the ground or a branch union, which is why I advocated early pruning of selected trees

We had one of those tree spades on a 5 litre GMC truck in 86, boy did it use some petrol.

If they do it's probably a Wartsilla

It seems less than seamless to me?

I have experience of Openreach not being able to find and agreement and having to remove and re route the line.

Because the bike has no front number plate and average cameras face your front? It won't affect me much as I avoid motorways on the bike. You are a naughty boy My bike is naked so I have had to fit a flyscreen as above 70 the helmet tried to lift off. No I think this is more to do with the fact it is a criminal offence and there has to be proof that the speed was above the limit beyond reasonable doubt. It the prosecution have used this figure as being the best chance of success. In fact, now that that it has become public knowledge and people are flagrantly abusing speed limits it would only take a more accurate capture device with corroboration for the police to make a few high profile examples. This would happen if the general increase in speeds was shown to increase serious injury and fatatilties. The construction and use regs say a car speedometer must never under read and can over read by up to 10% so you might expect modern speedometers to be around 4mph optimistic at 70mph, which means currently you may be unlikely to be prosecuted at an indicated 83mph but don't blame me if you get done. Police vehicles' speedos are regularly recalibrated and lorry tachos are quite accurate as long as the tyres haven't been changed. My bikes seem to indicate 60mph when following a lorry set to 56.

I think the type with an adjustable ball on a plate need to be the two pin type, @Justme will know.

That's true I suspect you mean dual purpose, which have the same speed limits as cars. The issue would be do the databases that are used to determine whether commercial vehicles are speeding contain any information about whether a 4wd pick up is dual purpose or not.

Two in Wales that I have visited, Dinorwig opposite snowdon and a smaller one above Blaunau Ffestiniog. Both are closed systems to avoid liquidising fish and from the looks the water is dosed with something. Of course these were built to soak up off peak electricity from (primarily) nuclear power stations and dish it out at a much higher price at peak times, now they will make use of peaks in non scheduled generation like wind and solar, especially as we lose our last nuclear generators (and the French and Chinese f*k us over with the three they are stop start building. Both the above use enhanced natural reservoirs, the Dinorwig one is 600 metres head so not many places available, if you go for a reduced head you need a higher mass of water per unit energy, this involves a more massive infra structure and cost tends to scale with mass. In germany I believe they store energy as high pressure air in underground caverns. Well I agree to a degree, many of the weirs on the Thames and it's feeders could have Archimedes screw generators like the one at Eton but I don't know their rate of Return on Investment. The EA recently rebuilt a weir near me on the river Wey, the original plan was to install a screw generator (because they are fish friendly rather than particularly efficient) and an eel and fish pass but the generator plan was scrapped and EA will not tell me why. With generation plant you have to consider capital cost, operation and management and fuel costs. Even with zero fuel costs the other two can add up to expensive power. You can do a similar sum with battery storage and as far as I can see the capital costs for the total amount of energy stored in the battery lifetime are still currently higher than I can buy electricity for.

How would you separate the hydrogen from the water?

It's amazing to me that our lifestyle choices are so similar yet we are at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Yes for resistive heating but what about heat pumps?

I doubt it as this is the reason manufacturers have move on to car like pick ups and away from simple solid axle 4WD. We are a minor part of the economy and for my part I never bought new work vehicles but did buy a couple of new family cars.

I guess he was giving an upper bound, it looked like a 75 quid pop in on your way back from a short job.

I doubt it, that just went on your TV licence. He never threatened violence so I suppose that's why he only got an ankle bracelet.

Just the job for offsetting your carbon footprint; mix it in the veg plot, it will have a higher mineral content too.

Yes this would be my take on it, maybe with a little help from a fungal attack. I managed an estate where there was beech coppice that had last been cut around the first world war, there were records of sphagnum moss being taken at the same time. The boundaries were grown out hedges like the picture, with signs of previous hedge laying, and I concluded the genotype of beech was selected by hedging and coppicing over the years to sprout, stools and trees that didn't had died off.

ITYM clutch side??

Looks like a leaf spot fungus but no idea which, generally only a cosmetic problem late in the season.

Looks like it and a magnesium deficiency unless that is variegated foliage