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openspaceman

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  1. 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.
  2. I guess he was giving an upper bound, it looked like a 75 quid pop in on your way back from a short job.
  3. 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.
  4. Just the job for offsetting your carbon footprint; mix it in the veg plot, it will have a higher mineral content too.
  5. 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.
  6. Looks like a leaf spot fungus but no idea which, generally only a cosmetic problem late in the season.
  7. Looks like it and a magnesium deficiency unless that is variegated foliage
  8. That should boost sales of Silkys
  9. That's sad but on reflection Me Too
  10. That damage looks like a shoot borer, where is it? In uk we have pine shoot moth but the damage is nearer the tip.
  11. I realised you had good reason never to consider climbing again, missed the heart attack. Best wishes
  12. IME they were too lazy to come out and look so depended on the photos you send them.
  13. more or less?? Anyway me too but then I never had any climbing training though manage to collect a set of NPTC certs for it. Last commercial climbing was when I was 60
  14. These look more like woodpecker attempts to get at bugs rather than exit holes.
  15. pinhole oak borer Platypus cylindrus I expect. They do get into the heartwood if the wood stays moist, in the second season. It was almost unheard of pre 1987 but has remained widespread since.
  16. It won't be actively policed but will be as the result of a mishap. Failing that if it's anything like scaffolding or roofing firms being prosecuted beware the neighbour taking pictures.
  17. Yes I thought magnesium allow. You would have to clean it up and I'm told it is better to file and gouge as a grinder can carry debris into the work. I'm not very competent with TIG and the faff of preparation and getting the kit out would put me off. Would you point me to a video? Again the amount of preparation would put me off I'd empty and clean the tank, scrape it back to bare metal along the crack, dowse it in brake cleaner to get oil out of the crack and use some thin epoxy stippled into the crack, then rough the paintwork up to key it and apply strips of carbon fibre tow at right angles to the crack and covering the dented area, ugly but effective.
  18. No but they should only cost a couple of hundred quid, they are standard sizes and probably 1P series.. Keep the old one as they split apart and each section can be cannibalised to make a good one if the same one wears out . You really need to check a few things before deciding it is a pump problem.
  19. If it has a tandem pump and splits well but at a reduced speed then it sounds like one of the tandem pair is not working. Without seeing the layout it's hard to say but both pumps are combined to give the high speed then when a certain pressure is reached one pump dumps to tank and the other does all the work. I expect there is a shuttle valve between the two outputs
  20. At the risk of thread drift; why should sending boys to university affect your choice of mortgage? Ignoring the business of whether the economy values hordes of graduates; isn't it self funded by loans nowadays and only those who do land well paid jobs finance the system, or picked up by tax payers for those that don't repay (the best ploy IMO) I only had one daughter go to university nearly 30 years ago and it probably only cost me £10k as she received a grant but now I would let a child rack up a student loan and gift them a deposit for a house. In fact we have provided or paid a substantial part of houses for both daughters. As to the housing demand; it looks to me that there is a continued migration to urban areas for workers and a demand for retirement homes in desired areas like Devon, trouble is for our sort of work you really need to be within 20 miles of the bulk of your customers. The demand on property is fuelled by people having money for investment and housing is a better investment since the vast amount of council housing was sold off ( I imagine most of those houses are now owned by the buy to let people and rented out at a lot more than the original council tenants paid in real terms).. Also, as was pointed out by one of the Scottish contingent, UK is a safe haven for money and the crash of the pound since being exposed to the uncertainty of leaving the EU over the last three years makes purchase of property for renting out a steal. Try that in Thailand.
  21. No that would be a cordless browser, sheep or geese eat grass but geese droppings are more of a problem I had geese and goats then
  22. The grapple on the loader was ideal for breaking beads
  23. I don't agree with your train of thought or your language but if you mean the costs to society of non equitable subsidies (and tax avoision??) exceeds exceeds the costs of supporting the unemployed and poorer parts of society yes, in spades.
  24. Cep or another Boletus

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