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  1. openspaceman
    There was a (breakers?)yard just off the A286 by West Dean that had a couple of Thorneycroft nubian fire tenders for ages, these too had the B81, and must have been in your locale.
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    Yes the B81 as standard, a local chap fitted a K60 diesel to one but didn't change the gearing so the engine screamed. The Aussies fitted an speed increaser and used Cummings V8s IIRC.
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    ... born under a bad sign?
  4. openspaceman
    Beware the fuel lines having corroded. Like most things being used keeps problems at bay but at 3MPG it works out expensive, especially if the fuel lines leak.
  5. openspaceman
    No room to change the angle of slope
  6. openspaceman
    I was wondering how you would prevent concrete slumping down the hill.
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    Petersfield What's that to a lay man? Yes just for cars but I expect delivery drivers will use it and a lorry tried to back in today but failed. Clay over chalk I think It does at present and I cannot see an obvious way to prevent it.
  8. openspaceman
    About 50m2
  9. openspaceman
    Nope, I don't even know where he is now, if indeed he is still with us.
  10. openspaceman
    A friend has a house and a new build in the garden where previous owners appear not to have had a car. It is very steep, about 1 in 3 or 4 I guess and the current gravel surface is getting sprayed onto the public road as vehicles drive in. Actually I nearly lost my bike on it as I wheelspun up the drive , snuck it in neutral, put my left foot down and proceeded to roll back to the road with the front wheel locked. Anyway thinking about a suitable surface, concrete with ridges? SMA or just plain tarmac any thoughts pro and con? I think @eggsarascalhas some experience here. What about comparative costs per metre squared?
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    First one I owned. Loaned it to a mate just as the requirement for recording guns on the licence came and he never gave it back.
  12. openspaceman
    Yes I think so from the buds and lenticels on the twigs.
  13. openspaceman
    Yes it's the Meindle woodwalkers that come undone, the cheap aldi workboots are no problem.
  14. openspaceman
    Funny thing is no matter how I tie my boots on a cold morning they always need re tying after a while working.
  15. openspaceman
    Last time I extracted hardwood pulp over 1km I got £4/tonne and that was 2006, I filled 2 artics daily with a 40 year old tractor, for £30/tonne I'll come out of retirement.
  16. openspaceman
    This is what we had to do with an old LR series 3 when I got it stuck many years ago. One person on each wing and 3 wraps round the freewheeling hubs.
  17. openspaceman
    I think you'll find we only pay about 40% of the precept from the rates to pay for police, the other 60% goes to pay for police pensions because the actuaries who calculated the salaries and pensions of policemen with 25 years service at age 45 got their predictions wrong. So most of the money is still paying for police work done years ago. https://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/local-news/taxing-problem-of-police-pensions-5652870
  18. openspaceman
    When I was looking at working through the "as tipped" logs in the yard I used to work at it was picking the oversized stuff out that took the tie, eventually it was all loaded with a seltagrab on a 360 and chipped. I like this guy's approach Because the winch and log tongs haul in oversize and safely suspend over the splitter. I'd be tempted to configure the box wedge a bit more like the machine you posted.
  19. openspaceman
    He sells them but it's @Jase hutch that knows the mechanics better
  20. openspaceman
    Can anyone recommend a firm with a beavertail to haul a County 1164 from NW Surrey to Hampshire?
  21. openspaceman
    About 10% of cycles my heart has beaten I won't stretch the analogy ?
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    Mine too
  24. openspaceman
    Muy bien but I didn't mean that, I meant the stockist 12 miles away I won't deal with and the one 40 miles away only does outdoor stuff.
  25. openspaceman
    Yes it was on a unimog

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