openspaceman

I camped next to the ahwi 400 to look after it on a dodgy site but the boss deducted my b&b allowance so stuck with hotels after that

Seeing as you cannot exceed 40mph anywhere near your place that'll be no great hardship ?

Thanks for saying, was the actual speed more of less than 60? I want to know to understand why the camera was triggered as presumably it didn't take pictures of cars doing under 60. The thing is this information is not available under FOI requests and most is anecdotal.

Can you explain the reason you were stopped and the outcome?

The DPF traps fine particles which consist of soot and polycyclic aromatic carbons adsorbed onto them. When it regens, or indeed any time it is hot enough it turns the carbon into carbon dioxide and the PAHs into carbon dioxide and steam.

I've not had to deal with this but I think it's over 1020kg if it's gross weight is over 3500kg. Basically if it's on over run brakes it doesn't require testing.

I see it uses compressed air to form bubbles, like a fish tank pump, for the secondary chamber aeration, should be better than the rotating biodisc and their gearbox failures. The first tank is anaerobic but I can't see where it discharges the CO2 and methane and I would have thought the low temperature methanogenic bacteria were susceptible to poisoning by formaldehyde. Back to being a goblin, I managed to get vitara two loads of apple wood (killed by honey fungus and a bacterial infection) today before the lady client said she wanted to keep the remaining logs for her neighbour, boss had me wheelbarrowing them to next door. Anyway the reason the tree was susceptible was that the old fashioned brick septic tank and discharge to soakaway had overflowed. The sunken area suggests the porous medium in the soakaway had blocked with sandy soil washed from the lawn. Another house across the road had a large dead macrocarpa and birch and another unidentifiable conifer which I wonder may also be from a failed septic system but a sweet gum in the same group seemed fine.

Do you or Eggs know how, as in what mechanism breaks it down, it copes with the elsan fluid?

They are not if they are under 7.5 tonnes as the limit is 70 on motorways. It's single carriageways that they are limited to 50 and dual carriageways limit is 60.

Okay I thought you were making the point that we were using expensively treated and sanitised water for irrigation, toilet flushing etc. where rainwater might do the job rather than discussing an absolute lack of water in summertime. Having just returned from Shropshire where 60mm fell overnight last week there was plenty about.

Understood but you frst started talking about drinking water. A friend of mine is a water footprint expert, formerly with the world wildlife fund and then a more specialised Quango. He has recently taken up the chair at a South African university 'cept they won't let him in because of his ethnicity. He calculates the amount of water used to produce a T shirt imported from the far east and such as well as agricultural use. He says wars over water have already started, somalia being one

Traveller's constipation appears to be a well known phenomenon but I cannot see a good explanation for it. I imagine it's a stress thing plus possibly dehydration. Once one gets used to B&B and living out of a suitcase normal routine returns.

That's about right , I didn't count them but in addition to the main flight there are several separate locks before and after. I talked with my friend about it today and it seems the water was always pumped, initially by a steam engine because the top pound doesn't have a natural source. This bit of info surprised me as there appears to be space in the ponds between the locks on the flight to make a diversion pond whereby the top half of the lock empties into it and it is used to refill the bottom when next used. This is what is done to conserve half the water needed for each lock in other places. It does nothing for leakage though. I wonder what the calculations were that made them decide to go for the locks rather than a tunnel.

Twas ever thus, even with the B&Q scheme B&Q took half IIRC and 70p of the rest for administration and bag hwent to the commercial arm of the charity running the scheme

I've no problem with that I do only use a water butt if I need to water any plants I do play with my mate's narrow boat and yesterday I was at the Caen Flight in Devizes, about 20 locks running down the hill with pounds in between, since that was restored in 1990 they have pumps at the bottom to return water to the top. On our local canal which never had enough water for 5 barges per summer day when it carried goods, always closes to boats travelling the full length this time of year for at least 8 weeks from water shortage worries. This year they were pre empted by a visity boat shunting the lower gate, last weekend, at lock 18 of about 35 and putting the oak gate out of action so the pound will need draining in order to measure up and make a replacement (using french oak!). The boat owner is a retired mechanical engineer and we while away the cruise chatting about things we can agree on, he being a different kind of believer from I, and water recycling on the canal is a top topic.

I don't know. I don't even know if there is a food bank locally but was quoting Skyhuck's assertion, with a caveat. I've always existed in the less than average income bracket but no where near poor as some people I meet, some hard-working in the past some wasters. OTOH the arrogance of the wealthier people I meet and have worked for makes me think they do class those beneath them as untermensch.

I don't see it that way, it's not so much them and us but more us when we are wealthy and us that are not so wealthy. It's human nature to want more than the other person and capitalism ( the most successful economic model so far) just mimics those traits, collectively we are not yet able to make sufficient provision to look after the whole society. After the war, when people realised their interdependency, there was a good stab at it with the welfare state but as time goes by that ethos is forgotten as the rewards for those that are more successful grow. I've wanted to do this but with my water not metered (and even if it were it's only about £5.tonne isn't it?) the costs benefit isn't obvious.

If that's so it doesn't surprise me, some people are just hard wired to want something for nothing, probably the same sort of people that empty their cars of rubbish in a beauty spot. BTW I'm a log goblin since I no longer have access to left over wood from work.

All lifting equipment is covered under LOLER but there were exemptions for the requirement for independent inspection for 3pt linkages, pulling winches that suspend a load behind a tractor and also agricultural front loaders and grapple loaders (as long as the operator is protected by FOPS or POPS). I doubt much has changed since I was an FMOC NPTC assessor some 15 years ago. The difference is at no time is the load suspended above anyone (apart from the protected operator) and neither is a person raised by the equipment. This can be a moot point with some trailer cranes.

When you get them out they are glued to a piece of backing plate. Put one end of this in a vice (not the magnet) and with a mole wrench on the other end of the backing plate bend it away and the magnet will peel off.

Yes but unless something has changed there is a lesser requirement for inspections if no one is within the working envelope of the load

And if you are as tight as I they can be easily reclaimed from old hard drives.

That's right, it's how we used to load the matador trailer if the stick was more than 150Hft. I've used it to roll 8 tonne onto a drag trailer which the lorry crane wouldn't lift. It is also useful to run a strap under the log and lift and roll at the same time with a forwarder crane as long as there is some dead weight in the trailer, it nearly doubles the lift force even with no ramps but is more applicable to short lengths. The thing about parbuckling is that as the winch wires are both back at the tractor winch it doesn't put any tipping force onto the trailer.

Thanks for that Pete, seems to work but how did you find it? Does it ever miss anything? I've bookmarked it

As I posted on a thread many years back it doesn't even have to be on the trailer, it can be on a frame which you drive the trailer wheels over.