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  1. Only if under 2000kg. A similar car over 2000kg is not affected
  2. I've not tried one on a digger but not impressed with my tractor pto one and those logs look straight grained
  3. We had something like this but it was on a 12 tonne 360
  4. I'm too old to be confident of anything but: dual-purpose vehicle a vehicle constructed or adapted for the carriage both of passengers and of goods or burden of any description, being a vehicle of which the unladen weight does not exceed 2040 kg, and which either— (i) is so constructed or adapted that the driving power of the engine is, or by the appropriate use of the controls of the vehicle can be, transmitted to all the wheels of the vehicle; or Means as long as it could carry either it only has to be carrying one or the other or both. As it says either the last bit about seats and load area is irrelevant once you have 4wd. Think of the fuel and wear and tear you have saved.
  5. Yes if there is just one passenger seat and it weighs less than 2040 unladen
  6. I guess because it's an oxidant so of use to terrorists, toxic to humans and as it's a bulk chemical not worth while any manufacturer getting it licensed because of low profit
  7. IMO they fail on the environmentally sensitive bit as the plastic used is not compostable. A drilled hole with clay plug would be better or the now unlicensed ammonium sulphamate
  8. Is that 3500kg typed with two fingers out of sync? I'd always thought the only reason for twin wheels was to allow the load to be better distributed, the single wheels mean to get a capacity load it has to be split exactly right between front and back, with the twin wheel the back end could take 2.4 tonnes. With the FWD versions there's only about 100kg difference.
  9. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html Says not likely It does breakdown at a relatively low temperature and the gases and other products aren't good for you. I was warned that it could pyrolyse to produce hydrofluoric acid, which can get through the skin and catalyse bone breakdown, such that amputation in front of the moving decomposition is the only way of stopping it. Luckily this is now considered an urban myth.
  10. As was the habit of a polish veneer buyer acquaintance of mine, Trouble was he did it with out the owner's knowledge while the tree was still standing.
  11. Leylandii castellwelian gold?
  12. I was wondering if the hybrids did too. Anyway I have never noticed a turkey oak with galls as bad as that and no acorns. It's not a tree I am fond of at all.
  13. I'm brash dragging and chipper stuffing for him tomorrow
  14. The twigs certainly look Q cerris but the acorns look strange as turkey oak acorns look hairy, if it is still in leaf it is probably a lucombe oak which is semi evergreen errata it cannot be a lucombe if it drops leaves early.
  15. Too right and it really kicks in over 60. It was a big problem to me on railway night shifts towards the end but I saw it in younger chaps too. Fresh teams on two 6 hour shifts did far more than 1 team on a 12 but the boss and network rail didn't stop to think about actual productivity.
  16. Richard the advert is on arbtrader with some pictures now. If you want to go down and look at it before it is drained down I can pick you up one morning. If we can find some one trip pallets we may be able to fire it up.
  17. This is known as sour felling and was effective on heathland clearance prior to sending chip to Slough heat and power.
  18. ...and I did on the crusader the rate it got through exhaust valves.
  19. Annealing softens the copper so that when you next torque it down it flows a bit to make a seal. As it flows it work hardens so a used one is less able to conform to surface irregularities
  20. In the past I would have annealed the washer by heating it to cherry red and dropping it into cold water before reusing it. As It has sealed why do anything?
  21. If anyone is still thinking about this for next season I have a redundant 150kW Talbot woodchip/logwood boiler which needs a new home. It has had little use from new (about 2009) as I bought it to heat our offices but the boss preferred gas, despite having a wood disposal problem at the time. I held on to it to use at my brother's house in Crediton but he is terminally ill so will have no need. It is not a fit, fire and forget device as it has a crude grate and manual ash removal but it is an excellent means of disposing awkward chunks of wood. It's fully containerised with a chip hopper on top, the bare container and boiler weights 7 tonnes I'll sort out some pictures and put it on arbtrader
  22. Whenever I have attempted to right trees it has been necessary to remove some soil on the side to which you are pulling, otherwise the roots that are still in the ground get pulled.
  23. You don't mention a size, I'm guessing either M5 or M6? Either a rivnut insert (may need to knock a depression in the exhaust) or a flanged threaded insert. https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASSORTED-DRIVE-SCREW-THREADED-INSERT/dp/B06XFHF5GY?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc08-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B06XFHF5GY https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plated-Carbon-Nutsert-Threaded-Assortment/dp/B071JS4D6M?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc08-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B071JS4D6M Or if you need more bearing area at the back these with the tangs ground off and a dob of araldite to adda bit of strenght (mind it fails at 200C and next to the exhaust... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pack-Metal-T-Nut-Fixings-Furniture/dp/B0748HFK5F?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc08-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0748HFK5F I bought stuff from http://www.theinsertcompany.com/index.php and successfully repaired a few of the handle mounts of Stihl brushcutters when the threads wore out. Saved about £40 each time. You will need to know the thread size before you order and whether there is scope for going up a millimetre
  24. I actually believe he did a lot of good for the NHS during his tenure as deputy, even though it did his party no good

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