openspaceman

Yes my gripe with our local cycle paths is that they terminate at roundabouts and the traffic doen't allow you to cross so it is better to stay in the road lane to get over the roundabout.

Persian ironwood (parrotia persica) although bark looks too plain

Pedant but it happened circa 130 million years ago and that is the time it took the light to reach us

Osborns at Ower were the importers. I have always found seals from any decent hydraulic equipment suppliers as they all tend to be generic as long as you know the diameter and piston configuration. These are near to me https://steerforth.co.uk/

Slight dent just below the groin but other than that no consequential effects, took a few weeks before I could move the leg as the femoral nerve was crushed and took a long time to re network. Steering wheel still a bit misshapen isn't it @farmer rod?

Yes I was a bit miffed. It was nearly 20 years ago Are you advising against taking up motorcycling again

When they cut my A class 1 Husqvarna trousers off me the shears went through all layers in one go without a problem. I'd lost the use of my left leg following a crush injury and my pelvis was fractured (cracked rather than broken apart). The nurse cut straight up the front rather than lift my leg to get at the back with no protective layers.

That's the way I felt about it 50 years ago, now whilst getting in to it again for the anniversary it doesn't quite hackle.

It doesn't look quite the same as the one I sold but I sent @john p the pdf manual I had. If you can wait till after Xmas I can see if someone from work can access my files and send a copy. Worst case I can photograph the manuals but as I recall there's not much to them.

Looks good to me for a 200bar pressure

My generation came after the war, sugar was rationed until I was about 4 so our parents generation had lived under rationing through their teens till late twenties. My mum spoiled us when the sugar ration came off and my teeth suffer as a result of sugary food as well as lack of proper dental care (plus dentists were on piecework). I think you are completely right about cheap food, I would include "snacking" and lack of exercise. I'd love to know how to tackle it as my 22 year old grand daughter is obese and I worry for her.

In ADW's post you will see that even if the drive is released at 60m/sec the electric chainsaw has the energy in the moving chain plus the rotating heavy armature to dissipate, in the case of the petrol powered saw when the clutch disengages there is only the moving chain and the relatively light clutch drum moving. So effectively there is more force times distance for the electric chainsaw to stop. It is ambiguous as there are other electric saws than chainsaws but I imagine much the same applies as circular saws probably get through layers easier. Incidentally if you have ever had chainsaw trousers cut off you in an emergency, I have but not chainsaw related, you will be surprised how easily scissors cope with the layers. It's not something I would have considered but if you look at the wiki article the user that inserted the comment was from Sweden. Also at the same time in 2016 there is a person making a (entirely separate) comment with the same forename and surname on Husqvarna's website.

Edit it if you know that

That's interesting my girlfriend's late mother used them but that was long ago, she couldn't move about much. I always assumed the reformed charcoal sticks were impregnated with saltpetre but I suppose other oxidants may be used now. I made some sticks with scots pine in a bean tin and they burned for a while but didn't last as well as the bought ones. I thought about making one using and old metal spectacle case and some kaowool but lost interest as I wasn't in the habit of standing around in the cold.

It only cracks in after 3 years but it's even more complicated than that and difficult to explain: Cash gifts are counted first in the current £325k allowance but if there is a dwelling involved the cash gift will be counted before the valuation of the dwelling, normally the dwelling would be free of tax up to £425k if passed on to children. As the IHT on gifts is still £325k if the the gift plus the remaining estate exceed £325k the full IHT is payable on the gift with no taper relief if death occurs within 7 years. As houses are so expensive here it doesn't pay me to have any large cash reserves so crystallising my pension fund would introduce a IHT liability.

Yes but consider also you don't have to take the pension till 75 and if you nominate your kids to receive it should you die before then it does not form part of your estate for tax purposes, whereas if you make cash over and die within 7 years it still attracts IHT. This assumes your estate is over the threshold for IHT and this varies with whether a dwelling is involved.

Tree fancier has pointed you in the right direction but I suppose you're far from NW Surrey, otherwise I have an IDS clone on my laptop, it sorted out loads of ford problems at work. As both keys don't work and as long as you have left it several minutes between tries I'd be guessing the sensor on the barrel is faulty.

I got the impression that rather than idlers the OP may be talking about front roller bearing

I'm over 65 and doubt I'll reach 85. Actually WHO seem to consider any death before 86 premature (which is interesting in its own right when considering air pollution). Yes the annuity provider will be making a profit if I die before then but also they will have the benefit of investing my pot, and a decent fund will return far more than the current interest rate. Remember all insurance started out as bets between gentlemen. So my bet will be to keep my pot and pass it on whole or else eat into it in dribs and drabs. Worse case will be having to pay for a care home and I don't know how to hedge that other than a trip to Switzerland or something messier.

As you suspect this is probably not the best place to discuss it and I'm not the best person with money but my experience: I didn't save enough but had a pension mortgage (big mistake) when I converted this to endowment I kept the original pension on and took out another. The pension at 65 was a little over 100k but would only bring in £5k a year if I bought an annuity as interest rates are low. I will try not to "crystallise" this till I have to at 75 as my daughters will receive it as an IHT free sum if I die before then. Even then I could draw £25k tax free and then take the difference between the state pension and the income tax threshold of £11k (£4k)tax free and thus the pot would take 40 years to reach zero. I don't expect to reach 105. If I bough an annuity and died soon the annuity provider will keep the remaining capital, annuities suck because the providers pay themselves so well. I was owed a fair amount of back pay when I had to leave my job and am living off that, the very occasional odd job when someone asks, and my £155 state pension. I am spending about £200/week in excess so I guess I should have budgeted for a pot of about £300k but I am not unhappy with my situation as I seem to be in good health. Indeed when I started work I never expected to reach 65 and generally in my family our generation is not surviving as well as our parents. The way the pension age is increasing should mean the average life expectancy after pension age remains similar but the state pension will not be worth as much.

I live in SE England so we have roads that very occasionally have packed snow but most of the time they are salted and just wet. Studded 750x16 on a Land Rover had less grip than standard on a wet road. Lethal was probably a poor word to use. We had to take them out as I believe they are unlawful in UK on the public highway.

Not legal on public roads here in UK are they? My only experience of studs is removing them all from ex NATO 750 x16 and 900x 15?? after a play and a blasted tedious job it was too. about 50 in each tyre. Studs may be fine on ice but not much better in fresh snow and lethal on wet tarmac.

It's called a heel boom

Mine holds the door open and it good at keeping bits of wood together while the glue sets, It's not quite massive enough to use as a mud anchor

Why bother to disconnect, with most rotators and as I had on the hydratongs, you use a motor slice for that function in the spool block, it free-wheels when not in use but the oil flow back and forth damps it.