openspaceman

They are getting rare and only a few places in the south. Unfortunately here in surrey whilst we have lots of trees most gardens are kept too tidy ( nd hence lots of work for arborists and gardeners). Nowadays if a tree gets felled the stump also gets ground out, I used to associate stag beetles with old lime stumps and as a school boy would be sure to find them every year. Along with cuckoos, slow worms and hedgehogs they're becoming part of the past. Another shot [ATTACH]221731[/ATTACH] I really must see if I'm able to focus stack with macros of this mobile phone to get the whole bug sharp.

Look what I just found on the kitchen floor. [ATTACH]221719[/ATTACH] I'm so pleased, I knew we had some about as I found a grub in the debris under the log stack (I often wonder how they survive once disturbed after I bury them under a bit of wood)

It's online as freebie pdf somewhere. The scouts used to use something similar by cutting a 205 litre barrel in half along its axis. Light a small fire in the bottom and add dry twigs so the fire is established over the whole length. Keep it blazing so no air can reach the bottom and gradually build up the char layer by adding dry twigs, increasing their size up to about 2". You can see when to add more if the char starts to show grey, this is the ash forming on the outside which shows air is getting past the flame to burn the newly formed char. The essence is the wood has to be small enough and dry enough for the pyrolysis offgas to evolve and burn, using up all of the air before it gets to the char, radiant energy from the flame and conduction keeping the wood under the flame cooking. Once the char has built up to the top leave the flames to die out and start cooking. This technique on a larger scale was used in Africa, a trench was formed by dozing it out with a drott in a clay soil until it was about 6ft deep in the middle, the fire was lit and dry brushwood thrown in, once the pit was filled corrugated iron sheets were laid across the top and the soil then pushed back over it to stop air getting in. I have some pictures of my efforts on a lop and top burn site filling a standard 2 ring kiln with the county and grab. I was able to fill the kiln to the top with charcoal in a morning but there was no way I could seal the kiln properly, so in the absence of any water it burned away over the next few days.

It's a flame curtain device. Evelyn described the technique in his book Sylva in the 1700s.

This The oil explanation seems sensible as the compressor is probably a piston one and we know if you tip over a 4 stroke the oil can seep past the rings and hydraulic lock.

I wasn't bothered Too Subtle for me but I see it now. Wasn't it used as a drug for controlling the heart beat?

She's braver than mine were. I had none in the garden last season so fingers crossed for this year.

How dare you cast aspersions about my daughter :001_tongue:

I always try to walk certain routes at the right time of year just to see the display. This is one from a couple of weeks ago, it's the backdrop to the butts and incongruously there was constant automatic gunfire crackling

They look very similar. I just want to try one as I'm tinkering about with a bit of woodwork at the moment. The big difference will be Aldi's warranty.

I see Aldi workzone router is available for 30 quid, anyone experience of them?

I wonder if the forum member from supercat might care to comment?

I thought lime was poor along the vessels as it was unable to block them with tyloses so exuded a weak waxy substance through pits in the walls to try and block them

I had a petrol 1987 model from1990 through to 1995, still fetched more than I paid for it when it was exported to Kenya. It was the cheapest vehicle to maintain I ever had with no major mechanical failures. Having said that I never had major mechanical failures with the LRs either

I don't know of any downplated vehicles, reading the before and after plates would be the test. You need to find a vehicle that weighs less than 3500kg with all its working gear, tow hitch, trailer brake system, fuel, driver etc and any weight superimposed by the trailer plus sufficient GTW plus the manufactures recommended towing capacity sufficient for the trailer plus load. Then downplate it and see if the towing MAM changes. I've looked around a number of 7.5 tonne vehicles and they are too close to 3.5 tonne unladen. The Iveco you posted urls for brochure were only rated for small trailers on overrun brakes.

The bit I quoted is from here: http://www.fta.co.uk/export/sites/fta/_galleries/downloads/transport-manager-2015/tm15_managing_costs_key_topics_0915.pdf

Downplating becomes difficult under 12 tonnes as you have to justify your need "Downplating to the significant legal thresholds of 7.5 tonnes/3.5 tonnes or below can only be carried out on the basis of physical alterations being made to the vehicle (as in the past)"

I'm glad as that's my take also

Yes but he was talking about moving a digger and using it on site so he has the 100km exemption for a smaller vehicle, no exemptions over 7500kg

I may well be missing the point. What are the relevant before and after downplating weights of a 10.5 GTW Iveco daily? What is the unladen weight? What configuration is the trailer you are contemplating?

No I don't, I am perfectly aware of the trailer weight issue and have discussed it here a lot with Justme. I'm not adding trailer weight, just that portion super imposed on the hitch.. I'll take your word for that, so a 3.5 tonne Iveco can be driven on B, it can pull a trailer on B+E, it's GTW is 7 tonne. So the maximum trailer it can pull is a 3.5 tonne drawbar or a semi trailer which imposes no more than about 1.5 tonne on the hitch and grosses about 5.5 tonne You can downplate a larger vehicle to 3.5 to drive it on a B and if your licence for B+E is pre 2013 it looks like you can tow a trailer up to the GTW of the downplated vehicle but the vehicle can not exceed 3.5 tonne.

Yet another plus for the Toyota then

Yes adblue is urea solution CO(NH2)2 ( and I didn't need to look that up, strange what one remembers from lessons 50 years ago) it's the main constituent of urine and is the result of unwanted proteins being broken down. It will be amonia from this that you are smelling as the heat and CO2 in the exhaust convert excess urea to ammonia It may well be that urea is also injected during a regen cycle, I have never experienced one, with or without adblue.

I was commenting on the Atego then suggesting what could be done with Daily. Which daily has the 6 tonne axle weight and can it be down plated to 3.5? I'd like to see the cite on this as I think the towing veihicle can not exceed 3.5 tonnes even with the semi trailer super imposed. never once you exceed 7.5 tonnes I think with a mini artic GTW of 8.25 tonnes and a 107 note restricted C1+E you'd be lucky to make that weight and if I'm right about the B+E then you will need a drawbar trailer or one that superimposes litlle on the tow vehicle.

It's a cunning plan Donnk I'm waiting to hear other thoughts but: 1 It will only work with a drawbar trailer as the Atego will weigh near 3.5 tonne unladen so you cannot super impose the semi trailer weight. 2 It requires an operator’s licence as the unladen weight of the trailer will exceed 1ton 3 It will require a tachograph as soon as the total weight exceeds 7.5 tonnes. To my mind there are going to be many crews aged under 40 with only B licence, it makes sense for them to get B+E. I know at my last firm there were only 4 or 5 of us left with pre 97 licence and grandfather's rights, the vast majority of the youngsters only had B and they will become more dominant part of the workforce. So the maximum GTW most of the workforce may use after taking B+E is 7 tonnes. An Iveco Daily and trailer will do this.. The only advantage of the mini artic then becomes shifting a heavier than 3tonne load on a semi trailer. The 5th wheel mini artic is actually a bit heavy but some of the ball hitches, legal in the Netherlands, but possibly not homologated in UK, do offer the possibility of continuing to use the tow vehicle as a pick up and still being able to carry about 4tonnes in one lump on a semi trailer.