openspaceman

Have you registered it on arbsafe too?

Worse thing is I asked him to move some scaffold poles for another friend. Other person dropped one end instead of putting it down as asked and the shock travelled from pole to his shoulder! Now I will have to find about 8 transit loads of rings, so I've gone from glut to famine in six months since leaving work.

Apparently not but I'll ask him tomorrow. He's recovering from a torn muscle repair to his shoulder. Known him since primary school and at 67 he doesn't expect to be able to work again.

A chap I used to take rings to bought a 6 tonne one from someone at Bordon and the motor packed up after14 months. It was a design fault in the motor in that one of the wires to the armature rubbed on the casing, over time it shorted to the case. He replaced the motor with a european one that fitted as the dealer wouldn't accept it was a warranty issue after one year though it was clearly a faulty manufactured motor.

Yes I take your point, I was just pointing out the physics. As the force goes up with the square of the rotation speed then the centre of the 9" will be under 1.4 times less stress than the same point on a wheel at twice the rpm.

Yes but you need to consider any small part of the periphery of the disc, the centrifugal force on that particle is its mass times the rotation speed squared times the radius, so a particle on the edge of a 9" disc is under twice the force of a similar particle of a 4.5" disc at the same rotation speed. I'd be quite happy to use a half worn 9" disc on a 4.5" grinder at home but wouldn't at work. Similarly I have out of date discs at home which I couldn't use at work.

Yes and that is within the law but it's once you travel with a load that you could come unstuck

Me too, two cups of tea in the morning and I need a comfort stop by 10:00:001_smile: The 8250kg restriction never worried me as I'm not a lorry driver and dislike towing but: if you need to move something heavier than 3 tonne you have a problem with the current B+E, whereas, subject to homologation, it was previously feasible to tow a payload of about 4 tonnes. This facility has now been closed for anyone now taking B then E as the restriction for towing is 3.5 tonne (which coincidentally is the limit for over run brakes). It also means these heavier machines need a driver with HGV to get them to site unless you use a tractor and the work is horticultural, forestry or agriculture. I wonder what the implication is for those big 5th wheel caravans.

Thanks John, I called in today and picked up 3 bags to try. Works out about £266/tonne which is comparable with other makes but it is oak which probably means it's 10% less calories than softwood at the same price.

Yes if you have c1+E with the 107 note. Be aware that once you put the chipper on the back of the 7.5 tonne you must use the tachograph as the 100km exemption no longer applies as your MAM exceeds 7.5 tonne

Yes the Land Rover sprang to mind. I too have checked and my BE is also now restricted to trailer MAM of 3500, it's a bit sneaky I wonder how to query it.

Yes but it's a space heater not a boiler. I do have a boiler somewhere. I intened it for a vestibule, village hall or scout hut as it's a bit too noisy for a living room.

Up till 97 the trailer weight was not specified and it may not have been till 2013. So an old B+E could have a trailer heavier than 3500 as long as the brakes were operated by the service brake. The C1+E with a gross of 8.25 tonnes is needed for the mini artics Iveco imported at the turn of the century.

That's the way I see it too. You would have to prevent him entering your land to do the work, once he's there it's the civil matter of trespass. We had this happen on railway work where the trees had to be pruned, to prune them to the boundary meant the cuts were not to a good standard but often access was denied to cut back to the branch collar. So it becomes debatable whether any loss has occurred by doing a better job.

Thanks for that but I only need a few bags a year during the coldest weather. As it is I now see I'll run short on logs but at least I can turn a radiator or two on as we have gas central heating.

Car speedos must never under read by law but they can overread by 10%, so given an allowance for error...

The driver had been casevaced by ambulance, the young assistant could not drive the lorry, the miniskirted lady could.

It looks salvageable, can you feel the depth of the gouges with your finger nail? It seized from running too weak from the look of the plug.

As Spud said the bore may be ok if the nikasil layer is intact (it's only 0.4mm thick). Whilst Meteor pistons are available for about 20 quid beware that the cylinders may be chrome plated rather than nikasil. A reason why an after market piston will fail is that the aluminium pick up adhering to the bore has not been thoroughly removed. It really needs to be done by dissolving the aluminium from the nikasil

Yes but uneconomical. I got the pellet stove when we imported stuff and often got sub standard pellets as scrap, I'll probably pull it out and put a little stovax in.

I think you still needed to hold a provisional licence but road tests were suspended and could be converted up till shortly after the war. Even recently squaddies of 17 could drive HGVs with a military licence.

My dad drove in burma in 1944 for the RAF this qualified him for a full english licence for all categories when his provisional was converted to full in 1946, he never drove again till I gave him lessons in 1971 and never got the hang of it so gave up Sort of, IIRC we all could claim grandfather rights for lorries by stating you had driven lorries commercially for more than 12 months prior to 1967, you may have needed to be over 21 at the time. Failing to claim meant you lost the entitlement. Then the test was 2 axle to 16 tonnes (class 3??) Multi axle rigid to 26 tonne and artic to 28tonne (class 1). I didn't claim but think I was probably too young at the time (and hadn't driven more than bedford RL) A chap I know who came from a posh family was driven to his private school by his elegant mother in the early 60s. They were stuck in a traffic jam when the driver of a tank transporter had a heart attack and his 17 year old squaddie co driver couldn't . Stubbsy's mum climbed into the lorry and set off down the road with it to a parking place, she had been in the ATS during the war, he was gobsmacked.

So have I and used it once in 5 years, it would have been faster to walk.

If this is seriously all she needs it for and as long as the "word" documents are straightforward I would recommend a barebones one and load it with Linux Mint with Firefox and Libre Office which are free to download..

Yes containers of 200 litres or less are exempted from needing to be bunded if stored outside. The picture showed one three times that. Also I found it difficult to get deliveries of less than 1000 litres and if you are not VAT registered it pays to order less than 2500 litres at a time.