openspaceman

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.

No I'd quite like to try miscanthus. I had problems with slagging when burning reject wheat and barley grains and the street smelled of burnt toast. I'll see if I can find them.

Does anyone know of a retailer of pellets in 20kg bags in North Surrey or west Sussex? I only need a half dozen and most suppliers will only do a pallet.

Just two OAPs here so I catch them in a flour sieve and put them outside, I guess they just die. I'd quite like to put them somewhere to over winter but not figured how yet. I've been stung a few times in my life but agree they have a place and I see less now than I remember I used to. They do seem attracted to sap of some trees and often would come to cut surfaces when pruning branches. It was wood wasps that were attracted to Douglas and Larch when we felled them.

For business use that needs to be in a bund to meet the regulations.

Some while back the NFU warned of thefts from plastic tanks where a hot pipe was pushed through both the inner and outer to get the diesel out, after the thieves receptacles were full the tank was left draining.

I think product liability should cover you for if your business repairs, refurbishes or changes a product.

And so you should

It's interesting, it plainly shows the smooth propagation of the flame on the over rich mix of petrol, the alcohol isn't as smooth and there looks like some detonation. I'm surprised it ran at all with the liquid in the cylinder. I suspect some of this was the 10% water in the rubbing alcohol. I thought the acetylene a bit pointless but it did seem to show a bit of combustion of residual mixture from the wasted spark. the wasted spark igniting

These will be tried along with Flatyre's parsley and ginger soup which is very fast and cheap to make.

No I only have experience of a hand attacking pto one. At least the one you found doesn't have the tip screw in with a reverse thread like mine. I see Hycrack no longer sell them.

We need to know the engine torque of the tractor that powers the screw splitter, We can assume PTO revs of 540 will be about 2200 so multiply the engine torque by 2200/540 and then again by the 3:1 of the auger gearbox will give you the torque necessary for the screw splitter. Do you know what pressure and flow you deliver to the track motor?. Then you need to count the rpm. From this we can calculate the torque at the motor shaft. I doubt that it will need any more torque to reverse out if it stops but there are ways to unscrew it as long as the tip doesn't come off. Just trying it is definitely faster though.

That would be 14 portions of brown rice so it gets even cheaper, especially if you add some beans and a bit of mincemeat plus some chilli

Same here but I only shot wild rabbits, now I cannot stand the taste of rabbit.

So they pay the extortionate bill and the policy holder loses his discount and pays what extra for his next premium? does the increase in costs over the next 5 years exceed the claim?

I don't know but the torque going to a pto splitter is the engine torque times the pto gear step down ratio so you could work it out to make a comparison.

Go on tell me who Noel?

But you haven't said what you paid in and what the fund had grown to. Remember pension providers (and their actuaries) are there to make money out of your pension savings. They chose that work as it was a more lucrative career path than manual work. In my post I did make the point that the pension needs to be worthwhile and now with the option to take 25% of the cash out plus being able to do the same with the rest with the penalty of being taxed on it then you have the choice of making the investment. It looked wise to me not to by an annuity because interest rates are low and the actuaries think on average a person my age with no history of poor health will be drawing on the money for many years. They aim to invest the money and pay out your pension for as long as you live whilst also drawing their commission. They hope you will die before the pension fund is totally depleted so that they then keep the remainder. So they have worked out a low return to you. I hope things will pick up over the next ten years so will aim to leave my pension in the current fund and not draw it down, Then if I die before 75 my estate will get the full fund free of IHT. If I live to 75 and haven't dipped into the money I will then have to draw it all down AND/OR buy an annuity. My main point was 1 If young self employed keep your NI contributions up to date with 45 years of contributions to get the full state pension ( which is likely to be less in real terms than the current £500/month) 2 Have sufficient savings suitably invested to provide the balance of income you will need.

I agree the farming system is set up to keep food cheap and at consistent levels, it avoids the boom and bust of unregulated systems. I get desperately worried about reports like this from the medical profession, on the one hand I'm not clever enough to understand and interpret the significance of the results and on the other I see such reports, such as pollution by particulates, being cited with the "pollutant" *causing* thousands of premature deaths when in fact the premature deaths are extrapolated from models which assume all particles inhaled have an equal toxicity. I decided I didn't need to apply herbicides after my FEPA course in 1986 but had remained fairly sanguine about the use of glyphosate until: 1 I saw it being liberally sloshed around and used contrary to the manufacturers instructions on amenity work, I would expect farmers to be a bit more stringent on using it because of the cost implications. 2 Its use as a desiccant prior to harvesting.

Off with his head

Yes on the GV3 on my FMV290 but not very well the way I had it rigged. I bolted a 9" auger to a log and passed it up through the semi closed grapple and then gripped it, it dug in sandy soil but the rotation wasn't smooth. Consider that the PTO auger has a large reduction gear so the torque is far higher than the vane motor in a rotator. The piston pump from a track drive motor has good torque to start with but couple that to the 30:1t reduction gear in the hub/sprocket assembly and you have a massive torque, this and the automatic braking make these little final drives ideal for a DIY hydraulic winch.

Thanks for the explanation but I doubt I will be doing it again, also it will be affected by whether the person removing the grab unloads the hydraulics as you suggest.