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  1. openspaceman
    There's a recent video on youtube of a snack bar running off a Honda EU2i in New York. It has been running for 5 years, 20 hours a day and only oil changes, plugs, filters etc regularly. Personally when I had to cut hoses, grind and drill things I used one of the 50quid 2t gensets based on a motorcycle reed valve engine. Only 900W but noisy and used fuel I had with me anyway. I still have it somewhere. Nowadays I use a cordless grinder from Aldi, it copes with hoses and wire rope and cutting sheet metal quite regularly.
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    Good of you to stay hanging in there Paul, though I'm no fan of trade bodies.
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    AIUI they ran between the wheels and were there to defend the occupants of the carriage. Ours was particularly good at running with the bicycle, even on the road when I dared, when he was younger. When I was teaching my granddaughter to drive in the 35 acre field and sent her solo he caught her up and jumped through the passenger window of the Vitara because he didn't want to be left behind.
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    His sighting is poor but nose is good, I thought they suffered kidney problems, one of the reasons they have white shit?? They weren't hunting dogs but rather bred as fancy looking attack dogs. I am wary of pure dalmatians as they can go mental, our cross is as soft as anything and very tactile, loves just being stroked.
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    Apart from lurchers and "fast" dogs which still don't really qualify as they are bred for poaching, which crosses are used as working dogs? The vast majority of dogs are just pets and companions. Our cross was an accident of birth, the two frenchies highly expensive pure bred and I don't approve of the breeding at all but I am very attached to them all.
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    Yes and definitely the case with our dalmatian cross pointer as pure dalmatians have genetic problems. Also hybrid vigour, he is bigger than either parent breed. 10 years now and slowing up plus losing weight though.
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    looks like a tulip tree leaf albeit the scallops look a bit deep.
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    Yes lovely to drive and tow with and I expect 90% of them will go on with no problems, we had a 2006 RR Sport from new which was a tow tug and did 250k miles before its first serious mechanical problem in 2016. It's just if you own one of the 10% that fail early either from previous abuse or lack of oil changes then you are in for an expensive repair. Often because the body has to be lifted for any major engine work and the bolts and gaskets, belts etc are over £1500 before you start to address things like broken cranks where the webs are thin.
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    Why are the rails and mesh on the outside, won't the animals lean against it and push the rails off?
  10. openspaceman
    TDV6? I was forever worrying what would go wrong next when my granddaughter bought one. Watch out for the plastic coolant manifold in the VEE splitting at its seam. Also it apparently pays to replace the oil pump as loss of oil pressure can become an issue, I never did this as she sold it and got a "little" car.
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    With the flue issue why not run an insulated double skin flue straight off the stove? I think only 400m of single skin is allowed under part J in any case.
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    Not to mention the LNG they are selling to europe
  13. openspaceman
    This will be because the basal flair will have the grain similarly angled so boards cut from it will be cross grained and weak. Once upon a time mills were going to require basal flair boards to be cut off and used for dunnage and chock wood but I guess the final customer just accepted the defect as long as it passed the machine grading.
  14. openspaceman
    Could be Coryneum canker
  15. openspaceman
    My old 0.25m2 grapple and Indexator rotator, fitted on a 4.5 tonne metre cranab crane, weighs 180kg
  16. openspaceman
    I haven't seen any definitive ruling on this. Wheeled diggers always seemed to transport extra buckets either in the front bucket or in the digger bucket.
  17. openspaceman
    13 minutes ago, Shirley said: It's probably not a wind up, No maybe not but I notice one other new poster who seems be winding up his LA
  18. openspaceman
    Only when relatively newly felled, later they go grey
  19. openspaceman
    common alder perhaps
  20. openspaceman
    Yes he was there in my childhood through the sweeney ,minder etc. Sorry he has gone and only a few years older than I.
  21. openspaceman
    Good question, are there? I guess the times the dust gets out are when you reload, if you disturb the fire when you reload and mostly when you ash out in the morning. I wonder if there is a stove sold in UK that can empty the ash from outside.
  22. openspaceman
    It's such a long time ago that I used saws daily and was able to notice subtle differences but back then I thought Stihl chains a bit harder and kept their edge slightly better, Oregon and Husqvarna easier to file but bought reels of Oregon for convenience and lower cost. I still have about 50ft of .325 .058 Oregon chisel of some sort bought in the early 90s.
  23. openspaceman
    Well you can still be wealthy enough to afford one and stupid enough not to realise how parking sensors work and depend on them in all circumstances. I love gadgets but all my vehicles are too old and too basic so I only sample things like parking sensors, cameras, lane indicators, speed limit sensors occasionally. What gets me is the expense of all these additions and their liability as the vehicle gets older. The basic Landrover 109 safari we bought new in 1972 was about £1500 which in real terms is just under £20,000 now so vehicles have evolved with much better build, trim, economy and gadgets but at doubling the cost.
  24. openspaceman
    I would love that sweep for bracken bashing if not for the fact I have become averse to distributing bits of plastic into the countryside
  25. openspaceman
    Hell it's just not you year for injuries is it, take it easy.

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