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    I thought the problem with botulism was that it could grow in meat and produce toxins, cooking the meat killed the organism but the toxins were still present, Hence why not to reheat meat often. Back to thread I made some baby marrow ( we have a glut but only the other veg that have survived the dogs are spud and some feeble tomato plants) and cabbage sauerkraut. Never having eaten sauerkraut before I don't know what it should taste like but it is edible a spoonful at a time. I wish I had added some garlic.
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    Just goes to show enough money is never enough for most people
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    When the new queens leave the nest so do the drones and they compete for the queen by flying the highest with her, the queen then consummates the affair by ripping the gonads off the winning male and thereafter using that to fertilise her eggs for the rest of her life. All the remaining drones die along with the workers.
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    If it is the same sort of design as the old ones the outer bit of the handle acts like a slide hammer, you put the jaw adjacent to the nail or staple and bang it in then lever over to close the jaws and pull the nail out.
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    The one in the video does have a dead man's handle, you will just need to rig the string round the handle then round the safety handle so when you let go the motor will stop.
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    Hurry up with a recipe before I get overrun
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    Yes nice ripple and probably syscamore. Hickory can ripple too, I had a lovely muller maul with a hickory handle which had just the same satin sheen from the ripples, I was so proud of its looks but it soon snapped as the ripple severely reduced the strength, second handle still in the head. I carved some treen from the broken handle but cannot find any examples now.
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    Actually the flymo is much easier to pull than this if the ground is reasonably flat on account of the air cushion. You may see that the frenchie easily pulls it sideways. I really do see no reason to use a strimmer string on this sort of job but it does cover a wider swath.
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    Has she tries sauerkraut? I'm told as long as there is some cabbage other vegetable can be added. You and @gary112 put me to shame.
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    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LJyVl-7hpNawCuRHVu5myWVn1ZnqF0lj/view?usp=sharing DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM I'll leave this up for a little while @drinksloe
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    I never got beyond a short bit of string but my banks were very short. In principle you could use two ropes, one round a fixed peg , as a pivot, and then the mower. The other one side on to pull it in an arc.Gradually increasing the length of the first rope to eventually cover a quadrant, then move on.
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    I wonder if the reason many of these grassland fires have taken off down here is that the savings on mowing have dictated not cutting and as the grass goes over the top and the leaves and stems are left dead standing. Anyway I have pulled the one I have here out of the shed, put fuel in and it fired after 3 pulls but then took a while to settle down without any choke, I'll upload a video. This is the younger but more used one and last used about 5 years ago just to try it. It will soon need a new blade. Transport may be an issue for a while as it's not worth the cost of any of the pallet couriers but in the absence of any other suggestions I may have a plan...
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    I guess I came across quite a few buyers, two that were involved in the milling died from throat cancer, my felling partner is in remission from nasal cancer which his surgeon said was likely caused by 2t emissions. Till then I thought the risk was only from sanding exotic timbers.
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    I'll drag one out and start it, I only had crap in the carb problems. Not really used them as after 87 I had to change from general estate work to harvesting.
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    You need to specify length and top diameter and quality, you may need hand cut if bark needs to be intact. Also a location may be handy. Your best bet would be a harvesting company, try to find your local Euroforest manager.
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    This is true but living on the state portion doesn't afford much luxury
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    Older versions of this
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    Yes they don't do very well on long grass if you are swinging them off a rope, they will still be quicker than an electric mower. I still have a couple of these, working and actually little used if @drinksloe would like one but I doubt spares are available.
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    Yeah. Many scams depend on the co-operation of one person on either side of the transaction, delivery driver and person in charge of receiving delivery, don't ask me how I know.
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    Same drill, some corks and amcide cheaper still and no plastic.
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    I wonder; I manage to heat about 50 litres and charge a the battery most days since April and if the hot water runs low I boil 2 litres for washing up in a kettle yet we are still exporting half our production on sunny days. That's a cracking price for the installation.
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    I have a homeowner scaffold tower which I used to wash them 3 years ago for the first time and I will do so again, the dirt was mostly bird shit and algae
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    I expect most of us who were self employed contractors came across this where we were not able to tender because we were not on a council list but all the contractors that were just complied with the paperwork and subbed the work out. Indeed I ended up working seven years for such a company and was flabbergasted at the pricing because of the overhead the office staff caused. Yes there was little to no pride in the job, the gangmasters we used just took the money and did the least they could get away with.
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    Well that's a myth and mine at 10 years are producing about the same, 3MWh per annum and that's with a WSW aspect which is far from ideal, mind I never considered them 20 years ago and sure as hell didn't have the money to invest then as I was spending it all on tractors.
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    Plenty but none quite as optimistic as that.

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