openspaceman
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What strikes me about running a tractor on DERV is that it could be construed that you are using the tractor outside its licensing or C&U regulations. The tax on fuel for road use was only ever to produce an income stream for the governement, nothing to do with climate change or pollution, so now that atmospheric CO2 is an issue the only reason for not taxing all fossil fuel is because of the problems with fishing rail transport, farming and forestry. Time to bite the bullet IMO.
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Well my woodstove has no hotplate and we have an electric cooker but I bought this for 15 quid from fleabay and using kindling it boils 1.5 litres in 15 minutes and I have cooked egg and sausage on one fuelling. It all packs into the base. I would not use it indoors
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not to mention it makes your clothes stink
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The force on the wire is related to the friction of the clutch plate and the amount of wire left on the drum, so on a bare drum and as long as the tractor doesn't stall you will reach the rated pull of the winch
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Treadlight sell them but you need the trigger block on the line too, this conical block rides the rope off the groove. I have the snatch block (only rated at 2 tonnes) but not the trigger as the sudden slack in the HMWPE rope causes problems with the wraps on the Eder capstan, so I slack off and dismount the rope, take up slack and start winching again.
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Yes strictly speaking horticulture is the production of plants but for some reason the cultivation of plants in gardens has been accepted, it would need a court case to set a precedent of what is allowable. Strangely the exemptions seem to apply to sports activities, like golf clubs, whereas in the past mowing of sports fields with red diesel was not allowed.
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I probably read about it in a motor cycle magazine too but it would have been in the late 60s. The thing about a traditional poppet valve 4 stroke engine is that it is simple to build and the sealing is also good around the piston and valve. The Wankel, sleeve valve and uniflow opposed piston engines all have certain advantages but have problems keeping the hot gas or lubricating oil in. The Stirling engine gets around some of these problems by having the whole engine sealed but at the cost of limiting the pressure from which the gas expands from. I think all those WW2 radial engines had total loss lubrication, as does a two stroke and wouldn't reach pollution standards now. Yes there are designs of these engines using modern techniques which address these sealing problems but they come at a time when internal combustion engines are going out of favour.
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Yes that was a rotating conical valve in the head. The ultimate WW2 aero engines were sleeve valved H layout but again the cost of the performance was loss of lubrication oil.
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close to the bone but funny
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I wonder how it would have faired if it were ash, I suspect it would have been riddled with woodworm.
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@Billhook has a log cabin made with it IIRC
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Does any one buy large quantities of poplar
openspaceman commented on B. T. A's blog entry in Member Blogs
If they were pruned at all I would have thought a sawmill would take them. They must be well past their prime now if they were Briant and May planting from the 70s. Several mills used to take poplar for coffin boards and for cable drums (it being generally too weak for pallets) but it's 30 years since I sold any to Barchards, you could see if Chantler Timber still have outlets. -
Not a good idea on two counts in my opinion. @Alycidon knows the rules, I am no expert. 1 The expose flue may burn someone and if combustible material (towels etc) may get too near they will catch fire 2 The exposed flue section would cool down flue gases at that point and could make tar deposits settle in the flue.
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Hyvin tehty kaverit
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Shame it won't be retrospective.
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Only hunting with dogs covered by the 2004 act so a pack of cats is fine to hunt anything. Only two mammals may be hunted by dogs, rats (but not mice or squirrels) and rabbits (but not hares) I just needed to check.
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Does this not constitute hunting with dogs?
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Please define "babe", being an elderly grandfather I have been quite surprised at having both the competent, hardworking and attractive young ladies on the gang I occasionally work with calling me such on separate occasions now and it perplexes me. BTW @MattyF I identify myself as like you and your wife and was so disappointed you let the baiters get up your nose, count to ten and hit the ignore button in future.
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Yes but they move independently so each grips with the same pressure whereas a solid clamp only exerts the force on the widest bit of the bundle.
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That's it
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The one Michael Fish said not to worry about in October 1987
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The roadside work went on for about a week when my wife and I backed the County and grapple loader up the road to the highest point in SE Englad and down the other side to access the dozen or so houses.
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I know the feeling and I still smile when I see the different coloured tiles on the roof of a hose which we lifted a sycamore off 34 years later.
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Quite frequent on the chalk downs, a particularly good patch of them on the Sheepleas between shere and East Clandon
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It show's the limitations, may have been ok for an ornamental cherry or sorbus but not enough for a gum tree
