Al Baker

Hitting the nail on the head there every time Dave. Very eloquent.

Thanks very much Richard.

6 years ago I was buying cooking oil from Tesco in three liter containers for £1.60 each I was buying a trolley load of it and filling up my Landrover in Tescos car park. I used to leave the empties in the trolley. I ended up running on a mixture of about 80% cooking oil in the end. Then the cold weather came. The fuel pump complained cause the stuff became too thick to lubricate it. I was getting about 10% more power out of the 2.5 TDI running on cooking oil. Noticeable. I think the biggest drawback was starting it in the morning if you hadn't found time for breakfast. The smell would make my stomach rumble like hell. Eventually the price ended up matching diesel so I gave up. Oh, one thing I found was that it wont work at all in diesel engines where the fuel is delivered on a rail. Oh and one more thing, You can pay tax on it as a fuel. If you pay sufficient tax to burn 50 liters a year then you can always produce the receipt for that 50 liters if your tank gets dipped.

Judging by the video you attached, it doesn't work. I wouldn't want that as part of my PPE

Hi Dave, what sort of lengths you got?

Those are not bad but Mtrack also opperate using GSM/RF or GPS/GSM/RF In other words it can update a position without GPS coverage...pretty much anywhere, even from a basement

Nice one Stereo, do upload a pic if you can.

mtrack - GPS/GSM/RF Wireless Tracker Mtrack are really good. The hardware is Inexpensive and definitely robust. I used one to track a pirate fishing vessel recently. They have a tamper switch too. Mtrack offer a very professional service. Highly recommended. Phone them for advice is best option.

Thanks very much for the advice Mr. Best I had yet. Lol, now I'm left with harvest or eradicate dilemma.

I don't know you at all it's true, nonetheless, I still think your decision to cancel that order and try and source something more sustainable was a ballsy one. Respect.

You can't have "worked your balls off" completely if you're able to make decisions like that. I have my fingers crossed for you finding a UK alternative.

Sorry Steph I don't. the empty cage just sits on the ground, not fixed. You just need to put something on the ground to keep your logs off it. Doesn't matter what, bits of ply, a pallet or nothing at all even. I fill the lower cage with logs first and then wire the upper one together. Pop it on top and fix it to the lower one with short bits of nylon string every 2 ft or so.

That's fantastic Tommy. 2012 is the year of the dragon too!

They look really good Jarnii, made in UK too....thanks

I'm really impressed that you could take action like that Mr Windfall. Only good will come of it. Surely someone in UK from this forum can get you a better deal than that?

Switch off your JCB Sir. Look at the mess you've made of my thread!

Didn't go down to well in the office: From: Alex Yallop <[email protected]> Date: 11 January 2012 08:08:45 GMT To: Al Baker <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [imad-actions] Oh dear Bloody hell.....it looks like a joke! On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Al Baker <[email protected]> wrote: Kameeldooring Sun Dried African Firewood 20kg Sack - Sun Dried African Firewood - Kameeldoring Firewood This stuff is becoming a big seller in the UK as gas and oil prices soar. I reckon it's as close as you can get to pure insanity. Best, Al.

Cheers for the Idea anyway Muldonach, I'm Youtubing it now..... Ah.....hundreds of hours of it..just as I thought!

Importing firewood from Africa? That's insane!

Thanks for your comments by the way, much appreciated.

ID, Stop and Rig all have potential for clutch and drops syndrome. I've actually only ever seen that once in real life and as you mentioned it was a beginner that took the dive. I've always taken care to make sure that my students have been independently anchored to a back up rope. I also found that having them climb a belayed rope with a running anchor up top will ensure that they can do plenty of climbing while you pay the rope through. You can position them at any height you like before having them make the switch from ascent to descent. I find that's the safest way for them to gain experience with such tools. Of course you can use any of them with back up for work, Operating with an independently anchored back up rope compromises on slickness of course. Addition of a swivel sounds like a great Idea, I'm definitely in the market for one now, can you recommend?

My flue is very well insulated and I take care to promote proper combustion. However, I found that softwood produces a substance in the smoke called creosote, which is partially burned tree sap. Creosote is highly flammable. Burning softwood will cause it to build up on the inside walls of my flue until it reaches a point where the flue catches fire. It's happened here 2wice. My house is entirely built from larch, I don't want to burn it down so I switched burning to hardwoods and the problem was solved. Furthermore, generally speaking I found hardwood logs tend to be much more dense than softwood logs therefore they burner hotter. Given two similar sized and seasoned logs, one hardwood and the other softwood, the hardwood log is generally heavier and produces more energy than the softwood log. You therefore need fewer hardwood logs to produce the same heat output and because they take longer to burn the refuelling intervals are longer as well. Softwood and hardwood both come for free here, so given the findings above, I switched.

Well, to be honest, I never heard of or seen a Loler stamp. I just blew in here from a sort of hideously unfeasible and unhinged access melting pot.

How do I go about it muldonach, eh?

Blimey, ok, believe it or not, I was wondering what to do with all the rushes in my garden. seriously, the lawn is being taken over by them. I tried digging them up even wondered about herbicide which I hate. I guess I'd need to make some kind of underconstruction from switches or something?