wrsni
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What may be significant is that the two previous times when we've been this close before, it's been entirely due to the threat posed by nuclear weapons and mankind bringing about it's own premature demise. This time there is an element of the sheer unsustainability of modern human existence on the planet added in to the decision. Strange that the Greens haven't been flagging it up.
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On Thursday the doomsday clock was moved from five to three minutes to midnight. Seems the scientists think we're on the brink of something which is certainly NOT good!
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6 Verdo briquettes from home bargains for two pounds seventy-something, weighs about 10 kg for the pack of six. The missus brings home a clatter in the back of the car anytime she's near it and we use a few of them along with our own stuff. Much better than buying a lot of old soggy shite masquerading as firewood, easy to handle, easy to store, consistent quality, not hard to see the attraction if you had to buy all that you burn.
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Frost during the night, a heavy shower early this morning, then a touch more frost. Resulted in the kart track looking this!
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Only to be expected once they show signs of being a significant player, as UKIP have also found out in the last year or so. I'd also expect there's a fair bit of digging going on behind the scenes in to the history of many of their candidates as we speak. Essentially the election campaign has started.
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Looks good but he'd need to turn the tilting ram the other way around. Looks like it's the weak side of the ram that's tilting it upwards.
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When I was looking at the Iseki they were quite happy to give me a demo on the condition that I let the grass grow on for a week and then waited for a wet day. To be that confident they have to be good!
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A ball bearing can't withstand any degree of lateral load. If there's any appreciable degree of end float it should be shimmed up unless the crank can move through the inner race of the bearing. But if there's lateral load on the crank and it's being transmitted through to a ball type main bearing then it'll fail prematurely. In such a case the main bearing should be a roller.
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That's really odd. If the bearing is still intact then there's no load at all on the cage and it's hard to see what would annoy it. Is the bearing fitted with the cage on the crank side or the seal side. I always fit them with it on the seal side so it doesn't obstruct the flow of mixture around the bearing but I doubt it should matter that much anyway. Just a thought.
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I've never ever seen a plastic cage fail on it's own. If the bearing fails first obviously that'll destroy the cage but you can't deduct that the cage failure happened first when there is no evidence or reason to support it.
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Iseki's seem to be very well priced generally, I ended up with less power and narrower cut in a Kubota for similar money. Still intend to have a G21 as soon as finances permit though!
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The plastic cage will not be a problem. I've built lots of 2-stroke racing engines for quads, carts, moto-x, and bikes and always use the best crank bearings I can get in the particular size at the time. I use C3's or even occasionally C4's if the application suits and they all come now with a plastic cage, it's not a problem. What you do seem to be looking at however, is purely a poor quality bearing that's just not up to the job.
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Our local Kubota dealer told me himself that the G23 wasn't all it should have been, presumably why Kubota have now re-launched the G21. Iseki looks good but back up for it over here is poor which is the only reason why I didn't buy a new SXG19 3 or 4 years ago.
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Well I suppose that's hard to argue with, certainly looks like a properly interesting election due to so many variables, and those variables can only be manifest if people embrace the concept of change. As far as protecting the environment goes however, I reckon you'll do much more good by looking after that lovely little woodland of yours than by voting "Green".
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I think you'll find that the "greens" aren't much different, and they're committed to keeping the borders open as well. Hopefully during the course of the campaign someone will ask them directly how that ties in with their ethos of environmental sustainability.
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No! She was close yes, but played up too much to her own "iron lady", "the lady's not for turning" image which affected her judgement. Holding on stubbornly to an idea that's causing mayhem all around is not a sign of strength, it's a sign of weakness. True strength is the ability to stand back, accept what YOU are doing wrong, change accordingly, and accept the criticism. She could never do that and the country is still paying the price,.....................literally.
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With respect, and to quote yourself "that's not really true". Gordon Brown was ribbed continuously during his time as chancellor for being too thrifty and his close alliance with "prudence". The fact is that as stated previously, Thatchers deregulation of the banking industry worked for a while and brought in enough money to boost the state and replace so many of the jobs she destroyed by state funded but totally unproductive public sector jobs. It was only really when the banking industry collapsed that it became obvious that the country had nothing else to fall back on and that is why the national debt still heads inexorably upwards. The situation came to a head under Labour but it has it's roots under Thatchers reign. Maybe should clarify also, that I am most certainly NOT a Labour supporter and sincerely hope they aren't in power in 5 months time.
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Yes there were problems with British industry, I was working in it when she came to power so could see it first hand. But shutting it all down making hundreds of thousands redundant and wiping out so many skills and traditions of manufacturing that will never return was hardly the actions of a great leader. If you went to the doctor feeling really poorly and he sorted your ills by putting a bullet in your head he'd hardly be hailed as a medical genius would he!
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Camerons problem is that Farage will be a challenge mostly to him as their policys are most similar and UKIP will be mostly after Tory votes. He is of the opinion that the Greens will be a similarish pain in the arse to Labour as a lot of their socialist policies are in the same vein but without them there Milliband will have too easy a time of it while Farage gives him (Cameron) a bit of a kicking. The problem is that it was some sort of independant panel who adjudged that Farage warranted inclusion while the Greens didn't so he's out on a bit on a limb with this one it seems.
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Mate, if you could see the line up of eejits and what they stand for that I'll have on my voting paper you'd maybe appreciate the politicians you have over there a bit more. That might be hard to believe but trust me!
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Now you see, that's a really interesting post. On one hand you would obviously like to live on a planet which had a sustainable future, on the other hand there's things about modern society which you wouldn't like to give up. So there is a challenge there, and that challenge needs to be thrown directly in to the face of everyone living on this planet. Now if the Green Party were to do that instead of selling a vision of some sort of la-la land, then I'd take them considerably more seriously, in fact, I might even join them myself.
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Well you can speak for yourself but you certainly aren't speaking for me.
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I know the argument, water down the policies to make them more acceptable and then at least you get a degree of "green-ness" creeping in to power. The problem is that the Greens have been pursuing this theory for so long now that their policies are essentially meaningless as far as genuine protection of the environment is concerned. Whatever way you cut it, a huge percentage of the population of the UK have no desire to sacrifice/change one iota of their modern lifestyle in the name of saving the planet.
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They're a total sell out much more interested in a socialist/liberal agenda than true environmental protection. I wonder how many of their "members" know what they actually stand for or more to the point how many would support them if they promoted policies which would genuinely help protect the environment. The fact is that to help preserve the planet would require such a change of lifestyle for such a large percentage of the population never mind it's effect on "world trade" that it's just not going to happen. Which is why the principle of mankind surviving on this planet is ultimately doomed.
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That's lovely, with a bit of thought and effort you could surely do a lot with 5 acres of well established woodland. Health to enjoy it.
