ArthurBottlesworth
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Nuff said - will do Thanks everyone, feeling happier now....
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My wife read very interesting book called "singled out" Everybody of my generation ( I'm 62) had loads of maiden aunts - this was because the boys they should have married were slaughtered in the trenches..... So for pretty much every guy killed there was a girl who never got to have a family..... It's not something we ever thought about as kids, everybody had a maiden aunt or two .......sobering thought though ......
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Might do just that I'm just being pedantic (stupid) but I really like to understand what I'm doing and why, I feel better then..... Really p***es me off that I used wrong bolts, and could have caused damage...... Better to ask and be ignorant for 5 minutes than never to ask and be ignorant for ever
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I've heard of people selling it in bunches to tourists in lay byes Sounds like best way of getting rid of it to me ...
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This is what I've been doing Pretty easy https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/may/13/how-make-bresaola-in-pictures
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You could just get a government job and stop working entirely ....!
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Simpler way may be to simply put bolt in drill and use hacksaw to cut slot Strength will be proportional to x sectional area, so on 10mm bolt 1mm cut would give big reduction in strength . Cross drilling bolt would give similar effect .......with bit more accuracy Surprised there is nothing more on the net about this, perhaps people prefer to buy gearboxes ?
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Slept for 2 years when I stopped working ... Lot better now
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That's really useful Do you know supplier for 4.8 shear pins ? Been thinking a lot about this today There is (small) business opportunity for someone doing shear pins in various strengths ..... Maching a slot around the pin would reduce cross sectional diameter and could be used to produce various strength shear pins from a standard sized blank If you knew torque requirement of implement and tractor pto torque output you could match them properly instead of just guessing - possibly supplying them to implement manufacturer Would be at specific rpm though ........ Interesting stuff Picked up 8.8 bolts today as step in "right direction"
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Friends sister was married to a judge ( lots of £ to spend ) She put fancy heating system into her house, ground source , solar panels the lot -- cost absolute fortune After several years messing about she ripped the lot out except the wood burning stove with boiler and the accumulator tank -- works just fine now She has business and employs Polish carpenters and produces a lot of saw dust, she found out the poles were taking the sawdust home to run their wood burners - they were using sawdust and putting vent holes through and apparently getting no problems ..... I suspect we have a lot to learn about burning wood from eastern Europe .....
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I have legal mate who fought battle some years ago for a client who was trying to get planning permission when there were great crested newts in the area... He reckoned he was the expert on them after a long battle .....( though he probably ever actually saw a newt ) I think those little plastic fences you see around building sites are something to do with them too He eventually won and client got permission to do his building work ..... Oh yes and what was he building? Some ponds ! If you want to talk to him pm me and I'll send you his contact details
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I was workaholic (19 years and no holiday except bank holidays - when I was too ill to drive I employed a driver to get me from job to job) It wasn't the right thing to do ....no one will thank you Don't be a busy fool .........
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It strikes me nice chart showing breaking points and "numbers" 8.8 12.8 etc available would be useful for us pragmatic types .... We could start weak and work up to what doesn't break very often in a sensible controlled way
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I bought box of shear bolts with the driveshaft They are 12.8's will get them changed for lower strength Is there anything weaker than 8.8's ? IMHO Better to start weak and work your way up ........
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There's no problem Except when I put too big a log in ........ The bolts are marked 12.9 Does that sounds like its too high ?
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Implement came without driveshaft so just bought one from Malpas tractors I think it's rated at 60hp ( tractor is 40) What's confusing me is that if the PTO drive is transmitted through the shear bolt, then a bigger engine must need stronger pins ....... Am I missing something fundamental ?
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SPF will keep clear if it gets good run up the motorway occasionally
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Running Chunker last week and put in log too big for the machine Instead of snapping the shear bolt it just stopped the tractor dead - scared me to death - I seem to have got away with it but have now resolved to find the right strength of shear bolt I assumed there would simply be a chart where you looked up the tractors hp and selected the right shear bolt but it doesn't seem to work like that ... It can't be right that a 20hp tractor uses the same bolt as a 200hp tractor Can somebody give me some technical advice on how to select a bolt that will actually shear ?
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Chinese chainsaws - anybody done proper reviews
ArthurBottlesworth replied to ArthurBottlesworth's topic in General chat
But where is the Chinese £300 professional chainsaw ? Must be out there somewhere ....... It's worth remembering the Chinese factories are all brand new That means their machine tools are all brand new Which should mean they work well And should make quality product Also China is run by engineers President and most of leaders are engineers When president came over few months ago after london he went to the graphine lab in Manchester to look at developments - when do you think any of our cabinet ministers last went to look at engineering development labs ? -
Chinese chainsaws - anybody done proper reviews
ArthurBottlesworth replied to ArthurBottlesworth's topic in General chat
I did do bit of work with people importing Chinese motorcycles - but the problem was they had to buy a 40' container full and they simply bought the cheapest - perhaps we are not getting access to the best quality chinese stuff ? Perhaps someone needs to jump on a plane and go and see what Chinese professionals are using ? -
I don't react but my wife suffers badly But udder cream sorts them out straightaway and she doesn't get the swelling or itching that used to last for months You get huge tub for a few £££
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Was reading recently The tommies didn't call it "the Somme" To them it was "the great **** up"
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I've got a gun dog training dummy launcher Uses 22 long blanks Lobs dummy 50 yards - thought it would break my wrist first time I used it Could that not be modified?
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I bought "Internet" landrover battery from some place on n Wales coast It was incredibly well packed, with all sorts of seals on the acid - delivery driver had it upside down but only couple of drops of acid had leaked - it was half price of everybody else Would definately use them again Ordered pto drive shaft from malpas tractors last week - ordered online but they are close enough for me to collect I think website says 2 days order time, went in to collect NOT THERE when I asked "why no telephone number " they said and I kid you not " people kept ringing us up ". NO **** SHERLOCK that's how it works Now over a week and no drive shaft - how popular they must be at harvest time ...... UPSUM. You can't judge a dealer from their website
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You've gone for turf tyres?
