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After this we've eaten most of our produce appart from cucumber up to 5 years later with still good crunchiness
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We do a fair amount of pickles, cucumber, gherkins, cabbage, onions, piccalilli, and occasionally eggs. The absolute important job to get a good long lasting crunch is salting ( or brining) to draw out excess water. Then a good quality pickling vinegar which is more acidic than general pupose kitchen vinegars, sugar or honey to make it palatable again, and purchased pickling spice for flavour.
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Soured my fans........? Gorgeous image of a victorian gentleman holding up a pair of well skidded keks and announcing to the scullery maid what he'd done. [emoji12]
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Let the wife do it, as her penance ?
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Looks damned good, and I know how effective they are. I bought ( at fantastic expense !) The Logosol equivalent. Thought at the time it was just a gimmicky thing, but it soon became my go to piece of kit for rolling awkward crotchy logs towards the milling bunks in my lucas mill, lifting heavies onto the bunks and repositioning them to get the best optimal cuts. It had a hand winch with the seat belt type webbing and a self locking brake system. Fast to operate and would hold well over its rated load safely. It was advertised as a tree pusher, to give the extra height advantage to start a difficult fell going. Never used it as such but could imagine it being equally effective. Yours with extra attachments is spot on.[emoji106]
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Living out hereSW Ireland, We've got 2 of these old wrecks on our land. Soil infill and rubble between the stones, only the render (plaster) on the outer and inner walls holds them together. No or poor jointing of corners. As we found out when we hacked off the mortar on the gable end , the wall "sprang" out leaving a 70 mm gap where the ceiling should have been touching the wall inside. No foundations to be of any trustworthy purpose, so start digging against the walls and the rest of the cottage will be joining you in the hole !
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How ya going to get a bigger house inside the walls of an existing one?
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Surely using the purge bulb is simply moving liquid (and air) around a closed loop . If its pressuring then extra air must be being drawn in , as was mentioned earlier by a split pipe or a seal failure in the carb
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I've got one in my shed. Bought it 30 years ago at a machinery auction. Regretted it instantly as I tried to lift it into the back of my forward control landrover. Its been out one other time, probably 25 years ago, to haul over a back leaning oak ,down a deep valley, which cracked off sideways as I couldn't swing the handle fast enough to keep uphill momentum. I'm 25 years older, wiser and less able to pick the damned thing up again so I foresee, with my all seeing magic eye, that its going to remain in my shed for at least the same amount of time !
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Yeuch, that's disturbingly real !
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I'm beginning to wish I hadn't
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Should there not be a comma after the phrase 'fit in' ? Or is there more to Stubby than expected ? [emoji12]
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Good effort by both Fred and yourself to get it in place, enjoy the cutting.
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A bit more wind needed in that front right tyre would be my recommendation [emoji3] Might make the steering a little lighter, and save a costly replacement
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Another vote for baltic abrasives. They happily created some custom discs for me and the lucas mill, to my own spec, at reasonable cost and quick turnround and delivery.
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"Well Mylud, he was a really annoying groundy, but I really can't explain what happened. One minute he was there, next, chomp chomp chomp , gone. All that was left was his earmuffs and a boot. - took a damned long time to unblock that pipe.....messy job it was Your Honour "
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With all the renewed travel restrictions I believe I'm going to be unavailable for any sort of probing or inspection works for the foreseeable future, and I'm sure that's going to be a very long time indeed.... sorry not to be of service. [emoji12]
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Are you sure you've got a sticky ring? Brave words indeed to shout out on arbtalk [emoji16][emoji16]
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Enjoy, We've had the meat out of it, but there's still bones and teeth left ! I have to say our forecasters are bloody good at what they do, so hour by hour we knew what was ahead of us, predicted yesterday, so we could do all the preps necessary. Genny was fueled up yesterday and extra available for a hard day's work today.
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Yep, the strongest front of it is just pushing into the Irish sea now, heading for Wales. Tie everything down
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Look out all of you whining girlies over there. Storm Barra heading your way now. We've had a hell of a pasting over here, SW Ireland. Average wind speeds 80-90 kmh gusts (prolonged) of 130k's. Its been a truly violent day. Anyone doing clearance works etc take care , lookout for hangers as well as what you're focusing on.
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I keep trying to but its an impossible optical illusion [emoji85][emoji85][emoji85]
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He looks a well chilled, happy dude of a dinosaur. Great stuff. Just shown it to my wife, she wants me to make her one - not a bloody hope !
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Strawberry Wood “Fishy Dishy”/“Dishy Fishy”???
skc101fc replied to gobbypunk's topic in Milling Forum
Just to mussel in on this one, but if I attempted this it would look pretty crab. Haven't got the Bird's-Eye for carving -
Earlier woodland mills seem to made out of recycled rust particles and are really shit if left outdoors with no protection. No amount of oil spraying can stop the inevitable decay. I know, I have one. Simple, cheap and basic but very low quality.
