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Lovely old Ash removed from an equally lovely five acre paddock in the middle of our local town to make way for fifty houses. Such is life. The trees had already been cut down and because they were big and all limbs and awkward nobody wanted them so I fetched them home.Nearly five foot wide in places. This is one of the last slabs I have had the Lucas Model 8 since 1996 and it has been a great machine. I always have used the circular saw with it. I bought the slabber about ten years ago but never used it so I thought this would be a good opportunity. Very pretty young French neighbour volunteered to help. The Lucas seemed to go well, I put engine oil in the green Lucas oiler on the side away from the motor and after reading another thread on another site I thought I would try some water at the motor end as the tube was already there. I just cut open an old red oil container and fitted a tap. The guy on the thread thought that it stopped the teeth gumming, cooled and helped the job. I couldn't see much difference in speed but the bar remained cool. The tree was as wide as the slabber at the widest point and we could feel a little more resistance in the knotty bits but not a lot. Very strong wind today helped clear the sawdust away from us Just been looking at the "show us yer tables" thread for inspiration regarding the legs if we make them into tables. Any ideas would be welcome.

Could have been dangerous, could have been a Willdow maker!

What did you say? I spent years driving a Track Marshall 90 with a terrible cab, ploughing and discing. I still don't think that anybody can beat me at arm wrestling as the control levers were so hard to use. The D7 is a dream to use as the track levers are power assisted on this machine, and I think not having a cab helps with the noise. Also most of the time it is chugging at low revs whereas the TM 90 was at full revs. In the summer after harvest we would disc the burnt stubbles with the TM and the heat from the hydraulics in the cab was so unbearable that we had to take the doors off but that meant black soot particles found their way into the cab and I looked like a coal miner! My lungs were so full of it that my handkerchief was black for a week afterwards! Yuk!

I have dug a few more out.

She really is a gem Bob. I always wanted one after my father bought me a science fiction book called "Killdozer" which was eventually made into a film of the same name. (pathetic film, not as good as the book, and they used a D9 not a D7!) [ame] [/ame] The Mexican driver in the book called the D7 Daisy Etta. Spanish for D7 is De Siete which sounds like Daisy Etta It levels all the chalk roads here like a billiard table with the blade at an angle. Fourteen litres but only four cylinders so each cylinder is three and a half litres. Maximum revs 850 120 hp but a shed load of torque. It has a petrol donkey to start with a two speed gearbox. The lower gear for starting in Artic conditions. The donkey shares the water with the main engine and warms it up, the exhaust goes through the inlet manifold heating that up also and the engine turns over on decompression for some time until oil pressure is built up. All these factors mean the engine starts warm on full oil pressure which is good for longevity. Daisy Etta had her best moment here when a New Holland combine a TF46 (big one) had dropped one wheel down a spring hole in otherwise dry conditions. The contractor had two 150 hp four wheel drive Masseys on two chains trying to pull it out backwards but all eight wheels plus the two of the combine were spinning and nothing was happening. The contractor came to me and asked if I thought Daisy Etta would be able to do it, I told him it was worth a try. The two tractor drivers were full of cynical comments as we chained up. I just eased the hand clutch and she growled for a second and the seventeen and a half tons of crawler just took the strain and the combine popped out like a champagne cork! The two tractor drivers jaws were on their chests, it was priceless but unfortunately I did not film it. I think the secret is massive torque at very low revs plus the weight and the weight of the blade which is well forward.

Daisy Etta to the rescue! [ame] [/ame]

Up to me nuts on the cab door anyway! The lads did not have much success trying to pull me out with the quad!

She was lucky, she could have been fined thousands for harming a bat and had her barn and woodpile closed down! Holy bat protection! That’s cost me £10,000 - Telegraph

Same here, bought 2 post lift from Germany for £400 about 20 years ago, never been near a garage apart from MOTs. Youtube is fantastic for finding an easy way For instance our Volvo Estate had a problem with the ABS which we diagnosed as a broken reluctor ring. Never heard of it before, but it is the cog like ring which tells the sensor that the wheel is still turning or locked. Found a firm working from a farm which posted me one next day for £35 Youtube showed how to take the shaft out of the hub without dismantling suspension. Take old ring off and clean, heat up new one on a gas ring until it turns blue, slip it on and job done, all in a couple of hours. Saw someone who had the same job done at a Volvo main dealer where they changed the whole driveshaft plus boots, plus dismantled suspension, job was over £1000 a lot of which was labour, plus he was without a car for some time.

Every time this topic comes up I can't stop singing this song! [ame] [/ame]

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The arb who came in from the cold?

But the forecasters forgot about the unexpected solar flare in December and increasing sunspot activity, this coupled with a sudden increase in the layers of CO 2 and NO 2 in the atmosphere causing more global warming than had been predicted. But the main issue was the spider in China which caught the butterfly in its web , which otherwise would have flapped its wings causing a series of events which would have led to Artic winds coming down over Europe. Instead a warm breeze came up from the equator and England's Winter became a prolonged Indian Summer!

I think that you can draw a reasonably clear line here. 1.The penalty is not only match decisive but exiting tournament decisive. 2.There is an extra amount of time to be given to the TMO to be sure of their decision, since the match is over and it is not disrupting flow of the game. So those are the two additional reasons for the ref to consult the TMO. Keep all the other reasons in place for making his own decision

Warmings! 1 Sharpening the chainsaws 2 Loading all the equipment. 3 Carrying the equipment to the tree in the wood 4 Clearing the brash around the tree 5 Sawing the tree, hammering the wedges 6. Snedding 7 Cutting into logs that can be manhandled 8 Stacking onto an Arbtrolley 9 Hauling said Arbtrolley through uneven and often steep terrain. 10. Throwing logs from arbtrolley into trailer 11 Picking up logs to cut into sizes suitable for the splitter 12 Loading the splitter 13 Picking up the split logs and stacking logs in the wood pile 14 If the woodpile is not near the place of splitting there is another trailer loading operation 15 Chopping the Kindling 16 Loading the logs into a barrow 17 Unloading the barrow and carrying the logs into the house and stacking in the wood box 18 Taking logs out of the wood box and taking them to the stove 19 Realising that you have forgotten to empty the ash, so back to the shed to find a metal bucket followed by a yomp to the ash pile 20. The fire at long last!

But refs used to be horrendously wrong in the past without the help of the camera and team behind it. Things have improved a lot. Surely it just needs to be honed a little more in the right direction. The rules say that he can only refer to the TMO for a "foul or a try scoring opportunity" Can't this be extended to "Match winning opportunity" without much fuss? There is no issue with breaking up the flow of the game with a lengthy analysis as the game had effectively ended at that point.

The Lucas Super Slabber cuts up to nine feet wide and any length with extensions! [ame] [/ame]

Since the last penalty was so important and decisive, and there was plenty of time for a good look at the video replays, should not old Joubert have asked for a bit more deliberation from the TMO?

Very sorry to see Scotland go out in such a way. Completely robbed! However they can hold their heads high as they played so well and can now progress with a greater confidence. So many crucial bad decisions against the Scots. If it had been an English referee I hate to think what might have happened!

That was fast and effective! Many thanks you you both

Some sort of willow?

We have two new French neighbours in their thirties, both doctors of geology. Drinking wine with them is certainly an education. I felt like a heathen.(probably because I am) Firstly they surprisingly are not at all snobby about their wines which they know very well. I would expect them to have bottles of fine French wine only around the house but no they have Greek and English wines as well, just for their interest and give praise where praise is due. But more importantly and the reason I am putting this on this particular thread, is the way they drink their wine. Very, very slowly and one glass will last as long as it takes my wife and I to polish off a bottle. This way not only do they give themselves a chance to really taste the wine, (they spend ages smelling it before they drink it!) but they give their system a chance to absorb it gently and just drift into an elated mood rather than becoming incoherent and boring like me after one too many! They usually cut up a carrot with a yoghurt dip which has a spoonful of mustard in it, and some cheese cut into small pieces. Just feels very healthy.

Other Hypotheses to test while you are at it 1. Sit at the same distance from the fire and stick in a poker and stir it up 2. Put on a thick fur coat 3 Take all your clothes off 4 Test acid rain theory while you are in the buff 5 Turn round and test harmful emissions and noxious gases theory This last one may also test for Krakatoa type eruptions and other volcanic activity

There are so many variables that I cannot see how you can reach a conclusion. It all started with "The Greenhouse Effect" and man made global warming. This had only one conclusion, that man was the cause of heating up the atmosphere by burning things, from forests to fuels. Suddenly it transferred from Global Warming to Climate Change. This opens up a whole new range of possibilities and could account for the planet cooling as well as heating up. Somehow you have to balance the emotive picture of a polar bear balancing on what looks like the last iceberg in the North Pole, with the fact that the coldest temperatures ever recorded have been found recently at the South Pole. Many are distrustful of the scientists because of the smell of money. If you were an underfunded weather scientist working on a boring job and suddenly some politician asks you to go to a smart conference in Copenhagen, staying in a plush hotel, that may be attractive. When you make a case for global warming and you are asked to more conferences you soon realise that the stronger you make your case, the more money is thrown at you perhaps to such an extent that you start to manipulate graphs and figures to suit. I think that most people will agree that we want to breathe clean air, and that we need to conserve energy by not wasting our reserves and going for renewables where they make sense. If we go down this road surely this will also achieve the objectives of the global warming brigade by cutting down on greenhouse gases, and everyone will be happy (apart from the oil companies!). We all have to believe in Climate Change, just look at the difference between the weather today and a week ago!