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What, half inch garden hose????!!

Probably worth fixing a plastic jerrycan under the bonnet somewhere with a (largish!) hose just poking throught the front grill at the right level. Bend over the engine with a couple of spanners in hand Then when the lady appears with the cup of tea unexpectedly you can mutter something about could they just leave it somewhere nearby as you are in the middle of a very fiddly job in the engine compartment!

[ame] [/ame] After seeing the boot video I am taking no chances!

[ame] [/ame] Something for y'all to sing whilst doin' whatcha do!

Quad bikes Quad bikes are required to be registered with DVLA before they can be used on public roads. They can only be used for short distances on public roads and must have a number plate, be fitted with lamps and reflectors if they are to be used on public roads before sunrise or after sunset. They should also be fitted with indicators and a hazard warning light if they are capable of travelling above 15 miles per hour. If they are capable of travelling above 20 miles per hour a horn and a speedometer should also be fitted. If they are capable of travelling above 25 miles per hour a fog light should also be fitted. The rider should make hand signals when changing direction or slowing down if the quad bike is not fitted with indicators and brake lights. It is not permitted to carry passengers on a quad bike. Red diesel The use of red diesel (also known as “rebated fuel”) is only permitted in certain circumstances. These include the following circumstances: where the vehicle is not used on a public road and does not have a licence; where the vehicle is a tractor and it is designed and constructed primarily for off-road use and its use on a public road is for agricultural purposes; where the vehicle is a “light agricultural vehicle” (which includes quad bikes) and its use on a public road is for agricultural purposes; where the vehicle qualifies as an “agricultural material handler” and its use on a public road is for agricultural purposes; where the vehicle is classed as an “agricultural engine” (which includes combine harvesters and crop sprayers) and it is travelling to or from the place where the vehicle is or has been used; where the vehicle is classed as an “agricultural processing vehicle” (which includes mobile feed milling machines) and it is travelling to or from the place where the vehicle is or has been used; where a vehicle is used only for agricultural purposes and it is travelling to or from different pieces of land occupied by the same person and the pieces of land are not more than 1.5 kilometres apart; where the vehicle is a mowing machine; where the vehicle is being used to clear snow from public roads or when it is travelling to and from the place at which it is used to clear snow. There are stiff penalties for using red diesel illegally. I still think that there are lots of grey areas. For instance if you were to use a 4x4 pickup just in the woodland which was less than 1.5 km on a public road from the next bit of woodland which you occupy and you decided to tax the vehicle for agricultural use, what are its speed limitations on the road? One of the key requirements it seems is that the journey on the road must be between land that you occupy.

When my wife lived in a remote area in Washington State in the next door log cabin were three beautiful single girls and they desperately needed a man with a chainsaw before Winter came. I am not sure if they drew straws but one came back with the ugliest little sod you ever saw...... but it didn't matter because he had a chainsaw and a pick-up truck!

I used to think that PSA stood for just Prostate Specific Antigen but soon discovered it also meant "Pinky Slipped up Anus" A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do! As Gensetsteve said, it is probably as unpleasant for the doctor but if the result is ok then it brings a great peace of mind. Have it checked!

I don't like Arbtalk, oh no, I love eeet!

Vee vill never surrender!

Good man Tommer! For those of you misguided ones who hate wasps you will be pleased to know that hornets will often build right next to a wasp's nest and eat the grubs. Badgers also do a good job when the nests are in the ground

I used to declare war against them until I heard a documentary on them on the radio. A gentleman was singing their praises for all the good work they do through out the year, nailing flies, cleaning up debris and detritus around the garden and much more. All they want is a little sweetness at the end of the year to reward themselves for all they have done. Hence the times you really notice the in the Autumn when they mob you for a sip of beer or a bit of jam. Hornets are much more benign. They look very intimidating but it takes a lot to make them angry. Their sting is much the same as a wasp but they do make a physical slash with their ovipositor to make the wound look worse.

Was it anything like this Sean? [ame] [/ame] A bit more practice and you'll be keeping up with this guy! [ame] [/ame]

Hope that you are soon settled in so that you can start to put together that book of your photographs, the one I shall buy when it comes out!

Or should it be "Rate my Minge!" I think that I lost count of the number of safety issues!

Does not look like this Paulownia at least. Paulownia Tomentosa si Paulownia Elongata - Seminte Paulownia Tomentosa Elongata Mimosa Pudica Goji

All these machines with high speed cutting blades are wonderful when they are working well. But they do give me the heebiegeebies when I remember stories about them 1. A straw chopper on the back of a tractor lost a blade and it came out through the casing just like the Jensen but still had enough energy to go into the tractor rear tyre and puncture it. 2. A blade on the big old Cooksley planer/thicknesser broke up and a piece went up like a bullet through a striplight on the workshop ceiling. 3. A lad was killed near here when using something as mundane as a Bosch angle grinder. On his own in the workshop in the evening and the blade broke up and a piece went into his neck and jugular artery. 4. The Lucas Saw always worries me when the blade is in the horizontal position .I know that it has substantial plate to try and shield but seeing the velocities involved it is worrying especially as it is spinning at the same height as my balls! It is a dangerous world, working with high speed tools and even with all the precautions and protective clothing there is still an element of bad luck. We take all the safety precautions.........and then we drive on the roads!!!

Seems to be a lot of manual work to cut into rings and load onto the machine. Would it not be better to split the large trunk with either a screw splitter or a hydraulic grab splitter into long more manageable diameters and then feed through a conventional Palax processor or similar?

Very much aware of this. It comes with a seemingly endless list of rules starting with the words "YOU MUST" or "YOU MUST NOT" the penalty for an average farm may be to withhold the farm subsidy. The people who decide are not judges and there is no court or jury. This penalty is in many cases a hundred times more than you would be fined for stabbing your ex girlfriend. Man fined after stabbing ex over 'love trap' - The Scotsman He was fined £650

There must be a compromise here. It cannot be good to lie in the sun all day by the beach, (or the beech!) and have sunburn and it cannot be good to avoid the sun altogether in some form of paranoia. Exposed as I am both in farming and wooding, I find that my poor nose bears the brunt of the attack of the sun's rays, it can go very red if I have not taken precautions and everyone thinks I have a drink problem! This is amplified by its angle to the sun and by the lenses of my glasses. So a hat and a dollop of factor 40 there first thing and maybe a bit on the forehead and just rub the excess on my hands onto the back of my hands.

This must be an opportunity to deter clients (particularly women who seem to be more nostrilly sensitive) who watch if the unpleasant smelling result takes place some time later!

Image quality excellent with only a small half second delay between it and real time. No false alarms yet, but I find it comforting just to look around the place to see that all is in order when I'm away.

Just rigged up my iphone to a Maplin security system "Sentient" with face recognition and email warnings. It runs for something like 40 days continuously but to save trawling through the whole period, when you review it comes up with a red line to show an event and you can then examine what happened either side of the event. Eight cameras and can see what is going on anywhere you have an internet connection. £400 seems to be a good investment. A cheaper solution I think I mentioned on here before. We had an electrician called Richard back in the 1970s and he told us about a farmer who had been burgled three times in his workshop and decided to do something about it. Richard called in some time later and asked the farmer if he had come up with anything. The farmer said "Follow me" so they went into the small room which leads to the workshop and out of the ceiling there was a massive cable as thick as your arm going down to the door handle, with the copper wire wound round the handle. The farmer had also nicked one of those DANGER 33,000 VOLTS signs off one of the pylons which he had nailed to the door. Richard stood aghast "You can't do that, you'll kill someone, it's totally illegal" Farmer "It is not connected to anything above the ceiling........but would you open that door!!!"

Grazing sheep on ragwort?

I know that view so well as my Aunt and Uncle used to run the painting school at Inniemore.

Culicoides Impunctatus I was camping on a beach in Mull near Carsaig bay in my youth in September. We bought some anti midge paste locally which we concluded the locals sold as a midge attractant to deter tourists! I put some in a matchbox and brought them home for my father to examine. A keen amateur entomologist he put one under a microscope as he took out an old book from the shelf something like "Midges of the British Isles" There were seventeen different varieties identified only by their wing vein pattern. The only bit of humour in the whole book was in the section on Culicoides Impunctatus, which we had now decided that this indeed was the midge under the microscope He said " This midge together with the kilt was probably the origin of the Highland Fling!"