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Billhook

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  1. Just had another measure and it seems to come to 1.977. Cubic metres which seems a bit too big compared to the one in the photo Hope some of you can read my diagram which was written in the rain in the yard with a builder’s pencil on a scrappy bit of paper!
  2. So Stubby, bearing in mind that I have my lie detector switched on. When you stop for a break in the middle of some arb work, and you scratch your bum, do you sniff your finger afterwards?!
  3. Still not worth picking it up after you have dropped it in a communal shower!
  4. I was watching the cross examinations of FBI leaders in the Senate and their obvious lies by saying they were not told or aware of things they were asked about; I then saw this fun interview with Stuart Hogg, Scottish rugby player all done in fun but serious all the same and thought how much time and money would be saved if we wired all politicians up, in fact all witnesses.
  5. Trying to overcome the lifting/picking up problem I find the Portek has its place especially when cutting smaller pieces for the Aduro stove. This Mk 1 version was really good but was stolen and the Mk 2 that replaced it with insurance money is not as good and does vibrate occasionally so I wear thick gloves. Rapalaman seems to have had the same issue
  6. Have you been on the ale again??
  7. I will go down to the Lucas Mill tomorrow and mill an electricity board! I could mill several boards and the competition between them should lower the price of the electricity!
  8. I will do some measurements together with my Bosch angle finder and ask you brainboxes to check my results. I think I prefer filling it with a load of logs and emptying into builders bag method and then smaller bags of known volume
  9. Thanks for that, I found this bucket advertised at 7’6” ( mine is 7 ‘) and it looks very similar and is 56 cu ft which is a tad over 1.5 cubic metres Sugar Beet Baskets 7ft 6in Wide 56 Cu ft - Evans & Reid Ltd TELEHANDLERCENTRE.COM One Sugar Beet Basket/Root Bucket Various Sizes Available With Brackets Available For Numerous Machines... You sound like my old maths teacher, the one that made me stand in the corner with the dunces hat on!
  10. We have an old beet bucket I bought in 1978 but have adapted to fit the Matbro. It is 216 cm wide about a metre tall and a metre deep . If it was a box it would be about 2 cubic metres but it has many different angles. I know that the answer would be to fill up some builders bags with logs but I was hoping that someone on here has already done a similar calculation or just knows the answer It would be useful for me to filter out the bits and pieces by shaking the bucket before loading
  11. I may not have read very much about it, but why did not somebody turn the main valve off as soon as the explosion was reported, rather than letting a massive amount of gas out into the sea and atmosphere?
  12. She stuck her head out and gave me the once over then turned back to feasting thinking “ Nah, he’s benign and not worth buzzing”!
  13. All was not lost, the Matbro to the rescue plus a strong chain!
  14. She is still there today eating my favourite Red Windsor apple but I decided not to tell her off and have an argument! IMG_3719.MOV
  15. Saw this today in my orchard IMG_3712.MOV
  16. Bingo! She started first time and is now down at the farm workshop where I can complete the repairs in comfort. All the electric joystick and shuttle functions work. The new throttle cable (£90!) was two feet too short! So I tie wrapped the lever on top of the pump to 3/4 throttle for the short journey.
  17. Thought about unzipping the no.1 firehose but I had not had the six pints of beer necessary to make it work!. Somebody ran for a bucket of water which did work luckily.
  18. thanks, I will have fire extinguishers nearby!
  19. I think that an ember must have blown out of the bonfire and been sitting in the grass and some how a wheel picked it up and threw it into the oily sump area. Big day tomorrow when I try to start it! Two people standing by with fire extinguishers! Another irritation is that it burnt the throttle cable and welded the thing together and I cannot fit a new one until the boom is raised right up out of the way which should work on idle.
  20. Just rounding up a bonfire with the Matbro at what I thought was a safe distance with 6 metre boom extended and a muck grab on the end. No flames near the cab end of the machine. Set out across the field to where my colleague was working, turned the engine off and chatted for a bit. Climbed back into the cab and woof! Major flames out of the engine compartment. No water nearby and no fire extinguisher stupidly so it burned for a couple of minutes before we could put it out Been having fun today cutting burnt wires and rejoining with those plastic joiners with low temperature solder inside that you heat with a heat gun it melted the starter solenoid, and it burned a fuel filter and several hoses. As they say in Lincolnshire “ I coulda done wiyout it!”
  21. Here we go again, Mother (CEO) on £440,000 and daughter on £194,000 (MD) of “One Young World “ charity. Meghan Markle backed charity One Young World is being investigated over its salaries WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK The Charity Commission launched the probe just days after portraits of Meghan and the Duke of Sussex...
  22. This goes against everything I was brought to do with but we have an Aduro 9 and this method works very well

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