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Just had another encounter at the other end of the farm. Again the hare sat in the middle of the chalk road and did not move when I slowly approached in my car. Like the other one it scratched itself and then moved its paw over its eye a bit like a cat would and then licked its paw. This may be normal behaviour to clear out dust but it may be a touch of myxomatosis. Otherwise it eventually ran off like the other one. They both looked a bit thin but they may just be very young leverets.

I have never seen a hare with Myxy in all my years on the farm but I just copied this off google Myxomatosis is a highly infectious and fatal disease for wild or domestic rabbits and occasionally hares. A form of pox virus, myxomatosis is spread by fleas, mites and biting flies such as mosquitoes, as well as by direct contact between infected animals. This hare looked quite healthy when it set off, I think that it just liked me!

Saw this hare on our front lawn, and thought it looked ill or wounded. Most hares on the farm (and we have many this year) run a mile when they see me in spite of the fact that they have not been shot at here for over fifty years

The Bride or the car??

Thanks to both for your comments. I need to test the wires around it to see if there is any current there, If there is then it looks like a new unit is needed.

My Combi can has had the neck chewed covering the saw and my feet with petrol before I spotted it also the can itself, they went for the yellow cap and completely destroyed the tab that stops you losing it Is it the plastic they love or do they vape on the petrol fumes???!

Thank you for that. The thing is that it looked so much like what I assume is a combined relay sensor on the back of the radiator fan on my Volvo XC70

I cannot start the engine, a Hatz diesel and suspect the starter solenoid. But it does not seem to have a conventional solenoid on the starter and was wondering if this object was the relay.

No shits on here, we are all bird lovers!

OK sorry no photo, but yesterday I heard a Cuckoo for the first time for years here on the East Coast of Lincolnshire. Bit late, but how does that old country rhyme go The Cuckoo comes in April, in May it sings all day. In mid June it changes tune, July it flies away

Two o’clock today is a bit too warm for arbwork! Only a slight breeze again from the North East, but not enough to cool

Lovely day on Saturday and Sunday. Sun shone for the bride on Saturday all day. About time too! The wheat desperately needs a lot of sun to fill the grains. Driving through the countryside I cannot help notice the abundance of greenery in the trees and hedges, must be all the CO2!

Well this is the great thing about Arbtalk! I thought that I knew it all with well over 50 years of pissing about with all types of petrol engines. The carb looks just like a brand new one after I had taken it off and blew it (no debris or deposits visible) Took out the jets and float needle all clean as a whistle,fresh fuel. I will buy a new carb and a length of fuel line. One thing at a time and if the carb does not fix it then try the fuel line as suggested by Agrimog

Good advice, I will investigate

Freezing buggery bollocking cold North East wind that has been blowing for weeks now. I thought I would take Daisy Etta, the old D7 out to level the tracks that have been beaten up with the appalling weather and traffic. She started first time as usual, with the 1300cc twin cylinder petrol donkey. A few blaps and then smooth, all 14 litres of it. Nothing much is going to argue with the two ton blade and the total twenty tons of metal! Does a fantastic job with the blade angled, leaves it like a billiard table. First track unfortunately straight into the wind so bollocks well and truly cooled! Then down to the shelter of the log cabin. The difference in temperature between two places on the farm less than half a mile apart is astounding!

Plenty of gaps I can assure you, but being a better camera man than a joiner makes all the difference!

Just finished the new decking and applied first coat of Cuprinol deck oil

He was quite chuffed when he found a statue of Sir John Franklin in our local town, and I have a photo of him standing by it and the Franklin Bakery!

Dan Franklin came up with a team of about ten in 2000. Most were learning the full scribe method paid for by a grant scheme. He had not worked with Poplar before and found it easy to work with. I first had the idea after a friend came back from Oregon where he said there was a log built church, over 120 years old built from Poplar using the full scribe method I have three Poplar plantations that my father put in in 1960, when all the graphs were showing that there would be a massive demand for matches at the Millenium due to the projected increase in smoking. Father told me that I would be very rich in the year 2000! But due to butane lighters and people packing up I had all these trees looking for a home.Very hard to predict outcomes with models and graphs as the climatologists are discovering He had the same idea by planting Spruce and Pine for pit props in the coal mines!! Anybody looking for some very tall trees??? Log Cabins | Woodenways WWW.WOODENWAYS.COM Mine is pictured in the first and third photo. Before we started I had gone on a course at his site in Devon

They should both be rotted within a couple of years but the log cabin was built of Poplar in 2000 and the Turkey Oak decking the same so 23 years of weather. The cabin has no rot at all but it is standing off the ground on six large sandstones so air is all around same with the deck except it is prone to water sitting on top in severe rain. Anyway it has cooled down a bit today so I thought I would lay some of the warped Turkey Oak boards that I cut at the same time twenty three years ago It does show that these timbers will stand being outside as long as they are not in contact with the ground and are given a chance to dry They have been sitting under cover and trying to make them fit without my generator working is a challenge! Some are more bent than a banana! Just have my Stihl electric but it is not so good at planing! I tell my wife it just adds character but she just says I am lazy! As I am lazy I think I will just fill in the worst cracks with a bit of sawdust and wood glue

Thanks, I took out the main jet and blew it with the airline and it appeared to be like new. The governor is a good call and I will try and look more closely at it

thanks, that sounds like the answer

I have tried two saws, one the 1300 watt DeWalt and the other I believe a soft start mitre saw 1899 watt both caused immediate shut down . I will try a lead lamp and a small planer today, both will work with my little 550 watt Kawasaki generator. What I find confusing if it was the case that the motors were too hefty to start, is why does it take so long to restart. I would expect it to cut out in a slightly different way if it was fuel, perhaps a bit more spluttering and stop starting. Again when restarting after a pause, I would expect the fuel to have recovered enough to run on no load as it does in the beginning. This I agree sounds very much like fuel starvation, but as sherlock Holmes said "Once you have eliminated all possibilities, the answer however improbable must be the only thing that is left" Could it therefore be some problem with the electronic ignition.

Agree , but it pours out of the float chamber when I remove the drain bolt, I have cleaned the main jet and everything in the carb, so what have I missed??

I bought this generator new and have not used it for some time. It has done no work and basically is as new. I emptied the fuel and put in new fresh fuel. Pull started and it fired up first time and ran smoothly as you can hear at the start of this clip.It will continue to run in this mode until the tank empties It is rated at 2300 watts but as soon as I pulled the trigger on the 1150 watt De Walt saw it cuts out. It then is very difficult to start again but eventually goes after fiddling around with the choke lever. I took off the carb and found it to be like new inside, but I still blew it out. Took out the screw on the fuel chamber and fuel pours out easily so there is no blockage there. Took out the float and needle valve both spotless. Electronic ignition seems to be ok Any ideas??