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Macpherson is trying to encourage me to use Borax to cure my arthritis! Page 6 on "Our Damaged Bodies" and this link https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ea6d/200ae6b8c8213823d1fb5c84cf035ae14493.pdf

I think our Aduro 9 looks much the same. If it is , then the way it is started and run is completely different to normal wood stoves. We do not use branch loggings in it. You have to load it in a counter intuitive way with the bigger sticks at the bottom building up like noughts and crosses to the smaller bits at the top. It smokes readily if the wood is not perfectly dry and stacked properly but when done correctly it is amazing how efficient it is and how a small amount of wood will last a long time.

I can assure you that if you stand behind someone the morning after a night out on Batemans Triple X, the gases will penetrate even the most sophisticated mask, and I would suggest that most of the particles are bigger than a virus!

I was about 100% out as usual ! just measured the smaller white bag at 55x55x80=240 litres and the big blue bag which I have built extensions for at 80x80x80=512 litres I put a pin in the extensions so that if the bag is heavy I can pull the pins making it easy to take the loops off, then pull out the posts on one side and pull the bag over to tip it I made a detachable ball hitch for towing behind the car or the Stiga mower for garden work. It is quite hard to pull by hand with a full load!

Just had a look at particle sizes and it seems that a virus at 0.005 is much smaller than a particle of wood smoke at 0.2 and I can definitely smell wood smoke through my high grade mask! imperial units 1 inch = 25400 microns 1 micron = 1 / 25400 inch The eye can in general see particles larger than 40 microns. Typical size of contaminants and particles are indicated below. Note that the values varies widely depending on how the products are processed. By example milling corn starch in 30 minutes can reduce the average diameter of starch particles from 10 to 0.3 microns (μm, 10-6 m). Further milling may produce particles even smaller than 0.1 microns. Particle Particle Size (microns) Anthrax 1 - 5 Antiperspirant 6 - 10 Asbestos 0.7 - 90 Atmospheric Dust 0.001 - 40 Auto and Car Emission 1 - 150 Bacteria 0.3 - 60 Beach Sand 100 - 10000 Bone Dust 3 - 300 Bromine 0.1 - 0.7 Burning Wood 0.2 - 3 Calcium Zinc Dust 0.7 - 20 Carbon Black Dust 0.2 - 10 Carbon Dioxide 0.00065 Cayenne Pepper 15 - 1000 Cement Dust 3 - 100 Clay, coarse 2 - 4 Clay, medium 1 - 2 Clay, fine 0.5 - 1 Coal Dust 1 - 100 Coal Flue Gas 0.08 - 0.2 Coffee 5 - 400 Combustion 0.01 - 0.1 Combustion-related - motor vehicles, wood burning, open burning, industrial processes up to 2.5 Copier Toner 0.5 - 15 Corn Starch 0.1 - 10 Dot (.) 615 Dust Mites 100 - 300 Eye of a Needle 1230 Face Powder 0.1 - 30 Fertilizer 10 - 1000 Fiberglass Insulation 1 - 1000 Fly Ash 1 - 1000 Gelatin 5 - 90 Ginger 25 - 40 Glass Wool 1000 Grain Dusts 5 - 1000 Gravel, very fine (0.08 inch) 2000 Gravel, fine (0.16 inch) 4000 Gravel, medium (0.3 inch) 8000 Gravel, coarse (0.6 - 1.3 inches) 15000 - 30000 Gravel, very coarse (1.3 - 2.5 inches) 30000 - 65000 Ground Limestone 10 - 1000 Hair 5 - 200 Household dust 0.05 - 100 Human Hair 40 - 300 Human Sneeze 10 - 100 Humidifier 0.9 - 3 Insecticide Dusts 0.5 - 10 Iron Dust 4 - 20 Lead, solder radiator manufacturing - mean value 1.3 Lead, battery and lead powder manufacturing 12 - 22 Lead Dust 0.1 - 0.7 Liquid Droplets 0.5 - 5 Metallurgical Dust 0.1 - 1000 Metallurgical Fumes 0.1 - 1000 Milled Flour, Milled Corn 1 - 100 Mist 70 - 350 Mold 3 - 12 Mold Spores 10 - 30 Mustard 6 - 10 Oil Smoke 0.03 - 1 One inch 25400 Oxygen 0.0005 Paint Pigments 0.1 - 5 Pesticides & Herbicides 0.001 Pet Dander 0.5 - 100 Pollen 10 - 1000 Radioactive Fallout 0.1 - 10 Red Blood Cells 5 - 10 Rosin Smoke 0.01 - 1 Sand, very fine (0.0025 inch) 62 Sand, fine (0.005 inch) 125 Sand, medium (0.01 inch) 250 Sand, coarse (0.02 inch) 500 Sand, very coarse (0.02 inch) 500 Saw Dust 30 - 600 Sea Salt 0.035 - 0.5 Silt, coarse (0.0015) 37 Silt, medium (0.0006 - 0.0012 inche) 16 - 30 Silt, fine 8 - 13 Silt, very fine 4 - 8 Skin flakes 0.5 - 10 Smoke from Natural Materials 0.01 - 0.1 Smoke from Synthetic Materials 1 - 50 Smoldering or Flaming Cooking Oil 0.03 - 0.9 Spanish Moss Pollen 150 - 750 Spider web 2 - 3 Spores from plants 3 - 100 Starches 3 - 100 Sugars 0.0008 - 0.005 Talcum Dust 0.5 - 50 Tea Dust 8 - 300 Textile Dust 6 - 20 Textile Fibers 10 - 1000 Tobacco Smoke 0.01 - 4 Typical Atmospheric Dust 0.001 to 30 Viruses 0.005 - 0.3 Yeast Cells 1 - 50 one micron is one-millionth of a metre 1 micron = 10-6 m 1 micron = 1000 nano metre Airborne particles Airborne particles are solids suspended in the air. Larger particles - larger then 100 μm terminal velocities > 0.5 m/s fall out quickly includes hail, snow, insect debris, room dust, soot aggregates, coarse sand, gravel, and sea spray Medium-size particles - in the range 1 to 100 μm sedimentation velocities greater than 0.2 m/s settles out slowly includes fine ice crystals, pollen, hair, large bacteria, windblown dust, fly ash, coal dust, silt, fine sand, and small dust Small particles - less than 1 μm falls slowly, take days to years to settle out of a quiet atmosphere. In a turbulent atmosphere they may never settle out

not ideal but ok and much quicker Seems to dry ok in the boxes but make sure they are the ones with gaps between the slats and mine are stored in an open front shed with plenty of wind but sheltered from rain. Yes the whole branch approach is quicker and very satisfying to watch but I found that if I have the whole thing set up with the Little Grey Fergie running at idle so it stalls rather than breaks the shear bolt on a harder bit of wood and runs the unit in a peaceful way both in chopping and sound. Then have a box load of branches stacked ready and pointing the right way, two of us, me left handed and the other right handed can fill a box in no time which saves a bit of petrol and wear on the tractor and logger. You also can put more loggings in the box or the sacks if you have no light weight springy twiggy bits taking up the space which also might annoy customers if you were trying to sell them. If you try the plastic mesh sacks you will find these twiggy bits become caught in the net which is really annoying

Need to find good lengths of Ash/beech/ sycamore and take out the twiggy bits and grade them 4 inches down to 2 inches or near. I gave up with the bags and now put them in a one ton wooden potato box and scoop them out with a coal scuttle. Great for starting the fire or revitalising if it has died down. I thought people might go for them if they were put in paper bags and stitched like the charcoal bags, 5 or 10 kg which would keep the wives happy as they could lift them and no debris would fall out on the way to the stove and they could just be shoved straight on and the bag would act as a firelighter. Needless to say I have been too idle to try and market this idea at the local garages but I need someone to do the trial for me!

This letter was in the Telegraph last week from two surgeons who said they had not worn masks for twenty years as in trials it had shown no benefit and may have caused harm in some patients post op

I welded up some little hooks that slide over the Stein uprights and I hook a builders bag on which is 1000 litres. from the look of the Stein bag in the photo I would suggest it is more like 750 litres, maybe 500 litres but certainly more than 60 litres which is the same size as our garden sprayer!

Used to be able to exchange a joint for a kiss and a cuddle and maybe more in the good old days PM (pre marriage!) Not sure what an eighth of a consummation means in practice though

You are soooo old fashioned Stubby!

Another brilliant example of no joined up handwriting is our Japanese import Volvo RHD which has a speedo in KPH but fuel consumption is measured in a slightly more logical Km/litre rather than the stupid litres/100km in Europe. The former system becomes much easier to read as economy improves whereas the latter starts to go into small fractions.

This whole problem of when should I, or is it compulsory, reminds me a lot of the way the metric/imperial system is enforced here ( or not) According to some laws all distance measurements should be imperial with metric in brackets alongside. A lot more people understand what six foot is here than two metres. It says in this article that most people under forty use metric but whenever I am accused by the young of being out of date and ask them their height and weight it is nearly always given in imperial. So this piece from Wikipedia just shows how something potentially simple can be made so complex by those bureaucrats in charge, just like when you should wear a mask Most British people still use imperial units in everyday life for distance (miles, yards, feet and inches) and volume in some cases (especially milk and beer in pints) but rarely for canned or bottled soft drinks or petrol.[38][43] Though use of kilograms is increasing, many British people also still use imperial units in everyday life for body weight (stones and pounds for adults, pounds and ounces for babies).[citation needed] Government documents aimed at the public may give body weight and height in imperial units as well as in metric.[44] A survey in 2015 found that many people did not know their body weight or height in one system or the other.[45] People under the age of 40 preferred the metric system but people aged 40 and over preferred the imperial system.[46] The height of horses in English-speaking countries, including Australia,[1] Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States is usually measured in hands, standardized to 4 inches (101.6 mm). Fuel consumption for vehicles is commonly stated in miles per gallon (mpg), though official figures always include litres per 100 km equivalents and fuel is sold in litres. When sold draught in licensed premises, beer and cider must be sold in pints, half-pints and third-pints.[47] Cow's milk is available in both litre- and pint-based containers in supermarkets and shops. Areas of land associated with farming, forestry and real estate are commonly advertised in acres and square feet but, for contracts and land registration purposes, the units are always hectares and square metres.[48] Office space and industrial units are usually advertised in square feet. Steel pipe sizes are sold in increments of inches, while copper pipe is sold in increments of millimetres. Road bicycles have their frames measured in centimetres, while off-road bicycles have their frames measured in inches. The size (diagonal) of television and computer monitor screens is always denominated in inches. Food sold by length or width, e.g. pizzas or sandwiches, is generally sold in inches. Clothing is always sized in inches, with the metric equivalent often shown as a small supplementary indicator. Gas is usually measured by the cubic foot or cubic metre, but is billed like electricity by the kilowatt hour.[49] Pre-packaged products can show both metric and imperial measures, and it is also common to see imperial pack sizes with metric only labels, e.g. a 1 lb (454 g) tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup is always labelled 454 g with no imperial indicator. Similarly most jars of jam and packs of sausages are labelled 454 g with no imperial indicator. But, whatever the label says, the tins or packets are invariably still packaged in Imperial quantities (typically 8 or 16 ounces).

Forgot the most important line in the book “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

1984 is here about forty years late. New Norm = Newspeak, cameras= Big Brother watches you everywhere, thought crime = gender, trans issues, people encouraged to rat on their neighbours, widespread turning a blind eye to drugs, especially in prisons ( Soma in Brave New World) and Winston Smith's job of tearing up past history , cancelling people and removing all traces of them from literature

Thanks, I think I will take that advice

I found my special tool I made for the job twenty years ago! A large diameter bar with a piece welded to it to enable the holder to keep a safe distance from the striker! But I might still investigate whether I can wiggle the track drive gear out without splitting the track if I can make it loose enough. Debating whether to even take the track off the front idler, or off altogether

or this

Now something like this would save my poor wrists!

There are two pins with dimples and I did split the track before as we found a better one to replace it I had not considered taking it off unbroken as it weighs so much also it is too close to the wall for room to work I will split it and I do have the Matbro to assist I remember the effort knocking the pin out last time hence I was wondering if there was a power tool designed to knock out pins I know some fit young lads who need some exercise after Lockdown and a crate of beer might work out cheapest in the long run!

Bought this 806 C JCB in 2000 for £2000. The machine had done a lot of work before I bought it and has had some hard treatment recently. Last September it started to rain on the 23rd and did not stop till mid March I had to drag the old soldier out of retirement to clean out the overflowing ditches and together we did over a mile and a half and save a lot of our land from flooding. I am not sure it helped downstream! The JCB has a ten foot Ash growing out of the engine compartment but after its removal the engine struck up first time. Good old six cylinder Perkins with no clever computer aids or other things to go wrong. A hundred yards from the main road the track came off the idler .we managed to put it back on and it was a big struggle as the ground on the stream Bank was so wet that it kept sinking down no matter how many logs we put under the chassis. In the end we used the Matbro successfully and I tracked back to the yard about another mile. Five yards from the concrete base where the JCB lives we lost all drive and the bearing had disintegrated allowing the planetary gear assembly to slip off the drive axle. Could not swear too much as the old fella had done a hell of a job and made it home Can someone remind me of the best way to split a heavy track and rejoin it I did it once when we first bought it but that was twenty years ago and my wrists were in good condition (see injuries thread!) so the pins knocked out quite easily I wish there was a machine operating like an air gun that does the job for you, bit like a jack hammer. Is there such a thing?

You cut yew hedges a hundred years ago........I saw you!

Had a good read of your link to Dr Newnham and read another piece by him below. Interesting the comparison with table salt where we know that too little of it will kill you and too much will also kill you. But that must be the same for almost anything. Certainly too much of anything is not going to be a good outcome , whether it be ibuprofen or Mars bars or fizzy drinks. Too much water can kill you (its called drowning) so the fact that you have fed some poor rat an overdose of 100 times normal and it died is to be expected as normal. I will keep my appointment with a rheumatologist and hear his opinion as I do not want to be labelled like Trump was for pushing drain cleaner! Boron: Major Cause and Cure for Arthritis WWW.POSITIVEHEALTH.COM Forty years ago, Dr Rex Newnham developed arthritis, and orthodox medicine did not help. His analysis of the...

Thanks for that encouraging information. I will give it a good read later on this evening and report back

Just read this thread from start to finish and it is fairly horrific. A warning for all you younger ones to take more care but you never listen as I never did, such is the invincibility of youth! I have had a lifetime of farming and am now 66. In the bad old days everything was unloaded from lorries by hand and all sacks of potatoes and fertiliser were 1 cwt or 50 kilos. Some corn sacks weighed twice that but they had to be put on your shoulders with a sack lift barrow. Had a bad bout of lower back trouble in my late twenties. Played a lot of league hockey and nearly seized up after the game and after the bar, could hardly exit the car when I came home. I decided in 2000 in my mid 40s to just do a 3.5 mile bike ride around the block each day before work so that the system was warmed up before work. There are a couple of steep hills to make the heart pump faster. I needed some good weather gear to keep it up every day, but now having gone around the World, 24 thousand miles, (3.5 miles a day, 1200 miles a year for 20 years), I have not had the bad backs that left me needing a walking stick for a week or two when I was younger. On another note I have been doing more and more chainsaw work since 1993 with few problems till this year when I have started to have arthritic type problems in both wrists. My right wrist is far worse which is strange since I am totally left handed and operate a chainsaw with left hand on the trigger. I can operate right handed which I had to do to gain my certificates but I was just wondering if any of you right handers with the same problems feel it more in your left hand because that hand is pushing harder perhaps and feeling the vibration a little more