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Airlines legally liable for burns caused by spilled coffee, rules ECJ WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK Airlines are legally liable for harm caused by the accidental spilling of hot drinks, even if the mishap was not caused by... I can now put on some thick underwear, pour hot coffee over my leg, photograph the damage when I have arrived at my hotel room after hiding the red paint pot out of view and claim for the cost of the flight and probably the holiday too. I am glad that we are coming back to British laws after January. It has been honed over centuries, it may not be perfect, but it is better than all the others.

Just as Peterson said

I have said it before, but the elephant in the room is overpopulation. Think of the carbon footprint of each individual and you realise that 8 billion people is unsustainable and it needs to be reduced to about 2 billion. The only way I can think of doing it without a war or dictatorship, is to put an infertility drug into manufactured sugar. This may solve two problems at once.

Jordan Peterson has a way of telling it like it is.

Had another go earlier today to just try and re-split the larger piece from the first attempt. Because I could not see what was happening and the mud did not help and I stupidly did not wait for someone to watch for me, the piece of timber slid sideways and pushed on the right side of the horizontal knife. This knife is held in position by two half inch thick pieces of three inch wide steel and the force of the dozer bent them slightly, which demonstrates the power of the forces involved

I would agree with all your theories , but I was very surprised to see how easily the D7 performed compared to the six or seven ton Matbro. which has a very powerful telescopic boom, and even when I rammed it into the trunk nothing happened. I would have thought that the Matbro would have generated several tons of ram power on paper but it came to nothing in the actual test.

The Nebraska test would have been on full throttle in first gear, I was only on quarter throttle in the video

Drawbar pull in the Nebraska test was 26,286 lbs or 11.73 tons Drawbar hp was 103 The basic tractor weighs 14.22 tons dry to that has to be added the dozer blade and C frame 2.5 tons. the hydraulic system and two large rams 1.0 ton the heavy underbody protection and grill must be 0.5 ton The Hyster D7N winch and cable 2750 lbs plus cable about 1.5 tons Must be approaching 20 tons with fuel oil and water. But I cannot see how the pull test equates to the push test where you have all that weight and power concentrated on a small area. The drawbar test I would have thought is more about power and traction The PSI with the dozer pushing must be huge.

Always good to hear the other side rather than the indoctrination in the media

Just as a matter of interest, how is the pressure of a hydraulic ram splitter measured. Is there an industry standard or do you just estimate. And how do you measure the splitting power of a kinetic splitter, or one which uses a mechanically driven fine thread , Then of course there are the screw thread cone splitters. So how would you measure the splitting power of Daisy Etta as it is obviously more than just the 20 ton weight of the tractor?

And it is still wet on the main farm track!

Praise indeed especially when you consider what many find pleasing on the internet! This is only the first phase just to see if the principle works. Daisy Etta hardly noticed the tree in front of her . Things will progress when it dries up a bit and I have somebody operating the Matbro and guiding me with hand signals. Not quite sure where to put the two ropes Mark!

Latest modification four way splitter. Tried it on a horrible gnarly sycamore trunk. Things would go a lot better when (if) it dries up a bit but I would call it successful and the four pieces should go through the Palax processor now.

Just to show how wet it is. The clay soil is so sticky that it fills up the tread and makes the tyres like slicks Much better to be the camera man in these situations! Shown this before last time it was wet, so even 6x6 with good tyres on the flat can be in trouble

You beat me to it! It was not me who needed the mask, it was my mate behind on the quad!

Not sure what I did wrong with the video above the first one refused to upload and I cannot delete it or write a message The second one should show the capability of the XC70 in the mud the poor old thing needs a few new filters and a bit of TLC I took the car down hill to service the JCB digger thinking that I would need to fetch the Ford 8210 tractor to tow it back. i asked my mate to follow me down in his new Honda Quad to take me back to the tractor when we arrived at the JCB after an easier trip than I thought , he bet me £10 that it would not make it back up the hill. This was too much to resist and you can hear him chuckling as the Volvo goes sideways. The beer tasted good at the pub later on!

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I think one of the main reasons that the ride is so good on the early cars is that they had sensible 60 series tyres and not stupid low profiles. The other reason for choosing the earlier model is because it just looks like an ordinary estate car and is not made to look more aggressive like the later cars which are a bit in yer face , so people are not so wound up about them as they can be about big 4x4s., not saving the planet and all that.

Oh Joy!!! Just managed to find one half dry day to rescue the old girl before it slowly sank into the mire. Managed to drive the Matbro up to it with gear difficulty and extend the boom to lift the track over the idler. I would have used the bucket if I was on some dry level ground and we could put logs under the chassis to left the track off the ground. Of course every time we tried the 15 tons of machine just pushed the logs further into the mire. Anyway track back on, ditching finished, Matbro pushed itself out of the mire with the teleboom, all back at the yard now, oiled and greased as a reward, on top of this, a good election result, just been to a very romantic Christmas family Wedding with everyone in great form, so now looking forward to Christmas Day and I hope it will be a good one for all of you!

Posted this before but I had this old Dolmar saw which I had abandoned as it had no kickback safety . But it always was a powerful mains operated saw and handy being quieter and easy to start. Bought a little saw bench with a thing that clamps the blade and has a red protective shield for kickback i was operating it one handed in the video as the other hand had the camera but even then felt fairly safe as the saw was fixed and I was standing well to one side It is not much use for anything except some quieter domestic work where perhaps you do not want to disturb neighbours on a Sunday morning. I think that it cost around £35 on eBay

A + E is a lottery Do not have an injury on Saturday night in Boston as there will be a queue of fight victims and drunks before you. The staff are overworked and often insulted and you do not have a warm reception Go 35 miles further North to Louth and there is one of the best hospitals around, very friendly receptionist, usually no long queue and good cheerful doctors and nurses i suppose the answer is Postcode and management . Bit similar to working for different arb firms !

Yes, that is the place but I am not going to try and pronounce it!

I took our first viscous coupling model 2000 year, to the Gower near Bishopston to see some friends. Decided to go for a walk down to the sea but were told to drive along a narrow track to a turning place where we could park. when we arrived there a large car was already there so could not turn round and reversing for a mile up the track did not appeal Ahead was a very rough road cut straight from the rock, very narrow with a huge drop on one side. There were some large steps in the rock at various intervals but it never grounded. It started to become steeper and my wife was screaming (she had the view of the drop!). We met a walker coming up and asked her if it becomes better further down. she said no it is worse! Arrived at the bottom where a Land Rover Series 111 was parked belonging to the owner of the cottage down there, and turned round. Now I had the view of the drop and I could see why my wife was screaming! Anyway the old car clambered up to the top, very sure footed and did not ground once. When we told our friends of our adventure they could hardly believe us and apparently it is still talked about in the pub! We replaced it after 220k miles for a Japanese import. They look after their cars very well and have a strict system to replace safety parts after a certain time regardless of wear or mileage. Right hand drive but the speedo is in kph

So if somebody is lying unconscious around a blind bend, you should not be allowed to stop traffic because you are not authorised?????

In a similar vein, a friend of mine, now sadly no longer with us, was out on a call with his reflective jacket BT gear on. He came to a level railway crossing where people had obviously been stuck for ages and had become frustrated and had started to cross the line, the barriers being half barriers so they could weave their way through. Fearing a dreadful accident, and not being able to stop the drivers from crossing, he decided to conduct the traffic from the centre of the crossing as he could then see a long way down the line either way to make sure it was clear When the police came eventually he of course received a major bollocking, but I think he had a strong argument and was not prosecuted. Which brings me to our line of work. How much authority does an individual have to put his hands up and stop the traffic if he is warning of imminent danger, say a tree fallen on a blind bend or an accident, and can people be prosecuted for ignoring such a warning.