Billhook
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Perhaps I should try these tyres to haul a bit of timber [ame] [/ame]
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Were you thinking of massive Trelleborg low ground pressure? These are proper off road tyres standard fit for series 3 and two new ones on the front. [ame] [/ame] A Discovery had same problem in the same field. Once the really sticky clay has filled the tread and there is nothing underneath in the way of stone that soil will stop most things. Even the Matbro stopped and I had to use the boom to push myself out. The only diff lock is the air locking centre diff which was obviously engaged. There are no locking diffs across the axle on any of the old Land Rovers unless put on as an extra, hence the one front wheel which was not turning. More weight on the back is a possibilty but there is nothing under the clay but more clay to push down to ,so it may end up going down to the axles!
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Land Rover V8 Sandringham 6 comes to a halt with five wheels still going round on a fairly harmless looking grass field which rather hid the terrible sticky clay which lurked beneath! The Panda 4x4 would have romped through it! [ame] [/ame]
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Could have been worse! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jMCQD-oUu_4/hqdefault.jpg
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Trailer has just seen a female trailer coming down the road with nothing on!
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I've a splitting headache!
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I thought that scams would be less likely on Amazon but it seems this is not the case. Ordered an Aduro 9 from a company apparently in Germany. So it was not ebay or Eastern European or Chinese. They also call themselves Klimaworld Had a phone call from a company called Merritt Robinson telling me that their account had been hacked. They seem to only sell glassware and do not deal in stoves Order was cancelled and money although authorised from Barclaycard has not been released by Amazon. Contacted Amazon to confirm and cancelled credit card. Hope this warning reaches you all in time
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Bit breezy here in Lincolnshire but I cannot hear the name Doris without thinking of the Hale and Pace sketch on Yorkshire Airlines! The Air Doris's will give you a warm welcome "Wipe thy bloody feet, and if yer can't see the bloody signs yer must be bloody blind!" [ame] [/ame] Never seen the name Doris in the births column amongst all the Kylies and Amelias!
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BBC iPlayer - Dragons' Den - Series 14: Episode 15 Bit of a non starter at £500 as you could buy a lot of wood for that or even a whole stove. Grenadier firelighter is similar for £125 and more versatile.
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Not only for the chainsaw kickback but also for teeth flying off circular saws or a grinding wheel breaking up. There was a fatality locally when a piece of grinding wheel broke off and by bad luck flew in between the tiny gap between his helmet and his jacket and severed his jugular. Worth thinking about these products now we have had our warning [ame=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hatch-Centurion-Kevlar-Protection-Black/dp/B001F6C7JA]Hatch Centurion Kevlar Neck Protection, One Size, Black: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors[/ame] [ame] [/ame]
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I just love it when you see an elderly man like that, putting on a great performance Fumbling with his microphone, you wonder what is going to happen next. I just watched a youtube clip of Pinetop Perkins aged 96 limp onto the stage and have great difficulty in taking his coat off. Then slowly approaching the piano with his walking stick Put it on at 3.10 as it is quite inspiring. [ame] [/ame]
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When Mike Tyson was fighting fit he was 220 pounds at 5' 10" giving him a BMI of 31.6 . Would you go up to him and call him a fat barsteward?!! https://healthyhomeboy.com/2013/11/19/the-body-mass-index-bmi/
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No serious harm in breathing wood smoke | ScienceNordic
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We used to supply dry seasoned wood to an old fella some years ago who insisted on sprinkling the load with water to make it last longer. We used to laugh about it but it seems he was light years ahead of his time! On the subject of harmful fumes, my parents and their parents and their parents all sat beside roaring open log fires for most of their long lives and not one died before they were 87, many well into their 90s. Has anyone known of a person dying from lung problems or lung cancer by using wood to fuel their fires?
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Definitely Isis, better watch your back in that area! https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/92/fb/56/92fb564e26bd51cfe5f54ab6d144058d.jpg
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But you must make sure that it has not been hacked before it is uploaded
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Must be careful not to burn Ash with Chalara Fraxinea or it might go viral!
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Air pollution in London passes levels in Beijing... and wood burners are making problem worse
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I thought that the recommendation was to keep people calm and quiet after a heart attack! Thank you for the other information, so my mother obviously had not driven again after the war and would not have kept her rights, so she left this life still believing that she was a trucker!
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Government proposes no MOT test for first 4 years
Billhook replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in General chat
I still take my 1952 classic car for a test each year even though according to the rules I never need to have it tested ever again. I worry about the insurance and being sued in case of an accident. I am a brilliant mechanic (aren't we all!) but a man's gotta know his limitations as Clint would say. I often miss things, as does the MOT mechanic and it helps to have a second opinion Perhaps a full test every 2 years and a quick appraisal in between for modern cars -
My mother was in the WRNS in the war and before she went her uncle persuaded her to take her driving test. When she ended up at the Naval Station at Treligga in Cornwall aged 17, she found that she was the only Wren there with a licence so she had to drive the ambulance and the fire tender, both large machines but the fire tender really was a quite big lorry, which #i think towed a big trailer, so she always maintained that she had a licence to drive a lorry till the day she died Was she correct?
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If you fitted a pedal to the other side as well, you could operate it with your feet. Not quite sure of the details of that application!
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Thanks for that. Every time I see your name here I keep thinkiing of this! [ame] [/ame]
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How to feed a family of four for a week on £28 by a French Chef Instagram chef Miguel Barclay creates 28 gourmet dinners for £1 each | Daily Mail Online
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Can you or anyone recommend a cone splitter that has stood the test of time. I see some on ebay for about £150 from Poland with a couple of spare tips. Screw Type Log Splitter 150 mm firewood SPLITTER CUTTER CHOPPER They are about 6 inches or 150 mm in diameter or are these only suitable for hand fed machines.
