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I see. Probably nothing will come of it. It's important to secure loads though, especially on major roads, cos if the load spills (say, as a result of being t-boned by another vehicle) it could cause a chain of accidents to other road users and the insurer would walk away.. i was coming home with a guy from a job one time, I wasin my car, he was towing his chipper and he took a log home with him to mill into planks. It was about five feet long by 9 inch and he tied it in the chute of the chipper, chute half closed and log sticking out diagonally, bits of webbing straps wrapped around the whole thing. I had bad vibes about it and said it should be tied up better but he was satisfied.. long story short, the log fell off on his way home and another car hit it. Minor damage, thankfully. It was all very embarrassing and stressful..

Yeah he was probably hinting about your "woodshure" registration. ( Think that's what it's called). Licence to sell firewood. Complete bull. The police shouldn't even be thinking about policing this, or even know about it. Not a road safety matter. Did he say he was going to report you to woodsure or do something else?

Asking about what you were doing with the wood was sinister though. Mission creep. Unless he suspects the timber is stolen or something.

Decent copper...The rules for trailers are loose loads must be covered. Presumably same applies to pickups. I wonder how this squares with dumper trucks and the like, hauling 18-20 tonne of hardcore though? Maybe they're excepted. Solid payloads must be tied down to the bed or trailer, to retain the objects in the event of a rollover. Concrete mixers, wheelbarrows, bales of posts etc.

Do some redneck stuff - buy MAGA hats, got to a shooting range, duel-wield .44 magnums revolvers. Drink Coors at a biker bar in the desert at sundown. Attend a monster truck jamboree. If you can, go to a mud-fest (although I think that's more a Louisiana thing, Texas is probably too dry).. as for food, eat in the Black neighborhoods. Fried chicken, grits and ocra (don't know what it is but it's fierce popular).

KISS. Incidentally they played their fairwell gig last week and announced the birth of their AI hologram doubles, which will perform live in their stead "forever more". ABBA already did this last year, might catch on.

I'm sure you're right, but I plan to keep it with the other breakdown stuff in an old army box in the back of the van, never to see light between breakdowns. Generally it's other people's vehicles breaking down though, not mine, but I like to rescue folks. The last four rescues when my breakdown kit came in handy: Couple weeks ago - jump started wifey's friend's car with jumper cables. Couple more weeks ago - local builder blew a tire, 3.5 tonne loaded transit, layby at night. His scissor jack wasn't able to lift the van. I went for my 3t bottle jack and lifted the van easily. After that episode I bought a 2t telescopic low profile bottle jack which will do my own van with a flat on the jacking points and also slide under the axel of a flat tire transit. Back in summer, an elderly couple conked out in the road on a hill. Failed alternator. Used my 3 piece towbar to tow them up the hill to a proper layby. Got a load of building work out of it later. Spring - came up on a flipped car in the road on a bend. Guy was ok, plenty of other locals stopped to manage traffic until the fire brigade rocked up. I got my collapsible traffic cones out and distributed four or five vizi-vests to the gang. Early spring - changed a flat tire in a petrol station parking lot for some ladies. Job involved jumping on the tire iron, which neither of the ladies were equipped for, footwear wise. And loosening the wheel rim with a hammer. And pumping the spare to pressure with my wee electric pump. Replaced a dead dip bulb on the fly for a local last winter from my bulb collection. I just get a kick out helping people out of bind unexpectedly. Out in the sticks you kind of pull over to check if they need help, automatically. Often they really do. So I've always done this and built a basic breakdown kit over time, besides the general tools I usually have in the van. I'm thinking a rock solid reliable jumper device would be an excellent addition for several reasons: 1. No chance I will fry my electrics helping someone else. 2. No chance they will fry their electrics helping me. 3. No need to position the vehicles - obviates the risk of scratches, aggrevation. 4. Sometimes there really isn't room to do it safely.

The self discharging thing has made my mind up for me. Super-capacitor type it will be.

Running out of vape battery is this decade's version of losing your lighter.. highly vexing. I don't run out of phone anymore though, after renewing with a 8000 mah rugged phone.

Noco seems to be the current favorite on the forums and stuff. I've now stumbled upon super-capacitor jumpers, very interesting indeed. No battery involved, good for 10 - 20 years sitting idle, apparently. The research continues....

Battery boosters, jump packs, whatever you call them. The new lithium ones.. Thinking seriously about buying a couple, for me and Wifey's cars/vans. For reasons of safety firstly and pride secondly, one doesn't want to rely on the charity of strangers for a jump start. Especially after reading about the small chance of the "doner" vehicle blowing it's circuits if the jump goes wrong. Wouldn't want any part of that drama.. Any thoughts or experiences? Recommendations and warnings?

Yup. A few marginal voices warned about this at the start (Though the fallout thus far isn't remotely as bad as they predicted). I've stopped counting the incidents of vaxxed up aquaintences telling me they got Covid again, for the fourth and fifth time. I'm worried for them though, it's not normal. I haven't had so much as a bad cold since 2019, just the usual couple of days of winter sneezes and stuff.

Get yr head in the game @MarkBowlam - you missed a beauty.

*regimen* A "regime" of prunes would be weird and probably undemocratic (but regular though). Sorry, Doug. I tried to delete but couldn't....

I read that one to wifey, she laughed muchly- great story 👍

Leafy? Or needley?

The all metal classic Stanley tapes are re-buildable in theory. The salient point being you can unscrew and separate the case to access the coil spring. Flood the works with silicone spray from time to time, should increase longevity by a bit..

The only tape measures that will survive outdoor use are the fiber reinforced textile reel ones, with a little handle you reel the tape back in with. But they're not as handy as the regular ones...

Forget about air circulation. Spray pro foam into the corragations and allow to fully cure. Then carefully cut flush with the walls. Then clad the inside with kingspan glued to the metal. Any gaps fill with pro-foam. the kingspan is a vapour barrier anyway, so you can tape the seams if you want and it will be 100% impermeable. Then sheet out with plywood, glued to the kingspan.

The thigh length boot guy was The Village Idiot, no? Hi profile pic was a goth rocker type

The Eder powerwinch differes in one respect from all the others. It uses a planetary gear like the ones on an off-road vehicle winch. The others have a regular oil filled gearbox. The oil filled type gearbox is much bigger. I'm curious about how the Eder planetary gears hold up over time, since they don't appear to be oil cooled, just greased.

The imperial firewood measure is a cord. The Brits used the cord before the Yanks.

Likewise. You can tell a lot about a person from the contents of their home. That poor geezer, could have had a few cans with him (outside) and talked about WW2 and baby seals.

Well, I run pump for the season, then when I lay up the gear, empty the talks and run Aspen through the system. So they're sitting with pump in the carbs and pipes for months, then Aspen for months, then pump again. If I need a saw in the off season for a short job, it's fueled and ready to go with the Aspen in the tank. I don't have petrol going off in the machines that way. I know some people just run them dry and store dry, but I worry about evap and varnish buildup that way. Running a bit of Aspen through the works displaces ALL the petrol, by my reckoning. I could then dump out the Aspen and run dry, do the carbs would be both dry and clean. But given that Aspen is like mother's milk, won't melt styrofoam etc, I don't see any harm in leaving it in the machines. Whatever chemically happens to the diaphragms with Aspen sitting in them, would happen anyway if they were dry, probably. Aspen is basically inert. Anyway, that's what I've been doing, for a good few years, and haven't had any issues

Did you really throw a crowbar at the teleporter driver?