Dan Maynard
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My neighbour across the road is using one on his Disco 4 pretty regularly (every time he starts it) as apparently there is a drain on the battery they can't find. I think the problem is likely to be looking after the battery, not too flat, not overcharging etc. Otherwise you have a backup you can't rely on. My strategy is change the car battery as soon as it shows signs of weakness, modern ones don't live in a poorly state very long like in the old days. So far so good, still have jump leads in the van but only ever jumped other people.....
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... and don't forget you'll need a refresher every 3 years.
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Or Amazon if you can't be bothered going out
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Took the plunge today, realised I must be getting better as I could smell myself after a week without a shower.
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I think it's technically an offence to hold two driving licenses, like it used to be an offence to not sign the paper one - first time I had to present my licence to a copper at 17 he kindly reminded me. Who's going to catch you though?
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.. and look at the videos on YouTube with the snap sticking open, decide if you want to accept the risk and climb on it or not. At the very least you're aware there's something to keep an eye on.
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middle ground firewood tree (growth rate vs burn quality)
Dan Maynard replied to Ollie_M's topic in Firewood forum
I'd chuck elm in the mix too, coppices and suckers well and you'd fell it before it gets infected. -
.HEIC files again - are these an Apple thing? Can't see anything myself.
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Me neither, I've still been walking the dog although slower and flatter walks. On the other hand Mrs M has been too ill to spend much time downstairs.
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Think Steve could be right.... I thought I had a bad cold on Monday night, tested Wednesday and it is COVID. Think it came home from college with my youngest, whose friend had a cold - of course they hadn't tested so weren't worried.
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Good job, I hope you stick around long enough to work out who's who, then you get an idea who to listen to when.
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Maybe they thought you'd made it for views on the 'gram. Should have replied at least though.
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Stem failure, looking at it as an engineer I'd actually say not that likely since there is a reasonable wall thickness and enough support from the inside to stop it buckling. Decay proceeding down into major roots would seem to be the biggest concern to me, then whole thing falls over.
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Hmm due diligence, or a brief consideration of the laws of physics. I am confused how they keep operating given it's patently bollox, but apparently they just keep closing down and reopening under new names.
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Look at the colour and condition of deposits, Google it up for a chart. Used to be one of the only colour print pages in Haynes manual back in the day. https://ngksparkplugs.com/en/resources/read-spark-plug
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And I'm sticking with my 201...
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Not a problem, you don't need a diesel heater at all - just seen a plug in heater on YouTube that can heat a room in seconds and costs almost nothing to run, invented by some very clever chaps from Edinburgh University in London. The energy companies just don't want you to know about it though....
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Which Bandit, so is it a petrol or diesel engine? I've got stuck in the back of my head that high exhaust temperature can be an indicator of lean running, if it's petrol, so I'd pop the plugs out and see what they tell you now. If you had it serviced they might have put new ones in anyway but I think you'll quickly see evidence if they are overheating.
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Put the £20 towards a new silky, will cut faster.
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I had an office in the garage for one winter, made a cubicle from dust sheets stapled across the rafters and dropped down around the desk - was really surprised how well it worked. Also some carpet offcut so not standing on the cold concrete floor. So even if you just stapled dust sheet across the rafters would make a lot of difference. I also worked in a place once with a big gas heater from Machine Mart running off a bottle, was really effective, simple setup and no problem with smell etc. It was a bigger one of these https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-little-devil-2-propane-fired-space-heat/ I guess the running cost would be lower with diesel but surely you need to put part of it outside else it's going to smell of diesel? If you're determined to heat rather than insulate, just don't tell @Big J
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Reading that reminds me of the old joke, if there are ten blackbirds sitting on a wall and you shoot one how many will be left.
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He slipped away on the quiet so people would stop dumping saws on his doorstep...
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If it's an up and over door I'd get a couple of sheets of celotex and prop them against it with some battens and maybe dust sheets to cut draughts, even plywood. If heat is pouring out the door it's going to be difficult to heat the place evenly. I used to work at a place where the workshop door was a garage up and over, we had a ply second door inside and the workshop could then be heated ok .
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Most disgraceful customer supplied refreshments.
Dan Maynard replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
I've a regular customer who has a December hedge cut and shrub tidy, she makes fabulous flapjack. Her teaspoon is still on top of the dash from last year, hoping I can stick it back in the cup this year and she won't notice. -
If you have Makita batteries then one answer would be buy a Makita saw, then 1/4 bar and sprockets definitely available.
