Country Joe
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Barking Mat
Cuddler of hedgehogs.
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See there is a reason he eats spinach!
Good size plough there,must be quick round the acres.
Fraserb
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Yeah can fairly cover the ground, 3.85m a pass if i can run full width. Cover ground even faster when I've the 5 furrow there as well.
Olderisbetter
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Ended up making a kitchen sink cabinet from bits due to someone not reporting a leak that we t on for weeks, it killed the chip board and sent the wall black.
badabec
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Hardly any OSR in Essex these days, can't use the insecticides any more. Has been replaced with 'field beans' and sugar beet.
My house backs onto a 110 acre field. When I first moved in, 40 years ago, it took three days to combine. He now does it in about 6 or 7 hours. I can also remember when planting potatoes, one poor sod had to sit on the back, manually dropping in a potato if the machine had a hiccup. The farmer, Jim Padfield uses Fendt tractors. His son's company, Padco Engineering Ltd, make potato lifting machines and de-stoners. http://padcouk.com/
Sorry, off topic
Dr.Al
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Today I (almost) finished making a bird box. I made it more for practising techniques (mostly power tool ones this time) than because we particularly needed a bird box, hence the over-done joinery and the possibly unnecessary roof covering.
Made from oak (joined from narrow bits into wider bits) with the roof coated in some lead flashing that came off my roof a few years ago and which I battered flat and then hit repeatedly with a ball peen hammer to give it a dappled appearance. The roof (in three pieces) is currently only held on with gravity as I haven't decided how I'll attach it yet. For scale, the hole is sparrow sized (32 mm) and the fingers of the joints are 9 mm.
The lead still needs trimming at the back and fixing in some way yet to be determined.
The roof has a couple of blocks of wood spaced to match the internal dimensions of the bird box and is held on with a single stainless screw from behind so it can be taken off for cleaning if/when required:
Made from oak (joined from narrow bits into wider bits) with the roof coated in some lead flashing that came off my roof a few years ago and which I battered flat and then hit repeatedly with a ball peen hammer to give it a dappled appearance. The roof (in three pieces) is currently only held on with gravity as I haven't decided how I'll attach it yet. For scale, the hole is sparrow sized (32 mm) and the fingers of the joints are 9 mm.
The lead still needs trimming at the back and fixing in some way yet to be determined.
The roof has a couple of blocks of wood spaced to match the internal dimensions of the bird box and is held on with a single stainless screw from behind so it can be taken off for cleaning if/when required:
selectedgrub
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I fix this plate to stand.
mrsbruce
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Bit of an update on my attempt at stopping my garden from drowning under everyone’s else’s patio water run off.
(Touch wood) so far, it works. I still have a few other areas of water diverting to work on, but getting this bit done has really cheered me up no end. (Same picture, so you know what I’m wittering about).
Only other update is that a neighbourhood cat is pooing on the gravel. Obviously overexcited at the giant cat litter tray I have kindly built them.
(Touch wood) so far, it works. I still have a few other areas of water diverting to work on, but getting this bit done has really cheered me up no end. (Same picture, so you know what I’m wittering about).
Only other update is that a neighbourhood cat is pooing on the gravel. Obviously overexcited at the giant cat litter tray I have kindly built them.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Bit of an update on my attempt at stopping my garden from drowning under everyone’s else’s patio water run off.
(Touch wood) so far, it works. I still have a few other areas of water diverting to work on, but getting this bit done has really cheered me up no end. (Same picture, so you know what I’m wittering about).
Only other update is that a neighbourhood cat is pooing on the gravel. Obviously overexcited at the giant cat litter tray I have kindly built them.
Moth balls @mrsbruce
Yes Balls to you.
Get some moth balls crush 2 up. Place one crushed up in the new litter box.
The other in their travel route to and from.
Failing that, claymores. Not the short sword.
Shox Dr
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Do they work, now Naphthalene is banned
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Yes they do, have them in my garden, nice neighbour garden and the next one along. Not the not nice neighbour, she gets lots of cats, we don't.
We used to suffer, now we have one of the Rentokill ultrasonic scarers directed over the front gravel, works well.Only other update is that a neighbourhood cat is pooing on the gravel. Obviously overexcited at the giant cat litter tray I have kindly built them.
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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This was collected from a member, I knew it had issues, they told me.
Time is also a killer.
The vitals. The first issue was a hose that was very brittle.
But that was the start.
The filler connection has gone home to nature.
There is a plan to repair this, but I may need to ask some one if they can, along with another job.
Cookies, doughnuts or short bread, plus milk?
Spot my new bit.
Yes it is a cable and the capacitor. The original had blown.
This unit is the same in rating, bigger in size. But it did fit.
Oh, hello, Mr blue wire, were do youy live, were do you go to?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo
I didn't know, so I doodled a wiring diagram, me, found one on line and compared.
A quick repair.
I have tested it, it was a Heath Robinson test.
It looked a bit dangerous, but it was safe.
Tank filled to max fill level.
Broken filler blocked and a drain bodged up, in case it leaked.
Pressure valve activated.
It LIVES. ish.
Now to arrange a repair.
A fiver. A woman brought a bread maker round as'The paddle thing doesnt go round' so I tapped it with a hammer handle and now it does.she got a speaker thing out of the cat that had a
stuck battery in it, so I banged it on the bench and the battery dropped out, about a minutes 'Work and she forced a fiver on me.
Wish I got that hourly rate a bit more often... 
stuck battery in it, so I banged it on the bench and the battery dropped out, about a minutes 'Work and she forced a fiver on me.
Wish I got that hourly rate a bit more often... 