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  1. The thing they somehow fail to mention about HS2 is that it's not really as simple as being about a stupid vanity project to knock minutes off a journey to/from London, but rather there's a major capacity issue. Whist your building an extra railway line, it might as well be a modern, fast one. Doesn't mean you have to like it though Tim!
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  3. My first ever job was with the NCB as a school leaver. When I went for underground training I worked with a pit pony called Star. He was well named, he was a real character and super intelligent. His "load" was two of the tubs as per my photo, if you tried to trick him by adding a third he wouldn't have any of it, he just refused to move. He could also tell if you had an apple in your lunchbox before he could see it.....?
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  4. Awfully glad to hear that. ? On reading about the pit ponies I went off for a look for some photos on the web, The b&w is a lovely one but the colour one is really interesting - it's in Wales (seemingly) and it's of a pony called Sultan.
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  5. Mark, It's worth looking at a geological map of the valley running from Watford down to West Drayton and beyond, draining the Colne, Fray and Chess. It's gravel with lots of peat and one long run of marsh and bogs. Useful road crossings were rare - at Watford and Uxbridge. In the early 1980's I was part of a development group building houses at Harefield, ground conditions caused lots of problems with foundation design, machinery movements (particularly piling derricks). Sub ground water, running streams - I recall one Irish worker starting a pump to try and pump out a foundation trench.........he could not understand why the level never went down...... Merry Christmas. Mike.
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  6. Little wagons on rails like this maybe?
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  8. Yes often which is why I use a surveyor with a sensible head Yes fully welded and a 20 mm sacrificial wear bar stiched in place which if needed can be replaced
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  9. and don’t forget the one about feeding waterfowl bread causing angel wing
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  10. Yes those Rotary Sails may have a resurgence.then Ships would be directly Powered by 'Spin'?
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  11. The manufacture of the ferries will have a carbon footprint as will the end of life disposal even if they are powered by renewables. So not completely "green" despite what the marketing says. Ooo wind powered ships that is a good idea Now if they were made out of trees using hand tools they might just be able to be considered as green.
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  13. It's a complex and intellectually difficult issue requiring careful analysis. But on balance..... it's twaddle.
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  14. Yes mattresses, bedding, curtains, the lot.
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  15. These udders are fake and I'm not bulling you....
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  16. It is and it is stunning. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sultan-the-pit-pony
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  18. Its behind you. Oh no it isn't Oh yes it is.
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  19. One thing has always mystified me. How does the next leak know to start as soon as you have stopped the previous leak? Its similar to how does the last baked bean sticking in the pan know that it is the last one and has to stay there nomatter what. There is a conspiracy amongst inanimate objects, I'm sure of it.
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  20. Got home tonight and some of the canopy has arrived. I used Seascrew for the bits for the frame. IThis is the first in a while i have bought something for the boat and feel good, although the price and what i am looking does not not look much for the money, hey but thats project boating I I will be ordering the Top Gun this week with all the rest of the fittings from Point north and Kyospruce. So top frame hoop is 25mm OD and that slides nicely ( 1.2mm wall ) over the lower frame legs of 22mmOD with a pair of 22mm tube clamps to slide up the top hoop into position. I have ordered a pair of preformed mandrel bent 25mm OD tubes and should be here this week. I will weld these up for the hoop corners.
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  21. Yes they are, everything has a layer of foam, including the underside of the gunwhales inside.
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  22. How did you know they were moored on the western end of the K and A?
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  23. Depends whether it was "shaft" pit or an "adit/level" pit. Shaft pits obviously had a vertical shaft from the surface down to the coal seams, so the ponies would drag the drams along underground lines to the shaft bottom, where the drams would be pushed into the cages and lifted to the surface. Those are the mines with the tall steel winding gear above them, typically seen in the Rhondda Valleys. Adit/level mines have tunnels that are not vertical but go either into the side of a hill or slope down towards the seams. The slopes can be quite steep. Sometimes the ponies might pull the drams out of the mine but if the level was steep often they had a winch to pull them to the surface. Many of the mines in the Forest of Dean are adit/levels. EDIT. Drams are what we from South Wales called the wagons. Other regional names may apply.
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  24. No, they dragged the drams to the cage bottom, from where the drams were hauled to the surface in the lifts.
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  25. Lol, they would be all black.....
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  26. My bet is they bought the right anchor for the size of ship according to the anchor threads on here, but it was too heavy for the whole of the crew to chuck over the side when they needed it.
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  27. Had they been reading the Brexit thread?
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  28. Looks to me like the base plate is fully welded along the bottom, then a round reinforcing bar is welded along, like a sacrificial edge, hence the spaces.
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  29. This one may be even more pertinent?
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  30. Years ago the ex father in law sailed as chief engineer on a 7 masted ship from Japan to the UK, he did a year on board, at the end it was a roaring success. so good that BP bought it, removed the masts and fitted engines! The big companies dont care about being green, they just want your money dont get sucked in
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  32. Oh dear! - a slap on the wrist - I'd better go and hide my head in shame.......
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  34. Yes - that was the one a few weeks ago (in the Humber where it drifted & 'bumped into' a couple of other ships). Irrespective of the engines being on standby, you also need a watch officer to see that you are dragging.
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  37. Well done you made the right choice for you and the boat that you are custodian of
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  39. The base plate is welded both sides being turned over after the first weld it is fully welded to the old base plate prior to the new sides being added so the bottom is double welded this tightens up the base plate We find it doesn’t sag and there is no need to plug weld the bottom to the old base plate all of the pressure is downward
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  40. Actually the AX rating means the switch is rated for reactive loads like fluorescent lighting (although still mains voltage) ive been using an architrave light switch for our gulper for over 8 years and it’s fine so given a pull switch is less than £2 from screwfix I’d keep it simple and use one rather than bugger about with a relay at 2 quid you could buy two and still save money compared to buying and fitting a relay others will disagree, but your choice - KISS principle applies...
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  46. No, Winn us no MuG Phil
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  47. I have a car that was given me it is the perfik car worth nowt, no one would steal it or be seen dead in it! and always starts first turn of the key. I do find it hard cruising with a car though as it keeps on sinking? Sorry I find it to much hassle going backwards and forwards to get it even with a bike
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  48. Had this fellow posing the other night
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  49. I know that now and so do others who venture here and read the latest posts.
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