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In very dry weather like now the soil around tree roots dries out, becomes lighter in weight and looses it's grip on the roots especially trees growing on steep banks' Along comes the wind and down comes the tree.
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There's a much simpler way of doing this avoiding complicated arithmetic. Here's how. Fill up the tank to the top,then syphon it all out again into cans, then place it back into the tank by a half pint at a time with a half pint glass counting them all and jotting each one down on paper then by adding them all up you will obtain the correct answer if you don't spill much. Simples.
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The lumpiness he mentioned is possibly an outer bearing track not shoved fully home on it's seat and so not quite square on to the taper roller race.
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Ideally. A solid hardwood board is the thing, like knotless Mahogany. Apart from the strain on them whilst tacking and going about they are also often stood upon to help right a capsized dinghy.
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1 minute ago, Dunworkin said:
I know that this has probably been covered ad nauseum, and I have had a quick search, but my question is simply that I’ve had quotes from Craft Insure, and Brown And Brown, who used to be Collidge and Partners (they insured our previous boat 8 years ago). The 2 premiums are roughly £100 apart, with Craft insure cheaper, for a 2015, 60 foot boat. Does anyone have any relevant experiences with either, to validate the £100 additional spend?
many thanks🍷🍷
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Storm Trigger should be next.
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6 hours ago, Chris Lowe said:
@bizzard Don't you find that typing is even harder on your hi-tec pilchard tin?
Oh dear. I've gone and lost the key for it, so back to laptop.
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We now have wretched smart phones and social media to thank for the loss of banters, not to mention nice hobbies ie hand crafts ect most hobby shops have now gone, all due to bl--dy phones. The hobby is now phones.
Phones are also the reason why posts on here have shrunk by quite a lot. It's hard having to prod at those little buttons to post and to reply.
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46 minutes ago, David Mack said:
You can still go boating on the Titford Canal though!
Titfield Thunderbolt.
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13 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
It was, I think, one of those threads where almost everyone posting should have got a kicking, where sense of humour failures turned fairly unpleasant. It certainly violated forum etiquette, though admittedly it's quite fun to read. I suspect Mike wasn't the only one told to calm down for a day or two.
Weren't the dudgeons often confused with mermaids by old time sailors?
Perhaps cofused with Tom Dudgeon skipper of the Titmouse sailing dinghy in Arthur Ransomes ''Coot club and The big six''.
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8 minutes ago, LadyG said:
The tap water round here is not hard and scaley, I think it is used in this area for boat plumbing.
That's not so bad then.
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I'd never use tap water in a boats heating system or in vehicles. filtered rain water or bought distilled is far better to prevent lime scale and corosion. I wouldn't buy ready mixed coolant either.
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Just now, Peugeot 106 said:
Where do you get a “nice” dry stick some of us only have not very nice ones. In any case my jars are full of pickled eggs
I make sure they are nice and dry by putting them on this for a while, as I do coal too if it's wet. Or you can chop em up in the summer and dry them in the sun.
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Buy Firelighters !!!!. I keep a jar of nice dry sticks half filled with old used paint thinners, or paraffin, diesel, avoid meths and petrol too volatile. Light a stick put on grate add some kindling and then coal or whatever. Never fails.
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1 hour ago, cheesegas said:
Partner's boat has a Boatman stove, awful thing. Don't buy a Boatman. Can't bank it up as the coal rolls out onto the hearth, ash pan has been designed by someone who loves ash all over the floor, air control rusts solid after the first winter.
I've got an old Arada Heron, works ok. It's difficult to control the air accurately when you don't need much heat so I use a coal cage to reduce the heat output. Stays lit for 15-20hrs though!
The front fire bars on the Boatman is standard grate bars easily available, just saw off how many bars you want and slip it in. I have 3 bars. The air control is easily modifide by unscrewing the knob off the bolt and tighten the bolt hard up against the inside of the door. The control knob can now be worked externally on the bolt stud sticking out and will no seize up.
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33 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Welcome to the forum.
Assume this is diesel fuel you are looking for? In the absence of anything else, road diesel from the nearest garage works. Had to do it a few times when the situation has been desperate and the boat needs enough go juice to reach an outlet on the cut.
Known as DERV, diesel engined road vehicle.
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32 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Sun, what sun would that be?
I think you'll do better if you pop them in the oven.
Its a summer operation after yoove collected the winters coal dust.
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Old coal dust can be used again by mixing up some flour and water paste and mixing with the coal dust, moulding in your hands into ovals firmly and left out in the sun to dry. Don't worry about hands getting black, a quick wash under the tap and they'll be so lovely and clean you won't believe. Coal is a good clenser. Before tooth paste ''Flueride'' was invented folk brushed their teeth with soot from the chimney, all lovely and sparkely.
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4 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
Well, most of the time, occasionally with a temperature inversion or gusty wing you might get a bit of smoke blow out.
Or a partially blocked flue pipe.
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8 minutes ago, Memories said:
Well it's not exactly soot, when you open the door to feed the fire smoke escapes and this smoke contains what will become the film of 'soot' on worktops floors etc...
Open the door dead slowly so that the vacuum caused does not pull smoke out into the cabin.
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My coal Meccano coal dryer grid.
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31 minutes ago, nottheone said:
The engine looks more like an ST2 than an SR2 to me. Might be worth confirming before you order any parts in the future.
It does.
Porta Potti 165 v 365.
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I have had a 365 for many years the pump packed up ages ago. I just keep a little jug of water handy to flush it. I spray the seal and slide with silicon spray each time I empty it.