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scottishjohn

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  1. also for using a parting off tool attached on back of the saddle saves fitting it on every time you want to part off while still having your normal turning tool on the other side of the saddle
  2. its the self loading bit that I like as i can use it just to move heavy things about as well-- thats why I ask if anybody has an experience of them and what they can lift --not dig out
  3. interior of house is about 2 -3ft deep in old floor remains ,tree debris etc and lots of stone to move about It goes through the doors and having cleared some with pure OAP hard work looking for something to help a bit and be good as a gardening tool later -- I know its not a digger -but hand balling dozens if not hundreds of large stones about +plus all the small stuff is very tiring and time consuming . lifting 50kg stones up to the dumper lip 1.4m after carrying them from inside house is not real for me ,would take me all day to fill it once I,m 70 wife is 74 --so about 2-3 hours of that is enough for a day I already tried a micro digger -- but its reach is such that i cannot load direct into my 3 ton dumper - the lip of the 3ton is so high that a micro digger needs to be so close very time consuming in moving everything twice once through the windows ,then make a pile you can sit the micro digger on to then load the 3 ton dumper where as with this hi tip I lift from inside house and go 30 yds to load my real dumper and cart it down to my dump zone a few hundred yards away
  4. https://www.lawnandpower.co.uk/product/lumag-md500hprohts-500kg-tracked-mini-dumper-with-high-tip-and-shovel/ anybody used one of these --any idea on how much weight the shovel will lift
  5. thanks but borrowing is not my scene -
  6. any one got one they have finished using?
  7. has anybody used one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0953757BT/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B0953757BTp13NParams&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzM0xVVUtaN0dFU1VZJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwOTI3NTk3VFk0R0JMQVJCS0VMJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA1NDc5MTgxNzQ3OU5GTjdYNzBXJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfZGV0YWlsMiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU= --thinking about an easier way to repoint inside of stone building as opposed to individual joint pointing om hundreds of sqm of walls
  8. you must have some big holes if you saw a stoat in the loft and also lots of cold drafts
  9. buy a powder puffer and the wasp powder -shove the nozzle in a gap 0ne or 2 good puffs and they will die in a day -where the powder lands -any bug that walks in it from ants to wasp are dead
  10. certainly not the answer to my problems anyway .
  11. sounds like the grinder does not have enough safety features on the trigger if you can just touch trigger and it fires up no way i could do that with my milwaukee one but yes batteries out when not in use solves it
  12. sounds like your contract with them did not have enough detail in it at the beginning
  13. more info onthis in english would be good --could be the way for me to line my old stone house walls -and not having to spend months repointing all the inside of the stone walls rather than building timber frame one inside of the walls
  14. the way wood prices have been going using load bearing galvanised sections might be soon cheaper that a TF house
  15. I,m just glad I started a fixed tariff deal for 3years last month
  16. where I am in the s/w of scotland we have had less than 50% of normal average historical rainfall this year both this year and last started my suntan in march and its not stopped yet
  17. where would you put the meter?, as the water company will only read and charge the neighbour ,so they would need to read your meter and charge you-.at what ever rate they want put it before their meter and you are stealing water and as @Nickfromwales says flow could be a problem with a storage system after your meter and with double non return valve all can be done but not quite as simple as a "tee" but as you are in scotland we have no domestic metering YET
  18. and when temp gets to -10c for a few days --all those small tanks could be frozen --as there is no flow and stagnant as there would be a with a stream to stop freezing good luck with that in scotland would not be my choice no good at all if you intended do any b+b, or glamping as they would fail the annual inspection by council.
  19. I asked about this. not accepted in scotland by defra all things possible but getting any air bourne contamination +those from farm fertilisers or application of slurry to fields out of it would be a worry different if you were taking from a stream cascading down a stone mountain side maybe in very rural area where I am its all granite and great for bore holes as little cassing required and you get the water from the cracks in the rock --so no silting up as you can get if you taking it from a sand layer speak to bore hole company who drill in your arae
  20. I would guess what the neighbours are worried about is the finish of the road after the job- so make sure what warranty the ultilites company give to final finish and convey that to neighbours
  21. I could be totally wrong and correct me if I am but why not build with cement -but rake out deep when building before its set --then point with what ever you like to get colour and look you want ? real lime mortar takes much longer to dry and must be protected from rain etc while its drying or it will dissolve and stain bricks also courses of build per day is much less lime mortar as they use for old historic stone work etc can take days or weeks to go off in cold damp conditions or maybe you don,t really mean true lime mortar ,but cement /lime mix
  22. that is a big bobby trap --what if she sells and next person does not like you sharing ? and no water board would ever allow that ,so they will not ever sort any problems for you ,where would the water meter be? all would be classed as a private supply so you would be paying neighbour for water --on another meter where it comes off their supply + they can charge you what they like not a good idea bore hole will cost what ever it takes to get down to good water -- if ground is soft then lots of borehole casing to pay for as well all you can do is get a quote and see =are there any other bores holes close --can you find out how deep they are>? ball park guess for bore hole would £10-£15 k maybe the fact that the sellers water comes from so far away tells you that borehole is not viable?
  23. what I used on shed are 100year warranty ones --they are £1 each -so similar to concrete tiles in price . certainly worth a deeper investigation done one side with the reclaimed 200 year old cast iron roof light too wet to do other side today for me -which has no penetrations
  24. If design stays as it is then the building is "L" shaped with one hip main roof will be 22m long and width of building is 8m hip section will be approx 8m long and 7m wide
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