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I put a shorter thicker bush blade on my scythe which works better on scrubby stuff. A grass blade being more open takes a thicker slice which puts a lot of stress on the attachment point and you may not get far unless what you're cutting is evenly easy to slice. A scythe is also supposed to be...

The 24v diesel water heater I had was ridiculously frugal, this air heating one says at full 7KW output it drinks a litre an hour so a couple of jerrycans will last a while? They are not cheap to buy though. https://www.butlertechnik.com/downloads/Eberspacher_Heater_D7L_Workshop_Manual.pdf I...

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Needle scabblers or ones with solid heads are often used to remove the surface layer of concrete ideally the day after it's poured to produce a good joint with the next pour or maybe with other stuff that needs bonding. The laitance left on the top after pouring can give you a permeable layer...

The air source heat pump we had was of course the big box outside, plus inside was a cupboard about 900x900 floor to ceiling with about half being the hot water tank and half the control system. That was adjustable only via engineer laptop other than the simple bits, and I can quite appreciate...

Above I mentioned our previous house had mucho insulation, underfloor heating and a heat pump and it was a bit rubbish to put it mildly. Before that we had a similarly sized several centuries old thatched house with oil fired central heating. The annual cost of oil was about the same as the...

So the slab is catching rain and feeding it under? Is it possible to jack it up and put cut up paving slabs under the bearers? Or hire a disc cutter, buy a diamond blade and cut round the edge of your structure. Either detach and break up the excess slab or cut a channel in it? That should be...

Our last house was a 2018 new build just like that in SE UK, underfloor heating, nice big windows, lots of insulation. The water in the floor was only about 27degC, hot water tank lovely for long showers, weekly program heated it high enough to kill bugs. Quiet country road now not so quiet with...

American Lawn Mowers are available via amazon UK too, not heard of them before. 18" £519 (!) 16" £294, 14" 4 blade £184, 14" 5 blade £124. A wee bit more than in the USA it seems! Usual UK selection with as far as I can see all plastic wheels are more often about £60 but look a...

I've still got one of those that was my Grandads. I love it cos you can see the sparks from the pixies feet as they run round and round the magic wheel that drives it. Stinks too :)

UK Energy Secretary. Kwasi Kwarteng, said yesterday (?) in talking about gas boilers and heat pumps "I don't think actually heat pumps are that much worse than boilers." So current Govt policy is to make things worse?

This shows a large number of large machines that would require very large batteries if all ended up being EVs. I read a while back a container ship with a lithium battery would take two years to charge, and I think some UK army chap suggesting electric tanks were being considered said to power a...

Sorry I was meaning the ones where the wheels turn the blade cylinder, no motor. :)

I wanted a push cylinder mower but most seemed to have wheels that don't look very grippy, so do they still work if the grass is damp?

And cost how much? And the battery will last how long? And can tow my trailer with how many kgs on it?

A quite expensive petrol Husqvarna one I looked at while ago was very robust and had a plastic deck so no rust there at least. I bought the smallest Honda Izzy petrol though which I thought would be too small but bigger is just too expensive, its lightness makes it a joy, and it will get to...

But this community will, I'm sure, soon be told you can't burn anything or own a 4x4 to get to Tescos, the GP, the sports centre etc so no more community even if in many ways it is growing into a more self sufficient one.

If you go looking there are a number of scientists coming out to say there is minimal real research today because free thinking doesn't get funding. Industry will offer research into a tiny fraction of a tiny thing they are interested in, your interest and motives can't come into it. Some elder...

I moved to a quiet little corner where I could actually afford a couple of acres to grow my own food and firewood which, with some with more land nearby who have sheep and cows, we could actually do. Especially as many of those still cut peat. The road to me was gritted three times the winter...

It's odd that the discussion generally is meat vs veg (an), without considering grass fed vs intensive livestock as perhaps more suitable. Obviously Greenpeace won't consider that because they have a screaming nutter agenda to follow. If they became all sensible it just wouldn't be the same...