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maycontainthunder

maycontainthunder

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  • maycontainthunder
    Borrowed a log splitter. This is a fun thing on some of the really dried out logs! Made short work of the five lumps brought down so that's us sorted for a day or two.
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    Electric. It took me a couple of go's to learn what the limits were. If it's dry tomorrow I'll crack on with the remaining logs. I have no idea if there's going to be another cold snap so best to be prepared.
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    This year we have a new wood splitter.
    Splits wood in two.
    Also has an attachment so the wood can be split into four sections.
    maycontainthunder
    Going to be cold again tonight. Keep warm everyone.

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    I have been throwing wood into the fireplace non stop for three straight days now, it's -20 here, really hoping this cold spell ends soon.
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    I took some precautions this morning. Filled the woodbasket and a wheelbarrow which is right outside the back door. The path is covered in ice patches.
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    Volvo's collection of ice crystals...

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    Nope. It's a 1989 740 GLE 2.3 with Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection. If I believe what some sites say there are only 60 of this year/model left. This one is made more unusual by the fact it has ABS and Aircon. Both were options this year. Despite it's age it is known to be able to hit 37mpg on a run.
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    Raggamuffin
    37mpg isn't bad at all. Best fuel economy car I ever had, and supposedly best ever from a petrol was a 1 litre Suzuki Celerio. Capable of over 70mpg with the Dual Jet version. I had the regular version and got a regular 60mpg+. My current car is a 1.2 petrol Hyundai i20, 2014 model. I get a constant 50-55mpg from that. My van fuel economy will be dire. I think I might remap it to get a bit better MPG.
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    Nice. Dad's old van once clocked 39.9mpg on the motorway while towing an empty plant trailer. Have a look and see if there is some kind of spoiler available for above the cab on your van. I see quite a few box vans with them fitted. No idea what it will do for fuel economy.
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    Mum took Dog V4 for a walk and brought me a Bounty bar!!!!!!!
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    That’s my favorite movie scene!
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    Jaws music fits it so perfectly!
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    Shaddock
    I find swim baths so unhygienic and I don´t go there. sweat, people who not shower before going to swim, many people who urinate into it...

    people are often like hoglets

    I always wondered why I was the only one on the swimming lake who went into the bushes when he had to go to toilet (there was no normal toilet)...
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    Some days you just make a lucky purchase from someone who doesn't know what they had.
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    Luca
    Yes! I have become quite adept at thrifting things that people have no comprehension of the real value of.
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    UberScout
    Random grandpa at a yard sale: "yeah i got this nintendo game called uuhhh castlevania or sometin idk what it is"

    Me sweating profusely: "Y-yeah me-- me neither. So, five dollars?"
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    The biggest howler I've seen made was on a car jack on Ebay. It was £50. I spent the next couple of days worrying that they would realise their error but no, it arrived. The error? One sold the week before for £500... this jack is actually from a 1930s Rolls Royce car toolkit.
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    One very rotten windowsill....
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    Now that it is done making us cold once dried out it can make us warm... we have a logburner.
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    Shaddock
    Shaddock
    the future is cheap electricity from renewable energy, maybe fusion reactors and hydrogen. everybody will maybe heat with cheap electricity then and not with gas, oil or WOOD :persevere: same goes for stinky cars.

    edit: there is no "puke" smiley
    Shaddock
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    others: just want to write a short comment
    shaddock: hello fellow people. I now start with my speech...

    lol that´s me
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    If the wood isn't thoroughly dry you'll get smog. Most of ours sits in a shed sometimes for a couple of years. There's just a faint haze out the chimney.
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    Having a day on the laptop because a new window is being installed so my normal PC cannot be used. The window frame was even more rotten than was thought.
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    Strangely my laptop is on Wind'ohs 11. It doesn't run very well, not as well as it did on 10. Builders are having great fun fitting the physical window because the aperture is a long way out of square. Currently they're trying to grind the high spots off and moaning about the prehistoric saw they've borrowed from us.
    Shaddock
    Shaddock
    don´t you know that only every 2nd windows is good and the other one is not really good?

    windows xp was good, windows 7, windows 10
    windows vista was bad, windows 8 and windows 11

    so always wait at least until the next windows. I only used the one above and not the one on the bottom.
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    One of two new windows is in. The next will be a two day job because the old was bodged into place and the surrounding brickwork is awful.
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    Feel relief and sadness right now. This is the time of year when Dog V3 would spend hours cowering in terror because he didn't like fireworks. Nearly every night of the fortnight around the 5th of November they would start and he would start shaking in fear. It doesn't bother Dog V4 at all.
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    Ruby used to go nuts over fireworks, not fear but excitement. She'd run around in circles and chase her tail and bark. She also used to like chasing the little bats that come out late at night, jumping up in the air trying to catch them.
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