Ayupmeducks

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  1. Nonna, IT WILL KEEP!! Try putting it in a plastic food bag and freezing it!! We have frozen bread for years and it keeps well for a few weeks, it will dry out eventually. We freeze milk so as not to waste time shopping daily, I keep three "floating" quart plastic bottles. That way we have thawed milk as we need it.
  2. Brew, it's not that much dearer than other bread flours over here, BUT, it's not got any additives which half the time you cannot pronounce and probably bad for you over the years, plus it's unbleached so much healthier.
  3. Oz, my bread is light and fluffy inside, I just cannot get the same type of crust we had as kids in Nottm. Like I stated I use unbleached None GMO wheat flour and only use King Arthur brand which is available from Amazon.com. Out local store stocks it as well, you can also buy direct from the on line. We also use that brand of plain flour for general kitchen use.
  4. Brew, tractor fuel tanks are under the engine cover, not open to the elements much like car tanks are. Big rigs, the tractors that haul the 40 ton trailers down the hwy's are open to the elements, not sure if they have water traps, I'd have to ask a trucker.
  5. Brew, if they don't need them, WHY do all tractors come with them??? AND I'm not talking USA, I'm taking world wide, all the older JD's that were petrol had them, albeit smaller than the diesel engined tractors, from small 15HP upwards. Surely there is no difference between engines for road use and land use other than layout, ie cylinders, but we have very large V8's in the 100's of HP range down to three cylinder 15HP. Three cylinder is popular with all makes up to 35HP, then it;s four up to V8's. Yes, where I live is much more humid than the UK, can get as high as 90% during summer, but
  6. Brew, you need a high gluten flour for bread making, like I say, use a bread maker to mix the dough, I have to I suffer with my wrists. I usually empty it out of the breadmaker, cut the dough in two, drop in two SS bowls, cover with a warm damp cloth, leave until double in size, then empty on to a cutting board and "knock back" then cut it into small bread roll sizes, put in a lightly greased high baking pan, cover with a warm damp kitchen towel and leave to "prove" Once doubled in size, in the oven to bake... The trick to good bread is make sure you have enough water in the
  7. Most petrol here has ethylene in it, it causes damage to components from the tank to the injectors. Both plastic and rubber components get damaged by that additive, and it also causes carbon build up on the piston heads. I use premium, ethylene free fuel in my truck even though it's designed for a variety of ethylene mixes. I learned my lessons with chain saws and line feed cutters. The extra cost per gallon in the truck is far better than the cost of damage. Two of my diesel tractors have plastic tanks and I can assure you they are just as bad for condensate as metal
  8. I use an additive to the off road diesel I use in my tractors, super low sulphur diesel doesn't have enough lubrication for the fuel injector pump on older engines. It's important with diesel engined vehicles to keep the fuel tank as full as possible due to moisture condensing in the tank. Not sure if cars have water traps in the fuel lines, but tractors do. If I don't keep the tanks full, I eventually end up emptying the traps a couple of times a week, diesel engines are very high compression and a couple of teaspoons of water can cause a con rod failure. Water doesn't compress very easi
  9. Bread makers, try using a bread maker for mixing the dough, then turn it out when mixed, then hand make the bread rolls, place them in a baking pan, cover them with a warm damp tea towel, allow half an hour to an hour to raise, then bake them. I use a brand of flour that is produced from none GMO wheat, they don't "bleach it" has NO additives, but is more expensive than normal bread flour, it's called "King Arthur" brand, you can get it in the UK, Amazon and Walmarts stock it. Best bread making flour on the market, all my bread has is bread making flour, salt some olive oil, keeps the bre
  10. Keith Penrose rings a bell, I'm pretty sure he was at Huntingdon Sec school with me 58/62.
  11. Wow that was a shock, I hadn't heard Frank had passed on, he was a good mate of mine, I first met him in the Sir Richard Arkwright pub in the mid 60's, I knew most of his family, dated his Sister in Law, knew his Mum and Dad and all of his Brothers. I was wondering why I hadn't had an email from him in months.
  12. A friend of mine who used to work for Anderson Strathclyde, and used to install his companies machines in countries across Europe and China told me, they licensed a Chinese company to make their range of shearers in China to reduce shipping costs from Scotland to China. They learned their lesson pretty quickly as the machine steel castings were not up to spec, metallurgical skills and China do not go together. So they ended up just licensing the Chinese company as an assembly plant and sending all parts from Scotland to China. Big problem with China is they do not respect patents or
  13. I've seen cats we've had walk up ladders, and funny enough, come back down backwards. I've watched cats run up trees, they jump from branch to branch them when ready, climb back down in reverse. One thing that makes me nervous with the cats is the power pole, although I have never seen any of the cats we have had try to climb those. Our transformer is at 40ft with 7400 volts supplying it and a nice flat top for a cat to sit, right next to the high voltage connections. We have flying squirrels around here, well they do fly when they get strapped across an insulator to earth...LOL Comm
  14. I did post a topic on my FB page a week before I left stating why I was going and anyone who wanted to keep in touch pm me and I'd pm my email address to them. Finished with FB, I think hundreds of thousands of others have left for better sites too.
  15. I suspended my FB account indefinitely a few months back, the censorship was looking like it was going to get expensive, so I chose to suspend my account and keep my monitor in tact. I found a better social media site.
  16. @ Brew I could NEVER live in a city again, it would be like putting a wild animal in a zoo for me. Besides, the apartment would have to be at least 5000 square foot, to accommodate my workshop, ham shack and electronics lab, plus adequate living space, my house is around 1400 square foot floor space and we have just about outgrown it. Having lived over half my life in the country, I'd go insane living in a city.
  17. The only day I "kick back" and take it easy is Christmas Day, up around 5-00am and always something needs doing, bed by 9-30pm. Trying to get my veggie garden set up, problem is we have had a much wetter colder spring than normal. Turning it over with the Kubota with a four foot pto tiller, makes life much easier! Soon I have to erect an 8 ft high fence around it to keep the deer, coons and ground hogs out, as they all like fresh grown veggies. Another couple of weeks and I will have to hook up the 5ft heavy duty rotary mower to the tractor, (brush hog) and mow around 60 acres of fie
  18. What's "retired"??? I often wonder how I found time to earn a living these days!!!!!
  19. He wasn't banned, his posts were put on permanent moderation due to many members complaining about him, including a few who left prior to him being put under permanent moderation..
  20. Just to add something that might throw some light on accents, a long term study going on this side of the pond, the group recording peoples accents across the nation before most disappear, found regional accents are different by approx one mile distance. They found this during the recordings they made in the north east states in rural areas. Most folk know a NY City accent is different from the Bronx area of NY, as New Orleans accents are varied from the blacks, to the "Cajun" accents. even here where I live we have varying Arkansas, border Missouri, Ozarks accents. When I moved from Not
  21. Looks like it has a few bugs in the software.
  22. I've seen a couple of different makes of those around, but I think I'll stick to regrinding them myself, I have full control with how much metal I take off each time I sharpen. A tree a pro felled in front of a house had nails embedded in it, actually 8" spikes, the tree must have been a couple of hundred years old, been hit several times by lightning too. Evident by charred wood within the trunk. NOW, that took the edge off the chains in short time, but I did hit a couple of old nails too. Pretty common here in trees along property and fence lines and in towns. I run about a dozen chains
  23. I have two saws presently in operation, I use 20" bars. I sharpen my own chains, I have a pro sharpener, I don't allow anyone else to sharpen my chains. Your chains will last until the "teeth" are almost worn right down, but you must remember to grind the depth gauges to specs!! OR the chain will just "rub" the wood. The depth gauges are those curved pieces between the cutters. A depth gauge gauge can be bought cheaply, Stihl used to include one with the tool kit with every new saw, not anymore. I use a Husqy 355 rancher, changed the engine for an Italian Meteor engine as the old eng
  24. My last post on this topic, let me educate you on America, I'll admit when I first came over here I was just as ignorant as you on the subject. After the war of Independence, there were 13 separate colonies, each with their own governments, they decided they needed to unite to survive, but didn't want a government and a King. A couple of prominent men sat down and thrashed out a Constitution, BUT it was never accepted, why? Because it gave a central government way too much power, they could see they would end up in the same boat as they were under Great Britain. So there it was,