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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 California has pretty low humidity, but still, tractors come with water traps.
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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 mix, not enough and the dough doesn't rise high enough and the texture is heavy and dry.
It's very rare for us to buy bread, we prefer to know what goes into our bread.
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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 tanks, If I don't keep them almost full, I have to drop the water trap every few hours.
Just remember your fuel filter DOES NOT filter water!! In fact if your engine starts running rough, check the filter before it disintegrates on you, they are only designed to filter dirt and are made of paper. Once they start breaking up due to water, you will need to have the injector assembly stripped and cleaned, not a cheap job either.
Old petrol tractors used to have a water trap between the tank and the carby, why cars never had one defies explanation.
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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 easily and when that piston hits water, either the con rods bend or they go through the cylinder head. Saw a few bent con rods on underground diesel engines caused by water in the fuel.
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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 bread moist, sugar, yeast and water, sometimes I'll add a couple of spoonfuls of powdered barley malt.
Problem with todays bread is all the additives, most of which cannot be pronounced.
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Keith Penrose rings a bell, I'm pretty sure he was at Huntingdon Sec school with me 58/62.
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Hans I remember you very well, been many years now.
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On 2/3/2021 at 3:28 PM, Michael Atherton said:
Michael Atherton here.Just been reading some of your fascinating post on J Jones .I worked on Daleside Road
In the winding department from 1971 till 1988 and from 1992 till 2000 when it was called Wyko.Made many friends who I still see.I remember Richard when he was on the shop floor with Steve Sherwin.I’m afraid Frank Blair passed away Tuesday 2nd February.Such a lovely man I noticed he was mentioned in a lot of the posts .
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.
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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 copyright.
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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 Common occurrence around rural areas.
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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.
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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.
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@ 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.
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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 fields, next winters firewood to split and stack, change the shock absorbers on my pickup.
If I find time, stick an HF multi band antenna up as the HF ham bands are coming to life again.
Got a new toy coming, a 200mhz bandwidth duel channel oscilloscope, then I have two amplifiers to trace the faults out in the digital circuits. Several pieces of electronic equipment to repair and upgrade.
New roof on the shed.......Jeeze my list of "honey do's" is longer than the King James version of the Bible.
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What's "retired"??? I often wonder how I found time to earn a living these days!!!!!
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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 Nottingham to North Yorkshire and worked at Boulby Mine very close to Staithes, the amount of local accents from Middlesbrough to Whitby was pretty pronounced.
Now being away from the old city many years, I'd probably notice different dialects far easier.
Even when I was in Oz, I picked up many different accents/dialects, Tasmania was where I first worked, and mid state accents were different to north coast accents, then on the mainland, a Melbourne accent was different to a Sydney accent, add variations and you'd probably get thousands of accents.
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Looks like it has a few bugs in the software.
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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, that way they I don't have to mess around too much when I'm out cutting wood away from home.
I've got two chainsaws to rebuild when I can find the time, one Husqvarna and a Stihl, I bought new "jugs" pistons rings and con rods ready for the job.
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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 engine became impossible to start, even Arny would have had trouble pulling that one. I completely wrecked one starter, the mounting mouldings broke, another one I stripped the rope clutch assembly. NO decompression valve on them. Common problem with that brand, high compression from new, and a small amount of carbon build up and the compression gets too high to pull start the motor.
My other is a Stihl MS311, semi pro saw, used for hundreds of hours now, had a couple of issues with it over it's life, but on the whole a good reliable saw.
I tried the hand grinder/sharpeners years back, useless, the small grinding tips get clogged too quickly, so went for a professional grinder designed for the job, when I go out tree felling or wood sizing, I usually carry several sharpened chains.
I use my chains until it's no longer feasible to sharpen them, they usually last a few years.
BUT, you have to grind/file the depth gauges every so often, or it's like a hand saw with no set to the teeth!!
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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, no agreement, then several of the men of the day decided to thrash it out via "emails" of the day, letters, better known today as the Federalist Papers.
They came to an agreement, they drafted ten amendments which would be called "The Bill of Rights". Those rights weren't handed down by government, they were God given rights one is given at birth. They restricted both state and federal governments, effectively shackling them. The 10th stated what rights the federal government didn't have, (read the general body of the Constitution), then belonged to the states and the people therein.
Right, the Constitution is the governments "job description" If it's not in there, they don't have that right....see the 10th amendment.
The President, his powers are laid out in Article 2 sec2, which are few. HE HAS NO POWERS within the 50 states, the only time he can interfere within the states is under Martial Law or if a National Emergency is invoked by Congress, he CANNOT send the US military into any state during peacetime to quell riots, that would end his Presidency forthwith!!
He can with a governors permission of any state call up that states national guard and take charge to quell a riot, BUT he must have that states Governors permission!!
Police, the United States does not have a national police force like the UK does, the Constitution doesn't allow that.
Each city has it's own police force, in a lot of cases the Chief is elected by popular vote, others the Mayor appoints. Each state has it's state police, we call them the Highway Patrol, state troopers, they have limited jurisdiction with city's and county's, BUT can be called in by a city police Chief.
Every county in every state, Parishes in Louisiana, has a Sheriff, he is an elected person, he has a tenure of usually four years, if he does the right thing chances are he'll get re-elected. He appoints as many Deputies as he needs, usually the county budget limits how many he can have, in my county it's around three to cover a county the size of Notts. So, in an emergency, he is empowered by law to Deputize as many citizens as he needs, and to instruct them to bring their firearms, county will reimburse them for shells used, and out of pocket expenses.
What we have at the moment in several states is an insurrection, as such Congress should have labeled it as such, once they do, they, together with the President have powers to send in regular troops to quell that insurrection.
We have two factions that are involved in the Insurrection, BLM and Antifa, both terrorist organizations intent on shooting police and burning inner cities down. They have threatened to start in the outer suburbs of cities, but a trial run had then out numbered and out gunned...YES, we are pretty close to a civil war!!
This was all started by the last Administration that caused division, race relations have gone backward 50 years.
Now all the trouble in Seattle, Portland, Chicago and other cities could have been quelled by the cities Mayors, but being liberals, they let them get on with the riots and looting and even instructed the police to "stand down" YES STAND DOWN!!!! Now these Mayors are getting a taste of their own medicine, the rioters have turned up at their houses demanding they turn their homes over to them!!
Like I said earlier, don't blame our President, his hands are tied by law, he doesn't have the same powers a PM does.
I won't be adding anything else to this topic, I suggest if you want more info, use the two great sites to get REAL news from, WND.com and The Canadian Free Press.
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That all veered eastwards Dave, all we saw was a few sprinkles, this lot is from the south west, looks like a couple of inches is forecast and dangerous T/storms.
How's your day?
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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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.