Where did it break? Could you post a photograph please?
It sounds like a mis alignment, this might be understood but the position of the break?

Northern Downhill is running an event each month.

Have a chat with some of the lads on there and see if this is the sort of thing you’re looking for?

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I use this to convert newer .dwg files back to autocad 2007 format.

Its a very close copy of autocad and is free.

I would say how you approach this will have the biggest +/- effect on how your boss will respond.
Try to be enthusiastic about what you want to do and tell them you are prepared to work hard to get there. The other way is just a faster route to the door.

Just taken a good look at this app. Basically it is a means to direct users to the paid for reports on bgs as this info is generally available from their website for free and would normally be part of a desk study.
That said, it is very handy and one I will use for work.
It is also a good way of getting your current position plotted onto a OS map :wink:

Thank you for that.

I once read it takes the average UK male 9 miles of walking to burn off a double cheese burger and chips. Nice.

In bed with gf after a boozy night out. Her best mate (gagging for it btw) was in bed with us all laughing and joking. Anyway as one thing led to another, I reached over to the other girl, comfortably in the knowledge that if she was up for it with her mate not a foot away, then I obviously had the green light.
Oh how I was wrong.

On the path up to Ossian’s Cave.

NOT ME, but a lad I ride with has told me a story about a bike he had years ago which he used to commute into work. He reckons the geometry must have cut off circulation as once he arrived at work he got an instant b0ner.
Try taking your way out of that one at the coffee station.

My email is in profile, send something through.

I live in Sunderland.
It was in the shed when I moved in, not sure why I’ve kept it tbh.
The sprung mech is a bit stiff but a good dowsing with wd40 will sort that.

I have a ‘boot’ seat which I suspect came from a Volvo (No branding on it)
Your more than welcome to it. Will give me a bit extra room in the shed.

Hi-Frequency shorts

Use them often?

People who drive in the outside lane when they are not overtaking. Travel along the A19 south between 8 and 9 in the morning to witness a convoy of such idiots and no cars in the inside lane. Other than me obviously.

I’d go for a VW Corrado. Sold mine back in 2001 and regret doing so. Unbelievable car to drive, but I guess it is whatever flicks your switch looks wise.

One that hasn’t been mentioned yet is the descent into Gunnerside.

I get re directed when I click anywhere unless I zoom in and the text is hooooge!

I had a re-occurring dislocated shoulder from a rotator cuff injury. Initially, it just got worse to the point it came out with a sneeze. I learned how to put it back without the need for a&e and morphine etc.
I had keyhole surgery in 2006 and it hasn’t came out again since. I was off for six weeks but was driving after 4. Bike? I’d give it a bit longer if I’m honest but its all down to how strong you feel with the shoulder.
I hope to start some light weights soon, been putting it off too long but i feel it would help with confidence more than anything else.
One thing though, I’ve had a few heavy otb’s and have had no problems.

Good luck!

Were you the chap on a Lapierre up at Glentress a few weeks back? We had a chat and filled out a questionnaire at the Hub.

pistonbroke

Are you on the run Kevj?

:lol: I had put the sheet up to mask the glow from the fire!

Feeling inspired to get a night under the stars this weekend. How’s that weather forecast looking??

Here is one of my boy just waking up after his first night in a bivi.

Sorry ’bout the blurry picture, was a cold morning!

Read up on ’Stack Effect’
All the physics have already been done for you. A good plentiful supply of clean air at the base, a high chimney, preferably narrowing as it rises so the air speeds up, drawing in more cool air below to supply the fire. Any smoke is drawn upwards and out the top.

Firstly, you must live in a pretty relaxed Local Authority area as you say the loft conversion is ‘substantial’. Generally, this would immediately fall under the requirement for building regulation approval, which in turn needs structural engineering calculations. < In itself a whole new argument.

Party wall agreements can be fraught however, the owners of the new property have a duty to inform their insurers as they have increased the size of the property. From here one of two things can happen.

1. The insurers continue to insure for buildings and contents and you are covered.

2. The insurers insist on structural calculations before they continue to insure (I accept there is ways around this).

An assessment of the foundations will be required (if there are any, it maybe with a house of that age there is simply a corbel brick arrangement or even built up from rubble!)This in conjunction with the size of the conversion (deadweight) and the underlying ground conditions will determine if the bearing pressure has increased more than the ground is capable of bearing.

Any settlement will occur quickly, but if you have clay you may get consolidation over time.

In either case, you need to get an engineer to make an assessment and not at your own cost.

Stoner – Member

why vent the back when there’s a gert big hole at the front? I suppose it could help with draw at the back?

Not only for supplying the rear coals with oxygen, the smoke will want to rise vertically rather than swirling as the supply is (more) balanced.

Are you adding in a vent lower than the coals shelf? Maybe leave 30mm gaps in between bricks similar to weep holes round the back?

You may also want to have the aperture through this slab bigger than the the side opening of the chimney. This should aid the stack-effect and you’ll have a hotter BBQ with the air being ‘sucked’ up and through the coals.

If you make lip slightly deeper you could fix hooks to the U/S of the roof slab and you will have a smoker!

It’s not the hair turning grey, it is the inbetween ginger phase.

I know a guy who lives in a similar wooden hut just south of Hexham. He has permission from the land owner and does odd jobs to pay his keep.
It was pretty weird when I first seen the shack, old English woodland then smoke arising from a wooden round house artificially camouflaged with bracken and the like.

TandemJeremy – Member

so does anyone want a cheap unused bivvybag then?

Yes, I’ll start the bidding at a pound.

Used to bivi loads before the wife and kids. Still got all the kit mind. Might try to get away one night this summer.

EDIT:

Urban bivi-ing in France a few years back;

Smallcleugh mine

Honister Slate mine official tour

Elfin, no matter what the under-ground structure is, it will always be more engineered than it is architectural.

maccruiskeen, some emotive images there.

Google for GPSies. Use the filters for the area, type or riding you want etc then download track in a variety of formats.

Paris Catacombs

Not a remedy but good if you get the Tom tits, drink plenty of 7up. It contains the same vitamin and salt base as the powdered sachets they give to newborns with the runs. Absorbs quickly and replenishes any lost blood sugars. Apparently, according to the mid wife.

I’ve sent you an email.

I didn’t change any of mine when this happened to mine. The app updated which I allowed and reset to ‘being on’ all the time.

That would be very helpful thank-you.

I believe you will be able to access my email from my profile? If not let me know and I’ll sort that out.

Cheers, Kev.

clubber

You sure location services or something tied in with the OS isn’t using it?

Google latitude. I turned this off and had more control over the GPS.

No sound here at work also but I would strongly recommend they stop feeding the kids so many E numbers. That kid being interviewed was hyper.

Not really a viable comparison. There was so much less knowledge at that time for the internet to be a distraction.