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When I first retired I saw quickly how much better it was getting things done midweek when everyone's at work
I tried that, my soup blew away. We've had some proper weather up here, base level F9 and gusting F11.
Cracking day.
Spring is in the air, snowdrops are out, daffs are on their way, trees and bushes showing signs of life etc. Popped down to the cabin to fetch a daylight lamp to do some fiddly, crafty stuff and ended up pottering around the garden and fishing a few leaves and other crut out of the pond. Although the pond iced over (apart from where the 'water feature' drops into the pond) for a few days it didn't kill off all the green, hairlike pondweed but the water is crystal clear. Must start planning more planting in it.
So it's probably gone for some peace and quiet. The work was obviously too much for one bloke, one whole day a week...so they're paying for two blokes now. Ah, the peace and quiet of the countryside. 7 hours of 
two-stroke engine. The utter ing s. Fortunately it's a big bit of woodland so he's now 0.5 miles away.
When you've got loads of 'em though, it's much easier to blow 'em into a pile in the corner firstmangocrazy wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:37 pm Never understood the concept of a 'leaf blower' other than the wind. Wherever you blow leaves to, the wind will have other ideas.
The obvious best place for leaves (other than on a tree) is in a compost heap. Brilliant in there.
mangocrazy wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:37 pm Never understood the concept of a 'leaf blower' other than the wind. Wherever you blow leaves to, the wind will have other ideas.
The obvious best place for leaves (other than on a tree) is in a compost heap. Brilliant in there.
I can see the point in getting them off the lawn but why buy a place with woodland/wildlife and then try and manicure the woodland and disturb the wildlife? The previous people, he just used to harvest a tree or two each year for the drying shed then log burner and the woodland thrived on a bit of thinning. The new folk, within a week of moving in had two cowboys lopping stuff off trees at random (left the dead tree on our boundary alonemangocrazy wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:37 pm Never understood the concept of a 'leaf blower' other than the wind. Wherever you blow leaves to, the wind will have other ideas.
The obvious best place for leaves (other than on a tree) is in a compost heap. Brilliant in there.
)...turns out she had to tell them to 'get off my laand' on day 2.
).Apparently very good for getting a big Nov 5th bonfire going.
Vaguely related, it involves combustion: A mate used to help his Ariel Leader on hot starts with a bit of compressed oxygen.Horse wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:06 pmApparently very good for getting a big Nov 5th bonfire going.
Build the heap with a tunnel from the side. Push in a lit box of oil-soaked rags. Then, when the kindling takes, blast it with the leaf blower.
I have a cylinder of O2cheb wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:16 pm
Vaguely related, it involves combustion: A mate used to help his Ariel Leader on hot starts with a bit of compressed oxygen.
Roots superchargers, beloved of 1990s/2000s Jags and enormous drag car V8s among others, were originally invented for doing basically that ^^^ in blast furnaces.Horse wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:06 pmApparently very good for getting a big Nov 5th bonfire going.
Build the heap with a tunnel from the side. Push in a lit box of oil-soaked rags. Then, when the kindling takes, blast it with the leaf blower.
Rootes (iirc). Also used on Pre-war Bentleys (amongst other things).Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:34 pmRoots superchargers, beloved of 1990s/2000s Jags and enormous drag car V8s among others, were originally invented for doing basically that ^^^ in blast furnaces.Horse wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:06 pmApparently very good for getting a big Nov 5th bonfire going.
Build the heap with a tunnel from the side. Push in a lit box of oil-soaked rags. Then, when the kindling takes, blast it with the leaf blower.
Are you still on Uist?cheb wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:09 pmI tried that, my soup blew away. We've had some proper weather up here, base level F9 and gusting F11.
Coventry clmax race engines are pump engines. Takes a genius or idiot to look and something and think I can make a car go faster.Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:34 pmRoots superchargers, beloved of 1990s/2000s Jags and enormous drag car V8s among others, were originally invented for doing basically that ^^^ in blast furnaces.Horse wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:06 pmApparently very good for getting a big Nov 5th bonfire going.
Build the heap with a tunnel from the side. Push in a lit box of oil-soaked rags. Then, when the kindling takes, blast it with the leaf blower.
Rootes make/made engines which use Roots blowers, but they're not relatedRockburner wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:18 pmRootes (iirc). Also used on Pre-war Bentleys (amongst other things).Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:34 pmRoots superchargers, beloved of 1990s/2000s Jags and enormous drag car V8s among others, were originally invented for doing basically that ^^^ in blast furnaces.Horse wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:06 pm
Apparently very good for getting a big Nov 5th bonfire going.
Build the heap with a tunnel from the side. Push in a lit box of oil-soaked rags. Then, when the kindling takes, blast it with the leaf blower.
Nope - it is Roots. I am certain I've seen it somewhere with an "e", and that's stuck in my head. Maybe an old description that I read.