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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »

    Dh and i just started sweeping our enclosed farmyard ...We managed about a tenth of i...t.
    Powerwasher ... only thing for it really.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Powerwasher ... only thing for it really.

    Water metre. :eek: What we do is sweep, then when the troughs need emptying we swill water about.

    What i would really like would be a little drive about road sweeper:o:eek:


    It could of course Be shaped like a swan pedalo
  • PasturesNew
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Water metre. :eek: What we do is sweep, then when the troughs need emptying we swill water about.

    What i would really like would be a little drive about road sweeper:o:eek:


    It could of course Be shaped like a swan pedalo
    When you need a drive about road sweeper ... to clear your "yard" ... you know it's time for.....

    POSH ALERT!!!!

    There are pressure washers that'll run off a tank or water butt.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    When you need a drive about road sweeper ... to clear your "yard" ... you know it's time for.....

    POSH ALERT!!!!

    There are pressure washers that'll run off a tank or water butt.

    Oooh, that would work then, we could use the trough water! Useful to know when i ave some money spare:D
  • PasturesNew
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    Petrol driven washer, that runs off a butt, £399.

    Not "cheapest", just the first I found - to illustrate that they exist

    http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=172714

    For your yard, you need to be looking at 120 bar really. 100 bar is a normal person's patio .... so 120 bar's more what you need to be checking for.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    http://jandjservicesgbltd-px.rtrk.co.uk/sweepers.html

    This sort as opposedto the eighteen tonne truck sort
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Dh had an 'award winning' scotch egg this evening, he says its terrible ompated to the blavk pudding ones, and that his all time avourite is from a butcher in somerset.
  • misskool
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    my arms ache and I'm scratchy from weeds but we have almost finished the first bed at the allotment and I have made inroads into the "meadow" at home. Dinner break now and I must run outside to prep more beans as we have more space now than that I thought and I can grow enough beans to my heart's content.
  • PasturesNew
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Dh had an 'award winning' scotch egg this evening, he says its terrible ompated to the blavk pudding ones, and that his all time avourite is from a butcher in somerset.
    Love a scotch egg.... easy to make, but I'd only want one a year, so can't make them myself with those quantities in mind.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    Surely you don't need to make scotch eggs on any scale. All you need is an egg and a couple of sausages and a slice of bread, none of which need to be bought in bulk?

    Although probably a hell of a lot easier to just but one for 59p or whatever it is they cost.
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