Preparedness for when

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siegemode wrote: »

A tow rope will be added to the shopping list.

If you aren't very experienced in towing, I'd recommend a collapsible tow pole, rather than a tow rope.

Please bear in mind, this is only designed for short distance use, in an emergency, such as dragging a vehicle out of a ditch, or to a nearby garage, a few hundred yards away.

For any appreciable distance, you should really be using a three point device, ie. an A Frame.

Also, please remember that, if the thing being towed is not a "disabled mechanically propelled vehicle", then Driving Licence restrictions apply.

Legal restrictions aside, towing is harder than it looks.

Everyone (or rather everyone who hasn't done it ) thinks it's a piece of cake.

It's not.

I love your triangle thingy Where from and how much please?

I got it from £stretchers. It cost around a fiver.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

do anyone know of a site or chart, that will tell you approx. how much of each veg to plant to feed the family for a year etc..


like how many kgs of potatoes you will need to grow, or how many runner beans, peas, onions etc..


I am to work this out for 2 reasons...


1... for us, if things get financially worse, that we cant afford to buy food... ( except the very basics, like flour, butter, milk etc)


2.... its all well having a stock pile, but if SHTF well and truly,, then food supplies in the shops might go awol...etc..

Butterfly_Brain

GreyQueen wrote: »

Are you sure that's correct? I've just been playing with directgov's state pension age calculator and mine is 66. By putting in different years I've worked out that peeps born in 1967 retire at 66, for the same birthdate in 1968 it's 66.5 and for 1969 it's 67.

I thought you were in your early fifties, which makes you a few short years older than me but mine is showing as state retirement at 66.

This is the state pension age, was that what you were talking about or was it an occupational pension?

I is confoozed.

https://www.gov.uk/calculate-state-pension

No definitely says 67 on the letter and I was born in whisper 1958
And DH has one as well and he was born the year before me.

jk0

I am presently reducing a holly hedge by about half, and have an enormous amount of shreddings to get rid of. I have spread them over all my flower beds as much as I dare without killing the plants, and still have more to get rid of.

I don't have a veg patch or compost heap, as I am not very keen on gardening at the best of times. Any suggestions?

boultdj

Offer them on Gu*tree, people use 'em to to block holes in the hedges,also to protect the groud where peas/beans have been set to try and deter mice.hth

maryb

Karmacat wrote: »

Uh, I know you were making a serious point, Bob, and its a good one. You made it in a humourous way, and I thought I'd be humourous an'all. Oops!

My DD2 came up with what must be a serious contender for worst joke ever.

What do you call an apology written in dots and dashes?

Remorse code

Don't all groan at once

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Very good, Mary :j

Off to play with the pension age calculator - see when the poor s*ds a few years younger than us have to work *another* year _pale_

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Going to try an experiment, when it gets dark.

I've got a table lamp, with an 8W CFL in it.

I'm going to turn all the lights off in the house, close the curtains, plug the table lamp into the Jump Starter pack, and see if it'll provide light until I go to bed.

Also, I wonder if the Jump Starter pack would keep the GSH running, in a power cut?

jk0

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Going to try an experiment, when it gets dark.

I've got a table lamp, with an 8W CFL in it.

I'm going to turn all the lights off in the house, close the curtains, plug the table lamp into the Jump Starter pack, and see if it'll provide light until I go to bed.

Also, I wonder if the Jump Starter pack would keep the GSH running, in a power cut?

Be careful not to abuse that battery Bob. Lead acid batteries have a fixed number of charge/discharge cycles before they are toast, and they don't like being discharged lower than about 11.6 volts.

Edit: That said, 8 watts for 6 hours won't hurt it.

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I'll only be running that lamp for a few hours (from about 7pm to 11pm), and I calculate the pack should be good for about 12 hours.

It'd be double that, if CFLs didn't have such a crap PF.

ETA: Just thinking. If I replaced the Jump Starter pack with a 100Ah leisure battery, I'd get about 75 hours of use, of my 8W CFL, per charge.

At say 3 hours per night, that's nearly a month. :cool: