Been under me tratter this morning (and yesterday morning). Decided to replace the mid section silencer - which at 12 years old is still doing its job and has plenty of life in it - BUT - the nuts holding it to the rear section were badly corroded and need sorting. I got a new, genuine, delivery mileage take-off for the silencer a few years ago, 90 sovs. Been sat in the garage since 2020. Good investment, a new genuine one costs 420 sovs :eek:. The rear section is still in great nick, original and 12 years old. Just as well, a new one is 340 sovs. Aftermarket items are considerably cheaper but have a shocking reputation for a shorter lifespan than a mayfly. Any road up, the corroded nuts took a bit of effort to get them off - and me angle grinder decided it would stop working halfway through the first nut. So it was hacksaw time, and wot an awkward job that was, with no real working room. Will tackle the nuts at the front end tomorrow, they are in better nick and should be a bit easier - we will see!
Pic of the 3 corroded rear nuts, alongside a new one ------
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Wimblowdriver said:
Been under me tratter this morning (and yesterday morning). Decided to replace the mid section silencer - which at 12 years old is still doing its job and has plenty of life in it - BUT - the nuts holding it to the rear section were badly corroded and need sorting. I got a new, genuine, delivery mileage take-off for the silencer a few years ago, 90 sovs. Been sat in the garage since 2020. Good investment, a new genuine one costs 420 sovs :eek:. The rear section is still in great nick, original and 12 years old. Just as well, a new one is 340 sovs. Aftermarket items are considerably cheaper but have a shocking reputation for a shorter lifespan than a mayfly. Any road up, the corroded nuts took a bit of effort to get them off - and me angle grinder decided it would stop working halfway through the first nut. So it was hacksaw time, and wot an awkward job that was, with no real working room. Will tackle the nuts at the front end tomorrow, they are in better nick and should be a bit easier - we will see!
Pic of the 3 corroded rear nuts, alongside a new one ------
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Gonna use brass nuts this time?
 
Stone56 said:
We have no service at all we is completely self surfichen no bill's only cost is the defenderthat is a must in a bad winter 🚜🚜
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You are more self sufficient than us then. At the risk of more or less copying @Stanleysteamer 's question, what do you do for electricity?

We used to get a lot of power cuts and occasionally found that there were only two out of three phases working which is dangerous for the heath of the well pump motor so we have a big diesel 3-phase generator as back up and a small normal petrol one for light duty. Mind you these days it uses almost as much oil as petrol 🀣

I've had to get the supply people out to deal with a floating neutral fault on numerous occasions which really is dangerous. Sometimes I have had to explain to them what it is..... also we are prone to lightning strikes, I'm worried about claiming on the insurance again in case they refuse to cover us any more.

Planning to get solar panels when there is less other stuff to do/pay for.
 
Stone56 said:
I think you can get insulated jackets for them that make them last longer
Just started to rain here loverly πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒ
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I think I saw one of those the other day on someone else's cube.

I was thinking of making something up just to keep the sun off them but never got round to it. Will probably do it for the new ones.

Lucky you with the rain, its unlikely to rain again here for another 2/3 months.
 
6pot said:
You are more self sufficient than us then. At the risk of more or less copying @Stanleysteamer 's question, what do you do for electricity?

We used to get a lot of power cuts and occasionally found that there were only two out of three phases working which is dangerous for the heath of the well pump motor so we have a big diesel 3-phase generator as back up and a small normal petrol one for light duty. Mind you these days it uses almost as much oil as petrol 🀣

I've had to get the supply people out to deal with a floating neutral fault on numerous occasions which really is dangerous. Sometimes I have had to explain to them what it is..... also we are prone to lightning strikes, I'm worried about claiming on the insurance again in case they refuse to cover us any more.

Planning to get solar panels when there is less other stuff to do/pay for.
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Solar. But we are putting up a turbine shortly so less reliant on are gen in the winter
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Stanleysteamer said:
It is funny, well not really, that water in the end can be the biggest problem.
Our underground tank that captures all the rain that falls on the roofs is a godsend for watering the polytunnel and the veg. We are lucky in that for some reason we have springs all over our land, they water the orchard and the flower beds without us ever having to worry about them.
Pain in the rear though, as we had a concrete slab laid for me to put a shed on. It was only sometime after that we noticed that there must be a spring underneath it as the concrete isn't very happy and there is a puddle of water in the middle of it. So anything that matters has to sit on pallets.
Just trying to think what 10k litres looks like. Our pool is 45 cubic metres, so that looks like being just under a quarter of the contents of it. So 12k is a big tank.

So mate, I really feel for you over this. :(
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Springs! Lucky you, our plants get grey water.

You are right, water can end up being the biggest problem. Some of the other wells near us get no water at all, we only get 300 litres a day but we are very efficient with it.

Re your concrete slab the power of water can be amazing. That and tree roots :mad: Oh, and the wind, we had some very windy weather earlier this year and I had the metal lid for our trailer stored on an upper part of the land (Its a home made affair about the same size as the trailer tub) it was on the ground face down and it was picked up and tossed 30 yards. It somersaulted over one of the lemon trees and demolished a big branch off it on the way.

Sorry back to your point about 10k litres, think an oval GRP tank the length of a common tipper truck like they deliver building materials in. I have taken some photos but thousands of them are on back up discs so it's not that easy to produce them for forum posts!
 
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