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  1. Peter

    Bird flu in cows

    https://www.country-guide.ca/daily/bird-flu-pushes-us-dairy-farmers-to-ban-visitors-chop-trees/?utm_source=GFM+Publications&utm_campaign=204cf6c9c9-Country+Guide+daily+enews+Apr+12%2C+2024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2da8244677-204cf6c9c9-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=204cf6c9c9
  2. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    Forgot to put up pic of the unit installed
  3. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    Be a good excuse to buy a 3D printer.
  4. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    mounting bracket made, just have to clean the welds and ready to install
  5. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    Yes, 1" stainless tube. Circulating system under pressure. Main floor in concrete slab, second floor tube in metal panels under wood floor. Third floor with radiators. Had all Stelrads and one towel warmer. Two sprung leaks. Replaced one 8ft with locally made extruded aluminum rads. A 3ft one I...
  6. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    All welded together. Just need to finish polishing the welds, then make bracket to hang it on the wall.
  7. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    Great great grandfather is from Halye. We will be in Carbis Bay for a few days, then to St Austell for a few more. Village that bears the family name is not far from St Austell. Went to the Eden Project when we went a number of years ago. Loved it. Highlight of Netherlands will be this, engine...
  8. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    got few more pipes on, 3 to go, then some mounting rails and ready to install
  9. Peter

    Today NOT at work

    If what we are planning works, only time in London will be to change planes. Sh*t like that can happen anywhere anytime these days. Like getting stuck for hours in gridlock for somebody climbing on a bridge.
  10. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    Stainless steel pipe, TIG welded internal purge no filler rod. Same way I sanitary weld the milk pipe. Ignore the crooked top pipe, not welded yet. Coffee time
  11. Peter

    Today NOT at work

    First real snow fall of the year. About a month late, but makes the winter shorter :):) Question for you guys. Your bank holiday on May 6. is that traditionally a big travel weekend? Going to be in Cornwall end of April, beginning of May. Looking at flying from Newquay to Heathrow on Tues May...
  12. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    starting to make progress. only get small bits of time squeezed in. no hurry weather has been extremely mild. room it's going to has 3 other rads and towel warmer so not really noticing it missing. Starting to make plans to visit your island end of April beginning of May. A week in Netherlands...
  13. Peter

    Not Quite Farm Engineering or a Quick Bodge.

    Technically not farm, but used dairy farm materials. House rad sprung a leak. Got enough scrap laying around I can make a replacement. The work so far, more pics to follow as it gets done.
  14. Peter

    compressed air purge for milking parlour

    food grade oil in the compressor, or oil less compressor. In the rules here.
  15. Peter

    We Will Remember Them

    Our Brave Smart Mom Mazamova Zenith Fennell Feb 12, 1922- July 1, 1997 Signed her papers to serve in the UK when she was 17 , Met our dad and travelled to Canada in 1946
  16. Peter

    1st Experience with Electric Car

    Interesting read on the runaway cars from 13 yrs ago. https://www.npr.org/2010/03/19/124815144/runaway-cars-driver-error-or-car-malfunction
  17. Peter

    Wildlife Snaps

    blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale)
  18. Peter

    Wildlife Snaps

    Found this guy under a rock. Had to move him so I would step on him while I was working. Took about 10mins to warm up before it could move from where I set it down,
  19. Peter

    Get Yer Toque On!

    @Blaithin you smelling the smoke from the Kelowna fires? Have not heard anything more about Alberta fires, just BC news. Just looked up Alberta, 85 active, 3 out of control. My niece in Kelowna pics from her stepmoms balcony
  20. Peter

    Plate cooler

    Couple of pics. Will get couple more tomorrow when I set the plates in some acid to soak .
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