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13 minutes ago, Grouse said:

Yes, I concur that the environmental impact of manufacturing a new vehicle is severe and probably exceed the environmental impact of emissions.

 

But that not what we are discussing. If you want to bring that in look at the high proportion of parts which are now recycleable. This has been driven by EU requirements

 

AS far as the published lists of fuel economy, have you not read what I have written? These figures are BS! You should see how manufacturers get their figures!! Meaningless in absolute term but maybe useful by comparison.

 

No, there is no denying that modern engines perform FAR better than older ones largely my control. That has been achieved by EU and other requirements.

 

 

Modern engines are developed from F1.  Nothing to do with the EU!

Recycling is buying an old car, something the EU does not encourage.

Indeed EU scrappage schemes are aimed at increasing new car sales,

pure wasteful consumerism.

30 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

What about the hands?

What about a pic from the other side?

19 minutes ago, johng said:

I'm reminded of the song  by "Mud"

 

Alright
That's right, that's right, that's right,
that's right I really love your Thai girl light
That's neat, that's neat, that's neat,
that's neat, I really love your Thai girl feet

I really love your Thai girl feet
Your Thai girl feet
Your Thai girl feet
Your Thai girl feet
Well alright

 

Except I think  most Thai girl  feet are not so nice to look at.

Or...https://youtu.be/Vh_3zdmaHbk

1 hour ago, Grouse said:

Right, car engines are a man's world! Ask Transam! But I'll make an exception for you girls?

 

No combustion engine works at maximum efficiency under all conditions. The settings need to be adjusted automatically according to demand and conditions. We used to use carburettors to adjust fuel supply according to the drivers' demands. Some actually pumped neat petrol into the intake to beef up acceleration! Then we would vary the spark timing (dynamic advance according to RPM) and vacuum advance according to throttle position.

 

These days, we use computers to measure dozens of input variables to set dozens of engine settings. Several times a second.

 

This is the main reason why we have much higher performance, much lower fuel consumption and far lower emissions (oxides of nitrogen being just one)

 

The computers use "look up tables" to determine the optimal settings for multiple conditions.

 

Of course we need increasingly stringent emissions regulations. But how to achieve this? I can tell you that a Diesel engine produces maximum emissions accelerating maximum load, up hill, when cold, between maximum torque rpm and maximum power rpm

 

So, what do we want to control? Maximum emissions? Emissions driving slowly in town? Idling? Average? Peak?

 

No, vehicle test regimes ARE inadequate and require much better design and enforcement. The fuel consumption figures for new cars are a farce. These are measured one up, no spare, no air con, nearly empty, on the flat. And you believe them!

 

At least test the vehicles! Just like "land of smiles" - trace the VIN number on the chassis and pay the money ?

 

No, give me engineering any day. Facile inspection criteria is for the birds; probably specified by one ?

 

You have been hoodwinked by the latest sales BS into buying

into the current environmental and economic narrative.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-used-cars-are-more-ecofriendly/

52 minutes ago, transam said:

You can't pump neat petrol into an engine without the oxygen the fuel requires to do it's job...

Yes you can..its called running too rich.

I believe all the latest engine control systems are expesive

sales gimmicks.  If you haven't done so already, google the

Pogue carburetor. 

17 hours ago, JungleBiker said:

Thanks guys for all the suggestions, though I have to say, I'm really not happy about the idea of discarding the beautiful hydraulic motors on a brand new spreader! 

 

Before I discovered that local Kubota's don't have enough valves, I did already have in my budget a plan to buy a new Kubota. Up until now we have been hiring local tractor guys to do jobs like discing. 

 

My preference now is to go ahead with getting a new Kubota and tell the dealer I want full set of valves as found on overseas versions of the same model. I would be surprised if Kubota Siam or one of their dealers can't deliver.

 

Getting the above will take a while, so in the meantime, I'll hire local villagers to spread the fertiliser by hand (over 300 rai).  

 

  

I dont know what area you are in, but am interested to know if

you have a farming community where you can share costly

machinery. 

Another point of interest you raised, is manual labour, which

has many environmental and social advantages, something

future farming methods must consider.

37 minutes ago, tutsiwarrior said:

hutus in tutus and murderous with machetes and AK47s...

 

I gotta find some acid...

I  despair........

7 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

I love Thai girls because they help me to decorate my Christmas tree...

What is that pervy dog looking at?

22 minutes ago, nauseus said:

Crash Gordon. Goldeneye or McCyclops 

A Big Brown Skid.

6 minutes ago, JungleBiker said:

Thanks guys for all the suggestions, though I have to say, I'm really not happy about the idea of discarding the beautiful hydraulic motors on a brand new spreader! 

 

Before I discovered that local Kubota's don't have enough valves, I did already have in my budget a plan to buy a new Kubota. Up until now we have been hiring local tractor guys to do jobs like discing. 

 

My preference now is to go ahead with getting a new Kubota and tell the dealer I want full set of valves as found on overseas versions of the same model. I would be surprised if Kubota Siam or one of their dealers can't deliver.

 

Getting the above will take a while, so in the meantime, I'll hire local villagers to spread the fertiliser by hand (over 300 rai).  

 

  

Might be worth contacting Kubota to check if your local type

Kubota can be converted to a 4 system,  Or perhaps fix another

pump on the front of the crankshaft. Bit of a faff but so useful.

9 minutes ago, aright said:

What did we hear from the last Labour Government
They removed regulations from the banks - regulations that had been put in place to prevent a crash. Then guess what happened................

The Conservative Government sorted it and you claim they want to reduce regulations.

2010-2015 government policy: bank regulation

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-bank-regulation/2010-to-2015-government-policy-bank-regulation      updated 8 May 2015Updated 8 May 2015

We have introduced the biggest reforms to the banking sector in a generation: to make banks more resilient to shocks, easier to fix when they get into difficulties, and to reduce the severity of future financial crises.

We want to make sure that when banks make losses, retail customers aren’t excessively affected and taxpayers’ money isn’t used to bail banks out.

 Built an economy based on debt and ignored Conservative warnings 
 Showed faith in Icelandic Banks who were in obvious difficulty
 Wasted £Billions on an illegal war in Iraq.  

 Put 25 million British citizens at risk when they lost their confidential details. 
 Removed the 10p tax band, effectively aiming a tax rise squarely at the lowest paid workers. Do you remember them? The people the labour party was initially set up to represent? 
 Created a weak economy out of a strong one.
 Completely ignored their promises on electoral reform.

 

The fact is the UK has never fully recovered from the last Labour Government. 

 

The UK economy, built on consumerism is not going to recover.

40 minutes ago, hyku1147 said:

I am not going to make a big boob out of myself - thus I will remain silent

We like big boobs.

10 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

 

a big hit in Nicaragua in the late 80s...

 

 

Beautiful song, and with the 50s Caddy and the 60s Giulietta spider.

Damn!

2 hours ago, Hummin said:

Some of them speak in fact much better english than most girls who have university, and also better social scills in many ways. So, I would say choose your girl with care where ever you find her. 

Cheaper safer and more fun to choose many.

2 hours ago, aright said:

No, the whole point is they produced a car designed to circumvent prescribed environmental standards. Engineers were complicit and producing a marvellous piece of engineering iyo, which failed specifications, only had negative value....ask the shareholders. 

The goal of science and engineering is to produce better mouse traps.The goal of nature is to produce better mice.........a bit off topic but from .A Tordoff, my mentor many, many years ago.

If we let engineers loose we will end up with a world controlled by halflings. 

Machines controlling anything would be safer than the irrational human.

1 hour ago, jenny2017 said:

No Thai men at all, but three kids in the village. How long does it take to learn proper English? Only one farang bf in her life? 

One has to believe the Thai lady in order to complete the illusion.

53 minutes ago, Hummin said:

The most attractive girls I see, is always passing me on a motorbike. I guess my fetish is girls on motorbikes with long black hair, and a big smile. 

Short bobbed black hair, and glasses, passing with a frying pan,

mop, and bucket and smile does it for me.

1 hour ago, Tippaporn said:

While YTubing in search of hidden gems I've come across a lot of gawd awful music.  This one is soooo baddddd I had to share. 

You have missed the quite eloquent and sophisticated cataclysmic

socioeconomic message to humanity.  But then, I missed it too.

7 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

eternal...

 

tutsi, 16 y.o. 6' and hansum and cheek to cheek on the dance floor in a boite with his 21 y.o. local girlfriend in Cochabamba in 1966...'es un escandalo!'...we burned the place down...

 

later, I was investigated by the 'division policial de menores'...I lit up a fag and blew smoke in their faces...my clothes were better than theirs and I was a good student at colegio...

Uncle Tutsi, your niece was correct.

3 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

 

3 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Once I quote a post I can't undo it. Yes, I'm bovvered! Just wanted to say that tutsi is providing you with some company, LOL

Just don't let him know I'm Hutu.

4 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

and then she got hold of

 

 

and we were making out after I had returned from high school one afternoon with this playing on the box and then she dragged me into her bedroom and I said: 'is this cool?'...she had 3 older brothers any of which could've murdered me with traditional justification if we were discovered...she wasn't worried as she knew their schedules and we had the house to ourselves except for the empleada who wouldn't dare speak a word...

 

it was a lovely old house, over 100 years old and built by her (great?)grandfather in the best part of town...why was all of this happenin' to me?

 

it was just that old time music...

 

 

Timeless, classical, perfection, I intended to post those. 

Reminds me too, of my early carefree romantic period,

long before skepticism crept up on me.

34 minutes ago, Khun Han said:

Yes, absolutely.

Could be worse.

47 minutes ago, nauseus said:

Back to the rhubarb patch with that lot. Must put some sewage on top.

Don't invite me to dinner.