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Thanks for the clear explanation of your concerns. A previous comment mentioned the mulch but offered nothing in the way of an explanation - that comment just said "Bro ditch the mulch. U gna melt em xD". Reflected light is very different from concentrated light and since the light being reflected is not concentrated it is no more dangerous than the sunlight it is reflecting. If I'd had concave mirrors focusing a beam onto the panels then it would definitely be a fire risk if that beam was moved to concentrate on anything flammable but in this case I'm simply reflecting light, not concentrating it. However, I previously considered installing convex mirrors to spread the sunlight further than a simple straight reflection but those mirrors are very expensive compared to what I've used. If I ever come into disposable money I'll invest in some of the convex mirrors to spread the sunlight further and although it will weaken the intensity per area it will spread it over more panels than a simple reflected light. I hope that makes sense.

Yes, the missing while winding is the main issue with this one and if it was only an inch bigger it would make all the difference. It would allow for much more gear to be stored in it too. It's a shame that Exotac have't released an XL version as it makes sense to do so.

The pond is doing great and the water is clearer this year than in the last 15+ years. If I can coerce someone to fish all the carp and the massive sturgeon out for me it would be crystal clear again. Thanks for the sub and I'm glad you enjoy the videos.

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Wey aye, man.

@@ThousandYardStare 🤣😉👍🇬🇧

It definitely is great value and I have been all over the local area on mine. Hills are no longer a challenge and riding everywhere is a pleasure. However, since it is a commuter bike (for roads) I still ride my mountain bike for off-road.

I sometimes cut the lower part of the hackle to ensure that the winged flies sit straight on the water but they still spin, lol Cutting the wings down helps a bit on the big mayfly patterns but every cast twists the line a little. Outside of using the big mayflies the other dry flies I use have wings the same height as the hackle and they cast no problem - often I find that using a decent size grey wulff (especially in fast moving water) will work as well as a mayfly and definitely casts better.

It sounds like you have a couple of good rifles there and to win a night vision scope is awesome. The HW97K is one of the models I was looking at when deciding whether to sell my FAC FX Indy air rifle in favor of a springer but since the money I'd get back for the FAC air rifle would be negligible I decided against the plan. However, in any sort of SHTF situation a springer will be worth it's weight in gold. I'm well and spending most of my spare time in the garden - it would be good to meet up again at some point and if you're ever unfortunate enough to head up to the grim North feel free to call in with your massive truck any time brother.

@@pondguru cheers m8 ,that's the reason I got a springer in 🫡

@@crazycressy7986 100% - it will last for ages. Best of luck when you're out.

Yes, I love tomatoes. As I work from home and have plenty of time for cooking we're having a Spanish style sauce (tomatoes, garlic, onions, oregano) with roast chicken and parsley mash tonight. It is awesome to get some of the ingredients from the garden. We're following that meal with a fruit medley of wild strawberries, alpine strawberries, loganberries and blackberries in creme fraiche. Yup, I had to look up how to spell 'fraiche', lol With regard to pests in the garden and greenhouse apart from a couple of outdoor cabbages which have had some snail / slug damage I have NO pests, not one and I don't have to use pesticides anywhere. I grow all my lettuce in hydroponic towers and they're also pest free and I'm growing them all year with no problems at all - no need for nets or any protection. In the greenhouse I'd usually be fighting against aphids / whitefly with neem oil but there's not a single leaf with a pest on. The only thing I'm doing differently from previous years is planting a few marigolds in the greenhouse and a few of the pots with tomatoes in have coils of copper wire in them (electroculture). The outdoor garden has lots of stakes with copper wire wrapped around them and I'm beginning to think that has made a difference since my father's garden (a stones throw away) is blighted by caterpillars, slugs and snails and his pepper plants are infested with whitefly - I've got none of that and all my plants are huge, producing harvest even before many people down South. The conclusion I've reached is that since the electroculture produces such a tiny micro-current in the soil it must take a while for the area to become fully protected (and plants enhanced). I should really do a video on this since it's working extremely well for me and I have been growing all sorts of crops with no problems since the electroculture rods were installed - it is a very old technology from the 1700's which produced some crazy results in France in the late 1800's and early 1900's (the unbelievable pictures of massive crops are online) but the method is much older than that and unfortunately is derided by people who don't give it time to work (e.g. 'Epic Gardening' on UA-cam) and class it as 'pseudo-science'. They couldn't be more wrong.

It was certainly an anomaly for this river so it was a pleasure to catch on that trip.

I felt like such a fool but that's probably just a realization of what I actually am.

100% - it really bugs me when I see people carrying fish away from the river as half the time they'll just be shown to the wife then fed to a dog. I'd love to see the whole river / fishing club have a catch and release policy but I guess that's up to the individual to decide on.

100% - money is not the problem since we have always traded with something of value until recently (fiat currency is backed by nothing) and now that we're on the verge of a digital prison with CBDC it is even more important to wake up and see the economic slave system for what it is. The love of money has ruined so many souls and I just see it as something which can be converted into infrastructure projects of real value.

Yup, there was plenty of swearing once I'd pulled myself out of the river - major bummer.

Oh mate, you gotta stop ending up on your arse and breaking things. If it's not breaking yourself your breaking your equipment. Atleast your laughing about it. I also hope you hadn't got too much footage. It's almost like somethings trying to bump you off, so just laugh in their face my friend 😊

@@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR When I'm walking up the river I should really be wearing waders but I usually go out in wellies so I have to try and walk on stones in the river - it's my own fault and I'm constantly getting wet feet, lol. There wasn't anything really important on the video camera but I really need a decent camera to continue making UA-cam videos. However, I can't justify the expense at the present time. If UA-cam is now what it was 10 years ago I'd have spent money on a new camera straight away but it's not worth it now since no matter how much effort I put into making a video on either channel they sink without a trace and only a tiny percentage of the subscribers get any new upload notifications. I'd rather be working in the garden when I get some spare time.

@@ThousandYardStare I have no clue in how UA-cam works, but know that your videos are enjoyed and all the work involved , is appreciated by all who view them.

@@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR Well, they may be appreciating many fewer videos in the next year or so as I've spent a fortune making videos over the last 15 years and got nothing back, lol The love of the video making process only goes so far and I'd rather be preparing for tomorrow than reporting on today.

Do you mean the small 2" pipe? That would be bought from the same place as the 4" pipe (DIY store, Plumbing supplies store etc.). If you're asking about the small plastic baskets the plants are in then they would be bought from suppliers of hydroponics gear.

This is my favorite time of the year since I love tomatoes. We've also got a nation of spring onions and lettuce growing too so salads are definitely on the menu. With soft fruit for dessert.

You can eat it but I choose not to since it diminishes from the flavour of the berry and makes processing the fruit more time consuming. However, if the fruit is picked when it is very ripe (purple) then the fruit may just slide off the woody core.

Groovy - I'm not sure they are still available but there will surely be very similar jet washers on Amazon.

Yes, they are absolutely excellent and very buoyant - I have them in all my survival / bushcraft fishing kits now.

We're at the maximum the grid will handle where I am - 12kW is already a huge solar system for a domestic property. Most people have somewhere between 4kW - 6kW. The mirrors have definitely extended the useful generation hours, especially toward the end of the day but it's quite an outlay for the mirrors and a long term investment.

Yes I think that makes sense and is the most logical reason for the 19.9mph limit on the screen. In the UK the 'legal' limit for an e-bike is only 15.5mph but in most other countries I think it is 20mph and while I'm not a fan of man-made laws and regulations I can kind of see the limit reason from a pedestrian protection point of view as electric bikes are very heavy compared to most normal bikes.

Yes, it confused me that they would produce a bike which has this problem for many riders since the industry standards for frame design and sizes must be easy to replicate given how many well functioning bikes there are on the Earth. Even after 300+ miles I've never had a problem with my foot catching the front wheel, even when turning tightly or at speed but that's because I'm so used to using the ball of my foot on pedals (my other bikes have always had small SPD pedals I click into).

Yes, it's now got over 300 miles on the clock and since I crashed it one of the wheels is a bit bucked. While I've been able to straighten it sideways the shape of the wheel is still slightly egg-like now so I am taking it to a local bike place to repair and replace the brake pads / check all joints and make sure everything is torqued correctly etc. since I like to have a bike running sweet. With regard to the speed it came from the manufacturer limited to 15mph but that was easily changed since I'm not going to run around on a bike which isn't working to the full potential. I live in the country and most of my rides I don't even see a car on the roads let alone anyone who is going to snitch about going over 20mph, lol - in a city it's very different since there are many vehicles and pedestrians to consider.

Good one - thanks for the tip and best of luck with your systems.

Yes I use it semi-regularly to clean my greenhouse roof and also my house roof since it is very light and simple to get up there compared to a standard jet wash.

I definitely considered that option but the field in front of me is literally a lake, lol I think they just like the taste of the cultivated strawberries. Strangely I haven't had any pest damage in my garden or greenhouse this year so far when everyone else is getting their gardens savaged by all manner of pests.

100% - I only bought metal straws since I won't ever use the abominations that are paper straws. When I'm traveling I carry a metal straw and a plastic or metal fork as everywhere is conforming to the awful paper only dictate laid down by the WEF / UN. I ordered fish and chips a few weeks ago and when the only option was a wooden fork I left the meal on the counter and told the person serving me to put the meal in the bin, walked out of the shop while being berated by the shop owners and other (brain dead) customers. It's only by saying NO that we will defeat the nonsense.

That sounds good to me - best of luck with the system.

I got most of my wild strawberries from other people's gardens but the Alpine strawberries are definitely nicer than the native wild strawberries.

Sorry, anyone foraging will never give up the location of their sites but last year there was nothing - not even a single Porcini. I never found one in all the sites I hunt. This year it may be different but I doubt it. We've had a decent amount of 'chicken of the woods' so far this year and it may be a decent year for them. There are no guarantees that anything else useful will pop up - Nature is very unpredictable.

@@ThousandYardStare ahh that’s a shame! With you promoting nature and how it gives food I thought you may of promoted the same message to foragers but that’s ok I’ll just have to follow you to your secret locations 🤣🙈 all good fun and enjoy mushroom hunting!!

I think it takes somewhere between 1.5 and 2 hours from flat although I've never timed it exactly.

Yes, there has been lots of people mentioning the pedal / front wheel issue but I've honestly not been bothered by it, even when turning tightly at speed. However, I've spent years being clipped into tiny SPD Shimano pedals on my mountain bikes so I now naturally use the ball of my foot on the pedal instead of the middle of my foot. It would definitely be an issue if more of my foot stuck out beyond the pedal. At the point of writing this I've done over 300 miles (approx. 500km) and never had a tumble due to catching the front wheel with my feet but I can definitely appreciate how that could happen very easily. As you say a longer frame would ensure that there was no issue with the distance between pedals and front wheel. Like yourself I've no idea how that issue wasn't picked up in the design stage but the average shoe size in China is only 5.5 - 6.5 according to Google.

This is in my own pond and ultimately I don't care what is deemed as 'illegal' when practicing survival skills. In a survival situation we will need to catch food or be reliant on poisoned food handed out by the govern-ment. If people refuse practice the methods to catch food then they will really struggle. I rule nothing out when finding food. If we listened to the govern-ment we'd all be triple vaxxed and slowly dying. I'd rather not take that chance and hopefully you're not in that camp.

Unfortunately there has been problems with legal documents (or the lack thereof) which manifested when these filters were take to be sold in the USA. Due to a lack of legal documentation (even though these filters have been used for decades in emergency situations) the company (a charity in the UK) decided to suspend all sales to non-NGO companies (e.g. me) and that is very unfortunate. From what I have garnered from conversations I've had with the distributors the selling of the filters to retail distributors is well down their priorities so I have no idea whether these filters will ever be available again outside of the NGO's who supply to the (manufactured) war zones around the world. It is very frustrating since people wanting to buy these filters know that all wars are manufactured and we'd just love to prepare for a genuine emergency. From a personal point of view I've saved one family filter and one community filter for my own preps but I'd love to be able to help others with their preps too - at the present time that is unfortunately not an option but I will relist these filters on my website should they ever be available in the future. I would love it if everyone (including the manufacturers of the filters) could see the bigger picture but that's not the case presently. Sorry about that.

Nice one - I hope you have a good harvest.

That's all you need and it's great that you keep it simple when you're out in the jungle. Best of luck next time you're out.

(my other channel) It takes somewhere between 10-15 minutes to go from drain to full to drain again. Obviously the time of the drain cycle can differ depending on the water level in the tank the system sits over. Currently I have this system operating over my main water tank in the vegetable garden and the water level fluctuates there daily so the drain cycle could be anywhere from 10 minutes to approx. 25 minutes - either way it still works fine.

@@pondguru Thanks for taking the time for me. I am designing a small system based on my fish pond. It has a capacity of 1500L. The grow beds will be IBC based. I have come up with a system to flood and drain such that the pond will not vary in depth. It is effectively the sump tank. There will be constant flow into it at all times. It's quite a simple system where each grow bed is divided in half. The system of flood and draining is completely mechanical and automatic. The cycle time will be about 10 minutes with equal time to drain as to fill . The reason for asking is that I was not sure how long roots can be without water. From your answer it sounds like my timing is ok. What's your thoughts?

@@robguyatt9602 That seems perfect although crops other than leafy greens may need a longer 'dry' period for their roots. With hydroponics I've only ever had success with lettuce, chard and pak choi which don't mind lots of water. I've never managed to get the timing right for tomatoes or other more substantial crops.

@@ThousandYardStare Hmm, sounds like I might have to use my mechatronic skills and design for adjustable timing. Thanks for your compliment.

@@robguyatt9602 No worries and best of luck with the system.

Until I smashed it up in a crash I was going out almost every night. Now I need someone to fix everything I've broken, lol

Yes, I do genuinely like the design of the bike and whenever I suffer a major crash I always worry about how the bike / car has held up then consider what injuries I've been afflicted by, lol

Ribs can be painful when broken but I've broken the ribs on my right side on two separate occasions (including a broken sternum) then this crash broke them on the left - it's not the end of the world and if I could break anything again I'd rather it was ribs than something which would affect my life too much like legs or arms. Bones heal quite easily so it's only a short term inconvenience.

It is indeed a Granville bike - G.G.G.G.G.G.Granville.

Unfortunately I still feel like I'm 14 years old in my head but my 50+ year old body sometimes lets me down. I'd love to be 90 and still riding and crashing.

I just saw the guy driving away in a grey Golf car while I was lying upside down under my bike - and had a good laugh about it. The sad thing is it won't make me trust people any less and I'll probably be a trusting fool until the day I die. With regard to the design of the bike it is something I genuinely like and it is very practical for commuting or road riding.

(my other channel) That's a major bummer as it is a really good bike. I wouldn't have featured it on my channel if it was no good. I love it as I can go up into the hills for a great bike ride then call back by the supermarket to collect some food for the next few days - great stuff.

@@pondguru yes I was hoping to get this for my wife as a retirement present, hopefully be back in stock in the middle of July for the bundle. You can have it in white though that is available but she wouldn’t like a white bike, no good for the Tarka Trail near me she would have to clean it everytime lol . Cheers

@@stinkbomb350 Yes, I have a mountain bike in white and it always looks mucky. My other mountain bike is black and can definitely go longer before it needs to be cleaned. However, having said that if I was riding on roads or good quality multi-user tracks all the time then the bikes would stay cleaner for much longer - in the next video (200+ mile review) I did on this bike I'd done over 220 miles and it wasn't horrendously dirty even though I'd been on a few fields with it in that time. It will probably get a wash before my next ride.

Is 'Busy' a place?