Recent content by fenix

No panels just batterys. Uses car tariff to charge them.

Works electrician has just installed a battery setup at home, for him its got a 3 year payback. Charges cheap rate at night, delivers power during the day, also acts as a UPS if external power goes down.

Can I have the big one please, assume its the Grasshopper.

I normally go off a pub name. Think I am a Kentish Man because I was born in Pembury hospital, although parents lived the other side of the river. The Medway banks are North and South around these parts

Its The Singing Citadel. I then read all his other stuff and have a couple of thousand books.

Have been pondering getting something done. My dad passed away last Sunday and I have been thinking of getting something to remind me of him. He got me into reading by giving me a book by Michael Moorcock, so something smallish based on that. That book changed my life, I went from being in the...

Got searched entering a pub last weekend, put my slipjoint on the table with keys and the security guard handled it correctly with no hassle. Got it back after several pints and some pizza. He identified my knife as legal carry and just held onto it while we spent the evening drinking.

I carry the svord when out and about in the countryside (or would if I could find the bloody thing), I do have the sheath for it. I the find the size and design good for countryside type tasks, or just whittling. On a day to day basis is something smaller.

Carrying the Boker (2nd from bottom) at the moment, seems a good mix of size and utility, I also like the deep carry pocket clip. https://heinnie.com/boker-plus-tech-tool-2-city-black

Arktis do UK made pertex stuff, tends to be in larger sizes. I did have a Montane extreme but didnt find it to be as good as the Arktis or Buffalo

I have a wide range of UK EDC stuff, the ones that stand out are a very traditional Sheffield hand made slip joint and a Spyderco or two. But I also have a SOG and a Boker tech tool that are only just behind the spydy and pretty cheap, for field use I would get a Svord peasant.

I use them for certain tasks that do not require the full power of a PC. 1 is providing data to one of the aircraft tracking websites (360radar), its been running for a couple of years, sits there with a radio receiver usb stick plugged in intercepting aircraft transponders. Another has an...

What do you think happens when somebody has heart failure? 4 of our first aiders spent 25 minutes doing CPR before the ambulance turned up, and it worked the women recovered. After that they purchased a defib and increased the number of first aid trained staff to about 20. I've used my training...

Yes I am and also a coordinator for emergency response, and I run the BA rescue team. We handle some quiet nasty materials at work including phosgene and chlorine so we have a BA rescue team, we go in to check and extract casualties plus make safe. First aid wise the main stuff I have dealt with...

Hi mate, I am just over the boarder in Kent. Going to risk the crossing later, hopefully won't get caught on the way back. Some funny people live in East Sussex ;)