Out and About on your Laverda.No bull,Just photos

Lots of roofs are not well enough insulated so there is some melting, and the downpipes are colder than the roof tiles, I guess there is a heat cable in the gutter too. The steep roofs here are to allow more weight of snow without collapsing. Flatter roofs on big buildings cave in now and then, and all us arctic dwellers know how heavy light powder snow becomes in very quick time as soon as the humidity changes. Snow sliding (avalanches) from roofs is a big problem and roofs have barricades to try to prevent it, as are huge icicles falling down from guttering, deadly, and people ignore warning signs on the footpath at their peril. In the tropics there is just Dengue fever and stuff like that.
 
Tippie said:
Snow sliding (avalanches) from roofs is a big problem and roofs have barricades to try to prevent it, as are huge icicles falling down from guttering, deadly, and people ignore warning signs on the footpath at their peril.
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One time, in Moscow, walking down the street a 20-30kg. lump of ice, having dropped four floors, crashed on to the pavement in front of me!
In 2001, at least 74 Muscovites were struck by plummeting ice.
Trouble was, the way they drive, walking in the road was more dangerous.
 
I was involved in an eco house in Wales in about 1980 (I was doing solar heating and hot water) and this was the method for rain water down pipes, it worked well with light rain, and in the video you can see the capilliary action on the chain links, but with more rain, not that heavy realy, gravity takes over, and you can see this in the video as well,water splashes everywhere on the ground, and it is impractical to have any kind of "dog leg" traditional downpipes were substituted before the build finished, but HEY! my invention for solar hot water is still working today, I thought of it and implemented it, it is now shown in "The Self Build Book" author Brian Richardson and Jon Broome and there is an error that means it wont work, I was not consulted when this book was written and would have helped gladly, but very pleased to say that that prototype is still wortking 40 odd years later, is almost maintenace free and provides gallons and gallons of free hot water for about 8 months of the year, with the remaining time fed by wood fire, and no mixing complications, I wish I had patented my ideas, as they are now common. The 20 or aso that I did were quite lucrative at the time though, the centre for alternative technolodgy were also involved
CLEM
 
The Sock said:
Out on this surprisingly warm morning with my mate, Steve, for a "Full English" in the courtyard of a country pub.
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An unequal pair! Before I'd the Laverda, I did long trips (Alps, etc.) with my beemer buddy several times, on which I rode my Aprilia. My buddy says he'd prefer me to take the Laverda ...
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Another one from last Monday ...
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