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Ive never touched the stuff, to many people near me developed mesothelioma, I know of people who have taken there lives because they were scared of developing cancer . Ive just knocked back a job of stripping off a garage roof and dismantling a concrete garage

Nope, they do the 1.9 as per the post above, and a 3.8t.

Wait till you get a price. Only available in the UK as Case. Enquired and they said they handn't sold so well and they had a couple of 2023 models, new old stock. Aha, thought I. £33k plus vat. No thanks. It's a bit of a joke machine tbh- apparently it's for 'internal demolition'. If so then why isn't it electric or a hybrid at the least?

This looks like common Lime. The shoot zig zags with a bud at each bend, although I would have expected the buds to be more red in colour.

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Yes . That was the stuff .

Reminds me of when a Welsh student told me how to say "pleased to meet you" in Welsh when I was to be introduced to my Welsh tutor 😉

Yes but it was only the stuff with dimples on one side that exploded. I guess it was steam trapped in the cement.

I've got some issue to investigate on the 372! If I hold the saw horizontal to cut a slice from a stem I was getting a lot of smoke and noticed oil was visibly squirting from the bar mount area, directly to the exhaust. Cure was to flip the saw over. I didnt notice after that if it was still squirting out. The bar appeared to be getting adequate lube and cutting fine, though I didnt bother to test if it flings from the nose. Its had a good clean and will try again tomorrow. Any ideas if it continues? I did have theboiler turned up to full, might need to turn it down.

We used to do it as kids . Chuck a few bits on a bonfire . What a hoot !

Whale tastes lovely. No I won’t send you any.

My car was stolen. Here are six important things I learned BBC.COM Keyless thefts are on the rise and car crime is increasingly organised and high-tech. Interesting article about car theft and key fob cloning (from your house!) I have long thought that the majority of chippers get stolen for their engines, this article (to a limited extent) backs that up.

yes, not disputing that,, but asbestos sheets will explode and pieces can land half a mile away. I have seen this with my own eyes, and spent 3,1/2 years with a fireman who confirmed this on more than one occasion.

that’s easy for you to say! Interesting that we think it’s bits of the stove - I had assumed it was something produced by the the fire process (maybe I’d rediscovered king Arthur’s sword). I’ll have a good luck inside the box tomorrow morning before lighting up.

Don't forget asbestos takes many forms , and was used in fire ppe in the 60s, You need to go on u tube, they now cook asbestos, turn it into glass and then gets used for trench backfill .

Why not email Jøtul? Ask what it is? Hva slags typer stein har falt ut av min øvn? Kan eg erstatte dette stein med noen andre,kan steinens sviktelsen påverker dålig øvn sin funksjons møte? Hvordan smaker hval om?Kan du sende noen til meg?

It’s a Jøtul - is it called an F5? It’s that little cathedral like thing in the background.

Lovely day here, saw a brimstone and a peacock butterfly on the dog walk.

Any way, this is the Caldon canal, minus the towpath.

How did you guess? Don't know what happened there, I posted once with a picture attached that isn't there.

What make/model stove is it?

No it’s really light weight material - like a brittle ceramic. The stove is a recent install of an older machine so no asbestos and there’s no firebricks in it - just heavy cast iron. I’ll see if I can match up the curve to the stove to see if it’s some sort of deposit that’s fallen off.

Anyway I have tried to explain to him that 40" diameter lumps of stem will not go through a 6" chipper. Yes they can be cut smaller to be liftable and movable, but thats not what a 6" chipper is for. Grass muddy slope up to driveway, muddy trail down into woodland/swamp.

if asbestos[in sheet form] is subjected to extreme heat it explodes,,, violently. that looks like cast iron. put a magnet on it, if its magnetic it ain't asbestos, or touch it with a grinder, if you get sparks,, it ain't asbestos.

Customer called the other day, first chance he has had to view the completed job in daylight and he is not happy. The quote was to leave the logs and brush, brush to be chipped onto woodland at a later date and logs to be left for firewood. He did not want them taken and I said there would be a lot - but he has the space.. nearly all of the brush has been neatly stacked ready for chipping, theres a small amount I will drag next time.. We do not offer a splitting service. I did make it clear that they will need to be split for burning and he will need an axe. I also made it clear we were not grinding the stump, that would be extra if he later wanted it. Cut at near ground level. Thats more relevant for the neighbours two small trees he has us doing next week. We also did not say we would cut into firewood lengths, though I did a lot, most of the bigger rounds were noodled into liftable lumps, it made half a day of peicing down the stem into a full day. Now the surrounding grass and garden is boggy, a wheel barrow would soon destroy it. Ground needs to dry out first if he did want stuff taken, or have his grass destroyed. Some pics here: Now I think theres some understanding that the job is done, he has paid. I can go back and cut into firewood lengths, theres a few big slices that need to be noodled too, and a lot to shift if he wants it stacked neater, but it would be an extra days pay. He has us booked in, to do the boundry hedge and two small trees, it was quoted as 3 of us for a day. However he thinks it will take us a lot longer.. unsure if I want to do it - I dont want to be in the middle!