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🫩 late night then one of the kids came in at 3am, classic time for me not to be able to get back to sleep. In a digger today and the mountain biking tonight.

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Morning all . Dry so far and 9c .

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Good Morning Hump-day already. Excitedly waiting for my chainsawbars delivery... bar conversion for my Echo 2511 clone to run a 10" 1/4 chain. Back to it. Have fun.

Still in Scotland doing my thing. Meeting on of our engineers to look and test something then hopefully heading south tonight. Be good y'all! Roar, Nick, Orbit.

Could be like a VW transaxle like in a old Beetle?

^^ This. Plus the west country is wet and in Devon often the ground is boggy and poorly drained so dry-stone walls don't last long unless they're on high and dry moorland. A double comb hedge on a bank formed from a cast-up drainage ditch makes perfect sense in that environment and covers several bases in one go. And this style was developed in sheep country. Sheep can't roll under a hedge that's high on a bank above a ditch. It was simply the best solution to livestock containment given limited resources. That's how all regional hedgelaying styles came about. Work with what you've got, adapt and use the style best suited to the situation. Personally I've got no time for regional pedantic-ness.

Yes, a quick search says 9-10,000 for the engine... I guess i jumped to the wrong conclusion earlier, sorry. But it will still 4 stroke rather than rev out, or rather sound that way due to the coil.

Colours are easy to change, did they tell you what colours they wanted things to be?

I have a preference for valorbe but struggle to find them.

I likes it, proper.

The mandem text me. The shit catchers he had under his uniform did the job. good work sailor!

Asked a former Devon dairy farmer about it and he rurally mumbled something about banks being boundaries between different soils.

Are portwest waterproof jackets any good

So, the 4700 rpm is the blade speed, hence the 9600 spud said, which makes sense, a couple hundred rpm short of the max 2 x blade speed, is that right?

Might be ,good call

I'm not sure it'll ever be empty. The load bed capacity is 350kg. My dog, an IBC flask and a tool kit will weigh a good fifth of that. I wonder if the rear engine goes straight to the diff. It'd be unsprung mass!

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Rear engine gives more traction when empty. Seen a few of these at farm shows, seem to be slightly jacked up with wider, knobbly tyres

The pool of potential females for these guys round my way is pretty dismal. They are about as wide as they are tall, to be fair though they aren’t very tall!

“We” (the liberal west (insert you preferred left wing term)) are the architects of our own downfall.

Looks like sweet chestnut to me, but not certain.

With those rays on the cut face? I was going to say it's a lump off a stag headed oak where the sapwood has rotted and sloughed off.

So is there a 2:1 reduction on the belt drive pulleys? I have never used one. On the tuning; back in the 70s my Husqvarna dealer had a centrifugal fan that was spun by the saw being tested, the load could be altered by varying the inlet to the fan, so it could be loaded to set the rpm. A similar thing could be done with a disc fitted with magnets and copper coils with ballast resistors where the work piece should be.