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Not at your level at all but occasionally, we used to "mock quarter" a firewood lump to see the grain and teach the youngsters what all it was about, difficult and time consuming on a butt, but still worthwhile. Thanks for the explanation.

That's a good goal but there's a mistake you can make, trying to be too clever. I made it, trying to be too clever. Mistake is this: You tension the rigging rope and hold it fairly firmly, thinking you're preventing the spike of the intial loading by pulling it on yourself. If the hinge holds, you've made a massive lever that will put a massive load on the rope. And the shorter the rope (like if you're crotch rigging) the less rope there is to absorb that lever power in rope stretch. You can create monstrous forces in that little triangle. If the hinge breaks, the butt will try to hit you. So sometimes it's better to let it move and catch it later. And a related, general point since it's in the picture. Decisions to butt, belly, tip or inbetween tie should be made very consciously.

OK then , what would you do with a collection of classic cars for instance... run them all on Aspen ? My point I suppose is that saws are only a tiny percentage of engines that don't get used every day and need protecting from shyte fuel... ..and as an engine builder I've used fuel stabiliser to mitigate against the consequences of Ethanol in fuel since I first started to notice the damage it was causing around 15 years ago. I know that Alkylate fuel is a much superior option particularly from a fumes pov and I'd say that the world would be better place it was the only fuel option, but unfortunately it's not. So I'm sorry that your experience with stabiliser was negative but I won't be using Aspen in my greedy outboard anytime soon but it still needs protected and it's a lot more expensive in every way than any saw. Not looking for an argument, just passing on my experience of mitigating against the massive increase in engine damage since this crap was added to ordinary fuel which previously never caused any of these problems.

Well not today, but nearly every day since Sunday this week, I been moving some timber we cut in the spring and summer, I wont break any land speed records with truck but it sure does its job very well,

Ha, there's worse things in the world to be remembered for. In other news:

It will be interesting to see a picture of the cut stump when it is felled if you would oblige?

There will never be peace in that region - not in our lifetimes or even our great grand children’s. It’s totally ingrained within their nature to hate each other. And it’s spreading ☹️

Thanks for the reply. I dont have facebook but I will get a friend to check Thanks

Had a bit of time this afternoon to clear away some sawdust, sluice out the bottom end with some fuel and inspect the main bearings and cages with a mirror on a stick. Tried one of those endoscope connect to you phone thingees - waste of time only focuses down to 4 or 5 cm. Seems like everything is sound, rotated it through a couple of revolutions to make sure I didn’t miss any sections of the cage hidden by crank weights. There must be some regions of the inner race I couldn’t get to see but I’m going to say it’s good.

You have no idea 😂I love being on the chainsaw but too old and sore to do it full on anymore day in day out, I’ve now extended my working life on trees.

Was going to say depends where you live, guising season...

I've blanked a couple of times this week but I managed to pull it off today. Wordle 1,574 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Puwer says you need suitable training for the equipment your using. That's what the HSE would say. Seems clearing saw is getting more popular had a lot of enquiries about it lately.

I'd use a length of 6mm clear plastic fuel tube. If you make a U with water in the bottom you will probably only see a few mm difference in height if you have the leg to the flue vertical and the leg open to atmosphere at a shallow angle this will accentuate the difference. I have one that was cast out from a university lab [1] but you are a bit far from me. [1] a nice old microscope too

I put a small electric winch on my tracked tw150. I don't expect much but got the transit stuck the other day, front wheel off a small bridge back wheel of the ground, sounds more dramatic than it was, but the chipper pulled it with the winch no trouble at all! For a £200 it was money well spent!

Its a dragon (?) one i got from Buxtons a while back, but it works, and it ain't dropped me yet. went for a proper climb today, and i likes a lot.

Hi All. We are running an additional 20% off sale to try and shift what's left of the SIP Protection products. There are some real bargains here, but obviously, sizes and quantities are limited, as these are all end-of-line. SIP Protection 20% off SALE

could be a long while before this is a problem. Dryad Saddle rarely a cause ot panic on Sycamore, it's pretty slow moving. In your situation, it would be possble to bring forward occlusion of the wound by CAREFULLY chiseling off the excess deadwood of the stub to get it as close as possible to the advancing woundwood. Just around the edges.

The vigne verte at the back of the house goes a really deep red/purple.

Grown outside, towards the middle of October. It's wrong. But they tasted good.

I've done a bit of research and general conclusion seems to be that propyzamide is probably less bad than glyphosate - both for the environment and for people. Do you guys agree?

Probably quite a lot - mind you it’s lime so they might bring it back when they find out how poorly it burns 🤣