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Codswallop... you fishing for puns again?

There's got to be something wrong with it up the business chain because the saws are great. Remember when the car makers were worried about microchip supplies?

The sections that have narrowed are where they pass through the muscle wall so not suitable to stent. I’m now stuck here for at least another two days while they check the medication is doing it’s job

Cant advice for you, only you know. I know a arbor guy over 70 years old. He is not you, and i doubt my friend would ask for advice if he can or not do it. you either do it or you don't. you wont beat a 20 year old confident guy, your only road is being your own boss. You won't be able to get the experience i have, from starting from age 12, you starting at age 50 or so, the only thing you need to focus on is understanding the tools not killing yourself. First thing i would work on is confidence, and go from there.

Let us know how it goes, refurbishing the carb is always a good idea but don't ignore looking at the condition of the piston as it may have slightly seized causing your issues.

Hi all Just wanted to let guys know running a predator 38 the difference in changing the pulley from 200mm to 225 mm. The difference was remarkable, quicker recovery time when rev goes down, and better torque, had to do some cutting here and there to fit it. but was well worth it. Less bogging down and faster grinding, specially deeper down.

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Speed sensor/stress control would be a 1st guess. To rule out solenoid problems, you can just swap the plugs over and see if the solenoid valve work but in reverse configuration. Or use the override wires to disable the stress control, if it perks up and everything works you have identified the fault being the stress control. Obviously don't use it in override for anything other than testing!.

As above. And you’ll have to find somewhere else to put your washing line.

I just checked my 365 new and it is 3mm.

Yes Les, role in the Business Support bit of an Arb contractor. Partially on spanners and fleet care etc. Totally away from Sales etc. Good people who I've known for years and right looking forward to the changes!

Storm damage clearing. More to come

Easily done… I’ve got one on my Vermeer it’s very useful. You can get a avant headstock made up easily enough and with the extra weight it would be decent I’d wager. The winch is 3.5t and doubled up on a block it’s a powerful tool! I primarily used it for one job winching off felled timber on an incline. I’d probably sell on… feel free to dm.

Roots are " pot bound " . Should have teased them out before planting .

Pigs will clear anything, but ground nesting birds won't survive. Fenced off just to the bracken areas could work. Electric fences.

Type of tree will help as some are more desirable than others and is there easy vehicle access, will it be down, machine for loading or rings to handball? Free or beer tokens?

Strimmers, trees and the public. A dangerous mix.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 WWW.LEGISLATION.GOV.UK An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to town and country planning (excluding... Section 197 of the Act is the guiding legislation as to why Arb Impact Assessments are sought for in connection to planning applications regardless of conservation area status. The council's website should have a validation checklist, which should specify what type of report is needed for different planning applications.

How did you try to lift it? With a/the rope and pulley up the tree (can't see from video if you crotched it or used a pulley/ring/biner)? Or just by hand on the ground?

Milling finished so a quick update. The 18mm ply board with 45 degree blocks worked a treat. Fixed it to each quarter with a screw at each end and milled down to one board past the ‘centre’. Then removed the board, flipped the log over and finished milling the second half. In each quarter, the ray fleck figure is visible in the four centre boards as I’d hoped, so I’ve the option of jointing each set of four planks to make four 0.9m to 1.0m book matched ‘slabs’. Maybe table tops? Planks are generally very good, with a few small / pinhead knots. A few splits around the heart in some boards, but I’ll cut that off in due course. Overall, looks like grades 1A and 1B based on the pictures in the publication ‘Making the Grade’. Not bad for a 160 / 170 year old garden tree and thankfully no nails. Re the volume of useable timber, the log started as about 40 hft (hoppus measure). After milling there is an average 10 planks per quarter and a total from the four quarters of about 30 cu ft of planks including sap. Having measured the planks excluding bark, sap, heart and splits, the quartersawn heartwood volume is 20 cu ft with planks generally 200mm+ width with a max of 270mm width and up to 350mm at the flare at the bottom of the log. Interesting to see that the heartwood measure is half the hoppus measure, which I guess gives a better idea of the ‘value’ in a log? The upper log was milled slightly differently to the earlier sketch. I was looking for roughly 10 x 2 planks which will be trimmed to different widths after drying to exclude sap, etc. Just aiming to have some stock of oak, not for anything specific at the moment. There was a shake I’d forgotten about, we found a patch of rot from a broken branch and other issues, so we adjusted the cut pattern as we progressed to keep faults on the sides of planks rather than in their centre. Got 18 square edged planks with six quarter sawn / ray flecked planks, three either side of the heart, plus flat and rift sawn planks. All the planks from both logs now moved from the sawmill and about half stacked and sticked with 20 x 12mm sticks at 400mm centres. Waiting for storm Amy to pass in the meantime and after finishing the stacking, will cut and split all the offcuts for our stove. Nothing wasted! Overall, milling these two logs has yielded some good timber for my ‘a hobby woodworkers’ future use. And lots of fun! Andrew

Could be a place to visit one day.