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Peter

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  1. Do you mean an assessor as in someone who can assess you for your skills in examining equipment, or someone who can carry out a thorough examination of your equipment?
  2. It was a big field, clear fell of around 200 large trees, so it needed a decent size machine to handle them.
  3. 80mm pin quick hitch? I had a 220 on hire just before Christmas, really impressed with it. Compact but powerful, looked tiny next to a 26 tonne hitachi on the same site but easily chucked some big poplar sticks around.
  4. It's it a grey area, black and white according to vosa.
  5. No import duty inside the EU. If you're vat reg you don't even have to pay the vat upfront, makes buying from EU countries very attractive IMO.
  6. Both overkill for a descender, figure 8 is cheap and simple.
  7. I know that. Your definition is perfectly logical, but unless it is defined in statue or established by legal precedent it's not going to be accepted by a court. Another perfectly logical definition of semi evergreen could be a plant that has leaves for part of the year. It's not botanically correct, do you want to argue it in court though?
  8. I read somewhere recently that the HH applies to any evergreen or semi evergreen species, with the exception of hornbeam and beech. Since there is no legal definition of semi evergreen it can be considered as including all species which have leaves for some portion of the year. Also if there is a dispute between neighbours, whatever the subject, it has to be declared if the property is sold. That can be a pressure point on the owner.
  9. Face is a bit shallow, back cuts a bit high, and your face cuts overlap slightly. Oh and I would have bored the hinge. How's that?
  10. True, if I wanted to see that I could just look in the mirror.
  11. Youve upgrading from the standard Dairy Milk bearings to the high performance 70% cocoa aftermarket ones?
  12. Commercial motor factors sell it in 25l drums, costs about £8-9.
  13. They are designed to be removed and refitted.
  14. Eco plugs are only recommended for broad leaved trees, not sure why though.
  15. Midland Road Springs will make you a custom heavy duty set with an extra leaf in, got a set made for my navara, highly recommend.
  16. My wood turner used to buy all my huge HC and turn them into bowls and platters.
  17. Service metals or Aalco. Search for dropside sections
  18. Scott and Jo are in the masters, not heard anything from today yet.
  19. As long as it's tied halfway up or less, it doesn't matter how high or low you put the sling or half hitch.
  20. The bend radius is the same is the same whichever you do. Using a karabiner in a dynamic loading situation with heavy sections will almost certainly overload it. A shackle would be a better choice. Other than that is doesn't make much difference which method you use.
  21. Peter

    Veg oil

    I use pure rapeseed in all my saws, right up to the 42" on the 660. Have done for about 3 years, no issues so far.
  22. The Samson book is really good, you can get the PDFs as a free download, or get the whole thing as an app.
  23. The area adjacent to the weld is known as the heat affected zone. It is always weakened by the effects of heating and cooling post weld. A properly made weld will always be stronger than the heat affected zone. It would be possible to weld a heat treated piece and then re heat treat it afterwards.
  24. The only real advantages to manual metal arc is changing filler material is easy, and you can use it outdoors without worrying about a shielding gas shroud getting blown away. Other than that mig/mag and mma are very similar processes. Both use an electrical arc to form a weld pool, both shielded in one form or other. It is perfectly possible to produce a joint with good fusion in any process, but it does take a bit more work in the prep, machine setup, and on thicker material preheating and controlled cooling may be needed. I tend to use tig on the thin sheet and ally, and mig on thicker material. Do have arc function on the tig but never use it.

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