Canal Navvy

What size are the rears currently?

Looking again at the photo more closely of the tractor those rear rims do look small in diameter and a 15" rim would be correct for a tyre with a 16.9 section width 🤔

15 l means it is fifteen inches wide where the tyre meets the rim and it has a single shallow well between the outside bits of the rim where the beads seat. The 24 is the diameter of the rim in inches that the bead fits tightly on. Those rim sizes look pretty standard for a tractor of that size and shouldn't be to hard to find with an agricultural tread. Oddly enough tyres are usually sized in inches for the diameter and metric for the width

Gotcha 🙂 If you and your client are happy with the willows as they are then there is absolutely no reason to cause them any harm. A few years ago I installed a Tricel treatment plant that serves four holiday apartments that has a pumped outlet through a 63mm MDPE pipe. It would not be that challenging to mole under the trees and cause so little disturbance that by the end of summer they'd be no sign of any works. In your position I'd be resisting trenching as a non damaging alternative is reasonably practible. Hope it all goes well 🙂

I was trying to think of one that was compliant for direct discharge to a water course that didn't need a power supply

As I understand it you are contracting to someone who is having to update their system due to it discharging to a watercourse and have an easement over their neighbours land. In my experience domestic sewage treatment plants need a power supply to operate the aeration system. Selecting a system with a pumped discharge would make it easy to install the pipe run without undue disturbance and without any joints or risk of future blockage.

If its a pumped outlet from a plant then moling under them would be best. If it's a rigid pipe then you'll do less damage going directly for them and accepting some hand digging rather than cutting a whole lot of fine roots with a trench up one side. I would be suggesting that this time of the year is not the best and that it would be better to go for autumn.

I have experience of that stove having installed one and run it for a few years in another property. They came with a loose outlet and a knockout option to either fit the flue outlet out the back or through the top, definitely not an adjustable flue damper. In my installation (listed building) rear exit was chosen to keep the original fire surround. I found it easy to light and as it was lit most days it didn't seem to take long to kick out the heat. I had noticed that when it was "on song" that it had the appearance of jets of flames coming out of the small holes in the secondary burn part of it's permanent air supply. After a few years I had the feeling that it wasn't as hot as it used to be so took the top off and looked inside expecting to find something bunged up with soot. Apart from the soot that accumulates on top of the baffle/secondary air it was clean so I pulled the stove out and checked the secondary burn air intake on the back, also clean. The disappearance of those jets of flame had me thinking that the secondary burn wasn't happening anymore and the only reason left was that too much air was getting into the stove and there was not enough negative pressure to pull a good flow of air through those two rows of little holes. Changed the rope door seals and the little flames came back. My stove stood out in the room more with it's rear flue but was otherwise very similar to yours. Difficulty with stove problems is that there are so many variables 😉

The most effective windbreak is a thick hedge planted some way away that creates turbulence that pushes the worst of the wind way higher than it's own height.

I'm expecting to see that a leading technology company is close to production of a domestic particle filter and is busy creating a market. It'll start with a big tax payer funded grant for the posh houses to build the market and will finish with a mandated service contract for the masses 🤫

Sounds like the Arbortec Fellhunters. I buy boots in plenty of time to get them broken in for work, currently got three pairs on the go, and the oldest feel lovely still 😊

Have you tried Vastern Timber ?

I do hope Yew realise what an awful pun that was ✌️

An Eder is definitely on my wish list, anyone here know if they make their own engines or if not what they are ?

I wonder if the rest of that Lyons sign is still good 🤔

I'm surprised that nobody has said "it's an oak, just climb it" 😁

Bonus of using mirrors without having to think is when you get old and can't look over your shoulder 🙂

You are correct

As Gareth said it complies with the rules. Two loose cubes also fits rather well into the ubiquitous 3.5 tonne Ifor Williams tipper trailer, isn't a struggle to cut & split a load and looks very good value to the customer. A lot of canal trusts do rather well out of direct log sales due to the feel good factor 👍

😉Have you considered logging it up and selling it by the two cubic metre load for people to self season over next summer? The closer you get to the end user the better the return. Firewooding with a few people is not only socialable but can be good for giving new recruits a bit of supervised saw time

Been wondering what length bar is on the saw, poor thing could be being expected to do the work of one of its bigger brothers. 🤔

I've just recently stacked a two cubic metre load that was tipped into a 1.6 m3 trailer (so piled up) and once tight stacked in the wood shed it occupied 1.3m3.

A builders bulk bag is typically around two thirds of a cubic meter. A loose tipped metre cube could with care be tight stacked into a builders bag though.

Cutting well with a pushing chain but having no power with a pulling chain suggests to me that the relative movement between saw body and its vibration isolated handles is having an effect. Restricted throttle movement? Pinching a flexible pipe? Rubbing ht lead? Wonder if any of the rubber antivibration mounts has failed.

I'll certainly be proper jealous of seeing pics of you on a snow groomer 😁 , something I'd love a drive of ......... as would many others on here too I'm sure 😆 It's really quite refreshing seeing your new life and I'm looking forward to your machine arriving and the start of a new episode. Good luck for the new year 🙂