Canal Navvy
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First year selling and lost already!
Canal Navvy replied to WoodlandWilf's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
😉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. 🤔
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 🙂
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Pairs of neodymium magnets sewn into pouches could work, it doesn't take that much jiggling to get them to join around a stem. I've only ever used them to get a pull rope around a tree branch that was stuck in a fast flowing river 🙂
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Is it safe to cut down this cherry tree?
Canal Navvy replied to sal123's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
With the caveat that a historically underpinned building with its new foundation on desiccated clay can heave. I've only ever seen it once though and haven't read about it either, so not a significant risk 🤔- 10 replies
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Waste of good ratchet straps 😕
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Thanks for the update, it really is helpful for future searchers 😀 I found your observation on the pm2.5 being higher than in the city sobering and thought provoking 🤔
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Air con is pretty power hungry, a fairly common hatchback like the VW golf has 8kW of cooling while having an alternator of 2kW.
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The alternator on your vehicle adds load to your engine which adjusts by burning more fuel. The fuel you are burning carries road tax and electrical generation from internal combustion is reckoned to be 30% efficient on a dedicated direct coupled set 😒 Currently the most expensive electricity is coming from gas fired power stations that are up to 60% efficient and don't pay road duty. You have further inefficiency by having to convert the nominal 12 volts DC to 240 volts AC and then back to the charge voltage of the batteries on your tools. Having mains voltage out on site can give operational efficiency but in itself can't be cheaper, conservation of energy and all that .....or don't get owt for nowt 🙂 Cheap inverters are cheap for a reason and their "dirty" waveforms don't go well with electronics, a lithium battery charger is most definitely electronic 😁
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Being able to charge from a vehicle is for convenience, it's never going to be less expensive than plugging into the mains 🙂
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Quite definitely the best hat stand I've seen on arbtalk 🙂
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Have you tried a hot pressure washer/steam cleaner ? , they usually seem pretty efficient at taking paint off machines 🤔
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Seen it this year in a still establishing mixed species farm hedge, be very surprised if the bird cherries survive 😐
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Forklifts using 50% more clear diesel than they did on red?
Canal Navvy replied to difflock's topic in General chat
Fascinating observation Wondering if the white combusts with less knock than the red and the drivers are subconsciously using more of the right foot 🤔 -
Worth being aware that the standard snap in rubber tubeless valve is only rated to 65 psi 😉
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I'm on the same tyre but 255/85 r16 and on a 110 hi-cap. I run 35psi front, 50 psi rear. I started with getting the front tyres to a pressure that they looked and steered nicely then upped the rear pressures until the rolling radius was the same.
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When she's finished you off ................................................................... ................. any plans for Daisy's future ? 😁
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Generic 1600 kg tirfor, ifor tipper behind land rover with mini-digger aboard, cut stems to five foot , track up ramps with stem 😀 Distance is always the killer with bulk on haulage 😔
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I wish somebody would offer me free standing firewood for the pleasure of felling it 🙂
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Copper Beech next to house extension - viable??
Canal Navvy replied to LalaBarr's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
If you remove it now pre-planning you'll remember it with a gentle regret 🥲 If you leave it and try to work round it you will certainly grow to hate it with a passion 👹 -
I used to think that the Duddon Valley was where I ought to be, trouble is all of the other visitors thought the same and now it's dead. Twenty five years ago there were two school minibuses and the pub had local accents in. Virtually any property that comes on the market gets snapped up by those who visited for all night drinking sessions and a good campsite when university students 😒
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In the past I've had some very nice brushed stainless steel thin sheet recovered from old redundant farm bulk milk tank 😀
