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Got to be worth sticking it on eBay ahead of scrapping, surely? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Ring it into 250mm - 300mm rings. Stack at point of cutting. Take photos and list on eBay as free firewood for collection. Offer customer £50 off for the disruption of having to let people into their garden to collect the wood. Then sit back on the beach and relax with a nice cream and beer... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I sat outside fixing my daughter's bike on Sunday evening, ended up with two patches of bites on my back - about 9 in one patch and half a dozen in the other. Going down now but itched like buggery for a few days... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Having some fun in the England under 20s training camp... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I know, if you don't ask you don't get, but if this tactic yields results then there's some very generous people out there! WANTED FREE petrol chainsaw | Nottingham | Gumtree Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I'm up to about 28 donations but have had a few on and off years. My thought was always that if me or my family were ever in need, I'd hope the blood would be available. So if I should expect someone else to have given their blood, then I should be prepared to give mine too. End of. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

If they get the money they're asking for on this, all you log boys out there must be millionaires!!! FIREWOOD LOGS/TREE CUTTING | Erdington | Gumtree Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I did my own a few years ago, 8 by 6 but built on 3x3 cross section base, marine grade walls covered with ship lap to look better, made my own hinged windows, 3x2 framing. I wouldn't say it was difficult, I took a bit of time to think about what I wanted but did a lot of making it up as I went along. It was still standing when we moved house a couple of years later, never built with dismantling in mind and sadly was too bloody heavy to move intact unless I'd hired a very large crane to reach core a terraced house! I think from memory it cost about the same as buying one from a shed maker (not a DIY chain) but was about 5 times as solid... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Announced today that he's made it into the England 7's squad for this weekend so hoping he gets to participate... http://northamptonsaints.co.uk/News/TabId/90/ArtMID/526/ArticleID/4872/England-Sevens-call-for-Packman’s-pace.aspx Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

In the village I grew up in, we had a timber and asbestos transport cafe, until it became unable to cope with food standards and got shut. Rather than get it professionally dismantled, it was burned down - and after the flames had died down, my mates and I went for a look. For some reason, I decided it'd be a good idea to jump into the embers and stand on one of the brick pillars that had held the floor of the cafe up. Unsurprisingly, after a few seconds it felt very hot but I got out without injury. At other points in my youth, we also experimented with Molotov cocktails, tied fireworks together and found out that if you let a rocket off downwards into a pond, it makes a really satisfying "crump" noise like the sound effects of depth charges in a war film... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Slightly above budget but we got a DRU44 multifuel a couple of years ago and I'm impressed with it. They are rated for continuous use, firebox is not huge but then for a 5kW stove probably not that much difference from its peers. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Any news on this one? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

And no primer bulb, one thing I don't need to worry about! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

No, carb gauze is clear, no holes in fuel line and I tried it with the fuel filter off and it still wouldn't pull fuel through. The carb is all screwed together snugly. Got a day off tomorrow so may dismantle again and check the impulse lines and engine case screws! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

My missus has done something mishap-wise to every car she's had in the last ten years, ranging from minor knocks in car parks to demolishing a lamp-post. We're on her fifth car and I can't face totting up how much we've spent on garages but the list goes like this: Nova - carpark - broken headlight and indicator, dented leading edge of wing, third party car damage of about £300. Golf (1) - slid on roundabout going too quick on cold slippery road - new bottom suspension arm, suspension leg, track rods, drive shaft. (2) scraped rear wing on corner of garage - body shop job (when I say scrape, I mean about an inch deep dent on the front edge of the wheel arch). Ka - (first brand new car) - scraped rear arch on bollard in carpark. Note - (second brand new car) (1) stoved trailing edge of NSF wheel arch on log by side of road, (2) slid on ice and flattened lamppost, insurance repair Zafira - cracked and distorted front bumper and grille when starting without taking out of gear, leapt forward and hit the bumper of the towbar on my Trooper. So if the OP's other half has only done for one car - want to swap?! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Colour right for alder but the bark looks a bit smooth? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Had it apart today out in the daylight and fresh air! Fuel line okay, filter seems to be okay, diaphragms in the carb okay, but no fuel lift from the tank into the carb, even when I tried taking the filter off completely. No fuel making its way into the pipe, either when pulled on the starter cord or primed with fuel into the carb. Got me flummoxed but it is looking like becoming a boat anchor, which is a shame - always cut well, piston, bar and several chains in good nick. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I understand that squaddies in WW2 were instructed to piss on each other's bits after a visit to a house of ill repute to reduce the risk of STDs. Again, relates to the antiseptic properties I guess. We had some builders that were heavy drinkers working on our house; they used to go for a wazz at the back of our garage - we noticed that after a few months, they killed the grass and nettles, but a couple of years later growth came back greener than ever. I assume it was a large amount of urea initially, which after being broken down by the soil left a nitrate rich environment. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

So - my faithful(ish) first ever saw is refusing to start. Realistically I don't need it as I've bought a Husky as a replacement, but I'm tight and don't want to throw it away... It's an Aldi job (was given to me) and over the years I've done a few minor fixes but the situation now is: - it's got spark and compression - I'd done things like heat the spark plug up to make sure it wasn't oiled but with no success - the fuel is fresh(ish) and it will fire and run for 2-3 seconds if the carb is primed direct e.g. with the air filter taken off and a dribble of petrol I am therefore assuming it's starved of fuel - blocked filter or perished fuel line? Anyone got any pointers on where to start to dismantle? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

BTU, therms, Gigajoules, kWh are all units of energy and effectively interchangeable. The calorific value of solid fuels tends to be set out in GJ per tonne, i.e. the quoted market API#2 coal price is based on a standardised CV of 25.121 GJ/ton net cv. The net cv is how much useful heat comes out of the fuel (after the water content has been 'boiled off' to go up the chimney). Net cv therefore varies with moisture content as well as chemical structure of the fuel. There are tables of published cv for fuels (including woods) and whatever the result of the particular fuel is can be converted into all manner of other units using an online calculator at http://www.cleavebooks.co.uk - go to the specialist calculators on line section, then the energy link. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

We have a 33kV power line through fields at home. When the line got re-poled a few years back and a scaffolding gantry was needed to put a safety net from our land across the adjacent A-road, we got left with loads of scaffold clips and a "man putting an umbrella up" road sign... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Can't believe they'd dismantled the others in sections and yet decided to do that one as a single fell. Not like it was unclimbable... Still, every day is a lesson, eh? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Did you ask if you can go and see it in the flesh? Or if too far, arrange for someone else to do so? His feedback looks good but personally I'd want to see it on the ground... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Same with Stihl saws the last time I checked. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

We've recently decommissioned two Wartsila 18V46 engines at work. 18 is the number of pots, and 46 is the cylinder diameter in cm. They are rated at about 22,000 hp each (or were, when they worked!) Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App