djbobbins

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

He'll be 19 this summer so plenty of developing still to come. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

This is my nephew scoring a cracking try for the Northampton Saints youth team. He got a try on his England U-20 debut at the weekend and was made Man of the Match too. You saw him here first folks :-) Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

It's about five miles from me (close enough that we occasionally go to the chippy in Henley anyway). I've got no own source of wood and have been lucky in the last few years that I've got hold of wood in exchange for labour, but do have space to store and season some wood. Tempted to get a couple in and relax for the summer instead of worrying where the wood might come from! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

If you're prepared to go up in a picker in this wind, I reckon you'll be earning your brass! Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Shame you lost 'em, you could have caught the oil leaks with them! (Sorry, couldn't help it!) Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I'd gladly burn it all day long once seasoned but found it took a couple of years to be really ready for burning - that was summer felled and stacked outdoors though. Like everyone else says - split it when green. I did 2 x 50 foot, 14 inch DBH trees into logs with a cheap Chinese maul and it took my back a long time to forgive me! Or maybe it was trying to split the stump of the second one by hand so I could put my new shed in that finished it off... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Not sure about VW but didn't M-B have a load of recalls and claims about 10 years or so ago on their cars owing to tinworm that made Lancias look solidly engineered by comparison? I think it was when they switched to a lower solvent / solvent free painting technique... Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

Pardon my French, but f@&k me! I just looked at what that price works out at in GBP and nearly fell over. The starting bid is about £3700... I know that doesn't mean someone would pay it but must be some kind of indication of the market price? Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App

I keep looking out for a second hand garden centre trolley, the ones with the single axle and cage about the load bed. My idea was to raise the sides a bit and use that for transporting wood. That one posted earlier on for shifting brash looks like it would double up as a good sawing house, dependent on the spacing of the verticals. Sent using Arbtalk Mobile App