Matthew Arnold
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Got an FS480 which just died today. Was running at full throtle then just lost all power and compression at about 1/2 a tank. There is compression but you can turn it with your little finger. I think it might be a cracked piston or maybe a blown crankseal. Couldnt hear any whistling as it compressed or went on a cycle. Yet another brushcutter to the dealer.
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My cousin did that so he could wake up at first light and have a few Maggies and foxes. He "forgot" to put the silencer on one morning. She still hasn't forgiven him for making her jump out of bed at 4.30:lol:
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Some of the local dairy farms are on their 3rd silage cut already. The river has really put some good silt into the root systems. Chatting to one of them last week this will be his last then he will let it just grow wild so he can get a hay cut.
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Dont want to get ripped off with livestock fencing installation
Matthew Arnold replied to sasha.p's topic in The Lounge
Might be worth giving Knighton Countryside Management a call as they work all over the country. They do lots of fencing and will use posts that are suitable to the terrain so for your case the wil most likely use tar and creosote soaked ones. -
My old man and i are thinking of going to the show and maybe even have a go on the off road course:thumbup:. Anyone else going?
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There is a field just ouside town that had two strips around the outside of the field to make it easier for the combine to turn around. Its been like that for about 3 weeks now and most of it is now flat. All the combines are clean and several have recently sharpened augers ready for the rape. The fields down by river by the looks of it are going have to be topped as most of it is flat and covered in silt.
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Some very nasty storms over there at the moment. The tree surgeons are going to be kept very very busy for the next few months. BBC News - Tornadoes cause chaos in Poland
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Soundgarden are back and with avengance (pardon the pun) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ZNtOcY_1A&feature=BFa&list=HL1342214559]Live to Rise (From Marvel's THE AVENGERS) - Official Video - YouTube[/ame] Some rather dark 5FDP [ame] [/ame]
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Had a couple od downpours today but mother nature dumped another 3 inches onto sodden ground. The river rose about 4 feet last night and it is still on the rise. I suspect it will be over by tomorrow morning again but to a lesser extent than the weekend just gone.
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You setting up a scout camp to teach them how to split logs with an axe ha ha. What holds it down in the wind? Or are the scaffold poles driven into the ground? You should get a good breeze blowing through there.
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We have two but it is only the older saw (older by a month) that is causing the problems. It occasionally floods easily when started from cold but the compression is good and the piston doesn't look scored.
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It does it when you pull to start it when it has been running for about 15 minutes flat out. Its about 4 years old and has done for the past 3 months. HT lead and earth leads are all good as just been replaced to try and solve issue. Will check the flywheel coil gap tomorrow morning and let you know the outcome.
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It was cancelled on its 49th event down to the same reason as the car parks and walkways were waterlogged. Last years was a bit soggy but they had enough woodchip to put down on the heaviest used sections.
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It started raining at 9.30 this morning and it hasn't stopped all day. After the downpours yesterday the local river was just on top of the banks after it was about 2 feet below the day before. I recon it will be well over again tomorrow morning.
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We use postcrete for putting in our rustic bench legs. We normally use the quickset stuff and buy it in 30 bag batches as we can store it undercover for long periods of time until we need it.
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Not strictly tree related but countryside related
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
This mornings job was to mow around a community orchard. It is normally strimmed but the grass was "too long" for their strimmer. So we brought our rough deck mower and knocked it all flat within 2 hours. The full length skid kept clogging up so we cut a 3 inch piece of steel out of the skid so it could clear the grass. -
Slight derail but what would cause an MS341 to phut/fart back through the carb creating a little cloud of vapour coming from the air intake when started once warmed up?
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Not strictly tree related but countryside related
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
Yet another RoW day only this time more clearance. Managed to clear two footpaths as one of them had been done in the last week. One of the footpaths you could walk down but would have to be crouched most of the way. The other footpath was completely unusable until we went at it with a hedgecutter. -
You just gotta love squirrels. The TO said the trees need to stay for the summer as "nesting habitat". The squirrels must have heard our pleading to get them dropped. so they have gone to town on these two Sycamore and stripped the bark off most of the branches.
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1-4 -Coprinus disseminatus growing on a rotten Ash stump
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Some of this afternoons pic between the showers. 1 - Late Cowslip 2-3 - Hedge Bedstraw 4-8 - Greater Knapweed in area of brambles we flailed then mulched with rotavator
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Not strictly tree related but countryside related
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
Todays little job was to resurface a path. Last month the RoW dept put down stone to make the path more usable the problem was the stone was massive and push chairs couldnt go along it. We put down pea gravel then Mendip type 3 (5mm to dust) then wacker plated it. In a few days with a bit of rain and sun it will go rock hard. -
I beleive so
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Reported this tree to the local EA. Although it doesn't look like it is causing problems to the bridge the "splitter" parapets are only designed to split water and not to hold large trees. They wont touch it until the river drops below the height of the bank. Whats scary is the channel it came down is a man made channel when there used to be a mill there and it normally dry during the summer. Most trees flow as a vast rate of knots and get snapped on the main bridge butresses.
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Ha ha we just drove through there. There were no road closed signs just flood signs at either end. We were being pushed a bit but scarily it has gone down by a foot already. I wouldn't have wanted to drive thru their yesterday.
