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What size infeed?
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A friend has a UKPK. Lovely thing. My daily is a CRKT with a really slippy detente. I think there’s a thrust bearing in there. The absolute lack of lock reminds me to not try anything too heavy with it and to go and get the right tool. Most useful thing about it is one handed opening AND CLOSING.
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Aye. Same. I've had a plan for ages to build one with two engines. Redderneck. Surely more is wasted making a smaller engine work hard, running it into the no stress, waiting for the revs to come back up when it could be chipping. Accelerating in a car drinks fuel compared to motorway cruising, even with the high speed and (wind) resistance. So? What's the harm in having 80hp on tap and it never hitting the no stress.
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Yeah. I understand the need for them to be running relatively lazily. My example 100hp engine could run at 50hp and still be ahead of the current offerings. And I was being conservative with 100hp. Loads of cars are 150hp, 200hp. One of those doing 75hp would surely be sustainable?
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I’ve often wondered why 6-8” chipper engines aren’t 100hp. Loads of car engines are that sort of power and perfectly reasonably sized.
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I used to collect mussels from underneath the concrete boardwalk along the tidal Wear in Sunderland. Never found a dead prostitute.
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National Dolescum Union (NDU). It's right next door on the keyboard.
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That's magnificent.
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I was saying to a mate the other day while admiring his new poplar burr (and a little ripple) topped guitar that guitar tops is an excellent use of woods that aren’t intrinsically strong and/or stable. A 5mm top is held in place with a 30mm slab of something aesthetically boring behind it. My first thoughts for such tops were poplar, horse chestnut, lime and eucalyptus (for ripple rather than burr). Any other ideas?
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This is what I do. The battery well has a very annoying lip that prevents you tipping the chips out.
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Have the definitive regulations regarding firewood?
AHPP replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Pitchforks. -
lol
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Firstly I appreciate that you actually understood the question and got back to me so quickly. Thank you. I'm afraid there's more to it though. I'm not a scientist or a petrol tool manufacturer but I can still tell you without googling it that the specific gravity of petrol is something like 0.73, not 1. Oil is similarly different. Over 500ml and 310ml, does it matter much? No. But considering you're one of the top two saw manufacturers on the planet, being asked a question by a customer, is it worth being wrong by a quarter when you didn't need to be? Also no. Don't guess at stuff. It undermines other stuff you say and your general credibility. And to be clear, I don't just want to see weights for an MSA300 and an MS261. I want to see weights of all the saws, bars and chains you sell. There's 28 pages in the catalogue for rubber ducks and jenga sets but you haven't found the space for eminently relevant saw specifications. I don't mean to sound unduly critical but customers appreciate detail.
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Confusing mishmash. Get some scales and weigh the powerheads, the oil fills, the fuel fills, the batteries, the bars and the chains SEPARATELY. It only needs doing once (and once in a blue moon for a new product release) and it’ll cost you less than frustrated customers shutting the catalogue on a new saw because they can’t get a straight answer. It’s such an easy bunch of numbers to collect and show and frankly embarrassing that you don’t already. I would suggest you could even compile the weights from your computer system and not have to open a load of boxes but after about ten phone calls to Camberley and Germany last year to try to discover the weight of a bar (not a complicated enquiry), I’m not confident that’s the quickest way. I ended up getting a dealer to put one on a kitchen scale.
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Artificial vs real wood easy use
AHPP replied to Pacemaker1000's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
You should be able to shut it down to burn slower. If you can't, reduce the volume of the combustion chamber with bricks so you burn less fuel but still fast. That'll solve one of your problems. -
Wow! Was that an especially clean batch of wood or do you wash/debark it first?
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Cool project. Keep us updated.
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Don’t you believe it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graphics/2017/04/04/updated-mapped-world-war
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Burn it harder. Fires come on cam so to speak.
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Excellent. I trust performing as hoped? I saw it when you made the conversion and thought it was a neat solution.
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I’ve got a front-and-top loader, a Vermont Intrepid. Not as efficient as a modern stove but the top loading works fine and doesn’t leak smoke into the room.
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That was what I thought of.
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Yeah. It's all relative though. When there was a financial wobble a few years ago (three ish maybe but my perception of time is poor), people quickly land banked and all the small, £1-4m, 1000-5000 acre estates disappeared from sale in weeks. They were fabulous properties. £350-£500 an acre with some developed bits chucked in for free, like a castle, three farms, four big houses, twenty workers' cottages, six running businesses etc.
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Your appraisal (as well as being piss funny) is bob on. It's the same with the north of England. I looked at a characterful rural property in the North Pennines the other day. It can be bloody bleak there. I had a chat with the couple viewing after me. They're leaving St Albans, "for a change of scenery." Well **************** off to Rickmansworth then. They'll stay for five minutes and then decide they prefer Pret a Manger and pollution. They'll also do a number on the property prices that will make the Weimar Republic look pedestrian. I'm going to have to go to Scotland to get ahead of them for five minutes. I am arguably a hypocrite and part of the problem of course. I'm from Suffolk. But I have lived up north for 8 of my 34 years and been a regular visitor for 23 of them. I do fit in as well. I have a few quite local characteristics.
