openspaceman

I have had similar problems with a bunch of thin poles in a device like this, both moving and rotating, but never enough to pull the chain over. As a method I gave it up as much arb waste I get is bigger and the thin stuff goes through the chipper. I shall revisit it for crosscutting the poles we get ,volunteering, removing invasive species, principally cherry laurel. Also holly and birch from the heath. I had hoped to find a branch logger that would cut things at around 8" long. The smaller ones at 4" cut length are just too difficult to store and handle at home.

I can't see how a switch would work as the voltage from the lorry bulbs would be 24 even if the trailer bulbs were 12, Easier to fit LEDs to trailer then it would be happy with 12V or 24V. Unless the devil has been at work and a CANbus is involved.

OTOH I was out with the Ramblers today and we cleared a bramble infested footpath to 4m width for 1/4 mile today. True there were 8 of us and a single worker with a clearing saw and mulching blade could have done it in a day, but we got it done.

This tacit acceptance of extra judicial killing disturbs me. AFAICS he forfeited the rest of his life when he murdered the girls and should have been executed humanely immediately, the same goes for many of the murderers housed in prison.

Wouldn't surprise me, it's crude and unwieldy and I haven't used mine since I stopped using the 162 it fitted. I did use Stihl BT45s 15 years ago and they are not available now but were much better. I think a powerful SDS type battery drill would do the job now.

Yes, this is a lag screw with half a chain link welded to the head, they were made locally and sold by Honeys. One would pre tension the cable by first fixing it to one stem then pass the wire rope trough the next, with a thimble, and attach a thing called a "draw vice winch" to the bitter end. Then place the bulldog clips. I cannot remember being involved much as I was a minor climber and it was a lead climber job but I did do a bit with lag bolts after 1987 for one firm. As I said I never saw results, did the lag bolts pull out? I can't see the rods with diamond washers pulling through. I never used cobra.

You haven't gone and got an old landrover to paint have you?

Doubt it, SS depends on an atomic layer of chromimium oxide forming, in an anaerobic atmosphere the acid will react with the oxide (metallic oxide plus acid yields metallic salt plus water) more readily than the acid attacks the metal, however once fresh iron is exposed it too is eaten. I previously posted a picture of a perforated ss flue pipe where this had happened.

I don't know. I remember some intense cabling on the cedars by the RAC club building in Epsom but have never been back. I was working for Cyril Reddick but cannot remember much else it was 50 years ago. Atom drill is a chainsaw attachment, if I remember I will add a photo.

Much as I would expect. I keep stumm as I have a limited vocabulary dotted with expletives, to my shame. I was actually just commenting that a poster can be hauled up for poor spelling or grammar as well as using contemporary good english.

Back to the topic; 50 years ago we would have bored through that crotch with an atom drill on a chainsaw (still have it in the garage), chiselled diamond rebates in the bark for the washers and a steel rod and wound 3/4" nuts on both ends. Maybe fix some 1/2" galvanised cable with lag bolts, thimbles and bulldog grips higher up the fork and a 2" plastic drain pipe bored and angled from the bottom of the split for good measure. Probably brushing arbrex over any newly exposed bits of wood.

Yeah you go for the chav speakers and Alex for the toff speakers. I used to know what a gerund was 60 years ago.

I think the basic Octopus Go is 9p/kWh 23:30 to 04:00, Intelligent gives you an extra hour and has increased to 7.5p/kWh since Sunday for newcomers. With Intelligent you have to let them control when the car will charge and sometimes this will be outside the guaranteed hours . They want you to keep the car plugged in as often as possible in order to do this but they are finding ways to stop people taking advantage of the extra slots AND the guaranteed ones by restricting total charging to 6 hours. As I said this may have implications for charging the house battery.

I don't know, he thought it was to do with a fly associated with the birch.

This is why it is necessary to wire the charger separate from the house consumer unit. With Intelligent Go Octopus decide when to charge the car and that can discharge a home battery unless configured correctly. Ultimately you need to look at sensing when Octopus charge your car and charge your home battery at the same time but not much of a problem all the time Octopus give a 6 hour cheap slot that is predictably between 23:30 and 05:30. They are talking about penalising you if you draw more than 6 hours cheap electicity and if they control when your car charges you could draw from the grid more than 6 hours in total