openspaceman

Now he's dead and gone

Nor me as I don't have one but as you say wet and dry round the circumference of the bore not up and down. The idea being the scratch marks retain a bit of the oil.

@Steven P are you confusing it with the old lady that swallowed a fly?

That's right it is used as a desiccant, it kills the standing crop and that dries the grain plus it kills any green weeds, making no till direct drilling possible. In my youth sulphuric acid was used to kill the haulm on a potato crop then paraquat came along until it was banned and I suppose glyphosate became cheap enough to use.

Make sure you clean the carbon out of the ring lands before you put the new one on.

Dendrocoupe? I don't like them from a safety point of view, they tend to fail very suddenly, often because the root hairs rot and the soil holding of the root is lost. When they set totem poles a good length of stem is set in the ground and the failure point around the soil level is more visible.

Normally done by swapping the earth and gun leads

Gives time to do the crossword then.

Yes, Danny's sip has 8mm and does both general and car work but I used to use 0.6 for cars and generally reverted to stick for agricultural repairs. It's TIG where I forget to switch the gas on to weld stainless so I never got the hang of that compared with oxy-acetylene.

I thought argon mixes generally gave less penetration than CO2 by itself, smoother though. I really should learn why some CO2 is necessary with Mig and steel. Is pure argon used to mig aluminium and stainless? My mate has just on site fabricated an exhaust for one of my Counties with his old sip mig, I was thinking of treating him to an inverter mig. As an aside the Bluetti power station packed up after about an hour, it may prove to be a bad purchase, haggling with warranty claim currently and only get one response a day.

I did wonder what happened, all my original saws had Tillotson carbs. I guess other firms could mass produce cheaper.

@Billhook had one built from poplar years ago

Like many weeping willows the lesions on the shoots look like anthracnose, which will be an annually recurring thing. The rot at the base is different and probably started from old damage, it may well cause the tree to fail.

Yes and move up a grade of oil to something like 15-40 if it a modern engine where a 5-30 is the norm. thin oils are only for fuel economy not engine longevity

This is the case with the open space near me but they will not allow motor saws so I give it a miss if I cannot pick it up. I notice other log fairies do it surreptitiously with battery saws.