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  1. openspaceman
    Unlucky, I had a rail warrant from SWT when I subbed to them but the schedules were so inconvenient I only used it for a few trips to London and one to Exeter and carried on with a van the rest of the time. I never even used it for a jolly.
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    several 9mm copper clad slugs in the base of a pine, I felt each one as the chain went through them, I guess it was an accidental discharge when the machine carbine bumped against the tree.
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    It still is, it has got to about 7m now, each time I see signs of dieback I prune it out. The tree has a lot of leaf damage and some of the branches have been ring barked by something, wasps I think. Interesting question about the allelopathic nature of walnut, I'll have to research it, I was vaguely aware but did not consider it. Now I will have to mind it, as I have planted it alongside a purple spotted orchid I dug up from an extraction ride 30 years ago and it has flowered ever since in the little clod of clay soil I brought it home. it's inside a pot topped up with my sandy garden soil and I have dug in a bit below normal surface . Anyway I'm sure you got the point that life is a continuation and when things go wrong at least a new generation can carry on the genes.
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    Does it fruit? I grew some walnuts from a garden up the road, a lady I had known for years. Three I took to my brother's remote house in Devon, and planted 8ft apart, with the instruction to let them grow and select the best one to grow on. As he was brighter than me and top of his field, he ignored me. On his death when clearing the place for sale I noticed 3 nuts on one tree, brought them home and germinated two. One survived in a pot and I planted it out next to my ash dieback experiment tree, it grew to 2m so winter 23 I planted it in my front garden, it seems to be doing well. I wonder if I will be around to enjoy a nut.
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    I'm very pleases with the insulated steel profile roof I put on my shed. Bought as seconds with with 30mm of insulation built in. Not much of it visible now as I added 8 more PV panels, room for 4 more too and I aim to get 2 on this afternoon.
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    If you get no luck here try Lawn mowers THEGARDENMACHINERYFORUM.CO.UK This board is for all lawnmowers including ride on mowers. If you're looking for advice on how to fix your lawnmower, or... Low volume forum run by @lurkalot
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    No matter whether it can survive it will be so severely compromised that it will have no amenity value if kept
  8. openspaceman
    That looks like a "hazard beam crack" and while it may not affect the stability of the tree for climbing if I were felling it I would be mindful of that crack compromising the hinge if it runs down, especially the way ash will often split. It's half way to a barber chair already.
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    Yes, buy the dispenser bottle and when it is used re fill it with the cheaper stihl standard 1 litre bottle.
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    I don't see why not, the only problem might be high temperature if stall the chain regularly, lacking a chain brake means that being applied will not be a problem.
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    The end grain blocks were usually elm for a butcher's cutting block
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    not seen one anywhere as big but the young thin shoots are sunshoots and seem to be a way the stool manages itself with new growth as the older shoots go moribund. This is why it is so suited to coppice.
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    Probably but many years ago I was taught to file the Danarm 110 with .404 teeth with a file holder that had a plastic knob at the blunt end. This was for tapping the burr off each tooth after it had been sharpened. The reason given at the time was that the burr was the chrome plating on the tooth, to leave it there would cause it to peel off. It certainly isn't the case now, whether the tooth forming process at manufacture is better now I don't know.
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    The BBC must be looking in as they did a short video on petricor What do you call the smell of rain? WWW.BBC.CO.UK
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    I would definitely cook it but the preparation puts me off, cuttlefish fillets?
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    Yup, I fixed a 361 which had been dunked while running, the hydraulic lock when the piston hit water stopped it so suddenly that the flywheel sheared its locating key. New flywheel sorted it.
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    Less is more 🤔
  18. openspaceman
    Good to hear you are still with us, best wishes for full recovery.
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    Yes, I can remember way back getting a Husky stuck at the end of the day and no other saw or axe to get it out. I tried to get the saw off the bar but couldn't quite get the chain loose enough to come over the clutch. Rather than leave it overnight I cut through the tiestrap with a felco wire cutter. @Donnie's tip of withdrawing the saw then using the nose to bore cut the kerf a bit wider repeatedly works too, as long as you do it carefully so that the bottom of the cut has closed on itself before the saw gets jammed. It can be useful if the cut has started wandering off to do this as boring is less affected by one set of cutters being biased to one side if the bar is worn.
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    Prompted by your post today in the"apple tree help" thread here are a couple of photos of mine today: I thought it was going alright, it has set a heavy crop of young fruit but I noticed a bit of wilt on the lowest branch, s cut it off today.
  21. openspaceman
    It looks like the heartwood of a living tree has been decayed by a white rotter, this has eaten the lignin, leaving the squashy white cellulose. So some of the fuel value has been lost, once dry it won't degrade further and as you have got this far I would keep it, it will just take up a bit more space for its calories.
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    You can do this with an inboard clutch but not much chance with an outboard one. No need to cut directly above the pinched chain a few inches to the side is alright, just be aware the saw is likely to fall as the stump goes up and the top down, top may land on it. I used to carry a sharp hatchet for the purpose of freeing a stuck saw as a last resort.
  23. openspaceman
    It's your customers responsibility to get all permissions sorted. To go without permission is trespass, to do work without permission on neighbour's trees is an aggravated trespass with, possibly, criminal damage if my interpretation of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is correct.
  24. openspaceman
    Why not fell small stuff to waste, stacking only bigger stuff to either rot in a stack or extract later?
  25. openspaceman
    Prinz no longer do their debarking attachment, Chainsawbars do one for a sub 45cc saw but it uses a toothless chain to drive the head, like the old Atom drill, instead of a vee belt

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