openspaceman
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I have the Record No.6 fore plane I queued for in the fifties, It was a Saturday morning in a dedicated tool shop, Skeet and Jeffes, and one took a plastic number from a caddy and waited to be called, the service was terrible. It's under my bed to keep it rust free. We have a cluster of asbestos related disease locally, associated with the local gasket factory, the medical officer, my GP in 1972, was in denial about it then, when I left the practice (after 71 years) I noticed his name was not in the practice history.
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Yes, it's a very long time since I was involved in conifer plantation forestry and I cannot remember it causing significant damage to douglas but things have moved on and its hotter and drier plus you are a few hundred miles south and further from the coast, so hotter still.
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Mildew is a fungus (from america about 100 years ago) this adelgid is a small aphid like insect. It is like the knopper wasp in that it has two successive hosts and it affects one more than the other. Also from america
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on douglas fir
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Adelges
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Any suggestions or do you ask pharmacist? I assume antibiotics cannot be bought without a prescription.
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That's what I was thinking, an engine that hunts on high idle with the governor opening and closing the butterfly is normally from a blocked (idle) jet. It doesn't explain popping on overrun which normally means some unburned fuel or flame carrying over into the exhaust.
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There's one being made near Havant. My well has run dry which surprised me.
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It is mould growth, whether precipitated by ash dieback or just ordinary invasion of wet cut wood. Get it split and seasoned below 20% mc and it will get no further, left in the round and it will affect the dry matter calorific value.
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Similar to a stail engine
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Cast Loader opinions, 825d specifically or others too??
openspaceman replied to TreeAbility's topic in Large equipment
I quite fancy a play with their battery electric one, it would be great for liberating fallen timber from the open space across the road. What is the legality of using one on a public road, does it count as a pedestrian controlled machine? -
A good thing about the aspen can is that it pours well without a spout compared with a plastic petrol can.
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More likely hispidus isn't it? mind I'm not sure about those gills as I thought it had tubes.
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So two pipes to bulb, the saw should still work if you clamp shut the pipe from the carb to the bulb
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It depend where the leak is. I'm not familiar with the saw, is the purge bulb mounted on the carb or remote? does the carb have a check valve? The saw I had with a failed check valve filled the bulb with bubbles when it ran.
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Housing shortage, so what’s going on here then?
openspaceman replied to Steve Bullman's topic in The Lounge
Because the prices have taken a dip and the developers are hoping the capital valuation will rise in the short term. -
If you consider what these species were used for as charcoal it may not be what you want charcoal for. Alder because it was soft and could be finely ground to make gunpowder and willow because it was used for drawing and left a black mark, again because it was soft. There were two species that the guys I worked with avoided, poplar and sweet chestnut, both because the either crumbled or shattered in the ring kiln. Having said that there should be a better market for fines now as biochar, we had to discard it.
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that puts engine heat into the carburettor compartment which is the last thing you need
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Husqvarnas of that era were prone to vaporising the fuel in the carb which made hot starting a problem. modern saws with purge bulbs can mitigate this by circulating cooler fuel through the carb.
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Yes that's right. The other thing is as the flail only rotates one way the motor drain is normally dumped into the return line, it's reversing motors that need a dedicated drain to tank.
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I still use green cans for neat and red for 2t, and yes red 2t oil because it is more visible. I don't have 4 mix engines but it was my understanding they need higher specification and lower ash. What I don't understand is how Stihl HP is red and to Jaso FB , suitable for most saws, HP super 2 is green and to Jaso FD, suitable for 4 mix saws too but a couple of quid more expensive and HP Ultra 2 is green, fully synthetic but only Jaso FB plus twice the cost. It's weather like now that stresses the lubrication more than winter but I don't know whether Jaso FB has any less lubricity than Jaso FD because the main difference is in the detergent effects, i.e Jaso FD should keep the engine cleaner.
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I thought they needed to be factory pressed on or am I misremembering? @Jase hutch
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I agree with Alex that red is best for checking there is oil there but I gather the Stihl red is not good enough for modern saws, I currently have Stihl HP super but will try the Oregon if it meets the same spec.
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I agree, although I do a small patch by cutting daily, by hand, it has given the tussock grass and two heathers a chance to re establish. Once I no longer control the bracken it will take over again as the rise in fertility will favour it over heathland. We have a large area of original heath but as grazing largely ceased 200 years ago and the increased fertility has favoured an increase in bracken such that it covers a high percentage of the area. Take the council owned common cut by the A3 where they have built a much vaunted heathland bridge. Because of bird nesting worries no work is done in summer and bracken covers 50% of the western side and increases by nearly 3 metres each year. Nothing of concern nests in bracken and frequent cut and collect could begin to address the fertility and alelopathic nature of bracken litter. Well yes but hanging people for it seems a bit extreme.
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Just tucking your trousers into your socks cuts the risk of one getting in. They tend to climb up until they find a warm moist bit to settle in to. So far none this year, and I cut bracken daily, 5 on me last year before I took this simple precaution. I'm fairly certain some migrate onto me from the lap dog.
