openspaceman
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Are you an optimist? Is the metal pump inside the plastic like this ? If so you should be able to screw an M5 or M6 pan head screw in and tap it out with a slide hammer. It is very important to line up the inlet and outlet ports to the plastic housing when you put it back. They were about 15 quid when I last fitted one to a petrol chainsaw about 9 years ago.
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I remember one of the firm's trailers losing a wheel on the M25 but I was busy elsewhere and never found out the cause. Spectacular tailback in the rush hour is all I got told.
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Do trailers under 750kg legally need suspension. I would like to know what the point of failure was, was it steel breaking or the stub pulling out of the rubber suspension component?
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Have access to some wood...not sure what it is?
openspaceman replied to slicendice73's topic in Tree Identification pictures
First set look like sallow to me, second set definitely a willow. -
Similar with mine. I guess I might try the recipe to make the most pf a pig if I butchered my own but the time is long gone for that.
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I had a quick look at the ingredients of Tesco faggots and they have several extras. I doubt any local butchers make them.
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I thought it was pig offal: heart, kidney, liver and possibly more, minced up and fried with onions and herbs but never tried making it and have not eaten any for decades. I like most of the offal dishes, black pudding, haggis etc. but finding them with no artificial ingredients is the problem. For some reason I cannot face tripe.
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Homemade?
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What’s your policy re. music in work vehicles?
openspaceman replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in General chat
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Yes looks likely for hot dipping creosote. The dry wood was loaded into tanks, normally in steel crates, cold. Then heated to expel air in the wood, then cooled to suck in the creosote. I think they may have heated again to expel excess creosote. If the wood was wet it would foam over, like potato chips into hot fat, and the lot would go up.
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As long as there is a fair amount of cabbage it can include other veg, I preserved a glut of marrow with some ginger for flavour. I wish it could have less salt. Apart from preserving veg it is good for gut health, like a lot of live fermented foods.
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Blast, I composed it earlier and forgot to send it
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isn't owning groundsmen slavery?
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It looks like it was hit very hard to break a cutter, the other cutter in view is too blunt to cut. It reminds me of using steel wedges to assist getting a trapped saw out when the tree sat back ☹️. Should be easy to make 3 good chains out of 4 with 6 presets and tie straps. It looks full chisel in the picture
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Hmm about 75 foot pounds of muzzle energy
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Yes it is usually possible to press out a bent tie strap and preset or even replace a bent drive link or cutter. You can do it with a centre punch, hammer and just the anvil, with the correct slot to fit the chain. It's often not worth the effort if the chain is half worn. Rivet spinners are a bit better but need a good initial tightening so the rivet is firmly home before spinning. If the rivet is spun over too lightly it just mushrooms the head and leaves the joint weak.
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I agree with Stubby, if it starts easy enough with the decompression button in use it, it takes strain off the starter mechanism.
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I would not worry in a woodland setting, apart from the loss in production but you have answered your own question; the tree is compromised to the extent that arching limbs may fail, especially after fresh damage, it is not a tree of good form and it is not a tree for a garden with limited space.
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That's what I did back in the 80s but kept snapping the line
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Are they still legal? I have the remains of one in the loft which I bought as I was lousy at throwing a line into a tree. It didn't work well and got put away.
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Is this surprising given the price america exacted for winning the war in europe, not to mention owning Japan.
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Tetanus shirley
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Yes but that would be retrenchment pruning rather than retrenchment , which is a natural process.
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Deadwooding which can apply to any tree.
