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  1. openspaceman
    I had some bags of loggets which were sawmill slabwood that had been chunked with a branch logger and they burned well, a bit tedious feeding the fire but okay.
  2. openspaceman
    Yes but most parks will not be registered common land and neither is CRoW access land. Often common land is also covered by local byelaws, mind I am not aware of a byelaw covering climbing trees, free climbing was a boyhood activity on the common here.
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    openspaceman replied to Woakesart's topic in Picture Forum

    Bound to be, the place has been closed and demolished apart from a gas fired turbine. One of the local farmers tried to get them to take woodchip from his short rotation willow planting, the railway from Bristol that delivered the coal ran through his farm, but they wouldn't entertain it. It grew rank and he had to give it away, must have been 20 years ago.
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    I do for locks. Have little use for carabiner nowadays.
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    It's the threads of mine which would potentially wear out first, being aluminium male and female. I have a mix of aluminium and fibre glass poles (for utility work) but nowadays as long as not working near electricity I would probably replace with carbon fibre tubes.
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    Have a look at HBM poles, they look like the same size and thread as my old set which were probably the same as the Stanton Hope ones, still the most capacity lopper head I've seen. ps I have measured mine and the thread seems to be M26 with a fine thread of either 1.5 or 1.75mm pitch
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    Too true
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    Yes I believe that sort of thing happens. It was an unusual case that if you took your test before a certain date you got this entitlement, the law changed and those with the entitlement had to prove that they were using it at the time, I think this involved a letter proving you were a professional driver. If you weren't able to prove it, or like most of use, were unaware of the need to send in documentary proof, you automatically had the note (107??) added to the licence and were downgraded. Then new drivers had to pass the c1+E to be able to pull heavier trailers.
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    @Billhook made his own with videos. I would like to see one dealing with a big beech or oak fork
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    I don't know but @Justme was the expert on trailers, I don't think he reads this forum now.
  11. openspaceman
    Trailers need type approval nowadays or individual vehicle checks and I doubt this one is even CE marked being a chinky knock off. Nothing to stop you getting an iva Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA): trailers - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single trailer, or a very small number of trailers.
  12. openspaceman
    Whatever you do decide with the landlord what each of you wants from this, write it in a contract. Remember a gentlemens' agreement is an agreement between two people, neither of whom are gentlemen and neither expects to fulfill his part of the agreement. I can relate a story or two about gentlemens'' agreements. From what I understand you do not have much to bring to the table and are at the mercy of your landlord's goodwill.
  13. openspaceman
    The injury was real enough but it was in the days before Riddor ( or chainsaw competency requirements) so no questions were asked.
  14. openspaceman
    One of the lads I employed in the late 80s was cutting by his feet and caught the trousers, the chain dragged the protection round and the chain and bar the other way and cut his calf, seemed a bit strange but that's what he said.
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    Yes I worked with Bruce when he was with the NT and his late son (who I thought was Steve) when he had a sawmill
  16. openspaceman
    It's difficult to say how its going to go, people getting heat pumps may well still have a stove for the very cold days, I logged up some ash for a baronet in this position. People like me who heat with wood do so because they cut for themselves rather than buy it in. Not much chance of that you have to build up your own goodwill and customers come and go. I think dryness is an issue but I guess most wood is air dried, what yo will need is space and time plus the ability to build up a stock. In my village one log merchant gave up with the coming of woodsure and another stopped logs and went for biomass. ps I used to do business with a woodman with your name some 30 years ago
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    Breaking g an injunction is contempt and dealt with severely
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    This is a situation where the police are unlikely to get involved. I have recent knowledge of a case where an recently built house wanted the shade from some oak and ash trees reduced by lopping 5 metres off the 20 metre trees. The land adjacent, on which the trees stood, is a private common. The landowner became aware of the plan and told the house owner not to touch his trees.He went on an extended holiday leaving his son at home. The householder had a gang in and topped the trees and would not stop when asked. I received a phone call from Australia asking me to take photos but it was too late.When the landowner returned there was little to be done as it was difficult to put a value on the loss. The only thing |I think could have been done would have been a solictor's letter and a n injunction preventing the work.
  19. openspaceman
    I have only used it to seal a steel tank on a LR 101 and it worked ok. I also had a Kawasaki 305 which had been seals with something that flaked off and blocked the carbs and filter . Was a job to remove it and start again with braze. As I said epoxy and fibre glass worked for me
  20. openspaceman
    Picture of mine with a 30 year old repair Araldite and glass fibre with carbon fibre stitched repair added much later I have since given up with the Stihl bar from oiling issues and bought a 3/8 sprocket to make use of an unused 26" bar I had
  21. openspaceman
    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.
  22. openspaceman
    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.
  23. openspaceman
    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
  24. openspaceman
    on douglas fir
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    Adelges

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