openspaceman

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.

Is this surprising given the price america exacted for winning the war in europe, not to mention owning Japan.

Tetanus shirley

Yes but that would be retrenchment pruning rather than retrenchment , which is a natural process.

Deadwooding which can apply to any tree.

You are the one with the higher education, precis it.

I'll kick off; retrenchment happens when a mature oak tree can no longer support a full crown due to some outside influence. It allows major scaffold branches to die back from the tips whilst it supports new growth lower down, forming a secondary crown from adventitious buds and epicormic growth. The tree becomes stag headed. We often see this in pasture where cattle or horses have poached the root area. The central roots of large veteran trees will often die because the soil has become anaerobic by them, this is the start of hollowing as mostly saprophytic fungi eat out the inert heartwood over many years. I assume retrenchment pruning is where the dead branches are cut off, which probably involves cutting into some live sapwood as appears to have happened in this case, as some shoots have sprouted from by the cut branches. They appear to be live, I presume they did not retain leaves that died in the summer, so it will be interesting to see how they flush this spring. The change in soil levels and hydrology may well have started the die-back. The tree has a reduced sail area and a functioning root system so I see no reason to be especially concerned from the information given and shown. I take it that if the tree dies naturally the TPO becomes void? and no replant condition?

I did, it had 125k miles on it when I picked it up and 305k when I handed it back.

OTOH the £3000 it cost in damages could well have been worth it to him as long as the thing that remains doesn't sprout.

I think they are left high before removal to avoid trip hazards.

Looks like a repurposed ammo box with a 12V winch built in to it.

It is a shame you are so far away as I would buy a few logs from it, sizes seem just right for me, I would need to rethink storage and seasoning.

Poor mutilated old cup rack, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns its toes up. The previous reduction has hidden the symptoms of decline and probably worsened it, I doubt the ganoderma at the base would have killed it but imagine some other pathogens have got in and developed over a fair period.

So in practice what are the length variations on your? How heavy is it? Is it available to buy my side of the water?

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Most of the water in a green log is simply filling the wood cells and is lost relatively easily if the surrounding air is low humidity and it can migrate out of the wood to the surface. As air becomes warmer it can hold more moisture as vapor, so warm dry air can remove a lot of moisture wheras cold 99% RH air can carry no more. Once the moisture content falls below about 25% all the free cell water is gone and the remaining water is lightly bound to the woody molecules. This water is a bit more difficult to remove but as it is lost the wood shrinks, a bit like the way copper sulphate holds waters of crystallisation, if you heat it this is driven off and the colour changes from blue to white. The other thing, as @BillQ notes, wood is hygroscopic, once it is below 25% and only contains the bound water its moisture content rises and falls a it reaches an equilibrium with the ambient air, so in a wet winter it will re adsorb water to up to 17% if it is cold and humid and in a hot summer it will dry down below 10%.

Yours shears through 7"? I would be quite happy with one that cut up to 4" if the length were no more than 9" for small stuff and at least 6" for 4" stuff.

Nicely done, I make my own handles too but much cruder than what you have done.

I still cannot see why it should produce different length cuts. I had thought it would always cut the distance two blades are apart. Can anyone explain why?

I think I would pass a chainsaw file across that inner beak, little at a time, until it was right but not too close to the edge. it doesn't have to be razor sharp.

Will it be that the fuel pump has to be recognised by the ECU?

Makes no sense to me best go back in the box because I don't want to have to spend time working your meaning out.

Not much has changed in 35 years then. I had an early one from Gordon Hoy when he made them in Devon. He got the basic drawing by projecting a photograph and getting the basic dimensions from that but the proportions for the rams meant the crane didn't hackle as well as the original. The main lift ram was single acting but the quality of materials must have been lacking as to vent the small amount of oil that seeped past the seal there was a small hole at the top of the stroke through which there was a spurt of oil if you went to full lift. Because the main lift ram was over sized it could lift a lot close in, probably good for arb work where you just wanted to get big logs off site but the lack of coordination between the functions meant productivity wasn't up with the Cranab and FMV I owned (and still do), not helped by the cheap and stiff spool block.

I can see some sort of rubber protection around the cables in the second picture but cannot make out the layout of the cables. Back in the day I when I was employed by a firm that regularly did bracing we attached the cable to eye bolts or screws into the branches or stems. That way the tree was not constricted as it grew in diameter. I know synthetic hollow braid rope is used now as it accommodates the growth.

I'm not sure satire has ever changed politics, after all our quasi democracy depends on committees that have their own agendas to select candidates. I saw how flawed american foreign policy was in my youth and it has only got worse fifty years later. Not being a fan of their politicians at all but this seems to show some americans realise what they have done. Heaven help the Taiwanese now, they don't have rare minerals the americans want.