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I like these as you sharpen with a chainsaw file, whereas the Maxicut needs a mill saw file and these work out more expensive, especially as 7/32 round files are normal bits of kit in this game.

A sharp chipper cuts it and a less sharp one breaks it up, just watch out for blockages, one piece at a time until you trust the chipper.

Which is why one should never walk past the chute of a working chipper. I've seen the aftermath and the pieces of disc picked out of the back of the truck.

It is an offence under the highways act section 184 to drive over a footpath with no dropped kerb, The offence is enforced by the HA and the fine is 20 quid as long as there is no damage, They can apply for a licence for a dropped kerb and this does not require planning permission, probably costs less than £1500 to do the work. You would have had a right to put a gate from your property onto a public footpath but a lot of alleyways are not public rights of way,

I had a feeling it was there, not me guv honest

Generally the highway extends over the verge so if their land is adjacent to the verge they can do it, driving over a kerb or a sidewalk is unlawful subject to byelaws but it is likely to be an offence against the highway authority rather than anything else

Why shouldn't they access the land from a public highway? Strange thing about a lot of the open spaces in that area (streatham and mitcham commons for instance) do not have statutory protection, they were not registered as common land in 1965

Yes it does look like a fatigue crack, yes I can see there was corrosion under the bolt (machine screw) head both could be from a bit of crap under the head or flexing of an under tightened bolt. You said they came out easily. So you were re using a bolt that had some old damage.

Give over you don't know what treatment the machine or bolt had before you.

It's a growatt system, Site visit next Friday so I'll know a bit more then. I didn't try those because the extra cost did not seem worthwhile and with the battery I can judge whether to use it for the immersion or not, leaving the gas boiler to do its own thing or skip a DHW cycle, the immersion is okay for a shower but too short to heat a decent bath full. There is a loss of about 20% in the conversions though. The first inverter set up I saw in 1974 was a Victron, charged by a lister startomatic. I've not heard of them, the growatt are lipo. I will never recoup the cost of the battery in my lifetime as the best it can save me is £200/annum at current prices but what the hell.

@Gareth Phoenix I think the bolt that broke was an original one, he might have bought some since to replace them. You didn't answer why the anvil replacement is a return to dealer job?

Sorry I don't know, I have used the old 150DHB but never been involved with maintenance, @aspenarb does his own so he may know. PS I have just looked back and see yours is a mini chipper with gravity feed so Bob probably has not dealt with one either.

What normally happens is at the end of a job there is a pile of rakings up to dispose of, sometimes on the nice pea shingle drive at the front of the house where the job was. It should be kept separate and on the truck but... Dirty wood will do less damage than pea shingle but still blunt is blunt. A sharp chipper with the anvil set correctly and not worn will deal with hydrangea, raspberries, hops, bramble etc, but have a sacrificial pusher stick available.

How far back? I drove a FV432 the other day and that seemed quite manageable. The owner of an estate I worked on, a non driver, was conscripted into a tank regiment in 1940. He was the least mechanically minded person, a law graduate never called to the bar. He obviously had not understood how the matilda drove as on his first outing he went down a steep hill and wanted to turn left, so he declutched the left track, presumably didn't apply the brake and was more than surprised when the left track sped up under gravity and the whole plot rolled over. He never said if anyone was killed but he ended up in the infantry at Tobruk and the rest of the war in various prison camps.

The radiotir was of it's time, the main feature was the way if managed with just one radio signal, with modern comms there is no need to be stuck with just one function and indeed the motor could be auto started and throttle modulated to control speed. The double capstan does offer more utility that a normal drum winch. I still like 2t engines for this sort of application in case they get flipped over. At work today while I was stripping several lawsons cypress and our glamorous assistant was dragging and feeding the chipper I was mulling this thread over and thinking about that reciprocating strap with the logs travelling down on it. Back at my last job I had to dispose of a wire cored flip line by DMS that failed a loler inspection, I have used the clutch to pull 13mm steel pins out of the ground for which it excelled. I reckon if the roped was always taught from the bungee the DMS would act as a one way clutch on that system.

Chap I worked with had one in Margam and said were fast for a crawler. I never managed to get a drive in one.

No that's well blunt and power mate rims go on a long time after you'd want to change them 🙂

I'm glad you posted that so I could be on an earner. I rushed home and searched my bookshelf with old advertising bumph I had picked up at shows but became rather dejected when I couldn't find it. I may still have it somewhere but it may have gone in a fit of tidying up.

I have three 30 year old Husky 262s, one of them is always fine, the other two will play up after very hard use logging up in the heat. Worst is if I let them run out of fuel then they will often not fire up readily. I put this down to vapour/air locks in the carburettor somewhere. With more modern saws you can use that bulb to run cool petroil through the carb. When the huskys get difficult to warm start I find I need to use the choke for one pull to suck fresh fuel through and then several pulls on half throttle lock. I keep meaning to the strip the carbs but never enough time so I just pick up another saw.

It was a radio controlled ~15kN (nearly 30cwt pull) winch in a sled. The FC imported about three under a special licence from the GPO to operate them. At the time it was strictly verboten to use unauthorised radio transmitters (we used american CBs to let the lady operating the skyline when to pull. Every now and then, the lads said as I was only there in margam a very short time,, a voice would come in threatening prosecution and to cease and desist cluttering up the airwaves used by the emergency services). lack of allowed frequencies was I think why the FC did not continue with them. Basically it was a 10hp 2t powered double capstan winch enclosed in a fibreglass sled. The take up reel had a very long wire rope, maybe 300 metres. The thing was fuelled up and put on an extraction ride with the operator walking off with the hook till he was level with the rack the produce was to come down or up. He then put a strop around a suitable tree and press the remote control to winch in. The sled then pulled itself to him. The sled was then anchored to a tree and the operator walked up to the poles and extracted them to the winch or its redirect pulley as new racks were extracted. The interesting thing about it was it stayed ticking over most of the time but when the winch-in signal was received the engine speeded up and a centrifugal clutch engaged the capstans and the take up spool. The wire pulled in at constant speed and maximum force was available all the time. When release it slowed to tick over, the clutch disengaged but the capstans went into reverse, so when the operator pulled the wire the capstans pulled the wire off the spool and paid it out all the time the operator tensioned the wire.

Here's a picture of a log flume Leykam FVE-IF.COM The other toy that I was impressed with that didn't take off was the radiotir and I still have the leaflet for that.

Well to be legitimate the egg, and hence chick, would have DNA of both parents, if a non licensed bird was one parent it would show up as unknown DNA. First use of DNA profiling in a paternity case was about 1985.

Sorry no and I have googled a few search terms with no luck either. I attended every APF show from1974 to about 2000 so if anyone has a collection of show programmes...

There probably is but a back when DNA testing was in its infancy one of my customer's daughter was establishing a database of the DNA of every licensed bird just to thwart any attempt to pass off a wild bird or its progeny as legally owned.

I made a decision and ordered a 6kWh battery today, now need to find about 25 days work to pay for it.