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I'm amazed no one has hacked it yet, what inputs does it use? Presumably the information stored is the saw's details and history and then carb settings at different rev ranges.

Paul Elsey, he emigrated to America and died shortly after. He bummed a piece of ash from me to see how the mill cut. Last time we met was before Google and he was designing telephones I think and promoting a search engine agglomerating thing called secret squirrel. Very hard work running the trekkasaw and I had lots of trouble winding the handles in sync. It cut better than the Woodmiser. My mate never let me loose on the Lucas some 30 years after I had used the other mills and by then I was 65 and found assisting him a real struggle. A chap call Atkinson took trekkasaw over and his salesman , Richard Slatem, went on to found Fuelwood Marwick. I think Robin Carter of Milland Fine Timber next owned them and he sold the business loglogic.

I think it could be Hawthorn Webber Moth although Antrim may be a little far north for it

I thought they only had a hand guard

Okay but were you considering what happens when an articulated tractor pulling a trailer gets out of line, if the trailer overcomes the steering ram it forms a letter N

You misread me, I used to pull a Botex trailer with a MF1200 tractor

Worse with an articulated tractor 🙂

Far steeper than anything I have forwarded with tractor and trailer, I have very little experience with purpose built forwarding. Are there individual brakes on the rear bogey wheels or does it depend on the cage motor for braking?

Neighbours do not have any say in what the place looks like and the enforcement officer's letter is not concerned about the look. He says there may be a change of use. Use classes are apparently changing but the effect will be similar, homes were class C. Commercial was divided into B1 offices and things that can be done in residential districts B2 light industrial but I suspect they are looking at B8 storage of material and equipment in the open and this has nothing to do with whether the vehicles are taxed, insured or roadworthy etc. Also I suspect A1 premises where the public visit for a service

Can you explain a breakdown of the cost? Extra diesel used etc.

Dunno but a three point blade seems to cut better than nylon cord. But the mulching blade cuts the stuff multiple times, it's bound to be slower. I mostly use the mulching blade on my very old FS360 but technically it is only supposed to be used on the bigger 400 and 460. Yes it makes a lot of difference when cutting mixtures with woody stuff and brambles. I always use it with the cup under the blade, on my last job the chaps never did, never sharpened and wore out the blades quite quickly. Apart from the Stihl kombi battery strimmer I have not used a backpack one. I do have a stihl fr 460 backpack, which was bought for steep hillside work, in for repair but I have not got far with it. Battery dead and sheared flywheel key seem to be the problems but the battery pack at over £200 isn't worth the risk. BTW that one in the video seems to use the same engine as my portable winch.

Yes that's the sort of thing, just a way up the road from me. How does £240 plus the time to take the exhaust off compare with a forced regen?

In the day nothing under 15"qg would be planking and not much under 20"qg, more often it it was longer the butt and second length of the smaller stuff would go as beams. That lot looks like fencing quality and in 1990 would fetch about £1/Hft

Normally the highway would be hedge to hedge but the hedge could be planted after the highway was established. Which is why old maps would need looking at. The thing is most highways date from much earlier times when all the land was in the ownership of the manor. Over time freeholds were sold off but the highways and verges remained wastes of the manor and stayed in the ownership of the lord of the manor. Often LAs took on ownership of manorial wastes and also may well be the highway authority. In most cases the highways were rights of way over land owned by someone, whether the lord of the manor, successors in title or other enterties. Later when more modern roads were built by the HA, including Highways England and their predecessors, they would have purchased the land over which the road was built from a landowner. So as land became enclosed the adjacent landowner would fence off their land, often with a ditch with the spoil thrown up inside their land and a hedge established on top. The highway could be quite wide as users wandered around muddy spots and then later the HA would metal the surface of a carriageway. All the land either side of this carriageway would remain in the ownership of adjacent land and any trees on it would be the property of the landowner even though they were on the verge of the highway.

I get regular spam emails from chinese companies offering DPF cleaning equipment. I often wonder what risk there is of damaging coatings on the ceramic filter if done badly as there are catalysts that work with the adblue (urea) solution to convert the nitrogen oxides to nitrogen. Presumably once the DPF is well used and has done it's job it actually gets clogged with ash, the sooty contaminants having been burned off in normal hot running. So the back flushing with water (and fairly noxious chemicals I expect) which you can see in videos washes out this ash as the brown gunk. Before I retired we has a pug 206 that blew a turbo and filled the DPF with burnt oil. I cleaned that with a propane torch and then a pressure washer back washing but of course do not know what damage that did.

It is part of the adopted road network https://surreycc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3d9bbb5e659b4078bb1cae0112ccbead and search Usherwood close then select Roads and Transport publicly maintained roads. The mapping indicates it is verge but that can still be in the ownership of Byways even if part of the highway.

Yes it's a public highway and the verge is part of the highway even if it isn't surfaced. You would need to look at old maps to see if is highway. It can still be a highway verge even if it remains in the ownership of the adjacent land. The only breach likely is the forestry act IMO.

Sounds far more sensible. Why can't you swap the exhaust on a a chipper and have it cleaned? After all it must be sensing a higher back pressure that indicates a regeneration is needed.

In this case the holly and hawthorn are fairly intimately mixed and there is a public footpath on one side and my garage and sheds 50cms away on the other, just enough room for me to squeeze by, so not any scope for leaving it apart from the top. Leaving the top would cut light to the bottom. Over the years the holly has become more dominant. Whether an early then a later cut would affect the vigour is why I am asking. On the one hand I wonder if it would promote more shoots from within the hedge.

Same as on heathland here until they employed a manager and he just burned and left the ash and seems to be beyond reproach. This all is similar to the recent post about woodland flowers not wanting to compete when fertility good. We had intended to try my under a cover burner on reed beds because apparently these were burned (swaled?) after the reeds were harvested to encourage fresh growth the following year but natural england go taken over and funding stopped. Yes exactly, also think of all the plastic that comes from sanding fibreglass resins, cut pvc cables in maneges etc.. Steel rusts away and aluminium corrodes to it's oxide evetunally. The thing is wood is natural and often lasts 20 years for a boardwalk and then recycles itself but they have to keep finding re uses for all those platic milk bottles. This is why I would prefer to see them incinerated for power or pyrolysed for liquid fuels.

I normally don't cut my holly and hawthorn hedge before mid July for the sake of nesting but over the last 40 years it has got a bit leggy and gappy, this latter due to getting smothered in ivy which I have removed. Any suggestions for the best cutting regime to get it dense and compact again? Also wondering if I should tackle my neighbour's gold leylandii hedge a bit early this year as it has intruded into the garden somewhat, to encourage a little growth once it's cut back as much as I dare.

I associate strimming with a flailing nylon cord so I can see no reason to use other than steel cutting blades in an open area like this, especially as the plastic debris will end up in the watercourse. Is this reed cutting to emulate previous harvesting practice where the produce would have been used for thatching? This is again one of the failings of conservation groups where the niche they wish to conserve resulted from old harvesting practices, now defunct, so they don't know what to do with the arisings. I see the same in heathland and coppice maintenance.

Me too as a first move

I thought they were supposed to do a pressure test before approving an existing liner.

Yes and 904 is mostly for solid fuel. It confused me with that grey surface. What is the diameter? I