openspaceman
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what logs have you been chopping today!
openspaceman replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
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That was because they adulterated dog food with chalk to bulk it. IIRC dalmations have a genetic trait to crap uric acid, same as birds, which gives white turds but over the years I think it has been bred out.
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In the decade after the war many locals still kept a few layers, chicken meat was still expensive compared with pork but occasionally one of the old hens would be eaten. The bones were much tougher than from modern shop bought chicken. My nan would not allow the bones to be fed to the dog, an ancient mongrel called Dumbo, because she said they would splinter and stick in his gut. We have continued to refrain from letting the dogs have the chicken carcass but I do strip it thoroughly for them.
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Crimping may be better if it needs to flex a lot.
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For the first time in 45 years we have no tadpoles in the garden, I did spot a small frog, presumably from last summer's crop earlier in the spring. Dearth of wildlife generally here I just hope the stag beetles from under my wood pile survive to adults.
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0/4 for me
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only 18 for the first and a miserable 2 for Mick's
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The only softwood I can think of that is below 51% mc wwb is european larch, next is douglas at 52% but all the pines and spruces are above 60%. Volume will shrink by about 10% on drying below 20% mc. The problem with bags is they have lots of "edge effects" where in a stack the logs fill in all the gaps in a bag there are always spaces at the points the logs contact the bag, worse with solid containers that have no give.
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Large section of oak to mill (any one interested)
openspaceman replied to Thesnarlingbadger's topic in Panther Mill UK
Yes, slightly pink in the bark fissures, colour of sapwood and heartwood and star shake shouts cerris to me. -
Strangely the piston crown away from the exhaust side looks a nice tan brown. It looks like it melted rather than impact but over protruding plug could explain the hot spot. I wonder if the use of carbide chain is significant, from my limited experience of it it provides less resistance so revs go up and you tend to press harder. If the saw is running lean it would tend to rev higher than it should anyway.
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The problem with nuclear fission is the capital cost and the storing of waste, they are simply too expensive in the face of renewables becoming relatively cheaper.
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It worked okay, seemed a long time but may only have been the ten minutes. I'm left wondering how well I did though.
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I will give it a whirl then
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Star shake in oak seems more common on the poorer sandy soils, I was told it was an adaptation to drought. It doesn't seem to be present on young vigorous trees, even on our sandy heath. Beams from a shook oak were still accepted for groynes on the beaches south of here. Often when felling a tree with shake you get sprayed with a mixture of sawdust and tannin stained water that has collected in the shake.
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They used to call it resilience cutting, to allow for up to five year's growth. In this case I guess it will only give them two year's grace.
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flowering plum tree pruning
openspaceman replied to rich27farm's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
It looks like it is grafted and the rootstock is sending up shoots. They will need to be removed but not until mid summer to lessen risk of silverleaf. -
Commercial EVs will have a gross weight allowance of 4.2 tonnes I suppose, same as the driving licence IIRC
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I would not be worried about a burst, more about getting pulled over.
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The diamonds on the face or the wheel won't get any use and those on the edge too much. When I was at work I used to ask the builders for their diamond discs because I found the faces had some use for standard teeth after the edges were no good for cutting bricks etc.
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Much the same as on my Jussi and I doubt most would want to run down the road with them, not least with a digger, but the tyres are marked not for highway use.
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One day in my case as no one else turned up. Interesting subject though, I still look out for pairs of lines on wooden poles to estimate the voltage. I never got any further as I got retired.
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The tits locally have forgotten how to peck through the foil. I suppose there are far less opportunities to learn now.
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That was my thought if it is steel or. if the clamping is tight enough, do away with the tightening system and tension it by hand, then clamp.
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I was referring to the circlips that have tangs on them, I dislike them because of the OP's sort of failure. I was musing about how orientation may affect how metal fatigue may cause the tang to break off in use. I don't have enough experience of stripping a lot of saws so I do not know if circlips with tangs are used on original builds. My limited experience with Stihl and Husky saws is the OEM circlips have no tangs, so I stick with them. Yes it is important that the circlip has expanded into the groove firmly. I have yet to see the tool for inserting circlips without tangs that @adw uses but plainly the ones with tangs can be abused and bent getting them out and in with a pair of pliers.
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I wonder if the orientation of the tang makes a difference, my thought is if it is vertical it suffers a bit less bending stress than horizontal so could fatigue would be less.
