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  1. openspaceman
    Hugo at Rowena motors is the bloke to speak to about the correct part, the search facility on their website is a bit arcane.
  2. openspaceman
    Neare 50% is my guess from selling to one many years ago.
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    I thought it was the other way round and they were being spiteful 😉
  4. openspaceman
    Never having been on the dole and always self employed since 1974 I was under the impression you did get dole if you were sacked but not if you resigned? Having lived through nearly all of the "welfare state's" existence I still believe it was a wholly good thing born out of a period when the people of a united kingdom decided that co-operation had got them through desperate times. There was nothing unsustainable about it until the super rich were able to pull away from the middle and working classes and essentially avoid and evade personal income taxes. PS I think deportation to Rwanda was unacceptable but I agree the nations the immigrants passed through should have some of the responsibility for stopping them and pre processing their true status.
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    This is the crux; most out of rotation coppice will not produce stems of a quality to produce decent rods useful for anything other than ethering for hedge laying. Often you need to coppice the lot and wait 7 years or more which can be a problem if deer pressure is high.
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    Children would suck off the fleshy bit and spit out the seed for a bit of sweetness during sugar rationing, my mother called them snotty gogs
  7. openspaceman
    Bark definitely has more ash from the minerals than actual wood, I wonder if it has a higher calorific value too.
  8. openspaceman
    It's because the cutting actually flexes the disc toward the anvil and the further away from the centre you get the more flexing
  9. openspaceman
    As an ex employer I would give anyone a try but even if they offered to work for free they would get the minimum wage even if I terminated the trial at the end of the first day.
  10. openspaceman
    If you use a chain on the tree put it low, but not so low you can't snick some cuts with a saw from the left hand side in the unlikely even it does snag, with the hook at the bottom and chain doubled back to the left hand side to give it a bit of rotation as it moves.
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    My guess would be japanese privet
  12. openspaceman
    Beat me to it
  13. openspaceman
    I'm not familiar with the workings of the timberwolf but is the engine reaching sufficient rpm? The feed rollers on other chippers with stress control will not feed unless the engine is running fast enough. Also some machines sense their speed from the alternator and if the belt is slipping it will not reach speed.
  14. openspaceman
    Looks like the dark patches are from previous mechanical damage, the more serious problem is the narrow fork with bark inclusion which looks like it may be separating, if so one stem will likely fall some time but further inspection of this is necessary.
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    I can't say for deer, I never saw a feral deer before I was 17 here or elsewhere, now I am more likely to see one than a rabbit since they were hit by mixie followed by hemorrhagic disease. Grey squirrel have a very catholic taste and will eat unripe hazel nuts before dormice can digest them. Here they also are supplemented by bird feeders in the winter. I did come across a dormouse in an ivy covered alder I felled two years ago and there were plenty of squirrels about.
  16. openspaceman
    not to mention grey squirrel out compete them for hazelnuts
  17. openspaceman
    Sounds like a 3 or 4 position durite ignition switch which I think jcb used have a gander here Ignition Switches | Plant Switches | Plant Electrical | Plant Spares | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Plant Ignition Switches/Barrels for with & without keys. Lucas, Bosch. Key numbers including 14644, 14603, 14607, 35670...
  18. openspaceman
    The legs, sides, door top baffle and top of mine are still okay, it is the back that is split if you want some green enameled bits.
  19. openspaceman
    I thought the issue was that non car derived commercials and 4wd weighing greater than 2048kg empty were restricted to 60 on a dual carriageway and 50 on an unrestricted single carriageway. Not much chance of being caught but if you are and doing 70 on a dual you get fined and points for being 10+ over the limit. 70 on a single and it's 20mph over. n
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    Most of the stoves I saw in the early days had no lining. I don't think I came across any before 1978 My 602 has a cast iron door with no glass, it has two cast iron side plates which hung from pegs which will have raised firebox temperature a bit. Later 602s had some glass in the door and then they revamped the air flow with heated secondary flow and firebrick lining.
  21. openspaceman
    Yes especially as a lot of the wealthy money is from abroad and UK is seen as a good bet. There is no need for it to return them a dividend all the time the demand causes a capital increase.
  22. openspaceman
    Which is why most creditors give up and the debtors just start again.
  23. openspaceman
    I too was thinking blocked (idle) jet caused hunting but was unsure whether it was carbs or injection on this engine
  24. openspaceman
    I don't remember the discussion and had to be reminded of the meaning of assart. I think the picture shows a beech hedge on a boundary bank that was previously laid and managed. The leading shoots have then grown up to form trees that have shaded out suppressed parts of the hedging. I worked on an estate where just this happened, the hedge protected beech coppice (for charcoal making and the hearths could be seen throughout the hillside) from animals traveling along the track (part of the pilgrims way). When we felled some stems they were 90 years of growth dating them to the 1890s.
  25. openspaceman
    I had some trouble with overheating oil with a big JD running into open centre spool block. It needs the return to be to a point where it dumps directly into tank/axle with no restrictions and most definitely not returning via one of the tractor spools. It may have made better use of the JD's hydraulics to have a closed centre block and load sensing valves but that's a bit too modern for my experience.

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