openspaceman

Does it matter after you reach 50? I now have trouble hearing skylarks.

I thought Japanese stuff used JIS with metric threads, not JIC with BSP imperial threads popular on american equipment.

As you used the singular I think you only refer to HETAS-Woodsure but I think it applies to many cic / community organisation / quangos and the rub is in the wages they grant themselves with little scrutiny from toothless trustees and charity commissioners.

If there was no cone and american it was probably a tapered thread.

would that be a menage a troi? I managed to build a manege for my daughter's riding school 😉

Our Vermeer tree spade had JIC couplings, same threads as BSP but the cone and socket pipe connection the opposite way round,

Part of that is down to wide spaced planting and use of tubes. The plastics problem existed before tubes, even in the early 70s spiral guard s and whips predominated in hardwood planting. I was paid an extra half P to remove spiral guards when pruning poplar to 8ft, purely because of damage to the stems as they ingrew. The job was to remove and drop but despite my boss's [1] view that it was insignificant litter, I took them home and binned them, for which I was allowed to take the company Simca 1100 home and left my Bantam at work. [1] he never lived to see the problem from plastic waste was to be acknowledged as he died at 49.

Nor me but it remains a problem. I'll see if I can dig out a photo of my little friend, within 12 months of the photo I was engaged in my first forestry employment and got to run the trap lines on an estate in Surrey, so killed quite a few. It was pointless as only the adjacent FC land and our estate did any control. At the time 90% odd of my wages were rebated by the government so it paid the firm I worked for to get me doing pointless jobs. But it's not only red squirrels, they also out compete other native mammals for food, notably dormice. Just look how they strip hazels before they are ripe. No amount of re introduction of red squirrels will overcome their lack of resistance to parapox which is lethal to reds whilst greys are largely just carriers. I see some damage in gardens but overwhelming amounts in woodlands, especially beech. People will never see the grandeur of beech trees we were felling in the 70s, for furniture mostly, as those remaining are getting into their old age and suffering and the young have lost their form because of bark stripping. It is the middle of next month when you first notice the damage looking onto the trees from a distance and seeing the wilting and brown leaves in scattered clumps on trees.

Yes that's my take on it, as soon as it propels something not within the exemptions it must be on DERV. There apears to be an exemption for stationary use as long as it's not commercial. So currently I am thinking if you are running a wood chipper in a domestic dwelling for horticultural purposes it can use red, if you do the same in a commercial situation, like a pub car park or development site, it must be DERV but if it's in hospital grounds?

Yes that was my guess

And railway wagons, apparently because it doen't splinter. Shame you're not closer to Petersfield as a chap has been milling some of the alder on the Lucas mill, they look nice clean boards.

I mostly use an ancient ex army entrenching tool but have a mattock as per attached photo of a job for my niece last week. Three well dead conifer stumps biggest still about a cwt which is too much for me to lift nowadays. The clincher was the Eder 1800 with a 2:1 advantage.. I subsequently split the bigger ones into 4 with wedges.

Two stations reached via the Southern platform of Brookwood station, some of the trackbed is still there. It was bought by Necropolis as cheap common land and enclosed as they were the only persons licensed to excavate graves in London church yards which were being sold for development and they needed somewhere to re inter the bodies, subsequently used for burials from London. Latterly it was mostly used by the Moslem community for immediate burial, followed often by repatriation apparently. Now owned by the LA who have a duty to provide plots for the local churches whose own burial grounds are filled up. The military cemetery is managed separately. It's a fascinating place which I don't often visit as I walk mostly with a dog and they are not allowed in the cemetery.

I only regret selling it because of sentimental value and it was a good workhorse. I also am gradually moving old working kit on.

Good job for you they gave up. I remember underestimating how long digging stumps out by hand would take. Even if you set about is sensibly that would have taken a few days to burn out.

The smell should have given an indication of species. Interesting that they had attempted to burn it out, had they done the initial excavation?

Yep I still have a 254 but it has a carburation issue, possibly an air leak, 3 262s but I cannot remember the little 39cc Husky I used for first thinnings and that work came to an end with the 87 storm and even before that I'd changed to a Jonsered 2050 IIRC rather than husky. I had a clear out around 2009 and junked a load of saws in various stages of disrepair, including my original 280cd which I regret. In my yoof I could only afford one saw for a beginner and it was that with a 24" bar I used for everything ;-(. It was about 1 metre long so three lengths to a turnery pole and their maximum diameter was 6". Being self taught tends to be hard on the wallet.

I'm definitely politically naive but agree. New labour are tories by nature but can't get ahead in the conservative party, old labour may be nicer people but their striving for equality leads to bureaucracy and too many civil servants. PM Johnson and his cronies are just what they seem, self serving, uncaring and devious and it's showing in their internecine feuding but even Churchill was the same but he got the job done. The key is they all want power so if they see a swing to a green vote it may make them aware they could lose power if they don't change their policies.

It's not the manifold it's the collar that slips over it and is held in place bur locating on the crank case. So it has not been strained in any way, it looks perfect but it snaps very, very easily. It doesn't touch any hot metal but is only cms away from the cylinder. It has definitely deteriorated in strength.

Cleaning my Husky 262 today with the air gun the collar around the manifold, separating the carburettor space from the cylinder broke. This is the second one I have broken on old 262s (I have 3 dating from the 90s left over from when I employed assistants). Now I can't complain as the saw is 30 years old but the rest of the plastic is sound, just this collar snaps like a milky bar. So it's something to be aware of, part 503 54 42 01 is available and two ordered from L&S as I shall replace the other one for just 15 quid. I am surprised that while it still looks sound it has become so weak and wonder what the plastic is and why it deteriorates so badly. We had a bit of a competition on a site last month with this 262 up against a 550mk2, cutting 9" hardwood, sweet chestnut IIRC, 262 won first, almost a dead heat second and the 550 won by a fair margin on last because I chose to cut through a knot. I was surprised as I expected the 550 to walk it. Mind I'd still prefer to carry the 550 about all day.

...and some ratchet straps and hessian plus a newman trailer.

Not as such but I would like a chat with the neighbour to see how things stand before purchasing the property. I remember deadwooding (with 2 other climber) two cedars in front of a house in Reigate and thinking I wouldn't want them in my front garden and I just imagine what this tree will be like in 30 years.

We just sharpened a spade but "hoping" is the operative word, very few that we peeled anded up being accepted, that was 40 years ago and we never tried again.

Heah I was thinking just the same; now I have the Eder, why keep hold of my 35cwt and 3.5 tonne Tirfors

They didn't so much ban it but more the producers didn't re license it because sales were so low. Also it was being badly misused for squirrel. The approved method was to place the hoppers at greater than 50?? metre spacings, pre bait with maize and then fill the hoppers with warfarin covered wheat , refilling frequently and stopping by end June. This was to ensure squirrels were taking the bait and then giving a good chance they would eat their body weight over a short period to get an outright kill. What was happening was people were leaving hoppers out over long, not re filling them and having them too close together. This latter was having a seriously bad effect on other small rodents that normally only forage over smaller distances, hence knocking out meta populations rather than the odd individual. The idea was to control excess males at the danger period for bark stripping. Kania trap is the spring trap fixed on a tree, I didn't know the gas operated thing was cleared for squirrel in UK. I used Fenn Mk 4 in tunnels but over 45 years ago now. It's taken all that time for the contraceptive to be approved, if it is the same one being researched all those years ago it worked quite differently from human contraceptives as it made the females immune system attack the sperm, normally sperm have the means to suppress an immune response. I've only seen reds in the Lake district, never in Scotland but I haven't been back there for 10 years now. In the nineteen twenties my mother fed reds on the kitchen table in Bookham.