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Me too though I still file freehand

As long as it is just trimmings and no wood over 12mm a collecting lawnmower with sharp blades compacts it well

The guards are quite different, my recent experience is with Stihl but the types look much the same. The saw guard is smaller and mounts tight tp the sawblade, it only covers the rear quadrant and in use you can use it to slowly feed the blade into a thick stem. The mulcher guard sits back from the gearbox and if like the Sihl mounts directly on the stem HUSQVARNA Trimmer Guard 544 10 74 02 FPANDG.COM One thing that used to annoy me with the lads is that they would use the mulcher blade bare and without the cup underneath, Stihl calls it a rider plate. Without this it is too easy to dig the mulcher in the ground and this results in increase wear, more frequent sharpening and increases the risk of flying stones Rider Plate for Stihl FS220, FS220K Brushcutters - 4119 713 3100 | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Rider Plate for Stihl FS220, FS220K Brushcutters Genuine Stihl Part OEM Part No. 4119 713 3100 Suitable for the following...

I've got one of these for sale in UK if anyone is interested, 1984 model IIRC

I hope so as I swelter in here and could manage with half the output.

I used to have a medical every two years because of my age, youngsters had them every three years. I never had problems with the alcohol test by simply abstaining for 24 hours, my biggest problem was holding my bladder full before the sample could be given having travelled for an hour to get to the private medical centre.. Recreational drugs apparently test positive for a longer time after, not having partaken of any other an a bit of pot and amphetamine when I was under 20 this was not a problem for me. After an incident the whole crew involved would be isolated and tested and I was never on a job where that happened. We were subjected to random drug and alcohol tests at base but the health and safety man was a heavier drinker than I and he would suggest we left the site for a short while.

Looks okay to me but my experience is only with tractor mounted grapple loaders. On mine the slice of the spool block that controls the rotate function is a motor spool, essentially it free wheels when in neutral, this is so that when you slew with a long log the rotator does not blow off excess pressure via the port relief valves.

If I were a shell manager I would stick a penny a litre on, make hay while the sun shines. Keep the price just low enough to keep the pumps fully utilised and watch what the competition do. Proper supply and demand economics.

I had to queue for 10 minutes and just squeezed 10 litres in but the trip odometer said I only had 10 miles left, wish the bike had a bigger tank.

Yes that was the way 5 years ago when I retired. It's a bit like the guilds of old, only firms with the right credentials can work on the railway, for safety reasons ostensibly, and they then provide clean staff that have been trained to the correct standards to do the work. This enables them to then charge two or three times the rate for the work in a less controlled environment.

I don't want to see Scotland leave the UK but I have no problem with fining someone for littering and only giving a warning for possession for personal use, drug problems need addressing not punishing.

No I chose it because that was what I had to hand and I only had to do a few hacksaw cuts to re-purpose it. The stove has a double skin which heat rises through and normally gets emitted into the room, this device should pick that up and divert it into the next room as well as be heated by the top surface by conduction. Yes that was a lazy mistake, I should have chain drilled the circles.

I expect it was the sulphur dioxide in the air rather than other pollutants. Farmers found they had to treat for wheat leaf rust in cereals which had not been much of a problem before coal power stations had to remove sulphur which was a cause of acid rain ( reaching Scandinavia).

Most chipstokers can produce biochar, I worked with reciprocating grate KOBs which would dump ashy char through the de ashing system if you cut primary air and allowed the refractory surface of the secondary combustion to pyrolyse the incoming dry chip. It didn't look like a difficult step to recirculate a small amount of offgas using slightly higher pressure air to add some preheat under the grate where primary air would normally be used. Chain grate stokers did this even better as the hot chain starts the pyrolysis before it reaches the secondary area. The bottom of the de-ashing system was kept under water to quench the char and provide an air lock. This was between 2006 and 2008 and these were commercial woodchip burning units heating greenhouses and were not pursued by the owners because the biochar market did not really exist and of course about 30% of the fuel value was forgone as char. When chip prices were very low around 2012 I devised a system that dried and pyrolysed arb chip using 2 augers and a lock hopper but had to abandon the development when I retired and subsequently the equipment was scrapped. Woodchip prices had risen substantially following RHI. Of course at that time there was no market for biochar and the EA were actively preventing its use for fear of run off damaging fish stocks in rivers.

Yes I mostly kept a 18" bar with full chisel chain on a 60cc saw as my goto saw for 35 years, the others only coming out for specific tasks. A smaller lighter saw probably has the same power nowadays. PS what's the difference between a 560 and 562?

If @Bob_z_l wants he can borrow mine as I only use it occasionally for Husqvarna clutches

Also it depends on what you call semi commercial scale. Beau @Woodworks has devised a neat retort system that makes small batches of char from seasoned branch loggings very quickly and efficiently handling the barrels.

nowadays I didn't think most bothered to grease the nose, if it spins and you are worried about it then dip it in chain oil and spin it again.

That sounds like a really good.idea. Got any pictures? This is the manifold, it's made from an aluminium extrusion I have had for years. I tried to anneal it but some of the tabs I tried to bend as locating lugs broke. I only had a 50mm concrete core drill so that hole is a bit messy. It now locates over the convection vent with a tab at the back and one into the front of the slot, slightly sprung to hold it firm. I only have a DC TIG/stick welder so cannot weld it up but I don't think that will matter much. It took me about 4 hours of fiddling, making the mirror image one for the other side should be quicker. 2" flexible exhaust I had used last year carries the hot air through the brickwork and then down to floor level under the stairs to the fan. I'll stee how it goes and then do any modifications before painting it all black with car exhaust paint.

Not before October here and cannot light it as I've just cleaned it out, swept the chimney and put the stove on its back to free up the air control leers which jam up with ash over time. Also spent half a day fabrication the first of two hot air manifolds to direct some heat into the adjacent room after passing through a duct under the stairs and a 150W ventilation fan. I tried it last year and it worked well, albeit the fan is a bit intrusive, so I decide to engineer it a bit better.

Methanol was known as wood alcohol and produced by the pyrolysis of hardwoods. There was a large industry producing many chemicals from beech in Germany before the synthesis of organic chemicals from coal and petroleum took over. It is mostly made from methane (natural gas) now. I thought it had a pH of 7 which is neither acid nor base. Actually burning methanol or methylated spirit (70% ethanol l with methanol added plus a bitter chemical) is dangerous because the flame is nigh on invisible and burns you worse than petrol and I'm not sure why.

Yes they bag it up, when someone sees the dog crapping, and then when out of sight dump it. I walk 3 dogs a few times a week and if they crap on a path or a park I always bag it and carry it home, if out in the woods or common, even though I should I don't bother.

I suspect it would detonate fairly easily as it is a constituent of easy start, that hospital smell of old.

I don't know but JAP 500 speedway bikes would run on Methanol and Castrol R, lord knows where they got it from. The jets had to be 30% bigger to pass enough fuel because although higher octane it was only 70% of the energy content per gallon.

Yes that's beyond re use. People on here have previously said those circlips with tails cause problems. I still use them as I cannot deal with the plain ones.