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Cheeky bit of turf, you'd only pay for a written report if you intended taking someone to task for the damage.

He took your advice @Stubby because the thread I replied to was "Posted in Wrong fuel mix"

Tidy looking planking butt but for that rot pocket, nice prep and felling too.

Having jammed a clutch by snagging red baler twine I'm wary of cutting any ropes or fabric with a motor saw.

Very unlikely not to have done some damage. Pop the exhaust off and have a look see if the ring is free in the piston and no smearing or scoring, it nearly always affects the exhaust side first. You may be lucky and with fresh petroil in it it will run but take it gently.

Quite and I'm unsure what shock loading the body can survive, of course the body will deform to some extent and thus absorb energy and reduce damage elsewhere. In this case the OP is concerned with the shock loading on the anchor point. When I was a child fatality from minor car accidents were common so ROSPA, IIRC, attended local shows with a demonstrator to encourage the use of seat belts. It was a car seat and belt on a tilted rail such that the seat came to a sudden stop after accelerating down the short ramp and reaching around 5mph. The shock loading was hard enough even at that speed that a normal person would have had difficulty in not being thrown out of the seat without a belt on. Of course in most accidents the vehicle deforms somewhat and absorbs energy but a static climbing line...

If it absorbs shock on the body it also reduces shock on the anchor. The point of the simple ones is they rip stitching and in doing so slow down the body as the breaking the stitches absorbs some of the kinetic energy of the falling mass, they spread the smaller force due to deceleration over a greater distance. As tension in the rope is the same throughout this force is also reduced at the anchor.

You should also deposit a landowner statement under section 31(6) of the Highways Act 1980 with the planning authority and review it every 6 years, this makes it clear you have no intention to allow any tracks on your land to become rights of way.

Much too modern for me, mine have the mechanical controls, even so the controls only active the clutches don’t they? the reason for not returning the flow via the tractor spool is that the extra restriction heats the oil and if there is excessive pressure in the return line it can damage seals in the control spool. Is the tank separate from the final drive oil in the A60? I would expect it to be return to the final drive case somewhere, ideally under the oil level.

Not a lot in difference of green moisture content between ash and sycamore. Prejudice against sycamore because it is non native is a bit over rated IMO Mould is simply living off the more volatile solids in the wood until it dries below 20% and not much to worry about, airflow is the answer.

How many of your customers use it as a primary heat source? My total gas bill including standing charges is less than half that per kWh yet I still burn logs. Most of the logs I burn would end up mouldering away in the corner of a field so there's a reasonable displacement of fossil fuel, I could also save about a kg of char a day in winter if I were a bit better organised and use that in the garden to offset about 35 miles of motoring carbon emmisisions.

£93/cube is equivalent then

Not for me as I don't pay for my logs and I quite enjoy the few days it takes to cut and split. What weight do you allow for a bulk cubic metre of logs @ 20% mc? The pellets will have 900kg of dry wood at 5.3kWh/kg so ignoring combustion efficiency and extra steam up the chimney about 6.3p/kWh

It depends on how suddenly the falling object is arrested, if there is some flex in the system the force is less than a sudden stop. The terminal velocity from that drop is time=0.5gt^2 so ~0.2 sec acceleration is gt so about 2m/sev Force on the system =mass times deceleration so the faster the stop the higher the loading

Photo doesn't show how weepy it is but I suspect a graft of Dawyck beech No I'll correct that Dawyck is the columnar one and I have forgotten the weeping one

Much the same here, we brought them in at £70/tonne as dunnage between the stoves in the container, the intention was to make them in Bridgend from the waste from the technoboard plant but they folded. Mine sits in the shed now.

I think you mean you cannot lawfully because it's pretty plain people can do it. In fact for domestic premises you are allowed to burn lots of things that you shouldn't burn commercially, as long as you don't emit dark smoke. Not that that's a good thing but must be something to do with ancient rights.

That is if there is a linear relationship of moisture to conductivity. Thing with resistances where there are multi-paths with variable resistances in parallel it gets a bit complicated so I though probably a look up table and empirical results. BTW that last FC leaflet shows the pellet burner we first imported in our Welsh unit near Bridgend.

If we take fresh felled 1tonne beech at this time of year, drop it in water and it sinks. It contains 52% wood and 48% water. Dry it till it weighs 2/3 its original weight i.e. 666kg and we have 520kg of wood still but now only 146kg water, so 22% mc wwb actually not quite dry enough but close.

I don't wear mine unless the ground conditions are bad or I am using a motor saw (any sort) so they have probably only had a years solid use despite having them 6 or 7 years. As I don't climb (well maybe a little) I take it the airstreams wouldn't suit me? I am sure I read somewhere that the woodwalker build had changed for the worse but they remain reasonably cheap.

We have mostly known that all along, the point of the thread I thought was deciding which moisture meters measured on the wet basis and I don't think we have found one that does yet. If we put aside poplar, elm, willow and softwoods then the worse case hardwoods are oak and beech, if people have crane scales then one could be fairly certain if 1/3 of the green weight is lost the average moisture content will be below 20%

Not noticed much, biggest difference is in waistline and bank balance after 4 years

Oven needs to be above 100C and I use 120C, nowadays I use a microwave They did: ""prohibited level”, in respect of a relevant unit of wood, means a moisture content of more than 20%; " Pretty well defines it as water must not exceed 20% of the whole weight. The confusion arises with the moisture meters and at best these are only checks, for proving an offence oven drying is probably bound to be used if indeed anyone is ever brought up for it. BTW I supplied myself with 2.25m3 of freshly felled and split beech billets yesterday, had them delivered in a Citroen relay horsebox, I estimate it must have been overloaded at about 1.5 tonnes. I have not given myself a letter explaining I must keep it for two years before burning.

There is still some level of conjecture on this point so while @Woodworks did check dry a sample after using his moisture meter and the result did lead to this conclusion we still don't have it from the horses (manufacturers) mouth, nor am I sure how farmers measure grain moisture, @Billhook perhaps knows? The thing about selling planks is I doubt you get the opportunity to measure other than on the surface whereas you split a log to expose what you believe will be the wettest point for measurement. Of course people buy planks on volume and seldom worry about moisture unless they start growing mould, cup, split or check in use.

Yes they are the terms in your industry but accuracy and precision are more engineering terms, @Stubby may remember but is probably not interested as he will burn wood that is dry enough without worrying about measurement. That was my guess too Oh I've done lots but have never owned a moisture meter I'm still basing my thoughts on the chips for moisture meters mostly being aimed at measuring moisture or dampness in the building or carpentry businesses. But as has been said there is a direct calculation that can swap between measurement systems. To my mind the problem will be with customers owning a meter but logs delivered with an equilibrium moisture content in 90% RH should still fall under 20% mc wwb. I used to be involved in pellet making and one of the requirements was a moisture content of 10% and at this level wet weight basis and dry weight basis converge, the thing was that pellets depend on lignin fusing to form a skin and the sawdust particles being forced close enough together for weak hydrogen bonding to glue them, this is also how paper fibres bond. In a normal British winter in an unsealed container the pellets would fall apart as the ingress of moisture destroyed the bonding.