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Small eucalyptus reduction needed in Wincanton
openspaceman replied to Big J's topic in General chat
Most eucalyptus coppice freely and can be stored after a couple of years. In fact I believe they have such a trait in order to survive flash fires when young. One grown as maidens seem to outgrow their roots and are not so wind firm. -
Probably better see if @Jase hutch has his ears on
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Well the median age is 41 so it may be the younger generation have more sense than doing hard graft or sitting in a lorry and ending up heart trouble.
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Poplar roots sending up shoots after grinding
openspaceman replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
Apply it to a root that needs composting, a few crystals in a 13mm hole plugged with a twig if it's big enough, or as a spray on foliage or are you being obtuse? -
Poplar roots sending up shoots after grinding
openspaceman replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
It is unlicensed as a herbicide but available as a chemical compost accelerant. ROOT OUT for root removal kill roots clear overgrown garden DAXPRODUCTS.CO.UK ROOT OUT is a general purpose herbicide that KILLS virtually all living plant tissue as well as its roots. Included in this are... -
Poplar roots sending up shoots after grinding
openspaceman replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
composting them in situ with ammonium sulfamate is more eco friendly 😉 -
Good to see you back. I had no trouble with plain OSR but I mostly used 60cc saw and 18" bars. The bars possibly wore a bit more. The major problem as I did less and less saw work was what happened in storage, mice attacked the plastic to get at the oil and all vege oils "dry" by oxidation, this is why oil paints harden. Apart from gumming up the running gear any oily sawdust that gets on the cooling fins sets and becomes a big problem if the saw gets too hot. I reverted to mineral oil but would happily use OSR again if filling up several times a day, just switch to mineral oil and clean up before storage. I have never used Stihl bio oil, is it an emulsion?
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Female Urinal with Lid - 1000ml | Age Co Incontinence WWW.AGEUKINCONTINENCE.CO.UK This Female Urinal is a convenient toileting aid that has been anatomically designed to enable use whether standing...
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Yes and this welfare facility must be made clear when the job is booked. Always take boots off and brush sawdust off your clothing first. Bosses are the ones in the dark ages for not making sure facilities are provided.
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Where's the fun in that?😀 I've added it to my heap of "handy" items, right on top of the vacuum powered fume hood made from a two tier display shelf and pallet wrap for housing my stump grinder tooth sharpening two wheel grinder which I made last week.
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90 quid gave me a bit of incentive to see what I had lying around, a bit of beech and two screws, a random length of nichrome wire and a flat tractor battery plus 15 minutes fiddling around. Scuse the crap video difficult to do one handed but you can see the ratchet strap I cut as proof of concept. It really needs a spring to tension the wire, as it goes slack as it heats up, and a bit of tuning to get the resistance right so it runs a tad hotter. VID-20210816-WA0002.mp4 Mark2 with spring tension
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I'm sorry it has been 6 years since I used a Forst and even then I only went out on a few occasions and never had problems so didn't see any changes.
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Assuming it is the same as the tr6: P2 shows the state of all the safety switches p3 is stress control p4 is pre heat settings I think the pdf manual is online but I can email the tr6 one if you private message an address
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Ah but my tongue in cheek point was about whether a self supply of arb waste for burning yourself could come under the definition of "sale" in the regulation as it was a benefit in kind.
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It's designed to cut particulate emissions into the local air shed, whether it will be effective is another matter but as you say it's likely to adversely effect the small producer and benefit a large importer, such is legislation with it's unforeseen consequences. The instigators like Sadiq Khan want all combustion stopped in favour of electric vehicles and heat pump for homes. Looking back there were a couple of times when wood for home heating seemed to get popular, in the years after dutch elm disease from 1971 and following the demise of the hardwood pulp mills from 2000. I wonder if the sales of wood stoves reflect this. The main thing about this and other environmental or health laws is they not only increase costs to home producers and make imports from less fettered economies more competitive but they introduce a new layer of bureaucracy which a whole raft of jobsworths gravitate to.
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It's funny you came up with that one as I was thinking @kevinjohnsonmbe had a problem along these lines, perhaps it was supplying himself with firewood which HMRC wanted to tax as a benefit in kind?
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See Farnham puppy farm murders: Police failings 'contributed' to killings WWW.BBC.CO.UK Inquest into shootings at Surrey puppy farm rules police failed by returning shotgun to killer. These are both cases where the police were obliged to return guns to someone who either had been violent or threatened violence. This case I cited caused our local police firearms department to require a statement from a doctor that the applicant had no known mental problems, because the coroner ruled they had failed in their duty to this mother and daughter.
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It's an interesting one in that it seems to be all encompassing as it says "for the purposes of combustion in domestic premises in England;" so that it is in a raw form makes no difference. but the real ambiguous bit is "a person supplies a relevant solid fuel if the person supplies such a fuel by way of sale from or by means of—" which I think means money must change hands, or is it any supply?
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Luxembourg, cannot remember whose theme it was
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When I was involved Network Rail put out a contract for a survey to highlight potentially problem trees over the southern and wessex areas. ADAS got the contract and subbed in a number of qualified contractors who tended to work in a team with a safety person (COSS) and a lookout. At the same time various other bits of the infrastructure were under the control of franchisees like the train operating companies (TOCS) who sometimes made their own arrangements for maintaining a database of trees under their control, this work seemed to get taken up by the standing vegetation management companies for that area, in my time these contracts were awarded for 5 years at a time.
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felling prior to planning application
openspaceman replied to Dendrophile's topic in Trees and the Law
That's my view too if it's a residential property just extending a house, I'm not so sanguine about turning a piece of land into an eyesore just to blackmail the LA into granting permission to develop. -
This is so true of many organisations from little charities through parish councils to big business and government. Often someone will have seen the main chance and subverted the aims of the original society/organisation to fulfil their wishes.
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If it were closer I'd give it a go if the piece work rate looked good, mind about 4 tanks of fuel and I've had it nowadays.
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local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
openspaceman replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
Actually thinking back I remember we work working douglas fir so he was covered in douglas sap rather than spruce. I think it is called larch sawfly (if indeed it is one) because the caterpillars feed on larch. -
local wildlife (fur,feathers and beasties)
openspaceman replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Picture Forum
Larch sawfly, they love spruce so much that my mate was sitting on the tractor with his jeans covered in spruce sap and one started laying an egg in his thigh. It is an hymenoptera like bees wasps and ants Otherwise harmless as it has an ovipositer that is not evolved into a stinger.
