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openspaceman

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  1. I'm getting to a similar stage, have I missed something and Woodwalkers no longer available?
  2. I've already got a small crane trailer and was wondering if it would cope and run short distances on the road with trailer empty.
  3. I see it has a registration number, what are the rules for driving on road? With trailer less than 750kg?
  4. John Hobbs who sold the firm when he moved to Oz, I met Nick Rose several times 15 years ago, plucky chap.
  5. Me too but a transparent roof does the job of catching radiant energy and not letting it out, Once the inside air temperature gets up in the 30s drying can be measured in days
  6. Small local tree-surgery business succeeds in passing off action | Solicitors Humphreys WWW.HUMPHREYS.CO.UK Small local tree-surgery business succeeds in passing off action Redwood Tree Services Ltd has succeeded in a... It's not straightforward and highly dependant on locality and of course reviews are available anywhere. I did to work for the previous owner before he sold the business but not the present owner.
  7. This is why the local mushroom farm had sliding doors on rails for the whole bay, each alternate overlapped.
  8. Air spade and cyclone over bulk bags? Would work out quite expensive compares with a pitch fork and shovel.
  9. Actually I think you miss my point, though no matter it was only idle musings. Plenty of rich people have private jets, yachts etc. as a result of having successful companies as well as riches gotten by nefarious means. These people will likely pollute more but don't have the clout to skew whole economies like the likes of the super rich with 10s of billions of $.
  10. Because governments won't spend the money wisely?
  11. Yes a split charge relay will only cost about 15 quid and that will isolate it when the vehicle ignition is off.
  12. Is it impractical to make some extensions for the lower link arms? A picture may help
  13. That's wealthy but by no means super rich. We need wealthy people to occupy the posh homes, else they end up preserved in aspic by the NT and no use for much, and buy the new cars which then become second-hand and affordable usw. The super rich have billions and often don't benefit an economy because it goes offshore. Also they can avoid tax to some, often large, extent. Our current system is based on the idea everyone can make their own decisions on how to spend and make money. Government takes a massive amount from every person earning money, in income tax ( which major contribution comes from those on PAYE and earning over £40k/annum), VAT, rates, car tax etc, and this gets spent on running the counry and making politicians above averagely wealthy but the money they spend is largely recirculated within the economy. We have a limited say in how we allow government to spend money. IMO we should be looking after the environment and the super rich have a few negative effects here, they tend to have multiple homes and travel extensively between them by plane plus they have ideas that do not fit in with looking after the planet, like in Bezo's case wanting to colonise Mars, this of course diverts vast sums of money that could otherwise look after the ecosytem we have. We have no say in this. It's not that I think the government should have extra money from the super rich more that the peaks should be levelled a bit, I have no idea how to address this.
  14. I agree and always managed on 8ply xply as the 14ply nokian were too expensive for my limited use.
  15. Probably nothing to do with it being softwood more to do with a smoudering fire of damp wood dumping pyroligneous acid up the cold chimney such that it condensed. SS depends on a thin film of chromium oxide forming to resist air getting to the iron and rusting it. Chromium oxide reacts with acid, exposing fresh chromium and iron to oxidation. Long ago I posted a picture of a 316 ss rigid single skinned flue perforated like a colander, the fix was actually to insulate it to keep the flue gases above their dew point. page 7
  16. I don't know if anything has changed but traditionally it was their retirement.
  17. So am I but I cannot update mine, but I also run Chrome to view these, 'cept this one was on its side
  18. Even if it is just off the trailer they will make more noise and take longer if it is off. Those RDS units can be configured to need a pin code to start too and if the engine is not running and they cannot pick it up then it is difficult to move. We had 3 stolen in 7 years, two on trailers and one that was started with a generic key. The adjacent house owner in the last case heard and saw the grinder cutting the chain and did nothing.
  19. I suspect you need to update your browser, it didn't work on mine either
  20. Sorry for your loss but the number of times I tell people never to leave tracked chippers on trailers...
  21. That doesn't actually answer my question until you dry the sample in an oven and calculate the moisture content. Please try adding some salt to the water before you test it again. Logs coming in from my store seem to be at 16% and I suspect most moisture meters would give a reading of 20%
  22. Why? Have you put a camera down the drain to see if it is vulnerable? Is the tree causing other damage? Most ornamental cherries don't get very large so why not enjoy it for a while more?
  23. Has anyone found a meter that reads moisture percentage on a wet basis yet?

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