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Sounds like it's over fuelling if black smoke, especially if the oil level isn't going down. Is this the engine with a separate injector pump for each cylinder? We had 3 of these powering Heizohack 6M30 chippers and the engines were the least impressive things about them.

Our gym teacher, Bill Shenton, was a commando in the group that liberated Belsen. He never described it but he made us well aware what happened. Nice bloke, fit in his early fifties, smoker, dropped dead from a heart attack mid term. At least 3 of the senior masters died of heart attacks before retirement

Yes but house prices were already rising from 1970 onwards. probably because the austerity of post depression and post war Britain was giving way to new wealth creation, mostly from selling financial services abroad. Though the cake was getting bigger the non managerial, non financial and non share owners were getting smaller and smaller shares of the whole. The ethos of pulling together and share alike which had spawned the NHS and national insurance was giving way to loadsamoney. Simultaneously the wealthier were looking to have their needs serviced and wage pressure from this made our industrial workers move as manufacturing became less competitive with imports. Council housing post war had reached about 30% of the whole and many people saw it as a home for life rather than a stepping stone until the right to buy meant it was unwise not to cash in. This had a twofold effect, need for mortgages increased with grew the financial sector again but many of the buyers were older with bigger families than we have now. These children when they came to inherit often had the balance of a mortgage to pay off and while they too had aspirations of house ownership and often were renting, by the time the equity was realised and shared there was not enough even for a deposit for each child. In the meanwhile UK housing had become a safe investment for the wealthy financiers, business owners and foreigners. Such that 70% of that sold off council housing is reckoned to be in the hands of private landlords. I see this also in my street which would traditionally have been owner occupiers, over half the houses are privately rented near me. In contrast to the british siblings who sold off their parents housing we have a very large asian immigrant population locally who pool their money for the eldest son to buy a house, they also tend to live in them with extended families which helps distribute the costs of ownership. Of course this all comes down to not enough houses to satisfy the 2.1 people that want one to themselves but also reflect on what money is; at any one moment the economy supports itself with current production, money is only the means by which we agree to co-operate it is not a "hard" asset.

Yes too strong a solution can traumatise the local cells and prevent uptake. @daltontrees did you ever use amonium sulfamate, I haven't on ivy but did use it successfully on an extensive bay coppice growing out of both sides of a wall. The waxy leaf covering can be overcome by some extent by applying glyphosate in diesel and there is probably a vegetable oil available to use now.

A large part of Chobham Common is a national nature reserve, it was cut in two by the M3 and apart from two sterile bridges at the north and south there is only a concrete box bridleway under the road and no provision for migrating mini beasts on any of the feeder roads that run through it parallel to the motorway, an incredible oversight that there is no likely forthcoming mitigation to. SCC claim there are smooth snakes and sand lizards still present but I don't believe them. Green bridges: safer travel for wildlife - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Natural England reports that bridges built across roads and railways to allow wildlife movement can stop species from...

@drinksloe have you used trackplot?

Piped culverts aren't very wildlife friendly which is why I said a shallow grip, if you must pipe it in the pipe should be big enough and deep enough that the bottom fills with silt that won't get flushed out.

No you'd need better advice than mine. A grip is just a shallow drain rather than a trench filled with water, shallow sloping sides preferably with enough light getting through for some vegetation to grow as many micro beasties can be put off by having to cross open ground. A couple of sort of examples: down on the New Forest I came across an electrocuted otter, big animal rather than what we are discussing, but I couldn't understand why it had got out of the river walked up the embankment and tried to cross the third rail (600-900V DC). It seems that as the river went under the brick arch with vertical walls each side of the water with no bank the otter would not swim through. Similarly on the heath silver studded blue would not migrate across a 16ft road and it was because both sides were tree-lined, once gaps were created both sides they few across. Roads are one of the worst things for isolating meta populations and very little green bridging is done in this country.

yes very sad to hear

For migration of inverts and herps I would say a muddy grip bridged by the decking was best.

A bit like those electric scooters then, looks like the law will change in some way.

Yes it cuts on the front face as it passes the top cutter but the locus of the piece of grit that cuts the angle is a straight line, , so the top cutter has a flat angle. The side cutter angle and gullet are determined by the depth of cut, angle to the tooth and radius of the wheel.

I can see the reason for dressing the stone for getting the gullet right but the top cutter is ground with the flat bit of the disc. BTW while not a great user of a grinder as I sharpen my chains on the bar for speed my chief gripe with people who use them grind too much, too heavily and burn the chain.

I doubt it. True a file gives a hollow shape to the top cutter but its not very significant so the grinding disc just averages out the angle where the file would cause a slight curve in the top plate. The main thing that does the work is the sharp corner (or tip with a full chisel. Wood is slightly abrasive so too shallow an edge dulls quickly and being thin is more susceptible to damage which is why the angle of the disc sharpener to the top plate is fixed and only the angle to the tooth is variable. Out of the box all files are ground not filed. I'm dyspraxic but find filing no problem, if I did I'd be happy to grind them.

I like these as you sharpen with a chainsaw file, whereas the Maxicut needs a mill saw file and these work out more expensive, especially as 7/32 round files are normal bits of kit in this game.

A sharp chipper cuts it and a less sharp one breaks it up, just watch out for blockages, one piece at a time until you trust the chipper.

Which is why one should never walk past the chute of a working chipper. I've seen the aftermath and the pieces of disc picked out of the back of the truck.

It is an offence under the highways act section 184 to drive over a footpath with no dropped kerb, The offence is enforced by the HA and the fine is 20 quid as long as there is no damage, They can apply for a licence for a dropped kerb and this does not require planning permission, probably costs less than £1500 to do the work. You would have had a right to put a gate from your property onto a public footpath but a lot of alleyways are not public rights of way,

I had a feeling it was there, not me guv honest

Generally the highway extends over the verge so if their land is adjacent to the verge they can do it, driving over a kerb or a sidewalk is unlawful subject to byelaws but it is likely to be an offence against the highway authority rather than anything else

Why shouldn't they access the land from a public highway? Strange thing about a lot of the open spaces in that area (streatham and mitcham commons for instance) do not have statutory protection, they were not registered as common land in 1965

Yes it does look like a fatigue crack, yes I can see there was corrosion under the bolt (machine screw) head both could be from a bit of crap under the head or flexing of an under tightened bolt. You said they came out easily. So you were re using a bolt that had some old damage.

Give over you don't know what treatment the machine or bolt had before you.

It's a growatt system, Site visit next Friday so I'll know a bit more then. I didn't try those because the extra cost did not seem worthwhile and with the battery I can judge whether to use it for the immersion or not, leaving the gas boiler to do its own thing or skip a DHW cycle, the immersion is okay for a shower but too short to heat a decent bath full. There is a loss of about 20% in the conversions though. The first inverter set up I saw in 1974 was a Victron, charged by a lister startomatic. I've not heard of them, the growatt are lipo. I will never recoup the cost of the battery in my lifetime as the best it can save me is £200/annum at current prices but what the hell.

@Gareth Phoenix I think the bolt that broke was an original one, he might have bought some since to replace them. You didn't answer why the anvil replacement is a return to dealer job?