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  1. openspaceman
    It has been a while since I did mine, I did not keep my D1 and C1 which gave me the right to continue driving mini buses (never did) and 7.5 tonne lorries which I did drive at work but felt no need after I retired. You do need a medical and fill a form in for these. The B+E is part of the car licence and is retained.
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    Nettes indicate decent fertility as well as nitrogen. It's legumes that can grow in nitrogen deficient soils as the bacteria in their root nodules turn atmospheric nitrogen into a form the plant can use
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    Yes but they do have more resistance to oil flow, I had to remove them on the supply to the motor on the RT100 and mulcher head as they got the oil too hot.
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    We had this with a grapple fork on a JCB 525 telehandler, easy to get off but for some reason it always seemed pressurised when we came to refit it, so the pressure had to be bled of about an eggcup full of oil each time.
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    From what @Joe Newton says that brace is 2/3 through its design life and from the look of those forks I expect it would fall apart if removed.
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    I never did get adept at mine, I bought the head new, 40 years ago, a shipwright one with a poll for knocking nails down. Two brothers had a workshop called "Handles" locally and they made a lovely handle for it in exchange for a load of ash boards, cut with the woodmizer. I had it razor sharp but never had the nerve to swing it hard across the grain. When my brother was renovating his house I took it down to clean up some antique oak timbers taken from it, with the intention of re using them in the rebuild. As we were sorting the house for sale his widow said she had given it, and all his garden tools, to the gardener.
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    But they were always wishful thinking and it just needed the likes of Putin to expose the paper tigers, aided by the US indicating they wouldn't support UN or Nato unless it was in their direct interest.
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    Mind your ankles
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    I was thinking the brace is doing its job and restraining some of the weight, I'd be looking at the union below it. Mind I am not a fan of bracing, last I did was around 1976 with 1/2" galvanised wire rope.
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    Do you know if it the same as the one fitted to the A55f? The spool block can be non oem, the reason it is in a bank with the steering spool is because there is a priority flow to the steering IIRC
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    Chromated Copper arsenate was banned for fencing around 2005, I advised the local open space owner (a private charity) against using it a couple of years before. Now the stakes are failing they are replacing them with chestnut ones but leaving the broken treated ones lying alongside. I again advised that they should be removed and disposed as "special " waste, they are all still there. Having cut softwood stakes for a treatment plant when tanalising was the norm, and watched while unseasoned stobs were pushed into the pressure vessel I am not at all surprised that they break early. I would not burn them as the chromium reverts to the hexavalent form whereas I am quite sanguine about burning creosoted stakes.
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    Unlucky, I had a rail warrant from SWT when I subbed to them but the schedules were so inconvenient I only used it for a few trips to London and one to Exeter and carried on with a van the rest of the time. I never even used it for a jolly.
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    several 9mm copper clad slugs in the base of a pine, I felt each one as the chain went through them, I guess it was an accidental discharge when the machine carbine bumped against the tree.
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    It still is, it has got to about 7m now, each time I see signs of dieback I prune it out. The tree has a lot of leaf damage and some of the branches have been ring barked by something, wasps I think. Interesting question about the allelopathic nature of walnut, I'll have to research it, I was vaguely aware but did not consider it. Now I will have to mind it, as I have planted it alongside a purple spotted orchid I dug up from an extraction ride 30 years ago and it has flowered ever since in the little clod of clay soil I brought it home. it's inside a pot topped up with my sandy garden soil and I have dug in a bit below normal surface . Anyway I'm sure you got the point that life is a continuation and when things go wrong at least a new generation can carry on the genes.
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    Does it fruit? I grew some walnuts from a garden up the road, a lady I had known for years. Three I took to my brother's remote house in Devon, and planted 8ft apart, with the instruction to let them grow and select the best one to grow on. As he was brighter than me and top of his field, he ignored me. On his death when clearing the place for sale I noticed 3 nuts on one tree, brought them home and germinated two. One survived in a pot and I planted it out next to my ash dieback experiment tree, it grew to 2m so winter 23 I planted it in my front garden, it seems to be doing well. I wonder if I will be around to enjoy a nut.
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    I'm very pleases with the insulated steel profile roof I put on my shed. Bought as seconds with with 30mm of insulation built in. Not much of it visible now as I added 8 more PV panels, room for 4 more too and I aim to get 2 on this afternoon.
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    If you get no luck here try Lawn mowers THEGARDENMACHINERYFORUM.CO.UK This board is for all lawnmowers including ride on mowers. If you're looking for advice on how to fix your lawnmower, or... Low volume forum run by @lurkalot
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    No matter whether it can survive it will be so severely compromised that it will have no amenity value if kept
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    That looks like a "hazard beam crack" and while it may not affect the stability of the tree for climbing if I were felling it I would be mindful of that crack compromising the hinge if it runs down, especially the way ash will often split. It's half way to a barber chair already.
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    Yes, buy the dispenser bottle and when it is used re fill it with the cheaper stihl standard 1 litre bottle.
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    I don't see why not, the only problem might be high temperature if stall the chain regularly, lacking a chain brake means that being applied will not be a problem.
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    The end grain blocks were usually elm for a butcher's cutting block
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    not seen one anywhere as big but the young thin shoots are sunshoots and seem to be a way the stool manages itself with new growth as the older shoots go moribund. This is why it is so suited to coppice.
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    Probably but many years ago I was taught to file the Danarm 110 with .404 teeth with a file holder that had a plastic knob at the blunt end. This was for tapping the burr off each tooth after it had been sharpened. The reason given at the time was that the burr was the chrome plating on the tooth, to leave it there would cause it to peel off. It certainly isn't the case now, whether the tooth forming process at manufacture is better now I don't know.
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    The BBC must be looking in as they did a short video on petricor What do you call the smell of rain? WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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