openspaceman

not great pictures but it does look like fireblight and those vertical lesions on the stem also look like symptoms of bacterial infection. It often enters through strimmer damage at the base.

When you check this you may find it is an easement rather than a wayleave and this will show on your deeds, easements are a bit more onerous for the landowner.

Utility arb work is all dependant on the proximity distances between the tree and live wires and the qualifications of the people doing the work. Sometimes any work requires a shut down . There is provision in the legislation for a landowner to do the necessary work and charge for it but you would have to comply with all the safety requirements of the Distribution Network Operator, Electricity Northwest in this case. They will want to remove all branches from near to the live wire and a bit more to allow for "resilience" for the next five years.. You are better off asking that they do the work to British Standard for tree work 3998 as was and not allow the use of climbing irons if the tree is to be retained. Utility arbs have spikes permanently attached to their boots.

I think I have seen this before, it's interesting how the chain is noticeably slower after only one tank of cutting and this shows @Stubby's point about sharpening after re fuelling. All the chains except Stihl's look like they would benefit from a light touch up before use. The thing is his using sand glued to the wood is too harsh and none of the chains are fit to use after, even cutting skidded timber one would be forced to stop and swap saws or resharpen. The video only shows one normal semichisel chain and while it shows it had a smaller percentage change when it was blunted it doesn't really show if there is an actual benefit from using semichisel under these conditions. It does show that using full chisel will be faster in general cutting.

yea I often did the same as it gave me a breather too, similar with the fagging hook it was a break to stand upright and run the stone over the blade when weeding new planting.

I thought you had done production harvesting? One cannot stop the flow of a chap knocking over, knotting and topping 8 trees in about the same time the skidder driver can chain then up and drop them at the landing just because the chain is not razor sharp. It's not blunt but perhaps needs a bit of pressure to bite. The question I am asking has anyone demonstrated the difference in productivity when cutting direty timber starting with sharp saws of both types. I use saws much less now than I did 30 years ago when I was very sensitive to dull chains and dust affecting air filters but seriously blunt saws tend to wander off to one side or produce saw dust rather than flakes.

Sell him the timber standing and charge a rent for the use of the barn and yard.

Yes but a dull semichisel can keep cutting a bit longer whearas once the tip is gone off the full chisel that's game over. I cannot remember when I first came across full chisel but round chipper .404 was standard on the big old solid nose bars I first used. We went straight over to full chisel as soon as I became aware of it for the felling saws (though there was talk of semichisel being better for pruning). In those days we were ground skidding and the cross cut saw at the landing was an 80cc saw with semichisel 3.8" just because it would keep cutting dirty timber when 8 logs were dragged in to be processed before one could consider resharpening. Is there any evidence of the differences between sharp and dull chains of both sorts differing in performance?

Obviously play the trumpet too 🙂

I'm amazed no one has hacked it yet, what inputs does it use? Presumably the information stored is the saw's details and history and then carb settings at different rev ranges.

Paul Elsey, he emigrated to America and died shortly after. He bummed a piece of ash from me to see how the mill cut. Last time we met was before Google and he was designing telephones I think and promoting a search engine agglomerating thing called secret squirrel. Very hard work running the trekkasaw and I had lots of trouble winding the handles in sync. It cut better than the Woodmiser. My mate never let me loose on the Lucas some 30 years after I had used the other mills and by then I was 65 and found assisting him a real struggle. A chap call Atkinson took trekkasaw over and his salesman , Richard Slatem, went on to found Fuelwood Marwick. I think Robin Carter of Milland Fine Timber next owned them and he sold the business loglogic.

I think it could be Hawthorn Webber Moth although Antrim may be a little far north for it

I thought they only had a hand guard

Okay but were you considering what happens when an articulated tractor pulling a trailer gets out of line, if the trailer overcomes the steering ram it forms a letter N

You misread me, I used to pull a Botex trailer with a MF1200 tractor

Worse with an articulated tractor 🙂

Far steeper than anything I have forwarded with tractor and trailer, I have very little experience with purpose built forwarding. Are there individual brakes on the rear bogey wheels or does it depend on the cage motor for braking?

Neighbours do not have any say in what the place looks like and the enforcement officer's letter is not concerned about the look. He says there may be a change of use. Use classes are apparently changing but the effect will be similar, homes were class C. Commercial was divided into B1 offices and things that can be done in residential districts B2 light industrial but I suspect they are looking at B8 storage of material and equipment in the open and this has nothing to do with whether the vehicles are taxed, insured or roadworthy etc. Also I suspect A1 premises where the public visit for a service

Can you explain a breakdown of the cost? Extra diesel used etc.

Dunno but a three point blade seems to cut better than nylon cord. But the mulching blade cuts the stuff multiple times, it's bound to be slower. I mostly use the mulching blade on my very old FS360 but technically it is only supposed to be used on the bigger 400 and 460. Yes it makes a lot of difference when cutting mixtures with woody stuff and brambles. I always use it with the cup under the blade, on my last job the chaps never did, never sharpened and wore out the blades quite quickly. Apart from the Stihl kombi battery strimmer I have not used a backpack one. I do have a stihl fr 460 backpack, which was bought for steep hillside work, in for repair but I have not got far with it. Battery dead and sheared flywheel key seem to be the problems but the battery pack at over £200 isn't worth the risk. BTW that one in the video seems to use the same engine as my portable winch.

Yes that's the sort of thing, just a way up the road from me. How does £240 plus the time to take the exhaust off compare with a forced regen?

In the day nothing under 15"qg would be planking and not much under 20"qg, more often it it was longer the butt and second length of the smaller stuff would go as beams. That lot looks like fencing quality and in 1990 would fetch about £1/Hft

Normally the highway would be hedge to hedge but the hedge could be planted after the highway was established. Which is why old maps would need looking at. The thing is most highways date from much earlier times when all the land was in the ownership of the manor. Over time freeholds were sold off but the highways and verges remained wastes of the manor and stayed in the ownership of the lord of the manor. Often LAs took on ownership of manorial wastes and also may well be the highway authority. In most cases the highways were rights of way over land owned by someone, whether the lord of the manor, successors in title or other enterties. Later when more modern roads were built by the HA, including Highways England and their predecessors, they would have purchased the land over which the road was built from a landowner. So as land became enclosed the adjacent landowner would fence off their land, often with a ditch with the spoil thrown up inside their land and a hedge established on top. The highway could be quite wide as users wandered around muddy spots and then later the HA would metal the surface of a carriageway. All the land either side of this carriageway would remain in the ownership of adjacent land and any trees on it would be the property of the landowner even though they were on the verge of the highway.

I get regular spam emails from chinese companies offering DPF cleaning equipment. I often wonder what risk there is of damaging coatings on the ceramic filter if done badly as there are catalysts that work with the adblue (urea) solution to convert the nitrogen oxides to nitrogen. Presumably once the DPF is well used and has done it's job it actually gets clogged with ash, the sooty contaminants having been burned off in normal hot running. So the back flushing with water (and fairly noxious chemicals I expect) which you can see in videos washes out this ash as the brown gunk. Before I retired we has a pug 206 that blew a turbo and filled the DPF with burnt oil. I cleaned that with a propane torch and then a pressure washer back washing but of course do not know what damage that did.

It is part of the adopted road network https://surreycc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3d9bbb5e659b4078bb1cae0112ccbead and search Usherwood close then select Roads and Transport publicly maintained roads. The mapping indicates it is verge but that can still be in the ownership of Byways even if part of the highway.