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  1. openspaceman
    I gave away may last teardrop shaped sandvik a few months ago, completely outclassed by Japanese pull saws. Even the footpath volunteer group have lashed out on Silky saws now.
  2. openspaceman
    Lime? Smell and stringy bast should be an indicator
  3. openspaceman
    Yes it is normally dark green but it has slender wavy needles and is arguably more common than other 3 needle pines. This tree looks a bit suppressed and juvenile which may be affecting its form. If the needles are truly drooping then have a look at mexican P patula, I don't remember seeing one ever but it may fit with the very long needles.
  4. openspaceman
    Yes that's right, sorry I thought @Squaredy would be familiar with the term.
  5. openspaceman
    I'll put that to him. TDUB?
  6. openspaceman
    Actually I think we agree on all points
  7. openspaceman
    If it's three my first stop would be monterey (P radiata)
  8. openspaceman
    I'm having difficulty in counting the needles per spray.
  9. openspaceman
    Okay but the point I am trying to make is that after allowing 30mm to clear the gear head with a 200mm blade you have at best a depth of cut of 70mm so you can sing through 70mm stems, have to have a couple of cuts (once with a pushing blade which is a bit more awkward) above 70mm and a 150mm cut is a bit much. When respacing ( thinning to waste) I would use the brush cutter but would walk back through with a chainsaw for the large stems and spear cut them at 4ft just to drop them below the canopy and leave them hung up if necessary.
  10. openspaceman
    I'd still say clearing saw, though when I chiefly used them I think we were allowed 9" or bigger blades, so a depth of cut of 3.5" was possible. I have a feeling you are limited to 8" blade now, or can you get bigger on the 50cc brush cutters?
  11. openspaceman
    Much more fiddly to get out but you're probably right.
  12. openspaceman
    There seems to be some disagreement about that as @cessna has it from the horses mouth.
  13. openspaceman
    Define decent. The chap I pulled 50m3 of alder out for in mid Hants doesn’t appear to be getting much interest.
  14. openspaceman
    I'm sorry to hear that Al, I had been hoping to meet up to discuss logging.
  15. openspaceman
    Where's the fun in that? 🙂
  16. openspaceman
    I won't rush in on the basis of a couple of measurements, that robinia was either an anomaly or I didn't push the pins in far enough, it has oven dried to give an initial 31% wet basis. The other piece of beech, also from this year's felling and reading 24% on the fresh face, I microwave oven dried and it was 19.83% wwb. So I am still a bit undecided on what basis the valiant indicates moisture content.
  17. openspaceman
    Well it all looks good and I did use this particular saw from new, it is proper old school with a normal carburettor so I'm keen to see how it compares with the 550mk2. The newer saw has an advanced engine which should be both more economical and less polluting, as less unburnt fuel should carry over into the exhaust but I suspect this is at some cost to grunt. Trouble is L&S whilst being amazingly quick at delivering the missing nuts and screws have sent plain M5 25mm Allen screws 725 53 33 55 for the cylinder but the motor uses the coarse 5mm allen screws with the strange open thread form which a bit of research shows are 503 21 55-25 and these are not available. I ordered two but only need one. As a result I haven't tried the saw yet. Not the dispatch department's fault as on their exploded parts diagram only the standard M5 screw is shown.
  18. openspaceman
    Why dream? According to my valiant moisture meter the robinia I cut and split last month is 13% on the faces and 24% in the middle when split.
  19. openspaceman
    Yeah I thought lawsons, crushing a frond is the clincher.
  20. openspaceman
    Removing or respacing?
  21. openspaceman
    7.5+0.75=8.25 with the 107 note
  22. openspaceman
    I have reassembled the 346 but won't attempt to start it until the 4th cylinder bolt with the various handle bolts and bar nuts arrive from L&S. I had an old chain but as there were no markings on the bar I wonder if the bar is .058 or.050 as it is quite worn. I'll run it for a while then decide what to do with it.
  23. openspaceman
    Lesser celandine is out about the same time as coltsfoot here, early April. We call your cuckoo plant milkmaid, I hadn't heard of most of the other names
  24. openspaceman
    Thanks @Conner that's it
  25. openspaceman
    Thanks for that again but as long as the shed is rain tight and moisture cannot get into the logs form underneath I d I think the equilibrium moisture content in the UK means it will not uptake water to above 20% wwb. I think the reasoning behind the regulations are that sellers will leave the market and generally less solid fuel will be burned in smaller stoves.

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