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The bright orange one? I could never start it by myself, I needed someone to drop the valve lifter decompresser thingy. I still cannot remember what happened to it.

The interesting thing about that site is they do not discriminate between domestic burning, industrial burning and bonfires. RHI must have significantly increase woodchip stokers and from experience I know they often get delivered well out of spec chip moistures content. I went to Data Archive - Defra, UK UK-AIR.DEFRA.GOV.UK to try and grep some hourly data at various seasons for one site but had not much success as my various terms brought up null data. One day I will get my particulate monitor recording to file and run it for 24 hours.

Didn't you say 67 yesterday? It's a fair analogy, my mother could recite a poem from "Flax of Dream" right up toward the end but not remeber anything from the past week. SImilarly my brother would recite a love poem to his wife from 50 years back but not remeber his way to the bathroom shortly before he passed away.

You have the experience so I'll accept that figure. When I was harvesting timber I reckoned it cost me about £2 per green tonne to do anything like moving it from stack to transport, perhaps I was being generous but with a "cube" of firewood containing say 0.5 tonne of green wood there's £1 spent getting it in and out of the Kiln, then there's the cost of energy to run the kiln. I suppose once it's in 1m3 containers that handling cost goes down a bit?

I would never expect to burn wood from end April till October but apart from a few days in April am still lighting it late evening. This is the first year I've really tried to maximise wood heat and minimise gas in this small semi detached cottage and have got through a log shed full, that is 8m3 stacked. I reckon that saves me about £350 in gas but it values my time preparing wood quite lowly. Given where you are I'm not surprised

Is this the colour change one that comes in at £24.50 delivered? Any foibles? I may lash out and try one for the first time, then do some tests.

Well HETAS (the owner of woodsure??) published a weak rebuttal and this page Government overestimating emissions from domestic wood-burning, says industry body - Air Quality News AIRQUALITYNEWS.COM A report commissioned by industry body HETAS claims that particulate matter emissions attributed to domestic... ends not supporting them. I guess the only way to get a figure on this is to find some 24 hour emissions data for different times of year. What we can say is that particulate pollution from other sources has declined for various reasons including catalytic converters and DPFs on vehicles so with no changes in wood burning the percentage contribution was bound to rise.

Most of these pumps are a cylinder with a piston rotated by a worm gear, as it rotates the piston moves in and out on a stationary cam. On the power stroke oil is delivered out the cylinder via a small hole, on Stihls this cylinder can be inserted wrongly so the output hole does not line up with the oil gallery. I am not familiar with the 240e.

Yeah my dad did this in the 50s, dismantling radios and radar sets from WW2 aircraft, would have made more sense to have left them whole. I still have the ice trays full of them 😀

Does it matter after you reach 50? I now have trouble hearing skylarks.

I thought Japanese stuff used JIS with metric threads, not JIC with BSP imperial threads popular on american equipment.

As you used the singular I think you only refer to HETAS-Woodsure but I think it applies to many cic / community organisation / quangos and the rub is in the wages they grant themselves with little scrutiny from toothless trustees and charity commissioners.

If there was no cone and american it was probably a tapered thread.

would that be a menage a troi? I managed to build a manege for my daughter's riding school 😉

Our Vermeer tree spade had JIC couplings, same threads as BSP but the cone and socket pipe connection the opposite way round,

Part of that is down to wide spaced planting and use of tubes. The plastics problem existed before tubes, even in the early 70s spiral guard s and whips predominated in hardwood planting. I was paid an extra half P to remove spiral guards when pruning poplar to 8ft, purely because of damage to the stems as they ingrew. The job was to remove and drop but despite my boss's [1] view that it was insignificant litter, I took them home and binned them, for which I was allowed to take the company Simca 1100 home and left my Bantam at work. [1] he never lived to see the problem from plastic waste was to be acknowledged as he died at 49.

Nor me but it remains a problem. I'll see if I can dig out a photo of my little friend, within 12 months of the photo I was engaged in my first forestry employment and got to run the trap lines on an estate in Surrey, so killed quite a few. It was pointless as only the adjacent FC land and our estate did any control. At the time 90% odd of my wages were rebated by the government so it paid the firm I worked for to get me doing pointless jobs. But it's not only red squirrels, they also out compete other native mammals for food, notably dormice. Just look how they strip hazels before they are ripe. No amount of re introduction of red squirrels will overcome their lack of resistance to parapox which is lethal to reds whilst greys are largely just carriers. I see some damage in gardens but overwhelming amounts in woodlands, especially beech. People will never see the grandeur of beech trees we were felling in the 70s, for furniture mostly, as those remaining are getting into their old age and suffering and the young have lost their form because of bark stripping. It is the middle of next month when you first notice the damage looking onto the trees from a distance and seeing the wilting and brown leaves in scattered clumps on trees.

Yes that's my take on it, as soon as it propels something not within the exemptions it must be on DERV. There apears to be an exemption for stationary use as long as it's not commercial. So currently I am thinking if you are running a wood chipper in a domestic dwelling for horticultural purposes it can use red, if you do the same in a commercial situation, like a pub car park or development site, it must be DERV but if it's in hospital grounds?

Yes that was my guess

And railway wagons, apparently because it doen't splinter. Shame you're not closer to Petersfield as a chap has been milling some of the alder on the Lucas mill, they look nice clean boards.

I mostly use an ancient ex army entrenching tool but have a mattock as per attached photo of a job for my niece last week. Three well dead conifer stumps biggest still about a cwt which is too much for me to lift nowadays. The clincher was the Eder 1800 with a 2:1 advantage.. I subsequently split the bigger ones into 4 with wedges.

Two stations reached via the Southern platform of Brookwood station, some of the trackbed is still there. It was bought by Necropolis as cheap common land and enclosed as they were the only persons licensed to excavate graves in London church yards which were being sold for development and they needed somewhere to re inter the bodies, subsequently used for burials from London. Latterly it was mostly used by the Moslem community for immediate burial, followed often by repatriation apparently. Now owned by the LA who have a duty to provide plots for the local churches whose own burial grounds are filled up. The military cemetery is managed separately. It's a fascinating place which I don't often visit as I walk mostly with a dog and they are not allowed in the cemetery.

I only regret selling it because of sentimental value and it was a good workhorse. I also am gradually moving old working kit on.

Good job for you they gave up. I remember underestimating how long digging stumps out by hand would take. Even if you set about is sensibly that would have taken a few days to burn out.

The smell should have given an indication of species. Interesting that they had attempted to burn it out, had they done the initial excavation?