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  1. openspaceman
    I only buy 5 or 10 ltr cans at one time, as I top up the car, and I haven't recently had the pump switched off on me but yes, it's a pain having to pay at the kiosk again at my local pumps as they have disabled payment at pump. Too much fraud perhaps?
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    No I was looking at this: https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/58020-single-room-mvhr-unit-white?&msclkid=864c4c99773d132a3cfb2b17e43abc7d&gclsrc=3p.ds I cannot see why so expensive, even so it makes more sense to return the heated fresh air downstairs. I already move air from above the wood stove to an adjacent ( but for stairs) room.
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    I was willing to look at a single room MVHR for the bathroom to replace the vent axia fan but and nigh on 2000 quid I'll pass. It's the same with an electrostatic filter for the chimney something I'd like to do but at a similar cost it would not be worth it, better to stop burning logs and switch the gas boiler back on.
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    Just for you, and I think that a "sorry I was wrong" is due? You are new here and it's good to welcome an optimist.
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    That's right, it will let you know when it has had enough😉. Just keep it simple, add the keyhole slider to the wire rope and pass the chain through that. Hitch the chain round the log about a foot back and then shorten it so the keyhole is a couple of inches in front of the butt end when you pull.
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    Yes I use aspen in my hedge cutters because they get used near my face, too expensive for the saws.
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    I have never used one, how will it join to the line, I suspect it needs a special slider to attach to the line. I mostly used chains because we were hauling predominantly sawlog size whole tree lengths but with the Holder and 3 tonne winches early on I used polypropylene rope loops with larks head around the tree and sliders of 13mm spring steel bent to push and twist onto the line. The line was terminated with a soft eye which had a pin and loop, like a very big tractor lynch pin. With up to 8 tiny trees on each winch you remove the lynch pin and winch in the wire rope to disconnect the trees from the wire. Very strange way to try and make a living looking back, two of us would struggle to get 3 m3 out a day in first thinnings.
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    I think Clark are a bit cheaper for skidding gear but their chokers are 8mm which is too big for smaller winches, I'm guessing that 6mm choker chain and slider would be better for the iron horse. I use 8mm gear in case I need it with the 6 tonne Farmi winch but it's galling hauling it and some 50m of wire rope up a steep slope.
  9. openspaceman
    No not too bad, just wear gloves as Mick says. Easiest thing to do is buy a keyhole slider to hook to, this will distribute the load, then you can also use a chain to do the chokering. Keyhole Slider For Forestry Choker Chalns 6mm or 7-8mm WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Keyhole Slider for Forestry Choker Chains. Slider and keyhole plate for choker chains.
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    Yes and if a lesser one will do @Al Cormack hires himself out with his, so may be worthwhile for just a day, though he is 20 miles from Dorking.
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    Same here but I imagine it can be the straw that breaks the donkeys back if it's a troublesome engine.
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    It seems to me you may have loosely spooled the wire onto the drum and then winched in hard causing the loose bits to buckle under the now taut rope as it wound on. Spool it all out and attach it to a heavy but moveable load and slowly winch it in under steady tension, weaving the iron horse so that the cable lays evenly on the drum. If however you mean the rope has sprouted hairy bits then you have damaged it and someone will end up getting spiked. To me a pig tail is when one passes the wire through a socket and then unwinds and splays out all the individual strands prior to pouring molten metal onto the wire to fix it in the socket.
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    Well what can one do? Bunded boundary, infill suspended floors, bolt down drain covers, bung for downstairs toilets, sump for submersible pump with float switch???
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    I had a quote for an 8 wheeler on a 40 mile delivery for £480 which seems reasonable, with the ash we have done I guess that would be 20m3 on a 70% stack measure but it doesn't seem to be moving from the job in Hampshire. I'm thinking this woodsure business has made some smaller firewood people give up.
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    In practice I haven't had a problem either way on automotive stuff, I think it is more important with high current solar PV cables. If you think about it most crimpers don't uniformly compress the wired into a perfect circle which is why you don't want strands crossing at the crimp, no harm in twisting to get everything into the crimp as long as the crimp is on parallel strands.
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    Great for producing dimensioned timber, not so good for oak beams
  17. openspaceman
    That's right the wires entering the crimp must be parallel then crimped. Twisted wires prevent the crimp compressing uniformly.
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    I haven't kept in touch with modern stuff but soldering used to be deprecated as vibration can cause fatigue failure of soldered joints, so crimps were preferred. Having said that heat shrink must add a bit of strength to the joint.
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    Majority of police budgets go to pay the pensions of ex police. Twenty five years in gets full pension for the next 60 years, unless anything has changed.
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    Yes amazing, remote timber cruising, potentially even pick which trees to remove in a thinning and instruct the harvester. It all scares me as an old motor-manual cutter as it de skills the job which I enjoyed, being out in the weather immersed in nature.
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    Too involved for a volunteer group to undertake, the land is also owned by the local (bankrupt biggly) council and they are playing dog in the manger. The site would lend itself to a highlead or skyline operation to minimise disturbance
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    Yes I forgot to mention it has two speeds.
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    Loncin
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    The Eder pulls about 1800kg and that rips a 4" stem out if 4ft is left as a lever, then we up end the stump on the brash pile. I have had to resort to using a sheave block to double the pull on multi stems. It's time consuming compared with a digger or the grapple on a tractor. No mess from wheelings though. I have been involved in large scale rhododendron eradication 20 years ago in a ~P60 100ha scots pine plantation. The bushes were up to 18ft high but luckily the 8ft mulcher fitted down the rows I spent 3 months there and took the bushes out between the trees with a rubber tracked rt100 and FAE mulcher. It is a private estate with no public access so I never got to see the results but a young ecologist has recently surveyed it and there is no rhododendron,so the follow up must have been good. Lord knows what it cost.
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    That's interesting. I have just started helping out our local environmental action volunteers on what was up till 1945 a working farm. The main parts became council housing in the early 50s but the riverside fields were left as open space and have developed into marsh and carr. Laurel and rhododendron have invaded from the posh victorian houses adjacent. They have been hand pulling and tree popping, What is left is stems of over 4" diameter and we are topping them at 4ft, piling the lop and top, then I am pulling the stumps out with the Eder winch. No herbicides considered. It will be interesting to see what groes. After 80 odd years the alder are beginning to wind throw. I have advocated coppicing but that has not been well received.

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