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The wall thickness would only be 1/2mm.I would be tempted to try it as is. If that moves too much for the oil hole alignment shape a piece of aluminium the same thickness as the bar to fit in the bar slot and then drill that and then cut it off half way through the holes. I think I have one of those saws in the shed that I ought to try and start, it too has no bar.

I find my softwood logs dry to as little as 12% over a single summer under cover, oak takes a bit longer but still less than 20% if split small. This equilibrium moisture content is an interesting phenomenon in that there is a difference in the moisture content as the humidity changes but that difference is not the same when the humidity goes up as when it goes down. So a log dried to 12% in the summer will gain moisture as the RH increases to 90% in the winter but it will still be very slightly lower mc than the same log drying from green and in equilibrium at the same RH. Also be wary of equilibrium mc tables from joinery firms as they tend to use mc on a dry weight basis where we tend to specify it on a wet weight basis. So their 25% mc dwb is our 20% mc wwb. I don't think my logs under cover can get higher than 17% even if the RH gets over 90% and I doubt even in wet places like the lake district they will get over 20%mc wwb if they have been dried lower.

I remember that sinking feeling as coffee with glitter poured into the cup. I migrated to SS flasks, they don't stay quite as hot for so long but at least a warm drink before the drive home.

The simple answer will be no and being guilty of haranguing on this subject I'll lay off.

You are right about no good outcome but it was a mixture of americans not wanting an influx of eastern europeans and needing somewhere else for them and the american anti colonial attitude that forced the exit of european governments too hurriedly that caused much bloodshed in the far and middle east.

...or if the system gets pressurised by a blown head gasket in a bad case

which is why you need to crush (or chip) laurel leaves before they small of almonds

I think Jase's reticence points to a fundamental flaw in Greenmech's installation rather than a problem with those state of art B&S masterpieces of engineering 😉

I started out in forestry planting, 1p per plant, basic wage was £15/week for general farm worker and £19/week for forest worker. I planted 1000 trees most days so doubled my wages. Then came weeding and cleaning, I cannot remember the rate but £15/day became the target. Then it all went wrong, we were cleaning with long handled hooks, cutting willow and coppice chestnut which the 245t had failed to kill in a douglas plantation. The piecework rate was reasonable but a struggle for the two older guys. I had a word with the local dealer and bought my first power saw a, husqvarna 165r (still have it), for which the shop threw in a chainsaw hat and a file because I was too naive to ask for discount. That blew £200 quid of my woman's maternity grant . Even with the cost of petroil I was ripping through it making a small fortune but the two fifty something guys were more than disgruntled, they were sent elsewhere the next week and the piecework rate dropped. I never did make the purchase money back on that job and gave it up to work on a relatives farm for 18 months. After that it was piecework felling intermixed with working for a couple of arb firms. £6/tonne cutting and extracting one metre pulp onto artic trailers by hand. £4/tonne fell, sned and crosscut; £2/tonne extract and load. I think a brickie was on about £100/week and we would be aiming for £200 but it didn't take long for that to reverse. I moved on to fell and extract hardwood timber.

As that would flatten the fob battery my guess is the car sends out the signal and this induces a current in the fob which powers it to send an ack reply which the car then acts on.

I always worked piece rate and it was good for a long while, on average earning 30% more than day rate and that's how things should be. Things get tight and firms reduce the rate till it's nigh impossible to earn a living.

Spill the beans then 😉

is this because the key less one can get interrogated by a relay device and that then sends the signal to unlock the door with no buttons to press. same device then enables ecu to start car.

I found transplanting root balled conifer gave poor results with checked growth and dieback the following season. We did have some success with transplanting pine on a site where the movement was a few hundred yards with a vermeer tree spade, this was always in the dormant period as perceived wisdom is not to attempt it in summer. We did move some oak and poplar in leaf but sprayed the foliage with a formulation of PVA to reduce transpiration. Is @Ruskins Trees able to comment as techniques must have moved on since the 80s.

I am amazed it has managed so well but I wouldn't cut anything off until it is established. I hope @groverson keeps us informed next spring.

The pimp engine is really just for the fire lighters, I have posted a picture here in the past of the one my mate's father and he used to use making kindling from vegetable crates for sale, back in the 50s, Up until about 30 years ago a local firm, Chris and Vic, would come and cut birch for horse jumps when cleaning forestry plantations post planting for free. They cut with billhooks and made fairly loose bundles under their arms which they secured with a birch withy twisted and tied. When the time came to assemble them in a jump they were pulled together in a frame with a land rover with extra faggots stacked in the space created. For tight faggots a pair of sticks with a chain between them was used before tying. the first 2 minutes of a slow demonstration, A dudckduckgo search on "binding faggots gets various images of clamps. When I tried to mechanise making hazel faggots for revetment work by clamping the bundle in a grab before tying they were rejected as being too tight as they wanted the water to flow through and be slowed down so the silt dropped out to stabilise the bank.

Having known a NT tenant that killed himself when his farm was taken back and abandoned I agree on two counts, NT are a bad landlord propped up by their favourable tax status and we should not have allowed rewilding to put traditional productive farms at risk simply because we already struggle to produce 60% of the food we eat. With only about 5% of global food traded the knock on effect of us buying more on the world market is people starving elsewhere.

I too agree about Dysons (and the ball barrow was pants), I have "repaired " lots that have been discarded because the filters need cleaning, The thing is cyclone tubes actually consume a lot of the air power, so my choice is a Henry with a Hepa filter bag, including when sweeping the chimney. The Dysons even have a warning on them not to use with fine dust and cleaning impacted plaster dust or soot out of the cyclones takes ages. The Hepa filter bag just fills up without much loss of suction, lets no loose dust out when it is emptied and the bags cost peanuts. Dysons are for homes that don't need much cleaning but the air passages are too small for bits of bark and chainsaw flakes. I do keep a Vax upright for getting dog hairs out of the carpet though a Dyson air powered rotating thingy does work with the Henry once the "heavy" debris has been vaxed off.

Not murder but arboricide

Exactly the case against new motorways or hs2, they simply promote excess journeys to no great economic benefit.

No not the same but it must have been widespread because I came across a RHS trained guy using it in the 9os

Same boss that taught me? He would be about 92 now if still alive.

We used to make the last cut 1" thick, run round the cambium with a groove, pack it with ammonium sulfamate and then nail the cover piece back on, it looks a bit more natural. Mind I agree with Paul, ecoplugs about now prior to felling and leaf fall may be more effective, much as I dislike them.

Old enough to remember troggs

That is one of the original Stihl carbs, the non oem replacement is in the link