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It looks okay but hard to tell from pictures. When you run a finger around can you feel and scratches, a finger is sensitive enough to feel a ridge of half a thou. Is that light colour by the on the head from running weak or just an ephemera of the flash? When you get the new piston stick a new ring in the bore, keep it square with the piston and measure the gap at several places, if the change is a lot then the bore is worn. I haven't come across worn, as opposed to ruined, nikasil bores but the plating is only 20thou thick. I am told concrete cutters often wear it through to the aluminium.

Me to and I use it for hedge trimmings, it reduces the volume considerably. I wish I could find a cheap driven wheel one.

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I doubt it is nylon, probably ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene Many many years ago this firm Polyethylene Sheet, Rod & Tube Manufacturer | Aquarius Plastics WWW.AQUARIUSPLASTICS.CO.UK Aquarius Plastics is an experienced manufacturer of polyethylene sheet, rods and tubes, with custom machining... Supplied me with two sets of wear plates for my FMV crane extension slider, the first set is still in there without appreciable wear. My mate milled them to shape on a normal NC mill.

I can only speak for the Eder 1800; as you finish tightening the rope you ease off on the tail rope, which cuts the throttle to tickover and simultaneously the tail rope is held in a cleat, thus maintaining tension until you grab the tail rope and pull at full throttle again. I'd happily come and demonstrate it if I were nearby

It's a strange thing, people's attitudes. In this case I was happy to leave the bloke feedback as he was so laid back, I phoned him on the morning of the job and he readily accepted the leylandii chip, when my boss got there and phoned he was given directions where to tip. The next day just the same, tipped a truck load of chip and a trailer load of chogs off the tree, they never saw anyone on site. Mind both drivers said after a bit of rain the field would become a bit soft for most vehicles. The thing is I would never normally get involved but when the guy I was working for said he was going to tip 15 miles away I logged on with my phone (I'm usually desktop only) and found the site 4 miles away easily from the map. So the price of a beer is a small cost. Funny thing is the chap I was working for never said a word yet it saved him probably 50 quid in travel time and fuel.

This is taught to show the brake is capable of stopping the saw from full power and only at first start of the day. I maybe do it every few weeks. In dense brush I may flick the brake on before I move but generally try and move while the saw is on the opposite side of the stem. IMO the chain brake is an emergency device and not something to be used to stop the chain before moving. It is good practice to apply the brake before putting the saw down or handing it to someone (engine off) but it is something I never got into the habit of. I would advise never to move with the chainsaw in one hand and running but if you must then flick the brake on simply because I saw one of my employees do this and cut the backs of his fingers on his right hand because the chain was still moving. In fact this is how chainsaw carburettors are designed to work, mid throttle running constantly is likely to be running with mixture too weak or rich (weak mostly IME)

Same but not so much done because of recent circumstances, it is lighter to carry with 100m of rope, slings and shackles in backpack than a 3.5 tonne tirfor and 100ft of wire. On its low speed it has1800 kg force pull. If you can spike up 6m I would reckon it would deal with most and doubling the height makes more sense than using a pulley and block to double the pull. As with a Tirfor the pull is relatively slow so you have little chance of a dynamic pull with the lean off to one side of the pull without a second static line. What are the rules on using spike and strop with no safety line nowadays?

I took it as meaning no thanks ?

@Steve Bullman nothing showing in the two browsers I use and I'm authorised to buy you a pint.

I'm struggling to see where to leave a review other than "liking" the tip site we found on the map and used today and yesterday.

It looked like a thumbs up to me ?

It is incipient decay and it will have lost some tensile strength but as its main use is joinery or veneer this is not such a problem as if it were for beams or rafters. If you look closely at the butt the deeper reddish chocolate brown seems to extend beyond the heartwood. I put a piece onto a Carl Danzer lorry in about 1985 which I got paid £15/hoppus ft for (at a time when oak planking butts were selling for £5-8Hft) but I had to cross cut the butt and roll it aside to be inspected both ends and all round before he would give me the purchase order, it was also 3 metres long, which is significant as the premium market was for veneering boardrooms in city offices and one butt had to produce enough veneer to do the complete room. I suspect the rot pocket from the first branch will extend into the length and it looks like the butt is less than 8ft but still definitely worth milling. Often the brown will be alternated with unaffected heartwood to give a tiger stripe which is also attractive, a friend of mine milled some for his house flooring but it sits in stick under some plastic sheets and I fear it will have deteriorated before it finds a use.

All wheels should be braked for road use

Me too although I never got further than using flying and fixed bollards and have never used a zip line when lowering.

Yes it would have to be cheap to cover those costs, what is the mark up on flue components, 50%?

If you are not offering it for sale then why not. Otherwise you would have to produce a technical file proving it conforms to all the regulations and then issue a certificate of conformity.

Do you not lap the taper before fitting a new key in case the keyway has raised a lip?

I'm not involved any more but did keep a spreadsheet to keep a check on dates but a printed and signed paper copy for the lads to have on site with their risk assesment, if I only did domestic work I would just use the spreadsheet.

This is spot on as an observation. One of the first thing taught me in economics was the financial benefit benefit of a monopoly and how in the absence of this to create a false monopoly. It also makes me think back to the time of guilds and how that they suppressed innovation. I experienced some of this from the 70s when I could approach a landowner, get a felling licence, buy timber and sell it to a sawmill, then Forest thinnings came along and negotiated exclusive rights to supply mills, then H&SaW bit and we had to pay money to the into the NPTC pyramid scheme, then FSC... Just layers of middlemen feasting at the table whilst contractors grovelled at their feet licking up the crumbs they dropped.

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I don't think I have come across elm with shake

@MattyF the right to roam is just that not a right to do the things you suggest which are all criminal acts. I only own a cottage with a small garden with a well used sidewalk at the front and public footpath to the side with hedges but no locked gates to prevent people trespassing, it seldom happens but I do regularly find poo bags and litter chucked into the hedges and have had things stolen from the garden and cars. The right to roam is also restrictive on CROW access land and is not the same as the rights on registered common or section 15 land. All those things you mention also happen on other public places like roads, parks and the foreshore to which people have rights of access which you wish to curtail. Don't get me wrong, I am appalled at the things people do in the countryside and from a nature conservation point of view I was against the wholesale opening up of some land but to restrict access to the countryside unless you can afford to own it was ended with by the mass trespass on Kinder Scout. The problem with younger people not being concerned about the countryside is "That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone"