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Yes and both worn differently, the first on the tip like it was chopping logs and hitting the ground occasionally and the other, ex WTC?, on the opposite end. Could it have been mounted upside down at some time
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One man's meat...
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posh ones
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I'm not over keen on copper beech in rural settings. As for this one ; it looks pretty green to me and not that old plus I wonder what the stem unions near the base look like.
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Has that pole been spiked to death?
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Yes it looks like one. They send 12V DC looking for a switch to close, then they start and when up to speed switch 240V AC to the load. Thing to be wary of is leaving a transformer on somewnere. I was fooled by a shaving mirror being left in circuit with its light switched off.
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Looks like hornbeam to me
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Interesting project, at least one of the regular posters on here has a dyson fan and filter to keep irritant levels down. Some researchers in America were using HEPA filters in front of circulating fans to cut pollution levels indoors during the wildfires. I've been considering a corona discharge type device for settling dust particles and producing an inevitable small amount of ozone to zap micrro bugs. 1 Yes I do often consider it but more in context of those 2billion people that regularly cook with open fires, because the particulates are implicated in a lot of infant mortality worldwide. It is not something I consider a lot in my own home. In the summer I was seeing about 9micro gram per m3, now with the wood stove: 10 Nov 2020 17:55:51.903276: PM 2.5: 7.1 μg/m^3 PM 10: 17.2 μg/m^3 2 not yet 3 No 4 Myself 5 Only for smokers and bad cooks 6 which pollutants are you considering?
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How to best deal with woodworm on these tops
openspaceman replied to Woodworks's topic in Woodcraft Forum
Most fan heaters will work at more than 70C but I think a digital hot air gun would have enough power if the board was between two sheets of celotex with an air gap either side. It would need to run a day or so and of course it will dry the board below current equilibrium, I have never left mine running full time. If you didn't want the airflow then some old 100W bulbs in an insulated enclosure get things quite warm LCD Digital Thermometer and Probe suitable for Fridge Freezer Cooler Chiller UK WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Specifications: Temperature range: -50°C ~ + 70°C Usage temperature: -10°C ~ +50°C Usage humidity:5% ~ 80%... Only get up to 70C but distributed along the board should give an indication. -
I see someone else uses one like my favourite A birthday present from my daughter from around 93. Apart from the sentimental attachment I like it because the cutting edge is not as broad as a felling axe and at 6lbs is about the right weight for me. It has never been sharpened as that would make it stick too much and it only splits about 4m3/annum. I was surprised to see the barcode as I hadn't realised they have been around so long. My "working" favourite Muller was out on loan and the young lady seems to want to keep it
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Understood but it's no laughing matter, a lad I was at college with in 69 was being treated for it, poor sod fell asleep all the time.
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Replacement TPO Tree advice
openspaceman replied to Adam1990's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Yes liquidambar are spectacular this time of year but do grow large, the two prominent ones in front gardens in my village had both been removed before they were semi mature. As the replant would presumably be subject to TPO I'd go with birch. -
Don't put your hands in your pockets and learn to piss no hands then. Who knows what the first recognised industrial disease was and why it re appeared in the US in the post war period?
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I agree, yes the modern axe head will be hardened at the cutting edge only, as it can be sharpened by a file it will have been tempered to take the brittleness out. Even mild steel can throw shards. look at how a wedge gradually deforms and mushrooms as it is struck, if the lip isn't regularly dressed it will eventually fly off. I started work in the industry a bit late, I worked with two old guys who had worked as woodsmen in the war and they were both 64. Fred had lost a calf muscle when he slipped onto a running saw and Ted an eye missing when they were felling and Fred hammering the wedges when a shard flew into his eye.
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Black and silver resin and spalted beech
openspaceman replied to Mark armstrong's topic in Woodcraft Forum
Do you mean "Positive Couple"? 27M views with $10 per thousand moneytisation pays for a lot of epoxy -
Prior to cheap steel of known grade I think many axe heads were made of a folded piece of iron with a piece of high carbon steel then forge welded between the ends. I've never seen any evidence of this in any axe heads I have come across so guess by the late industrial age and the coming of Bessemer steel of a known carbon content became available and axe heads were made from that in one piece.
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I was being a bit facetious Saul I do store some small loose cuttings in an old coal bunker but generally twigs, faggots or bavins take up time and space to store whereas I can chop kindling as I need it from a piece of (typically) leylandii firewood straight from the stack.
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Pimp
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Cordate leaves and bark look ok for lime but lack of buds in focus makes a positive ID difficult.
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I found loading the bed of the woodmizer quite taxing with a grapple loader, especially when opening the grab, a log deck would have been much easier. I see the same with the lucas mill, where a log deck is impractical and the chap loads it with a sling from the grab rather than the grab directly, which is why @Billhook's old fashioned grapple looks of interest.
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Did it come apart just in front of the trigger?A chap I was working with just a month ago had a brand new stihl 131 come apart there on its first use, luckily he had the sense to stand still while his mate pushed it all together and it worked okay until the next time. Now I think he has relieved the clamp with a hacksaw so it tightens more securely.
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Exactly that and my injury to my left little finger bit off a piece of knuckle bone but very minor compared with yours. There seems to be no liaison between the medics and HSE but there is a duty to self report under RIDDOR, personally I would have avoided doing so but understand why the site manager followed company policy.
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Looks like a mixture of western red cedar and ash, the ash doesn't spit but wrc does when not dry, not that it matters in a stove. WRC dries very fast when cut and split.
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Lucky, I had a minor mishap, around the turn of the century, first one with a chainsaw in 20 years, whilst felling for a quarry extension. Site manager saw me leaving with a few blood spatters and insisted on filling the accident book. Got a couple of stitches after a very long wait in A&E with nothing said. Next morning, off work, I got told to fill in a RIDDOR form and a couple of weeks later had a visit from HSE. He went through all my gear and PPE and gave me a written warning for having a 6 year old helmet.
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Yeah, Clegs, Stouts what do you know them by? Whereas a gnat sticks a needle in you the clegs seem to take a chunk out. I think midges are more like minature clegs.
