openspaceman
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snap but my car is somewhat younger, actually it's the wife's but she won't drive it anymore -
Me too I'm afraid
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Nor me but I had thought we were discussing this in the context of using a machine to pull the rope and joining a snapped rope.
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Lopped, topped or dropped??
openspaceman replied to Pete E's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
It was lopped topped and dropped -
Help identifying a tree please
openspaceman replied to Martinal's topic in Tree Identification pictures
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Yes I forgot that, the second car the grandaughter had when she got her own insurance had one plugged in to the OBD2 port and she was supposed to not drive between 2300 and 0600 but she paid no heed to that.
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I've been through this 3 times over the last 30 years and I found the cheapest in the long run ( up till about 25 years old) is to insure a cheap car in the drivers name comprehensive, with a voluntary excess that is the same as the car's value. If it gets written off (none of my girls did) then you start again. Some say the premium comes down if a parent is named on the policy, with NFU it made no difference. The girls took out their own policies after the first year by which time they had full licences and a years NCB. It fell apart for me with my granddaughter who abandoned the little pug 206 she had been given and proceeded into a string of hire purchase disasters with equally disastrous insurance costs.
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I was with you up to that point @Pete B; The issue with diesels regulations is to do with particulates and their inhalation. Not only the micro bits of sooty hydrocarbons but also particulates which form when nitrogen oxides react with other chemicals in the atmosphere (sulphur compounds I think) to precipitate more particulates which can be inhaled. The issue of climate change from burning fossil fuels is the release of CO2 into the atmosphere which petrol engines do as well as diesel engines and just about any other form of combustion.
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Were he not the father of the US space programme he would have been tried as a war criminal for the slave labour used in his project I think by war's end the german nuclear effort lagged severely behind. It was a Hungarian, Szilard, that was the instigator of the atomic bomb but it was his persuading Einstein to make a direct approach to Roosevelt that got the Manhatten project going and Truman's right wing bigotry that led to the Windscale disaster.
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Just about 100% compliance here, customers and shelf stackers wearing masks but cashiers behind screens not, makes sense to me. I went to use the pay at pump machine and it rejected my card so kept helmet on with visor down, most uncomfortable for the couple of minutes I had to queue in the shop.
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I understood alder was used for the bulk of black powder but alder buckthorn for the fuses, it grows fairly commonly near here (and I suspect Aldershot 15 miles away). My guess is got the name alder buckthorn because of its similar habitat and use.
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I wasn't clear; I meant that I would form a sheepshank around any joining knot that might jam, in the same way you might round a damaged bit of rope, in the image below imagine the joining knot or frayed bit being in the central length. I always put a stick in the bight and around the standing lines Note this way of joining halves the strength of the weaker of the two ropes, the alpine butterfly retains about three quarters the strength.
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Yes even bowlines get hard to untie after being loaded by machine pulling, which is why I used to set up a sheepshank round them. I have also needed to cut out an alpine butterfly as I couldn't undo it That sounds worth a try, just single fishermans or still double?
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Silver Birch Not Well??
openspaceman replied to Witterings's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Yes drought stress but the roots will be suffering from a fungal attack. It's a short lived tree on my sandy soil and I'm seeing ones younger than I dying. -
With the exception of the comfort my ex mod V8 110 had those attributes, never let me down.
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So sad to hear, my commiserations to his family though I only knew him from here.
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I've not seen one but chain looks back to front.
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Strangely I remember helping someone replace track chains early on, if it wasn't with you it must have been on the Case 850 at one of my early jobs. The joining pin did have a dimple though didn't it? I late did the same with my Case 450a and did knock the joining pin out and connected the old chain to the new and drove forward on to it, I did use the gas axe to cut the track plate bolts off. I got the chain, bolts and drive sprocket from INMARLO near Chertsey bridg, over thirty years ago now.
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Yes I forgot about that, it only lasted for a short while though, I guess they planted some to get better control of quality.
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Long time ago but there used to be a master pin with a dimple on it which could be knocked out. @Deafhead may remember
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I was first and last there nine years ago, the parking area at the timber dock was strewn knee deep with beercans, soiled paper and abandoned camping gear, I could not believe my eyes. Anyway the point I was trying to make is that getting horsepower onto a job increases the output of a man. I drove four different mulchers, it was horses for courses but the 400hp Ahwi was probably the most productive and cost effective on jobs that suited it despite burning through 3-4 hundred litres of diesel per day.
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My guess is much of this sort of work is grant funded and funding may be a little short for a while. As I said I did it on easy ground but don't know the long term result, it isn't worth the expense unless you deliver a knockout blow and that will need a number of different techniques, just as a harvester still needs a motor manual feller to do edge trees, and then chemical follow up. I remember wondering how to control rhododendron on the slopes above loch Etive as there didn't seem anyway of getting the machinery and horsepower in, then I came across a Menzi Muck...
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Not really strange looks like the rings lightly seized and damage was caught before it got worse, Nikasil is harder than the cast iron rings and both are much harder than the piston. I'd still wipe the bits of bore with caustic soda get just in case there has been any aluminium pick up and lightly run some wet and dry (150??) round the bore for a bit of oil retention. As always you should establish what caused it to nip up. Depending on how much use you expect to get from the saw either a new piston and rings or for light use just rings and clean the skirt as the piston ring lands look undamaged. Given a small difference in price between a new pattern piston and just rings being small when carriage is factored in...
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I've only been heavily involved once and that was on 100 ha of fairly flat ground in a scots pine plantation, I had two months start on a harvesting outfit. Growth was well over cab height and first pass through was with an 8ft Ahwi on a reverse drive Valtra, with a little skid steer then taking out the inter-row growth. I was making the final pass a couple of inches below the leaf litter to traumatise the roots. It still would have needed hand cutting follow up after the harvesting but unfortunately I have never been back since 12 years ago to see the result. I guess it was costing £500/ha then. The harvesting was right up behind me at finish.
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Samsung S5 wasn't too difficult once the hair dryer had softened the glue.
