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I think you may be confusing this with the plywood Higgins boat that was subsequently adapted with a front gate/ramp as a landing craft, many were built here to the american design and one that was rebuilt for saving private ryan sits on a roundabout at Shoreham

I always thought the name was dreamt up but the only time I went on one for a tour around Boston Ma and it's harbour the driver explained the code and I've just seen it is explained on wikipedia. It lurched quite a bit going into the water and it was several seconds before the driver was able to deselect wheel drive and engage the screw. Similarly getting out was a kerfuffle I think there were several accidents subsequently and wonder if they are used for tours any more. The mechanicals are ordinary 2.5 ton 6x4 truck and as you say it was designed and built in 42 onward very quickly from inception to use.

That's what the D stands for, it was a superlative bit of adaptation better than the monstrosity that the stollie was, obsolete before it came into service.

The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 part of the environment act comes into force May but there is an extension for small producers (<600m3/annum) till May next year There are exemptions but woodsure is the scheme appointed according to the regulations, a bit like CORGI were appointed for gas works and then lost the job to Gasafe.

Will the barbed wire fence be removed once the regrowth is established?

How pathetic? McConnell used to use the tractor oil for some of their smaller diggers siamesed with a pto pump, this saves the need for a separate oil tank. I explained it here over a few posts. The only real proviso is that the oil capacity of the tractor back end is big enough to supply the oil and cool it.

Iron Sulfate works well on moss in lawns

That's an interesting one; sales of green logs over 2m3 will always be exempt under the current rules and there's no way a small company whose core business is arb will justify the woodsure fees just to get rid of arisings but 2m3 of arb arisings will be a problem to measure and will make quite a bit more than 2m3 after processing. I can't see arb arisings actually having any significant value as received back at a yard. For a bigger company with a number of gangs I suspect I'd go for using a bigger chipper on jobs and then getting a firm in to chip stuff over 8" straight into bulkers with the chip all away for biomass unless that market crashes or log prices increase substantially. In the meanwhile I'll continue to scrounge 4 transit loads a year to keep me and my mate in firewood for the cost of our labour.

If one can dry the wood down below 20% in the summer months and the barn is weather tight they will regain moisture but not to above 20%. I see kiln drying as more of a cash flow mitigation and space saving if you want to keep producing all year round. There's a moderate sized producer, <600m3, by me that has logs stored in temporary tent like structures and roundwood stacks, 600 yards away is about an acre of redundant glass house it's a shame the two don't meet as they could guarantee the logs would dry if under glass by June. That would mean they were stocking about £60k for 6 months with no return. Assuming the sales season is 15 weeks long with a kiln working on a fast cycle of 7 days (ours took 24 hours and self limited at 16% mc wwb) you have no cash flow worries and convert and deliver at a weeks notice. Finding a sweet spot in between to maximise solar drying and minimising kiln fuel is the aim. I always reckoned on 5% waste so burning this for the kiln is costless apart from paying off kiln capital.

You're a joiner so would have been used to measuring dryness on a dry weight basis. The chips in the devices are probably all the same so it would be sellers of meters for the fuelwood trade that are at fault for not pointing out the difference. wwb dwb 10.00% 11.11% 11.00% 12.36% 12.00% 13.64% 13.00% 14.94% 14.00% 16.28% 15.00% 17.65% 16.00% 19.05% 17.00% 20.48% 18.00% 21.95% 19.00% 23.46% 20.00% 25.00% 21.00% 26.58% 22.00% 28.21% 23.00% 29.87% 24.00% 31.58%

They are plainly expecting woodsure to police it, trading standards will only get involved when a customer checks moisture content and kicks off , then this business of using moisture meters designed for lumber and dry weight basis being used for logs will show up.

Of course one can it's a matter of additional capital and operating cost

Hooray it must be a few years since I mentioned this.

cheaper to take the reading you have from a moisture meter that is calibrated on dry weight, say 21%, divide it by 100+the 21% 21/121=0.173553719 or 17.36% rounded down

Not all pallets are treated and because they only have a short life it is unlikely they would have arsenic in them as that was mostly in CCA treated fencing and building timbers. All modern pallets have a logo on them and ones that have HT for heat treated, DB for debarked and KD for kiln dried should be safe to burn. Corner blocks not made of solid wood should not be burned nor ones stained or painted. Dealing with the nails in the ash is a PITA

It looks like this part 1124 790 9100 Is no longer available and I cannot see a HUZL copy, does anyone know if any of the other stihl hand guards fit, my friend has two 084s with this part broken and wants to borrow mine but I'd rather find the part.

I never saw him after that day, he was trying to curcumnavigate the Isle of Wight and apparently never made it. Watch those steel fuel lines they'll probably have rusted through by now. The Aussies did re engine them with a V8 and because it is shorter than the straight eight B81 there was room to put a step up gearbox in to get the output back to 4000rpm. As it is driven by one differential the strain can build up to do damage if used on grippy tarmac once you turn a corner.

Step up gearbox in between? Action man put a K60 in his, nearly turned turtle going off the side of the slip at Itchenor.

That butt at the back looks like it would have made some windsor chair bottoms.

I was trying to explain that english elm, ulmus procera, is now known as a sterile hybrid or variety of ulmus minor. Brighton has a number of species of elms in its parks and streets that are hanging on though the disease is endemic and still killing them. One of the species is ulmus minor the smooth leaved elm and that drops seeds that are fertile. Whereas the english elm has no resistance and cannot develop it as it is all one clone that can only propagate vegetatively, by suckering the smooth leaved elm has some resistance and may be able to develop more resistance because the seeds carry genes from two parent trees.

I think the scolytus beetle feeds on the twigs as soon as it finds them but the tree reacts to the single celled fungus and isolates it in compartment one., You often see little black sections in the cross section where this has happened as the tyloses formed by the trees defences are filled with suberine, a complex resistant chemical. The tree survives this attack because it has plenty of other twigs to carry leaves. The problem for the tree arises when not only do the beetles feed on it but they also breed in the bark, this happens when the phloem becomes wide enough to support the breeding gallery and is sufficient for the grubs to feed as they fan out from the main gallery and then bore their way out. During this time the fungus has entered the sapwood and the tree reacts to it, if the reaction occurs in the whole sapwood ring the laying down of tyloses blocks all the vessels and prevents sap getting to upper parts so the whole crown wilts and dies. The reason the english elm (introduced by the romans) is susceptible is that in common with having genes to produce tall straight poles it is dependant on this years sap ring, which is now blocked, a bit like an immune system that over reacts in humans causing sepsis the trees defence mechanism has killed the crown, but not necessarily the root. At least that is my understanding from 45 years ago, science may have moved on a bit since.

Sorry I misread your dry weight as 313 rather than 315 383-315=68 68/383=17.75% mc wwb 68/315=21.59% mc dwb So your moisture meter looks accurate for this sample and seems to measure mc dwb

See corrected calculation further down the posts wet weight 383 minus oven dry weight 313 gives water content 70. Water content 70 divided by wet weight 383 gives fraction of wet weight that is water 0.182767624 which is 18.28% Moisture Content Wet Weight Basis (mc wwb) Water content 70 divided by oven dry weight 313 give the moisture content expressed as a fraction of the dry weight which is 0.2236421725 or 22.36% Moisture Content Dry Weight Basis (mc dwb)

Yes English elm was named ulmus procera, it is now classed as a hybrid or variety of ulmus minor and is sterile. I have collected seeds from the streets of Brighton and successfully grown from them. I must have dropped one on the path beside the house as it keeps growing from the crack betwixt house and concrete path.

Was he the one that peppered someone’s posterior with lead or was that the father?