openspaceman

I thought the big difference engine wise was the 261 is a stratified carb with two choke tubes whereas the older 260 was conventional.

Dan did suspect no personality 🙂

Yes I had forgotten that a similar tonnage of neonicotinoids are used on pets as in agriculture.

I think they are used against flea beetle in OSR establishment too. I took a poor view of beet growing in the 70s over the way British Sugar dealt with farmers over the soil that was washed off in the factory, a problem with most root crops I expect. Apart from knowing nothing else about sugar beet I think that OSR was too difficult to establish in the 70s and, like maize, it could only be viable with biocides. The principal arable crops are cereals, a farmer can grow them for two or three years in rotation and then the yield declines too far because of the build up of pests and weeds that a break crop is needed. This is where OSR came in as vegetable oils found new markets but they needed pest control to be profitable. I think big farming has reduced costs to the extent small farming cannot compete on cost and that has lead to a higher proportion of output being from big farms, a bit like forestry and small woodlands. Now my limited knowledge of neonicotinoids is they are systemic, the seed is treated and the active chemical gets taken up by the plant (and the soil to some extent) any insect eating or sucking the young plant is poisoned. All well and good but these plants also flower and the chemical gets in the flower and the pollen. Neonicotinoids have only been in regular use for 30 odd years but given how they work and the drastic reduction in insects in that period why...

this is why you get to walk in and do all your maintenance and felling and stacking in the weald then wait till May to September to extract.

I guess I de ash my stove about 9 hours after the last log goes on, I prefer the ash and any remaining char to be cold, it can then go straight on the compost.

Close call, good to think about. I was always a bit wary of using the stump gobbler with a wander lead, to easy to stray into danger. I was much happier sitting in a barred cab with a Marguard windscreen.

You need something like this: from:https://wordhistories.net/2016/08/22/curfew/ Originally it was probably to prevent house fires while people slept and this cover evolved to make restarting the fire in the morning easier, before matches.

Then the bits of biscuit fly everywhere.

On the same theme; when one is out on a walk and decides to eat a cereal or protein bar why does a corner pull of, leaving a small piece of plastic wrapper separate from the main piece.

I was surprised when I first came across one but supposed it was to do with litter. I was similarly surprised when I first came across a ringpull that didn't come off in my hand, by then I had got used to not carrying a can opener to make two triangular holes in the beer can. Recently in an attempt to embarrass me into cooking my share of the evening meals my house sharer has taken to buying readymeals again. Tonight's was interesting as it was a lasagne packed in a one piece glued punnet, much nicer than a plastic tray, it burned well too, after the dog had cleaned it.

This may provide an idea https://fractory.com/metric-bolt-torque-chart/

It would be interesting to see. It's the solid walls and uninsulated solid floors that lose my heat.

Thinking about it , as there is normally about 20% left each year, I process about 8m3. I assume a stacking efficiency of around 70%, probably less as it's arb waste, so 5.6 solid m3. A rough estimate if all around 20% and 1solid m3 contains 500kg dry wood that's ~11200kWh and would cost £1100 in gas plus I get lots of exercise despite owning an old, rudimentary processor rusting in the wood somewhere.

I still process a 10.5m3 stack in my log shed each winter, filling up bays after they empty. I just use an axe and chainsaw but it takes me several days, it provides all the heat for a small, poorly insulated cottage. My mate from primary school and I collect logs together and he processes his with a 6 tonne vertical mains electric one. I am faster for a short while, he plods on at it all day, tortoise and hare stuff. He is also 3 years older and recently diagnosed with Parkinsons , no way can he use an axe or chainsaw.

another riddle that I don't understand, I'm feeling very old.

Too late to worry now, wait and see. The few times I have come across silverleaf it has been in well "gardenered" suburban mansions.

Not on a kinetic splitter but a hydraulic one, the only logs I had that problem with were some very old yew lengths that a woodcarver had had for years and given up on.

Luckily I don't know what you lot are talking about

Yep when you pick up a 621 now it feels amazingly heavy but it was so much lighter and ergonomic than the Danarm 110 I had used on the fsrm before. The first chainsaw I bought as a self employed feller was a HUSKY 280 cd the cd meant capacitor discharge I think. I wanted a Jonsereds because they were "cooler" in the forest but a discount shop in the hills above Haslemere had already sold me a husky 165r a couple of years earlier so I went with him.

Anti Vibration mountings that isolate the engine and bar from the front and rear handles . Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome is a degenerative disorder of the nerves and blood supply, it is incurable so best avoided, we used to know it as "white finger" and I developed it many years ago

I don't think so but then neither did most saws of the period. The first forestry saws I used around 1975, Jonsered 621/80, did have AV but no chain brake, first saw I had with a chain brake was probably Husky 162.

They were the stock hire saw in the 70s and withstood lots of abuse. I don't remember anyone who actually owned one as they are an ergonomic nightmare

Have you tried Astrak?

It's not only willow and poplar that strike roots from setts. A couple of years ago I reduced a privet hedge for a neighbour and decided to use some as stakes in a vain attempt to keep the dogs off the courgettes.