openspaceman

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't remember mosquitos being a problem when I have been in Scotland during the summer but midges were something else. Gnats/Mosquitos were not as bad this year as others where I am, not sure why because warm and wet should favour them, of course there is a general fall in insects. Ticks seemed very much on the increase.

Sam they are in a bad way and will not get better, as they are new to you and of no sentimental value I'd suggest removal and deciding what to replant. Did they fruit this year? The living parts may be fine and bear good fruit but the structure is suspect and all those bits of dead and rotting wood provide lots of hiding places for the various bugs that feed on apples.

Yes to this My parents were petrified of toadstools, because of reported deaths from eating them during rationing, and we we told to wash our hands even if we just touched one.

There's a thing; the reason given we lost the bigger saws for a while was because the emission rates were lowered for saws over 50?cc. To meet even the sub 50cc emissions requirements the major players, Husqvarna and Stihl went down the route of stratified charge and electronic carburation, with Stihl going for crankcase fuel injection in the 500i, yet here we have a conventional saw that meets the higher standards?

@Rough Hewn does it not have an electronic carb?

What do you mean by that? because a council is an entity that can own land, whether you are implying that councils hold land for the benefit of the public that's different, and probably wrong.

When the local NFU did that in Brighton during a party conference the police impounded the tractor for using red diesel for a non agricultural purpose.

This is much as I saw it in the Tiverton area and why public open space is so important to me, even more so with worries over walkers and livestock meaning many open paths are being fenced in in my area. Funnily enough it is the location in rail commuting distance of london that meant farming fell into decline early in my area, as a result there is a lot publicly accessible openspace for walkers on commons, that were never enclosed, MOD "dry" training areas and woodlands owned by the National Trust, Woodland Trust and Forestry commission. Plus one notable family in the Surrey hills made their land accessible many years ago, I started work on one of their woodlands open to the public in 1974. Unfortunately in the 80s the FC did sell off substantial areas which previously the public walked but without access rights which was a big mistake in my mind. As to being borderline bipolar @Big J it's just to one side of being "normal", so with the manic phases predominating in youth meaning great feats are achievable as I get older the depressive state overtakes...

That's always a good scare tactic; I bought a thinning from the forestry commission on a farm they had retained their plantations on but had sold the farmhouse and some fields for the new owners horses. They replaced the unmade acess track over which the FC had retained rights with a new concrete road. When I came to extract timber they claimed if any cracks occurred I would be liable. Not my problem but I was surprised when the FC caved in and I was unable to harvest the wood.

Balderdash, it's an oak of poor form that completely dominates a small garden which it overhangs and is considerably reducing the owner's enjoyment of his property.

I posted a relevant bit from the 1992 access to neighbouring land act. It needs a court order and a county court judge to liberally interpret the law.

you would still need the support of the tree from the servient, council, land unless you left an anchor overhanging the garden.

You might consider an application under the 1992 access to neighbouring land act although it is a bit of a stretch from what is specified: 1 (4)(c)the treatment, cutting back, felling, removal or replacement of any hedge, tree, shrub or other growing thing which is so comprised and which is, or is in danger of becoming, damaged, diseased, dangerous, insecurely rooted or dead. else just get a tracked mewp in there

So that is based on a stage 1 V8, basically a series 3 with selected 4WD. In normal road use are only one pair of the rear wheels powered and the other via the PTO part of the transfer box?

Yeah but the single biggest type of plastic litter I come across (and disregard royal mail rubber bands as they are natural rubber I think) is cableties.

If this were a one off I would have said go for aluminium nails, simply because my experience of stainless screws is they snap when you try and unscrew them if they have been in green wood any length of time, ordinary plated steel ones are better. Trees put up with nails and screws better than sawmills do. As it is regular then a tying or strapping solution is better

It looked like a Husky style bastard thread clutch centre rather than the Stihl type with the retaining E clip and inboard clutch

No don't peen it just do any tuning with a chain and bar installed

Makes no sense, the last thing a bat trying to lap up blood would want is for the blood to clot