openspaceman
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Then the bits of biscuit fly everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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This may provide an idea https://fractory.com/metric-bolt-torque-chart/
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It would be interesting to see. It's the solid walls and uninsulated solid floors that lose my heat.
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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.
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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.
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another riddle that I don't understand, I'm feeling very old.
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Apricot trees? Pruned at wrong time of year?
openspaceman replied to logwood's topic in General chat
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.
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Luckily I don't know what you lot are talking about
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Have you tried Astrak?
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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.
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Why not? by the time you add in the period for earth to become habitable and life to evolve humans the odds get much longer. Given also that the earth will be too hot for most life within a billion years we're only a blip in time.
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First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
not to mention polecats or hedge hogs iyou use lethal traps. The perceive wisdom in the mid 70s was it was only worth control in the early spring to july. -
First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
You said thinning not clear fell. 😀 Anyway you may decide to coppice then store some of the damaged trees. -
First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
It will be worse after thinning -
That's my understanding too, Conservation area is a notification and the time is six weeks. TPO is a planning application and the determination period is 8 weeks, after which you may appeal, not carry out works.
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You may be right
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Happy Birthday. Club is getting bigger we will probably outnumber the youngsters soon.
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Not any mink farms left around here, still a few feral mink from releases though, we had them in the stream at work., I wonder what they did with the rest of rendered mink, probably fed them back.
