openspaceman

Kevin and I often agree on what's wrong, we just don't agree on what to do about it.

I know nothing about american internal politics but attribute much of the problems in the world today as a result of american foreign policy. The unruly behaviour in america will fail becacuse of my last point, it is based on an uprising of the poor, just like Wat Tyler it will be quelled by executive decision to remove leaders because it has no basis in the corridors of power.¿It does indicate a groundswell of unrest in the untermensch though.

I wasn't and initially wrote tumbril, then had second thoughts. Anyway the French revolution shows us a few things Those who don't learn from history will repeat the mistakes (forgot who I have paraphrased) Let the inequality swing too far and the reaction swings too far the other way The "people" do not benefit from the coup, they are just goaded into revolting by the erstwhile ruling class who get to depose the current one, i.e. there is not much difference between the current ruling class and the incomers; animal farm anyone

Okay I'll meet you by the tumbrel

Probably isn't but do make your mind up, we either top all the people without callused hands (aka not those with "the perpetual faint whiff of penetrating oil and diesel") or try and make something of the system we have got

I wish Trouble is you miss the fundamental point about how come some people come to be dominant over others.

The reason wood wasn't milled in the summer was that the outer layers of the cut surfaces dried too fast for the inner to catch up, causing slitting and surface cracks. I'm not sure if that is an issue with softwood unless it is for high class joinery.

The barks being knocked off by woodpeckers after the grubs that are in the breeding galleries under the bark. The grubs only got laid there because there was something fundamentally wrong with the tree's health. If the tree were healthy it would have drowned the invaders in resin.

I should have said "management plan" rather than grant scheme as I don't know what grants are available, my last involvement was compliance inspections for grants over 20 years ago. Create a woodland management plan - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Find out what's involved in creating a plan, giving you a structured way to organise the management of woodland.

I have my 1969 Hiat D steel screwgate, which I still use on a tow rope ?.

amongst the other things: even a single tower tends to know which quadrant you are in and because the tower controls the strength of its communication with your cellphone it needs to know the approximate distance too. It then allocates the phone a timeslot out of 64 according to this distance which narrows it down further.

Hi lift jacks can be lethal with land rovers, not only the risk of toppling and a smack under the chin if you let go during descent but the way the handbrake works on the transmission. You must have it in gear with the handbrake on if you lift a rear wheel on a series. It's a risk I took and my current model is a genuine hilift 48. We found the pattern ones rounded off the pins so they would not hold a log up on the Lucas mill. For occasional vehicle use this would not show up but when in use daily...

IMO that saw set the scene for modern harvesting saws, it was lighter and more ergonomic than the Danarms and homelights people used before, It was well engineered and built to last but oh boy does it feel heavy compared with a modern saw, I wondered how I managed to tote one about all day.

This is down to your agreement and contractual arrangement. Be very wary of gentlemans' agreements. The licence goes with the land, the owner can appoint the contractor as his agent to liaise with the FC with a document available on the FC website. The owner should have a copy of the licence. It is often beneficial to enter into a grant scheme rather than just a felling licence. Very much so, this should cover price, timing, extraction routes, stacking areas and how the land will be reinstated. Also simple things about size of material that can be left. One university near me sold standing on an outturn basis to the highest bidder who subsequently felled the parcel, took out all the sawlogs to 8" top and paid for them leaving everything else on site which tangled mess cost more to clear up and burn than they received for the parcel. I would have harvested sawlogs, bars and chipwood leaving only material under 2" as lop and top, If it is small diameter it is just left to rot, sorry must rush

I agree the tracks are a bit simple for off piste use compared with things like the RC100 I used to drive and never lost a track but they had amazing utility in the right situation, largely when chipping to waste. We had some subbies working around sutton coldfield in the cuttings and I was flabergasted where they were taking the 1928 safetracs, the fire risk of not being able to chip meant any other method would have had massive costs in labour. I never had to deal with a lost track on the GM1928 other than one which snapped on a hired in machine with owner driver, the steel wires had been exposed over the years and rusted through. I regularly had to deal with the carlton grinder derailing tracks.

...and never leave it on a trailer

Me too after my last encounter, luckily they announced an inflation busting price increase mid contract and didn't realise it broke the contract. Pursued me for money for a year.

A copse is a wood that is in a coppice rotation. A spinney is a small group of thorns A carr is a collection of alder A thicket is a young woodland grown close and at pre pole stage Any more?

Also I would have taken a couple of strokes off the depth gauges by the time the cutters were filed back this far.

It's just taken me 30 minutes to download and view those two videos. In both there is only one feed roller running and with one the second roller is apparently jammed with a piece of wood. Now I am used to only one roller running, as the Dosko only has one but why do you expect yours to feed if one roller is stalled and holding material in its teeth. Also the roller seems to be running too fast, does the speed increase when the other jams? I would expect the oil to boil run flat out and stalled. I had (still have somewhere)a TP with vertical rollers and if you fed that too fast with springy material it would curl round on the disc and bunch up at the edge where there were only anvil like devices to break it.

@Treewolf has made me scrabble about into the dark recess of my garage to dig mine out. It has the bar on both sides. I have had the thing apart in the past, a fairly simple job, but I cannot remember what this is attached to.

Witches' broom, a deformity from disrupting auxins (plant hormone) possibly related to the dead top no longer having apical dominance and hence ceasing to produce the auxin that inhibits side branches competing with it.

If the steel has bent cold it means the strain has gone beyond its elastic limit and it has entered the plastic deformation zone . I think it has been weakened both initially and when bent back. The problem is when it is repeated cracks develop along the crystal boundaries. Steel copes with this better than aluminium which always eventually fails if stressed this way (hence Comets falling out of the sky and no aluminium suspension springs.

Oregon Ripping Chain RipCut Super Skip .404", 1.6 mm 27rx not meant for cross cutting, you'd want and old 59AC type for cross cutting dirty wood. For crosscutting up to 36" you don't need a skip chain on a big saw.

Now why doesn't that surprise me