openspaceman
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I don't know how it will affect carving, you'd need a wood scientist for that but look at the way the heartwood does not coincide with the annual rings. Generally reaction wood is denser than normal as the growth is affected by the extra strain, so the tree expends a bit more energy laying down wood to counter the stress. Oak sapwood is very perishable.
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Looks like sessile oak and 2" of sapwood at the narrow bit would not be at all unusual. The thicker sapwood is reaction wood because it is a branch
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Yes I would expect a slip clutch to be at either end rather than the middle
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Yes she was a hornet but I have seldom seen one close up and not flying. She had a damaged wing and I'm not sure if she managed to fly off.
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Thanks Paul, I thought the brown band on the abdomen by the thorax was a bit too wide for a common hornet. Here's a better picture to confirm before I let her go.
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Can anyone identify this feasting on a rotten pear. I'm a bit worried it is not a common hornet.
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Sweet Chestnut and Walnut
openspaceman replied to trigger_andy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
None left here but they were plentiful in my mother's childhood. I've only seen them in the lake district. Anyway they prefer pine woodlands and I don't think their tastes are quite as catholic as greys. Greys outcompete dormice here because dormice wait until the hazel are ripe. Sad anyone would run reds over. When you plant I'd advise planting a few small trees rather than standards and thin them out as required. -
Sweet Chestnut and Walnut
openspaceman replied to trigger_andy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
cobs are just hazels with ten times the nuts, very nice roasted that's what is in cadburys wholenut. Presumably you have the advantage of no grey squirrels. Down here they destroy them before they are ripe. -
Sweet Chestnut and Walnut
openspaceman replied to trigger_andy's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Even as south as I am chestnuts are much smaller and slightly bitter tasting compared with ones you can buy from Italy but that may be because the varieties grown were mainly for producing coppice poles. Have you ever managed to pick walnuts, chestnuts, cobs or cherries that were edible locally? There is a reason that oats are grown rather than wheat as you go north. Also vegetative storage rather than seed crops, e.g. neeps or tatties. I'm not saying it cannot be done as I've never spent an autumn that far north. -
I don't know about the 165rx as I only had the one 165r and then moved on to little Husky 240s, I still have one. I then went for Stihl FS380 which is the one I mainly use with a shredder blade.
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Yes, the slight tinge of red coming in at the tips as autumn begins to set in
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Opulus guelder rose
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I doubt it is as dry in there as you expect for boring insects still to be active
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It only happened once, I arrived at the house and was asked to stack it in the garage, which I did (I sold it as half a cord 64 loose cubic feet in those days). Hubby came out and queried the volume and offered me half price. I put it back in the pick up and left with him complaining about the bits of bark on the garage floor. After that I never unloaded before agreement.
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You should start a bespoke firewood club. Limited supplies available to club members only and membership by invitation only.
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Yes but I'm not sure why, is because they run cooler? Not many 2t outboards now, I have a johnson seahorse on the bench atm trying to work out why the magneto has no spark. Then I have to see about replacing the floor of the inflatable.
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This was often the case for timber merchants in the past, the delivery ticket would often come back with a source woodland different from where I harvested it. Little did I know then about syndicated woodlands and nominating schedule D woodlands.
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You mean those that will come out with a small hatchet and moisture meter to test the load before you drop it? 2m3 is about a transit load so most will be able to sell this at any time of year as long as it is accompanied by an invoice stating it needs seasoning even if it is dry enough to burn.
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Sounds like the spool the pedal actuates is only single acting.
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Yes typo 1974 thanks
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Mine's a 1954 165r will the later unit fit?
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Not really hard to put a figure on once you have a quarter's receipts and invoices, whether you are registered or not. No you don't always lose but on domestic jobs with low vatable inputs you likely will. If you are VAT registered and never do work for Vat registered customers you always will lose out.
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When I got my 165r in 1973 the saw blade was the only option and then the tri blade became available Using plastic string to beat grass didn't appear till a few years later and yes the strimmer heads that became available didn't last long on it. BTW @adw mine has lost it's spark was the coil common to other machines?
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I repaired one of these 265rx with @adw's help and it is very similar to my much earlier 165r, one obvious difference is the on off switch being part of the throttle control on the 265.
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This is the nub; the ratio of Vatable inputs to Non vatable inputs. If you only have a few hand tools and climbing kit then vehicles and fuel are your main vatable inputs. If your turnover is 50% vatable inputs and you are Vat registered you are effectively only charging 10% of your turnover as VAT. If you are not VAT registered you cannot reclaim the VAT on 50% of your turnover so you have to recover that by adding it to your charges so it becomes neutral to your client/customer. When I was timber havesting I drew about 20% of my turnover as profit and all my clinets were Vat registered so there was no disadvantage in being registered.
