openspaceman

@Khriss is having a comprehension brain fart

I disagree, lang lay may be great for cranes but not much cop for winching because the outer wires are at an angle to the direction of pull. With normal right or left lay the outer wires point along the direction of travel as you pull and tend to get less contamination. I tended to use 6 x 19 constructing right lay as it is generally available, the outer wires are able to take a bit of abrasion, it also has a fibre core which I think absorbs a bit of energy in the event of breakage. As such it is a bit weaker than a 7 x 19 which has a wire core. One thing about this construction is that if it gets abused some types have tiny wires between the 19 stands to fill the gap and they develop nasty spikes so should be avoided. One wire I liked the feel of was the pre compacted 7 x 19 that came with Riko winches but never got to use it on my own machines. On this the outer strands are cold forged so the outer is no longer round but conforms to the outer diameter of the rope. The spinning on the drum is often operator error if the brake is correctly set, e.g. if the load is heavy and the operator releases the clutch before applying the drum brake the weight of the load dropping spins wire off the drum and the drum continues spinning even though the rope is no longer paying out. If the wire is pulled in again it bites through the loose layers. Also on most winches the adjustment for preventing overspin during payout is separate from the main band brake adjustment and is spring loaded.

In that time our hospitals are learning better treatments and the survival rate may well go up. BTW I posted months back that were a smallpox virus to get loose we were all naive to it, that would have had a 30% death rate in the absence of modern medicaal treatment. In fact it has been eliminated in the wild. I'm not aware if variola species are RNA viruses. Of course Jenner famously demonstrated a vaccine for smallpox. Similarly HIV was fatal for the first 20 years of its appearance, there's still no cure or vaccine but there are treatement that control its spread and morbidity. The problem here has been that air travel, in particular, has enabled the spread before countries outside China were properly aware. It seems to me there was always a critical mass of humans necessary to propagate the virus once it evolved and in earlier times it may have died out naturally.

The orange bits look like frass from the exit holes of a boring insect, which will be secondary to whatever is affecting the tree.

You need to study Part J of the building regulations Approved Document J | Part J - Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems | Planning Portal WWW.PLANNINGPORTAL.CO.UK Details of Part J (Approved Document J) of the Building Regulations the stove fitter should be able to advise and @Alycidon seems to be able to quote them off the top of his head, I'm out of touch.

You live in Liverpool? I stored my logs by the front gate for 30 years before I decided they really needed to be under cover to be dry enough to burn cleanly and never lost any yet I've had quite a few things nicked from the garden or cars over the years.

This is what a deer leap does, it's a ramp at a corner which the deer can get over and hopefully not get back in. Traditionally it would be used to get feral deer into a hunting enclosure but it should work to allow them out.

When you are considering investing in converting timber to logs you should be aiming to amortise your investment in equipment over the period you expect to operate it. As a one off there's not much chance of it being viable, as a long term diversification it may be. There's easily enough space in that barn to contain logs with plenty of airspace between open sided containers.

I picked some walnuts up in the garden of a friend, 1/2 a mile away and 25 years ago. I took three seedling to my brother's house in Devon, telling him to plant them and as they grew remove the lesser two. He kept all three but after he died I picked three walnuts off one tree and planted them Spring 19. Two germinated but only this one flushed this spring and it is ahead of the mulberry and of course the catalpa.

A picture might help identify it. The palm switches were often broken on our Greenmechs and I think the dealer charged £75 but they were available online for £24

My black mulberry is just about in leaf but the catalpa up the road isn't and that is generally the last one I notice.

I've told you before...

No I was just curious, I have only bought small things off ebay and not had a problem yet. I have never managed to sell any of the few things I listed so similarly don't know what happens if the buyer is a scammer.

I agree but you're avoiding the issue of whether ebay would pay out and maybe that is why they do little about scamming.

Yes but that doesn't explain why the buyer would not be protected by ebay's buyer protection scheme.

If it's a scam how come ebay's buyer protection doesn't work?

Do you notice little green caterpillars descending on a silken thread? Tortrix viridana comes in waves, sometimes you won#t see any but others it will strip an oak as it flushes. The oak will try and replace lost leaves with ones containing more tannin

A young man who asked me for a job told me I was capitalist scum and his sister in her eulogy looked pointedly at me when she said how he always wanted to work in forestry. Needless to say I had not employed him, despite quite liking him and trying to look on him as a son I never had, because I could not trust him. He never had a job and died at 28 of a heroin overdose. I became disillusioned with american imperialism during my short stay on an air base as they extricated themselves from Vietnam.

The trouble is they are american companies and the US government will not countenance that, it's part of their economic colonisation strategy. In the past the various anti trust and monopolies laws would have been used to break them into smaller competitive entities, as happened with Standard oil in the US.

I've dug up dozens of these grubs when turning a rockery into my veg patch, reburied them under an adjacent hedge.

There must be a solution that allows stratification, even if it means a separate and much smaller pump reversing the flow through the solar system and tank unless the solar is a separate coil within the tank.

Is this because the hot water from the panel is entering too low in the tank and rather than stratifying at the top it is mixing with the whole bulk of water in the tank?

I was involved in regenerating heather for quite a while, I developed an undercover burner for English Nature as was and advocated a high mowing and burning regime but politics got in the way and a quicker fix was adopted. They started using weed wipe but the contractor only seemed to take one pass and only targeted the birch which was 18" above the heather, trouble was by that time the weed wipe couldn't get a high enough dose onto the plant. In the end they resorted to late summer spot spraying with knapsack and a selective herbicide (which type I was never told) and repeat visits produce a steady income for the contractor. Even with the grazed areas there were problems over animal welfare and Natural England advised scraping, trouble is where they ended up putting the hundreds of tonnes of scraping messed up the hydrology and ruined the habitat for some rarer plants.

Yes but then the panels need to be lower than the pump. Also some consideration needed to prevent freezing in winter with any system. Solar PV has halved in price in ten years, are you MCS? I've toyed with solar thermal, even rigged some swimming pool panels from a demolition to feed a 600gallon steel tank by thermosyphon but wasn't impressed enough to go for it on the house. I reckon I only spend about 60 quid on hot water in the summer months and that doesn't justify a lot of investment. OTOH in the summer my PV produces more than I use and I cannot justify an EV, mind at best it would only get me 60 miles on a sunny day like today. Now sticking 5kWh into my hot water tank would be better justified for the expense of a controller to divert the excess.

I'm replacing a few bits and pieces that were stolen from my soft top vitara when I visited hospital on my way from work. The silky bigboy arrived today, within a week of ordering from them .