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  1. openspaceman
    There's slightly more air space when stacked on a lorry because of the edge effect up against the pins, in a large stack these empty edges would be filled by a bit of log. Also the 55% figure for hardwood would be more for branch wood cut from large sawlogs rather than whole ash stems cut to 8'. Average diameter makes a difference too as smaller poles have more air space yet a mixture of smaller and larger can pack better. Ash is a light wood either way so sale by volume makes sense if it has been lying in the stack for a while.
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    My maternal grandmother died from it when she was younger than I am now so I am grateful to have had the scan whenI was in my sixties.
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    Yes work back from the roadside value and remember an artic carries 29 tonne, with a loader about 2 tonne less and an 8 wheeler about 18 tonnes with loader, any part loads cost more to move. If it is firewood then you have the luxury of delaying extraction till summer (sell by stacked measure), conservation sites often don't allow summer access (conservationists ruin woodlands). A tractor and trailer crane can extract 30-70 tonnes from stump to roadside if the round trip is less than 1km, on a shorter route a modern forwarder will do 150 tonnes in a 12 hour shift but can make an awful mess at this time of year ( and cost a few hundred to low load to site}. I could go on but I'm 15 years out of this although I have done a double extraction of ash off a hill by winch then conversion then forwarding recently and that was extremely slow.
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    Initially add a small amount of beeswax so it is mostly liquid and can soak in the *dry* leather, later you can add more until it has the consistency of a paste. It will then buff up to seal the surface but I never bother. This thread has reminded me to make some more.
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    I doubt it will need spark plugs, oil and filters yes, I'd probably just empty th old fuel out and see if it starts okay on fresh. I would check the manual for the oil specification and filters ans use a local car motor factors or ebay rather than dealer prices. If you can read the numbers off the belts then a matched set from a bearing supplier.
  6. openspaceman
    I made a concoction of beeswax dissolved in some hot, very old neats foot oil (left from when my girls had ponies 40 years ago), it seemed to work.
  7. openspaceman
    I'm nigh on half Doug's life in front of him and haven't suffered that indignity yet.
  8. openspaceman
    Yes, it doesn't explain the square but the texture of the younger bark or the difference in age of the bark over the wound wood?
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    Not even sure what OG is in this context. Yes it was a strange assortment of bits but not as big as the last computer I used in 1972, that was a DEC PDP8, even then they did not hook it up to a CRT screen but I had seen pacman type games played back on a TV. It did prompt me to buy an Amstrad 6128 and write some basic programs for producing invoices. I gave that up when I finally got to see a spreadsheet program.
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    As the tree has fallen naturally it has not been felled, killed or uprooted in contravention of a TPO and therefore no reason for a replacement under the TPO. I would advise doing only the minimum work to make safe or gain access until the council have had a chance to inspect.
  11. openspaceman
    I was wondering if Putin had orchestrated the Hamas attack on Israel to divert resources from Ukraine and the US reaction was to then foment trouble for Assad, again to put Russia under pressure. Are any conflicts on this planet not proxy wars between more powerful nations?
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    What I meant to add was it wouldn't be human to do such a thing, history shows us that the dominant have always pursued their desires at the expense of the untermensch, without the surpluses of production being so used we would not have had pyramids or other wonders of the world etc.
  13. openspaceman
    When I started harvesting, in about 1976, we cut pulp in the grounds of a cottage occupied by a load of hippieish avant-garde musicians. They were composing synth music for a theatrical production of HHG. It was the first time I ever saw a floppy disc or a wood burning stove (a Quebb IIRC). Basil still apparently plays locally. It was my introduction to Douglas Adams and what I took away from it was that humans are at best a sideshow in the scheme of things. Basil explained to me they recorded the sound of burning droplets of plastic falling, he called the sound zorch which I think was the name of his band, and the sound was what was fed into his synthesiser.
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    Me too. We think of humans as intelligent with forethought but we are still going to pickle ourselves in our own waste much like yeast does in apple juice but there is no other apple.
  15. openspaceman
    I always chose to keep old vehicles going, even now I have a 24 year old Vitara, bought 4 years old,and a 14 year old fiesta, bought 5 years old no dpf, because they are simple and I can fix them. The trouble is when you come to replace a vehicle the prices have increased dramatically and there is little value in the trade in.
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    He looks bright enough. My granddaughter's pack this morning: The Hooligan, The Princess and The Old Man. If it weren't for the constant whoosh of the M3 one might think it was in Scotland rather than one of the most populated places on earth.
  17. openspaceman
    That's what I said but now walk three while the youngest generation work. Mind two of them have taken to refusing an afternoon walk. Long live Igor
  18. openspaceman
    Did he just get tired of us?
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    38
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    This seems to be the failure mode on the battery kombi tool, the magnets shake loose from the rotor and jam it.
  21. openspaceman
    Happy Birthday Pete
  22. openspaceman
    Yes oak does fry slower than most and if left in the round hardly dries at all but cut and split for firewood and left under cover in free moving air it will dry below 20% mc in any of the months May till end of August in UK. As has been pointed out the air has to be able to move through the stack and a log tightly packed deep in the stack may not dry very well but, as long as it cannot be re-wetted, over time it will reach an equilibrium with the surrounding air of less than 20%. Most of my stack gets well below 20% in a year, I have no space to store more, but I still pull an occasional log which I can see free water from as it burns.
  23. openspaceman
    I suspect this is a genuine LOLER question from another industry but the rules should be the same in that a person is being suspended. I predate LOLER somewhat but my understanding is if the sling is textile based it has a life of 5 years, if it has no date into service then there is no telling how long it has been used and hence it is not fit for the purpose. Any LOLER inspectors care to correct me? I think @Fran1 may have left in disappointment.
  24. openspaceman
    Great for first thinning scots pine but a bit slow for knotting out hardwood.
  25. openspaceman
    Happy Birthday Doug and a bit belatedly Maybelateron but later suits you.

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