openspaceman

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 .

the billhook from snedding the poplar to put it on the bonfire. I felled it diagonally across the garden it fitted with 2ft to spare. The major took me to the medics at the academy and asked the corporal to stitch me up, which he proceeded to do and just when he was about to insert the needle the major reminded him I was a civilian and required local anaesthetic. 3 stitches and 40 years later I still see the scar.

I dated a girl who joined up and visited her at Stoughton barracks, later felled a lombardy poplar in the CO's garden at Sandhurst, still have the scar to remind me.

Me too, bloody animal has rucked up both my newly sown carrots and wild flower patch. Me too again, must be 40 years since I attempted to grow vegetables. interesting thing is some seed packets were 18 years old and carrots and coriander have germinated Luckily I've been asked to pull out some ash trees so will get back to some work soon.

I cannot see how you come to that view by mentioning the earnings of 50,000 people. What are you saying: Employees of a state financed organisation should not earn as much as £100k/annum? No one should earn £100k/annum? The demand for health care will always go up and as the science of healthcare gains more knowledge then treatments and procedures will become available and will cost more. As populations age there will be more demand for care. The funding for the NHS is constrained by what the economy can afford, so is related to earning and income tax plus other demands. It's no good saying we should grow the cake bigger so everyone should have a bigger share and hence personal contributions to healthcare should go up, this was Thatcher's mistake, the bigger the cake the increase in slice the rich get and the rich do not spend their money for the benefit of the rest. We know there is incompetence in the NHS but I see incompetence in many people I have to deal with in other industries. The NHS seems to be particularly incompetent in IT systems but how can it be changed, it's a behemoth? Talk of rebuilding it from the ground up ignores the billions of man hours that underpin the monster, I think Microsoft faced the same problem when updating windows such that windows 10 probably still has code from windows 95 in it somewhere. What this crisis shows is that we don't value the things we need, when we think we have enough, over the things we want, which is insatiable, and why salesmen, politicians, entrepreneurs etc. earn more than dustmen, nurses, care workers etc.

How come you keep dredging this figure up? There must be many organisations where the upper 4% earn more than £100k. Also where does it say consultants are not in that figure? I was at school with brain surgeon who made far more than that out of the NHS before he spent half of his time in america. Staunch labour supporter too though he has ghosted me for these last twenty years. My old boss drew a few million out of the company while I was there and that was quite a few percent of the gross turnover. I've never earned or made much money but then I've never understood the quest for so much more, especially when I see what wealthy people spend it on but I can see a problem of governance when measures to control pollution depend on fiscal controls which are a burden on those with the mean income and a triviality to the wealthy that are responsible for much higher levels of consumption than average.

What makes you think it hasn't?

Pine felled at this time of year is renowned for getting blue stain quickly, left a while and the sapwood goes black. As you said it is because a lot of sugary sap is moving about. Back in the day it used to infuriate us that the lightweight concrete block makers would delay collecting pine at roadside because they wanted the sugar to be used up, trouble was the stacks were losing 5% of their weight each week.

It was the same at the Mclaren F1 factory when I got a tour, the boss's OCD is what made him successful.

Now @Big J has set you straight on the realities perhaps you could say over which period you are harvesting 600m3, is it a one off or sustainable yearly? Also you say you have storage, is it open or covered? You don't have to kiln dry if you can air dry successfully in a summer season.

As I recall the agricultural wage, set by a wages board, in 1974 was £15 per week for 40 hours. That works out at 37p/hour. I had just moved from being a General Farm Worker to trainee forestry worker and the forestry wage was £19 to allow for the harder work and conditions. A three bedroom house in my village could be had for £4k in 1969 but inflation was beginning to bite by 1974 and by 1979 the same house was £30k. What you lot seem to be missing are a couple of points 1 It's a crisis and someone always makes money out of a crisis, as farmers did during and after the war. 2 International trade depends on confidence everyone in the chain gets paid, one link in that chain fearing they will not get paid and the thing breaks down. We import half of the food sold in UK and this supply is already dented. The last thing we need is for farmers to dither about putting this years' crops in the ground because they fear they won't get harvested.

@tangsta will have some smaller tops but a 2 hour trek to Kent.

Yup My mistake, it is much the same speed as a normal chainsaw

Airflow no high enough so the surface are damp and the logs are warm so the mould spores like the warm humid conditions.

Chain speed is about a third of that of a chainsaw

As you're taking more heat out of the flue through the walls of the pipe into the room the flue gases will be cooler and hence less buoyancy so chimney effect will be reduced. What I would point out is that currently the brickwork of the chimney is slowly warming up during the burn ( unless the flue liner is insulated) and because it has a high thermal mass this heat is still slowly released to the room after the fire dies down.

Looks ideal mixture strength to me

I was erring to hop hornbeam but unsure as the flowers were not in focus

Did I ever tell the story about how I could blow bubble through my ear ?

I can see why this would work as the casting won't burn if it is cast iron, this is because the cementite (iron carbide) in cast iron does not readily oxidise. A hole in cast steel or mild steel will burn as fast as the bolt.

Don't even hear them much here any more, I can remember getting annoyed with them when I was a teenager and wanting a lie in.

It looks like the one below it already has a helicoil in it. I think I'd drill it out and retap.

Does this machine have multiple Vee belt drive from the engine to a layshaft and then a polychain belt to the head? We had a carlton with this layout and when the normal operator retired started having problem with the polychain belt. It was mostly operator error and a stupid fitter in our case. In summary the multi Vee belts must be slack enough to slip before the polychain breaks. The guard for the polychain must be tight fitting so no grit gets between the polychain and sprocket.

There are exemptions again but normally once you are carrying goods and the vehicle has a MAM of more than 3.5 tonnes you need an operators licence. A vehicle with a MAM of less than 3.5 tonnes can pull a trailer without an O licence if the unladen weight of the trailer is less than 1020kg (IIRC but it was an old ton)

I'd be very careful about using these exemptions as they normally depend on the vehicle being in a taxation class to take advantage of these. A member on here, username forgotten, successfully defended his use of a crane lorry and drag because DVLA accepted his application of it as an agricultural machine but I doubt they often make tat mistake. As to the risk of getting pulled by an official who knows the rules...