openspaceman

I agree, if you don't feed them they have nothing to use against you. As long as you don't produce smoke and only burn wood (which is best achieved by only burning dry wood with a hot flaming firebox and not trying to burn overnight) you are not doing anything wrong, the environment agency position statement on virgin wood is that it is outside the waste regulations even though it may be waste under their definition. To get anywhere they would have to take enforcement action so don't give them ammunition.

Back in the early days of biomass power generation under NFFO Mike Edwards had a contract to chip tops from FC's own harvesting around Thetford and run the chip into power stations. He used Fastracs when I was lecturing to wayleave officers up there. Later when I was machine driving for another firm the owner told me he had lost a big court case over using agricultural registered tractors to haul the woodchip. My then boss said Mike told him it was the best thing that happened to him as it caused him to move to lorries on DERV which were much lower overall cost per tonne delivered. The conversation came about because I asked about a machine sat rusting at the bottom of the yard, it was a scandinavian terrain chip harvester that had come from the thetford operation, the drum chipper was flat belt driven from the engine!

Have you tried weighing each blade and then repositioning them? They would normally go on as matched sets and the manual give minimum diameter and weight blades can be sharpened to. Fitting disc blades which are only slightly undersized caused slivers and chute jamming plus me to fall out with a dealer in North Wales.

L&S list the inner at £32 plus Vat plus delivery. Have you used one, what are they like compared with original? I need to decide if this one is worth doing as the engine seems to run ok and the drive shaft is intact.

Yes I used these on the county rears, they enabled uphill extraction with the drag trailer but cut up the ground a bit.

So does my favourite Birmingham chipper dealer, I wonder how @Pete B manages.

Yes but after that you are restricted to a 3.5 tonne trailer Which bit are you referring to? I'll try to clarify it. What is MLPM? This bit of the thread was in response to a post by @richy_B who was wanting to transport a 5 tonne digger to a work site. He has C1+E to 12 tonne gross train weight. So he can do that on a semi imposed trailer behind a 7.5 tonne vehicle comfortably I think. He will always need to use the tacho as the 100km exemption does not apply once you exceed 7.5 tonnes GTW. I know you gave a cite for that in with regard to driver's licence but I was unsure whether it also applied to semi trailers when considering operator's licence, as trailers under 1024kg unladen are not counted for operator's licence. So a mini artic consisting of a 3.5 tonne MAM tug and a trailer with an unladen weight less than 1024kg would not need an operator's licence and could enjoy the 100km exemption for tachograph. The payload seems unlikely to exceed 4 tonne. The Iveco mini artics which were homologated for UK use in circa 2004 had a fairly heavy fifth wheel and were 12 tonnes GTW, I think, but for many of us with the 107 note would have been restricted to 8.25. That fifth wheel would be too heavy to use if you were trying to stay under the 7 tonne gross train weight which is why those Dutch swan neck ball hitches are promoted here plus they use american style electric brakes (which I am not keen on). Their other main advantage is that the tug can still be used as a short wheel base pick up when the trailer is not required.

If you have a 23 and a half tonne vehicle you always need a tacho ?, ITYM 3.5 tonnes and , subject to interpretation , deliveries with a combination over 3.5 tonnes do need the tacho, the 100km from base exemption applies to taking tools and supplies for use to work. The agricultural exemption is different.

Yes we are all naive to the smallpox virus now and I'm sure some despot has some in the fridge somewhere, Would 30% mortality do the job? Or were you wanting something a bit more selective?

I found the same but I was buying mulcher teeth

I was a bit surprised at how much moisture a log would lose in a day on the hearth.

Dunno but it seems advisable not to send an old licence back or at least photograph it as there have been many instances of entitlements being removed, probably by mistake. IIRC the online checker restricts me to towing trailers of less than 3.5 tonnes but my B+E should not have such a restriction. I'll need to renew my licence in a year because of my age and it will be interesting to see what comes back.

I didn't imply there was, as I said the gross weight, and as we were discussing mini artics this would be the gross combined weight, would be 7 tonnes on a B+E taken before 2013 IIRC, as after that the trailer is restricted to 3.5 tonnes. As we have discussed before it is feasible to have a trailer larger than 3.5 tonnes as long as the brakes are applied with the vehicles service brake, on the earlier licence, as long as the towing vehicle is less than 3.5 tonnes MAM. Finding such a vehicle seems to be the problem. @Justme found a relevant advisory that stated the weight superimposed on the artic tractor did not contribute to the gross weight of the trailer for driving licence purposes but I'm not sure this is the same for the 1024 kg limit for operator's licence. Again once you exceed the 7.5 tonnes GCW you must always use the tachograph.

The old detector vans used to pick up the emission from the tube's flyback transformer, I doubt flat screens are as easy to detect and now of course many monitors will be browsing or streaming the net.

This is true, as a result the RH in my house is about 40% at a temperature of around 19C on the ground floor. 40% is a tad too dry and as I have some ash that is about 30%mc I arrange a few pieces in front of the stove (at a safe distance of more than 300mm. An 846g ash log lost 86gram of water in a day which makes it fit to burn and adds a bit of humidity to the house

In that case I think you should be good for 12 tonnes gross if you do not have the 107 note on your licence. Most of us with C1+E from passing a test befor 1997 have the 107 note which restricts to 8.25 tonnes

On a B+E licence taken before 2013 the maximum would be 7 tonnes as after that trailers were restricted to 3.5 tonnes, although it is a bit debatable whether the trailer nose weight would be counted. On a pre 1997 licence with the 107 note the gross would be 8.25 tonnes. So it comes down to how much the empty trailer and tug weigh. Operators licence would be needed if the trailer weighs over 1025 kg and tacho exemption does not apply over 7.5 tonnes.

This is the reply from Elten "We’ve had a look at the pictures you’ve sent us and can get back to you with the following information. Indeed you are right, this pair of chainsaw boots has been manufactured in 2007 which means it is more than 10 years old. Unfortunately it is somehow natural that the soles of your boots fall apart after such a long time. This effect is called “hydrolysis”. It is a problem of chemical nature – the material of the sole partially consists of polyurethane (PU), a synthetic material containing softeners. Hydrolysis is the process by which these softeners “disappear” out of the sole. In the end, the sole hardens and when putting the shoes on and starting to walk, the sole starts to crumble. Hydrolysis cannot be avoided, it’s a natural effect. Even under best storage conditions (dry place at room temperature) this effect will latest appear to any pair of shoes after approximately 5 to 8 years – no matter if used or unused. Of course this is a shame when shoes haven’t been worn a lot, but there’s nothing we can do about it (nor can any other manufacturer). Furthermore you’ve asked if a repair is possible. We need to inform you that a repair is not possible. We have tried to do this in the past, but the results were always more than questionable. In order to repair the shoes, we need to tear off the old / damaged soles with a good portion of force. This usually damages the upper material / leather, which then leads to the fact that water can easily penetrate into the boots. Furthermore, the upper then needs to be re-soled on a soling machine, and it’s almost impossible to put a pair of used uppers into the machine without the uppers being twisted, then leading to a pair of uncomfortable / non-fitting boots."

I sweep it up on a dry summer day and put it in a large cardboard box in the logshed. Wherever possible I bring back my logs as rings off jobs to avoid producing too much sawdust at home. I am currently trying to re dry some circular blade sawdust I used to prefilter some diesel contaminated with water and bugs and I have that under cover in two lawn mower vented collectors, it is slowly drying still.

I hope you stung them for the extra, I doubt I would ever have been brave enough to fell a stem that size from a strop.

That looks handy, is it on a ball bearing? Ballpark price?

I'm too far up the autistic spectrum to recognise irony or sarcasm, sorry.

Is the device on your firearms certificate? I don't see it as being worth mentioning even if technically required. I wonder what the view is on those kids rockets you pump up and the blow out a jet of water to propel themselves.

Yeah giving the locale a thin covering of arsenic and hexavalent chrome and then treating the vege plot with the ash doesn't seem ideal.

Has anyone worked on a Stihl FR480C knapsack strimmer. I have one on my bench and wondered if the recoil start from another machine would fit? The electro start battery is profoundly flat but I can spin it with a drill. The choke is solenoid operated from the electro start battery I think. The other obvious fault is the purge/primer bulb is split. I'd like to get it basically running before committing the owner to any expense so I can take the bulb out of circuit, dribble some fuel down the carb after I check for spark with a drill. Are there any other problems or gotchas with this machine?