openspaceman

Thanks I will, what is an AltBerg style service?

I think you mean primary side but yes we agree.

That doesn't look right to me, the feed should be to the boiler circuit from a separate header and the 28mm vent pipe should rise vertically from the boiler. In the above graphic if the coil was obstructed or the DHW tank empty then the boiling water in the primary could not expand or vent.

Has anyone successfully had boots re soled? I have a little used pair that I put away 10 years ago when I was issued with Meindel woodwalkers. I fetched them out to wear yesterday and couldn't understand why my feet were wet and cold. On removing them I see the sole is totally perished and large chunks have flaked off, exposing the underside and stitching. It seems a shame to ditch them, they will cost £150 to replace, if the soles are available. I've no complaint about the sole deteriorating with time as ordinarily I would only expect a boot to last a year or two before I wore them out.

Yes. While elsewhere we discuss using two anchor points for climbing for safety reasons this other section of the industry is working in an obviously risky manner, it doesn't seem equitable.

Sounds like Pwlldu, I never drove there. I did walk down to the next cove, Brandy, one hot day and saw my first manitou rough terrain forklift, it had been used by a farmer to remove a car that blocked his access, 1969 IIRC. Several of us rented the old Rectory prior to it being demolished.

This is right, branch unions are denser wood because they have to be stronger, hence they burn longer

That would keep me off the road, last driving test was over 50 years ago and I can't see I'd pass one now.

The traffic management company I asked told me they couldn't set the lights to red for more than two minutes, what's the truth of this?

It's one of my newer bits of kit, in fact I only have a younger 262xp. The 084, FS360, 254, 2*262 etc are all 1980s plus an older Husky 2100, the hedgcutters are younger. The tractors are older than many posters here. I was mostly machine driving after 1997 and became employed in 2009.

Thanks but no, that is the post 1991 model with the quick release three bolt clamp. Mind for 15 quid if I lived near Newton Abbot I'd have a punt.

Then you could export it to china where they will fit a canbus interceptor which not only removes 40k km from the odometer but fools the adblue system to not needing any adblue.

I got the brushcutter off my garage ceiling to give it a service ready for next season and for some inexplicable reason the 4 bolt hole clamp that secures the handle bar has split. It's part number 502 11 37-02 and not generally available. Before I attempt to fabricate a new one I'm after suggestion who may still have some new old stock? Perhaps @adw?

Sorry I only know a bit about the theory and I left out the bit @Baldbloke mentioned, it works in conjunction with a catalyst. My granddaughter has an Audi which needs adblue and only used 20 litres in 5k miles, that said it's proving hard to sell as people shy away from diesels now. My only diesel is the 1.6 fiesta, zero tax and no DPF, if that doesn't see me out it's going to be all electric for me, excepting the bikes.

Because it would foul up the combustion if it went in the engine. It is injected into the exhaust where it reacts with any nitric oxide to produce nitrogen and water. Oxides of nitrogen are formed when the combustion is hot AND there is spare oxygen in the cylinder, which tends to happen at higher, but not peak, power.

DERV is the abbreviation for Diesel Engined Road Vehicle, so DERV diesel fuel is the white stuff you put in lorries. Rebated diesel fuel AKA gas oil is the red stuff

I decided long ago it's not; if three axe blows don't split it I saw it. The drawback is extra sawdust but I keep that under cover and put it in a bag at the base of the fire before I start it.

Well yes but it's actually 12 foot pounds that's the upper limit and not much use under that

Why use expensive white diesel when red is so much cheaper?

Which is why I alluded to the requirement, grasshopper. Outwith an urban environment no one from the planning department or EA seem concerned.

Does this not constitute engineering works? Disposing of the spoil also needing permission or an EA exemption? In practice as long as you stay under the radar...

Not a problem burning but it wears out the dies. I have written about my working life in a thread somewhere here, the conspicuous feature of all my ventures is my complete lack of business acumen.

That'l be bone dry dust and silica debris from the sanders. Even the Shimada screw press dies have a short life because wood is actually abrasive. They have to be built up with stellite welding frequently. I wonder if a sawdust burner could be made clean enough to direct fire a rotary kiln the same way oil or gas is used in dryers, of course there will be a higher moisture content but that would not be a problem if the fuel were essentially free. Ours was down to 30 parts per million CO and no visible smoke.

Of course that is a non sequitur and I don't want to derail VI's thread; it was aimed at charcoal making in this country were at the time we were importing over 80% of our barbecue needs. Twenty years ago a couple of australian soaps had triggered an upsurge in barbecue use in UK and a wannabe politician had lighted upon making charcoal from neglected broadleaved woodlands as a viable product but the higglers that were recruited to the system were ill equipped to make a go of it. So I became interested as I had a philanthropic interest in small scale biomass cooking in the third world. What we developed was for this country and the scheme got hijacked as there was grant funding available for producing electricity from biomass, so a simple concept became unduly expensive. An off shoot of promoting cleaner burning methods in cook stoves was that a couple of americans developed a burner that had very low particulate emissions, it also left a residue of about 25% of the initial dry mass as char. One of the pair and a later comer to the fray, a retired american geography professor, began promoting these types of burner to reduce indoor pollution and attract carbon offset credits to the third world by incorporating the char in soil. The interest to me is that though CO2 release from fossil fuels is concentrated on industrialised countries removing it by sequestering carbon in soil can be distributed in any populated area, if the credit for this could be passed to the farmers in the third world it would provide an alternative to cash crops which are currently exporting fertility.

Less risky than being the Company's Obligatory Sacrificial Scapegoat.