openspaceman

Yes, about 27Hft/tonne for pine, a bit less for oak and beech and more for sycamore and ash and the other softwoods

02.20 I'd guess

If it's a business to business transaction then it is covered by the The Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994, you have accepted the goods so the question is one of durability. If they have accepted it is a warranty repair then you only have to give them a reasonable amount of time to make good with a repair. After that the only recourse is the small claims court I think.

You plainly have little experience of female personal products, what you refer to are not the same as tampons but are pads. Being the sole male in a household of females one gets to understand these things, as well as coming across what looks like a decapitated mouse in the toilet bowl every now and then.

I met up with my friend who is an expert on plant diseases and she was on the ball straight away. She said in the past the recommended treatment was with a copper based fungicide but these are not approved any more. She says the spores overwinter in bark and buds but with a light infestation you can pick off the leaves affected when the bubbles are green or pink but before white spores appear and destroy them. Feed the plant to make up for the loss of photosynthetic area of leaves.

I found the same last week in a birch and an adjacent silver maple, I guessed leopard or goat moth, the woodpecker had got them both times having chased the tunnel with several exploratory holes till it opened up where the grub was, I wonder if it could hear the grub??

Let me know how you get on, some of the smaller winches just have steel crown wheels, the Igland 4002 has a phosphor bronze wheel more suited to the continuous duty. I still have a highlead carriage and pulley for the return if you want to try anything out.

OK, I put a pulley up a spar tree, basically the jobs were too small to warrant the labour of rigging properly so I largely resorted to simple skidding and pulling a lot of line out. I saw those when first announced but they never seemed to get into general use.

It's a fungal attack, Taphrina deformans, peach leaf curl. I have no idea how to treat it but can ask a friend who was head of plant pathology for a large firm.

Yes this is a problem I was thinking about, it could be overcome by a means of diverting flow by a pressure operated valve between the two flows or more simple, but power wasting, simply dumping pressure from the drum being overrun. There would still be the problem of the internal brake operating if the pressure in the feed to the drum dropped.

Yes I used one on a County 944 but it got to be a problem when the hydraulics got worn. Also it was far too forceful for the County in the absence of spades, I found the 40002 better matched to the tractor and for a stronger pull found the Farmi 8 tonne on the 1164 better. They both put far too much weight behind the back axle. I can appreciate that as when the rope builds up on the drum the force decreased for the same amount of input torque. I always thought twin capstans were the way to go but nobody seems to use them for skylines. An advantage would be that with a differential drive between the twin capstans a constant tension could be maintained in the lines. When you say high lead do you mean the carriage rode on the return line? I did this but found I was burning a lot of power in the return line brake to keep the carriage in the air (mine was a simple pulley carriage with the haul in line passing over a second pulley. Now I have time on my hands I'd like to rig a simple skyline in a small hillside woodland I do voluntary work but the charity that runs it are not keen in funding the machinery movement.

When the control handles got sloppy on my igland 3002 about 15 years ago I thought I'd replace the gearbox with two 3 tonne wheel motors and a pump as it was similar money to a replacement Igland. What put me off was the wheel motors I looked at all had brakes internally which were controlled by hydraulic pressure to the axial piston motor. I could get two speeds but to freewheel would have involved a manually operated dog clutch. Radial piston motors could be set to freewheel but would have required a separate brake. I'd now still go down the axial wheel motor route and use a simple remote control. An advantage on a small tractor would be the motors could be moved closer to the axle and lower, aiding stability and weight distribution.

It's what we called lavatory pink ( from the tree mallow colour)

Something a bit slower: Not a singer I have come across before but must be something about icelandic that comes through the english words. I like the way the words are clipped, same as Bjork,

Lovely, I hope someone posts a video of it working. Do those wheel motor winches freewheel or must they always be driven in order to release the internal brake?

It doesn't rain but it pours, take it easy for fingers sake and let the new lady take the strain.

I tend to agree but it is done in places where cooking is done over open fires and firewood is expensive. skip the first 2 minutes. Actually a meat mincer with the cutter replaced by a tube would work with re pulped newspaper as a binder. Of course just putting then in old cereal boxes and at the back of a fire with normal dry logs works and is how I dispose of the bulk bag or so that I produce at home. I actually have some burning now as I try an get my next season's supply of logs cut,split and stacked before the end of the month.

I saw plenty on the Thames from the narrowboat and I don't know how long they have been inland, I don't remember them from my childhood, if they do find the canals are easy pickings it could be devastating for fish stocks. I get used to them in Brighton but would never encourage them by feeding them ...except, given I cannot stand waiting in queues so my wife fetched me a crab sandwich after waiting a fair time in Exmouth I took one bite and next thing it flew out of my hand. I was mugged!

I guess I see less of these now landfills are managed better and agricultural activity has decreased. One unusual thing I recently noticed on the canal was a cormorant, I watched it dive four times as I walked the towpath and each time it surfaced with a fair sized fish and swallowed it. That will annoy the anglers.

Yes and in the short term recruiting from abroad may be the only way but why are school leavers and then graduates and trainee doctors not being recruited internally? At least 4 of my final year at school graduated as doctors, though I lost contact with all but one who became a senior brain surgeon with homes in US and London. Mind it's a job I could never do and even my wife gave up her job as a doctor's receptionist because of the emotional stress. The other thing that springs to mind is that GPs do less treatment than in the past, medicine having become more specialised and centred on hospitals' specialism, so the GPs role could largely be done with AI??

I have a hawthorn and holly hedge that 20 years ago was alive with house sparrows at this time of year. The feeders attracted siskin and gold finches as well as coal, great, long tailed and blue tits. The sparrows nested in the eaves and blue tits in any old pipe I left around. Now zilch. Blue tits still visit and the robins still collect mealy worms but AFAICS no nests in the garden, no sign of sparrows, siskin or goldfinch. Both neighbours have got cats in the last 2 years but I don't think that is the sole reason for the demise of songbirds in my garden. We have been visited by a thrush this year and I saw the first black cap once a month ago.

It's not at all stupid and I'm waiting with bated breath for a sensible answer. One of my worries about isolated meta populations of invertebrates and reptiles (lizards, snakes and amphibians) is how they can migrate with our present levels of traffic. Our local NNR is bisected by a motorway and there is only a bridleway tunnel that joins the two halves without using a pair of major road bridges. It's always amazed me why green bridges were not part of the original design, especially as this year so far 36ha have burned wiping out numbers of herps and sterilising their habitat.

Probably. it's a dilemma in that as the oil heats up the water vapour is given off to an extent but hot oil shortens its life. I'm told one can buy return filters with water absorbers in them but not used them.

Oil and water don't mix well so water above 300 parts per million will settle out over time and can be drained off at the lowest point. You could try a MR Funnel, about 20 quid, it works with diesel but I have never used it with hydraulic oil, obviously it will be slower as the oil is higher viscosity http://www.mrfunnel.com/Mr._Funnel/Home.html

Demount the tyres and weld protectors on for slow moving stuff, high speed and you'll need to rebalance them