openspaceman

Your contract is with Honeys so you don't have to deal with the courier. If it's a personal, i.e. not commercial, sale then you are covered by the Consumer rights act, which came into force on 1 October 2015, and says the retailer is responsible for the condition of the goods until the goods are received by you, or by someone else you have nominated to receive them on your behalf such as a neighbour. You have not received or signed for the goods. The retailer is liable for the services provided by the couriers it employs. I think you are within your rights to cancel the order and ask for your money back. If it was a business to business sale much the same applies but you will have to fight for a refund through the court as then the consumer rights act does not apply.

You might also need a coverall and rubber gloves to pick the rest up if it's left anywhere like a local car park here and its adjacent woodland.

@bmp01 nailed it in an old post and similarly this one had the throttle rod loose in front of the broken clip in his pictures. I've done a kludge with a small screw and will bend the rod to take up wear as he suggests.

That's why we tended to make 5'6" stakes from the first length as the point could take in any sweep. Mind we wouldn't risk losing a rail as a consequence. Understood and they are already handy things for higgling about or just kept by the chipper to sort the odd awkward bit to feed plus they're getting better all the time.

If they are the same pumps as the ms180 and 170 pumps they need changing every ten minutes anyways. I wouldnt fanny about removing it and cleaning, in my experience once they play up they never work again, faffed on optimistically with 4 or 5 and ended up replacing all of them. Not too dear anyways Yes I think they are the same as on the pole saws but the costs mount up: pump £18, pick up £9 and primer/purge bulb £8 plus carriage on a saw that is £190 new and poorly engineered teutonic design with no servicing intended, a bit like BMWs. Give me something Swedish or Finnish any day. Now as I'm ranting; the throttle doesn't open fully so I suspect something missing between the trigger and the rod that rotates the throttle arm. I wonder if it's part 1139 182 2800 that's largely missing as there is a bit of white plastic still in the rotating part of the stop control. A picture of it assembled would be nice

It's one of those saws which I wish I hadn't started on. I put a dab of seal all on the split petrol pipe and the saw runs fine now. However it's not oiling and the reason at first seems to be the weighted pick up is missing from the flexible pipe in the oil tank. This almost certainly means the pump will be blocked.

I expect you wear green welly boots too, sloppy workmanship but I'll not have a hissy fit like TCD even though I agreed with him.? Chestnut coppice is a relative newcomer but the niche created by coppicing was largely one of artificially removing nutrients available at the surface to the herbaceous layer [1]. Underwood was the province of the poor people and they made use of everything they had bought. As such on the heavier soils that had remained in woodland had an impoverished surface layer, it is this and the regular baring of the ground to let sunlight in that gives plants like bluebells a competitive edge over grasses and brambles. The minerals for the woody species get replaced by mycorrhizal associations with the deeper tree roots and return to the surface as leaves drop in the autumn. [1] this also meant little bonfires didn't happen in coppice cants

and why you have a chogs left over too.

As an update I have got the ms181 running but poorly, it's sucking air in the fuel line. The reason I had trouble getting a spark was the thing wasn't spinning fast enough as the starter case was full of crap and the ergostart system absorbed any extra effort. It doesn't explain why the spark tester gave a showing when earthed directly, I thought the modules simply output nothing below about 400rpm.

@spandit Did this stay working? I have exactly the same problem including having a new plug and the same spark tester.

Agreed and I doubt the bore will have suffered much as the ring is not seized and not broken

More likely chocks and cover boards. They were used to interface between rock and jacks and lost as the face moved forward I think. They didn't need strength in bending so came from the tops, the first grade white beech went for furniture and the second grade for framing things like sofas. Mining timber was a bit better price than pulp but bigger stuff was accepted than pulp. Props were softwood thinnings and the reason the FC was created as it was shortage of these that threatened coal mining and hence industry and the navy in the first world war.

No problem, I'll clean it all up and then see if it fires at all with fuel in the intake before I start playing. These cheapened saws for the home owner market are seldom worth putting much cost or effort into

Possibly yes. The prime bulbs are not a tenner thought, I got 10 for a few quid off Ebay. PM me your address and I'll post you one if you want The bulb does not seem to separate from the body of the pump which has the two fuel pipe connections, its not like the bulb on my old hedgecutter which you could change by undoing two screws. Or am I missing something?

The Husqvarna 266, which I replaced the pot and piston on with a used one I had, has proved too difficult for my mate's daughter to start so now I've brought away an MS181 which is a non runner. Before I lash out £10 on a new primer bulb (it's split) is there any chance it will run if I cut it out of circuit with a piece of pipe? Just to not have to throw good money after bad.

I didn't mean to be, the only thing I have used ladies's tights for is to go round air filters in dusty conditions but I'd have no problem wearing them if ticks or midges cannot bite through them.

Thanks but I'll carry on bodging at £27, how about a video of them in use?

Yes sadly I have to agree with this last piece of your post. It doesn't seem to be within the wit of mankind to do anything because there is always going to be some self obsessed person to crash the plane with all its passengers. Does it matter? No nothing matters. Will I change in the knowledge I cannot influence the outcome? No I'm too old to change my ways and have invested genes in the hope there will be a future It's a bit like democratically voting green in a conservative stronghold

Ramp up the charcoal side of the business to about 50 tonnes/annum should leave you with 5 tonnes of fines to spread on the field that would offset at least half of your carbon footprint.

I was replying to Mark B but the same applies to Con. I'll refer you to our previous discussion on this In Con's case , if it is common land, he almost certainly has right of access under the 1925 law of property act or the later CRoW. Then climbing the tree may be a civil offence but the owner would have little redress. In Mark's case he has no other right of access but showing the resident the act may make him relent. Again if he does not break anything to enter then the trespass is a civil offence but the householder would have the right to use reasonable force to evict the trespasser and if he has read this thread then he wouldn't be amiss in countering the threat with a baseball bat handy.

Because the elm effectively blocks its own sap supply as it reacts to the fungus in it's current years sapwood it can recover if there is some of the current annual ring un infected, you can often see this by cutting through an infected peice and there are black marks within a previous annual ring where the tyloses have formed. This is from feeding activity in the crown. Once the cabium is thick enough to support a breeding gallery then the fungus is spread all around the tree and the tree reacts, thus cutting off all its sap supply to the crown. Most of the field elms we knew as Ulmus procera, it was known to be an infertile variety, so all the specimens were clones and genetically identical. It also had a high degree of apical dominance and grew long straight poles which was probably why it was selected. One of its unfortunate traits was it was totally dependant on this year's sapwood, hence once that was infected around the total circumference it killed itself. More recently DNA has shown it is in fact a variety of Ulmus minor. The elms in Brighton are a mixture of species and Ulmus minor is one of them and it sets a viable seed, hence it reproduces sexually and there is a variable resistance to the fungus because of these variations. Given a heavy infestation they don't survive so the sanitation felling and hygiene plus the local conditions help the resistance.

Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 But it does require a court order " (1)A person— (a)who, for the purpose of carrying out works to any land (the “dominant land”), desires to enter upon any adjoining or adjacent land (the “servient land”), and (b)who needs, but does not have, the consent of some other person to that entry, may make an application to the court for an order under this section (“an access order”) against that other person. (2)On an application under this section, the court shall make an access order if, and only if, it is satisfied— (a)that the works are reasonably necessary for the preservation of the whole or any part of the dominant land; and (b)that they cannot be carried out, or would be substantially more difficult to carry out, without entry upon the servient land; but this subsection is subject to subsection (3) below. (3)The court shall not make an access order in any case where it is satisfied that, were it to make such an order— (a)the respondent or any other person would suffer interference with, or disturbance of, his use or enjoyment of the servient land, or (b)the respondent, or any other person (whether of full age or capacity or not) in occupation of the whole or any part of the servient land, would suffer hardship, to such a degree by reason of the entry (notwithstanding any requirement of this Act or any term or condition that may be imposed under it) that it would be unreasonable to make the order."

Has anyone actually any experience of ticks not getting through pantyhose?

Yes I forgot that but isn't there an issue about VAT being different? Anyway seeing as I am back rebuilding a seized 262 which has a very worn ring, hence I am ordering bits from Greece, I have three questions: 1 what is a recommended reasonably priced pressure-vacuum kit, as I need to check crankcase seals and also have a problem with my 254. Prevoiusly I borrowed one from a mechanic at work 2 I clean the bores with caustic soda gel oven cleaner, then rub with 600 grit wet and dry. This tends to give vertical marks and I wonder if a rotary honing leaving horizontal marks would be better for oil retention 3 having fiddled and botched refitting the Husqvarna plug shroud to the HT lead for years; is there a recommended method?

DLA engine parts list a Hyway cylinder with Meteor piston at £56.91 and 15 quid delivery. Dimitrios is in Greece and I've never had a import tax issue with stuff from him. NB his ebay shop is more expensive. He does a 372 pot and piston for £31 but no manufacturer details although it is nikasil rather than chrome plated.