openspaceman

The thing is 45 years ago I did just go straight in self employed, because I was unemployable, and I did make plenty of expensive mistakes. Which is why I advocate getting a better grounding first.

I'm not sure which one of those you think I am? ...but you are right, far better to gain experience at someone else's expense and if the experienced crew don't succeed in making you avoid breakages at least the boss pays.

As I've never tried them I started looking up some recipes, there seems to be some wide differences. When they were bought from the window or hole in the wall I take it they were cooked on a lightly oiled hot plate or skillet rather than fried? I'll have a bash but making oatmeal by putting some porridge oats in the blender. Any tips anyone?

As some of you know I do some simple experiments with wood drying and also occasionally do a bit of tree work. Sometimes I fetch a few bits from arb jobs home in the back of the Vitara and cut, split and stack them to season. About a month ago I brought home some wellingtonia rings from the top of a tree, about 50cms diameter. On splitting them I was amazed at how easy they were to split and quite heavy. I dropped a bit in the water butt and it just about floated, unlike some of the heavier hardwoods like beech and oak which sink. Anyway since the log felt very wet I brought it in and weighed it 30/01/19. I sat it on a radiator until yesterday when it had fallen from 1690g to 670g in 9 days. I microwaved it till it was a stable weight of 465g, Given that I had dropped and broken my 1g interval scales last week and the kitchen ones are +-5g that seems to show a wet weight moisture content of 72%, I am surprised. I wonder if I should stack it away from my other firewood in case it doesn’t get below 20% over the summer. I tested some western red cedar which had been in my glass woodshed since I built it last summer and it was at 16% wwb, a bit better than the oak which hovers around 20%.

Yes, I could burn 5000 calories doing 15 miles and 3000ft of ascent but probably live on 2500 now. It's the same with working in the cold, as long as you have the stamina you can get over hot topless stacking pulp in the snow but once you are too tired to work you find you cannot keep warm. Anyway I'm down to 11 stone now.

I wish I could work hard enough to justify eating one of those again

Is this because it seals with a washer on the face rather than an O ring on the edge? I have one but I'm not sure which saw, can you measure the diameter? The washer is a bit perished.

Yes I like Baez's early stuff but this cover is nowhere up to the original.

My father in law had one installed into the lounge of a large victorian house (area bigger than all the floors of my cottage). it was well before I took any interest in burning though I was starting to fell elms and climb in a rudimentary way. It was all steel construction and had a "boiler" fitted that ran in front of but at the back of the fire, This and the convection around the back meant that the flame was constantly quenched. The tar build up on the boiler got thick enough for it to self limit the conduction to the water.

I wonder if he means the Jetmaster from the early 70s

I always wondered what people thought when they first came across coconuts. A bit of common gorse is always in flower somewhere. Broom is lovely in flower but seems to just up and die for no discernible reason

Wot no video?

take the exhaust off and check the rings and piston

Sorry I missed this. PM me the workshop address, as it's a bit closer than your home, and when the weather is a bit better I'll drop them off when out for a ride.

It's a piece of string question. Firstly what do you aim to achieve by thinning? Traditionally we planted close and first thinning was detrmined by yield class, of which top height is a good indicator. This varies with species. The thing about Tuley tubes and 3m spacing is that unless there is some natural regeneration of other species in the matrix coming on behind the planting then 1 apical dominance is lost sooner (no need for the tree to grow tall fast so it branches out) 2 large lateral branches develop early in the absence of pruning So you end up with branchy stems of limited value and no decent trees to thin to. If you have pruned them so branches are in a 4" core and a clear 6 metres of butt my guess would be around 50 years for oak

Yep we established we were some of the many Andys on this forum several years ago, by PM IIRC.

Very heavy and lots of complicated detail bits under the hood which have been simplified out of modern saws, all metal construction. Lighter than the Danarm though. It seems incredible it was used all day long in quite large thinnings. I wonder what percentage of modern timber production is done motor manual now compared with harvesters. In 1974 when we had 621s at EFG a chap called Ray Stubbs brought a Fordson Major with an ex lorry HIAB and grapple in to do the extraction for Forest Thinnings. It blew a load of ram seals, Ray was heartbroken because seals cost a fortune then as so little hydraulic equipment about.

That Scotch Derrick was a local landmark on the way to Honey Bros.

Just went out to shed and my double trigger 621 also has the s. Funny thing memory ?

It's probably a company limited by guarantee so that it becomes a legal entity while not being a government body. The directors are the guarantors. Charities often do this to prevent their members and directors being sued for more than the guaranteed amount. The scam part of it is as they are a not for profit organisation the guarantors/directors often vote the employees a substantially higher wage than a commercial company would.

Yes they are only designed for that but operate outside these two states at times. Anyway the point is injection should dose the air:fuel mixture more accurately than a carb can.

AIUI the saw was Jonsered and the factory Jonsereds. Like Stubby a jonsered 621 was my second saw (Danarm DDA110 was first) and it was distinctly better than the more rounded Huskies of the time. I think the husqvarna 162 evolved from the J621 and hence it influenced all later huskies in that line, 266,268, 272.

I used to sell timber to Ron Mould at Astolat in Guildford, not much because his prices were behind the times. Anyway he was probably a bit older than I am now and when he started for his grandfather at the firm there were a dozen or so oak cleavers on the firm. In those days they would select 12" QG oak thinnings which would have gone on to make veneer grade butts if they hadn't been taken as thinnings ( which illustrates how poor the resource had become by the time I started). They would cleave out 6ft pales, any that failed 6ft would make 4ft and that failed 4ft would be used for 16" shingles. Even later two brothers cleft oak shingles out for Newdigate church and used bigger butts than Ron had described. I never saw sweet chestnut used till a chap called George Marshman was working next to me at a Singleton building conservation exhibition.

No I've only met you at a show and spoken to Jason on the phone a couple of years ago and he is a top bloke.

Would I be right in thinking this is your product? Anyway rules are different across the pond and this one would need a firearms certificate in UK. I used to do much the same 30 years ago with a crossbow and fishing spool on the pod. I gave up with it after a passer-by called the police who suggested it should not be seen in public, I still have it stored in the loft. I think yours has a lower velocity as I needed to flake the line out on the floor to prevent it breaking, or maybe I should have used a stronger monofilament.