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Yes I like Baez's early stuff but this cover is nowhere up to the original.
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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.
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I wonder if he means the Jetmaster from the early 70s
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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
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take the exhaust off and check the rings and piston
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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.
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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
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Yep we established we were some of the many Andys on this forum several years ago, by PM IIRC.
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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.
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That Scotch Derrick was a local landmark on the way to Honey Bros.
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Just went out to shed and my double trigger 621 also has the s. Funny thing memory ?
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Hetas, Woodsure, Ready to Burn and Grown in Britain
openspaceman replied to Chalgravesteve's topic in Firewood forum
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. -
Husky saws 390XP, 395XP, 3120XP to be discontinued?
openspaceman replied to Rob D's topic in Chainsaws
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.
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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.
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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.
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Tree launcher that shoots very accurate 250 feet. Thoughts?
openspaceman replied to malcolm treeman's topic in Video forum
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. -
Funnily I just looked and it doesn't look like the slyfield transfer station one is public any more. I used to visit Don Collier when he was building a greyhound track there in the mid 70s.
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You're in a better position than many as Guildford has the only public weighbridge in Surrey and Sussex I think. Else you can always put a bit of scrap in it and weigh it in.
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Hi Jonny Burch, is this still available? Somehow I doubt @Jonny Burch will see this ass he hasn't posted for a while.
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Leylandii issue with Network Rail
openspaceman replied to JenniG's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Jenni Mick is right. Bear in mind also those overhead power lines are at 25000 Volts. The only way round some of the expense is if there are going to be engineering works and the line is to be closed with the electricity switched off. known as a possession, when a railway competent company may be able to do the work. It's swings and roundabouts though as it will entail weekend or night working. It's too far out of my area for me to be able to recommend any companies. -
grows a lot faster and freely suckers?
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@Ty Korrigan
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Monkey Puzzle is the same family but not the same species from which parana pine comes. After the war it was used a lot for things like indoor cills and architraves, general shelving and stairs. It was mostly painted over but I remember it having a beautiful rosy flame like pattern. I imagine as baltic timbers came back online it could no longer compete coming from south america.
