openspaceman

I reckon the 2kg would be enough to tension the wire on a capstan. With an 8mm diameter semicircular thread machined in the capstan and a fairlead to keep the wire in the groove. Drop the tail to the ground and then launch off on the active part of the rope. Once on the deck unclip and the next person clips on.

I wonder if it was an eddy current device, a large copper disc spinning between two static discs embedded with permanent magnets. I would expect it would need gearing up. The whirly bird type speed regulator ( basically a centrifugal fan in free air) absorbs power with the cube of RPM. If I ever had to live in a high rise flat I would have an eddy current device above the window with an 8mm wire rope wrapped round the capstan 8 times and a 2kg weight on both tail and active end

Fairy fingers but have never seen them myself, Clavaria fragilis

Same here but I like to see them. It annoys me that the fungi eaters kick over the ones they don't want.

Good. A couple of things: Burn the wood hot and fast so that there is always a flame. If the stove is unlined, i.e the fire directly contacts the metal of the outside of the stove, consider lining the inside and baffle with vermiculite boards to keep combustion temperature up.

Over the years I used to meet a chap from a nearby road with elderly german shepherd dogs, two sets of sisters. As two of them became less able to walk he would sit in a clearing and throw sticks for the active two. He died very suddenly while working, in March, of a heart failure.My wife took to meeting up with his widow and and soon after one of the white sisters became totally immobile and was put down. I think all but one have a congenital spine problem. One of the black pair succumbed and was losing the ability to stand or walk Last week I was presented with a wheeled frame for her and at the weekend, after a bit of head scratching, we fitted her up, this clip is her on her second day. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12LQeNqevUC1a87Q37lsdxBRW42Oe6Ck-/view?usp=drive_link I'll leave it up for a week or so The wheels are loaned from a charity called WWW.WINSTONSWHEELS.ORG.UK

I would say you are burning wet wood, the water is lowering the combustion temperature and any flames are quenched before completely burning out, that grey haze is moisture. Also I have seen a restricted cowl like that blocked by soot, resulting in carbon monoxide alarm sounding in the boiler room. You do use a carbon monoxide alarm don't you?

Now that, in a shooting context, is ambiguous.

Mostly whether I'd get into the knickers of Mandy, my big sister's friend.

Seatbelts would have probably maintained the line up

Woodpecker's larder?

AFAIK the HETAS registered installer can self certify his work but not that of others. Building control could certify it for a fee if they have someone competent to do so (unlikely).

Moisture in the wood and surrounding soil makes it difficult because until you can get the wood up to about 300C it won't pyrolyse. Moisture holds the temperature down to 100C. So if the mass of wood and soil conducts the heat away from the fire faster than the fire heats the wood it won't work. My device was a 12 by 38" tractor wheel with a cast iron hub in the middle. An exhaust pipe slid inside the hub onto a chainsaw bored hole into the stump. We tried it on the stump of a dead pine we had felled in a garden of a posh new 4 bedroom house. A very old vacuum cleaner blew air down into the hole where the fire was lit. A car wheel with a 5' flue pipe welded to its centre was placed over the exhaust pipe so the exhaust from the fire was via the flue pipe, this pre heated the combustion air. The fire burned through the middle of the stump til it reached the sandy soil underneath the stump. It worked but as it took many hours to get up to temperature and then it became uncontrollable it was deemed far too dangerous. I wrote about it here years ago from memory, it happened around 1980. The house holder was wakened in the early hours by the roar of a jet engine and the bedroom lit by bright orange. A long flame was flaring from the flue pipe until the vacuum cleaner hose melted. Then it subsided and he cut the power. He was a patent agent and immediately lost interest in my invention. The fire was out by the time I arrived in the morning and the laterals had burned out to the edge of the tractor wheel. I tried it once more on a freshly felled oak stump but it hardly got going during a day because the wood was so green, it would have needed a support fuel to get it up to temperature, so that was that and most firms earn extras by stump grinding now.

I'm sure I posted the longer version somewhen

Yes, motor manual felling was short lived, about 30 years. Like the pony express. I enjoyed doing it though.

It will be interesting to see a picture of the cut stump when it is felled if you would oblige?

I'd use a length of 6mm clear plastic fuel tube. If you make a U with water in the bottom you will probably only see a few mm difference in height if you have the leg to the flue vertical and the leg open to atmosphere at a shallow angle this will accentuate the difference. I have one that was cast out from a university lab [1] but you are a bit far from me. [1] a nice old microscope too

The fruiting bodies look like Meripilus giganteus and could be very significant. You could get a contractor to test the tree with one of the devices that sound out rot but from your description of the rotten root I think the rot is advanced. The white dots are a scale insect and ordinarily not to worry about but in this instance they may indicate a tree with lowered defences. It looks like the tree was reduced a few years ago. what was the reason? Has it lost leaves prematurely this year compared with other beeches locally?

Of course but not in hay fields. Silage I'm not sure about, whether the toxin survives the pickling

Take the plug out. The inlet is the one that opens as the piston goes down and the exhaust opens as the piston comes up as long as the engine is rotated in the right direction.

That's right, when standing and green it is unpalatable to animals but dried mixed in with forage it gets eaten.

Yes that is how they keep them in an area, I thought it was a sound that they associated with the shock but don't know.

I was told similar about ragwort, that it was more significant in breeding cattle and horses because it took longer to have effect.

It is and most cattle won't eat it, which is why the trampling was referred to. There were liver cancers found after people had been eating it in Japan and even Wales during WW2 IIRC.

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