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If I had realised the benefits of skip chain I doubt I would have bought an O84 as I suspect the Husky 288 would have managed if I could have found a 36" bar, a bit pedestrian though.

Actually Stere was quoting from a Ch4 trailer, which I haven't managed to view but it's the numbers that interest me. Currently we use about 4GWh of electrical energy from biomass, 24/7. That's around 44milliom green tonnes per annum but only 4% of the load in summer, half that in winter. Compare that to the 20% currently generated by wind, and I don't particularly like looking at wind turbines. We're on an overpopulated small island and we're going to depend on importing this feedstock. Biomass demand seems to have filled the vacuum created by the demise of pulp mills and small sawmills (most of which only existed because of pre GATT tariffs) but in real terms the prices are much less. In the pre 1993 days all millable timber was milled, even if only into chocks and cover boards for mining, pulp was next down in the heirarchy and firewood below that. So all my straight wood went for milling or pulp, even oak cord wood did until the pulp mills stopped taking 1 metre lengths. Now I see millable hardwood going for chipping or firewood and much of the wood we harvested being left as lop and top. There is good reason for this, mostly mechanisation driving down harvesting costs. Not that I advocate a return to those days, it was hard and not financially rewarding but I still see it as a waste of sound structural material.

This is my view also. In the case of glyphosate (only been around for 2/3 of my life) we don't know the effects of its decomposition products yet as they accumulate. I'm sanguine about much of its use by farmers but not the blanket spraying I saw on the railways or golf clubs. I also worry about it being used as a dessicant prior to harvest. I suspect the american case is yet another attack on a foreign firm rather than a reasoned judgement.

Old carpets would do the job.

It does read a bit like that doesn't it If the chipper on top of the tracks is a clone where is the trackbase and its engine from? I've only used a small petrol engined gravity disc chipper way back and the chuck and duck was a massive american machine but on small suburban garden jobs I wonder how these small drum chippers handle tangled shrubby material. IME the Dosko single feed roller is frustrating but the forst 6 inch coped fine.

Yes but that doesn't stop new laws being created (and not enforced) Carry on then, I'm doing my bit too. I was just trying to point out how DEFRA are thinking.

There is this provision mooted in the discussion paper: " • Provision of powers for local authorities to take action for persistent smoke offences, where local amenity is harmed. " So it will be peer pressure from neighbours that they will expect people to take notice of, just as what happened with tobacco smoking, it became socially castigated before any law could be enforced.

Andy the biker was my favourite Greenmech dealer, good show but what's a cold weld?

What's the maybe??

Is there any reason these buckles couldn't be used with a natural fibre tape? When my client first showed me kindling for a supermarket chain in cardboard boxes and shrink wrapped I couldn't see the sense in it but it paid.

I thought that was on the picture he posted, that number does not appear on arbsafe. Interestingly a search on 560 doesn't return anything and a search on 560xp returns about 4 stolen saws but not this one. The search function doesn't appear to accept wildcards.

If it's bursting when not damaged it's over pressure. Either the pressure relief is set too high or it or pipework too small.

Love it. BTDTGTT but in a non climbing context and they pick on trivial stuff completly unrelated to the incident. In my case involving a tractor accident they took exception to my helmet being out of date.

I don't know but you need to see if there is one first and that it is that tripping. Take some shrouds off and search for a sensor screwed into the head. Chances are it shorts the supply to the fuel solenoid to earth when hot. You won't need a new one, it's doing its job of protecting the engine. You could put a voltmeter from the fuel solenoid to earth and see if it is getting energised. Make sure all shrouds are properly fitted, its the same as a chainsaw if you run without the covers on you'll seize it.

Yes it would cut out whilst running if it is blocked fins but see what I wrote above. Once the engine has stopped the airflow from the fan stops. So any residual heat from the engine continues to be conducted from the combustion area to the outside and fins but there is now no air flow, so the sensor (assuming it has one) over heats and trips. It then has a hysteresis such that it has to become much cooler before it resets and you can star again. This was what happened on our lister 3cylinder powered Dosko.

OK I've just looked at the manual and it seems there is a temperature sensor:- "Stop signal from monitoring elements that are associated with the au- tomatic switch-off (optional): ▪ No oil pressure. Check the oil level.adding oil if nec- essary, ▪ Faulty AC alternator. Contact Hatz Service. ▪ Engine temperature too high. Check the cooling air guides for contamination or other im-pairments. 8.2.8 Clean the cooling air area," If this is at all similar to the old air cooled lister diesels then it will be dust on the fins. Also after har work never shut the engine down directly, leave it running at part speed so the fan removes residual heat in the head. Once the engine has stopped the head is still conducting heat from the inside but there is no longer any air flow to remove this and maybe the heat sensor has tripped.

I've only worked on the 4 cylinder Hatz, that has a fuel cutoff which is held open by the fan drive belt tension, if the belt goes slack the plunger cuts off the fuel to the injector pumps (One per cylinder IIRC).

Also consider WROmegasquared means even at the same speed the inner trailer undergoes higher centrifugal force

It's a plane tree and the bark has been pushed off by the tree expanding with its annual increment. The perceived wisdom is that it is an evolutionary trait to survive pollution as the fresh bark "breathes" whilst the shed bark pores have become blocked.

LT85? I never managed to break mine but I know they don't stand the vibration/chatter of a diesel as it eats the first motion shaft.

Yes e.g. https://www.tradefarmmachinery.com.au/reviews/1503/atv-lifeguard-roll-bar-review It wouldn't be used for timber as I have some tractors for that, mainly for taking tools and kit up the hill and pulling a trailer on the flat. The drivers will be somewhat younger than I.

If it started from cold and ran for a while it's unlikely to be the fuel unless there is no oil in it. It may be just a vapour lock from the fuel getting too hot. A worn engine will often run from cold but play up when warm because the compression gets low as things expand and the oil thins out on the bore.

I have a Vitara for taking the dog out and my occasional paying jobs and I rate it. As you say it would need some modifications as whilst it is capable of getting places it doesn't have the ground clearance of a LR110 and my broken exhaust proves it after I followed down a green lane. Thanks for all the suggestions; the reason for looking at the quad was for road speed and being able to park it in a suburban garage. The woodland site is steep and adjacent to a main road with no security unless someone is on site. Hence my perceived need for an ROPS and not wishing to leave anything on site.

I got the makita because of price and it seems to be derived from the Robin I had for 20 years. I use if mostly at home and on a few outside jobs but hardly what one might call commercial use. I like it.

It was Devon Cornwall border when he posted earlier in the summer, gave a mobile number too