openspaceman

Yes but with a replant condition for on the crop for the next 10 yars. I know but needs must... Anyway it's 2 hours with the Plaisance tops and what's 40tonne of chip worth standing?

Yes as I said, and from experience, FC measure any bits of the tree over 8cms including branchwood.

That's 1/6 ha so with a yield class of say 12 there would be at most 40m3 and it looks half that Only those bits bigger than 8cms count in the measure The wording is within the curtilage of the house which in this case is probably the bit from the back of the house to the entrance drive, possibly including the paddock to the front (SE) and probably not the paddock to the west and almost certainly not the bit to the north with the trees in it If you sell it then you restrict yourself to 2m3 per quarter, we're in the second quarter in 4 days. I'd fell 5m3 of the biggest trees within in the next four days, thin out any less than 10cms dbh in April and then fell 5m3 after the thinning for the next quarter and I'll bet there's not anything left that's licensable after that

it's not a stupid question and IMO hinges around whether the trees you intend to take would otherwise be final crop trees or whether the ones you take will improve the remaining stand. Thinning licence won't entail having to replant or expplain you will recruit trees from the remainder for restocking.

All well and good but "fail" is a pejorative and deprecated word in this context. "retraining if current work was not meeting the standard" perhaps... I have had chainsaw refreshers in the last 5 years plus I attained a couple of NPTC qualifications but to have refreshed all my qualifications at approaching 65 would have been a waste of money, it's one thing viewing them as an investment when in your 20s but the rate of return diminishes greatly as you get older such that I now only get to do domestic work where no one asks for tickets.

Did you replace the outrigger bearing with the pump? Belt tension correct? Oil seals are effective in one direction not the other so in cold weather it pays to warm up the machine gently to prevent a depression at the inlet port which pulls air past the seal. Once air is in the system it cannot settle out and hence overflows the breather. Because of the way the side pieces of a gear pumps are pressure compensated often the damage is done as they get forced sideways onto the gears. Cavitation is a separate phenomena, also worse as oil thickens, where the depression behind the gears causes a vacuum bubble which then collapses,this can erode the metal. The first grapple loaders I saw had pressurised tanks to try and prevent cavitation, perhaps that was because they came from Sweden. Both result in loss of power.

From what Bustergasket says the seal may not have been reseated properly but that only means they never fixed a pre existing fault under warranty. I wonder if the gearbox has a breather? Blocked breathers can cause seals to blow.

There's a good bit of lateral thinking. We saw beech bark dying on the south side when exposed to direct sunlight in 87, IIRC it only needs the cambium to get above 70C to disrupt the proteins. Think of all those trees home-owners ask us why thy are dying on one side and no sign of cause other than the patch of char and ash 3 metres away. A small steam generator and ducting perhaps...

The twigs are dead. The rot symptoms are to exposed heartwood from damage years ago, the adventitious growth from the wound wood has also died so it has problems. Also doesn't look like ash and poplar would be my guess

These axles usually have the type and serial number on the square axle tube. I found it was cheaper to buy the axle from a trailer manufacturer rather than direct from Knott- Avonride and it seldom pays to buy from Forst or GM as they simply buy from OEM suppliers and mark up accordingly.

That's based on a tube, an incomplete periphery will rupture earlier

Not to mention getting a bit of barbed wire embedded in shin

It doesn't happen though, just look at all those tree guards embedded in plantings since the 80s and have you tried extracting an ecoplug? A hatchet cut every 6" and dose of 50% solution glyphosate in oil with do much the same. If you must drill holes roundup and a clay plug is cheaper.

I doubt he is wrong but that is not a problem we had, I replaced an axle on a Greenmech when the bearing collapse and sent a wheel down the M25 in rush hour. These axles tend to be standard Avonride and even if not one will be available to fit. Last one was a 1500kg one for a bowser and that cost £264+Vat in March 16 cw carriage and that was from a trailer manufacturer in Cheshire

Ventilation keeps mould down. It's warm and high humidity where it causes a problem. We had a customer took a load of logs out of the kiln part cycle and loaded the pick up with them still warm. By morning the load was covered with a grey-green velvet fur.

So the axle has bent??

Neither is a necklace of plastic as the stem decomposes

It looks like made up ground and mechanical damage from earth moving machinery many years ago

Good , what did you find?

Those first ones are only supposed to be summer visitors in the Scilly isles and only passing through on the south coast in summer so were they in England? I'll pass on the last picture

Yes agreed, my freebe einhell is still running fine, it isn't as good as the Husqvarna 545 I am provided with as a ground saw but it's not a lot slower and revs less. Worst feature is that the oil runs out before the fuel. I think I saw the same model rebadges in Costco for less than 70 quid.

I cannot offer much help as we had tr6s and they had tandem pumps, one for each track and one also doubled up for the feed rollers IIRC. It's been 18 months since I had anything to do with them but from the manual it looks like a 2P series pump with a 4 bolt flange and a tapered drive complete with an outrigger bearing to take the radial thrust from the drive belt. It will have the spec stamped into the aluminium. In fact as these gear pumps are all copies of the original Dowty pump once you know the series 1p 2p 3p you can measure the length of the aluminium body to get the capacity, then all you need is the type of ports and the direction of rotation.. If it's sucking air I'd check the outrigger bearing for play. My guess would be this: https://www.mikrospin.co.uk/gear-pumps/group-2-gear-pumps-motors/flanged-body/galtech-2s-a-11-10-n.p.aspx I have not used this firm as I normally used whitehouse or hydraulic equipment supermarkets Ours had only recently come out of warranty when I was put out to grass so although pumps were replaced under warranty I hadn't got around to needing any but would have bought them by mail order as we always had spare chippers so a day or two didn't matter. I do have the OEM makers for filters and the hopper gas strut if that is common with the st6.

Cryptomeria japonica?

I just did this at home, Openreach wanted a minimum of £140 and up to £250 to disconnect and reconnect when I had the windows replaced so I did it myself, less than 5 minutes each time. I still have some jellies left over from 87 when we were given them by an telephone engineer after I broke the wire going to a peer working for the admiralty. The connection at the pole was then two jellies and a spiral lashing so an easy job to lay the line on the floor first. As to penalty, what can they do, it's a civil matter and they would need to prove a loss. IIRC there's 70V applied to the line if it rings but only a small voltage normally. In the days before internet fax machines were a bit sensitive to polarity changes if the wires got swapped.

It's clinker, the fire has got hot enough to fuse the ash. I've never experienced it other than with coal where it blocks the grate and stops air getting through. It is worse with fuels with high ash, like straw or willow SRC.