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Wood pellets instead of road salt
openspaceman replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Tree health care
I cannot see that with wood, there's not enough volatile solids to take up oxygen that quick, also the Nitrogen:carbon ratio is too low. A load of greenstuff then yes it would. Milk is one of the worst things fror depleting oxygen because the fat globules have such a high surface area for reaction. We ran a liquid composting plant where the rules were get it to 70C for an hour and then it could be spread, the BOD of that was far too high and coupled with the warmth meant the fields sprouted a grey green velvet fuzz. -
Yes my view too. Why are some impulse hardened and others not? Is the steel different? I'm tempted to build an induction coil and see about hardening stuff (and for freeing rusty nuts).
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2017 roundup: Productivity vs Injury Rates
openspaceman commented on HAIX Footwear UK's blog entry in HAIX Group
Pardon? It amuses me to see an ad mentioning safety with a chap posing with a saw in a way that would fail his basic assessment -
That lot would have tempted me
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Oops my Gomtaro and the bigboy aren't sharpenable, I wish I'd known that before I sharpened them. Then again it may have put me off and I'd have bought new blades. What is the criteria for one to be sharpenable?
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Look at the original post, they're most likely attracted to the film of vegetable oil.
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...and my 266
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My brother is at Little borough cross, he's a sociable sort, diametrically opposite from me, and laps up chatty landladies, unfortunately we're not doing pubs much any more as alcohol is too risky for him and I've come out in sympathy. I asked him to contact you about firewood but his prognosis is v bad so we won't be going anywhere with that.
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Was fine back May last. I have been there a few times over the last 30 years as my brother lived in Bickleigh but The Mitre at Witheridge is a bit closer now and good food.
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Since it was first suggested here I have done quite a few, mostly successfully. I also had a collection of gomtaro300 blades which had been discarded at work by the climbers, rightly so as they cannot afford to mess about, and have sharpened them and handed them out as gifts. One was subsequently badly blunted by my mate who lives as a cruiser on the waterways, he cut loads of branches for his stove with it. As it was so blunt I attacked it with a dremel and diamond disc, he says it cuts better now than when I first gave it to him a year ago.
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Hasn't got the fisherman's cot though
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This varies a bit with the length and straightness of the wood and the shape of the stack. Probably just over 8 tonnes green weight as ash is about 80% the weight of beech
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...but do you think your processing costs go up 30% for softwood. I simply don't know as when I did firewood over 20 years ago my customers would not consider softwood and I think Richard still finds the same. I never really costed the wood into my operation so the even if I could have sold it the extra labour and handling would have militated against it.
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Your weights are out. If they were correct both pine and beech would sink in water which they don't. 1m3 of water weighs 1tonne so 1m3 of wood that floats must weigh less. Try it, it actually depends on the time of year and which part of the tree but they both sink in spring.
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The argument against is if your customers don't like it What's wrong with doing that now? 1m3 solid pine is 1.02 tonne, it contains 410kg of dry wood 1m3 solid beech is 1.03 tonne and contains 550kg of dry wood So as long as the bulk density after splitting is the same then the load of pine has 75% of the weight of the beech for the same volume and moisture contents. The calorific values are similar with the pine about 5% higher than the beech by weight. You have to process about a third more volume of pine for the same weight. The biggest thing is you have to lose far more moisture with the pine, no big deal if you are air drying but significant if kiln drying.
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I guess that's from the sulphur burning to sulphur dioxide and then combining with condensed water to make sulphurous acid. I have seen a 316 pipe pinholed, I posted a picture here, but I'm fairly confident that was because chipboard with some sort of plastic facing was being burned. Even then the only reason for perforation was that condensation was happening so all the time the flue temperature is up above the dew point there shouldn't be a problem. I used 904 ss liner when I fitted my daughter's stove just in case, The thing is that if your fire is smouldering the pyrolysis products don't get burned and pyroligneous acid (vinegary brown liquid) will condense on cold surfaces. I think softwoods won't produce much vinegar if at all. Stainless doesn't fair well in anaerobic acid conditions.
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That makes sense. I think Husqvarna brought out the 162 after I bought my 280 and I went for that as it was lighter, this then morphed into the 266-268-272 in the meanwhile the smaller saw line starting with the 140 or 240 evolved into the 254 then 262 which ended up being my main saws till I stopped production work, though I still have 3. I feel the 60cc 162 onwards were based on the Jonsered 621 but don't know the actual history as Jonsered and Husqvarna were all much the same by the 162
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Don't you mean @SawTroll? That way he gets a message I think. @adw and @Sveriges are also very knowledgeable about Huskies
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That's right it must be a bitsa with the starter cover from a later saw.
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Yes this seems likely with less police out and about to follow you for 1/8th of a mile. That becomes a bit more sophisticated than I remember the original GATSO cameras which were simply triggered by speed, the actual speed was then calculated by the distance between road markings. I know this has been the subject of a FOI request that was refused on the grounds public knowledge would aid in circumventing prosecution. My feeling is that if the vehicle exceeded a 60 on a single carriageway road then they would also check the vehicle type and prosecute for exceeding the lower limit. Yes this is my feeling also, mentioned earlier in the thread.
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It reads: Husqvarna 266SE 7210904 Husqvarna SWEDEN
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Yes I know it gets enforced but do cameras pick it up or is it from a policeman. Do you know of any prosecutions of speeding with a 4wd pickup whose unladen weight exceeds 2040kg?
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Grand fir is very weak, I could only get rid of it for potato boxes. Nothing wrong with scots pine.
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I don't seem to be able to remove the duplicated image, can someone explain please
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I was clearing out a shed in a commercial yard and came across this for disposal It was in a box all in bits but I couldn't figure what had caused the damage to the HT wire and wire to the switch, they looked burnt at first . Then I noticed the teeth marks on the starter housing. I'm wondering if it had been used with veggie oil and that had attracted the rodents. Then I took the plastic cover off the coil: It looks like the PVC insulation on the live wire to the ignition coil has chafed through. Can anyone tell from the serial number when it was made, my guess was 1979 as I had some 266s around then but this one doesn't seem to have much use prior to being dismantled. Apart from the damage to the starter casing it seems only to be missing all the chain brake mechanism and band.
