openspaceman
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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.
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Thanks peatff, I remember it as being lighter but then up till then I only had a Danarm DDA110 The model in the url you cited is as I remembered it so the chain brake must have been later. Yes I couldn't manage it for snedding now but I was probably stronger then, though at nearly 12 stone I'm 1.5 times heavier than then.
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Only if your drawdown exceeds your tax threshold and that extra 20% can be working for you till then.
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Still a little bit of catching up to do Stubby, many happy returns for yeaterday. No MOT either but that was to be expected
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The Jonsered 621 was the saw the cognoscenti of tree felling use when I started out in the industry. I mentioned this to the mate I do groundwork for and he has dragged this one out to give me. Now whilst I have never owned one I did use one like this, with the double triggers and AV but it only had a plastic front guard mounted on the top cover. This one has got a chain brake but it only operates when pushed and doesn't latch on. By the time I became self employed in late 74 Husqvarna seemed to have adopted the Jonsered layout and soon after I bought a Husky 280CD as the Husqvarna dealer was more local. Having also just acquired a Husqvarna 266 to repair (more later) I am amazed at the weight of this 621 in comparison. Can anyone date this and tell me where the 621 differed from the 80?
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We have those on a high pressure gas main near here, they have two wires coming from them (hidden behind the plate) and the voltage can be measured from them to indicate how much life the sacrificial anode has left. The marker posts are similar but green (IIRC but will have to visit to be sure) plates with more information on them.
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Sitting on it in a current account is not a good plan what with rising inflation and quantitative easing.
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Okay, understood, ten miles per hour on some roads with little risk of apprehension if all else is good looking is a small price to pay then.
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Yes I think so but your post to which I responded suggested otherwise. I'm guessing the only advantage in buying a Discovery commercial (I didn't realise these were still available) would be to recover the VAT. All in all you would be better off keeping the windows and plating them on the inside for security.
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I just weighed my 110 and that was good enough but I can see the difficulty if you have a 4wd pickup and canopy and get asked to prove it has an unladen weight under 2040kg, similarly I can understand a manufacturer being a bit coy. I wonder if it is UK specific?
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If you think I have advised wrongly please say where. There seems little chance the cameras will have a database they can check and as even the V5s don't necessarily give an indication it's only likely to be when something flags up and further checks made. Anyway you were responding to the DPV bit I was querying the car derived van bit. There are two separate bits of legislation and the DPV bit seems to be an anachronism from the days of imperial units, the 2040kg rule for them is derived from a ton. The 2000kg car derived van bit is from the tonne.
