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  1. As that would flatten the fob battery my guess is the car sends out the signal and this induces a current in the fob which powers it to send an ack reply which the car then acts on.
  2. I always worked piece rate and it was good for a long while, on average earning 30% more than day rate and that's how things should be. Things get tight and firms reduce the rate till it's nigh impossible to earn a living.
  3. is this because the key less one can get interrogated by a relay device and that then sends the signal to unlock the door with no buttons to press. same device then enables ecu to start car.
  4. I found transplanting root balled conifer gave poor results with checked growth and dieback the following season. We did have some success with transplanting pine on a site where the movement was a few hundred yards with a vermeer tree spade, this was always in the dormant period as perceived wisdom is not to attempt it in summer. We did move some oak and poplar in leaf but sprayed the foliage with a formulation of PVA to reduce transpiration. Is @Ruskins Trees able to comment as techniques must have moved on since the 80s.
  5. I am amazed it has managed so well but I wouldn't cut anything off until it is established. I hope @groverson keeps us informed next spring.
  6. The pimp engine is really just for the fire lighters, I have posted a picture here in the past of the one my mate's father and he used to use making kindling from vegetable crates for sale, back in the 50s, Up until about 30 years ago a local firm, Chris and Vic, would come and cut birch for horse jumps when cleaning forestry plantations post planting for free. They cut with billhooks and made fairly loose bundles under their arms which they secured with a birch withy twisted and tied. When the time came to assemble them in a jump they were pulled together in a frame with a land rover with extra faggots stacked in the space created. For tight faggots a pair of sticks with a chain between them was used before tying. the first 2 minutes of a slow demonstration, A dudckduckgo search on "binding faggots gets various images of clamps. When I tried to mechanise making hazel faggots for revetment work by clamping the bundle in a grab before tying they were rejected as being too tight as they wanted the water to flow through and be slowed down so the silt dropped out to stabilise the bank.
  7. Having known a NT tenant that killed himself when his farm was taken back and abandoned I agree on two counts, NT are a bad landlord propped up by their favourable tax status and we should not have allowed rewilding to put traditional productive farms at risk simply because we already struggle to produce 60% of the food we eat. With only about 5% of global food traded the knock on effect of us buying more on the world market is people starving elsewhere.
  8. I too agree about Dysons (and the ball barrow was pants), I have "repaired " lots that have been discarded because the filters need cleaning, The thing is cyclone tubes actually consume a lot of the air power, so my choice is a Henry with a Hepa filter bag, including when sweeping the chimney. The Dysons even have a warning on them not to use with fine dust and cleaning impacted plaster dust or soot out of the cyclones takes ages. The Hepa filter bag just fills up without much loss of suction, lets no loose dust out when it is emptied and the bags cost peanuts. Dysons are for homes that don't need much cleaning but the air passages are too small for bits of bark and chainsaw flakes. I do keep a Vax upright for getting dog hairs out of the carpet though a Dyson air powered rotating thingy does work with the Henry once the "heavy" debris has been vaxed off.
  9. Not murder but arboricide
  10. Exactly the case against new motorways or hs2, they simply promote excess journeys to no great economic benefit.
  11. No not the same but it must have been widespread because I came across a RHS trained guy using it in the 9os
  12. Same boss that taught me? He would be about 92 now if still alive.
  13. We used to make the last cut 1" thick, run round the cambium with a groove, pack it with ammonium sulfamate and then nail the cover piece back on, it looks a bit more natural. Mind I agree with Paul, ecoplugs about now prior to felling and leaf fall may be more effective, much as I dislike them.
  14. That is one of the original Stihl carbs, the non oem replacement is in the link
  15. I had lots of trouble with mine and was ready to give up after stripping the carb and replacing the diaphragm, gaskets and needle valve. It still played up and a new Stihl carb was £90 but I saw L&S offered an aftermarket one for less than the price of the carb kit, fitted it and it worked fine till I stripped the gears in the head. Carburettor for Stihl FS75, FS80 Brushcuters - Replaces 4137 120 0600 | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Carburettor for Stihl FS75, FS80 Brushcuters Quality, Non-Genuine Part Replaces OEM No. 4137 120 0600, 4137 120...
  16. That's my thoughts too but ships seem to have a 30+ year lifetime as do some commercial airplanes, I wonder how long modern multi megawatt wind turbines will remain in service.
  17. Oh one with solenoid controlled fueling, too modern for me.
  18. Yes it looks like it has run over hot and that is normally due to an excess of air to fuel.
  19. Nor me but I'd say that was running weak
  20. It is actually practical for a home owner to do this now, using a battery to actually profit from off peak charging and sending it out at peak. It's a form of arbitrage where the buying in price is a quarter of the selling price but separated by 12 hours.
  21. No because the heat is solar heat (plus a small amount of geothermal heat escaping from the core) that has been gained in the first few metres of soil during the summer and would have radiated away in winter. The pump just moves it into the house where it also is lost from and radiated to space.
  22. I think this is probably youtube misinformation. China had some car short term hire schemes, like boris bikes and electric hire scooters, that failed. The firms became bankrupt and the cars are stored in fields.
  23. Mine was a Husqvarna when I did just that on a twin stemmed macrocarpa

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