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Can you precis that for those of us averse to fb
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Which tracked chippers will fit in an 8ft box trailer
openspaceman replied to Kinghawko's topic in Large equipment
But did the hopper hang over the front? I think the forst is slightly shorter than the jensen at about 2700mm but that hangs over the front of an 8x4 trailer. Incidently a gm safetrak 1920 fits in an 8x4 trailer with the hopper over the front but as the tracks stretch you can't quite shut the back, similarly as the leg slides wear the track scuffs the sides. -
I didn't realise I needed glasses till 16 when I tried to read numberplates for my bike test. I also didn't come into the tree game till mid 20s when the brothers operating out of peasmarsh didn't want me so I got a job with Cyril.
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That's right, as soon as it's mentioned it becomes very noticeable , damn thread. BTW mines a high pitched ring more prominent in left ear, about 6kHz but I passed my railway medicals with it for 8 years. I always wore ear protection since my first powered saw in 1974 (Husky 165r still have it and leather harness) but there are a couple of problems, I have always worn glasses which makes the seal less effective and early muffs weren't much good for heavy machinery and chippers. I think I'd suggest anyone wearing glasses use ear plugs as well as muffs.
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Reducing fume inhalation and other toxics at work.
openspaceman replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in General chat
The main thing is the air in general is better than it was 20 years ago apart from in cities adjacent to roads. Also most tractors are enclosed now and as long as windows are shut and the cab filter in good condition you are better off than when I drove Counties with no glass. The main things that can have a long term effect will be black carbon particulates in the PM4 and below Silica dusts (including asbestos fibres) Bioaerosols including fungal spores endotoxins from bacteria when disturbing old vegetation , chip heaps etc. Some hardwood dusts are also carcinogens. It is important that any face masks are able to filter out these respirable sizes, simple dust masks are unlikely to be adequate. -
I'll be interested in what the experts say. In the absence of better advice I'd vee out the crack, clamp it and use a nickel rod (avoid nickel fumes it's a carcinogen) as I'd guess the vice is made from cast steel.
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In the day I made my living on the difference. I'd get much more of an assortment from a parcel than the big boys just selling into industrial wood markets even if it was just £3/tonne for turnery poles. These niche markets are now gone.
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I've never had problems with stale fuel, even several years old but with the ethanol content increased I do wonder. Hence I shall put saws away with a little aspen in the carbs. None of my husky saws retain fuel in the tank after a month or so whereas the strimmers and stihls do.
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Yes I remember you saying when I broke the ryobi engine, I was going to buy a km56 head but I still have an old oregon pole pruner, stihl long reach hedge cutter and some saws so I found it cheaper to buy a normal hedge trimmer and forget the kombi. As I still have the ryobi bits I was looking for a use for them.
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Makita say use 40:1 unless using their own oil, I'm sticking to 50:1 synthetic in all my two strokes and storing them with aspen. BTW do you know if the ryobi attachments fit the Lidl one? I was going stihl kombi but have bought separate hedgecutter instead so have ryobi bits with no engine
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Modifying the property of a soil to benefit crop growing, although results are variable or indifferent in many cases, and removing carbon from the atmosphere by mixing it into the soil in a recalcitrant and non respirable form.
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You generally fill them to 70% so 30% air provides the suspension. Put valve at top, unscrew the adapter and use a hose with an air bleed to fill till water spills out of the bleed. You can add calcium chloride as an antifreeze or glycol but you'll lose both if you have a puncture. I just stopped extracting if the weather got too cold.
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RAC are still competitive if you do named vehicles on a fleet cover basis (up to 3.5 tonnes and 3.5 tonne trailer) but in truth even with 50+ vehicles we seldom needed to recover more than three in a year IIRC, which the fitter did and the largest cost in that was paying the driver's wages for the day not worked. I maintained personal cover for myself and family and in case I got caught out with a works vehicle. Yates were very good for HGV recovery from London to Surrey albeit expensive.
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I guess she can't afford to lose her job. They seem to be damned whatever they do.
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I was just commenting on the fact I was alive and voting in 1973 in response to sailor boy, thread is too convoluted to read all the comments.
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Yes their policy changed and now commercials up to 3.5 tonnes need to be covered separately, i.e. the registration is the member. I switched to AA. HGV I had recovered cost £800 for 40 miles in 2016.
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Which is your favourite stag shield or dung?
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Long time ago a little owl fell down into the inglenook of an empty house on the farm I was working. I saw it sitting quietly on the hearth so went in picked it up whence it bit me and flew out the door.
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My mother and wife have both had them eating from their hands but we decided it was making the birds too familiar and at more risk from the neighbours' cats Currently have a female blackbird coming within a couple of feet to collect dried meal-worms (she eats a couple and then takes a beakful to the nest, must be second brood)
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Had one in my shed, told it to steal from the rich...
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I voted against it then as I guessed what was coming.
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Hot and uncomfortable in a white shirt and black tie, said goodbye to wife's younger sister who I used to collect from school some 50 years ago. Life's unfair it was my turn next.
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A lizard with no legs
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In March 16 I replaced one on our Mk1 1928 for £130 it took 5 days mail order from alternatorman in portsmouth
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I had just the same problem tarting up a wing on the mgb yesterday, all orange peel as the spray flashed off before it could flow.
