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I thought adblue got metered in at higher loads, when then combustion temperature is hot enough and large amounts of oxygen remaining which combine to make NOx, the adblue then reacts with this in the filter to reduce the NOx back to N2. DPF cleaning is separate and is when excessive back pressure is sensed across the DPF, so the DPF is brough up to temperature by injecting excess fuel at the beginning of the exhaust stroke, unless Toyota employ a separate injector, the revs will go up to pass enough air to burn the fuel in the DPF. It looks like you need to drive it harder and switch off engine at stops.
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A cant is an area of coppice offered for sale in a block, it is also a baulk of timber with at least one bark face remaining. When the Surrey group did an analysis of woodland ownership a high proportion of the area was in blocks of less than 0.25ha. and of course these did not receive support from the FC
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You may get away with this if the saw has an inboard clutch. I've had trouble releasing a husky where there wasn't enough movement to get the chain past the drum. I would still carry two saws, and do when logging, as contingency if one plays up.
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I always had two saws but a sharp 2lb axe is effective.
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no a coup is from the french cut, it is the area cut at a time, the english is a cant of coppice. You read the wrong dictionaries. Check out thicket and spinney (also from the french)
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When you stop coppicing it and it reverts to trees
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Thanks Paul I have passed details on
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Can anyone recommend a consultancy in West Sussex that can undertake a subsidence report? It is needed for an old oak framed house for which insurance cannot be found and the incomer's mortgage company will not release funds until the house can be insured.
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Iveco only offered them on the market for about a year, around 2004
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60t of Chestnut wanted Surrey
openspaceman replied to aspenarb's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The art in cleaving is to select where you crosscut the assortment, randomly cut 2 and 3 m lengths won't yield what he wants. -
I scrape or blow the loose stuff off and occasionally use a spray kitchen cleaner. The main thing is to stop stuff falling into the crankcase. I have taken a dremel to the fins of a badly encrusted cylinder.
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Using NaOH for cleaning out aluminium transfer from cylinders
openspaceman replied to morten's topic in Chainsaws
Where is there any iron or steel in a nikasil cylinder. I admit I have not used concentrated sulphuric acid or hydrochloric acid as the oven cleaner gel stays where you put it and leaves a tell tale if there is any aluminium pick up left. The acids may be more effective for all I know but I stick with what works. -
I don't like pressure washing machines as it gets in the electrics and drives dirt into seals and bearings.
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Is the hitch homologated for UK? I considered a 5th wheel mini artic on a Isuzu Grafter which gave a payload of nearly 4 tonnes but I think only those with B+E before 2013 could tow it as now the trailer weight for B+E is restricted to 3.5 tonnes and I doubt they will allow for the super imposed weight of the semi trailer being on the chassis.
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Using NaOH for cleaning out aluminium transfer from cylinders
openspaceman replied to morten's topic in Chainsaws
Yes I use gel oven cleaner Brick cleaner There is no iron in nikasil as far as I know. -
We had one and whilst I didn't use it the fitters did and it seemed fine, a spring was lost out of the chuck which was no longer available as the design had changed but this was the fault of the fitter rather than the machine. I see I bought the part from the later machine and made it fit last August. Evolution are good for spares generally, I have the mitre saw and the circular saw.
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The key didn't hold the ignition in the run position so it cut out until you turned the key again.
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With a conventional carburettor it soon becomes obvious the filter is blocked, the revs drop as it four strokes but I wonder, do these autotune saws compensate for the filter blocking, so it's less noticeable? After the fires in 76 we were cutting timber with charred bark and that made a mess of the bores, it became worth putting a double layer of ladies tights material over the filter and applying the oil used on dirt bike filters. It didn't last long as pulp mills rejected the roundwood so it tended to be left to rot or pushed up on a fire.
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We had a TR6 which used to switch itself off because the ignition switch flipped itself off during use.
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I used to drive one of those and you cannot open the door when the arms are up like that, only way out is through the back window, mind I never got it stuck and have to try it.
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No need to take it off, repair in situe.
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Tap roots are what young trees have, as they mature the tree depends on lateral roots so only fine roots are directly under the tree as the tree has largely exploited this area for moisture and oxygen.
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I've not done a repair on the translucent bit of the stihl tank but araldite works on the opaque bit, yes sand it to clean and roughen it but no need to be flat. I used to use fibreglass but nowadays use carbon fibre tow., it's easier to handle. I fix the tow in place over the hole first, either with a dab of araldite or melt it in to the plastic with a soldering iron. Then drip the araldite on top and use a hair dryer to make it run into the fibres. Try to avoid the araldite rapid, it's fast but does not set as strong. heating a bit makes it dry clear Here's a picture of a repair, illustrating the idea but using marine epoxy , I am currently doing to a bike that was vandalised in a college workshop
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Pershore College Arboriculture - Images
openspaceman replied to John Hancock's topic in Training & education
I have an especial reason to be sensitive about it but it took me thirty years of chainsaw use before I realised how important the gtrip with the left hand is ;-). I hope my comment was only taken as such and not a criticism, I enjoyed seeing John's pictures and wouldn't wish to put him off showing what his students are up to. I too used to get uptight about high stumps, stapling fences to trees, bonfires next to trees but then in those days a decent fencing oak was worth a week's wages, I see similar trees chucked through the chipper now. Similarly I'd sort trees out for the higher grade products and would give lectures on tree quality and pruning for it. Now the market has fallen away and oak is imported from France, local woods have been creamed and the replanting is at wide spacings such that quality timber will never be grown from them so I just think how sad and pass by. -
Pershore College Arboriculture - Images
openspaceman replied to John Hancock's topic in Training & education
The harvester that just went through by here left higher stumps than in the picture, anyway the putt sweep would be wasted on that tree if milled. I was looking more at his grip.
