openspaceman

I thought argon mixes generally gave less penetration than CO2 by itself, smoother though. I really should learn why some CO2 is necessary with Mig and steel. Is pure argon used to mig aluminium and stainless? My mate has just on site fabricated an exhaust for one of my Counties with his old sip mig, I was thinking of treating him to an inverter mig. As an aside the Bluetti power station packed up after about an hour, it may prove to be a bad purchase, haggling with warranty claim currently and only get one response a day.

I did wonder what happened, all my original saws had Tillotson carbs. I guess other firms could mass produce cheaper.

@Billhook had one built from poplar years ago

Like many weeping willows the lesions on the shoots look like anthracnose, which will be an annually recurring thing. The rot at the base is different and probably started from old damage, it may well cause the tree to fail.

Yes and move up a grade of oil to something like 15-40 if it a modern engine where a 5-30 is the norm. thin oils are only for fuel economy not engine longevity

This is the case with the open space near me but they will not allow motor saws so I give it a miss if I cannot pick it up. I notice other log fairies do it surreptitiously with battery saws.

Output drops as temperature rises so my panels are most productive from April till mid summer. It looks like the best way to combine solar panels and agriculture other than for crops that like shade is to mount them vertically.

Silkys can give a nasty bite too. Yes they are very expensive but most climbers use them in preference to bow saws of my era and a lot of that is to do with speed, effort and satisfaction. I compare it to driving tractors, I liked the Fords from 500 to 7610 and dreaded driving Belarus of the same era, I gave away my last bow saw because though it was cheap and the blades easy to replace it didn't match the Silky.

My take is the kerf will be wide, which means more effort compared with a large Silky. My order of preference would be 50cc saw with lo profile chain, Silky bigboy, 21" bowsaw then conventional saw. As with all cutters keep them away from dirt. Get a feather edge diamond file to sharpen the Silky.

...and if you are not planning to use the saw for a week or more run the last tank with mineral oil and clean the saw with white spirit. Scrub the cooling fins.

If the parish council were willing to pay for the work why not do it? What possible consequential cost to you would there be if it were dangerous? Sorry to hear abut your friend killed by the dead (monolith?) at Runnymede, there was no excuse for leaving it standing.

I suppose it's mostly council depots that have the facility to compress the gas into the tank? I wonder how many litres of compressed natural gas you would need for a litre of petrol (about 8kWh)

Good question, we used to pre bait hoppers with maize/corn, as in like uncooked pop corn, to see when greys had started visiting, then the warfarin (now banned for squirrel) coated and dyed wheat was put in the hoppers. The thing is the squirrels never ate the whole corn kernel, the indication of their presence was that the germ had been eaten but the rest of the kernel was left.

We had this topic a while back I took the pdf off google drive as running out of space but I can hunt it out again if needed

Yes, for the second time around in UK the number of stations has dwindled, I had a V8 LR110 which I converted and ran from about 1998 till I stopped contracting in 2009, I could drive home from 3 directions and pass a filling station, all three are gone and I wouldn't know where to fill up now. It worked well for me as the cost of the vehicle and conversion was about half what a lr 110 tdi of the same age (1990) would have cost and it had a fraction of the miles (actually km) on the odometer. It did 14mpg on LPG ( I meant to fit high compression pistons which would have increased this efficiency but never got around tuit) and 19 on petrol whereas the tdi would have done 25mpg. The kicker was that the diesel needed an oil change every 6k miles but the on lpg the lube only needed changing at 20k and even then the oil was still golden. I seldom worked more than 20 miles from home so didn't clock up many miles, 80k IIRC, but as the range on lpg was only 150 miles it needed a couple of fill ups a week.

For buildings they seem to set the posts on stones with a locating spike or galvanised saddles but I have examples of sweet chestnut and oak heartwood posts that have survived 40 years in this sandy soil, not set in concrete though, just back rammed with stones and soil.

Advice can be written or oral, both are verbal. It is easy enough to phrase a suggestion in a way that it does not constitute legal advice or cause any liability and for a normal contracting business professional liability is not necessary, it is in the domain of consultants.

Yes, I will be on blood thinners for the rest of my life, bleeds do take a bit longer to stop and some bad bruises occur with the slightest bump but no affect on working, albeit at a leisurely pace nowadays.

I agree that a MS181 would be adequate for harvesting sub 5" material but I wouldn't want it to crosscut those poles into logs, preferring a circular saw bench or to try a branch logger.

Maybe worth a punt if I get a wide hedge to do.

How do you plan on getting it out? Generally it is easier to get poles out than logs, then for these small sizes a branch logger may suit. I still have to get to try one myself.

I stripped the gears on my Stihl HL75 long reach, probably my fault for bashing it into stuff that was too big for it. I currently have the head off a ryobi multi tool on it but it's pretty hopeless. I'd like to know what other heads would fit it as the original is not available anymore.

Yes, first the moss came then the sedum years later

I don't know. I was savage with mine and topped it but left the stem and the fork with no buds, all the regrowth looks fairly healthy, no blossom of course. Note the self seeded sedum on the corrugated asbestos cement roof

I had to look that up