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I don't and cannot because my log store would take up too much of the garden if I attempted it. I chop four solid cubic metres of logs to last me the winter. As long as the store is full by the end of May and I use the first bay loaded in early April first it will all be less than 20% mc when burned.

My father was a RAF radar fitter in Burma so I think he acquired it, probably as a swap on the year long trip home. I also have an SS dress dagger brought home by an uncle, who landed on D day with the pioneer corps, and a Wehrmacht dress bayonet found in the peat after a flash fire. My guess is that was a trophy too and one of the kids took it onto the common for war games. BTW I cannot understand how a kukri was much use as a weapon, more a good general utility knife/slasher/chopper.

My dad said the small blunt one was for cleaning animal skins on his issue one, and the notches near the handle for opening bottles. I wonder what happened to it after he died.

The shaped one, a bit like a pistol grip, the oval section also give one a feel that the orientation of the blade to the target is right.

Second attempt at posting. @organic guy mentioned straps which I think mean two straps of metal on opposite side of the handle, I take a socket to be a frustrum of a cone attached to the blade. Ours were an incomplete socket formed by two cheeks of metal extended from the blade and folded around to form a socket as in the slasher marked 1 in the attached picture. You will see a ring of steel has been driven down this incomplete socket ant then rivets fitted to hold it all in place. Our work ones were the same but the head was a double bladed yorkshire style. You would see these in many agricultural shops until everyone had a chainsaw. Hook 2 is a round handle and you see the tang is peened over a washer to hold it. Hook 3 was my goto billhook given to me for coppice work, when the tang broke I added a bit and it looks like I brazed the nut on. I prefer these caulked handles. Hook 4 was the hook I used when picking up and dressing PSR material that was going to be peeled, it has measurements filed on the back for checking top diameters and a hook filed in the beak so it was used as a pickaroon until the tang broke. After 1987 I never got involved with softwood first thinning and caulked handles are expensive, my carving skills mean this never got repaired. The others are various swap hooks showing the peened tangs and one where the washer has rusted away and the tang is pulling out of the rotten wood.

I have "joined" my two plastic drums for use as butts by filling a hose with water, weighting each end so they drop to the bottom and looping it between both drums while not allowing any air in.

I think the multifuel engines would run on anything from gasoil through kerosene, avtur and low octane petrol. As they depend on compression ignition they will not fire on neat high octane petrol or avgas as that would need a spark. The thing is they run well on gasoil/diesel but white smoke badly on kerosene, at least the K60 in the 432 I tried did.

Yes the few I have the tang pokes through the handle and the tang is either bent or passed through a washer and them peened. I also have two blades where the tang has broken short (one I welded a threaded rod on and secured with a nut. The long handles one have side cheeks and two rivets through the handle. When we used Yorkshire style long handled slashers, before chainsaws became ubiquitous, they also had a collar that was driven down the side cheeks before the rivets were driven IIRC, it was a long time ago. I could take some pictures tomorrow if wanted?

Most tank engines were multi fuel to satisfy NATO requirements but they dropped it in favour of single fuel turbo charged diesels, or gas turbine in the american mbt. All these later opposed piston engines were based on a 1930s Junkers Jumo diesel aero engine which in UK Napier developed into the most efficient engine for maritime patrol aircraft, the napier nomad, a hybrid turbo assisted diesel. It never went into production as jets took over. The deltic was the boat and train engine that came from the same firm. When the requirement for multifuel armoured vehicle engines became a requirement Rolls Royce developer the problematic L60 and K60 engines. The major problem with this type of piston ported engine was excessive lubrication oil consumption. A trade off in war time but an expense and pollution issue nowadays. I wonder how Arcate are addressing this.

Smart but what's to stop the head flying off? Does it look like the tang has bent straight again?

I was given this, and some other stuff, from a house clearance today. It is a Kent style felling axe but the handle was not original and too short. It weighs 0.8kg or short of 2lb. The inscription is: 4 D?. B&Co Ltd ? Warranted Does anyone know this manufacturer?

I still occasionally put food waste out for collection in summer but only for bones, fat or eggshells. In the winter I put them in the wood stove along with any dogshitbags from when out walking dogs.

Brighton streets have bigger bins at the side of the road for use by those in nearby multi occupation houses, I'm sure the system must get abused. Strangely Brighton do not collect segregated food waste from householders.

Have a look at this thread and as well as flowfit try whitehouse hydraulics for a cheaper deal price than the dealer.

A bit OT but some time back, on this forum, it was pointed out that an electric saw was directly coupled to the chain, so the brake had to stop the chain and the armature which has more momentum to overcome than the brake band on the clutch having to stop the drum and chain and slip the clutch. It was in the context of a full power test on chainsaw trousers, the electric saw carried on cutting further.

I cannot speak for Alex but I do believe the planning system is necessary in a crowded island, trouble is people can manage to avoid it to the detriment of the system because the money for employing the enforcement is gone (often quite deliberately). In this village about 5 little "corner shops" were reverted to dwellings as the bigger shops and supermarkets took the trade in the 60s. Now with the demise of department stores, following growth in online shopping plus less commuting as working from home has increased, there must be scope for turning these commercial sites into housing.

I used to like that stuff, it stank like it was doing something good even if it wasn't

no, the radial engine used in flying fortresses, and a number of american fighters, after 1943 it became more significant for the war effort than the iconic merlin

@Johnsond did you find the story behind the double wasp engine you recovered off the south coast?

Yes they are the ramps for parbuckling the log onto the bed, just seeing them brought back horrible memories

This can be difficult if the owner is not willing, not many are, even councils and charities with a remit to provide public recreation because most are run by people managers who don't want to have loss of control. Generally a village green cannot be established if the area is part of the council's local plan for future development.

look on the tab with statutory designations, check for registered common land, village green , CROW access land or section 15 land, these are the ones that define public access. Section 15 land will not be enforced over most of England.

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Are there no warranty insurances for used vehicles that are worth having?

https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/blossom-wilt @Peasgood is the expert