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Looks like it's 'phone or e-mail. I treat the online maps much as I do a Cable Avoidance Tool, if I see a tree has a tpo then I know it is protected, if I don't I still ask as some of the interactive maps seem ambiguous. Not that it makes much difference to me as it generally comes out anyway but I like to discuss things with the council tree guy first as a courtesy.

Not the same thing. When laying you want the stem you have laid to stay alive, so it's branches can grow vertically and strengthen the matrix against stock. To do this when you make the plash cut you leave sufficient wood to support the stem (and reinforce this with the ethering, plus maintain the bark and cambium to allow sap to flow. In the spring the cambium produces fresh cells and during this stage tit is very fragile. So the bending of the woody part in tension and the bark in compression can buckle and rupture the cambium. Just bend a twig to fracture and see this effect. I never did enough to see how far one could push the limits, too much like hard work! You can coppice all year round but for different reasons the produce doesn't last as long.

I already order small parts from them over the 'phone, the 4.75+VAT carriage is far less than my time driving to a local dealer, I often receive them the next day. Seeing parts and prices online, even if this required a login, would speed things up and make deciding whether to repair with OEM, pattern parts or scrap the machine easier.

I'd repair it, clean it thoroughly and use epoxy and possibly a fibreglass patch, this has been successful with stihl plastic. Stubby on here says the plastic can be melded but I've not tried that

Nice, sounds a bit QTS

Pretty difficult to get a chipper to a worksite in normal running nowadays. Did you have to have a RRV on hand to transport the chipper? 10 years ago you could track a chipper down the cess/4ft, get 4 or 5 blokes to lift a whole sycamore butt end onto the chipper and track forward spewing the whole tree back beyond the cess, 13" and down gone in minutes without being further touched by hand. Now ALO makes working within 7 metres next to impossible during normal running.

BTDTGTTS, you soon learn to grip with just the palm, and a gloved hand. It's not the immediate pain but the problem of constantly snagging the nail as it begins to separate and fall off.

We've got a transit that has started discharging it's battery, I cannot find where the drain is but until I do I have been pulling the earth terminal, means I have to re enter the radio code when I want to use it. Yes modern batteries seem good for that sort of time unless they get profoundly discharged which can knock years off. My last battery in the 206 was 10 years.

Once they are cut, stacked and banded they probably stay till they rot. The reason for banding is to prevent them being thrown onto the line. It is seldom possible to get stuff off track in a normal possession but occasionally a Road Rail Vehicle and trailer can take material out to an access point. I have loaded a train of 8 wagons, with an engine at each end, with whole trees loaded in 20 ft lengths in the past but with a max speed of 4mph in the worksite and 18mph for the rest of the possession it's very pedestrian. More normally for work done in normal running the adjacent landowner will be asked if he would like to dispose of the arisings. When access from adjacent land is negotiated harvesters will operate over the fence but it's amazingly difficult to organise as many adjacent landowners are not enamoured with the railway from past experience, so hand cutting, stacking, banding and rashing up become the order of the day. As you may imagine this makes subsequent access and working more difficult.

Fair comment, I've certainly never tried it and don't know the rules regarding stop bar. To my mind one takes a tracked chipper to site when it is not possible to get the truck to the work, otherwise take a tow behind but if you only have one chipper... Still looks like the drawbar weight may exceed 100kg.

That should read 10% non virgin waste not 1%

I have similar leica trinovid 8x20. The image is sharp and the optics very good but because the eye ring is so small they have to be set just right for the eyeballs, also because the field of vision is small acquiring the target is more difficult. Great for hill walking as they are so small. On my pair a screw has come loose in each scope and these can jam the focus, I cannot see how to open them so could do with a recommendation for a repairer.

Looks like a good size and still able to chip whilst on the trailer, albeit a bit of a lift. Balance looks forward of the front wheel, what's the weight on the drawbar?

Not quite, to run on red the journey has to be in the course of entrepreneurial activity of agriculture, including forestry and horticulture. So running to a building site, trade show or Highway work (snow clearing and hedge trimming excepted) is not allowed on red.

You can get the qualification just by attending the course and passing the assessment, you won't be able to work till a firm sponsors you. Bear in mind the sponsoring company will also get better rates for the training. Too right! Network Rail know damn well how far gangs are travelling and there have been a number of instances of crashes involving people (not in deveg AFAIK) travelling excessive time to shifts. Their solution is to make people sign a time sheet with their travelling times! It's plainly just a blame shifting exercise even with the online registering.

It won't stop the stool from producing new shoots but if the cambium gets rupturedat the plash cut the laid bit won't survive. Even if the sap is running I think you are safe until cell division starts presumably as buds expand.

Why shouldn't they agree, they are both measuring the same ting, electrical resistance? The thing that is debatable is whether resistance bears a good correlation with moisture content across the range of calibration.

I keep a 254,262 and 288 for when I do go out on track, the blokes always comment on the 262 being heavy compared to the MS261 they normally use but I've never weighed it compared with a MS 361 which would be a modern equivalent I think.

Sorry, I interpret 'getting paid to burn fuel' as recieving the RHI tariff - Is that correct? Thanks. I'd interpret as meaning burning waste wood that has a gate fee. Typically to avoid the ~£80 landfill tax. In theory using an approved, but exempt incinerator one could burn max 40kg.hour=>960kg/24 hours of certain wastes approved for that incinerator, which might include normall untreated wood from pallets, offcuts from joinery and MGF/fibreboard.plywood. 8 years ago as I was laid off, there seemed to be a relaxation on the contraries that were accepted in the "virgin" woodchip arriving at the boilers, one could see bits of chipboard and blue and red stained chip plus occasionally a faint whiff of creosote. At that time the woodchip was worth about £25/tonne so someone supplying 4000/tonne/year to a big boiler and diluting it with 1% non virgin waste which had a £50/tonne gate fee would gain £30k/annum.

In my day you could send that away for a factory repair.

Yes they seem to be universally disliked. On the transits the 140ps models seem to come with solid clutches as standard as that is what is supplied for the conversion, though I think you have to change the front pulley to compensate. I was more referring to brake disc and drums, the modern friction materials are harsher on them, causing more wear than previously, presumably because pressures need to be higher.

I haven't applied for a felling licence for 20 years. You could use a 1/1250 planning extract which may cover the area you want. In my day as long as there were 2 grid lines 4" apart they would accept them. a pdf site plan on A4 costs about 15 quid to license for a year, any maps made during the year may be archived. Else buy a paper copy licence and copy an earlier map. remember to put the copyright notice on it.

Some of this is due to the change in friction materials.

About 1.5 times the pump output per minute plus the difference between all rams extended and fully in. Tank needs to be taller rather than wider and return must be under the lowest oil level.

You can get reasonably tight without the tensioner, which is the expensive bit. I get loads of the buckles from our fencing deliveries.