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Are these common to all the Huskies that use the side sealing as a one way air valve? They don't seem to stay fuel tight for long, Husqvarna did have a replacement green one that may have been slightly larger??
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I'm happy with mine and have been for over 30 years.
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I agree with your sentiment but your numbers are a bit out, I wouldn't expect to get 50% more heat unless the fire is really smoky (no flame) as smoke is incompletely burned fuel , the bigger benefit will be a cleaner burn.
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I agree all the time the ambient RH is low, the thing is as temperature goes down the air's carrying capacity for water goes down and it's ability to carry enough heat to evaporate water goes down too, heat tends to be cheaper than fan power. A dehumidifier is in an essentially closed system (only water leaves) so heat can be conserved in the system, plus all the electricity used ends up in the system as heat. I still haven't run my domestic dehumidifier on a meter to see exactly how much water it produces per kWh but I'm confident a heat exchanger can keep heat in the system plus make use of any unsaturated potential in ambient air for the same air movement.
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Except you can't multiply the two together and end up with 100 tonnes because with say 6 small sticks in the jaws on a first thinning you wouldn't have the length to get the weight so most tushes would only have been about 1/3 m3. The county and crane would pick 50 of those up in two trailer loads, the advantage of the tongs was lost once the assortments for PSR were no longer a premium.
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I'd guess around 2 tonne on the flat, still could if I put it back together, thing is forwarding took over and the ability to fit down a 5ft rack wasn't of much interest to most landowners willing to go for 2 rows to get the bigger machines down, on a short run, as in the pictures, I could tush 50 loads in a day but the converting slowed things down. In those days we might cut 10 different specs to maximise yield.,
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I'd guess 1984, I probably still have the invoice for the tongs, it was just after I had them re bushed and a hydraulic rotator put on.
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Yours is a better picture but here are mine snapped from an old album soon after we put JHB tongs on the Holder and before I stuck a County weight on the front.
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I can manage the basics of an access db but the firm I do work for won't consider it, sticking to spreadsheets. I made one to track competences and expiry dates on 150 personnel and it worked okay but I was pants at building queries and reports so once they failed to get on board I didn't have the enthusiasm to pursue it. I would have liked to do more with it, like logging kit and consumables issued to get better cost attribution for larger projects. I do have to run it in a VM as I don't have a windows desktop.
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How are people finding their new Isuzu D-Max?
openspaceman replied to Andrew Barrett's topic in Arb-Trucks
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This is why it is better done in a database rather than excel. I have not used a mac but I do have to use XP at work and what you want can be done in excel. Basically you need to create an invoice template with a VBA macro. It loads as a template which you enter all the normal details in. You then save the output as a standard excel XLSX in read only form. If you need to edit it you have to override the read only attribute when you open it. You can have the template also store salient bits of the invoice like: Invoice number, Date,customer,amount,VAT, Total as a record in another excel file . In W98 the file was invdb.xls and the template was supplied. As I only write 3 or 4 invoices a year as work dries up I do it manually nowadays.
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How are people finding their new Isuzu D-Max?
openspaceman replied to Andrew Barrett's topic in Arb-Trucks
Does anyone know how this happens? I've never driven a Dmax (newest pickup has been a 2009 ranger with 240k on clock) but is it not an engine management issue along the lines of: Exhaust back pressure senses particulate trap becoming blocked Need to clean it by getting it hot, either a high speed run at high load to get the filter hot enough OR Push some extra fuel in via the injectors near exhaust opening time (can only do this with common rail) so it heats the trap up. A chip remap could fix this. However because engine doesn't get hot sooty excess diesel runs down bore into sump or have I got this new fangled stuff entirely wrong. It makes adding adblue look attractive. -
Exempt for tacho if you are using the lorry to carry equipment or goods for use in the course of your work and driving is not the main activity. Exemption doesn’t cover delivering goods. Still need operator’s licence.
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I do use loctite stuff but can never find it when I need it, last one I was trying was the solid stick, wipe the thread on it and go with no dripping, used it once and now...
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Me too but I cannot remember doing a saw spark plug. The main issue is not the coil coming back out but rather it screwing into the engine, so first make sure the helicoil is not longer than the plug thread and next do not run the drill and tap all the way through.
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Shrapnel wound while splitting with maul.
openspaceman replied to pyro_John's topic in Firewood forum
I was still felling with steel wedges till I packed up work 7 years ago but I did keep them well dressed and I never bothered using wedges for splitting nor hitting a maul with a hammer, just not worth the effort. If I cannot split it with 3 hits it gets left or sawn. Back to the OP: I started work with two guys who were 64 and had worked as a team since the war years (reserved occupation) both had bad injuries but Ted had lost an eye when Fred was knocking the wedges in an a piece of wedge hit him. -
Competition between firewood sellers in a local area.
openspaceman replied to WHaines's topic in Firewood forum
Am I missing something, 20 gram load is only 3/4 ounce, saves getting a bruised shoulder -
I don't know but their RC100 with forestal mulcher head would but they don't seem to list it any more, I drove a RC100 for 3 months till I couldn't put up with rubbish from the ganger any longer and that was cutting rhody over cab height between the crop stems after the bigger machine had hacked racks through, over 100ha.
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It wouldn't worry me to use the engine that had sat in a garage for 16 years, I've a couple (RR V8 and pug 2.3 d which I thought may come in handy one day). Which transit engine has a belt rather than chain? The duratorq 2.4 are all chains aren't they? Agree blue grey smoke = burning lube oil or poor injectors black smoke over fueling or blocked air filters. Yes blocked crankcase breather can cause oil leak or force it down valve guides.
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Sitka being named after the NW american area it comes from but yes in terms of volume production they both do better here with yield classes in the high teens and 20s, in their native land they probably only manage a tenth of that but the tight 14 rings to the inch timber is better plus the snow loading prunes off dead whorles leaving clean timber.
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Tip site-Dormans Park, West Sussex?
openspaceman replied to Old Mill Tree Care's topic in General chat
He's already been as I saw his vehicle more than once coming off the M23 at A264 on my daily commute. Farmer Rod is keeping quiet, he's just up the road beyond Lingfield, so he might have enough for now. -
Is this because the ground becomes too frozen to harvest later?
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Yes that makes sense, our fast grown conifer suits industrial wood better than building timber which is presumably why we had such strong and early trade with the baltic countries, we were never self sufficient in timber for masts even if our ships were hearts of english oak, and thereby hangs a quirk of our timber growing, coppice with oak standards. Not only did it suit our landowners income, treating the relatively long return on a timber crop as capital and the short term income from regular sales of underwood but it grew fat timber within the period of maximum mean annual increment,. Enabling felling at 120 years on decent ground and yielding a short fat butt useful for the main structure of a ship or house complete with lots of large junctions suitable for bends and knees in ships of crucks and jowel posts in houses, plus a bit of cordwood. Whereas the sylviculture south in France grows taller oaks but on a 200 year rotation in a better climate.
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Hehe so someone here knows about William, I stand by my comment and that doesn't detract from his greatness. He recognised that acquiescing to small corruptions was the thin end of a wedge. It is failure to stem corruption that means stable governments cannot be formed, without stable and honest government society cannot flourish. It is why we must challenge corruption at the lowest level That little aside it could make a new topic but let's stick to Paul's original post here.
