openspaceman

Well I am no expert and I use caustic soda gel and place it with a cotton bud, it takes ages and repeat applications but gets there. I don't think it reacts strongly with nickel

Nikasil is a deposit on the aluminium that is only about 20 thou thick so rubbing or honing is only really to scratch circumferential micro grooves to hold oil. The big thing is to remove all the aluminium which has been picked up from the piston and melted onto the bore with chemicals and only lightly hone after. IME the nikasil hardly wears at all on a saw but, from what @adw has posted in the past, stone cutters with poor filtering make short work of it with concrete dust. I am still using 30 year old saws for the little firewood I need and at most they need a new ring as long as they haven't seized.

Actually that was more than 50 years ago, nylon 3 strand was ubiquitous by 1969 and natural fibres were not used at all (okay some rock climbers used hemp coils as a waist loop but they were old school). The only leather was on spike straps, chainsaw trousers were not available till around 1980 in UK but I always had the hat, visor and muffs from 1974. I have never known of anyone being aerial rescued in that 50 odd years, known several fatalities in that time though and none of those involved hanging from a harness and needing rescue.

No I remember it being in the fields at Egley road but then it was attached to the dairy at the farm where I helped Gerald. I also remember bring the herd with William up to the farm for calving. Iain leading William by the nose up the A320 and me at the back with a short length of hose to gee stragglers up. I doubt drivers would put up with it now but then it couldn't happen as the fields are a school and the farm a redundant golf course.

Hey that's where I started milking cows many years ago, the railway cutting was landfill , now the Bluebell runs through it again.

Stitchers go through ridge

I'll take that as your considered opinion that roof work cannot be undertaken safely by rope access then 🙂

Apart from the single line is there anything bad about doing this? Okay @AHPP was probably doing personal work rather than business so no HSE consideration. I have never used srt but my interest stems from watching the roofers hoisting PV panels onto a roof. All the firms specify scaffolding, which adds about 1500 quid to the cost of fitting two strings on adjacent hips. The roofer doing the work rocks up, lifts tiles and fits the bars, makes good any tiles removed and then stands the panels up at the bottom of the scaffold, thence he lowers a hook, snags a panel and hauls it up, fixes it with clamps, does the same with the next but this time plugs the connector to the first und so weiter. It took him less than a day to fit 13 panels and I think it could all have been done by rope access from an anchor the other side of the building.

Manna ash

I assume you are being sarcastic. The thing is in the event of an accident from a piece of PPE failing following an incompetent inspection HSE will visit the employer to establish the circumstances and he will be liable for the kit failure. The employer then is likely to make a case against you (though a civil one rather than the criminal one) so your PI may come into play (though not if you are joined in a criminal case). IANAL

I don't think so, this will just dilute the alcohol and create more waste. You are just trying to change the phase of ethanol from solution in petrol to solution with water, ethanol is miscible in all proportions with water. 2% should do it but it would be an interesting experiment to measure. What will you do with the ethanol-water solution?

Far too well embedded for me and I don't think Roughie pops in here much. These little mills do interest me, I liked the finish of the trekkasaw but far too much work. The cantilevered woodmizer I didn't so much have niggles but more outright frustration, I was just too busy with harvesting to properly learn how to use it. This Logosol looks more like the big Foresters and Dankaerts in sawmills I used to supply but how accurate are those narrow blades compared with wide bands? I realise they cannot cut as fast. I guess if I were cutting dimemsiones softwood I'd stick with a lucas but even that ends up with a lot of lifting.

Will it find it is warm enough as you go further north?

It was the interesting form of accounting that was used to reborrow money. Also I'm all for renewable energy but the chief exec dreamed up a scheme whereby reported savings from RE were taken out of the general account and used to invest in more RE which was a bit of a stretch. This funded firms which were owned by the council to do developments like the gas powered CHP electric car charging power station. I would love to know if the chief exec's emoluments and pension were in any way linked to the size of his budget. The interesting thing will be who will buy the tower block that cost £700M of borrowed money and has now been written down to £250M? I'm particularly miffed that a piece of wild wet heath was urbanised with lakes and paved walk ways in order for the new occupants of the tower block to exercise, which they were free to do anyway.

When I was buying saws for my own work I found I almost never needed any warranty or service work from a dealer. Even later when I bought for the firm, and used the local dealer, when a warranty claim or repair was needed I found it often necessary to buy a new saw as the wait was so long. I can only recall one warranty repair on my saws and that was the shaft bearings on a Husqvarna 165r. Other than that I did all running repairs and maintenance myself.

It has not been used since 2009, I'll PM a picture. The developers take over the site in a couple of weeks.

I doubt I will see many of them, I'll wait for suggestions

Big Moon my favourite so far but I'm not watching more than a fraction.

Even Chrissie wasn't up to it now, mind neither am I and she's a few months older. This event is for baby boomers. I saw Christine Perfect trying to sing Songbird a while before she died and her voice was gone, I had followed her since Chicken Shack and up to when the two americans joined in and I found it embarrassing. Why can't people step aside and let the youngsters shine through? They cannot desire money and it becomes jaded fame.

Oi! it was my divert you stole 😀

I was there 12 years ago on holiday when they were building a jetty, I assume to ferry timber around to corpach. I could not believe the amount of litter and abandoned gear the wild campers had left there.

One of those old Tarrup or better Kidd double chop silage harvesters set a foot above the ground might do better. I do not know which way the allelopathy works, whether the chemical is actively given off or it is produced as the fronds brown off but the composting would need to deactivate it. It will be high in potassium. I would favour carbonisation and produce a biochar to be used off site, this would preserve potassium but phosphorus would probably volatilise. Dealing with bracken on a boulder strewn hillside is a bigger problem altogether.

I had a similar sort of problem with a ms181C which @bmp01 diagnosed as an air leak past the accelerator pump (as I recall), he plugged the thing as a least cost repair and the saw was returned to its owner, still running last I saw it.

Yes that is for maximum translocation in order to kill the rhizomes. Trouble is that by this stage the bracken has completely shaded out any heathland species and it then has some sort of allelopathic effect that prevents other species germinating. Clumps expand by 8ft a year because the rhizomes continue to extend all the time the soil remains warm enough. Okay with grassland you can kill everything and reseed but on heathland conservation we have several dilemmas, A lot here is SSSI and the powers that be forbid any work March to September, because of bird nesting. The result is an overall loss of heather, tufted grasses etc. The net effect is to diminish the habitat that the birds breed in. IMO a triage system is needed, those bits of wall to wall bracken need treating (and I prefer cultural methods and carting off site), those bits with no bracken by June should not be walked through and then you have the bits in between that just need the bracken stems cut below the lowest frond while the stem is still soft. Here the aim is to stop bracken forming a canopy. BTW I was unaware that JKW did not set viable seed, of course himalayan balsam the other big invader does. The specification for burying soil contaminated with JKW on a big development was to bury it in plastic lined cells 4 metre deep, I never liked that but we knew the smallest piece of the plant was able to produce viable growth.

The old folk ditty was: "one year's seeding, nine years weeding"