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Me too, it also doesn't look like english elm from the bark and wide sap ring. The thing is I think it is only english elm that is cross grained, which is why it was so strong and a chair seat. I've just acquired some freshly felled elm for my continuing air drying experiment, I thought it was english elm so took a hefty swing at it with an axe to split off a log, I was amazed how easily it split compared with the hard work it was to log up english elm in the 70s.

Nothing if we leave the EU

I must have shifted something in the carb as it ran fine, I cut some elm logs with the only bar and chain I could find, definitely front heavy with a 25" 3/8 chain. With a clean air filter and warm it was pulling 14,400 rpm on high idle so I slowed it down to 13,500. Now I just need a new bar and chain and was thinking of a sugihara laminated 18" with oregon full chisel cutters.

I've fitted the new flywheel but I could do with the correct torque figure? Anyway it started fine and runs well on tickover. At high idle it misfires badly, not 4 stroking but a definite misfire like the spark is erratic or something in the fuel feed. So I've checked the plug, which was new looking so probably fitted when the flywheel broke. I've stripped down the carb where I was expecting to find a glob of water but saw nothing, blown it through and reassembled, will try it at work later today.

Yes and the market had just started falling by then, I think I could look back through my books and get the right date. What you need to understand is that there was a tariff on timber imports till 1992 and also big incentives to industrial timber users to set up in less favoured areas, the effect of this wasn't felt by us harvesting contractors as the demand just increased standing prices. Landowners that clearfelled then, even prematurely like this parcel, probably benefited the most and if they had let it go full rotation they would have lost out as by 1986 sawlogs were only fetching about that much delivered.In fact I believe the sawmill that contracted to buy the sawlog element of this job went into administration during the job. We were laid off before the job was finished and the contractor's team of three finished it alone with a roadless 75 with hydratongs.

Very reasonable, nice to do business with Barry

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I brought home a Stihl MS361 to look at/repair. It had lain in a shed for a couple of years and allegedly had been dropped in a river, running, and never touched since. Except the flywheel is loose and the generator is missing from behind it, is this only fitted on heated handle machines? Anyway the flywheel key is sheared, I've cleaned the broken bit out of the crankshaft taper but it looks like the key is cast into the flywheel. Is it fixed or a separate key? The channel looks too shallow for a woodruff key.

The black lesions on the current year's twig look like anthracnose

No, top of Hunts Hill Rd

My 'phone dried up ringing ages ago, most people probably think I died already. Anyway it was 87!

Was that in the day of Tony's red? unimog ? I used to see it running around on highways jobs but I was only interested in forestry then. The plantation I mentioned may well be visible from by your yard and up through Vokes.

I went for a walk with my daughter's dog, a bit further afield than normal. We drove past a 24acre plantation for sale. I extracted the clear fall here in about 1981 using a bog standard County and double drum winch. The parcel had been bought at auction at the top of the market £30/m3 standing, larch and pine a bit under thinned. We got about 2 24'6 and a few bars out of most trees plus precious few utility poles which we had debarked using spades (very low yield). Stacking area was so tight after a few days I went out and bought a Bomford blade for the County which also meant I wasn't doing wheelies dragging 8 trees out at a time. Reg was the foreman for the partners that had bought the parcel and was felling and topping 150 trees a day, about 45m3, he was in his mid fifties by then, his two assistants and mine crosscut and stacked. My extracting only just kept up with him, luckily he was topping at 5" so not much pulp to deal with The thing that made me remember it was we parked the tractor down a lane opposite with an elderly couple, they invited my wife and I in for tea one day and told us they were married on the day the last crop of barley came off the field that became the plantation, now for sale, 54 years previously. I have never set foot on the place since but it doesn't look like it has been thinned since it was replanted.

I think polyester and rayon are okay as they don't extend much before they snap.

That's because the sting of a worker wasp is an ovipositor evolved to be a weapon. They can give a bit of a fright if you've been handling douglas bars all day and one then thinks your jeans are a suitable log whilst you're gaily extracting timber with the hydratongs.

Never use a nylon or "springy" material to attach a block as it stores energy in its extension which it can give up to the bit that breaks.

I have only seen it on ling, in the wild, It causes dead pathes in the heather.

Only if you own stuff is tools and equipment you are working with, unless you mean non commercial driving, and distance is within 100km from base. Essentially if you are delivering anything you need a tacho over 3.5 tonnes GTW. Before March 2015 there were exemptions for operator's licence when the unladen weight of the trailer is below 1024kg AND/OR the vehicle is dual purpose (but I think modern LRs are too heavy for dual purpose). I'm not sure if anything else changed when the radius went up from 50km that may affect the above.

I'd expect any industrial grade heat gun would do the job, as you say they can be a bit slow and smoky compared with a flame. I'll have a look on the one on the chip stoker tomorrow

It may take some fiddling but the fan and igniter are outside the combustion chamber, it's like a small hair dryer but hotter, blows in through an insulated tube.

Probably because that came with grandfather rights on your pre 97 car test . You still get the full benefit of your C+E test taken later so no real restriction.

It will add about £6 to my premium with arborisk. I'm just on a minimum PL as I don't do much now but I do wish they'd remind me more than one day before expiry.

The damage looks old and mechanical rather than the weeping lesions I associated with the disease., is that scale insect present?

... but the ammunition that fills that bill requires a FAC doesn't it? Or do you mean humane dispatch