openspaceman
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When I bought my first saw it was a Husqvarna 280CD 77cc saw with a 24" bar, on the grounds it was able to do anything. Just about the first job I got was felling <6" birch poles and crosscutting them to 10ft. I managed and it was lighter than the Danarm DDA110 I had been using but it was nose heavy, too heavy and if I dinged the ground took a hell of a lot longer to sharpen. It ended its days with a 15" bar at the skidder landing as it had the grunt to cross cut dirty stems. We quickly settled on 60cc saws with 15" or 18" bars.
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Yep, you got him.
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That doesn't ring a bell. There used to be a group of "tree sugeons" that traded as *insert surrey town name here* tree surgeons and he was one of this group from Mitcham originally.
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You are not wrong but most of them will have done some non vocational further education, post A level. It's just a reflection on how we have sacrificed our technical trades, like engineering, in favour of a service economy which has hastened the decline of the economy as a whole.
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Yes weigh up the very few pros against the substantial cons, if the result is positive then have a word with your maths teacher.
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A firm up the A23 just north of Hooley used to use one, you could see the cubes of crushed brash in a field . I expect the chap's name will come to mind over the next few hours 😉
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After my uncle was killed my dad signed up with the RAF but too short sighted to fly, ended up in Burma fitting radar to beaufighters and mosquitos (he said the glue failed in the heat). He was dab hand with a soldering iron as a result. he told his family his job was guarding the cookhouse to avoid speaking about the top secret stuff he was doing.
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Mine actually, saw off my mate the same age yesterday. I prefer her later stuff
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That's where my uncle lays, shot down returning from Dusseldorf 80 years ago tomorrow. He would never have known the tide of the war had turned.
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Putting a different engine in a chipper...
openspaceman replied to swinny's topic in Large equipment
I still have a 2.3 out of a pug 504 van, 300 miles since total engine rebuild and one of the lads rolled it. I took it out because I couldn't bear to throw it away. Freebie to anyone who wants to play but it will need a new sump as it wore through dragging it around over the years. -
Whilst I have no direct experience of masonry stoves I do have a lot of experience of the effect of slow heat release from a chimney breast. As my stove runs about 16 hours a day in winter and the house is very small (77m2) the chimney breast gets warm to the touch even in the bedroom above., with a thermal image one can plainly see the route of the flue and the gradual heating of the wider brickwork. This is so as the chimney is cement lined and does not have a flexible steel liner.
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Yes but the union just above the tie looks weak and could develop a problem if the future. Agreed it is a bit late to prune it off but maybe the whole branch could be tipped to suppress its growth.
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Funny you mention that, here we were in the trial area for showing ID and the reason given was because of voting fraud in a ward predominated by first and second generation immigrants from Pakistan.
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Not got round to doing anything with it as the owner had bought a small brush cutter for all the weeding she needed doing, I have far too many projects on the go.
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I asked before but they don't seem at all common
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I don't know but because they burn so hot I doubt there is much soot to sweep off. I have no direct experience but have exchanged posts with Norbert Senf, of the US Masonry Heater Association, about various aspects.
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Masonry heaters are popular in US where they have bigger rooms and houses. They get built in the middle of the house so the hot bricks radiate heat all around. Similar things are used in East europe where the flue even runs under brick sleeping platforms. The thing about them is they burn very cleanly because they run flat out for a few hours, the flue gases take a labyrinthine route through the brickwork . Because the bricks don't conduct heat as well as metal the gases have to pass a greater area of brickwork to lose their heat before passing up the chimney. After the fire has burned out the air inlet, and possible flue, are closed so that there is no circulation passing up the chimney. Soapstone stoves are a sort of inbetween, a normal metal stove clad in shaped soapstone which retains the heat.
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He is clever he just has a belief system that doesn't allow for the fact we live on a finite planet.
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Interesting, I have a FR480C, languishing in my shed for a few years, with a duff battery. This is the model with electric start and apparently no choke. The owner didn't want to pay for a new battery. Do you know if any of the pull start models like your, starter-recoil mechanism would fit?
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sawhorse wanna buy a sawhorse but have some questions
openspaceman replied to miranda's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Reads like it, also picture is far too pretty to be here -
Anything over 750kg traveling at more than 25mph needs full suspension to stay within the law AFAIK
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Putting a different engine in a chipper...
openspaceman replied to swinny's topic in Large equipment
Sounds sensible, any particular reason? I remember the throttle response, injection settings I suppose, was entirely wrong when my mate went the other way and fitted a Perkins in a land Rover. -
So sad, she was ten years younger than I and working behind the bar at the Dukes Head in Beare Green , after college or school, when I met her. Last time I saw her was at a forestry show ~15 years ago but I was still chatting to her when buying spares for an old shredder till around 8 years ago. Being out of the industry I had no idea she had gone till this thread.
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Back boiler on log burner
openspaceman replied to Donnie's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Yes in essence; because traditional back boilers were literally the back surface of the combustion chamber they presented a less than 100C temperature to the firebox, this effectively quenches the flames and thus produces sooty particles, this is why the boiler surface always looks black from the tarry deposits. There is no reason a stove manufacturer couldn't have the boiler after the combustion was complete but at the same time the flue exit temperature would have to remain above the dew point of the exhaust gases and vapours. I think there is plenty of scope for making use of some of the concepts used in pellet burners and chip stokers to make a high tech stove with water heating but I expect the price would be a bit steep compared with a metal box, some fire bricks and a ceramic glass door. Or you could site a back boiler above a masonry stove. -
Do you know how the prices add up? With ground mount there is no scaffold cost and that adds £1500 down here. Even a top grade inverter is no more than £2500 for 5kW and a cheap chinese hybrid much less. My panels were around £500/kW and if you can use a qualified electrician for the connection but to get the export money you need an MCS certified installer in order to get the certificate the electric company will require.
