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Others have answered but it is to do with the fact that propane needs heat to vaporise and this is normally provided by the ambient heat, if you start drawing off gas too fast you will see a frost line on the bottle, as the bottle gets colder the gas cannot vaporise. On forklifts and auto engines (like my V8 LR) the propane is taken off as a liquid and is vaporised in a coolant heated regulator. I reckon about 2kW of heat needs to be delivered to keep the landrover cruising. The LPG firms are reluctant to supply gas for bulk tanks that have liquid take off because it might be used for on road vehicles. They will supply hot air balloonists though. Also gamekeepers tend to get very good deals on buying gas in 47kg because they use so much.
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Yes, parbuckling, the standard way to load timber before cranes.
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Not any more, no coordination in the arms, kept winding one handle wrongly It may be worth asking the recently retired founder of Fuelwood, he worked on them when they operated out of Atkins (Sp?) quarry near Betchworth. The son in law of the old man that took the business on from Paul Elsey also worked on them and ran one out of Ockley. From what I remember they were pretty basic, an open circuit 3P series pump driven by a ruggerini and solenoid operated spool valve. This powered a similar sized motor with 2 bolt sae flange and standard 9?? tooth spline coupling direct into the drive pulley wheel. I still remember Paul shouting to me up an ash tree in Greendene to ask if he could have the stem to try his new invention on, around 1983 I guess.
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That picture reminds me of how we bent the leg on my mate's engine crane. I preferred the timber grapple, lift all the stakes out pick up a couple and spin them around pull the wire in like spaghetti then drop the lot in a bonfire, return when cooked to scrunch the wire up and weigh it in.
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I thought standard practice to mitigate damage when the detector indicates metal is to mark the position, mill from one end as close as you dare and then come from opposite end to a similar safe point, split board off with wedges and test if it contains the metal usw.
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If it is basically well engineered then collating a technical file and putting a CE mark on is no big deal, probably expensive if you have to pay someone to produce one, there are plenty of firms that do this. The one piece of equipment I researched a technical file for had a number of small discrepancies which I did not think were acceptable, someone else still marked it though. Anyone remember what CE stands for? Caveat Emptor IMO:001_tongue:
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Thanks Kenty and now I've read the tfl site that's confirmed. I shan't be looking at the iveco on arbtrader as a result, because it's registered 1/1/6. What it doesn't say is when the next level of restrictions will apply. I'm guessing that all >3.5 tonne commercials registered in UK after this date of 1/10/6 are fitted with euro 4 engines. As it has been mentioned that modern trucks meet euro 6 how long will a euro 4 be allowed? I note that trucks being used by a firm I do work for must be using adblue, simply because the old containers are being used to deliver chipper fuel to the site, a bit worrying with regard to water contamination of fuel if they're not dried out thoroughly.
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When are the rules changing again? At the moment 04 plate transits seem ok but what about <7.5 tonne trucks like iveco how recent a model would I need to buy?
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I doubt my 084 did 40 hours, I dropped it for the regular saw as soon as possible, it wore me out and drank fuel.
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I saw a one eyed pea green RB44 near Fox Corner's oak monolith today at 16:30. Is it 24V?I still have an unused electric off a Dennis fire-engine.
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Is this for a machinery ring, like farmers share equipment but for forestry? There must be some standard agreements available for this sort of thing. NFU?? I'd start with 1% of its capital value per week IF you get 50% utilisation, more if it stands idle longer.
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Our council one allows for a loaded and a tare in the fee. Also if you don't ask for a printed ticket the lady just waves you off after telling you the gross. Rod it looks like they have rebuilt the one at Handcross on the A23, it was free before, otherwise one skip firm in a local village lets you drive on the weighbridge and view the weight through the window.
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It's arbwaste Bob, I normally load it into roro bins for a local skip firm who do us favours now and again. In the past it was all chipped for Slough Heat and Power.
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Standing dead is a valuable habitat, I have a cherry given as a present 30years ago that up and died 4 years ago, there is nothing of value within its tree length.
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I stopped getting hauliers to move my wood when the trip to Kronospan increased to £14/tonne, that worked out at £2/mile one way 15 years ago. It's galling for me now as I have access to a large amount of arb waste and my brother needs some in Devon, just sending an 8 wheeler there will cost £800 for at best 15 tonne of unprocessed logs.
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Have you ever used Heldite? I'll try this Sealall, how hard does it set?
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Hi Mike Our chat did get you going then!
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most efficient woodland planting methods.
openspaceman replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Climbers talk
We were on piece work but the trees had to be planted perfectly in line and 2m apart, otherwise when we came back to weed them with swap hooks we'd end up cutting them instead of the weeds. All establishment jobs were piecework then. My weekly wage was £19 but we'd get 1p for planting, 2p for pruning to 8ft and £15/acre for weeding, so there was a big incentive. -
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rules-on-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-goods-vehicles-in-gb page 15
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most efficient woodland planting methods.
openspaceman replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Climbers talk
Piecework using ranging poles' 1+1s, about 1000/day and up to 1500/day beating up a failed planting but had a lot more energy at 24. -
Churchill called it arboricide
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I thought the DB single pin one was only rated at 3 tonne whereas the two pin I have is 3.5.
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I'll vouch for this one, some days it has been pumping for 24 hours and more. The cheaper plastic ones gave up within 3 months of old fashioned normal weather draining the yard sump/cistern. Even this erbauer one says it is only rated intermittently.
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I 'phoned my local Stihl dealer enquiring about a 100' reel of .325" chain as we have a number of MS 260 and 262 saws. No one there was able to confirm my calculation of how many drive links in a reel. I was working on .325 pitch x 2 per drive link and that works out about 1850 drive links per reel, sound reasonable?
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Yes I also think it only applies to land which was open space under the 1899 act. Many commons became openspace under the later 1925 Law of Property Act and they do need felling licences
