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OK that's what I expected, as I said I only used 3/8 as I was mostly cording up big oak tops and tended to snap .325, I used .325 on conifer before the competition from processors drove the price too low to carry on motor-manual work.

I'm not disputing what you find in practice but the 3/8 chain has to remove 14% more wood in making the cut and this should be significant. I chose 3/8 because I found it lasted better and I was rough enough to snap .325 chains.

I don't know of any significant changes since I gave up 7 years back but then: Flatbed artic, gross 44 tonne load 29tonne with total length of 16.5 metres (generally trailer bes is 40ft but 44ft possible) 8 wheeler max gross 32 tonnes and payload 18 tonnes 12.5 m overall maximum length and usually a 7.5 metre bed Grapple loaders reduce the payload by more than 2 tonnes.

Cerris has hair like appendages around the bud. Could it be a hybrid, Turners or Lucombe, Lucombe leaves are semi evergreen and look similar, it's a hybrid between Turkey and Cork oak.

done that plus it does run for a few seconds. Bought a spark tester that fits inline today but still suspect a fuel issue.

What I need is something to put the plug in line with to see if the spark dies as it stops. Compression seems fair but no tester to hand

If they're the same as a 262 then there is a small earthing screw into the body, vertically down, then remove the spade terminal and it should have two spring clips, right and left, which can be eased out of the body toward the back handle.

It's a standard 2stroke with a bulb primed carb. Old but looks very similar to current model

Ecoplug bits are 13mm but they have a depth limiter of 30mm. Bradpoints don't pull in like ordinary augers with a thread at the tip and this is preferable to stop jamming. Previously I used longer bits on an atom drill attachment for a husqvarne 268 in the days I did cable bracing. I feel sure the BT45 would manage the same. How far from me are you?

Not a chainsaw but similar engine: my old makita blower, last used in September, failed to run properly today. It started fine on choke and ran for 10 seconds with choke off but then just died. It wouldn't restart but left for 10 mins and then the same problem, it would tick over for 20 seconds or rev for 10 seconds then die. I thought it was a blocked tank filter but it pumped fuel through using the bulb. I stripped carb and cleaned everything and reassembled to find the same fault recurring. Any ideas what I've missed?

I've used them for ecoplugs, the drill will manage it if you keep the bit clear. The chucks supplied won't grip a 13mm round bit if the going gets tough, find a bit with a hex shank.

I use one to drill in tek screws. I was given a ryobi impact and drill set 4 years ago, still working well so I have had the batteries re-celled (80quid).

Nope and I've demonstrated it twice recently, took a load of scrap in with LDV and absolutely convinced I must be knocking 4 tonne, ticket came back 3.13. Was sent out in a recent 115ps transit to get loaded with arb waste (beech) told the blokes not to overload me as I was unfamiliar with vehicle and sailed home like a dream, hardly knew the load was there, took it to the weighbridge on A23 (now demolished) just on way home and grossed 4.20. I'd love a simple means of checking compliance, not to save the vehicle but my licence. Weighlode used to do a simple pressure meter in the tipping gear, you just tipped the body slightly to take the weight on the ram and read off the dial. It was fairly accurate for grin because that was uniformly across the bed but with arb waste you would need to check the strain at the three points of load. I'm guessing these IRD Portable Axle Weigh Pads and Accessories would work out too expensive.

MIRAS fed the housing bubble and interest rates went high. Couple that with the right to buy and the leasehold reform act and the banking sector grew at the expense of the traditional mortgage lenders. Housing stock was limited because only so much new build could be done so prices went up as the supply of social housing went to the private sector. Now 30 years on much of that social housing has gone to private landlords feeding high rents. I bought my house on the open market when it cost a bit more than 3 times my income. I earn a bit less now in real terms but the house now costs 10 times my annual income. I have a friend who has refused to buy his council house on principle, he retires next year and the rent will cripple him, since the 80s he has paid far more than I paid off my mortgage in rent to the council.

Spec says 200 cycles to 50% depth of discharge. You want to pull 3 x 38W for up to 7 hours, that's 798Wh, your chosen battery has a capacity of 1080Wh to full discharge so you are likely to kill in within 200 days of use.

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As Difflock says. Our ranger grosses just over 3 tonnes can tow 3.5 tonnes but the gross train weight is just under 6 tonnes so it cannot have more than 1/2 tonne in the back and tow the full 3.5. In fact though it pulls well I think the tail is wagging the dog a bit with a loaded trailer. Once you go outside 50km from home it would need a tachograph.

I remember my first geography lesson in 1963 we were told there was 40 years supply of oil at the then rate of consumption, by the time I got my motorbike 35 years later there were 14 million vehicles on our roads, how many now?

Too much spin and some strange factoids. Weight for weight softwoods tend to have slightly higher calorific value for a given moisture content, because of higher lignin and other polyphenolic compounds content. They are less dense, so occupy more space for a given dry weight. This also means they are better insulators which is why they heat up and light quickly.

Oliver Rackhams' books deal with this, for England woodland was at its lowest at the end of the iron age (5% cover IIRC), mostly cleared for agriculture with the edge tools that were previously not available. In the Roman period it was warmer and the traditional grain growing areas of north Africa were depleted so England was an exporter of grain and the roman bread basket. By Tudor times the value of timber for fuel, smelting and boat building was recognised so measures were put in place to protect regrowth from grazing animals as cutting broadleaved woodland was not a problem per se. The area of coppice then increased at the beginning of the industrial revolution, partly because of displacement of wood fuel by coal but also because of demand for packaging ( baskets and crates) for export goods like china. The push for plantation forestry followed the first world war because the need for pit props and chockwood in mines was anticipated strategically. Since then we turned from a coal economy to oil and now gas and those early plantings are being reverted to broadleaf. Wales and Scotland are different as they took longer to "civilise".

You can do much the same quicker with a microwave, you get to a plateau just before the vinegary smell that indicates the onset of pyrolysing. A 20 gram sample takes a few minutes on a defrost cycle. The moisture meters depend on salts to be dissociated as ions in the moisture to conduct current and the moisture is calculated from the resistance. I think some of the grain moisture meters used the dielectric effect. Pure water is not a conductor.

Here's a couple of photos, for the one person that was interested, it's been at the back of my shed for 1/4 century and I'm having trouble finding all the bits. Did find several things I forgot I had though. Is it possible to find date and model from the serial number? Indeed is it an 028?

What weights are shown on the vehicle plate? beware driving hours regs once you exceed 3.5 tonne gross.

Probably! I'm guessing this is the 2.4 duratorq? We've messed with changing the fuel metering solenoid but ended up replacing the injector pump (£700). Each time the thing has never been quite right after. We've also replaced a timing chain and that snapped in 12k miles. I suspect our facilities (or lack of them) are just not up to delving into a modern engine's internals. I'm also told that these pumps don't get on well with low sulphur diesel. Also bear in mind the pump is coded to ECU as is the instrument cluster so swapping bits becomes a nightmare. I've a feeling if this engine starts playing up with more than 120k miles on it it's not worth fixing.

I agree they are all good but beech is the best of that lot for a hard char, I'm never impressed with oak char. Alder and alder buckthorn were prized because they could be finely ground to a known size. Poplar and softwoods are too soft and hornbeam remains dense enough to withstand a blast of air. Greenish sweet chestnut shatters into shards.