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I did as you suggested, put it together and with the tube to the purge bulb blocked it would run on choke and as soon as the throttle was opened it ran for a couple of seconds and died. It seemed as if the vacuum when the choke was on filled the diaphragm chamber but once the saw was running on throttle the chamber empted and the impulse wasn't able to refill it. Bearing in mind it ran fine with the carb from a working Einhell. I will leave the video up on Drive for a short while 20240125_140231.mp4 - Google Drive DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM So I gave in today when a package arrived 20240201_153432.mp4 - Google Drive DRIVE.GOOGLE.COM That was without any fiddling with the tuning screws. Apart from the faffing about it was probably worth the £6.08

I have never done it and would happily climb these trees to get some cutting material but apparently this is not viewed as safe so they shoot a branch off, presumably a number 5 shot or heavier and a full choke barrel. They are coming next week but I am not invited.

Were they the same as Sasmo? With spiral/helical cutter, made regular larger chip.

Pre school too it seems as they wanted a gifted little boy of three I know assessed.

Yes, on the steep 15ha SSSI we have to keep to tracks which potentially means a 200 metre downhill pull (which itself has problems with big stems barreling down), I have not got beyond 100m myself as pulling wires up sets my heart thumping. Some earlier work was felling conifer to waste (PAWS reverting to native), this was a big mistake IMO as getting through it is a winching nightmare, had it been extracted it would have made some return as biomass but the site is not cheap to double extract with the final forwarding being a 1km round trip. Dr. Jo Clark, who heads Future Trees and is running a breeding trial for resistant strains, says no common ash is immune, some show good signs of resistance. I got the impression when she visited and identified about 6 trees on the site with full foliage, taking cuttings via shotgun next month, that this means once the main spore load from leaf litter under dying trees reduces we may see progeny surviving. Currently any seedling succumb in a season.

Why? If it hasn't too far gone the ash still has a market and the removal creates bare patches for replanting. If it is in the park there are dedicated volunteer groups for planting and as long as the results are recorded the park will supply plants. Natural England will not like sycamore within the SSSI though pragmatically it is suitable choice but squirrels are a big problem with it and Beech.

Yes and a big clematis problem, damaging the replanting, in the one where I do some work.

Sorry @roys I should have read the whole thread first, I too use this method as there is no loss of good metal

Or use washing soda, add a 6V battery and sacrificial steel anode with the head as cathode. It works without removing good metal but you must dry and oil immediately after as the exposed iron molecules are prone to oxidise.

Being an old disused agricultural dairy it probably never had rates. Ten years ago our mushroom sheds were reused as commercial storage and the rate was 40% of the open market rent.

Yes well burning would neutralise any prussic acid produced and I think the two precursors only meet after the leaf is crushed. It is highly toxic to ruminants and would kill a person if chewed and there is no doubt that crushed leaves were used to kill butterflies. The question is could you breathe in sufficient HCN; "Approximately 50 to 210 mg hydrocyanic acid can be liberated from 100 g fresh leaves." https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/mrl-report/prunus-laurocerasus-summary-report-committee-veterinary-medicinal-products_en.pdf

My Massi verynears were issued to my morcycling mate in the mid fifties, for measuring the diameter of polythene fuel tube as it fell from the die, the diameter varied by the height it fell into a bucket of water to cool it, one of his jobs was to set the height of the water. He passed them to me when he retired over 40 years ago. I don't have a 3d printer but the idea of printing obsolete parts like this is fantastic, will it be strong as original?

I love it, of course with double drum winches on the A55 you could pull with one up to the butt plate and then lift with the other. I wonder if a pedestrian version could handle a decent sized log?

I don't know, Lamberhurst Equipment used to be good for them.

Shame as I got one going for a friend to use on a job which didn't come off. Yes, if you inadvertently turn forward down hill the centre of gravity moves downhill too and as there is more weight at the front it moves forward too, so the back uphill wheel loses weight. In the worst case the CoG moves downhill of the line between the front and back wheels and can turn over. In practice i is not a problem because you can normally avoid such a turn with a bit of shunting. The only time I had a near accident was when I had a load behind that pushed the back round .

We don't have very steep ground in Surrey but I used my two A55 Holders for early thinnings and loved them but be aware a rigid machine with 4 wheel steering is more stable on a slope. The one I had hydratongs on was particularly useful for bunching up loads before the long haul out but in those days we had premium markets for Post, Stake and Rail material and I think this PSR market has gone so thinning for chip or pulp wouldn't pay for these small trees. Having said that it would pull .5m3 poles if necessary. Though you risked breaking an ankle if you had both difflocks in it would waddle out of soft ground. Where are you?

...and that's because they often served a purpose here as a long lived boundary marker.

Yes, on a personal domestic level the battery made all the difference as we no longer bought electricity in the evenings for nearly 8 months of the year. That was two years ago and since then there have been significant changes, the first one being the costs have dropped, such that for £2000/kW I got a full battery and PV kit at my daughter's which is outperforming my 12 year old system by 50% though it is about the same size at 6kW rooftop PV. She is too cautious to try the best tariffs available but even so she only pays 11p/kWh for all her electricity for the EV and home, even if you allow an 85% battery loss and ~7P/kWh amortising the battery that is 30% below current prices. If she were a little more daring she could buy cheaper as EV owners are being touted by special deals which make it better to buy cheap offpeak and sell back at double for the PV generated during the day. Some people gaming the system are ending up with free electricity and an income from the electricity provider. The economics favouring batteries and solar PV seem to be because we pay more for our electricity than other countries.

I have no empirical proof and it's not something easily checked with a moisture meter as mine maxes out above 30% and it doesn't exactly match with figures from oven drying but we do know that in winter sap has to become more concentrated (hence less water) to resist freezing and rupturing living cells. I do have a memory of a piece of pine heartwood having a surprisingly low moisture content when cut in winter. As to ash the only figure I can find that I measured green was 34%mc wwb, oak and birch cut at the same time were 44%. One thing I have been seeing this year which intrigues me is the long dead, large, standing oak I am burning now. It had lost all bark and sapwood, the heartwood is riddled with worm holes, is producing less than half the amount of ash I get from freshly felled hardwoods I otherwise burn. This makes me think that mineral salts in the sap which normally end up as ash have leached out. Also the flames are very short and red/blue which is what I expect if the volatile solids have gone. Oak never has a lively flame like freshly felled then dried birch.

The type of inverter will influence whether a battery is the best course (it normally is). Also your electricity tariff and whether you have an EV makes a difference.

No way

Her site is good but for a quick look at a glance I prefer https://energynumbers.info/gbgrid

Yes and big investors don't want to deal with lots of roofs, it's a bit like forestry where small woods are unattractive for harvesting machines. In principle I agree roofs first especially on new builds.

We are such a long way off having enough renewables that it is hard to see what might happen, I think we will depend on imports of LNG for a long while. Currently we rely on gas because it can load follow when wind and solar cannot provide. From a personal level I can manage without grid electricity for 8 months of the year,I need to import about 1MWh from mid November to March, just with solar PV and it has been fairly consistent for 12 years. In summer I export more than 1MWh so I am a net exporter. I would bet that if the money paid out bailing out electricity companies and consumers had been invested in rooftop solar PV and domestic storage the energy crisis would have been a mere blip, plus we might have doubled our PV production. I am off grid now because my supplier is running a saving session 17:30 to 18:30 as wind has fallen to 8GW and gas is nearly maxed out at 24GW. My daughter is exporting 2.5kW from her battery ( for a reward of ~£5) but I cannot do that. Imagine if 25% of households could do this. I heat by wood which makes a big difference for me because my house is poorly insulated but even here the technology exists to make electricity in a micro chp generator which would guarantee I would never need grid electricity, except the technology never got developed for domestic use.

Which is a problem about 10 days a year around now, as I said we are burning coal and gas today as well as the Drax pellets. Drax burns 7.5 million tonnes of dry pellets a year, I think our total harvest of wood is only 13 million tonnes of green wood. We lost production from 3 nuclear power stations since Xmas which exacerbated the problem. A lot more foreign owned wind turbines are coming online this year to add to the french government owned nuclear power stations. I wonder how French prices for electricity compare with ours? Yes storage is a bottleneck to more renewables as are new electricity grid lines