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If you need any help then there is forum ar Latitude Cartography or I know my way round some bits
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Integrated clearing saw/sprayer.
openspaceman replied to AlexB's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
There was an attachment for applying glyphosate and dye to the underside of the saw blade for rhododendron control but I think there were all sorts of problems with chemical spinning off and it seemed to disappear quite quickly. The make was Enso -
Snap but looking back whilst it seems naive to have expected to be financially successful I don't regret the actual work.
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I guess an air classifier will do this but most trees only have leaves half the time so I doubt it would be worthwhile, the good thing about wood is that you can store it in the round and it's heat value goes up as it dries, other crops are more difficult to conserve because they are more digestible.
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Firstly it's not my burner and secondly I'm not advocating it but it can happen, wood really needs hot conditions in the firebox to burn out, I typically measure 1100C in combustion chambers. The walls seldom reach this because the heat has to conduct or radiate to the inside wall, through the metal and out to the ambient air. The rate at which it receives this heat and then passes it away will determine the equilibrium temperature of the wall. Put an insulator on the outside, like vermiculite, and the metal work gets hotter because it cannot get rid of heat through the insulator. A brick on the inside can work because it reduces heat getting to the wall but the wall still has to get rid of the heat coming through the brick or the brick just gets to the combustion heat as it cannot get rid of it through the wall.
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They can raise broods through the year because of their ability to regurgitate a form of milk for the squabs
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That's what I thought from the leaf but the bark looked wrong
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I've never done it but my guess is sand is better than vermiculite as it will conduct heat away from the metal better, once steel gets near red heat it doesn't last long.
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Oddly enough I was up at a friend's farm today, collecting a piece of kit for farmer Rod to try, and he put a digester in 4 years ago, 27,000 hrs on the MAN engine now putting 130kW into the grid on average. He uses it to deal with his cow slurry and the wey from his cheese business plus he makes grass and maize silage for cows and digester. Today he was running it on sugar beet he had grown. He uses about 20% of the electricity on the farm and creamery and heats a number of buildings using surplus biogas. The rub is the digester basically likes the same food cows do, it uses up what are called the volatile solids ( fats, sugars and starch basically) and sugar beet and maize have a lot of these, wood has essentially none but leaves will have a bit.
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I'll defer to our learned colleague as I'm only a beginner at this fungi ident business. What's your view on australe on Q Borealis Tony? I have watched a mature tree with small fruiting bodies of what I take to be this for 4 years now and just the one poorly formed bracket in between two prominent buttresses each year.
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Should I be able to smell Smoke from next doors fire in my lounge
openspaceman replied to Jonny Burch's topic in General chat
You need to establish if it's an inversion layer pushing the smoke down from the top of the chimney because your house has a circulation that's drawing air down the chimney (as you don't have a fire yet). Or it may be cracks in the flue (bad thing). First mover would be a chimney balloon in the bottom of your flue. If that stops the smoke smell then try the same at the lop. Does your chimney have a liner? -
No it doesn't seem to be forming into a bracket but it looks like the beginnings and the host species is an indicator, albeit it's to rare for me to have any confidence.
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Not properly formed for some reason but my guess is Perenniporia fraxinea and the bootlaces are one of the honey fungus
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£270 inc vat but lite version free
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Some of us have the c1 plus e which entitles driving with a combination weight of 8.25 tonnes. IMO this means the combination is restricted to 40,50,60 at all times.
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Are you saying that going out in the morning unladed it would be 50,60,60 and coming home full to the gunwales with chip it would now be 40,50,60 as the GTW is 8.25 tonnes? Doesn't make sense in that any lorry plated at over 7.5 would be 40,50,60 at all times.
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I was told use softwood stickers for hardwoods but cannot remember the reason given. One reason for not leaving oak in the round in the south is because borers can migrate from sapwood into the heartwood. Traditionally oak was selectively felled in late winter to early spring (if tan bark harvested), left in the round over summer until horses available after the corn harvest and extracted in late autumn depending on ground conditions. One of the forestry books suggested delay extraction till Novmeber so the hooves would bury acorns.
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So an unladen 7.5 tonne towing a 750kg chipper is 40,50,60?
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I'm not at all sure without seeing the underside but looks like honey fungus
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Well found, thanks. I'm not pulling anything apart yet, just fired it up on a petrol soaked filter so it's pointing to a fuel problem. Cannot get the flywheel cover to sit properly with the casing screw through the trigger unit bolt hole.
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Eddy I'm coming to the conclusion this saw was originally contact breaker ignition and the later trigger unit has been fitted and doesn't have a real home.
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Thanks, in the meanwhile I've bent a new hook onto the old one just so I can see if the thing runs. It has been stripped, cleaned and put back together by my mate because it ran rough, since it has not started at all. On reassembly I find an ignition trigger unit floating about, does it get attached via the screw that holds the starter cover on or the ignition module?
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An old mate brought this round for me to fix, bought new in 88. First problem is the recoil spring has broke mid coil. My local dealer is looking for one but it is not available in the current parts list. Part number is 116 195 1600 but there is a similar spring for a later version of this saw with a different part number. What chance this or another Stihl recoil spring will do the job?
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Now combine that idea with a warm cupboard and a dehumifier and they's be dry by morning. I'd go with the wash and spin dry first though.
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
openspaceman replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Is everyone asleep? That's robinia
