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  1. openspaceman
    If the developer has the agreement then the council have to do the maintenance but any liability must remain with the owner I think. Unless no one ventures onto the space the council cannot establish exclusive use and the agreement to maintain would prevent them gaining possession as this would be seen as a licence.
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    Some of the tropical woods, those known as mahogany possibly, deposit grains of silica (sand) as they dry and it comes out of solution. This makes them too abrasive to mill when dry so they are only milled from green.
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    I can vouch for one attempting to bore into a douglas resin soaked thigh whilst driving a ford 4000 with tongs. The ovipositor doesn't have a sting but a stinger is a modified ovipositor.
  4. openspaceman
    NO. Fair enough to borrow (and credit card is a bad way to borrow) if you are guaranteed the work with higher pay to pay it back but never invest on an offchance. Any decent firm will pay for training but expect to have to pay it back one way or another.
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    Yes Dave bought some of mine when he returned and got on this wagon.
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    I didn't mean it was the best option but up till 30 years ago English sawmills wouldn't pay much for chestnut ( because of shake??) and then a couple of firms realised there was a demand from Portugal. The interesting thing was that the Portuguese would mill short logs and butt joint random widths for things like drawer bottoms. Also around this period I started noticing pub table tops in chestnut. We were able to sell sc coppice that had gone over rotation length and all the time the bark remained smooth there didn't see to be any shake even on sandy ground and the Portuguese would by sawlogs at 8"qg where British mills would not accept butts less than 12 or 15 "qg.
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    That's a significant size, 22 Quarter Girth, if they are sound and clean they'll go for export.
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    Both the person felling and the person causing the felling
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    We sold scots for woodwool (Thermacoust) in 1978 at £19/tonne roadside to Forest Thinnings (Euroforest predecessor). I think cut and extract was £8 then. I think that was the peak period for softwood and continued in decline, especially after 1991.
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    I thought the MK was just the 4wd version, it carried on production longer because of military orders.
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    Beat me again
  12. openspaceman
    Looks like the button for the flashing beacon on my truck (aftermarket fitment)
  13. openspaceman
    Lucky for us old uns that's not the way it happens, I'd be below the minimum wage if I was paid on climbing performance.
  14. openspaceman
    I find the Google mapping app with traffic is a good indicator of congestion on my android, I think this is crowd sourced data. Presumably the tom tom one uses traffic cameras and the loops in the road?
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    Gone up by £1 in 6 years then?
  16. openspaceman
    Hey I probably passed you both. Next time I'm coming south on the A34 to the 42 then 40.
  17. openspaceman
    Is it any good with a telescopic pruner, Stihl HT101? Nowadays I find I can hardly support the thing fully extended even near vertical. BTW Is NPTC unit 31 (as was) necessary for a pole pruner?
  18. openspaceman
    It was called the woodchuck, first chipper I used. I think Gibbs imported them with a 5 litre petrol V8 and replaced it with a diesel.
  19. openspaceman
    That's me to a T 'cept the LR doesn't break down
  20. openspaceman
    The VISHAY SFERNICE - ECO78ESA202 is listed on several sites £70 odd for 20 but no one seems to have any in stock.
  21. openspaceman
    First set the dipper against an immovable object when pulling in. Just take the hose off the piston end, run it into the tank, start up and pull the dipper in, if oil gushes out without movement it's a seal gone.
  22. openspaceman
    Space should be fairly well common to both, I'm guessing the processor will be about the same speed so the parameters we need to decide on are cost per cord on site, time of purchase, time of sale. Anything else?
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    Do you fancy doing the sums for comparison?
  24. openspaceman
    Cash flow, you don't have to fund the labour of splitting and handling for the six months and more before you sell it.
  25. openspaceman
    I'm all for using sweet chestnut You could try here BBH - Burt Boulton & Haywood Ltd Burt Boulton were where we sent utility poles in the 70s and though they have moved (and taken over?) still use creosote

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