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  1. openspaceman
    Looks like the button for the flashing beacon on my truck (aftermarket fitment)
  2. 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.
  3. 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?
  4. openspaceman
    Gone up by £1 in 6 years then?
  5. openspaceman
    Hey I probably passed you both. Next time I'm coming south on the A34 to the 42 then 40.
  6. 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?
  7. 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.
  8. openspaceman
    That's me to a T 'cept the LR doesn't break down
  9. openspaceman
    The VISHAY SFERNICE - ECO78ESA202 is listed on several sites £70 odd for 20 but no one seems to have any in stock.
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. openspaceman
    Do you fancy doing the sums for comparison?
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. openspaceman
    The pot must have range, quality and type marked on it somewhere, the only other critical bit is the spindle then means of adapting to fit the plate. Compliance would be another issue.
  16. openspaceman
    Yes this is sour felling often inadvertently practised with whole tree chipping when the felling gets ahead of the power station. Bark is waterproof so until it dies and cracks away from the wood it resists moisture loss. Oily bark like birch is particularly bad as all the time the wood is above 25% decay bugs and fungi can turn it into a mush inside the bark. Any species will be suffering a loss of dry matter ( i.e. fuel value) all the time it is wet enough for decay mechanisms. In the bad old days, before you could send a forwarder in at any time of year no matter what mess and ruts you leave behind, we had to make use of this fact to control the rate of drying of birch poles for turnery. These had to be winter felled and often not forwarded till after June. So we had to stripe the bark with a gouge made from a hooped bandsaw blade, 1 stripe for <4" 2 for <6"> and 3 for 6-7" IIRC. Notwithstanding that yes wood does dry in cordwood stacks.
  17. openspaceman
    With the current game of musical chairs in the utilities side of the business there will be climbers on more than that. Bubbles burst every few years so make hay...
  18. openspaceman
    No I hadn't, not knowingly having come across it before. From the description it sound more aggressive than Gano and given the amount of decayed hollow will condemn the tree.
  19. openspaceman
    Some recent finds and a worry, Dryadd's saddle is on a branch tear out wound, probably 1987. Sycamore has formed good reaction wood in the callus but I doubt the wall thickness is sufficient to prevent buckling. 15 metre tree with full crown near a busy traffic light. Second set is of what I take to be Ganoderma resinaceum in a cavity on a 100+ year twin stemmed beech adjacent to a minor road. The third set is a puzzle because although the situation, low in between buttresses of a red oak (Q. borealis), and look suggest adspersum it marks with a brown line like Ganoderma applanatum. If it is adspersum (there is another conk below the soil line in the furrow between buttresses) and given the tree is showing 20% dieback, deadwooded itself last winter and has pronounced buttress flares I wonder just how muck root is supporting it.
  20. openspaceman
    We've had quite a lot of mature birch turn brown and they won't be coming into leaf again.
  21. openspaceman
    He'll be going close by you if he takes the M25 M23 home. I cannot handle the chip but could take the logs if they are sensibly cut but what species?
  22. openspaceman
    Known by by mum as "snotty gogs", I guess the sweetness was important during rationing.
  23. openspaceman
    Where from?
  24. openspaceman
    I'm told told the 800Watt 2t gensets are made on old yamaha tools. BTW I wish they had done the 250 super 5 rather than Bullet.
  25. openspaceman
    I'm no expert by any means but: That's describing a typical greenstick fracture from over loading. The top part of the branch is in tension, the bottom in compression. Most of the strain is taken in tension but when it goes all the tension fibres separate at once hence the straight break, the bit that was resisting the compression now fails in bending mode, often splitting both ways along the centre line. The pictures I've seen of summer branch drop don't exhibit this but lower branches hit by the falling upper branch often do. What they do seem to show is a progressive delamination from a point, just like the glue between fibres has failed. I think lignin plasticises around 100 C (hence steaming to bend wood) so it won't be hot enough for that., some sort of differential drying would add local strain.

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