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  1. openspaceman
    Turnery poles were birch and alder with occasionally ash accepted and in a 700-800mm rainfall area from your map I think. Seasoned ready for the lathe in a summer. Without the striping they were doty in the same period, which is why we aimed to fell, extract and deliver in the winter. Once delivered a machine knocked stripes off. Thus avoiding manual striping in the woods.
  2. openspaceman
    Back in the day when 10ft turnery poles were seasoned stacked upright like tepee poles we would gouge one stripe for 3" diameter 2 for v4" and 3 for 6". Horrible job after one summer never did it again. Cut and split them and be done.
  3. openspaceman
    I had duals 12x38 on the county for a while, ten foot wide but good on sidling ground, lots of problems from rocks and branches getting trapped between the wheels. At low speeds the tyres never get hot but on the road I can see it becoming a problem with no gap between.
  4. openspaceman
    ...or cooling
  5. openspaceman
    My guess is the railings were a later addition as the height of the garden it retained suggest it was a haha, the aim of which was to extend the view of the lawn into the grass beyond yet keep cattle out.
  6. openspaceman
    Yeah, I misread your original post
  7. openspaceman
    Always difficult with pictures, if I had them in my hand I could smell the difference.
  8. openspaceman
    or norway maple. It's not likely seasoned if still in the round and length.
  9. openspaceman
    Yes please, just the job
  10. openspaceman
    This is probably one for @adw; I bought this saw back in the days when Hyett Adams were the concessionaire for Husky, 1981. Hit it with an axe that glanced off a log within weeks of purchase and repaired it with fibreglass but never got round to replacing the manual oil pump shaft which got hit. I then loaned it to a dutch tree surgeon who knackered the solid nose bar, probably because the standard oiler wasn't sufficient and the manual button was not there. I put the saw away and used the 084 when I needed a bigger saw than a 272. Now using the 2100 with a Stihl 30" bar I am having the same oiling issue so want to replace the broken manual oiler, 501 56 72-01, except they are obsolete and unavailable. It looks like I could make a new 3mm shaft and button with a long M3 bolt but does it screw into the piston with a standard M3 thread? What is the stroke length?
  11. openspaceman
    You won't remember when two stokes ran on 16:1 straight 30sae oil, terrible smoke and no better protection than a modern dedicated 2t oil at 50:1.
  12. openspaceman
    I dug out the photos of the pimp engine after we recovered it from the fire, as you can see it was bench mounted and foot operated.
  13. openspaceman
    I did quite a few site clearances where the 13 tonne 360 had windrowed all the stumps and brash, a few passes with the Awhi turned it all to mulch and the excavator rolled it all into a bund which was to be used for landscaping. Trouble is never got to see the final result.
  14. openspaceman
    That's like saying if we stopped thieves we could all leave our possessions unlocked
  15. openspaceman
    That's plainly a false cause and effect. Where there's a demand someone will fill it, legal or not. The sad fact is people are moving from low populated areas with poor governance to a densely populated country with better governance but in doing so straining the social fabric they seek economic security from.
  16. openspaceman
    Yet after the criticism he seemed arrogant enough to think he would get away with that.
  17. openspaceman
    You have done well with pointing out the mess we were getting into (looks like one outcome is the suspension of part of HS2) but you do witter on and have frequently descended into ad hominem jibes yourself. I just hope you are similarly right in you predictions on Russia. BTW did you ever hear about that wasp engine.
  18. openspaceman
    Now this may be significant, most back boilers severely limit firebox temperatures and any flame coming in contact with a cold surface is quenched and combustion doesn't go to completion, resulting in sooty deposits. On the small commercial units I used to snag there would be a thermostat that didn't send water until the temperature had reached 60C. This is probably also the reason that no one has/had got a wood stove with a back boiler through the ecodesign designation. You could cut a vermiculite board to put against the metal surface and reduce conduction of heat to it, it would spoil hot water production but give a cleaner burn.
  19. openspaceman
    Yes the skill in cutting chestnut for fencing is having an eye to the final product and making the right length selections out of the tree. I'd quite like to do it again without the pressure of making enough output and sales to earn a living.
  20. openspaceman
    cryptomeria japonica
  21. openspaceman
    Famously the entertainer Roy Castle was devastated that he had lung cancer yet never smoked but he played in clubs and venues where he was subjected to tobacco smoke. His foundation campaigned for the smoking in public places ban which came into effect ten years after his death. Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation – The UK's only charity solely dedicated to supporting everyone affected by lung cancer ROYCASTLE.ORG Lung cancer incidence statistics WWW.CANCERRESEARCHUK.ORG The latest lung cancer incidence statistics for the UK for Health Professionals. See data for sex, age, trends over time and more. This does not yet indicate and increase in lung cancer in women of that age group
  22. openspaceman
    Yup
  23. openspaceman
    I would say there is something fundamentally wrong then, to burn wood cleanly you must have a good flame and a good draught, Yes never let it slumber as slumbering just burns char, the heat that this gives off pyrolyses the remaining wood and the offgas from this rises into the chimney unburned where it cools off and deposits soot and tars in the chimney which eventually block it, but it usually catches fire in the chimney with often damaging results.
  24. openspaceman
    It is a CO monitor for combustion devices because CO, carbon monoxide, is very poisonous as it combines better with blood than oxygen CO molecule is about 28 gram per mole and air is mostly nitrogen 28 and oxygen 32 so all roughly the same, as you say CO2 at 44 is heavier.
  25. openspaceman
    Since I realised the tea bags contained plastic not that may years ago I took to using tea infusers and still brewing in the cup as I had previously with tea bags, I suspect I use a bit more tea per cup.

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