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Too expensive for me, they were nigh on 200 quid at the woodfair on Friday. I'd rig something up with an old pc fan and a 12V wall wart. I have made one of my own from the Peltier device in a 12V beer cooler and the motor from a rechargeable model plane, it goes round but my DIY skills are pretty poor so performance is negligible.

Yes The only grey area I can see is if you tracked a self propelled one along the road for any reason and I've never heard of anyone being pulled for that.

Ordinary roro bins are about 35m3, a walking floor chip wagon is 100m3, even then the payload is only reached with high mc chip, about 25 tonnes. The 8 wheeler hooklift probably costs about the same to run as the 44 tonne walking floor artic and with delivery costs around £12/tonne...

I was thinking for practical considerations, getting the digger arm over. Normally I would leave the tree alone and not risk the pruning cuts. With bigger trees I'd drop two of the 4 spades into the ground a year before the final lift to reduce the shock of all the smaller lateral roots being cut at once but we didn't carry on long enough to see if there was significant difference, in general all the trees we replanted in his stock ground seemed to be ok but checked. The farm got bought for a golf course so a lot of this effort was wasted. I seem to recall grass roots go dormant at 5 centigrade and wonder if the same is true with tree roots. So autumn planting meant that tree root hairs would grow when the temperature was above this threshold and develop well before leaf opening. We used to reckon plant in late autumn for sandy soils but early spring for clays as there was then less risk of waterlogged roots rotting through the winter. I imagine the soil temperature in Scotland will already be dropping fast.

Alec I'm sure your recipe is the better but I'd be tempted to first reduce the height to 1.5m and the width and then hook them out with a good amount of soil with a digger and then trundle them into the gateway. In fact my brother in law still has a two spade tree lifter for his bobcat and we've regularly moved trees from overgrown stock grounds of this size. often first thinning alternate trees to get some separation. Incidentally he gave up growing specimen trees and hedging because the Dutch would bring in plants from Italy grown in 3 years to the size he needed 10 and this was just at the time (around 1985) when phytosanitary rules were relaxed.

Aluminium has a 5 times better heat transfer than steel and stainless steel is less than half as good transfer of mild steel for the same thickness, mind at these gas velocities it's the boundary effect that limits transfer more than the metal.

There are a number of reasons, the prime one is that it runs much cooler than a radiator and so the water returning to the boiler is cool enough to keep the boiler in condensing mode, this increases the heat available from the same amount of gas burnt. Not much use for a wet wood burning system as the last thing one wants is a condensing wood burner ( see the various threads with"laddomat" in them. It is also good for things like solar hot water heating ( though less so in GB maritime climate more for places with high diurnal swings and clear skies) and for low temperature things like ground and air source heat pumps. The next is that you can actually run the house a bit cooler as people feel more comfortable when their heads are cooler than their feet, a radiator system has a cool floor layer. The next is not needing radiators. Then there is the mixed blessing of a long time constant if the underfloor heating is embedded in a concrete/screed slab. If there is constant occupancy then it's good because the heat remains fairly even but with a time lag as the concrete heats up. This can be a disadvantage if you are only home in the early morning and evenings when you may prefer just to quickly heat the airspace and not waste heat during the day.

Not too sure about this one unless you DIY The thing about a site this size is the extra insulation will not impinge on living space but as you say current building standards are hard to beat though they can make a lot of glass difficult. A wood burner may offset this. For the small extra cost, assuming a 2" screed over 75mm+ celotex floor insulation I would lay the underfloor coils and still avoid radiators. I also don't see the need for a towel rail as a heat bleed and would not run it to parsitise the DHW but agree your other points. I have found even the better building workers would cut corners that they may not have got away with if overseen by a good clerk of works, especially on details like slight gaps in insulation and sealing . I would make provision for a heat recovery ventilation system even if there is no budget for the mechanis at build time.

All of the above will be considered agricultural/horticultural uses, growing the weed will need a licence from DEFRA, some varieties make a nice cloth:biggrin: English law has the concept of prescription; if you have carried on doing something legal but without challenges over a long period ( 11, 20 or 40 years depending on how firmly you want to record the right IIRC) then you can generally carry on with it. Most tree surgeons yards will have started out this way. Technically they should have applied for pp and change of use. A farm or forestry enterprise could have such a business, like many estate sawmills, as part of the agricultural/forestry holding because they produce products from timber grown on the site.

This is the older engine similar to the 2.3 in 504 trucks rather than the 1.9 in my 03 plate 206 which I think is direct injection? This 206 has just clocked 225k miles and has negligible oil consumption, still gives 65mpg on my commute. Note this mileage is 7500 hours at 30mph and there are 8766hrs in a year on average. I still have a 2.3 idi engine from my last 504, only 100 miles since a full rebuild but the fitter forgot to retorque the head and the gasket went, it was quicker to put a spare engine in than wait for a gasket set, then daughter's boyfriend wrecked the gearbox so I scrapped it. I still consider them to be the best pick up for forestry work. Your post makes me think it would be worth using in a bit of plant.

I would have thought these are terms between the landlord and his licencee or tenant, firewood could well be within the scope of a farm business. The planning would be between the farmer and local planning office. Importing wood and storing it would be B8 in planning terms and not an agricultural use, similarly processing imported wood into firewood would be B2 and again not be an agricultural use. Much the same view I would take, if no one from planning notices for ten years then you can acquire rights, if they do notice and ask for retrospective change of use you probably have a couple of years before they take action. Mind the planning application will be priced on the area that you apply for. The more serious aspect is the landlord IMO.

I wouldn't be allowed to try that but if the climber is roped in normally and can take the slack would there be a LOLER issue?

Yes when echo were first sold here they were marketed as Kioritz-Echo. This particular telescopic pruner was sold under the Oregon brand before I saw the Stihl models. I have put it back in the shed so no new pictures but this: http://www.lonestaronline.com/fullsize_thumbs/926024273.jpg is about the best I found on the web.

Yes when echo were first sold here they were marketed as Kioritz-Echo. This particular telescopic pruner was sold under the Oregon brand before I saw the Stihl models. I have put it back in the shed so no new pictures but this: http://www.lonestaronline.com/fullsize_thumbs/926024273.jpg is about the best I found on the web.

I have only used elderly tracked versions . They are heavy at 1.5t and 2.6t respectively. They chip well and the smaller one has been reliable the larger has needed regular repairs and bearings are a strange size, available from Redwood but parts are pricey. They both have long narrow feed chutes which make feeding branchy material like thorn difficult compared with the GM 1928. The larger machine seldom has the stress control cut in unless on material above 7". The fuel tank only lasts a day with heavy chipping ( about 30 litres at a guess). The caveat is that I very seldom use chippers at all nowadays.

I have only used elderly tracked versions . They are heavy at 1.5t and 2.6t respectively. They chip well and the smaller one has been reliable the larger has needed regular repairs and bearings are a strange size, available from Redwood but parts are pricey. They both have long narrow feed chutes which make feeding branchy material like thorn difficult compared with the GM 1928. The larger machine seldom has the stress control cut in unless on material above 7". The fuel tank only lasts a day with heavy chipping ( about 30 litres at a guess). The caveat is that I very seldom use chippers at all nowadays.

I have this engine fitted to a power pruner telescopic 12" chainsaw 80s vintage. It has had very little work but has sat in the garage for many years. It has a bulb primed carb with no identification ( what happened to those nice Tillotson and Walbro carbs, so easy to work on) and 3 tubes from the tank, a supply, return and external breather. Symptoms are it primes via the bulb and fires up as expected, a few pulls with choke and then one pull without. It revs fine briefly and dies. I can see air in the return pipe so I think one of the diaphram/gaskets has split, probably sucking air from the crank case. Problem is I cannot find a gasket kit online in UK, so wonder if there are other similar models with pats available. Alternatively is there any interchangeability with these carbs?

I have this engine fitted to a power pruner telescopic 12" chainsaw 80s vintage. It has had very little work but has sat in the garage for many years. It has a bulb primed carb with no identification ( what happened to those nice Tillotson and Walbro carbs, so easy to work on) and 3 tubes from the tank, a supply, return and external breather. Symptoms are it primes via the bulb and fires up as expected, a few pulls with choke and then one pull without. It revs fine briefly and dies. I can see air in the return pipe so I think one of the diaphram/gaskets has split, probably sucking air from the crank case. Problem is I cannot find a gasket kit online in UK, so wonder if there are other similar models with pats available. Alternatively is there any interchangeability with these carbs?

Our services - The National Plant & Equipment Register It's a cost service to register your plant and it's mainly for large plant. They do register stolen plant IDs free but I have never used them. In the past the FCA maintained a plant database for members but whilst still a member I have not kept up to date with this so the reduced circumstances may have caused this to be dropped. CESAR also do machine marking and the cost was around £100/machine for things like mini diggers

It shows what a valuable comodity timber and its offal were.

This refers to processing woody matter as a waste, the EA position statement is thar virgin wood is not a waste if it is to be used appropriately.

our apple has only a few, I put it down to the poor weather and especially the effect the rain had on polinating insects. Butterflies have been down to 20% of their normal numbers, many appear to have drowned as chrysalis.

This is difficult because there is variation between different stands and parts of the tree. FC mensuration branch did a lot of work on this in the late 60s, from their booklet 39 of 1975 they suggest white softwoods ( spruce, fir hemlock) have basic densities in the low 300skg/m3% e.g. sitka 350kg/m3, whilst pines with more lignin and heartwood 400kg/m3 and the dark resinous woods like douglas and larch 450kg/m3 whereas oak and beech are around 550kg/m3. If the woods are all at the same moisture content and the same stacking density then the ratios of weights should be in proportion to these basic densities.

Agreed we stored some 90 year old coppice beech in 1985 and the stools failed to produce any sprouts, however the trees that had grown up from the laid beech hedge around the site did, it must be something to do with the survival of adventitious buds in the stool. At the time one of the woodmen next door reckoned the longest rotation for beech coppice was 35 years. It was to no avail as most of the stored stems hardly fattened at all before the 87 storm took them down. The estate had records of the coppice having been used for charcoal and there were numerous charcoal hearths through the site. While we were doing the work I came across a line of about 8 90Hft (3m3) sweet chestnut and I wondered as I felled them why someone had planted them so close, a few years after the storm it became apparent they were adventitious shoot from a windblown tree. Today walking around Arundel I came across just such a tree with 20cm stems making it into individual trees. I now wish I had studied the buttresses of the ones I felled in 85 a bit better to see if any vestiges of the prone stem were visible.

They don't look after their lady customers, the sign used to say "gentlemen raise the seat"