openspaceman

To an extent yes but a car that is post 1975 manufacture has to pass a visual smoke test. In fact it is likely the burning of wood will be made more expensive. We already see that the cost of a chimney lining is often more expensive than the stove, add to that a mandatory, annual chimney clean and inspection by a HETAS approved chimney sweep (and just like at an MOT he will refuse to sweep a stove-chimney combo that doesn't have certification). Next will be the requirement to fit an electrostatic filter, just like cars having catalytic converters, for a couple of thousand pounds. This will add to the electricity bill like an old incandescent light left on permanently. Apart from the cost I would have one. Then it could be illegal to sell a house with non compliant chimneys or stoves, already the case in Denmark, cheaper to dump the stove and remove the chimney. I expect HETAS requirements have already caused people to get out of selling firewood. The thing is before the internet air pollution in towns only measured SO2, NO2 and CO, then about 5 years later particulates came into the frame and were measured by how much they greyed filter paper, then came the laser particulates counters and PM10 were first mentioned but it was realised the hairs in nostrils trapped the bigger bits so it was PM2.5 that were targeted. Now we have the situation where the advertising standards agency have (rightly) banned advertisements by stove manufacturers saying that modern stoves emit less particulates if burning dry wood, true but they didn't provide proof.

As you wish. Yes oil does get hot and may require oil coolers but the way it gets hot is as I explained. My tractor based grapple loader ran from 1983 to present with no oil cooler because the duty cycle coupled with a well sized reservoir meant the oil never got above blood temperature.

That is true of a compressible fluid like a gas but oil is not very compressible which is why it is good for transmitting power in a hydraulic circuit. It's the friction in the pipes and squeezing through all the gaps in pumps and motors that make it hot.

I don't know if oil is still formed under an ocean, my old boss was sure as much oil was formed as was currently used, he was a successful entrepreneur so must be right. We do know that coal was formed at a specific time in earth's history when tree like plants were growing and had evolved lignin to stiffen up their structures to grow tall but before a microbe to digest lignin had evolved. It was a good thread and I wanted to post more but unfortunately the first shot was fired by someone who has not learned and it was from my side of the political spectrum.

No need to bicker, we have some common ground on this thread

I wonder, I would expect plastics to be a small part of oil use. OTOH I like wood based things. The firm I first harvested for made brush heads, cotton reels (who can remember making little machines to race with from a wooden cotton reels, lolly stick, rubber band and a disc cut from a candle?) , divan bed legs and other things I cannot remember. He said his sales dropped when the price of oil was low and firms like Addis could undercut him. Wooden tools could be re hafted and when their life was finished brushes and their natural fibre bristles just got eaten by fungi.

A can of spray contact cleaner can work wonders followed by some wraps of self amalgamating tape.

Yes I missed that but no need to shout, Mr. Tuley hadn't gone into production then so we only had spiral guards , it was pre FEPA when I used pesticides. BTW I am not sanguine about exposing the bark of young broadleaves to glyphosate.

The thing is combustion derived pareticulates are implicated in the disease types I mentioned. Silicosis and asbestosis (pulmonary fibrosis) are caused by non combustion derived particulates that are ingested and enter cells. Tyres produce essentially micro plastic but the PFASs come from clothing, cooking utensils and industrial process chemicals, they are far more pervasive than I would have imagined. Because they are "forever chemicals" ,mostly only used since I was a teenager, the long term effects are yet to be seen, we breathe, eat and drink them by the million each day.

Not likely as, like the judiciary, the EA and LA environmental health departments have been starved of funds and cannot afford legal proceedings.

Is there a way the post @aspenarb has pointed to can be tagged with #timberwolf #bearing #replace or some such that a search would find? As the thread title is not a help here.

I agree

We have been here before; the existential threat is from climate change due to CO2 and other gases effect on the atmosphere. The perceived problem from wood burning is particulates which contain soot and other products of incomplete combustion. Some of these , the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are implicated in cancers, pulmonary and heart diseases. The first is a global problem the second largely, a local one. While large jet aircraft are a big contributor to the first problem I imagine they are fairly low on particulates nowadays. Because the controls on industrial combustion and agriculture have drastically reduced their emission of particulates since the early 90s and controls on diesel particulate emission have been introduced over the last 15 years I imagine the transport emissions have similarly fallen. That leaves other combustion as a source. Woodburning stoves burning low moisture content wood are several times better than open fire and we seldom resort to burning arisings on site now. So I do believe they are a significant contributor to PICs and particulates but its a proportion of a much smaller overall amount. OTOH most of the wood burned would simply rot back to CO2 and water if it were not for the firewood market so it is a positive contributor to displacing fossil fuels with little net affect on atmospheric CO2. Personally I feel the polyfluoroalkyl substances and the other microplastics we have in our bodies are likely more significant to heath.

It's a very long time since I did this, so I cannot remember how long it took. I used an arborguard on a CP3 knapsack sprayer, two squirts at right angles to each other for each tree. As you approach the tree you need to avoid dripping chemical from the arborguard onto the crop.

We always saw "varnishing" of the insides of carburetors that had been left with fuel on, as the petrol evaporated but it seems to have become worse.

Are these only added to E10? I had assumed it was the ethanol reacting with something else that was causing gum which didn't happen with straight unleaded.

Over a couple of years I have been given half a dozen four stroke pedestrian mowers that the owners have failed to start after being over wintered. They have been replaced with battery powered ones. All of them had gummed up idle jets.

The W terminal ( I think) on the alternator sends a stream of pulses to the control box, because the size of the pulleys are known the relationship of the rate of pulses to the rpm of the flywheel is fixed and the control box can stop (and slightly reverse??) the feed if the flywheel slows. RDS used to make a box that cut the fuel to the injector pump if the engine overheated or lost oil pressure, is this included in modern ECUs @Jase hutch?

Is this the Rolls Royce sales technique?

Sounds ominous, looking for pastures new,? Good luck either way.

Yes it's what Husqvarna call sweep around ( or something like), with the inclusion of the letterbox bore.

Bad schooling leading to poor aesthetics and lack of appreciation of the natural world I suppose 🙂

Philistine

I think so, the Raynards is to do with poor blood supply to the hand and the carpal tunnel compressing the nerve is related to the pain I think I have both.

Yes I think so. My mother had both carpal tunnels operated on