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  1. openspaceman
    And don't try and work wet clay, even when dry you can overwork it into too fine a tilth.
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    There are others: This clearly shows the taper but the alternating advancing mechanism is a bit hard for me to follow still
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    Marvelous machine. I noted the larch shingles I recently saw were parallel and this machine made proper tapered ones. I liked the way it advanced the billet in alternate steps but wondered how it managed to clamp at the same time. Someone previously posted their machine to do taper cuts on a woodmizer and I could see much the same thing being done to cut shingles from multiple billets.
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    A long time ago much was made of tomato growing using waste heat from Tolimore (spelling?) distillery. My guess is cheap air transport put paid to growing vegetables under glass. Back in the 70s New Scientist proposed converting redundant supertankers to grow tomatoes with a constantly rotating rack system, planting up here then cruising to the equator till ripening started and returning home.
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    theoretically the cleft ones will last longer as less exposed end grain for rot and weathering to take a hold. In practice I have seen cleft oak and imported sawn cedar cedar ones last over 70 years which is better than many clay tiles. Definitely uk made larch ones are available, I cannot share the picture for privacy reasons but a young chap has roofed his discreet little new build house with them. Pass but the 1930s build cedar house near me has a much steeper pitch than my tiled roof.
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    Nothing wrong with disagreeing with me we can all live and learn. Firstly I dislike ecoplugs, they are expensive and long term plastic litter. The bloke that sold the idea to network rail must have got a good bonus, especially for getting them to specify them for all broadleaved species stumps. I only inserted a few hundred myself, with Stihl bt45 drill (which was good but discontinued I think., but the firm bought them by the thousands. As you say the cost of drills was insignificant so despite my efforts to get them returned for sharpening few came back. Profits were so high upper management were not interested in looking after the pennies. It is ten years since but I bought the brad points by the dozen and they were cheaper than jobber twist drills. Also easier to sharpen using two faces of the grinder stone, just two grinds and done. For a short hole there is more clearance at the cutter and the frass drops away between holes.
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    In that case forget the herbicide and just mow
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    I disagree as the brad points are cheap and easy to sharpen, no welding required with this: https://www.bearingboys.co.uk/Single-Split-/CASB13Z--13mm-Shaft-Collar-Single-Split-40324-p and it can be moved when the tip wears
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    I ground 3 small flats on the 13mm brad point bits for the Stihl BT45 when they needed sharpening, trouble was many of the utility arbs they were issued to just discarded them when blunt.
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    Standard aluminium tube is a bit malleable, the shaft tube on pole saws is tempered in some way, which is why it is difficult to straighten a bent one.
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    I last used one slung over my shoulder and an arbrex can and brush hanging from my belt, then silky saws arrived.
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    They are Italian, Active IIRC.
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    Yes and Yes Parts diagram shows arrangement https://www.eder-maschinenbau.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bauteilübersicht-Baujahr-02.2016-05.2017.pdf
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    That looks like a parcel of tops and sawlogs after the veneer butts have been taken for export, We used to end up with stuff like this and I always wanted to try it for flooring for the colour and contrast.
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    The actual commercial value of the logs in the photos is roughly nil. Yes and I would be wary of the long down ones being riddled with platypus pinhole oak borer if down south OTOH the recently felled one is a nice looking butt.
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    Bent crankshaft?
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    Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 WWW.LEGISLATION.GOV.UK An Act to enable persons who desire to carry out works to any land which are reasonably necessary for the preservation of...
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    I've not noticed sparks but I have set fire to dry rotten wood and dry grass when felling, it only needs a bit over 200C to ignite fresh char.
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    openspaceman replied to Cuttup's topic in Chainsaws

    There is the subtle difference in that the left and right cutters overlap 0.08" more but I have no idea what significance that may have. The thinnerer bearing surface on the drive link rivets is likely more of a wear issue.
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    Yes but is that because cash becomes devalued with inflation so shares in a going concern look like a better asset? As people scramble for shares the price rises with the demand. Think of all those ISAs people are ditching, the money has to be spent somewhere and leaving it in a normal bank account is no good.
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    All the bulbs I have come across on hand held two stroke motors have been to purge, i.e they pull fresh fuel through the carb and dump any vapour, air or hot fuel back to tank. On old B&S mowers with float less carburetors there is a bulb which squirts petrol directly into the choke tube as there is no choke control. We had a similar device on old motorbikes, a "tickler" which depressed the float and allowed fuel to dribble up the main jet into the choke tube, recipe for flooding if used on a warm engine.
  22. openspaceman
    My wife was given a bit of this as something to get rid of ground elder, a bit like swallowing a spider to catch a fly. I have spent two summers plucking the leaves off so far.
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    @Al Cormack is about an hour away but not seen him here recently
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    I do various bit of volunteering with groups from geriatrics to students, mostly "vegetation management". Firstly volunteers are treated the same as workers so all the groups have public and employer's liability insurance. If there are strangers coming then a risk assesment should be briefed. Another notable feature is most are only issued with shears, secateurs and hand saws because they tend to socialise and work close together. Hooks need a decent riskzone, as do motor saws and brushcutters. The discussions seem to centre on facebook, I miss out on that, and seem to attract a decent number of locals. Indeed since covid people have been turned away when numbers got too large. Personally I prefer to use a brush cutter and if the brambles and clematis are up in the trees use a mulching blade.
  25. openspaceman
    I like the 550 but would be happy with a 545

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