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  1. openspaceman
    Plus it is highly toxic if ingested
  2. openspaceman
    Yes we are probably too far down the road for food production to be immediately weaned off but I see no reason many pesticides could not be withdrawn for amenity use. I'll probably include utilities in that as my experience was that it was over used and outside of label by contractors ticking the paperwork and ignoring the instructions. The thing is farmers are cost conscious and use just the right amount to do the job with properly calibrated application. The same cannot be said of much amenity applications by knapsack spray or golf courses where cost is less of an issue.
  3. openspaceman
    Depending what one means by safe, probably none in environmental terms.
  4. openspaceman
    It worried me but the belt change on my 1.6d fiesta cost £750 with a service and it seems fine 10k miles since.
  5. openspaceman
    That article seems somewhat flawed: On the one hand we know glyphosate is inactivated soon after it hits a target plant or the soil. On the other they claim to find it post a sewage treatment plant. My concern is that they are confusing the original chemical with its metabolites, which apparently are common with those of some washing powders. As it has got cheaper farming has grown more addicted to it. I know we mustn't conflate cause and effect but much of the decline in insects seems to date from about the time modern herbicides came into use in the 70s, especially for no till crops of wheat and the OSR break crop.
  6. openspaceman
    Yes I find the same
  7. openspaceman
    Debateable
  8. openspaceman
    Obviously you need somwhere with enough space lest the heat damage nearby trees and you only need ~70C to damage the bark and cambium. Also it is best done so the ground is not scorched, in a burn barrel on 2 bricks or an old trough/iron bath etc.
  9. openspaceman
    bonfire by far the cheapest
  10. openspaceman
    So there was something else at the bottom front, that's a lawsons cypress, very unlikely to damage the house and not likely to be a reason you could not fell it unless TPO or conservation area.
  11. openspaceman
    Not a good picture but the leaves look pinnate at the bottom, grey bark too.
  12. openspaceman
    It's getting difficult to find mechanical fixings round this area, the two firms that kept me in odd bolts and bits, in Camberley and Guildford, both closed in July.
  13. openspaceman
    Have you heard of the saying about letting sleeping dogs lie?
  14. openspaceman
    Sort of right but but the fact it makes the carbon recalcitrant is the same whatever soil. Yes there's a lot of hype, especially about proprietary methods of making it. The much vaunted "flame cap" was in use to make half 45 gallon barbecues was known in my youth and John Evelyn even mentions making it on the flat as a method in his treatise sylva. Last I was professionally involved it was the EA that objected to its use on agricultural land, I don't know how their position has changed in the 8 years since.
  15. openspaceman
    About time too
  16. openspaceman
    No it is something that has been discarded by the holder under UK environmental laws. It could still have a use by doing some work on it, such as arb arisings discarded by the producer but then reused as compost or cut and split as logs USW.
  17. openspaceman
    Yes, my understanding too, even the bit about composting/rotting as beneficial, same with wood chippings for a footpath/runningtrack/gallop
  18. openspaceman
    Too big for nigella
  19. openspaceman
    I don't buy that and while I flagged it up I think it needs a lot more time and other factors. Even before ethanol was added petrol evaporating in the carb would deposit lacquer over time. I was pointing out the E10 did it quicker, I assume because of organic impurities but I'm not sure. AFAICS the petrol tap thing is significant even if the float and valve are in goof nick. I have seen it on a few occasions now, one with a mower I retrieved from a skip, nearly new condition cheap Honda clone which dumped fuel out of the carb as soon as it was put in. It was gummed up float needle valve, idle and main jets. It had no fuel tap. My reasoning is that if fuel is left in the tank the carb fills, it then evaporates in the carb, leaving residue, the float drops letting more fuel in and the process repeats. Over a long period the tank empties and the residue gums up the carb. Since fitting an inline fuel tap I have no problem. I gave the mower to a niece.
  20. openspaceman
    Yes and this seems to be worse with E10. I have this problem with my Honda hydraulic power pack which someone left the fuel tap on. Apparently it will only run on part choke, trouble is he is 35 miles away and won't tell me when he is there for me to fix it. I also had a similar problem with my chonda powered stump grinder, not used for 2 years; the fuel tap had not been left on but it would only run with half throttle and above. This is unsafe as the centrifugal clutch engages the cutting wheel. I need it to start on idle. Luckily the jets on these engines are readily accessible without removing the carb, and I wore myself out grinding a 2' cherry stump and suckering laterals as well as chasing fig roots once I cleaned it.
  21. openspaceman
    Yes if it is jamming on something metallic but could it be it was being used and someone shut the machine down before it has disgorged all the bits...
  22. openspaceman
    I suspect the concrete was going spare after someone got their quantities wrong and it was laid 2" thick on an unprepared base and this is the reason for failure. BTW I'd leave it as it is, porous and with a bit of history, patinated.
  23. openspaceman
    Yes but if I have a lot I clean the stove bed, put the *dry* offal onto the bottom and build the fire on top, as long as the stove gets good and hot it all goes.
  24. openspaceman
    It's not a thing it's a tautology
  25. openspaceman
    Sorry to hear, hope things get better, best wishes

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