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  1. openspaceman
    Looks like a young beefsteak fungus
  2. openspaceman
    I have no liking for golf and think the courses are an environmental disaster but in my area all the newer golf courses were built on agricultural land because of a poor interpretation by the planners on what "diversification" for farming was permissible. So to build on them effectively turns what was agricultural land, and often green belt, into housing development.
  3. openspaceman
    The pressure will compress the air bubbles and drive it through to the return where the bubbles will expand and get carried through to the tank.
  4. openspaceman
    Freshly ground coffee every day for elevenses with a small dash of milk. If at work it's a flask of instant coffee, black. Never been to NY, Cape Cod was as far south as I got and never expect to go to America again as both my cousins died, so much for the American dream.
  5. openspaceman
    I agree but will take earl grey with lemon in summer, never with milk. Nowadays I don't enjoy tea made with tea bags either.
  6. openspaceman
    The mantra is "any wood is good wood if it is dry" but there are a few caveats in that many woods that have a high moisture content when fresh felled are not dense when dry so occupy a lot more space in the woodshed (and firebox) so you are continually stuffing the fire whereas a dense hardwood like beech keeps burning longer.
  7. openspaceman
    Yes if the wood is oven dry there is no moisture left in the sample. I had been experimenting with wood drying for over 25 years before I bought a meter and even now I would only use it to get a general indication and would revert to oven drying for a definitive answer. My moisture meter gives up at less than 10% and I'm not sure that it measures wwb or dwb. For us wood burners 25%dwb is 20%wwb so not a great difference as the figures get lower.
  8. openspaceman
    Yes I would expect fresh felled willow to be up to 60% water and 40% dry matter, maybe a bit less moisture in winter, especially in the middle of a larger diameter stem. Given the OP's figures if in an unheated building it would tend toward 17% mc wwb but in a warm room about 10%. The way to check is heat it to 120C for 24 hours to get a oven dry weight. Then 757-468=299 299/757=0.3817=38% mc wwb But if it is still 10% then the oven dry weight is 468*.9=421.2 and the original water content is 335.8 so the original mc =335.8/757=.44=44%mc wwb which is equal to 335.8/421.2=79.7% mc dry weight basis which is how a joiner might look at it. In practice my wood dries way below 20% mc wwb in a summer so I seldom get the meter out
  9. openspaceman
    It was the same with the phosphor bronze bushes on the swinging arm of old british bikes, the steel shaft wore, that I put down to grit getting embedded in the bronze and grinding the shaft, With a chainsaw small end the gudgeon pin shouldn't rotate in the piston, the movement should be in the small end bearing.
  10. openspaceman
    more gauche
  11. openspaceman
    I would love a battery saw for a bit of guerrila path maintenace but at a grand for a husky and with over a dozen 2t saws not worn out yet... Anyway to diverge a bit; to me he cut was always a plash cut and the whole job was plashing and pleaching. Never really having done any other than simple demonstrations I wonder what the etymology is, after all if you pleach trees you bend and twist branches together with no cutting.
  12. openspaceman
    Hugo at Rowena motors is the bloke to speak to about the correct part, the search facility on their website is a bit arcane.
  13. openspaceman
    Neare 50% is my guess from selling to one many years ago.
  14. openspaceman
    I thought it was the other way round and they were being spiteful 😉
  15. openspaceman
    Never having been on the dole and always self employed since 1974 I was under the impression you did get dole if you were sacked but not if you resigned? Having lived through nearly all of the "welfare state's" existence I still believe it was a wholly good thing born out of a period when the people of a united kingdom decided that co-operation had got them through desperate times. There was nothing unsustainable about it until the super rich were able to pull away from the middle and working classes and essentially avoid and evade personal income taxes. PS I think deportation to Rwanda was unacceptable but I agree the nations the immigrants passed through should have some of the responsibility for stopping them and pre processing their true status.
  16. openspaceman
    This is the crux; most out of rotation coppice will not produce stems of a quality to produce decent rods useful for anything other than ethering for hedge laying. Often you need to coppice the lot and wait 7 years or more which can be a problem if deer pressure is high.
  17. openspaceman
    Children would suck off the fleshy bit and spit out the seed for a bit of sweetness during sugar rationing, my mother called them snotty gogs
  18. openspaceman
    Bark definitely has more ash from the minerals than actual wood, I wonder if it has a higher calorific value too.
  19. openspaceman
    It's because the cutting actually flexes the disc toward the anvil and the further away from the centre you get the more flexing
  20. openspaceman
    As an ex employer I would give anyone a try but even if they offered to work for free they would get the minimum wage even if I terminated the trial at the end of the first day.
  21. openspaceman
    If you use a chain on the tree put it low, but not so low you can't snick some cuts with a saw from the left hand side in the unlikely even it does snag, with the hook at the bottom and chain doubled back to the left hand side to give it a bit of rotation as it moves.
  22. openspaceman
    My guess would be japanese privet
  23. openspaceman
    Beat me to it
  24. openspaceman
    I'm not familiar with the workings of the timberwolf but is the engine reaching sufficient rpm? The feed rollers on other chippers with stress control will not feed unless the engine is running fast enough. Also some machines sense their speed from the alternator and if the belt is slipping it will not reach speed.
  25. openspaceman
    Looks like the dark patches are from previous mechanical damage, the more serious problem is the narrow fork with bark inclusion which looks like it may be separating, if so one stem will likely fall some time but further inspection of this is necessary.

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