openspaceman

I had a saw that jammed the starter occasionally and that was because the spool the cord wound on had a split and occasionally two lays of the starter cord would slip side by side on a pull and expand the reel against the case.

My thoughts too but what ifs won't get us anywhere

Yes storage is the big issue and just like insulate britain it has been ignored by governments to get us where we are now. Wind produces more in the winter and today I think it is producing 1/3 of our electricity but I haven't checked if that lasted throughout the day, my panels again produced 100% of my electricity (very good for late October) and I still cannot understand why more support was not given to battery solar systems to act as peak lopping storage. Pumped storage has just about used up all the niches available in Britain and that is only storing for daily peaks and I don't know how much of our daily peak demand would have to be stored. In the short term (5-10 years) just being able to switch off gas generation a while will help but to get us out of fossil fuels is all dreaming at the moment. There is a compressed gas and a liquefied air storage plant somewhere here but to my mind they are best used in conjunction with a gas turbine to get the best out of the storage. My needs are modest, I only need 450kWh in the 5 winter months and could produce it in the summer but where on earth could I keep about 450m^3 of compressed air at 1000PSI. Of course we are still a long way off from utilising all the wind energy we produce now with the grid curtailing production because the national grid has not kept up. My guess is it will need to be as chemical energy imported from a country with a massive solar farm in just the same way we import fossil fuels now. Also fossil fuels have been too cheap and we are going to have to use less, remember it is less than 100 years since most of Britain got electric light. Anyway my comment about nuclear energy was mostly about how the money would be better spent on domestic renewable electricity rather than a rant about it. My rant is about foreign companies who will own and operate it.

It depends on the tree but the cambium feeds the roots and the roots provide sap up the sapwood, so you have started killing the root. Also same species trees can root graft and keep the tree alive. I have pictures of a beech plantation that was being outgrown by self seeded pine trees. I ring barked ones adajacent to the beech but they did not die. They continued to add girth above the cut but not below until eventually they grafted over the cut. been a vandal

It will have been off at both ends, the system has to be kept full of gas at pressure to prevent air getting in. It's the same here and that's why in the event of real trouble with gas supplies they will shut big gas users and power stations. As it is there is a glut of gas coming to Wales with several LNG ships desperate to unload. In the 7 months since the crisis began american and middle eastern countries have been liquefying gas and sending it to Europe, the problem is I think only Spain and Wales have facilities for turning back to gas and piping it, large amounts of gas are being piped across southern britain to europe. In france the state owned EDF is frantically bringing nuclear power stations back online. Ours are coming to end of life and it is very debatable if it is worth pursuing the building of the three French and Chinese ones under construction as this will be over one way or another before they can possibly be commissioned and their electricity will be more expensive that renewables, especially wind and domestic solar PV. Nearly all our storage is in the high pressure pipework.

Recent research sees to suggest a tree grows up with the propagules of various fungi within it, just like we humans have more microbe cells in our bodies than human cells. These propagules then become active rotters when the tree is stressed or dying from an onslaught of spores like we see with chalara. Whether it is these fungi within or just secondary infections you are seeing I don't know but previous experience from windblown beech some 35 years ago suggests there is a significant loss of strength within a couple of years even though the wood looks white still. Mature rees with dieback symptoms may have been repeatedly infected over a number of years since 2012 to give opportunity for secondary infections to take hold. Also I do not know if chalara itself affects the wood.

I was thinking it might go down first now the grub screw is out, dislocate from the top hinge and then lift. Else use more oil and screwdriver under the bottom hinge pin mushroom head I would leave well enough alone and glue the rope in with the door on, maybe with a clamp or two starting at the top.

Generally the heather survives if the cut is above a growing point, a bit like a conifer hedge. The problem is where the material gets dumped, it really needs taking completely off the heath. A chap that used to work for me called it a tin sheep. Here we see bracken invading, worse I suspect due to climate change. I have a theory that, with height set above the heather, cut and collect even the dead standing fronds would gradually remove potassium and favour the heathers again. Of course a high cut in August would benefit most but there tend to be issues with bird nesting, I would still go for it in dense stands of bracken where its alleopathic effect meant it was a monoculture I devised a simple means of turning the arisings to biochar that could then be used off site having a similar effect of removing minerals as common grazing of cattle did in the distant past.

My mother used to feed a red squirrel on the kitchen table in the mid 1920s here but they have been gone all my life, I have only seen them in the lake district.

Is that a cut and collect on heath in the last frame?

Perhaps you should edit your post to mansionette? Got through the last couple of years but a bit battered, I must visit some time when the weather picks up in the spring.

Little cottage, have you moved? Gum tree (eucalyptus)

If it doesn't snap with a shallow gob it will just sit there leaning, or worse, barber chair.

In a mast year they fill out and are viable, I used to eat them but some claimed they were bad for you. Little white nuts. Wrigleys used to sell chewing gum called beech nut but I doubt they had beech nuts in them because mast years were a lot less frequent. This last summer I noticed a few beech cotyledon leaved seedlins in the wood far from any beech trees and wondered what transported them that far, grey squirrels I guess.

I'm a bit challenged when it comes to recognising social situations such that when I first saw "The Office" midway into an episode I couldn't assimilate whether it was reality and I begin to wonder about this.

Yes it looks like it had been fractured before. I guess that is weldable steel hopefully they have access to a line borer, it's doable but probably expensive. Let me know how they manage.

He doesn't run it lean; by screwing in the HI needle the engine revs increase just to the point you can hear the limiter cutting in. Enriching the mixture 1/10 of a turn then causes the motor to start four stroking before the rev limit. This way the mixture will be right at full power a few thousand rpm below the rev limit or four stroking, just as you mention. I find tuning rev limited things, like hedgecutters, quite difficult compared with chainsaws where the load can control revs more easily.

The OP is a bit far from E Grinstead; I used their euro therm seconds for my shed, they add a bit of stiffness as well as insulation, which also fends off condensation.

Yes two overlaps should be enough, I have an extension with a low pitch, about 2 degrees on my bubble meter, it has clear PVC corrugated sheets and if one gets partially blocked then in heavy rain it can dribble over. I have attempted a sealant on the inner ridge overlap but sweeping debris off (mostly moss from the adjacent roof) is the most effective. I think the PVC has 5 or more years life and if I am still around will replace with corrugated polycarbonate, like on my log store, and two overlaps.

Lucky you managed to put it out at all

Looks a good shout. As it is a street tree it will be a variety, probably magnifica.

Just showing my age, 50 years a dad today. Mitchell says there is one variety that has 2 needles but that's no excuse 🙂

2 needles, fast coarse growth and the cones tight in makes me think so too.

honey locust is gleditsia not robinia

Bark looks more honey locust