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  1. 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.
  2. openspaceman
    About time too
  3. 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.
  4. openspaceman
    Yes, my understanding too, even the bit about composting/rotting as beneficial, same with wood chippings for a footpath/runningtrack/gallop
  5. openspaceman
    Too big for nigella
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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...
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. openspaceman
    It's not a thing it's a tautology
  12. openspaceman
    Sorry to hear, hope things get better, best wishes
  13. openspaceman
    More likely they were trying to pass them off as genuine at a car boot sale.
  14. openspaceman
    Oh, that's a bit new fangled for me, I had about a dozen around the estate that I had to inspect, I looked forward to June when I put out the baited hoppers and didn't set the traps for a month.
  15. openspaceman
    Commercially visiting a trap line twice a day is expensive, more so in that the 12 hour interval puts one visit outside the working day,
  16. openspaceman
    In that case they probably were not stolen 🙂
  17. openspaceman
    Okay, I get you now, I associate tunnel traps with how one sets a Fenn to kill rats or squirrels but avoid birds getting in. They cannot be used where polecats or reds are about and the entrances need to be small enough to keep hedgehogs out. Live trapping I associate with "cage" traps. I Didn't like having to kill greys from one as it was all too easy to fumble it and the beast escape or not get a clean kill. I really disliked the family cage traps as it was horrendous trying to get them out one by one. If I caught three I would stand it upright walk off 20 yard and then let fly with number 6. It is 50 years to the month when I last used cage traps for squirrel.
  18. openspaceman
    Really, how does a tunnel trap avoid catching polecats, hedgehogs or the reds?
  19. openspaceman
    I have had a dive bottle full of air since 2006, I expected to use it for blowing off saws on site but never did, can they be re certified? I cleared out the flat of a son of my late girlfriend after he overdosed. The police had purloined the air gun. If anyone wants to collect it I'll let it go for a small donation to his brother's 4 year old son whose dad died of leukemia earlier this year
  20. openspaceman
    On a similar theme have a look at this video: Are those Stihls at 3:04 clones though?
  21. openspaceman
    Yes it looks like the whole tree has dieback rather than some fronds with blight or canker. It's a big tree so a bit surprising, some kind of aggressive pathogen like honey fungus??
  22. openspaceman
    I don't know anything specifically about this engine or carburettor. Could the main jet have become loose?
  23. openspaceman
    oil burning is normally blue or grey, sounds like a massively rich mixture which would explain both cylinders affected
  24. openspaceman
    It depends on length, straight 6' lengths will be about 30% air space but the spindlier they are the less wood. Longer poles more air space. Also sweet chestnut is very light compared with big hazel, oak or beech coppice. Processing small diameter poles that don't need splitting is slow.
  25. openspaceman
    Not a joking matter but 😂 Hope it gets better soon Pete

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