openspaceman

Sounds good. My well is only 12ft deep and filling a couple of water butts will empty it but it generally refills in a day. I normally rely on rainwater as it's a faff lifting the cap and dropping the submersible pump in. From what I can gather it never was a traditional well but a hand pump shared between the two cottages. It looks like it was used to dump old bits of pipe in before it was capped and the mains was connected. If I were younger I would dredge it and should have done when I was.

I don't know about diggers, I haven't owned one for 35 years, but while I agree in principle most of the Chinese made stuff I buy is only available from there. Our business owners sold out and gave them a real monopoly.

I cannot remember having a handle for mine. It did turnover for a while before it started.

Yes Morris minor could be had new in 1970, dunno about 2CV never played with one. My 1973 LRs definitely had starting handles, not sure when that stopped, my 1990 110 didn't have one. I think my 1967 imp had the shaped hole in the bumper but just a bolt on the crankshaft rather than the spragged orifice .

As @rapalaman says I was flagging the query up for you as the original poster is potential competition for you 😀

I remember starting a Renault in the snow after a girl had left the lights on for a party with the starting handle it would have been 1969 when the only other cars with starting handles tended to be automatics.

One of the things w saw with scots pine stobs and posts is that the sapwood absorbed water borne preservative well but the heartwood did not, such that over many years the middle of the posts rotted out but the outer layers (which actually got an overdose of preservative because of the way the chemical was measured in and out of the treatment cylinder) did not rot.

@naturarbo

No it wasn't on rail, Spring 2010 NR suddenly pulled all the funding and there was a few weeks scrabbling around until the started awarding work again.

Yes but the difference is gnat's piss in the scheme of things. I think a 4 stroke small liquid cooled engine running a DC charger at constant optimum power into a battery would be more efficient than running a flywheel and its fan at constant speed but it would need a rethink of how it chipped and probably load. I expect all the chipper firms will be investigating, hey @PeteB? I see, advertised here, that Timberwolf have a hybrid with a small engine (beneath the size needing pollution controls??) that stores power produced at high idle, between chipping, into super capacitors which then feed an electric motor to increase power on demand. What they don't mention is the energy capacity of the system and how long the assistance is available before recharging.

Yes just about but you musn't discharge below 10%, 15% to be sure, so knock 10 minutes off.

But did you get it? The powerstation I used was a Bluetti lithium ion battery and inverter https://www.t3.com/reviews/bluetti-ac500-b300s-review So no engine involved. Mind I don't recommend it as two failed within the first year, at least they refunded the total cost without deductions for use.

I fabricated a tractor exhaust last year, on site, with a 200A inverter welder using a 3kWh 3kVA power station so I don't see why that wouldn't run a 2kW corded chainsaw for ringing up, mind you would need a wheelbarrow to carry it (and £3k)

I was thinking that it would have to go through the legal department and the chief executive and that even an unopposed TPO would run into thousands

How much does it cost to TPO a tree?

Ash

Knots and inclusions will militate against selling it for sawlogs or bars plus you will need at least an 8 wheeler load of 17 tonnes for local delivery or 29 tonnes for an artic flat bed.

So there is no continuity between spark plug lead and ground on the coil? I suspect the 285cd was just a slightly larger engine than the 280cd and the coil may be common to other saws and stone cutters of the era, @adw will know and would have worked on them nearly 50 years ago when they were new but he may not read this message till after the bank holiday

If you were a commercial feller the cut would have been at ground level and the butt a bit longer.

Nice short butt, saw just a tiny bit short too.

testicular cancer, the first recognise industrial disease. I think the same PAH as was linked to lung cancer from cigarettes.

That's about the same number of years as I was taught in my geography lesson circa 1963, much the same was said about copper. Still I take the point that, plus or minus a few decades, won't alter the fact that with homo sapiens having existed for a few hundred thousand years and worn clothes for about a100 thousand years the exploitation of these fossil fuels, and the changes to the ecosytem that have resulted, have taken a blink of the eye in comparison.

No different from most cargo shipping and whilst they burn a particularly polluting fuel the carbon footprint per tonne of goods is better per journey than road transport. Spent batteries and micro plastics from tyres is not something I have followed. The grease I use in my tractors is lithium based, no idea how much, but I don't recycle that. Nearly all hydrogen is made by reforming natural gas. The round trip efficiency of making it from renewable electricity would be low, about 70% at point of production then only 25% of that is available as power at the wheels from a heat engine, there is nowhere near enough surplus renewable electricity for it to be viable. Even if there were a surplus it would be better making more easily transported and stored fuels. Whereas the EV gets 80% of the electricity put in delivered to the wheels and is even more efficient as it can regenerate when decelerating and doesn't have to idle. I still use my petrol and diesel engined cars because they have plenty of life left in them ( at 20 and 15 years old) and I don't do enough traveling to lash out tens of thousands on a new car.

arboricide according to W.S. Churchill

I can see there may be good reasons not to be involved with cutting but those lower branches are going to carry on growing outward and will make access by any vehicles difficult over time.