openspaceman

What may be happening is that one tends to stick bigger wood through the big chipper that the small one wouldn't handle. So instead of putting cordwood aside separately it all goes through the chipper. Solid wood processed through the chipper increased in volume 2-3 fold.

It's truly frightening how many times this is happening to me nowadays, today's was leaving the jack from the vitara on the roof of the county as I removed a leaky ram. Now I must remember to put the hilift jack in before I get a puncture (county is 40 miles away).

Well at least till 2015 when I last bought a greenmech 1928 there was an immobiliser function in the control box but it was a faff to set and unset so the blokes seldom used it, I always instructed that the machine should never be parked on the trailer or within crane reach. Evenso two were stolen in my time, I found the one with the tracker fitted quite easily and it was recovered with trailer from a council estate in Wales.

In the day oak fencing pales were cleft and used green, because they were quarter faces the differential shrinkage was not a problem and because they were cleft there were no knots to distort on drying.

So sad, I loved her early stuff and seeing her long legs, and lovely face which she spoiled with a nose job. After Chicken Shack and before Fleetwood Mac one of the lads from a year above me at school was her drummer.

Yup I have seen this very scenario when a wood burning range was fitted in a single storey kitchen of a 2 storey plus dormer centrally heated house.

I mostly used mig for rotten bodywork and exhaust repairs so was thinking about 0.6mm wire as 0.8 seems a bit easy to blow holes, but okay if pulsed.

I've been quite impressed by the versatility of rubber duck's, there was a channel on youtube by duckgirl but she hasn't posted anything for 3 years. I wondered if one around the 6-8 tonne mark might be handy in the woods, even pulling a trailer.

That would depend on what else is worn but not scrap. Mk 1 or 2?

29 is "bearing winch drum" part number 026010, a ball bearing race I think 31 is "thrust bearing (winch drum)" same part number

I would have thought wool was a good mulch as it will release nitrogen as it slowly rots.

Yes once the condensation gets on the outer layers the copper spalls off and it won't feed, best to take the reel off and keep it indoors, though the inner layers are often still good. I have a 200A Haverhill with a Honda 390 in somebody's shed, he is a it reluctant to return it, fine for bigger welding with the sticks and also runs a mig off the 230V side. I see they do a reasonably cheap 180A one and a spool gun accessory for £130, I might treat myself to one to replace the skip find and give it to Danny when he returns from his travels, he struggled to weld the body mounting points which had rusted through on my Vitara this week , Mot booked tomorrow, and wouldn't accept payment.

I cannot answer for anyone else but the mig is bulkier, mustn't get wet, much heavier with a bottle and reel of wire and cannot be used outside in the wind. The stick inverter and everything needed can be carried in two hands. The stick welder also "needs" less preparation on rusty metal even though it should all be prepared the same. I still haven't tried flux core wire in the mig. I suspect I would use a mig more if I had a decent inverter model, and would love a spool gun to weld aluminium with one.

I should probably have said combustion pressure but even that can be open to a bit of question.

That is "cold" pressure, the pressure at combustion is considerably higher as the flame front moves through the charge before the piston has got far down its power stroke. Pinking and knocking are forms of detonation of the fuel-air in front of the flame front caused by engine heat and the pressure of the combustion before the flame front reaches there. Essentially the combustion fuel-air pressure is the true compression ratio (measured after the exhaust ports have closed) plus the pressure from the heat of combustion, if it was no more than the pressure achieved from pulling the engine over it wouldn't run at all. So risk of detonation increases with engine temperature and is one reason water cooled engines can run with higher compression ratios than air cooled. I don't know of any liquid cooled chainsaws either.

Two strokes inherently have lower compression pressures than 4 strokes so there is less tendency to detonate, hence they can run on lower octane fuels. High octane fuels have less calories than low ones so economy can be slightly less.

Especially if the damaged part can be returned and refunded

Aha a challenge I had a try today and the result was closer than I expected, so probably not significant. I took a before picture and somehow deleted it but here is the after with the one piece (bottom left) left over that did not fit the frame where they all had prior to splitting.

I'm no chemist but agree burning chlorinated hydrocarbons will produce various dioxins so avoid cling film. The other point I would make is the flame in a wood stove is a diffuse flame, it gets all its oxygen from air that diffuses into the flame from the outside. This limits how much oxygen can get in to burn the flame out. Natural gas in a boiler burns with a pre mixed flame, the fuel and air are intimately mixed before entering the flame so burn out completely in the flame. If you have a heap of plastic as it melts and volatilises the offgas produced needs to meet sufficient oxygen but it cannot and hence the hydrogen element burns off and the carbon is given off as soot. If you set light to a thin film of polythene it burns with a blue flame, because sufficient oxygen diffuses in, as it gets hotter yellow flames appear and burning droplets (zorch) fall and burn giving off soot. I do tear off smallish piece of bubble wrap and mix with newspaper to start the fire sometimes but mostly use a quarter fire lighter.

No planting but I did do some guerrilla pruning of self seeded oak because I wanted to see a clear butt rather than the knotty scrubby trees that result from most widely spaced planting. Seeing the results now I wish I had gone higher.

Nor did I outside of railway work. One of the reasons for type c is that a chain may catch the fabric and drag it round before the chain stops with fibers jamming the sprocket.

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Yes as long as that 25% pays for your share of the public services you will use. My main gripe with tax is that it mostly provides sinecures for the LA and Civil service management rather than value for money, not to mention MP's pay.

Well if you do the prep watch out for those cup wire brushes that fit on an angle grinder, I ended up with a wire stuck in my fore arm.

How much for a scan of the hull for thickness of remaining steel, I don't know much about it but it was done on Isabella before my mate bought her and continuous cruised for 5 years. She was sold in the summer and he lives in a bungalow now.