openspaceman

This is often because timing is bad. One of the things with modern kit is that it has to work every day come wind or rain. We often would park the tractor forwarder up from autumn to May.

I think you are right and it is a tapered lock, just not the sort I am used to. @aspenarb will know I expect but it looks like the holes that were not used to bolt it together may be the ones you use to drive the parts apart.

Also I remember a sewage utility, possibly yorkshire water, invested in the ARBRE short rotation willow crop as it was a non food crop that could lap up lots of slurry.

Now you ask that I must say that I haven't noticed it being done locally for a while but back a while it was done on fields I walked by that were contract growing maize for a digester so not for human consumption. Those fields are the ones I got my rye from. I am also aware that over time the heavy metal build up from sewage got high enough that they had to stop on some fields. A local bloke cornered the market for spreading this by purchasing some big tankers (Agilators??) with massive flotation tyres and they pulled subsoilers down which the slurry was injected. He got too cocksure that he would get the contract for another five years so increased his tender. Next I saw was a standard large tractor pulling the subsoiler and a large bore plastic pipe down which the slurry was pumped out of a large static tank with a stationary diesel pump.

Yes I believe so, more associated with racing pigeon sheds which aren't cleaned.

Long time since you posted this but psittacosis is the disease pigeon people get from being exposed to their crap.

Torx bit for an impact driver works if you get the hole the appropriate size but not if the broken bolt is held in by corrosion, like steel in aluminium, I generally have to drill those out.

Yes the one wrongly ordered but suitable for the 550mk1 was about £100, the mk2 older part 582 77 74 01 is a quid cheaper and the current part 582 77 74 04 is listed at just over £50 with VAT so be warned there will be dealers with the more expensive part in stock.

It was only the driver's side and the switch was in the door panel IIRC it was a while ago.

Had this on a vauxhall car and it was the wire had broken inside the insulation near the hinge.

Yup going OT but Aspen is only three times the price of petrol now which surprised be

Yes demand is sky high and prices are going that way too. Take a look at the camelot-forum.co.uk I am on there with the same username fumbling around trying to decide what I can do next. I am planning to add a few panels just to decrease my grid dependence a few days into what the forum refers to as the "shoulder" months of november and february when solar pv production drops off.

That tone of language ends the discussion for me mate

I'll PM you this evening, thanks

Did you mistype tasty?

What lies? If you are talking in general yes you are right, the cheapness of fossil fuels and the vested interest in producing them has meant the urgent need to deal with the external costs of them hasn't allowed the renewable energy business to develop as far as it could have from when problems became apparent 50 years ago. It is a basic human trait to live for today. At the domestic level an individual can comfortably do without the grid for most of their electricity with a battery that only stores a days worth. I could even do without the grid for the last 450kWh I fall short of from Mid November to March with a simple chp system which would make better use of the thermal energy of gas. Of course we are going to rely on fossil fuels for a long time yet but no need to continue with such profligacy and those living in high density housing will have to rely on what is provided, and pay for it. It's simple O level physics that show why this is not practicable;energy in the wind is the mass flow times the square of the velocity, mass flow also contains a velocity term as it is mass passing per unit time, hence the energy varies with the cubic power of the wind velocity. So if you design the hardware to make use of the wind and produce a return on the hardware at an average 7 metres per second then double the wind speed to 14m/sec and you need to cope with producing 14 times the average amount of power, it is simply not worth investing the equipment for such a range so cheaper to produce the power around the average speed with machinery optimised for it and shut down when the windspeed is too high for the equipment to absorb the energy.

Thanks to a @adw and @spudulike and all who commented. I went to the L&S site and they do only list the mk1 part in their diagrams so it becomes difficult if you don't have the parts list for your saw (do they still come with the user manual for Huskys?) Very special thanks to the dealer who contacted me pointing out the newest coil is 5827774-04 and supplied one by next day, it is also listed at less than half the price of the earlier ones it supersedes. Saw back up and running ready to return. It was fiddly separating the old white connector and fitting the new one, I found I had to slip off the flexible carb mount on that side to get enough space for my fingers, other than that a simple job. I am glad it didn't need to be plugged in to diagnostics, what would dealers charge for this and a firmware update if necessary?

This is the same whether the battery is in the car or in the home system; the hybrid inverter is set to not export so as soon as the battery indicates it is full the inverter shuts down and the panels are then open circuit. I think there are a few arbtalkers who are off grid and use solar panels this way @Justme??

I had never heard of monsanto before roundup in the mid 70s but prior to that lost my first job for querying the use of 245t and 24d for spraying hazel stumps. I was already aware of problems associated with agent orange, the dioxin impurities the bulk processing introduced was implicated in birth defects of both the progeny of the vietnamese and american servicemen exposed to it. I was exposed to some of it in diesel from the wander leads we used away from the spray pumps. I think what we used was a purer form but I had finished having kids by then so...

I have charged my daughter's car for a couple of hours on a sunny day off the 13A socket, managed to put 5kWh in, about 24 miles of range. Most car charges are 7kW so 3kW of panels won't run one but the inverter can comfortably cope with 2.4kW. The panels are connected to a inverter which has inputs that maximise the power available (Maximum Power Point Tracking) from the panels. Then there are various makes of car chargers that connect to the inverter, Zappi seems to be popular, this restricts the power to that which the solar array can provide. I think I would always advise a battery because that is what makes the solar pv available throughout the day, it would also charge up while the car is away. If you want to dedicate the panels just to charge the car then consider running a hybrid inverter like the sunsynk off grid, most inverters depend on being connected to the grid and must shut down if the grid fails.

Don't think it was delivered by bombers, grunts used to get covered in the stuff. It was nasty stuff, a poorly refined formulation of 245t, which kills broadleaves, not grasses.

let's have a piccy then, perhaps someone might like to fit it for me. Does yew steam bend?

Did you get anywhere on these all those years ago? I want to know whether restocking a right hand gun for a master left eye would suit me but don't want to lash out 600 quid to find out so was thinking of doing a beech one but wondered whether the bend is simply steamed in or carved?

I have a similar problem and put it down to codling moth (as a lot have grubs or exit holes and brown rot /blossom rot. I haven't had success with grease bands or pherome traps to show me when the moths are active and as I don't spray chemicals I suppose I should plant a more resistant tree. I tend to pick the windfalls up, cut out any rot and put the pieces through a juicer, keeping the juice in the fridge, it will freeze. I will harvest the lot that remain soon but even wrapped they do not keep well so will juice most of them.

I meant he has responded here on another subject, not on the red diesel issue, so my prompt may get to him.