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  1. openspaceman
    @Al Cormack is about an hour away but not seen him here recently
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    I do various bit of volunteering with groups from geriatrics to students, mostly "vegetation management". Firstly volunteers are treated the same as workers so all the groups have public and employer's liability insurance. If there are strangers coming then a risk assesment should be briefed. Another notable feature is most are only issued with shears, secateurs and hand saws because they tend to socialise and work close together. Hooks need a decent riskzone, as do motor saws and brushcutters. The discussions seem to centre on facebook, I miss out on that, and seem to attract a decent number of locals. Indeed since covid people have been turned away when numbers got too large. Personally I prefer to use a brush cutter and if the brambles and clematis are up in the trees use a mulching blade.
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    I like the 550 but would be happy with a 545
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    Did the Isuzu engine carry on that late in the road tow as I thought our mk2 safe tracks were Kubota by rhen?
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    I have never done anything with tropical hardwoods but the firm I used to sell to imported some impressive logs in the round (de sapped to cut some transport costs I suppose), the buyer said that some species could only be milled green as as the sap dried small silica crystals were deposited in the cells, making it too abrasive to saw.
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    Not so all of it but the first post may well be 😀
  7. openspaceman
    Never used them for milling but we had a few short chains for working on dirty stuff, very frustrating as the cut so slow in comparison to a standard chain. The guys seldom brought them back but I did a few by replacing the cutting disc in the chain grinder with a diamond disc for saw sharpening, slow job and it didn't form the gullet.
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    I am guessing it is to prevent any voids forming in the hole but don't know. It was a specification from the Briant and May forester. It was my first job in forestry and I was just the gopher for the two old guys doing the work. It was a small job that was outstanding and B&M had already pulled the plug on their plantations. We continued to prune them for a while and then gave up. It was in the days when the tax relief on establishment could be offset against PAYE so money was no object.
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    When we planted poplar setts the rod was pushed into a preformed (dibbed) hole and backfilled with dry sand. I often wondered if pushing them in the hole and then heeling the hole back would have worked as well.
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    It is not straight forward and depends on the stove and whether the slate can get above 100C but you should look at part J of the building regulations (Page 37 and diagram 26 on my online version), I don't like what is in the picture but I am not qualified. We have had at least three installers here that used to post but not recently...
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    So pleased that is sorted as I understood @bmp01 and his understanding of engines has sorted one I couldn't fix and you have been more than helpful to me on more than one occasion so I respect both of you.
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    Where does the ethanol come from to be cheaper than diesel?
  14. openspaceman
    That link doesn't show the machines, I have two tatty A55 that need a new home too.
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    Horrific and I wish you the best for your recovery. When I read about these injuries and worse the american youtuber's death I just think there but for fortune...
  16. openspaceman
    I too have, but don't use, the earlier 602 model from 30 years back. I also cracked the back out by stuffing over long sticks in. I do like the radiant heat from a glass door such tht I wouldn't go back but have wondered about converting it with a heated secondary air insert such the eco version has.
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    When, I think it was, pentium processor chips came out for PCs the standard expensive one had a maths co processor. The SX version was exactly the same chip, much cheaper and had the connection to the co processor scratched out on the chip.
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    It is the same they just have a battery that fits in the space of the engine bay and transmission tunnel.
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    Unless the coving was badly fitting I cannot see how the moisture for the mould to live on would have got there from the inside.
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    If you are redecorating that and not having a fitted wardrobe polystyrene coving would insulate the cold bridge from inside.
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    @Macpherson as others say you type the @ sign and on my pc as you start typing the username the sever gives suggestions and I pick the right one from the list. Of course it doesn't work if the person has decided not to accept notifications
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    I think the 6" and adapter will be fine but @Sugarshaw will know definitively.
  23. openspaceman
    How so? A 5kW wood stove will be evacuating around 6m3 of air out of the house every hour and up the chimney and taking any moisture with it.
  24. openspaceman
    I don't know about the energy used but I expect the carbon footprint tracks it and these modern turbines cover their carbon cost in about 3 months in UK. Part of the shortened life is because the site and permissions are valuable and as turbines have become much larger it pays to swap out a smaller one earlier than it's anticipated life.
  25. openspaceman
    I am worried about doing this on our coombed (sloping) ceilings with only rafters and tiles above in case moisture gets to the lath and plaster and rots the laths. How will you fix the insulation boards and will they already have plasterboard attached? Here is a picture showing how the curtains have acquired the air temperature of the room and the top shows the flat part of the ceiling where I have insulated above with 100mm rockwool (dark spots show where I failed to reach) and the ceiling joist show as darker lines so I should add some more above them. The main point is the coombed part where the rafters here show up as being less lossy than the dark area between them. Also note the dark horizontal line showing a cold bridge where the rafters meet the solid wall.

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